Architecture

  • [SCOTT] COLE, David.
    The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott

    London, The Architectural Press 1980

    xi + (1) + 244pp illustrated with 138 b/w plates. Previous owner's bookplates on front paste down. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Hard to find monograph on Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), the Gothic Revival specialist who was the dominant figure in English architecture in the middle years of the nineteenth century. An appendix lists 879 of his architectural commissions. From the library of David Gerald Francis Hinge whose bookplate is on the front paste down.

    Stock ID: 22709
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  • Theater und Lichtspielhauser by ZUCKER Paul
    ZUCKER Paul
    Theater und Lichtspielhauser

    Berlin Verlag Ernst Wasmuth 1926

    177pp illustrated with 100s of b/w plates and some plans. Text in German. Key book for early theatre and cinema designs. Designers represented include Hans Poelzig, Oskar Kaufmann, Henry van de Velder, Max Littmann, Walter Gropius, A and H Perret. Large 4to. Gilt decorated red open weave cloth with gilt titles. Good copy but with some tiny paint spatters on cloth. Ownership name of Keith Murray faintly written on front end paper.

    Stock ID: 23059
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  • LIBERSKIND, Daniel.
    Theatrum Mundi

    London Architectural Association 1985

    Mega I.16pp, , 12 colour plates, 270x340mm Theatrum Mundi is a series of 12 abstract colour plates that give visual form to a premonition of the future as a city besieged by an unknown infection. . Minor shop wear on dust jacket.

    Stock ID: 22747
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  • Third Generation. The Changing Meaning of Architecture by DREW Philip
    DREW Philip
    Third Generation. The Changing Meaning of Architecture

    London Pall Mall Press 1972

    176pp. b/w ills throughout. Red cloth boards with white titles. Missing dust wrapper, a section of which is slipped into the book. Ex Library copy from the Department of the Environment Library. Covers a little grubby else good.

    Stock ID: 22704
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  • WATKIN David
    Thomas Hope and the Neoclassical Revival

    John Murray 1968

    316pp illus. with b/w plates. Vg in slightly worn dust wrapper. Important study of the life and work of Thomas Hope who prescribed classicism in design but who Watkin reveals as a romantic at heart.

    Stock ID: 20790
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  • TILDEN, Philip.
    True Remembrances: the memoirs of an architect

    London Country Life 1954

    175pp illus. with c50 plates incl. major schemes by Tilden such as his scheme at Port Lympe begun by Herbert Baker, un-built work for Selfridge, Chartwell, Saltwell Castle and other projects. Only major account of his work. Good copy with slightly worn dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 21947
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  • [SCARFE, Norman]
    Two autographed letters signed on postcards and two photographs with annotations

    2004

    ALS to Gavin Stamp dated 29 May 2004 and 22 June 2004 1. Written on the back of a postcard featuring Leeds, St Johns the Evangelist with PS note mentioning it was to be totally refurbished from 17th July. Text concerns recollections, the architect J H Parker in the initial lines but moves on to Normandy churches recalled from when Scarfe was there in the war. Recounts the murder of 20 Canadian POWS at the HW of Kurt Meyer in WWII and his subsequent death in prison after the Nuremberg Trials. 2. Second Card, written from 3 Burkitt Road, Woodbridge when he sent Gavin Stamp the two photographs which are of Calvados. These were sent to thank him…

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    ALS to Gavin Stamp dated 29 May 2004 and 22 June 2004 1. Written on the back of a postcard featuring Leeds, St Johns the Evangelist with PS note mentioning it was to be totally refurbished from 17th July. Text concerns recollections, the architect J H Parker in the initial lines but moves on to Normandy churches recalled from when Scarfe was there in the war. Recounts the murder of 20 Canadian POWS at the HW of Kurt Meyer in WWII and his subsequent death in prison after the Nuremberg Trials. 2. Second Card, written from 3 Burkitt Road, Woodbridge when he sent Gavin Stamp the two photographs which are of Calvados. These were sent to thank him for sending a copy of the JSAH article on High Victorian Gothic.

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    Stock ID: 22261
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  • Une maison - un palais: by LE CORBUSIER
    LE CORBUSIER
    Une maison - un palais: A la Recherche d'une Unité Architecturale

    Paris Cres et Cie, 1928

    228 pages : illustrations. Red cloth with gilt titles. Very good copy. French text. Part of the Collection de '' l'esprit nouveau.''

    Stock ID: 23223
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  • DOW MAC CONCRETE LTD. 1970s PROJECTS
    Untitled

    50 b/w photographs c250x200 documenting their Tallington factory and a range projects, many very striking, where the firm supplied concrete elements. Photographs have the firm's stamp on verso, mostly dated, with details of the architect and photographer and in some case the consulting engineer. Grouped by project, the collection comprises Sandown Race Course Stand 1973 [3] photographed by William Hammer or L Strange; Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne [2] photographer Scott- Shipside; Portsmouth Polytechnic c1970 [11] photographed mostly by William Hammer Productions; Birkenhead Superstore [4] photographed by Baxter and Robinson, Queensway Hotel, Gibralter photographed by William Hammer; Retford Bypass,[2] photographed by R Gregory; Newbold College Oxford photographed by William Hammer; North Thames Gasboard ,[2] photographed by Scott Shipside and…

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    50 b/w photographs c250x200 documenting their Tallington factory and a range projects, many very striking, where the firm supplied concrete elements. Photographs have the firm's stamp on verso, mostly dated, with details of the architect and photographer and in some case the consulting engineer. Grouped by project, the collection comprises Sandown Race Course Stand 1973 [3] photographed by William Hammer or L Strange; Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne [2] photographer Scott- Shipside; Portsmouth Polytechnic c1970 [11] photographed mostly by William Hammer Productions; Birkenhead Superstore [4] photographed by Baxter and Robinson, Queensway Hotel, Gibralter photographed by William Hammer; Retford Bypass,[2] photographed by R Gregory; Newbold College Oxford photographed by William Hammer; North Thames Gasboard ,[2] photographed by Scott Shipside and the Tallington Factory [11] showing production also by Scott Shipside.

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    Stock ID: 23132
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  • BUCHAN, William Paton
    Ventilation A Textbook to the Practice of the Art of Ventilating Buildings with a Supplementary Chapter Upon Air Testing

    London Crosby Lockwood and Son 1902 (1891)

    Second Edition. Weale's Scientific & Technical Series No. 271. viii + 226pp (+ 16pp +48pp lists of available publications from Weales & Crosby Lockwood). 170 b/w illustrations. Buff coloured cloth boards with black embossed titling. Previous owner's name and date of ownership on front endpapers in ink. Some browning on half title page else a very good copy of this text.

    Stock ID: 22432
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  • STAMP, G. & AMERY, C.
    Victorian Buildings of London 1837-1887: An Illustrated Guide.

    London, Architectural Press 1980

    175pp illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and engravings. Small 4to boards with illustrated dustwrapper, a very good copy. An early collaborative venture between Gavin Stamp and Colin Amery which identified over one hundred of London's most significant Victorian buildings from St Pancreas Station and Hotel to the Infant Orphan's Asylum in Wanstead. This book provides an explanation in part for the huge collection of London related commentaries of the period that were illustrated with photographic plates and which Gavin Stamp had in his collection.

    Stock ID: 20081
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  • Village Housing in the Tropics by DREW Jane and FRY Maxwell in collaboration with FORD Harry L.
    DREW Jane and FRY Maxwell in collaboration with FORD Harry L.
    Village Housing in the Tropics with special reference to West Africa

    London Lund Humphries [1947] 1953

    134pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. long 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Defines the issues surrounding new build houses for tropical areas covering house design, layout of village, services and landscape conservation and tree planting. Hard to find. Written with colonial overtones and with the end papers showing the Colonies as they then were, the book itself, written whilst Fry had a posting in West Africa, was a key publication in considering the role of architects and planners in Africa. It adopts a blanket approach to housing in tropical environments but was the start of the duos interest in the subject and by 1956 they had revised their view to be more locally relevant…

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    London Lund Humphries [1947] 1953

    134pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. long 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Defines the issues surrounding new build houses for tropical areas covering house design, layout of village, services and landscape conservation and tree planting. Hard to find. Written with colonial overtones and with the end papers showing the Colonies as they then were, the book itself, written whilst Fry had a posting in West Africa, was a key publication in considering the role of architects and planners in Africa. It adopts a blanket approach to housing in tropical environments but was the start of the duos interest in the subject and by 1956 they had revised their view to be more locally relevant across the tropical world and they promoted distinctiveness by culture and country. Their shift in views was reflected in a second book on housing in the tropics and humid zones.

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    Stock ID: 22193
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  • Village Housing in the Tropics by DREW Jane and FRY Maxwell in collaboration with FORD Harry L.
    DREW Jane and FRY Maxwell in collaboration with FORD Harry L.
    Village Housing in the Tropics with special reference to West Africa

    London Lund Humpries 1947

    First edition. 134pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. long 8vo. Decorated end papers which are maps. Open weave lettered green cloth. Good copy in slightly frayed dust wrapper. Defines the issues surrounding new build houses for tropical areas covering house design, layout of village, services and landscape conservation and tree planting. Hard to find. Written with colonial overtones and with the end papers showing the Colonies as they then were, the book itself, written whilst Fry had a posting in West Africa, was a key publication in considering the role of architects and planners in Africa. It adopts a blanket approach to housing in tropical environments but was the start of the duos…

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    London Lund Humpries 1947

    First edition. 134pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. long 8vo. Decorated end papers which are maps. Open weave lettered green cloth. Good copy in slightly frayed dust wrapper. Defines the issues surrounding new build houses for tropical areas covering house design, layout of village, services and landscape conservation and tree planting. Hard to find. Written with colonial overtones and with the end papers showing the Colonies as they then were, the book itself, written whilst Fry had a posting in West Africa, was a key publication in considering the role of architects and planners in Africa. It adopts a blanket approach to housing in tropical environments but was the start of the duos interest in the subject and by 1956 they had revised their view to be more locally relevant across the tropical world and they promoted distinctiveness by culture and country. Their shift in views was reflected in a second book on housing in the tropics and humid zones.

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    Stock ID: 23217
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  • [LETHABY] BACKEMEYER, S. & GRONBERG, T. (eds)
    W. R. Lethaby 1857-1931, Architecture, Design and Education.

    Lund Humphries, 1984.

    127pp, 90 b/w illus. 4to. A companion volume to the exhibition at the Central School of Art and Design which Lethaby helped to found and became the first principal. The contributors examine his many roles and his influence in Britain and abroad.

    Stock ID: 20120
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  • Willem M Dudok by (NETHERLANDS -DUDOK) BOOT J J G (introduction by)
    (NETHERLANDS -DUDOK) BOOT J J G (introduction by)
    Willem M Dudok

    (1954) Published with the aid of the Pincs Bernhard Fund, by G can Saane, "lectura architectonica" Amsterdam 1957

    2nd impression. 168pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Quarto. Turquoise cloth with gilt blocked lettering on front board and spine. Slightly dusty dust wrapper. Signed by previous owner on the front end paper in neat hand. Material collected for the book by R M H Magnée. Modern typographic layout. Includes reviews of all the major projects with photo illustrations and line ills. Includes the famous Nassau School at Hilveresum, housing schemes, town hall etc and this garden city project alongside other projects undertaken in the Netherlands. Produced for the 70th birthday of Dudok.

    Stock ID: 13648
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  • (BURGES William) CROOK J Mordaunt
    William Burges and the High Victorian Dream

    London John Murray, 1981

    454 pages illustrated with b/w plates. Slightly shop soiled but very Good in Fine dust wrapper. First edition of this comprehensive reference book on William Burges.

    Stock ID: 22702
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  • William Richard Lethaby by (LETHABY) RUBENS Geoffrey
    (LETHABY) RUBENS Geoffrey
    William Richard Lethaby

    The Architectural Press 1986

    320pp illus. with b/w plates and line ills. Major assessment of Lethaby's multi faceted carer as an architect, conservationist and educationalist. Square 4to. Very good in dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 22039
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  • DARWIN Robin CBE
    Windows for Coventry

    Colchester The Royal College of Art June 1956

    10pp 2 full page colour photographs 12 b/w photographs. Collated by different authors such as Basil Spence, A.R.A on the Function of the windows, Lawrence Lee, A.R.C.A , and Geoff Clarke, A.R.C.A on their Iconography, and An Appreciation by Basil Taylor. Covers a bit worn from general use and slight crease vertically through the pamphlet, else good. Loose piece of paper slipped in with summaries of six of the 10 great windows created for the nave of the new cathedral and a plan of their intended location. A note from an unknown Charles to John regarding the leaflet (and publication?). From the collection of George G. Pace.

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    Colchester The Royal College of Art June 1956

    10pp 2 full page colour photographs 12 b/w photographs. Collated by different authors such as Basil Spence, A.R.A on the Function of the windows, Lawrence Lee, A.R.C.A , and Geoff Clarke, A.R.C.A on their Iconography, and An Appreciation by Basil Taylor. Covers a bit worn from general use and slight crease vertically through the pamphlet, else good. Loose piece of paper slipped in with summaries of six of the 10 great windows created for the nave of the new cathedral and a plan of their intended location. A note from an unknown Charles to John regarding the leaflet (and publication?). From the collection of George G. Pace.

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    Stock ID: 22722
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  • (LUBETKIN & TECTON ET AL) CEMENT MARKETING COMPANY LTD
    Working-Class Residential Flats in Reinforced Concrete: Report on a competition for designs of blocks of working-c;ass residential flats in reinforced concrete organized by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd.

    London The British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd nd 1935

    63pp illustrated wit b/w plates, line ills etc. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Wrappers worn and scuffed along spine. Previous owner's signature on half title. The winning design is described and illustrated and was designed by Messrs B. Lubetkin & Tecton with Ove Arup. Other project also are described and illustrated including work by A P Lloyd, E W Collins and George Smith, (second place). Fascinating publication. Hard to find.

    Stock ID: 23193
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  • OLIVETTI Adriano (introduction)
    Zodiac 5 International Magazine of Contemporary Architecture

    Milano C Olivetti and Co 1959

    214pp illus with b/w photographs + period adverts. Perfect bound. Laminated yellow wrappers with example of fantastic architecture. 4to. 27x21cms . Key articles by Le Corbusier on Frank Lloyd Wright with fold out concertina illustrations. Denmark (contributions by Bruno Alfieri, Enzo Fratelli, Keld Helmer-Petersen and others ) and Fantastic Architecture by Ulrich Conrads and Hans Sperlich. Spine split Small tear in front wrap hinge else good copy. Texts in English, Italian, French.

    Stock ID: 22134
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