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By: Banham, Reyner
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, The Architectural Press: 1967
Seller ID: 006427
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... View more info
By: Barratt, Krome
Price: £18.00
Publisher: New Jersey, Eastview Editions, Inc.: 1980
Seller ID: 002333
ISBN: 0898600332
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. View more info
Price: £36.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1963
Seller ID: 005741
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. View more info
By: Binfield, Clyde
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, The Chapels Society: 2001
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 006490
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. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, English Heritage: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003296
ISBN: 185074341X
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 View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Crystal Palace Trustees: 1935
Seller ID: 006626
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. View more info
By: Caldenby, Claes et al. (ed.)
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Munich/New York, Prestel: 1998
Seller ID: 005687
ISBN: 3791319361
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... View more info
By: Celant, Germano (foreword)
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Thames and Hudson Ltd.: 1992
Seller ID: 006494
ISBN: 0500276730
Condition: Good
Softcover. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Small vertical tear (approx 2 in. long) to top of rear cover where it meets spine. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 199pp. 200 illustrations, 48 in colour. In this book the art critic Germano Celant provides an introduction to the 200 full page illustrations of the works of the Italian furniture designer, artist and critic, Andrea Branzi Luoghi (b.1938), amongst other ventures, one of the members of the Italian avant-garde design group until 1974. View more info
By: Dakers, Caroline
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Newhaven and London, Yale University Press: 1993
Seller ID: 006598
ISBN: 0300057768
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... View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Guildford, Guildford Borough Council: 1993
Seller ID: 006663
ISBN: 0950139467
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. View more info
Price: £26.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Australia, The Department of Visual Arts, Monash University: 1983
Seller ID: 006439
ISBN: 0867462736
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. View more info
Price: £26.00
Publisher: Basel, Berlin, Boston, Birkhauser: 1990
Seller ID: 005656
ISBN: 3764322985
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. View more info
By: Driller, Joachim
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Phaidon Press: 2000
Seller ID: 006033
ISBN: 0714838934
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. View more info
By: Dudley Hunt, Jr., William (ed.)
Price: £30.00
Publisher: New York, Toronto, London, McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc.: 1960
Seller ID: 006014
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... View more info
By: E.H. (intro.)
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Sprague & Co.: 1896
Seller ID: 003757
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... View more info
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
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... View more info
By: Ferrey, Benjamin
Price: £28.00
Publisher: London, Scolar Press: 1978
Seller ID: 002535
ISBN: 0859673588
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... View more info
Price: £120.00
Publisher: London, Thames and Hudson Ltd.: 1981
Seller ID: 005488
ISBN: 0500340889
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... View more info
Price: £28.00
Publisher: London, Constable: 1980
Seller ID: 005728
ISBN: 0094619301
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 ... View more info
Price: £36.00
Publisher: London, The Royal Academy: 1968
Seller ID: 006552
Condition: Very Good
English text. Softcover with dustjacket. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Some small marks to endpapers. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and scuffing, slightly more so around spine. 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 - the bauhaus has influenced many aspects of contemporary life, including architecture, art, furniture, typogr... View more info
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