Architecture

  • (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.

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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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  • [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.

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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.

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  • http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=John_J._Hunt_Ltd
    Proposed Hotel for J. J. Hunt [ The Imperial Hotel, York] by [ORIGINAL HAND COLOURED ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVE] NEEDHAM S[amuel]. & SON, [Charles NEEDHAM] RIBA
    [ORIGINAL HAND COLOURED ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVE] NEEDHAM S[amuel]. & SON, [Charles NEEDHAM] RIBA
    Proposed Hotel for J. J. Hunt [ The Imperial Hotel, York]

    York 1936

    Original drawing. 920x600mm Framed behind glass. Slight foxing and a small muddy smudge on drafting paper else very good. Perpsective illustrating one of a number of hotel/public houses proposed for York's new housing estates by the Bewers J J Hunt Ltd. This one situated at the junction Crichton Avenue and Kingsway North, York, adjacent to shops opposite the catholic church which marked another corner of the junction. It would have served the aborted "outer ring road" scheme planned to follow the line of Kingsway as well as the adjacent Kingsway housing scheme. Demolished c2000. The only surviving Needham pub/hotel is the Ainsty on Poppleton Road. This too would have served a portion of the proposed ring…

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    York 1936

    Original drawing. 920x600mm Framed behind glass. Slight foxing and a small muddy smudge on drafting paper else very good. Perpsective illustrating one of a number of hotel/public houses proposed for York's new housing estates by the Bewers J J Hunt Ltd. This one situated at the junction Crichton Avenue and Kingsway North, York, adjacent to shops opposite the catholic church which marked another corner of the junction. It would have served the aborted "outer ring road" scheme planned to follow the line of Kingsway as well as the adjacent Kingsway housing scheme. Demolished c2000. The only surviving Needham pub/hotel is the Ainsty on Poppleton Road. This too would have served a portion of the proposed ring road. J. J. Hunt was founded in the 1830s in York, and in various guises, continued till 1956. After 1927 one of the strategies for expansion of the Brewery was to build new public houses to serve the suburbs. Samuel Needham (a leading influence on early twentieth century pub design in York)was president of the York & Yorkshire Architectural Society was responsible for the design of what were effectively "road house" for the proposed road but which also served the expanding suburbs. He initially worked for Tadcaster Breweries but set up on his own in c1904. His son, Charles, also trained as an architect and moved from Leicester, where he had been City Architect, to join the practice in 1927.

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  • GEBHARD David
    Purcell & Elmslie Prairie Progressive Architects

    Layton, Utah Gibbs Smith 2006

    192pp. Copiously illustrated in colour. Octavo in very good dust wrapper. Bronze cloth covered boards with white titling. A comprehensive study of the eminent American architect firm of William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie. Fine

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  • Rational Building, Being a Translation of the Article "Construction" in the Dictionnaire Raisonne de l'Architecture Francaise by VIOLLET LE DUC, M. Eugene-Emmanuel.
    VIOLLET LE DUC, M. Eugene-Emmanuel.
    Rational Building, Being a Translation of the Article "Construction" in the Dictionnaire Raisonne de l'Architecture Francaise

    New York and London, Macmillan 1895

    Translated by George Martin Huss. xii + 367pp illustrated with b/w line illustrations. Introduction summarises the life and works of Viollet le Duc. THe remainder is a very useful translation of the section of his Dictionnaire into English concerning construction methods. Topical given the current restoration of Notre Dame which he restored in the period c1846-1856.

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  • (ERITH) ARCHER Lucy
    Raymond Erith Architect.

    Burford, The Cygnet Press 1985

    234pp illus 206 b/w photographs and plans. 4to. Wrappers. Good copy. Comprises a comprehensive selection of Erith's unpublished writings on architectural theory and practice, a biographical introduction and chronological list of his works. A mid twentieth century classicist in the midst of the modern movement whose work includes Jack Straw's cottage on Hampstead Heath and the reconstruction of Nos 10, 11 and 12 Downing Street.

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  • Raymond Myerscough-Walker Architect and Perspectivist by (MYERSCOUGH-WALKER)
    (MYERSCOUGH-WALKER)
    Raymond Myerscough-Walker Architect and Perspectivist

    London The Architectural Association 1984

    48pp illustrated with b/w photographs and line ills. Square small 4to. Decorated wrappers. Useful overview on the life and work of Myserscough Walker.

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  • Re:Working Eisenman by (EISENMAN)
    (EISENMAN)
    Re:Working Eisenman

    London, Academy Editions 1993

    208pp with 140 illustrations, mostly in colour. Cloth, near fine in similar d/w. Collects together writings by and about Eisenman, including work by key authors such as Jacques Derrida and A. Benjamin. A fascinating record of the intersections between philosophy and practice in Eisenman's groundbreaking work.

    Stock ID: 21678
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  • Recollections: The Life and Travels of a Victorian Architect by [JACKSON] JACKSON Sir Nicholas [ Edited and arranged by ]
    [JACKSON] JACKSON Sir Nicholas [ Edited and arranged by ]
    Recollections: The Life and Travels of a Victorian Architect Sir Thomas Graham Jackson.

    London, Unicorn Press 2003

    xvi + 334pp illustrated with b/w plates and has decorated end papers. Very good with dust wrapper. Includes an Introduction and Gazetteer of the Buildings by James Bettley. Fine in dust wrapper. The manuscripts of Thomas Graham Jackson are in the possession of the family and it is his grandson who has been the force behind this title.

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  • Residential Flats of All Classes including Artisans' Dwellings by PERKS Sydney
    PERKS Sydney
    Residential Flats of All Classes including Artisans' Dwellings

    London, B T Batsford 1905

    xiv +267pp illus. with b/w plates and plans including some fold outs. Royal 8vo. Sympathetically rebacked preserving original spine. New end papers. Examples of important examples by leading architects in England, the Continent and America. Many special photographs. Scarce and important study of mansion house block etc.

    Stock ID: 22088
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  • SAINT Andrew,
    Richard Norman Shaw

    Yale University Press 1978

    487pp illus. with 291 plates. Sm 4to. Very good copy. Good in good dw which is slightly sunned. Hard to find. Definitive biography of Norman Shaw.

    Stock ID: 22708
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  • ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS
    Road Architecture: The need for a plan

    London, RIBA 1939

    79 pp with b/w photo illustrations & diagrams, plus lxiipp period adverts. 4to. Original wrappers. Slightly rubbed at head and base of spine. Bottom front corner of wrapper c 2cm ripped away else a very good copy of this scarce item. RIBA Catalogue this focused exhibition designed by James Gardner. Hard to find. Introduced by Goodhart-Rendel, the catalogue addressed the problems of deteriorating roads in the UK in cities and towns as well as addressing the issues relating to the design of motorways.

    Stock ID: 22084
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  • HITCHCOCK Henry Russell
    Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany

    Phaedon 1968

    428pp+218 b/w photographs. Large 4to with d/w. Includes detailed studies of the ASAM AND schmuzer families, and the archiects Johann Georg Fischer Peter II Thumb, Johann Michael Fischer and J.B.Neumann.

    Stock ID: 2267
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  • Forum Sale December 2023
    [RUFFORD ABBEY]
    Rufford Abbey, Nottingham, Catalogue of The Rufford Collection Including treasures acquired by the ancestors of the Savile family during three centuries : to be sold on the premises by Messrs Knight, Frank & Rutley in conjunction with Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, on Tuesday the 11th day of October 1938, and 9 subsequent days ...

    London Knight, Frank & Rutley with Christie, Manson & Woods 1938

    202pp. Frontispiece and 14 photographic plates. Octavo. Paper Wraps. New end papers. Cover discoloured and a little chipped around edges. Top of spine bumped. Some marks (chocolate?) on upper and verso wraps. Internally very crisp. With ink-written sale prices of some of the items. Numerous magazine cuttings and correspondence to and from Josceline Grove loosely inserted into book. Book plate and book and its purchase description on front paste down. "A Melancholy record of one the most important dispersal's between the wars." [Grove]

    Stock ID: 22663
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  • GIBBS James introduced by Christian Barman
    Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture

    London Hodder and Stoughton Limited ((1932) 1947

    xxivpp intro +111pp illustrated. Very good Useful cut down facsimile version of the 1732 version of this book.

    Stock ID: 22427
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  • Ruskin at Venice: by [RUSKIN] LA SIZERANNE, Robert.
    [RUSKIN] LA SIZERANNE, Robert.
    Ruskin at Venice: A Lecture given during the Ruskin Commemoration at Venice September 21 1905

    London George Allen 1906

    70+[2]pp adverts. Wrappers. Very good copy. Text translated by Mrs Frederic Harrison

    Stock ID: 21119
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  • Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook by (BUCK) HALL Ivan (intro)
    (BUCK) HALL Ivan (intro)
    Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook

    Wakefield Historical Publications 1979

    xii + 420pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Vg in dw. Important facsimile illustrating Yorkshire's middling and larger houses and their gardens before so many were remodelled or enlarged. The sketches were commissioned between 1719-1723 by John Warburton, historian and antiquarian.

    Stock ID: 21955
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  • [HEJDUK, John]. HAYS K Michael.
    Sanctuaries: The last works of John Hejduk Selections from the John Hedjuk Archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal and the Menil Collection, Houston

    New York Abrams for Whitney Museum of Art 2003

    104pp illustrated with colour illustrations. Very good with very good dust wrapper which is very slightly sunned on spine. Hejduk's last works explored themes of falls from grace, itinerancy, passage & transformation, & - above all - architecture as sanctuary.

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