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Marjory Byrne: DON BANK The Research and Restoration of North Sydney's Oldest Surviving House
Book Number: 35469
North Shore Historical Society 1982 8vo. Printed Wrappers. po name on front cover and also inside. 56pp. Illustrated with b&w photo's.
Keywords: NOrth Sydney, Old House
Price: $25.00 |
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GA Global Architecture.: GA Global Architecture - Document 25: Japan 1990.
Book Number: 36541
Tokyo, 1990 Large square 4to softcover 200pp colour & b/w illus. very good, cover corners curled. Text in Japanese & English.
Keywords: japan japanese buildings architecture
Price: $35.00 |
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Portzamparc, Christian de: Christian de Portzamparc Scènes D'atelier
Book Number: 36755
Centre Georges Pompidou 1996 4to. softcover. colour & b/w illus. Text in French. very good.
Keywords: architecture buildingd
Price: $55.00 |
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Leake, Peter.: Homesteads of Australia Felix
Book Number: 37050
Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1973 Oblong 4to. hardcover. 118pp. b/w illus. very good. / good d/w with a few small tears.
Keywords: australian architecture Homesteads Australia Felix
Price: $30.00 |
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Suk-won, Tan (editor): International Interiors Volume 1
Book Number: 37072
Sun 2002 4to. softcover. 195pp. colour illus. plans. very good.
Keywords: architecture interior design commercial shops offices
Price: $30.00 |
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Diamond, Rosamund and Wilfried Wang (editors): 9H: No. 9 : On Continuity (On Continuity)
Book Number: 37639
9H Publications Cambridge 1995, 4to. maroon cloth hardcover.288pp. b/w illus. very good, owner's signature on fep.
Keywords: modern architecture buildings ancient euroopean italy
Price: $25.00 |
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Hersey, George: The Monumental Impulse: Architecture's Biological Roots
Book Number: 37846
Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press 1999 8vo hardcover 244pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. We humans owe an immense architectural debt to many other species. Indeed, the first hexagons humans saw may have been in honeycombs, the first skyscrapers termitaries (termite high-rises), and the first tents those of African weaver ants. In The Monumental Impulse, art historian George Hersey investigates many ties between the biological sciences and the building arts. Natural building materials such as wood and limestone, for example, originate in biological processes. Much architectural ornament borrows from botany and zoology. Hersey draws striking analogies between building types and animal species. He examines the relationship between physical structures and living organisms, from bridges to mosques, from molecules to mammals.nnInsects, mollusks, and birds are given separate chapters, and three final chapters focus on architectural form and biological reproduction. Hersey also discusses architecture in connection with the body's interior processes and shows how buildings may be said to reproduce, adapt, and evolve, like other inanimate or "nonbiotic" entities such as computer programs and robots. The book is both learned and entertaining, and is abundantly illustrated with fascinating visual comparisons.
Keywords: Professional Technical Architecture Criticism The Monumental Impulse Architecture's Biological Roots Hersey George
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No Author: Decorative Art and Modern Interiors 1979
Book Number: 38051
Studio Vista 1979 4to hardcover 183pp n/w & colour illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Decorative Art and Modern Interiors 1979 No Author
Price: $45.00 |
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Mainstone, Rowland: Developments in Structural Form
Book Number: 38061
Penguin Books Ltd 1983 4to softcover 352pp index, b/w illus. very good, light wear to cover edges, owner's signature on fep. In the critically acclaimed first edition of this book, Mainstone offered a brilliant and highly original account of the structural developments that have made possible the achievements of architects and bridge builders throughout history. nnIn this extensively revised and expanded new edition, now available in paperback, new insights and a full coverage of recent developments in both design and construction are incorporated. The book identifies features that distinguish the forms built by man from those shaped by nature and discusses the physical and other constraints on the choices that can be made. It then looks in turn at all the elementary forms - arches, domes, beams, slabs and the like - which combine into the more complex forms of complete structures, and at the different classes of the complete forms themselves. The development of each form is traced chronologically, but with an emphasis less on the chronology than on the problems that designers have continually faced in trying to serve new ends with limited means or to serve old ones in new ways. The book concludes with a chapter on the processes of design, showing how the designer's freedom of choice has been widened by a growing understanding of structural behaviour.
Keywords: Architecture and Town Planning Developments in Structural Form Mainstone Rowland
Price: $45.00 |
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Piravano, Carlo (editor): Terza Mostra Internazionale Di Architettura: Third International Exhibition of Architecture, Volumes 1 and 2
Book Number: 38063
Milano Architectural Press 1987. 4to softcovers 614pp index, b/w illus. very good, owner's signature on title pages. / good cardboard slipcase.
Keywords: Professional Technical Architecture General Terza Mostra Internazionale Di Architettura Third International Exhibition of Architecture Volumes 1 and 2 Piravano Carlo (editor)
Price: $65.00 |
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