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Dominic Bradbury, Richard Powers
The Iconic House

Now available in paperback, this essential book on modern architecture presents over one hundred of the most significant houses of the past hundred years.

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Jerzy Ilkosz, Beate Störtkuhl
Netzwerke der Moderne

Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa - Band 66

Breslau/Wroclaw, Europäische Kulturhauptstadt des Jahres 2016, war in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts ein Zentrum der Architekturmoderne, das heutige Besucher fasziniert. In den damals entstan…

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Chris Moffat
Learning from Lahore

In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future--a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. The…

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Chris Moffat
Learning from Lahore

In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future--a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. The…

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Walter Koditek
Bangkok Modern

A lavishly illustrated and visually stunning study of the buildings that changed Bangkok from 1950-1970.In the post-war decades, Thai architects, many of whom had studied abroad, embraced modern principle…

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Phil Child
The Labour Party, Housing and Urban Transformation

The Labour Party, Housing and Urban Transformation explores how the urban transformation of Britain between 1945 and 1970 was understood politically by the Labour Party. Placing the Labour Party at the ce…

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Tom White
Bad Dust

Though it was banned in the UK in 1999, asbestos still kills more than 5,000 people every year. How did this happen? And what can we do about it?Asbestos was once known as the "magic mineral." C…

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Christopher Rawlins
Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction

Featuring new houses, many additional photographs and a new afterword, Fire Island Modernist offers a fascinating look at the history and culture of this "gay paradise" through the life and work…

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Ana Bonet Miró
Architecture, Media, Archives

A critical investigation of the 1960s Fun Palace that focuses on its ambitious cultural agenda and emphasises the crucial role that Joan Littlewood played as co-designer.

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Fragments of Victory

'Written by activists, this book tells stories of Irish movements and left groups as a key resource for struggles elsewhere' Laurence Cox, author of We Make Our Own History**'The authors' sympathies sharp…

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Esguerra Sáenz Urdaneta Samper

The Colombian architectural firm ESUS (Esguerra, Saenz, Urdaneta y Samper) played a key role in the development of modern architecture in Colombia during the mid-20th century. Notable for their technical …

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Michael M Greenburg
The Great Miscalculation

How an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New Yorkers The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recog…

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Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma

Kengo Kuma is one of Japan's leading architects and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. A prolific writer and philosopher, he proposes architecture that introduces new relationships between nat…

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Design and Agency

Design and Agency brings together leading international design scholars and practitioners to address the concept of agency in relation to objects, organisations and people. The authors set out to expand t…

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Carlo Scarpa,
Carlo Scarpa: The Message of the Structure

Focuses specifically and in depth on the structural designs of Carlo Scarpa's architectural designs.

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Bernard Tschumi
Event-Cities 5

An essential resource on the work of Bernard Tschumi Architects, with a focus on how concept, context, and program intersect with intuition in singular and unexpected ways.Event-Cities 5 is the fifth and …

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Tami Christiansen,
Mexico Modern

A captivating exploration of Mexican architecture, from iconic homes by legendary masters to new groundbreaking work shaping the future of design.Mexico has long been a wellspring of inspiration for desig…

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Ian Nairn
Outrage

Acclaimed architectural critic Ian Nairn's masterpiece, reissued for the first time since 1955.In June of 1955, The Architectural Review (Britain's most acclaimed and well-read magazine of architectural c…

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Tashkent: A Modernist Capital

A shrine to Soviet modernist architecture, Tashkent is a rare jewel of modernism rediscovered in this book.Established sometime around the 1st or 2nd century BCE, Tashkent is the capital city of Uzbekista…

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The Rolling Stones

Dirty Work (Limited Japan SHM-CD)

The Rolling Stones' 18th studio album was released in 1986, having been recorded under the toughest possible circumstances. It is astonishing that it was ever made. Less astonishingly, it's a superbly acc…

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