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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.
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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Compton Wynyates
Stock ID: 22656More details Price: £200.00
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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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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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Craig Ellwood 15 Casas/15 Houses
Barcelona Editorial GG [1999] 2004
144pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Silvered decorated boards, Very good copy. Craig Ellwood was one of the architects who during the 50s took part (alongside Charles Eames, Pierre Koenig and Rafael Soriano, among others) in the celebrated Case Study Houses programme organized by the "Arts and Architecture" magazine with the aim of promoting modern architecture and experimentation with new industrial materials in domestic architecture. This book is a useful account of some of his projects and is beautifully illustrated.
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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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DDR/DESIGN DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES EISENMAN/ROBERTSON
Stock ID: 20943More details Price: £160.00
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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
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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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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Eero Saarinen on his Work: A Selection of Buildings dating from 1947 to 1964, with Statements by the Architect
Stock ID: 22027More details Price: £125.00
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English Country Houses
Five volumes comprising Caroline 1625-1685, Baroque 1685-1715, Early Georgian 1715-60, Mid Georgian 1760-1800 and Late Georgian 1800-1840
Stock ID: 19721More details Price: £480.00
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English Decorative Plasterwork of the Renaissance
London, B.T. Batsford (1926)1933
Revised edition. xiii + 258pp illustrated with 200 b/w plates, engravings and diagrams. Original gilt decorated cloth, lightly worn and faded on spine and at corners, generally bright. Ex Hull College with their ancient stamp on front end paper and withdrawn stamp on verso of the half title. Important and well illustrated survey of plasterwork in England, organised by period and location.
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English Homes Period IV Volume II The Work of Sir John Vanbrugh and his School 1699-1736
London Country Life Limited 1928
Folio. Quarter blue cloth. . Unusual to find this item in a dust wrapper. Dust wrapper a bit chipped at head and base of the spine. Superb record of the work of Vanbrugh with large format photographs in black and white and line ills.
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English Neo-Classical Architecture
London A. Zwemmer Ltd. 1988
2 Vols. 648pp (continuous pagination) . Over 400 b/w + colour photographs. Publishers blue cloth, gilt title on the spine with illustrated dust wrappers and slipcase. Spine of the wrappers a little faded else very good indeed. Comprehensive study, explores the origins of the neo-classical movement in British architecture during the second half of the 18th century and analyses the interiors and exteriors of a wide range of neo-classical building types. Covers the work of Robert Adam, James Wyatt, George Dance, John Soane + many more. Profusely illustrated.
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Eric Lyons and Span
London RIBA Publishing; 1st edition 2006
240pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates, some from the original brochures for the Span housing schemes. Suare 4to. Laminated boards. Well researched, this book celebrates the work of the architect Eric Lyons OBE (1912-1980), whose famous post-war housing projects. . Built almost entirely for Span Developments, its mission was to provide an affordable environment "that gave people a lift".
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Eva Jiricna Designs -
London Architectural Association Mega VI 1987
43pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates and line illustrations. Small folio. Black wrappers. Czech-born architect Eva Jiricna provides the architectural setting for some of the most stylist fashion outlets in London, Paris, Germany and the USA, it features 12 of her London schemes. A fully illustrated interview tells the story of her background in Czechoslovakia and the impact on her work of the architectural scene she discovered on moving to London after the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968. The book includes contribution by John Thackara and a conversation with Alvin Boyarsky. Slightly rubbed at base of front wrapper and edges a little dusty. Internally very good. Hard to find.
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First Russian then Tibet
London Macmillan and Co 1933
First edition. illustrated with drawings and photographs, mostly by the author including coloured frontispiece. Colour frontis. Blue cloth. Good. No dust wrapper. Bright copy. A little bumped at corners. With bookplate of Colin Amery. Byron travelled to India in 1929 as special correspondent for the Daily Express, and also took in Tibet. An appreciation of architecture is a strong element in Byron's writings. He was a forceful advocate for the preservation of historic buildings and a founder member of the Georgian Group. His interest in architecture shines through in this book.
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Franco Purini: Around the shadow line Folio III
London Architectural Association 1984
16pp introductory text, 30 boxed plates. Decorated box. 320x320mm.. Dedication copy from the autor with hand drawn sketch. "For Yolanda e Gerald during a beautiful dinner in A.A. London 2/5/84" Introduction by Franco Purini, essays by Vittorio Gregotti, Pierluigi Nicolin and Micha Bandini. The plates comprise drawings with the quality of etchings in which Purini explores the concept of the eternal city. Presumed to be Yolanda Adams and Gerald Levert
Stock ID: 22668More details Price: £345.00