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Will Alsop: the noise
By Tom Porter
The design process of Will Alsop acts as a conduit for the dreams and aspirations of others. Moving from public consultation to the privacy of his painting studio – here ideas are born in the liquidity of paint, the serendipity of collage and the flourish of line, resulting in the avant-garde and...
September 2010 | 978-0-415-54961-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Le Corbusier and Britain: An Anthology
Edited by Irena Murray, Julian Osley
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that he designed no permanent buildings in the United Kingdom, more than any other individual he was responsible for shaping British post-war architecture. Le Corbusier and Britain traces...
August 2010 | 978-0-415-60865-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution
By Anthony Gerbino
First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated...
December 2009 | 978-0-415-49199-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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James Stirling: Early Unpublished Writings on Architecture
Edited by Mark Crinson
James Stirling (1924-1992) was, arguably, the most influential and controversial post-war British architect. Stirling’s reputation is based primarily on such seminal buildings as the Leicester University Engineering Building (1959-63, with James Gowan), at one end of his career, and the Neue...
September 2009 | 978-0-415-55059-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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P.V. Jensen-Klint
By Thomas Bo Jensen
Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (1853-1930) is one of the most important background figures for twentieth century Danish architecture and design. His serious and profoundly reflective approach to his work instilled courage in a new generation of architects that wanted to work in an idiom for their...
May 2009 | 978-0-415-55318-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Rem Koolhaas / OMA
By Roberto Gargiani
In this book, the projects, buildings and theories of Koolhaas, as well as the other members of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, are examined in chronological and thematic sequence, beginning with the period of Koolhaas’ education at the Architectural Association School of Architecture of...
2008 | 978-0-415-46145-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Nature and Space: Aalto and Le Corbusier
By Sarah Menin, Flora Samuel
This book is a unique comparative study of two of the very greatest figures in modern architecture - Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto. In assessing the historical, personal and intellectual influences of their attitudes to nature and the creative direction of their work, this book offers a...
2002 | 978-0-415-28125-6 | Paperback (Routledge)