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Raucous Invention: The joy of making
Loondon Thames and Hudson 2025
Revised edition. 256pp illustrated throughout in colour. 4to. : 245 x 300mm New, dust wrapper. Brightly coloured end papers. New. Featuring Mark Hearld's distinctive collages, textile designs, linocut prints, wallpapers and sculptures amongst other subjects. Contributions by Alan Powers and Lydia Wilson on his house and home which is part of his genre. The book brilliantly conveys the wonderfully vibrant and energetic world of Mark Hearld.
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Arup Associates
London RIBA Publishing Twentieth Century Architects Series. 2018
144pp illustrated in b/w and colour. Stiff card wrappers. Very good.
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Wells Coates.
London RIBA Publishing Twentieth Century Architects Series 2012
163pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Very good.
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Howell Killick Partidge & Amis.
Historic England , RIBA Publishing Twentieth Century Architects Series. 2017.
218pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Stiff card wrappers. Very good. Signed on title page by Geraint, dedicated to Peter [ Hirschmann].
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Robin Hood Gardens: Re-Visions: Volume 10 (Twentieth Century Architecture)
London C20 Society 2010
180pp illustrated. Wrappers. This publication collates a series of photographs, essays and a conversation between the Smithsons' detailing the full history of the estate. With note from C20 to a member about the publication which is loosely slipped in.
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Towers and Colonnades: the Architecture of Cuthbert Brodrick
Leeds, Philocophical and Literary Society 1999
163 pp with 148 colour and b/w illustrations. Square 4to, wraps, vg indeed. Study of the work of Brodrick (1821-1905) the Victorian architect best known for Leeds Town Hall and a key figure in articulating the identity of industrial towns. Illustrated with a wide selection of his drawings and plans. Signed by the author on half title.
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Serge Chermayeff: Designer Architect Teacher
London: RIBA Publications 2001
297pp with 200 b/w and 30 colour illustrations. Decorated wrappers. Study of the life and works of this influential and pioneering architect (1900-1997). Scarce.
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Poverty: A Study of Town Life.
Nelson Nelson Pocket edition no date c1912-13
2nd edition. Good with slightly worn dust wrapper. xx + 496pp. Includes tables in the text. 16mo. Decorated end papers. Nelson shilling library series thus making accessible the findings of the original study.
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A Study of the Work of Seebohm Rowntree: 1871-1954: Social thought and social action.
London Longmans 1961
x +371pp illustrated with frontispiece. Very good with slightly chipped dust wrapper.
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the Nature of Gothic Architecture: and herein of the | True Functions of the Workman in Art.
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The Language of Cities:
A Visual introduction to the form and function of the city.
Cambridge Mass Schenkman Publishers Co Inc. [1968] Distributed by The General Learning Press [Morristown, N.J] 1972
128pp illustrated in b/w but with a short section on colour [ in colour] Red wrappers, white lettering, Decorated photographic end papers. Good but repaired short tear on lower wrapper. Spine sun faded. On the perception of cities and links between the visual elements and function.
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Cities
New York Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1963
224pp. with many black and white photographic illustrations. Long 4to. Open weave cloth. Black spine lettering. An analysis of urban forms and functions by this notable post-modern landscape designer. Signed by Lawrence Halprin on half title in a bold hand.
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THE TOWNSEND JOURNALS: AN ARTIST'S RECORD OF HIS TIMES 1928-51
London Tate Gallery 1976
98pp, illustrated throughout in black and white. 4to. Red clotth. Very good with dust wrapper.
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A Builder's/Architect's Reference Photograph Album in England
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Working Drawings & Designs Architecture and Building with essays on various subjects richly illustrated with woodcuts
London A. Fullerton & Co. nd c1880
(8) + 32 + 8 + 20 + 8 + 26 + 12 + 14 + 8 + 24 + 8, 48 numbered folding plates, 6 other folding plates and 1 further lettered a-g. Text pages illustrated with woodcut illustrations comprising plans and diagrams and drawings of details. Large folio. Quarter calf, green cloth, gilt lettered spine and upper board. Rubbed on all corners and along spine. Marbled end paper, reinforced. Superb period reference for building details.
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Building and Engineering Works
The History And Activities of John Laing & Son, LTD. 1848-1937
London published by the firm 1937
164pp illustrated. Long 4to. Cloth covered boards. A little dusty. Introductory text + illustrations with captions documenting the projects by this key building firm. Architects noted throughout. Published in the Coronation year this is a very useful source for inter-war buildings in particular. John Laing was also a company that profoundly shaped post-war Britain. It constructed the country's first major motorway, built outstanding sites of worship such as Coventry Cathedral. This book provides insights into their formative activity. A record scoping their post war work can be seen at Historic England's photo archive.
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Early Churches of Palestine The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy
London The British Academy 1941
xiv +[iv] + 166pp + 30 b/w plates + 22 text figures including fold out. Green cloth, Gilt spine lettering. Very good copy. Includes bibliographical references. Well documented account of the earliest churches of Palestine with an excellent group of plans and images supporting the text.
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Medieval Norwich
London Hambledon & London 2004
440 pp. 29 plates, 30 text illustrations, 15 maps, 4 tables. 8vo. Good, although small tear in dust jacket. For several hundred years Norwich ranked as England's second city. This multi-authored, extended book is the first for many years and includes the richness of the city's history and archaeology.
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Placemaking The art of Capability Brown
Swindon English Heritage 2017
373 pages. A wealth of colour illustrations and contemporary photographs. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. A revisionary approach to the achievements of England's greatest landscape gardener that draws on fresh documentary material, integrating it with a close reading of the landscapes themselves and that looks to answer the questions how did he do it and why does it work. The result is a major reappraisal of a figure with global influence
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Classical Architecture in Britain, The Heroic Age
London and New Haven Yale University Press 1995
349 pages, colour plates and photographs throughout the text. 4to. Very good in slightly worn dust wrapper. Closed tear on lower wrapper. There has been minor water damage to the book. Text unaffected. One of Worrley's major works - it is a comprehensive survey of British architecture in the 17th and 18th centuries and offers a radical reassessment of the styles of major designers from Inigo Jones to Sir John Soane. The influence of English Palladianism over the architecture of Scotland, Ireland and North America is also examined. Signed by Giles Worsley on the title page
Stock ID: 23368More details Price: £35.00