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	ALOFSIN , ANTHONY / REF : FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Frank Lloyd Wright - Europe and Beyond Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 10 x 8-3/4 x 1 " 0520211162 1999 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Still Sealed in original publisher's shrinkwrap ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... This is a handsome hefty book, nearly 9 x 10 " size, weighing 3 pounds ... 294 pages ... well illustrated ... Frank Lloyd Wright ... ' Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career ... and life ... have made him an icon of American architecture ... Ask any American to name a famous architect, and he is the person they are most likely to name to this day ... But despite his status, his influence throughout a long and active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully ... The essays in this book look not at the U.S.A, the content usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe... The editor has assembled a superb collection of scholars to examine Wright's importance from Japan to Great Britain, France to Chile, Mexico to Russia, and the Middle East ... Interwoven in the essays are stories of champions & critics, rivals, acolytes, books & exhibitions, attitudes toward America & individualism, & the many ways Wright's ideas were brought to the world ... Together, this book represents a first look at Wright's impact abroad, some from the perspective of natives of the countries discussed & others from that of informed outsiders ... Of special note is Bruno Zevi, with a firsthand account of travelling with Wright in Italy ... Zevi was instrumental in bringing Wright's ideas to Italy & in helping launch the movement for organic architecture ... Of unusual interest in light of today's events in Iraq is Mina Marefat with an essay on Wright's elaborate designs for a cultural center for the city of Baghdad ... The Baghdad projects, which were never realized after the assassination of King Faisal II, were Wright's principal focus in his last decade ... a collection of ground-breaking essays exploring Wright's influence abroad, edited by Wright scholar Alofsin ... Contributors are : Anthony Alofsin - Wright, Influence, and the World at Large ... Margo Stipe - Wright and Japan ... Mariette van Stralen - Kindred Spirits Holland, Wright, and Wijdeveld ... Bruno Zevi - Wright and Italy A Recollection ... Maristella Casciato - Wright and Italy The Promise of Organic Architecture ... Jean-Louis Cohen - Useful Hostage Constructing Wright in Soviet Russia and France ... Andrew Saint - Wright and Great Britain ... Alberto Sartori - Wright and South America ... Keith Eggener - Towards and Organic Architecture in Mexico ... Mina Marefat - Wright's Baghdad ... Nine international experts to probe Wright's influence in Europe, the Americas, Iraq, and Japan ... Their research corrects misconceptions and oversimplifications that have inevitably grown up around a figure as legendary as Wright ... Leonard K. Eaton, Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of Michigan says of this book : ' This collection of essays on the international impact of Frank Lloyd Wright is a volume that has long been needed ... All the contributors are authorities in their fields ... The book is exceptionally well edited and illustrated ; highly recommended ' ... Gwendolyn Wright, Prof. of Architecture at Columbia University says that it ' moves architectural history beyond its conventional boundaries ... and opens up new dimensions in our understanding of Wright's own ouvre, and of the broader patterns of transnational influence in the modern world ' ... Terence ... ' Assembles an impressive array of scholarly essays...this volume rounds out Wright as a true world architect ' ... Terence Riley , Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art , New York, and editor of the 1994 exhibition catalog 'Frank Lloyd Wright , Architect' , says this book 'solidly rounds out the recent wave of scholarly reappraisal of Wright's work, shedding light on the far reaches of the architect's influence across the globe, as well as revealing the many references to Wright's work whose sources can only be found overseas ' ... Anthony Alofsin is Martin Kermacy Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written a new introduction to Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Wasmuth monograph, Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright ( Studies and Executed Buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1998 ) and is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 .... " Frank Lloyd Wright - Europe and Beyond " ... edited by Anthony Alofsin ... published by the University of California Press, Berkeley ... in English only ... 1999 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ... still sealed in original publisher's shrinkwrap ... *. New/New . USD 59.95** [Appr.: EURO 39.75 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5155] Book number: 6080 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	ARAKAWA / MADELINE GINS / ANDREW BENJAMIN Architecture - Sites of Reversible Destiny - Architectural Experiments After Auschwitz - Hiroshima , By Arakawa & Madeline Gins London: Academy Editions, 1994. First Edition. Soft Cover. Photos. 10 x 12 x 1/2 " 1854902792 1994 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ..... tiny bit edge shelf wear to bottom corner edge and back glossy black cover ... Gift Giving quality ... This is a large handsome volume, in glossy cover, illustrated throughout with more than 240 photographs, most in color , many full-page ... 127 pages , 10 x 12 " size , weighing 2 pounds ... " As the millennium drew to a close, architecture was the only arena left for revolutionary thinking ..... for it alone is capable, as a medium , of simultaneously encompassing and adressing concept and action in spacetime " ... Continuing the collaboration of over 30 years between the New York based artists Arakawa and Madeline Gins, this book is a unique and predominently visual exploration into the architecture and its centrality to the project of the human self-knowledge and self-formation ... carrying philosophical argument into the realm of construction ... Documenting what it is actually like for a person to stand within a piece of architecture, this is the first systematic study of the role the body and bodily movement play in the forming of the world ... Through a series of computer generated images of great beauty and intricacy, the reader is presented with ways of reworking the man-made world that is architecture ... Going futher, the book suggests a revoluntionary re-invention of the planet and, by extension, the universe ... Arakawa and Gins' vision is profoundly optimistic, one of an architecture that empowers instead of repressing humanity ... architecture that tentatively opposes the monumentality which led to the acts of annihilation at Auschwitz and Hiroshima ... An essay by Andrew Benjamin and a selection of projects including : Site of Reversible Destiny, in Gifu, Japan .. Reversible Destiny House I : the Bridge of Reversible Destiny , Epinal France ... and Double - Horizon Public Housing , Berlin Germany ... complete what amounts to a whole new turn to architecture and art-making alike ... Arakawa has exhibited widely throughout Europe and America ... Madeline Gins is the author of ' What the President will Say and Do ' ... and ' Hellen Keller or Arakaa ' , among other works ... They have collaborated since 1963 on the project ' The Mechanism of Meaning ' ... and in 1987 created the Containers of the Mind Foundation ... They have a permanent installation forming part of the Nagi Museum, and their Site of Reversible Destiny, as well as an shows at the Guggenheim Museum, New York ... " Architecture - Sites of Reversible Destiny - Architectural Experiments after Aushwitz - Hiroshima " ... Art and Design Monographs ... by Arakawa & Madeline Gins ... published by Academy Editions, London 1994 softcover ... *. NEW/New . USD 89.95** [Appr.: EURO 59.75 \| £UK 54.5 \| JP¥ 7735] Book number: 6078 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HYDE, SUSAN / MICHAEL BIRD Hallowed Timbers - the Wooden Churches of Cape Breton - Island , Nova Scotia , Canada Ontario: Boston Mills Pub, 1995. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos, Map. 8-1/4 x 8-1/4 x 1/2" 1550461214 1995 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... * Please note, this last book has a very small shelf bump to one corner, not noticeable inside dustjacket, and a 3/4" tear on front of dj, still noticable inside new cover, but does not detract from any photos or titles ... Still Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... priced accordingly ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... This is a Beautiful book, 128 pages , 8 x 8 " , dark blue boards, with silver Gilt titles impressed onto spine, in Glossy photographic jacket ... all glossy quality pages, with B&W and Color photographs and map, to picture and place these lovely historical churches of Cape Breton , Nova Scotia ... Front cover shows Zion United Church, Gabarus Lake ; back cover shows St. Margaret's , Broad Cove ... inside back has photos of authors ... Author Susan Hyde is a doctor in Ontario, who accepted a posting on the East Coast , living in Cape Breton for 8 years ... While there, she fell in love , as so many do, with the unique Maritime architecture, and began researching the Island's picturesque wooden churches ... Her husband and co-author , Michael Bird, has written many books on fok art, religion and culture in Canada ... He spent summer trips during the late 1980s and early 1990s with his wife, visiting Cape Breton's many historical houses of worship ... This book is a labor of love between them ... and they share the fascinating history, and fine photographs of these beautiful churches with all of us ... There is a Glossary, and an Index of Photographs so that you can look up your favorite one from your hometown, or from someplace you've visited ... There are 65 churches listed in all ... Closeup photos of window and other architectural details, as well as photographs of the outside of the churches, and a short historical biography of each one make the reader feel as if he or she was right there ... These are of a bygone time, when churches were built entirely of wood ... some with gothic arches on the windows and doors ... some with Victorian cuppolas on the steeples ... all with their own unique and beautiful, warm and welcoming feel ... Churches include : Aspy Bay United , Big Intervale , First Presbyterian Cape North , Immaculate Conception Barra Head , Imaculate Conception West Lake Ainslie, Sacred Heart Johnstown, St. Andrew's United Forks Baddeck , St. Dionysius River Denys Station, St. Mary's Frenchvale, Stella Maris Creignish, United Baptist Mira Bay , St. Margaret's of Scotland River Denys Mountain , St. Mark's Presbyterian Englishtown, and many many more ... A heartfelt tribute to the architects and builders and congregations of long past, in these beautiful buildings of worship still standing ... Many hours of enjoyment for fans of churches and church photography and architecture ... " Hallowed Timbers - The Wooden Churches of Cape Breton " ... by Susan Hyde and Michael Bird ... published by Boston Mills Publishing, a division of Stoddart Publishing, Erin Ontario, Canada .... in English only ... 1995 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. New/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1716] Book number: 6223 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	ROBBINS, EDWARD Why Architects Draw Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 1994. 1994 Printing. Spiralbound hardcover. Drawings & Diagrams. 9 x 12 x 1-1/2 " 0262181576 1994 Hardcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Still Sealed in original Shrinkwrap ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 328 pages ... Big handsome book, 9 x 12" size, weighing nearly 3-1/2 pounds ... illustrated by the architects' drawings, some never before published, from projects in Japan, England, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and the United States, from conception through realization ... Included are orthographic and axonometric projections, perspectives, elevations, plans, sections, working drawings, sketches, schematics, construction, and finished drawings ... "In this magnificent contribution to cultural studies, art history, and architectural practice, Robbins shows how architectural drawing is not just a neutral technology, but rather a cultural activity creating the social relations between architects and society as well as designs for physical buildings and social spaces ... He offers an original, erudite, and insightful overview of architectural drawing as a social activity, as well as presenting astonishingly frank and forthright testimony from an impressive array of leading architects about the role that drawing plays in their work." - George Lipsitz, author of Time Passages, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego ... Interviews with: Edward Cullinan ... Spencer de Grey ... Jorge Silvetti ... Renzo Piano ... Alvaro Siza ... John Young ... Itsuko Hasegawa ... William Pederson ... Rafael Moneo ... Rod Hackney & Peter Rice ... Edward Robbins is Lecturer in Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University ... " Why Architects Draw " by Edward Robbins... published by MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts ... *. New/New . USD 79.95** [Appr.: EURO 53.25 \| £UK 48.25 \| JP¥ 6875] Book number: 6429 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	VENTURI, ROBERT Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture - a View from the Drafting Room Massachusettes: MIT Press, 1996. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 7 x 9 " 0262220512 1996 Hardcover in DJ .. Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 374 pages ... illustrated with B&W photographs ... This fascinating book is a collection of writings that argues for a generic architecture defined by iconography and electronics ... an architecture that has used meaning as shelter and symbol ... It is a request to architecture to recover its lost soul ... " Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture ... A View from the Drafting Room " ... by Robert Venturi ... published by MIT Press , Massachusettes 1996 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 39.95** [Appr.: EURO 26.5 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3435] Book number: 4924 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.

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	ALOFSIN , ANTHONY / REF : FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Frank Lloyd Wright - Europe and Beyond Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 10 x 8-3/4 x 1 " 0520211162 1999 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Still Sealed in original publisher's shrinkwrap ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... This is a handsome hefty book, nearly 9 x 10 " size, weighing 3 pounds ... 294 pages ... well illustrated ... Frank Lloyd Wright ... ' Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career ... and life ... have made him an icon of American architecture ... Ask any American to name a famous architect, and he is the person they are most likely to name to this day ... But despite his status, his influence throughout a long and active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully ... The essays in this book look not at the U.S.A, the content usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe... The editor has assembled a superb collection of scholars to examine Wright's importance from Japan to Great Britain, France to Chile, Mexico to Russia, and the Middle East ... Interwoven in the essays are stories of champions & critics, rivals, acolytes, books & exhibitions, attitudes toward America & individualism, & the many ways Wright's ideas were brought to the world ... Together, this book represents a first look at Wright's impact abroad, some from the perspective of natives of the countries discussed & others from that of informed outsiders ... Of special note is Bruno Zevi, with a firsthand account of travelling with Wright in Italy ... Zevi was instrumental in bringing Wright's ideas to Italy & in helping launch the movement for organic architecture ... Of unusual interest in light of today's events in Iraq is Mina Marefat with an essay on Wright's elaborate designs for a cultural center for the city of Baghdad ... The Baghdad projects, which were never realized after the assassination of King Faisal II, were Wright's principal focus in his last decade ... a collection of ground-breaking essays exploring Wright's influence abroad, edited by Wright scholar Alofsin ... Contributors are : Anthony Alofsin - Wright, Influence, and the World at Large ... Margo Stipe - Wright and Japan ... Mariette van Stralen - Kindred Spirits Holland, Wright, and Wijdeveld ... Bruno Zevi - Wright and Italy A Recollection ... Maristella Casciato - Wright and Italy The Promise of Organic Architecture ... Jean-Louis Cohen - Useful Hostage Constructing Wright in Soviet Russia and France ... Andrew Saint - Wright and Great Britain ... Alberto Sartori - Wright and South America ... Keith Eggener - Towards and Organic Architecture in Mexico ... Mina Marefat - Wright's Baghdad ... Nine international experts to probe Wright's influence in Europe, the Americas, Iraq, and Japan ... Their research corrects misconceptions and oversimplifications that have inevitably grown up around a figure as legendary as Wright ... Leonard K. Eaton, Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of Michigan says of this book : ' This collection of essays on the international impact of Frank Lloyd Wright is a volume that has long been needed ... All the contributors are authorities in their fields ... The book is exceptionally well edited and illustrated ; highly recommended ' ... Gwendolyn Wright, Prof. of Architecture at Columbia University says that it ' moves architectural history beyond its conventional boundaries ... and opens up new dimensions in our understanding of Wright's own ouvre, and of the broader patterns of transnational influence in the modern world ' ... Terence ... ' Assembles an impressive array of scholarly essays...this volume rounds out Wright as a true world architect ' ... Terence Riley , Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art , New York, and editor of the 1994 exhibition catalog 'Frank Lloyd Wright , Architect' , says this book 'solidly rounds out the recent wave of scholarly reappraisal of Wright's work, shedding light on the far reaches of the architect's influence across the globe, as well as revealing the many references to Wright's work whose sources can only be found overseas ' ... Anthony Alofsin is Martin Kermacy Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written a new introduction to Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Wasmuth monograph, Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright ( Studies and Executed Buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1998 ) and is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 .... " Frank Lloyd Wright - Europe and Beyond " ... edited by Anthony Alofsin ... published by the University of California Press, Berkeley ... in English only ... 1999 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ... still sealed in original publisher's shrinkwrap ... *. New/New . USD 59.95** [Appr.: EURO 39.75 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5155] Book number: 6080 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	ARAKAWA / MADELINE GINS / ANDREW BENJAMIN Architecture - Sites of Reversible Destiny - Architectural Experiments After Auschwitz - Hiroshima , By Arakawa & Madeline Gins London: Academy Editions, 1994. First Edition. Soft Cover. Photos. 10 x 12 x 1/2 " 1854902792 1994 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ..... tiny bit edge shelf wear to bottom corner edge and back glossy black cover ... Gift Giving quality ... This is a large handsome volume, in glossy cover, illustrated throughout with more than 240 photographs, most in color , many full-page ... 127 pages , 10 x 12 " size , weighing 2 pounds ... " As the millennium drew to a close, architecture was the only arena left for revolutionary thinking ..... for it alone is capable, as a medium , of simultaneously encompassing and adressing concept and action in spacetime " ... Continuing the collaboration of over 30 years between the New York based artists Arakawa and Madeline Gins, this book is a unique and predominently visual exploration into the architecture and its centrality to the project of the human self-knowledge and self-formation ... carrying philosophical argument into the realm of construction ... Documenting what it is actually like for a person to stand within a piece of architecture, this is the first systematic study of the role the body and bodily movement play in the forming of the world ... Through a series of computer generated images of great beauty and intricacy, the reader is presented with ways of reworking the man-made world that is architecture ... Going futher, the book suggests a revoluntionary re-invention of the planet and, by extension, the universe ... Arakawa and Gins' vision is profoundly optimistic, one of an architecture that empowers instead of repressing humanity ... architecture that tentatively opposes the monumentality which led to the acts of annihilation at Auschwitz and Hiroshima ... An essay by Andrew Benjamin and a selection of projects including : Site of Reversible Destiny, in Gifu, Japan .. Reversible Destiny House I : the Bridge of Reversible Destiny , Epinal France ... and Double - Horizon Public Housing , Berlin Germany ... complete what amounts to a whole new turn to architecture and art-making alike ... Arakawa has exhibited widely throughout Europe and America ... Madeline Gins is the author of ' What the President will Say and Do ' ... and ' Hellen Keller or Arakaa ' , among other works ... They have collaborated since 1963 on the project ' The Mechanism of Meaning ' ... and in 1987 created the Containers of the Mind Foundation ... They have a permanent installation forming part of the Nagi Museum, and their Site of Reversible Destiny, as well as an shows at the Guggenheim Museum, New York ... " Architecture - Sites of Reversible Destiny - Architectural Experiments after Aushwitz - Hiroshima " ... Art and Design Monographs ... by Arakawa & Madeline Gins ... published by Academy Editions, London 1994 softcover ... *. NEW/New . USD 89.95** [Appr.: EURO 59.75 \| £UK 54.5 \| JP¥ 7735] Book number: 6078 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HYDE, SUSAN / MICHAEL BIRD Hallowed Timbers - the Wooden Churches of Cape Breton - Island , Nova Scotia , Canada Ontario: Boston Mills Pub, 1995. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos, Map. 8-1/4 x 8-1/4 x 1/2" 1550461214 1995 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... * Please note, this last book has a very small shelf bump to one corner, not noticeable inside dustjacket, and a 3/4" tear on front of dj, still noticable inside new cover, but does not detract from any photos or titles ... Still Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... priced accordingly ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... This is a Beautiful book, 128 pages , 8 x 8 " , dark blue boards, with silver Gilt titles impressed onto spine, in Glossy photographic jacket ... all glossy quality pages, with B&W and Color photographs and map, to picture and place these lovely historical churches of Cape Breton , Nova Scotia ... Front cover shows Zion United Church, Gabarus Lake ; back cover shows St. Margaret's , Broad Cove ... inside back has photos of authors ... Author Susan Hyde is a doctor in Ontario, who accepted a posting on the East Coast , living in Cape Breton for 8 years ... While there, she fell in love , as so many do, with the unique Maritime architecture, and began researching the Island's picturesque wooden churches ... Her husband and co-author , Michael Bird, has written many books on fok art, religion and culture in Canada ... He spent summer trips during the late 1980s and early 1990s with his wife, visiting Cape Breton's many historical houses of worship ... This book is a labor of love between them ... and they share the fascinating history, and fine photographs of these beautiful churches with all of us ... There is a Glossary, and an Index of Photographs so that you can look up your favorite one from your hometown, or from someplace you've visited ... There are 65 churches listed in all ... Closeup photos of window and other architectural details, as well as photographs of the outside of the churches, and a short historical biography of each one make the reader feel as if he or she was right there ... These are of a bygone time, when churches were built entirely of wood ... some with gothic arches on the windows and doors ... some with Victorian cuppolas on the steeples ... all with their own unique and beautiful, warm and welcoming feel ... Churches include : Aspy Bay United , Big Intervale , First Presbyterian Cape North , Immaculate Conception Barra Head , Imaculate Conception West Lake Ainslie, Sacred Heart Johnstown, St. Andrew's United Forks Baddeck , St. Dionysius River Denys Station, St. Mary's Frenchvale, Stella Maris Creignish, United Baptist Mira Bay , St. Margaret's of Scotland River Denys Mountain , St. Mark's Presbyterian Englishtown, and many many more ... A heartfelt tribute to the architects and builders and congregations of long past, in these beautiful buildings of worship still standing ... Many hours of enjoyment for fans of churches and church photography and architecture ... " Hallowed Timbers - The Wooden Churches of Cape Breton " ... by Susan Hyde and Michael Bird ... published by Boston Mills Publishing, a division of Stoddart Publishing, Erin Ontario, Canada .... in English only ... 1995 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. New/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1716] Book number: 6223 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	ROBBINS, EDWARD Why Architects Draw Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 1994. 1994 Printing. Spiralbound hardcover. Drawings & Diagrams. 9 x 12 x 1-1/2 " 0262181576 1994 Hardcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Still Sealed in original Shrinkwrap ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 328 pages ... Big handsome book, 9 x 12" size, weighing nearly 3-1/2 pounds ... illustrated by the architects' drawings, some never before published, from projects in Japan, England, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and the United States, from conception through realization ... Included are orthographic and axonometric projections, perspectives, elevations, plans, sections, working drawings, sketches, schematics, construction, and finished drawings ... "In this magnificent contribution to cultural studies, art history, and architectural practice, Robbins shows how architectural drawing is not just a neutral technology, but rather a cultural activity creating the social relations between architects and society as well as designs for physical buildings and social spaces ... He offers an original, erudite, and insightful overview of architectural drawing as a social activity, as well as presenting astonishingly frank and forthright testimony from an impressive array of leading architects about the role that drawing plays in their work." - George Lipsitz, author of Time Passages, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego ... Interviews with: Edward Cullinan ... Spencer de Grey ... Jorge Silvetti ... Renzo Piano ... Alvaro Siza ... John Young ... Itsuko Hasegawa ... William Pederson ... Rafael Moneo ... Rod Hackney & Peter Rice ... Edward Robbins is Lecturer in Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University ... " Why Architects Draw " by Edward Robbins... published by MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts ... *. New/New . USD 79.95** [Appr.: EURO 53.25 \| £UK 48.25 \| JP¥ 6875] Book number: 6429 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	VENTURI, ROBERT Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture - a View from the Drafting Room Massachusettes: MIT Press, 1996. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 7 x 9 " 0262220512 1996 Hardcover in DJ .. Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 374 pages ... illustrated with B&W photographs ... This fascinating book is a collection of writings that argues for a generic architecture defined by iconography and electronics ... an architecture that has used meaning as shelter and symbol ... It is a request to architecture to recover its lost soul ... " Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture ... A View from the Drafting Room " ... by Robert Venturi ... published by MIT Press , Massachusettes 1996 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 39.95** [Appr.: EURO 26.5 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3435] Book number: 4924 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.