Architecture

  • STRATTON Michael (ed)
    Industrial Buildings Conservation and Regeneration

    London E & FN Spon 2000

    viii + 232pp with many b/w and colour images throughout. 4to in paper boards with colour dw. Vg. With contributions by industrial archaeologists, architects, and experts in regenration and community planning.

    Stock ID: 22486
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  • HARRIS J. & HIGGOTT G.
    Inigo Jones: Complete Architectural Drawings.

    The Drawing Centre, 1989.

    336pp, 36 col. illus. b/w photographs, plans and drawings. This is the first single-volume catalogue of all Jones' 93 surviving architectural drawings. Each drawing is accompanied by full technical descriptions and commentary. Wraps.

    Stock ID: 22411
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  • Interiors book of Hotels and Motor Hotels by [MOTELS ET AL.] END, Henry
    [MOTELS ET AL.] END, Henry
    Interiors book of Hotels and Motor Hotels

    New York Whitney Library of Design 1963

    252pp illustrated with 100s of b/w plates and a few in colour. Large 4to. Cloth Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. International survey of hotel designs. Each chapter is accompanied by a photo portfolio of a particular hotel or motel design. a book for designers of hotels. Super period piece for the 1950s and 1960s.

    Stock ID: 21193
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  • GOODHART RENDEL H.
    International Exhibition of Modern and Commercial Architecture

    London RIBA 1929

    34pp. 8vo Paper wrapper,slight rubbing + small tear to the base of the spine otherwise good. Catalogue for the exhibition held at R.I.B.A Galleries, Conduit Street 1929. The aim of the exhibition was to prove that commercial architecture could be good architecture and there are lists of major new commercial developments in the catalogue. 351 items including cinemas, garages, offices etc drawn from world wide locations.

    Stock ID: 17948
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  • (GANDON) McPARLAND Edward
    James Gandon Vitruvius Hibernicus

    London: Zwemmer 1981

    222pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Photographs by David Davison. Large 4to. Very good in dust wrapper. Hard to findbut useful monograph.

    Stock ID: 22385
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  • James Gibbs by [GIBBS] FRIEDMAN, Terry
    [GIBBS] FRIEDMAN, Terry
    James Gibbs

    New Haven and London Yale University Press 1985

    362pp. illustrated throughout in b/w photographs and a few colour illustrations. 4to. Cloth boards with gilt title lettering on spine. Very good copy in original dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 22271
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  • ROBINSON, John Martin.
    James Wyatt, 1746-1813 Architect to George III

    London Yale University Press 2012

    400pp, 150 colour and 170 b/w plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. James Wyatt (1746-1813) is widely recognised as the most celebrated and prolific English architect of the 18th century. This text interweaves information about his projects and life. The book reviews the complex connections formed by his web of wealthy patrons and his influence on both his contemporaries and successors and includes details of Ashridge and other sites where both he and Capability Brown were involved. Fabulous illustrations throughout as well as useful appendices on projects and even the books in his library.

    Stock ID: 22005
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  • John Campell: Dediscovery of an Arts and Crafts Architect by (CAMPBELL) POWERS Alan with CRAWFORD Alan and LEASK Ronald
    (CAMPBELL) POWERS Alan with CRAWFORD Alan and LEASK Ronald
    John Campell: Dediscovery of an Arts and Crafts Architect

    London The Prince of Wales Insitute of Architecture 1997

    60pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Small Square 4to. Wrappers. Very good copy. Campbell 1878-1947 is little known. Worked in England and Germany and this is the first book about his life and work.

    Stock ID: 20844
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  • John Nash Architect of the Picturesque by [NASH] TYACK Geoffery
    [NASH] TYACK Geoffery
    John Nash Architect of the Picturesque

    London English Heritage 2013

    198pp illustrated. Essays on aspects of his work. 4to. Boards. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. The aim of this book, which originated in a symposium held by the Georgian Group in September 2009, was to bring together this recent scholarship in a single volume. Useful collection of essays on Country houses, Regent Street and London work etc.

    Stock ID: 22274
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  • John Ruskin: The Early Years 1819-1859 by With letter from the author slipped inside [RUSKIN] HILTON, Tim
    With letter from the author slipped inside [RUSKIN] HILTON, Tim
    John Ruskin: The Early Years 1819-1859

    London Yale University Press 1985

    301pp illustrated with b/w plates. Very good with good dust wrapper. Loosely inserted A.L.S. typed from Tm Hilton to John Hutchinson, architectural historian and Ruskin devotee. Hilton was responding to detailed remarks about his book made by John Hutchinson.

    Stock ID: 21114
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  • LE CORBUSIER
    L'Art Decoratif D'Aujourd'hui

    Paris, Editions Vincent Freal & Co (1925) 1959 Collection de "L'Esprit Nouveau" 1959

    218pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. throughout. Decorated wraps. Vg indeed. Revised edition of one of the original L'Esprit Nouveau, promoting the works and ideas of Le Corbusier and his contemporaries. From the library of Kenneth and Diana Rowntree without signatures.

    Stock ID: 21940
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  • CLOUZOT H.
    La ferronnerie Moderne. 3eme serie.

    Paris, Ch. Moreau, 1930

    (8) pages et 32 planches en heliogravure. Loose leaf portfolio with stylish modernist design and ribbon ties. Cover a little scuffed, otherwise a good copy with bright clean plates. A brief introduction in French by Clouzot is accompanied by single-sided stiff card plates depicting superb art-deco wrought iron-work. A stunning resource for 1930s metalwork and design applied to fixtures and furnishings, interior and exterior.

    Stock ID: 1338
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  • Light box by WEIL Daniel
    WEIL Daniel
    Light box

    London Architectural Association Box 1 1985

    32pp text-booklet ('sketchbook'), + collection of material comprising piece of silk screened fabric, tin & copper-plate, 'chessboard' & two circuit boards. 320x320mm in presentation purple box with decorative gilt title on front. Vg. With introductory essays by: Dawn Ades, Nigel Coates, J. Christopher Joner, John Thackara. Collection of material for Daniel Weil's 'Light Box' installation. Mechanism of opening box slightly damaged because of poor assembly when made. Hard to find. The box explores the 1980s works of the 1980s. Best known for his deconstructed radio in a clear bag which challenged the idea of audio equipment always being in a black box.

    Stock ID: 21523
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  • HAMMOND Peter
    Liturgy and Architecture

    Barrie and Rockliff 1960

    xv+191pp,53 b/w photographs+many line drawings. With slightly worn d/w. With Reyner Banham's bookplate on front paste down. On re-ordering of churches to meet modern liturgical forms.

    Stock ID: 2125
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  • [HEATHROW] GIBBERD, Frederick. [Architect]
    London Airport Central Terminal Buildings

    London Published for the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation HMSO ref CAP 120 [1954] 1955 reprint

    Ex library Hammersmith Public Reference Libraries. 46pp comprising 9pp introductory text describing the project + series of fold out plans and diagrams showing the layout of the airport terminals including elevations and floor plans. There are also a series of 10 b/w photographs of the model of the airport termini taken from various angles. Royal 8vo. Lettered wrappers, stapled. Good copy. Small ex library markings on prelims.The appointment for the master planning and design of Heathrow Airport was the commission that allowed Frederick Gibberd to recommence practice after WW2. Gibberd's plan developed the idea of three central terminals, with associated parking, serving…

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    London Published for the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation HMSO ref CAP 120 [1954] 1955 reprint

    Ex library Hammersmith Public Reference Libraries. 46pp comprising 9pp introductory text describing the project + series of fold out plans and diagrams showing the layout of the airport terminals including elevations and floor plans. There are also a series of 10 b/w photographs of the model of the airport termini taken from various angles. Royal 8vo. Lettered wrappers, stapled. Good copy. Small ex library markings on prelims.The appointment for the master planning and design of Heathrow Airport was the commission that allowed Frederick Gibberd to recommence practice after WW2. Gibberd's plan developed the idea of three central terminals, with associated parking, serving Domestic, European and International flights, with easy interchange between all three. At the centre was the 122 ft high control tower.

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    Stock ID: 20947
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  • [HEATHROW] GIBBERD, Frederick [Architect]
    London Airport Developments in the Central Terminal Building

    London Published for the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation HMSO 1954

    46pp comprising 9pp introductory text describing the project + series of fold out plans and diagrams showing the layout of the airport terminals including elevations and floor plans. There are also a series of 10 b/w photographs of the model of the airport termini taken from various angles. Royal 8vo. Lettered wrappers. Stapled. Perforated stamp of Hammersmith Public Library on upper wrapper, class mark and title in ink along edge. The appointment for the master planning and design of Heathrow Airport was the commission that allowed Frederick Gibberd to recommence practice after WW2. Gibberd's plan developed the idea of three central terminals, with associated parking, serving Domestic,…

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    London Published for the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation HMSO 1954

    46pp comprising 9pp introductory text describing the project + series of fold out plans and diagrams showing the layout of the airport terminals including elevations and floor plans. There are also a series of 10 b/w photographs of the model of the airport termini taken from various angles. Royal 8vo. Lettered wrappers. Stapled. Perforated stamp of Hammersmith Public Library on upper wrapper, class mark and title in ink along edge. The appointment for the master planning and design of Heathrow Airport was the commission that allowed Frederick Gibberd to recommence practice after WW2. Gibberd's plan developed the idea of three central terminals, with associated parking, serving Domestic, European and International flights, with easy interchange between all three. At the centre was the 122 ft high control tower.

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    Stock ID: 20946
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  • WRIGHT, Richardson.
    Low Cost Suburban Homes a book of suggestions for the man with the moderate purse.

    New York Robert M McBride & Company [1916] 1920

    120pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills including house plans. Loosely inserted is a newspaper cutting + 4 further clippings from the company Frederick J Dolan, a real estate company, showing houses constructed that could be viewed. 4to. Green cloth overprinted with black titles. Very good copy. The whole book is about kit houses which could be erected in suitable locations and is packed with examples of styles and locations in the USA. Signed by a previous owner inside the front cover in pencil. Sections on: The service of the architect, by H. Hammitt. How to go about planning your home, by C. E. Schermerhorn. The cost of different…

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    New York Robert M McBride & Company [1916] 1920

    120pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills including house plans. Loosely inserted is a newspaper cutting + 4 further clippings from the company Frederick J Dolan, a real estate company, showing houses constructed that could be viewed. 4to. Green cloth overprinted with black titles. Very good copy. The whole book is about kit houses which could be erected in suitable locations and is packed with examples of styles and locations in the USA. Signed by a previous owner inside the front cover in pencil. Sections on: The service of the architect, by H. Hammitt. How to go about planning your home, by C. E. Schermerhorn. The cost of different kinds of building, by G. H. Ingraham. The promise of American house building, by R. A. Cram. An album of low cost suburban homes and also gives the addresses of contributing architects.

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    Stock ID: 21972
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  • MACFARLANES CASTINGS 6th edition 2 volumes + price list as a separate booklet. by MACFARLANE
    MACFARLANE
    MACFARLANES CASTINGS 6th edition 2 volumes + price list as a separate booklet.

    Glasgow The Company undated

    Original green pebbled cloth, hardback, gilt lettering to front boards and spine, (title repeated in black on rear cover). Chocolate brown endpapers. Small 4to. 196 x 140 mm.. Vol 1 – Pages 1-396, Vol 2 – Pages 397-696pp.Very good condition overall. Cover corners bumped a little, spine heads & tails slightly worn. The undated 6th edition was current for many years in the later years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth, but no one now seems to be sure precisely when it was first published [The British Library gives the dates 1882-83 for the 6th edition.] The second volume an incredible source for decorative items such as garden and…

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    Glasgow The Company undated

    Original green pebbled cloth, hardback, gilt lettering to front boards and spine, (title repeated in black on rear cover). Chocolate brown endpapers. Small 4to. 196 x 140 mm.. Vol 1 – Pages 1-396, Vol 2 – Pages 397-696pp.Very good condition overall. Cover corners bumped a little, spine heads & tails slightly worn. The undated 6th edition was current for many years in the later years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth, but no one now seems to be sure precisely when it was first published [The British Library gives the dates 1882-83 for the 6th edition.] The second volume an incredible source for decorative items such as garden and park benches, band stands, loggias etc. Small paper bound 16mo book with card wrappers, this gives prices for items in volume I of 6th edition. 68pp, frontis showing showroom. Spine partially missing from price list. All three volumes have ownership name of Messrs Davis and Leaney who were builders, Goudhurst, [ Tunbridge Wells ] Kent.

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    Stock ID: 22070
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  • Mario Botta by COPPA. Alessandra,
    COPPA. Alessandra,
    Mario Botta Public Buildings 1990-1998

    Motta 2009

    119pp. Colour and b/w photographs, diagrams and line ills. Small square 4to. Graphic decorated boards. Fine. Superbly illustrated Monograph on Botta's work, featuring photography of his projects but also of an installation which used architectural models to articulate the austerity of neoclassical space. With a chapter outlining Botta's philosophy.

    Stock ID: 22703
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  • Mart Stam: documentation of his work 1920-1965 by SHARP Denis (ed.)
    SHARP Denis (ed.)
    Mart Stam: documentation of his work 1920-1965

    RIBA Publications Ltd 1970

    40pp illus with b/w plates. Blue wrappers with title lettering and texts. Based on a special issue of Bouwkundig Weekblad of December 1969. Includes a very useful source for his work and career. Stam was widely known in the Bauhaus circle and knew Ernest May. He remained active in the post war period at the Academy for Fine and Applied Art at Dresden and Berlin.

    Stock ID: 22144
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