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Featuring the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, by Frank Gehry; Educatorium, by OMA; Beyeler Foundation Museum, by Renzo Piano; and an article on Finnish contemporary architecture and city planning in Helsinki.
Kenchiku Bunka 3 march 1998 : Gehry, Koolhaas, Piano
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Featuring the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, by Frank Gehry; Educatorium, by OMA; Beyeler Foundation Museum, by Renzo Piano; and an article on Finnish contemporary architecture and city planning in Helsinki.
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March 1998, Tokyo
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Published in conjunction with the first museum exhibition to address this vital and engaging aspect of modern photographic practice, this volume is at once a serious examination of the snapshot as a cultural artifact and a visually delightful collection of some outstanding examples of the form.
Snapshots : the photography of everyday life,1888 to the present
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March 1999, San Francisco
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This book is part of the small-format series "A History of Architecture".
Imperial Form: From Achaemenid Iran to Augustan Rome
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April 1998, London
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Leicester University Engineering Building : Leicester 1959-63, James Stirling and James Gowan
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Architecture in Detail series.
Leicester University Engineering Building : Leicester 1959-63, James Stirling and James Gowan
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Architecture in Detail series.
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October 1994, London
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Source book of American architecture : 500 notable buildings from the 10th century to the present
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"The Source Book of American Architecture" examines American architecture from its earliest days to the present, ranging from cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde to Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in (...)
Source book of American architecture : 500 notable buildings from the 10th century to the present
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"The Source Book of American Architecture" examines American architecture from its earliest days to the present, ranging from cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde to Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in Chicago to James Ingo Freed's Holocaust Museum in Washington. This critical, chronological survey of 500 of America's most distinguished buildings provides a unique overview of the thousand-year architectural development of the United States.
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October 1996, New York
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Sketches by Edwin Lutyens
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RIBA Drawings Monograph 1.
Sketches by Edwin Lutyens
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October 1994, London
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Here is the evolution of the American house : social, technological as well as architectural. Much of the technical information comes from the survey sent out by the author to curators and historic site managers around the country, and data from the survey forms the basis of the appendix, which gives technological profiles of more than one hundred homes from the 17th(...)
Open house : a guided tour of the American home, 1637 - present
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Here is the evolution of the American house : social, technological as well as architectural. Much of the technical information comes from the survey sent out by the author to curators and historic site managers around the country, and data from the survey forms the basis of the appendix, which gives technological profiles of more than one hundred homes from the 17th century to the 20th century.
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March 1999, New York
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Structures built in response to war and death pose unique architectural challenges-challenges that transcend the physical to encompass symbolism, beliefs, and culture. "Monument Builders" highlights this rarely discussed yet fascinating building type, exploring the links between different perceptions of death and their expression in architecture over the course of the(...)
Monument builders
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Structures built in response to war and death pose unique architectural challenges-challenges that transcend the physical to encompass symbolism, beliefs, and culture. "Monument Builders" highlights this rarely discussed yet fascinating building type, exploring the links between different perceptions of death and their expression in architecture over the course of the twentieth century. Sensitive but never somber, it features the work of an impressive international roster of architects as it moves from neo-classisist and modernist treatments of death to war and holocaust memorials.
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March 1999, New York
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Direction of cities
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Guinther's book traces the the growth of American cities, relating historical examples to modern principles of urban planning. With a foreword by Edmund Bacon.
Direction of cities
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Guinther's book traces the the growth of American cities, relating historical examples to modern principles of urban planning. With a foreword by Edmund Bacon.
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August 1996, New York
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In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography.
Burning with desire : the conception of photography
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In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography.
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September 1997, Cambridge, Mass.
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