Architecture

  • DUNSTER David (Editor)
    Micahel Graves

    Academy Editions Architectural Monographs no 5 1979

    112pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Decorated coloured wraps. Very good indeed. Includes a useful range of his projetcs and built schemes. Critical essay by Alan Colquhoun

    Stock ID: 1704
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  • Modern Theatres and Cinemas by SHAND P. Morton
    SHAND P. Morton
    Modern Theatres and Cinemas

    London B.T. Batsford (The Architecture of Pleasure; 1) 1930

    viii + 39 +[1]pp, 116 b/w photographs, 12 plans. 4to. Beige open-weave cloth with green lettering. Lettering lightly faded on spine else very good. Photographic plates clean and bright. Important book on cinema and theatre design with numerous interior and exterior shots and several plans. Covers Modern Pleasure, The Modern Theatre, The Social Function of the Cinema, The Cinema Considered as a Building, Façades, Foyers and Auditoriums, Plans and Sections. Loosely inserted 4pp fold out list of recent Batsford publications on architecture.

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  • GLOAG, J.
    Mr. Loudon's England.

    Oriel Press, 1970.

    224pp, 99 b/w ills. 8vo. Good copy in slightly worn dw. 'The Life and Works of John Claudius Loudon' plus his influence on architecture and furniture design.'

    Stock ID: 22423
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  • SPEER Albert (compiled by).
    Neue Deutsche Baukunst

    Berlin, Volk und Reich Verlag 1940

    First edition. 105pp illustrated with b/w plates throughout. 4to Paper backed boards . A little rubbed on spine else good. The book surveys major architectural schemes of Nazi Germany. Useful introduction on the history of buildings conceived in the 1930s with superb photographs of the neo-classical and monumental Berlin, Munich schemes etc. Hard to find. Text in German. Bookplate of Walter und Susanne Garreis.

    Stock ID: 22052
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  • CRUCKSHANK James
    Newhills: Annals of a Parish

    Aberdeen: Henry Munro Ltd, 1934.

    68pp illustrated with b/w plates andcolour fold out map at end of book showing area surroudning Newhills Small 4to. Deckle edged paper. Gilt lettered blue cloth. Fine copy. Useful for images of the buildings of this Parish.

    Stock ID: 1523
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  • GRIMSHAW Nicholas
    Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners

    NGP 1988 Book of the Firm, 1988

    2 volumes: Book 1: 'Product' 80pp illus with colour and b/w plates. 4to. Laminated wraps. Book 2: 'Process' 143pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Laminated wraps, uniform with Book 1 in bubble-plastic decorative slipcase, split at bottom and chipped at one corner as plastic has aged. Books themselves are vg indeed. Review of the firm's work and approach.

    Stock ID: 21174
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  • COLLINGWOOD W.G.
    Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age

    London Faber & Gwyer 1927

    First Edition. [viii], 196pp, 227 text illustrations. 4to. A very good copy in the original dark blue cloth with gilt title and decorative device on upper board. Cloth slightly rubbed at edges else good copy.

    Stock ID: 21536
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  • [PONTI, Gio]
    Nouva Sede Pirelli in Milano/New Head Office Pirelli in Milan

    Milano No publisher given 1958

    Special publication taken from issue 316 of Domus 1956. Text in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German. 68pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. 320x240mm. Grey wrappers. Perfect bound. Spine very worn and so a fragile copy of this superb documentary on the building. Coloured pages printed on yellow, blue, red, and green paper respectively, mark out different sections of the discussion of the project. The Pirelli Tower was for a long time the tallest building in Italy. Recently it has been restored.

    Stock ID: 22260
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  • Official Handbook Decorators Exhibition and Conference Blackpool 1935 by [DECORATORS CONFERENCE1935]
    [DECORATORS CONFERENCE1935]
    Official Handbook Decorators Exhibition and Conference Blackpool 1935

    Manchester The National Federation of Master Painters and Decorators 1935

    xxviii+49pp illustrated. Decorated wrappers 8vo. Very good. Art deco design on upper wrapper. Lists firms involved in painting and decorating + details of the Conference. Period ads are fascinating for the range of paints and painting techniques they reveal.

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  • On the Application of Cast and Wrought Iron to Building Purposes by FAIRBURN, William.
    FAIRBURN, William.
    On the Application of Cast and Wrought Iron to Building Purposes

    Longmans, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green [1854] 1864

    3rd edition greatly enlarged to which is added a short treatise on Wrought Iron Bridges… xiv + 303 pp illustrated with six plates all fold outs including frontis of Saltaire Mills near Bradford and text illustrations and tables. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles on spine. Very good although some short splits along outer hinges. Copy of W J Hindle with signature of ownership on half title. He was an architect in Barnsley and the book has his practice stamp on the front paste down.

    Stock ID: 22301
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  • COMPER, J. Ninian
    On the Christian Altar and the Buildings which contain it

    London SPCK 1950

    With a preface by the Bishop of London. Frontispiece in b/w showing altar piece from St Petroc's Minor, Cornwall. 71pp. Stiff card wrappers. Good copy but slightly worn along spine. Uncommon.

    Stock ID: 21654
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  • Oriental Architecture in the West by CONNER Patrick
    CONNER Patrick
    Oriental Architecture in the West

    Thames and Hudson 1979

    200pp with 154 illustrations including 14 in colour. Small 4to.Vg in good dust wrapper. Useful in bringing together sources for chinese and other oriental designs imported into Europe including the UK. Much on the way in which the Orient influenced Walpole, Repton and NAsh. Draws on contemporary sources of its illustrations.

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  • Paul Bonatz und seine Schüler by [BONATZ] Gerhard Graubner [ editor]
    [BONATZ] Gerhard Graubner [ editor]
    Paul Bonatz und seine Schüler

    Berlin and Stuttgart, Verlag Deutsche Bauten H. Frank 1933

    148pp illustrated with b/w plates. Red paper wrappers with black lettered titles. Slightly worn at spine. On half title Matthew written in neat hand [ Sir Robert Matthew 1906-1975] Reviews the work of Bonatz and his associates. Text in German.

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  • Peter Eisenman and Frank Gehry by [EISENMAN]
    [EISENMAN]
    Peter Eisenman and Frank Gehry Fifth International Exhibition of Architecture of the Biennale, 8 September 1991 to 6 October 1991, Giardini de Castello, Pavillion of the United States, Venice, Italy [and] the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, October through November 1992

    New York Rizzoli Publications 1991

    International Architectural Exhibition (5th : 1991 : Venice, Italy) Unpaginated prelims. 80pp. Black and White and colour grainy photographs throughout. Interview between the two printed as prelims. Folio. Striking paper wrappers. Features Eisenman's design for the Cincinnati College of Design and Gehry's design of the Disney Concert Hall. Very good.

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  • Philip Webb and his Work by LETHABY W R
    LETHABY W R
    Philip Webb and his Work

    London Oxford University Press 1935

    Ist edition. Frontis (6) + 234pp illustrated with 24 b/w plates. 8vo. Original green lettered cloth. Very frayed dus wrapper with 2cms missing from base of spine. Pencil signature of the architect Ronald Sims, a conservation architect working from York. Dated September 1949. Key contemporary assessment of the work of Philip Webb. Posthumously published from its original serial form in the Builder of 1925.

    Stock ID: 21304
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  • ARUP, Ove.
    Philosphy of Design: Essays 1942-1981

    Munich ; New York : Prestel, 2012

    386pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. White lettered cloth with title in black. Open weave cloth. Very good in slightly sun faded slipcase. number of essays published for the first time, this collection of writings by the inspirational structural engineer Ove Arup provides valuable insight into the firm and its philosophy. Bookplate of Michael and José Manser on front end paper.

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  • (PIPER) INGRAMS Richard and PIPER John
    Piper's Places: John Piper in England and Wales

    London: Chatto & Windus . The Hogarth Press. 1983.

    184 pp. with 144 Fine plates, almost all in colour and some specially made for this book. 4to. Very good copy in good dust wrapper. Superbly produced anthology of places visited and painted by John Piper.

    Stock ID: 22236
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  • Presweld Construction System HILLS [WEST BROMWICH] LIMITED
    Presweld Construction for Schools 3'4 grid Mark III Trade Catalogue

    Wills, Albion Road, West Bromwich undated c1955

    32pp illustrated with b/w plates showing interiors and exteriors of schools + plans and diagrams the latter on green pages. Long 4to. Very good copy but central gathering adrift from staples which hold the whole publication together. Individual schools built by this method illustrated and in each case the architect is named. Based on a modular system of building. Adapted from an original larger grid size initially developed in 1944, by a committee headed up by John Leslie Martin and C H Aslin. Double page spread showing Apsley School Nottingham layout using the grid system + many other schemes for secondary schools. Architect's and associated engineering teams all noted." Hills Presweld Steel…

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    Wills, Albion Road, West Bromwich undated c1955

    32pp illustrated with b/w plates showing interiors and exteriors of schools + plans and diagrams the latter on green pages. Long 4to. Very good copy but central gathering adrift from staples which hold the whole publication together. Individual schools built by this method illustrated and in each case the architect is named. Based on a modular system of building. Adapted from an original larger grid size initially developed in 1944, by a committee headed up by John Leslie Martin and C H Aslin. Double page spread showing Apsley School Nottingham layout using the grid system + many other schemes for secondary schools. Architect's and associated engineering teams all noted." Hills Presweld Steel Framework" was a method widely adopted in post war construction period for both schools and steel framed houses. Hinchcliffe had founded Hills in 1932 as a patent glazing company, since this time when it had rapidly expanded and had divisions making steel window frames, rooflights and light steel structural.

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    Stock ID: 21137
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  • [EISENMAN AND GRAVES] DIXON, John Morris.
    Progressive Architecture: Eisenman and Graves

    Stamford Reinhold Publishing March 1972

    no 3. 162pp illustrated with line ills and colour and b/w photographs and including period ads. Colour wrappers: Diptych by Michael Graves representing his work on right and that of Eisenman's on left. Features a key article by Eisenman and Graves entitled "On Reading Architecture." Other articles consider the water front at Rochester USA by Frank Schlesinger, an addition to a school in St PAul by Benjamin Thompson + book reviews and editorial.

    Stock ID: 22010
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  • METHODIST CHURCH PROPERTY DIVISION
    Property Division Occasional Report

    London 1984

    Unpaginated. c40pp pamphlet, coloured wrappers, stapled. Illustrated in b/w and colour and with plans of church layouts. Looks at the adaptation of old and design of new church spaces for the Methodists. Very good. Images accompanied by captions listing architects and builders. English projects in the main.

    Stock ID: 22539
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