Architecture

  • 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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    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 for sending a copy of the JSAH article on High Victorian Gothic.

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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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  • 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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  • Victor Bourgeois by (BOURGEOIS) LINZE Georges
    (BOURGEOIS) LINZE Georges
    Victor Bourgeois

    Bruxelles: Eles éditions det ateliers d'art graphique Elsevier SA

    Monographies de l'Art Belge.16pp text + 28pp superb b/w photographic images and frontis of the Tour Eternit for the Exposition de Bruxelles 1958. This image repeated as paste down on front board. Small 4to. Protected in glassine wrapper. Fine.

    Stock ID: 87
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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 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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  • Vladivostok by HEJDUK, John. SHKAPICH, Kim [editor]
    HEJDUK, John. SHKAPICH, Kim [editor]
    Vladivostok A Trilogy

    New York Rizzoli International Publications, 1989

    272pp illustrated. Decorated wrappers. Small stain on upper wrapper else a very good copy Text in English and Russian. Loosely inserted is an invitation to a memorial to him to be held at The Cooper Union Foundation Building and an associated printed letter sent out to Alumni.

    Stock ID: 21688
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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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  • [ARETS, Weil.] VIDLER, Anthony.[Introduction]
    Weil Arets Architect

    Rotterdam Uitgeverij 010 1989

    59pp illustrated. Square 4to. Wrappers. Good copy. Wiel Arets is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist, industrial designer. This is an early assessment of his highly regarded, often minimalist work. Series of projects are illustrated and described, following the introductory section which includes a short essay by Arets. Text in Dutch and English.

    Stock ID: 23608
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  • LE CORBUSIER
    When the Cathedrals Were White: A Journey to the Country of Timid People

    London Routledge 1947

    217pp, small line illustrations throughout by Le Corbusier. 8vo. Cloth. some discolouring to the boards + spine else a good copy. First English edition of the French original published in 1936. Le Corbusier examines the architecture and people of New York. He loves the latter but deems the architecture haphazard. He imagines an improved New York.

    Stock ID: 18642
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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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  • EYLAND, Edward S., LIGHTBODY, Francis. and SCOTT BURN, Robert.
    Working Drawings & Designs Architecture and Building with essays on various subjects richly illustrated with woodcuts

    London A. Fullerton & Co. nd c1880

    (8) + 32 + 8 + 20 + 8 + 26 + 12 + 14 + 8 + 24 + 8, 48 numbered folding plates, 6 other folding plates and 1 further lettered a-g. Text pages illustrated with woodcut illustrations comprising plans and diagrams and drawings of details. Large folio. Quarter calf, green cloth, gilt lettered spine and upper board. Rubbed on all corners and along spine. Marbled end paper, reinforced. Superb period reference for building details.

    Stock ID: 19331
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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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