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Theory and Design in the First Machine Age

By: Banham, Reyner

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, The Architectural Press: 1967

Seller ID: 006427

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Third impression of the 1960 first edition. Pale red cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, generally lightly shelfworn with a couple of small tears and a small chip missing to top right corner of front of dustjacket. Not price-clipped. 338pp. 304 b/w illustrations.In this book, Dr.Reyner Banham analyses how one unifying theme of "Machine Age" architecture emerged from the melting pot of ideas at the beginning of the 20th century, including theories from Gropius, Mies Van der R...
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Logic and Design: The Syntax of Art, Science and Mathematics

By: Barratt, Krome

Price: £18.00

Publisher: New Jersey, Eastview Editions, Inc.: 1980

Seller ID: 002333

ISBN: 0898600332

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Black hardcover with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair to good, light foxing to half-title and light sunning to text edges. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally lightly shelfworn, with sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. 325pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w diagrams.
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Victorian Architecture

By: Betjeman, John (intro.)

Price: £36.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1963

Seller ID: 005741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Paper covered boards with title in gilt on red hardcover spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 306pp. 97 b/w illustrations and 11 b/w illustrations in text. This volme provides an account of the main themes of Victorian architecture as well as detailed studies of the works of the most distinguished architects of the time. Among many other contributions are Nikolaus Pevsner on Richard Norman Shaw, Robert Furneaux Jordan on Sir Joseph Paxton and Charles Handley-Read on William Burges.
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The Contexting of a Chapel Architect - James Cubitt 1836-1912

By: Binfield, Clyde

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, The Chapels Society: 2001

Seller ID: 006490

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Signed by the author on half-title. 111pp. 73 b/w illustrations. An intersting overview of the life of the Victorian church architect, James Cubitt (1836-1912), who was the son of a Baptist minister and specialised in building non-conformist chapels.
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The Repair of Historic Buildings: Advice on Principles and Methods

By: Brereton, Christopher

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, English Heritage: 1991

Seller ID: 003296

ISBN: 185074341X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 76pp. 79 b/w photographs. This book offers comprehensive advice on the correct maintenance and repair of historic buildings. Throughout the text, the author stresses the importance of treating each building individually, and of devising a programme of repair that takes into account its unique character, condition, and historical development. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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Crystal Palace

By: Buckland, Sir Henry

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Crystal Palace Trustees: 1935

Seller ID: 006626

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Buff colour card covered stapled book with title in dark brown on front cover. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and light foxing to covers. Rusting from staples just beginning to show through rear cover. 64pp. Many b/w photographic illustrations. Produced shortly before the great fire in 1936 which destroyed it, this souvenir programme to Crystal Palace includes details of its history and its grounds.
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20th-Century Architecture: Sweden

By: Caldenby, Claes et al. (ed.)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Munich/New York, Prestel: 1998

Seller ID: 005687

ISBN: 3791319361

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Black cloth with title in white on spine. Condition: Very good, with just a faint hint of shelfwear to covers. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 400pp. Many colour and b/w illustrations. This volume is one of a critical series devoted to introducing the reader to European architecture country by country. It details how a century's worth of social changes are reflected in the development of Swedish architecture. It includes sections on early functionalism 1930-1940 and building the welfare of the Folkhemmet 1940-60. Over 80 projects are discu...
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Clouds: The Biography of a Country House

By: Dakers, Caroline

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Newhaven and London, Yale University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 006598

ISBN: 0300057768

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Blue hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptons. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear and light sunning to spine and immediate surrounding area. 278pp. Many b/w and some colour illustrations. Clouds House, is a Grade II* listed building at East Knoyle in Wiltshire. Designed by Arts and Crafts architect Philip Webb for Percy Wyndham and his wife Madeline, it was first completed in 1886, but an 1889 fire necessitated its rebuilding, finished in 1891. Clouds was Webb's grandest design and it was frequented by artists such as Edward Burne...
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Nature and Tradition: Arts and Crafts Architecture and Gardens in and around Guildford

By: Davey, John (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Guildford, Guildford Borough Council: 1993

Seller ID: 006663

ISBN: 0950139467

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. 74pp. 18 colour and many b/w illustrations. This study was intended to provide a taste of the wealth of architecture and gardens which survive in the Guildford area from the period at the beginning of the 20th century when the Arts and Craft movement prospered. Architects and their buildings mentioned include Edwin Lutyens, Philip Webb and C.F.A.Voysey, as well as gardens designed by Gertrude Jekyll, who often collaborated with Lutyens.
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William Wilkinson Wardell: His Life and Work: 1823-1899

By: de Jong, Ursula M.

Price: £26.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Australia, The Department of Visual Arts, Monash University: 1983

Seller ID: 006439

ISBN: 0867462736

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Softcover. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound. Inscribed to the previous owner on title page. Signed separately by the author on title page. 80pp. Many b/w illustrations. This book was produced to accompany the exhibition devoted to the architecture of the British architect who emigrated to Australia, William Wilkinson Wardell, held at the Exhibition Gallery, the Development of Visual Arts, Melbourne from October to November 1983. His notable works in Australia include St.John's College, Sydney, and Government House, Melbourne.
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Theo van Doesburg on European Architecture: Complete Essays from Het Bouwbedrijf 1924-1931

By: Doesburg, Theo van

Price: £26.00

Publisher: Basel, Berlin, Boston, Birkhauser: 1990

Seller ID: 005656

ISBN: 3764322985

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red hardcover with title in black on fron cover and spine.Translated from Dutch into English by Charlotte I.Loeb and Arthur L.Loeb. 324pp. Many b/w illustrations. Theo van Doesburg's reviews on architecture collected in this volume give an overall picture of the most important developments of European architecture in the1920's seen from the avant-garde point of view of a contemporary.
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Breuer Houses

By: Driller, Joachim

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Phaidon Press: 2000

Seller ID: 006033

ISBN: 0714838934

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First English edition. Grey cloth with title blindstamped on front cover and spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. 247pp. Many b/w illustrations. This book was the first comprehensive critical assessment of the residential architecture of Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), widely acknowledged as a master of Modern architecture and along with Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the most significant Bauhaus architects to leave Europe for the USA in the 1930s.
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Motels, Hotels, Restaurants and Bars

By: Dudley Hunt, Jr., William (ed.)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: New York, Toronto, London, McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc.: 1960

Seller ID: 006014

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second edition. Pale grey cloth with title i black on front cover and spine. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers. Front endpaper has a vertical crease to the edge. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, generally shelfworn to edges with some light soiling, and some light sunning to spine. 327pp. Many b/w illustrations.The second edition of this guide presents a detailed study of physical design in motels, hotels, restaurants and bars. It graphically shows the important relationship between good design and good business. Presented in the book are...
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Heber Rimmer Memorial

By: E.H. (intro.)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Sprague & Co.: 1896

Seller ID: 003757

Binding: Buckram

Condition: Very Good

Terracotta colour buckram with bevelled edges and title in gilt on front cover. The initials H.R. are in gilt on the spine. Condition: Very good, with sunning to spine. Cover edges have light shelfwear. Binding sound, text clean. Inscription to previous owner in ink on front endpaper, dated 1897, similar inscription to reverse of rear endpaper. An unpaginated collection of examples of b/w architectural drawings and b/w watercolours by Heber Rimmer, a promising architect who died at the young age of 26 in 1895. A contemporary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Rimmer won the presitigious Soane Medal...
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A History of the Gothic revival (The Victorian Library)

By: Eastlake, Charles L. (edited with an introduction by J.Mordaunt Crook)

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Leicester, Leicester University Press: 1970

Seller ID: 005730

ISBN: 0718550056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New edition. (originally published in 1872). Bright blue hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with previous owners name neatly written at top of front endpaper. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear, light sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. 209pp. 48 b/w woodcuts, 26 further b/w illustrations. In this book Eastlake set out to provide a detailed record of "one of the most remarkable revolutions in national art that his country has seen". He was determined "to chronicle facts rather than offer criticisms". In the appendix he supplied deta...
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Recollections of Pugin

By: Ferrey, Benjamin

Price: £28.00

Publisher: London, Scolar Press: 1978

Seller ID: 002535

ISBN: 0859673588

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Introduction by Clive Wainwright, and full index by Jane Wainright. Blue hardcover with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, binding sound, text clean no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair, covers are quite sunned, and generally shelfworn. Not price-clipped. 473pp. Pugin is universally known as the key figure in the creation of the Victorian phase of the Gothic revival. He was simultaneously author, decorative designer, antiquary, ecclesiologist and architect. This is one of the principal accounts of Pugin, containing a wealth of detail and personal recollections not recorded elsewh...
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Le Corbusier Sketchbooks - Volume 2, 1950-1954

By: Franclieu, Francoise de

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London, Thames and Hudson Ltd.: 1981

Seller ID: 005488

ISBN: 0500340889

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Navy cloth with title in silver on spine and Thames & Hudson logo on front cover. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. a couple of light smudges to base of textblock. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. 541pp. 1056 illustrations, 169 in colour. Volume 2, the second in the series of four Le Corbusier Sketchbooks, contains notes and sketches Le Corbusier made in the 1950s, a particularly rich period for him including projects such as Chandigarh and the Millowners' Building at Ahmedabad. The notes in Volume 2 record the years when Le Corbusier transformed his s...
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Dream Houses - The Edwardian Ideal

By: Gradige, Roderick

Price: £28.00

Publisher: London, Constable: 1980

Seller ID: 005728

ISBN: 0094619301

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dark brown hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, previous owners name (an architect) neatly written at top of front endpaper. Binding sound. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 247pp. 20 b/w plates and many b/w illustrations within text. Just before the end of the 19th century, a new architectural style emerged in England. It was a combination of ant-Victorianisem, of a return to traditional building techniques and materials, and of a dream of a settled and ordered society In this book, the author considers the works of the ...
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Bauhaus - Fifty Years

By: Grote, Ludwig (intro.)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, The Royal Academy: 1968

Seller ID: 006795

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

English text. Softcover with dustjacket. Condition: Good, binding sound, inscribed by previous owner on title page, with a neat address label of another owner to the lower right of title page. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and scuffing, more so around spine. Small chip missing to top right corner of rear of jacket.363pp. Many b/w illustrations. In September 1968, the Royal Academy, London hosted a remarkable "50 years of Bauhaus" exhibition. This extraordinary and unique design and art school flourished between 1919 and 1933, but its influence is still felt today - t...
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New Glass Architecture

By: Richards, Brent

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Laurence King Publishing Ltd.: 2006

Seller ID: 005846

ISBN: 1856693767

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Pale blue hardcover with title in black on spine. Condition: Fine, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. 240pp. Many colour illustrations. This book begins with an introduction that traces the history the key moments of glass in architecture, explains the importance of glass artists in the second half of the 20th century and describes developments in glass technology in architecture in the last 20 years. The book features 25 recent examples of glass architecture, including Jean Nouvel's Torre Agbar in Barcelona, Frank Gehry's DZ Bank in Ber...
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