Architecture

  • Architectural Drawing Perspective & Rendering by FAREY Cyril A and EDWARDS A Trystan
    FAREY Cyril A and EDWARDS A Trystan
    Architectural Drawing Perspective & Rendering A Handbook for Students and Draughtsmen

    B T Batsford Ltd 1949

    viii + 96pp with 68 b/w, colour and half-tone plates and 35 b/w line figures, 4to, cloth, dw. Dw sl. faded along spine and bumped along edges else vg copy. Second edition. A detailed survey of architectural draughtsmanship in England.

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  • Architecture and Personalities by BAKER, Herbert
    BAKER, Herbert
    Architecture and Personalities

    Country Life Ltd 1944

    224pp illus. with b/w plates throughout. Sm 4to. VG. With chipped dust wrapper. Important review of the work of Sir Herbert Baker, tracking his career and friendship with Cecil Rhodes, his move to New Delhi, Kenya and back to the UK where he became active with the War Graves Commission work and Country House architecture alike.

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  • SMITH ELizabeth A T. (organised by)
    Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses

    Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press 1989

    256pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Essays on Case Study Houses by Ester McCCoy, AmeliaJones, and Elisabeth A T Smith, Reyner Banham and others. Long 4to. Vg in slightly worn dw. Scarce.

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  • RICE & SON LTD BUILDING CONTRACTORS
    Book of the firm's history and its construction projects. Undated

    nd c1938

    Unpaginated. c12pp Introduction briefly outlining the development of the firm followed by c60pp illustrations of projects + c12pp period ads for building products and specialist firms. Long 4to. Green cloth covered boards with art deco style gilt lettering on upper board. At the time of production, the firm was based in Stockwell, London with specialist woodworking department in Margate. Inter – war projects illustrated include various Odeon cinemas, mansion blocks including Nell Gwynn House, Chelsea, the Bexhill Pavilion, Margate Lido, various suburban housing schemes, offices and shops, schools and colleges. Work centred on London and the south east. The Architects noted for most of the projects that are illustrated.

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  • [SKYSCRAPERS] BOSSOM Alfred C.
    Building to the Skies: the romance of the skyscraper

    Studio 1934

    152pp illus with fine b/w plates. Small 4to. Good copy with worn and chipped dust wrapper. Old sellotape marks on the end papers. Stunning photo images of early skyscrapers including drawings by Hugh Ferris. Written by an advocate of skyscraper architecture by this key architect involved in their construction in New York and elsewhere. Specific chapters on construction technology and case studies of the Empire State Building and Woolworth Building among others. Hard to find in this condition. From the library of Miles Glendinning with his ownership stamp.

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  • BRIGGS R A
    Bungalows and Country Residences: A series of designs and examples of recently executed works.

    London London B T Batsford 1894

    2nd edition with additional plates xxpp itext and a description of the plates + 35 plates which are mostly line ills. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Bright copy although some slight foxing to title page and prelims.

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  • KONTTINEN, Sirkka-Liisa.
    Byker Revisited

    ‎ Northumbria Press; First Edition 2009

    192pp illustrated. Long 4to. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. A portrait in complexity of life in Ralph Erskine's Byker Wall and its setting following the initial honeymoon period.

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  • Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects. by (VOYSEY) SIMMONDS Joanna
    (VOYSEY) SIMMONDS Joanna
    Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects. C.F.A. Voysey

    Farnborough, Gregg International Publishers Limited 1976

    95pp + 120 text figures on un-numbered pages. Large 4to. Very good in slightly worn dw. with small tear. Ex institutional library with bookplate and with drawn stamp on fep and class mark on dw. else very good and with no other library markings. Essential reference for Voysey drawings.

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  • Charles Luckman Associates Progress by NASA SPACE CENTER [ MID CENTURY MODERN] CHARLES LUCKMAN ASSOCIATES
    NASA SPACE CENTER [ MID CENTURY MODERN] CHARLES LUCKMAN ASSOCIATES
    Charles Luckman Associates Progress Nasa Manned Spacecraft Center

    Published by the firm June 1962

    8pp promotional newsletter outlining the work of the firm. Illustrated with b/w plates. Long 8vo. Stapled. Upper wrapper shows a b/w drawing envisioning the Nasa Manned Spacecraft Center. The firm were master planners for this project. Luckman Associates also advocated the use of a modular design system for the buildings with materials that could be manufactured off-site, which aided in meeting the tight schedule for completion. The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) officially opened in June 1964 as the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC). This approximately 1,620-acre facility is located about 25 miles from downtown Houston, Texas. The remainder of the booklet illustrates other assignments of the firm including offices, and shops and…

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    Published by the firm June 1962

    8pp promotional newsletter outlining the work of the firm. Illustrated with b/w plates. Long 8vo. Stapled. Upper wrapper shows a b/w drawing envisioning the Nasa Manned Spacecraft Center. The firm were master planners for this project. Luckman Associates also advocated the use of a modular design system for the buildings with materials that could be manufactured off-site, which aided in meeting the tight schedule for completion. The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) officially opened in June 1964 as the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC). This approximately 1,620-acre facility is located about 25 miles from downtown Houston, Texas. The remainder of the booklet illustrates other assignments of the firm including offices, and shops and inclding Nortronics in Palos Verdes. Emphermal item.

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  • Civil Protection by SAMUELY, Felix J. & HAMANN, Conrad W.
    SAMUELY, Felix J. & HAMANN, Conrad W.
    Civil Protection The Application of the Civil Defence Act and other Government Requirements for Air Raid Shelters, etc.

    London, The Architectural Press 1939

    (5) 168, xxxii pp. Black and white diagrams and tables. bound in open weave lettered cloth, slightly discoloured at edges, with imprinted navy titles. Very good indeed. Fascinating book of government recommendations for civil defence shelter etc.

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  • STEPHENSON, Flora and Gordon.
    Community Centres: A survey for the Community Centres Joint Research Council Research Officers for the Leverhulme Grant Fund, Community Centres Joint Research Committee: Royal Institute of British Architects, National Council of Social Service, the Housing Centre

    London The Housing Centre 1942

    117pp illustrated with 19 plans and diagrams including some fold out plans and diagrams for actual schemes. Soft wrappers. Good copy.

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  • Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. by VENTURI, Robert
    VENTURI, Robert
    Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.

    New York, The Museum of Modern Art in association with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in The Fine Arts, Chicago, [1966] 1968

    2nd edition. 144pp with 350 b/w illustrations. 200 x 150mm. Wraps version. Good copy but some pen underlining. Introduction by Vincent Scully. This first book in the series 'The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture' is concerned with the theoretical background of modern architecture. Ownership name of Alan Mossman, New York 1970

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  • Presweld Construction System HILLS [WEST BROMWICH] LIMITED
    Construction for Schools Trade Catalogue

    Wills, Albion Road, West Bromwich undated c1952

    20pp illustrated with b/w plates showing interiors and exteriors of schools + plans and diagrams the latter on green pages. Long 4to. Very good copy Hinchcliffe had founded Hills in 1932 as a patent glazing company. It then rapidly expanded and had divisions making steel window frames, roof lights and light steel structural. Loosely inserted letter to E D Haigh, RIBA Kendal accompanying the brochure and discussing their design approaches. Air view of Hemel Hempstead Primary School by C H Aslin on title page. Describes the Presweld system of construction. Lots of examples of school buildings created from the modular and prefabricated system the firm developed.

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  • WILLIAMS ELLIS, Clough.
    Cottage Building In Cob, Pise, Chalk & Clay In Cob, Pisé, Chalk & Clay A Renaissance

    London Country Life 1919

    First edition 141pp frontispiece + 28 b/w plates, line illustrations in text. Cloth backed boards. Corners + head and base of spine bumped. Some slight foxing throughout the text pages. Loosely inserted magazine article about concrete house construction. Impressive study of vernacular building methods using mud, adobe, etc. Hard to find. A very clear study of these vernacular building methods.

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  • SPRINGER, Willy [ editor ]
    Das Gesicht des Deutschen Theaters

    Oldenburg Gerhard Stalling Verlag 1926

    172pp illustrated with c300 b/w plates of the exterior of theatres providing a good photographic record of Germanic theatre design. 4to. Red lettered open weave cloth. Good copy. With bookplate on front paste down of Edwin A Dawes. Locations of each theatre noted. Edwin Alfred Dawes was a British biochemist and magician from Yorkshire. [died 2023].

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  • [EISENMAN]
    DDR/DESIGN DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES EISENMAN/ROBERTSON

    Unpublished folder 1984

    Folder of information about the firm and its projects. Untitled 1984 Includes introduction, resumes of the key partners including: Peter Eisenamn, Christopher J Glaister, Jacqueline T Robertson; List of key clients and a series of project descriptions. The projects are summarised and each is illustrated with an original photograph the same size as the typed summary. They are Canberra, Central area urban design study; Florida Expo '92 master planning etc; Colvill Green Office Campus Fairfax County Virginia; Olympic Place; New York, Arcade scheme; Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington Urban Design Scheme; Aerospace Center Washington; Amvest Corporation Headquarters, Charlottesville; Center fo the Visual Arts and Fine Arts Library, Columbus Ohio, University Art Museum, Long Beach CA, Housing Koch-Friedrichstrasse, Berlin,…

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    Unpublished folder 1984

    Folder of information about the firm and its projects. Untitled 1984 Includes introduction, resumes of the key partners including: Peter Eisenamn, Christopher J Glaister, Jacqueline T Robertson; List of key clients and a series of project descriptions. The projects are summarised and each is illustrated with an original photograph the same size as the typed summary. They are Canberra, Central area urban design study; Florida Expo '92 master planning etc; Colvill Green Office Campus Fairfax County Virginia; Olympic Place; New York, Arcade scheme; Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington Urban Design Scheme; Aerospace Center Washington; Amvest Corporation Headquarters, Charlottesville; Center fo the Visual Arts and Fine Arts Library, Columbus Ohio, University Art Museum, Long Beach CA, Housing Koch-Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, Madison Components Plant Indiana, design and Beverley Hills Civic Center Design Competition. Loose leaf sheets held in folder and presumably given to potential clients. How these things were done before the age of the Internet.

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    Stock ID: 20943
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  • NICHOLS, John Gough. 1806-1873]
    Description of the Church of St Mary Warwick and of the Beauchamp Chapel and the monuments of the Beauchamp's and Dudley's Chapel and the Chantry Chapel of Isabella Countess of Warwick in Tewkesbury Abbey

    London J B Nichols and Son. Nd. C1860

    Illustrated with 7 folio plates extracted from the Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain. Later maroon leather binding with monogram on upper board. Spine chipped and worn. Internally very good with the plates backed with linen to make a very good copy.

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  • (GERMAN AUTOBAHNS) Generalinspektor für das deutsche Straßenwesen [edited by]
    Drei Jahre Arbeit an den Straßen Adolf Hitlers

    Berlin Volk und Reich Verlag 1936

    Unpaginated. Illustrated with plans, diagrams and b/w photographs including images of relief maps showing routes of proposed autobahns. 240 x 260mm. Cloth backed boards with brown lettered titles on upper board. Cloth a little dusty else good copy. Useful survey of the motorway scheme.

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  • E.A.W. POINT OF VIEW ON POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION INTERIM REPORT by EDWARDS, Elsie E
    EDWARDS, Elsie E
    E.A.W. POINT OF VIEW ON POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION INTERIM REPORT

    London, Electrical Association of Women nd 1944-45

    55pp, pamphlet. b/w wrappers. Title page with ex library stamp of Association of for Planning and Regional Reconstruction + 2 ex libris stamps marring appearance. Some pencil annotations else good copy. The Electrical Association for Women (EAW) was a feminist and educational organisation founded in Great Britain in 1924 to promote the benefits of electricity in the home. The pamphlet covers careers for women in the electrical sector, planning the post war home efficiently etc.

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  • (GODWIN) SOROS Susan Webber ed.
    E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer

    New Haven and London, Yale University Press 1999

    430pp with 100s of illustrations in b/w and colour. Large 4to. Cloth in d/w, very good indeed. Collection of essays by various scholars on one of the great figures of 19th C architecture and design. Exploring his multifaceted career as an architect, furniture designer, theatrical designer and writer. Published as a catalogue to accompany an exhibition held in 1999.

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