ACADEMY EDITIONS: ERNST & SOHN (publ)

Basil Al-Bayati. Recent Works.

London & Berlin, 1993. 132pp, many b&w and colour photos, plans, drawings etc, brief bibliography. Foreword by Andreas Papadakis. Cloth. 31x26. Very good copy in dust wrapper. Written and edited by the architect himself, although this is unstated. Superior hardback version.

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Book number: 32086

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ALTHERR Artur

Three Japanese Architects/ Drei Japanische Architekten. Mayekawa: Tange: Sakakura.

New York, Architectural Book Publishing Co. 1968 (originally published by Arthur Niggli Ltd) 179pp, mostly photos and plans, short biographies. 23x29, boards, illustrated dw. Bump to bottom edge of boards, not effecting contents which are very good, in rather rubbed and creased dw. Altherr was a friend of Corbusier and a delegate to the World Design Conference in Tokyo, 1960. He visited Japan again in 1966 to do further research. Good source on early post-war architecture in that country.

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Book number: 38804

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ANTHONY MOULD LTD (issued by)

Quinlan Terry Neoclassic Drawings.

London, nd c1985. Unpaginated, c40pp, including 20 plates with facing details of each. Pamphlet format, with stiff pictorial covers. 21x15. Fine copy. Catalogue to an exhibition of these characteristic Terry drawings. An extract from the Prince of Wales' "Carbuncle" speech is reproduced on title page. Uncommon.

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Book number: 32033

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ARUP ASSOCIATES

Arup Associates

London, 2003. 90pp inc many photos, sections, elevations, list of awards. Wraps, 30x24. Very good copy. Projects undertaken since 1990, including Battersea Power Station, Hong Kong Central Station, Stratford City etc. Publicity book.

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Book number: 32476

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BACON Mardges

Le Corbusier in America. Travels in the Land of the Timid.

Camb, Mass, MIT, 2001. Portrait frontis, xvii, 405pp, b&w illustrations, extensive notes. Cloth. 24x24. Fine, in very good dust wrapper. First major study of Le Corbusier's American tour of 1935. The superior hardback version.

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Book number: 21095

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BECK-ERLAND Wilfried, EBERLE Eugen und JOEDICKE Jurgen (essys)

Richard Döcker 1894-1968

Stuttgart, BDA-Architeckturgalerie, 1982. 48pp inc photos, drawings, plans, elevations, list of works, chron. Loosely inserted is a interesting facsimilie of a letter from Döcker to Mendelsohn. Wraps, 21x20. Very good copy. Discreet name stamps inside front cover. Very useful exhibition catalogue. Döcker made a valuable contribution to the Stuttgart Weissenhof, described here. Scarce

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Book number: 31918

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BENTON Tim

Les Villas de Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret 1920-1930

Paris, Philippe Sers, 1984 (first edition) 224pp, 50 col, 250 b/w ills, incl 181 drawings by Le Corbusier, photos by Lucien Hervé. 29x23, cloth, illustrated dw, card slipcase. Very good in very good wrapper; slight rusting to staples on slipcase. Excellent detailed study. French text.

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Book number: 34456

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BERCKENHAGEN Ekhart (intro)

Willy Kreuer Architekturplanungen 1929 bis 1968

Berlin, Dietrick Reimer, 1980. 70pp with b&w plates. 292 numbers Wraps. 21x15. Fine copy. Exhibition catalogue with useful essays and notes on the buildings and projects of this key architect-planner. Kreuer was born in Köln in 1910. (German texts).

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Book number: 30247

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BERLINISCHEN GALLERIE (hrsg)

Naum Gabo und der Wettbewerb zum Palast der Sowjets Moskau. 1931-1933.

Berlin, 1992. 235pp incl photos, plans, drawings etc, many in colour, biography, bibliog of the Palast, catalogue. Glossy pictoral wraps, 28x21. Fine. Exhibition catalogue. Includes the other entries in the competition to build the Palast. Nicely put together.

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Book number: 22091

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BETSKY Aaron (essay by)

Zaha Hadid. The Complete Buildings and Projects.

London, T&H, 1998, 2002 reprint. 176pp. incl 428 illustrations, 328 in colour, project information, exhibitions, publications and chronology. Laminated pictoral wraps. 24x22. Very good copy. "A real eye-opener of a book". Hadid was born in Iraq. Persian carpets were an early fascination. She worked with OMA and was a leading proponent of deconstructivism. Amongst her many notable buildings is the Museum of Islamic Arts in Qatar.

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Book number: 33983

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BIUMO Giuseppe Panza di

James Turrell. Dipinto con la luce

Milano, Motta, 1998. 95pp incl illustrations. Cloth, 28x24. Fine, dust wrapper. Nice monograph on this architect and land artist. Lovely illustrations.

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Book number: 33499

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BLAKE Edward (intro)

Edward Larrabee Barnes: Architect

NY, Rizzoli, 1994. 256pp, copious photos (many colour) & plans, chron. Cloth, 29x22. Fine, dust wrapper. Well produced survey of the work of this major American architect (1915-2004).

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Book number: 10153

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BLASER Werner

Mies van der Rohe. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Basel, Birkhauser, 2002 83pp, b&w photos, plans, elevatons etc, biography. English and German text Pictoral boards, 22x21. Fine copy. Large glass-walled structure which was to become a major theme in his later work.

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Book number: 30055

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BOISSIERE Olivier, FILLER Martin (text), BRYANT Richard, (photos)

Frank Gehry. Vitra Design Museum.

London, T&H, 1990. 101pp incl illustrations. Wraps, 28x23. Very good copy. Full description of this Gehry project. Some of his ideas for the Bilbao Guggenheim are already appearing.

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Book number: 33955

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BOTHE Rolf, CONSTANTINOPOULOS Vivian, LIBESKINDDaniel et al

Daniel Libeskind. Between the Lines.

Amsterdam, Joods Historisch Museum, 1991. 24pp, incl illustrations. English and Dutch text. Wraps, 20x28, rhomboid shape. Faint mark on front cover where small price label removed, else very good copy. Catalogue to mark the extension of the Berlin Museum with the Jewish Museum. Catalogue design seems to have been deconstructed somewhat.

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Book number: 34074

Catalogue: MODERN ARCHITECTS

Keywords: MODERN ARCHITECTS Libeskind.