Albo, Frank

Astana: Architecture, Myth & Destiny

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Vidacom Publications, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 287. 4to. Black buckram boards with gilt lettering to the spine, and front board; illustrated endpapers. Replete with black-and-white and colour photographs, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Small neat ink name to the title page else, no detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; fine and housed in fine dustjacket. This book lays out a foundation myth encoded into the breathtaking architecture of Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan. An omnibus of folk epic, archaeological research, and code-breaking symbolism, Astana advances challenging ideas and offers a wealth of fresh insights into the hidden complexities embedded deep within one of the most remarkable cities on Earth.

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Book number: 2120

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: history; kazakhstan; manitoba history; local history; canadian history; canadiana; eastern europe;

Artibise, Alan F. J.

Winnipeg: A Social History of Urban Growth 1875-1914

Montreal & London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. pp. xii, 382. Royal 8vo. Green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Many black and white photographs and illustrations, one fold-out map. Very light sunning to the boards, sporadic underlining to pages 254-263 (unaffecting text). Overall, very good+ and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed dustjacket. An increasingly scarce title. .

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Book number: 386

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: manitoba history; local history; canadian history; canadiana;

Artibise, Alan F. J.

Winnipeg: A Social History of Urban Growth, 1875-1914

Montreal & London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xii, 382. Royal 8vo. Green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Many black and white photographs and illustrations, one fold-out map. Lightest rubbing to the cloth extremities, faint ink stamp to the foredge, otherwise, extremities and contents remain without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding. Overall, very good+ and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed dustjacket showing some chipping and short clears tears along the edges of the panels (dustjacket now housed in protective mylar cover). A very good+ copy of an increasingly scarce title. .

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Book number: 5223

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: manitoba history; local history; canadian history; canadiana; prairie; design

May, Louise W. (Ed.); St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre

Feminist Reconstruction of Space

St. Norbert, Manitoba, St. Norbert Art and Cultural Centre, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 119. Oblong 8vo. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. Essays from a symposium entitled Arch '96 held at the St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre, Sept. 27-29, 1996.

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Book number: 5036

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: gender studies; women's studies; canadian art; artists books; architecture; manitoba art; faculty of architecture

Baker, Marilyn; J.E. Rea (Intro.)

Symbol in Stone: The Art and Politics of a Public Building

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Hyperion Press Limited, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 176. 4to. Publisher's navy-blue boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front board; colour photograph of the legislature affixed to the front pastedown. Replete with many black-and-white, and colour photographs, drawings, charts, tables, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. No detectable flaws to the extremities, neat ink inscription to the title page, else, text-block remains without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good+. .

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Book number: 4817

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: manitoba history; local history

Baker, Marilyn; J.E. Rea (Intro.)

Symbol in Stone: The Art and Politics of a Public Building [Association Copy]

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Hyperion Press Limited, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 176. 4to. Publisher's navy-blue boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front board; colour photograph of the legislature affixed to the front pastedown. Replete with many black-and-white, and colour photographs, drawings, charts, tables, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. No detectable flaws to the extremities, neat ink inscriptions and dedicatory messages to the front endpapers , else, text-block remains without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good+. Associaition copy dedicated to Gerard Lecuyer, former New Democratic Party member of the Manitoba legislative assembly and cabinet minister in the government of Howard Pawley. This copy warmly gifted to him by his staff at the Ministry of Environment, and Workplace Safety and Health in May 2, 1988.

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Book number: 6933

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: manitoba history; local history

Blaser, Werner

Mies Van Der Rohe with 54 Photographs, 72 Plans and Sketches

London, Thames and Hudson, 1972. Hardcover. pp. 203. Small 8vo. Grey cloth boards with silver lettering to spine and front board. No detectable flaws, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+ in very good lightly rubbed dustjacket. .

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Book number: 91

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: history; art; german;

Blomgren, Lance

Walkups

Montréal, Quebec, Conundrum Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 123. 12mo. measuring 18 cm. Black-and-white photogrphs, illustrations. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Appears unread; as new. Lance Blomgren's captivating novella takes place entirely indoors, up the steel staircases and behind teh brick walls of Montreal's distinctive row-house apartments. Inside these rooms people are collectively beginning to sense that something is not quite right. Time is becoming noticeably slower, and things that were once unnoticeable - or even invisible - are suddenly impossible to ignore. Composed as a series of documentaries depticting actual Montreal apartments, this book offers an intimate architectural tour of the city that is in turns humorous, erotic, and deeply unsettling. Walkups is a strikingly original work by a writer who the Montreal Review of Books has called "a human conveyer belt of ideas and images".

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Book number: 5336

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: canadian literature; poetry; art theory; city and town life; cities; urban studies

Butterfield, David K.; Edward M. Ledohowski; Brandon and Area Planning District, et al.

Architectural Heritage: The Brandon and Area Planning District

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Dept. of Cultural Affairs And Historical Resources, Province Of Manitoba, Historic Resources Branch, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 189. 4to. measuring 28 cm. Pictorial covers. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, maps, designs, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; fine. Corresponds to OCLC #11866247. .

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Book number: 5684

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: manitoba history; design; canadian history; local history; brandon; western canadian history; prairie provinces

Burden, Ernest

Elements of Architectural Design: A Photographic Sourcebook, Second Edition

New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000. Softcover. pp. 342. 4to. Replete with black-and-white photographs, illustrations throughout. No detectable flaws, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; very good+. Comprises of over 3000 photographs and illustrations.

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Book number: 2486

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: history; illustrations; art; photography; science; technology

Cali, François; Serge Moulinier (Photography)

L'Ordre Ogival: Essai Sur L'Architecture Gothique [Cover Title Trans: "The Ogival Order: Essay On Gothic Architecture."]

Paris, France, Arthaud, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 261. 4to. measuring 11" x 9". Light-gray cloth over boards, maroon and black lettering, and ornaments to the spine, and front board, respectively; illustrated endpapers. Richly illustrated with the gorgeous sepia-tone, and colour photographs of Moulinier. Extremities entirely without blemish; contents equally bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Overall, fine and housed in fine dustjacket (now placed in protective mylar cover), and all housed in plain publisher's original slipcase. A remarkable visual achievement. .

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Book number: 3296

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: french-language; francais; history; black-and-white photography; photographs; gothic architecture

Campbell, Jason; Samantha Lynch

Warehouse 17

Winnipeg, Manitoba, University Of Manitoba, Faculty Of Architecture, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 255. Oblong 8vo. Stiff illustrated card covers. Replete with black-and-white, and colour photographs, illustrations, schematics, designs, et al. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. Before entering this book, we must tell you something of its origins. In the middle of a day of shaky and divine coincidence, we were asked why we wanted to make this book. There is no answer that can sufficiently register the experience of unfolding so many other people's desires".

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Book number: 2727

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: art; art history; design; manitoba history; local history; canadian history; canadiana; university of manitoba; education

Colman, James

Melbourne South Yarra: A Case for Conservation in an Historic Inner Suburb; A Report To The Melbourne - South Yarra Group by The Office of James Colman Incorporating Urban Design Associates

St. Leonards, N.S.W. Australia, Urban Design Associates, November, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Spiral Bound. pp. 67, 37, [2]; 17 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) 4to. measuring 30 cm. Illustrated card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Replete with maps, photographs, plans, charts, tables, figures, et al. Lightest rubbing to the covers else, near fine. Internally, bright, clean, and unmarked. Overall, fine. .

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Book number: 2605

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: design; maps; australia; urban design; architectural proposal

[Manitoba Water Control and Conservation Branch

Red River Floodway: The Story of One of Canada's Biggest Excavation Projects

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Government of Manitoba, Department of Agriculture and Conservation, N.D. [1963?]. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 24. Oblong 8vo. measuring 15 x 24 cm. Pictorial, twice-stapled, card covers. Many black-and-white photographs, portraits of chief inviduals involved in the project, charts, tables, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. See OCLC #184854927. .

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Book number: 6589

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: manitoba history; local history; canadian history; flood control; red river of north regulation

Cook, Peter (Editor); Warren Chalk; Dennis Crompton; Ron Herron; Mike Webb; David Greene; Geoff Taunton; Gordon Pask; Cedric Price; Tony Rickaby (Cover Design); Geoff Reeve (Cover Design); Theo Crosby

Two Issues of Archigram (No's. 8, and 9)

London, United Kingdom, Archigram, 1968-1970. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. An offering of two exceedingly rare issues by the profoundly consequential, avant-garde architectural collective known as Archigram. Formed in the 1960's in London, its members comprised of: Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herron, Dennis Crompton, Michael Webb, David Greene, and "hidden hand" designer Theo Crosby. Archigram - a conglomeration of (Architecture+Telegram) - would go on to become one of the, "most seminal, iconoclastic and influential architectural groups of the modern age. They created some of the 20th century's most iconic images and projects, rethought the relationship of technology, society and architecture, predicted and envisioned the information revolution decades before it came to pass, and reinvented a whole mode of architectural education – and therefore produced a seam of architectural thought with truly global impact." Intended as, "a free-form magazine [it] was designed to explore new projects and new thinking which were overturning the strict modernist dictates of the 1960s." [Source: Archigram Archival Project]. Detailed descriptions: Issue No. 8 housed in a “Popular Pak”; (‘Milanogram/Milan Triennale/population growth). Yellow ‘envelope’ folder with pocket; ‘cover’ image on inside. Contents: eight pages 420mm x 150mm, folded; seventeen sheets, double sided, 210mm x 150mm, and one 300mm x 210mm. Not numbered or ordered, but punchcard codification down the edge of sheets. Sheets inserted in folder. Wallet taped shut and posted to readers. Priced at "5 shillings". || Issue No. 9 sometimes colloquially known as the "Seed Issue" with a “Free Seed Offer”, ‘Archi-zones’ communications and landscapes. Comprising of eleven sheets measuring 400mm x 253mm, stapled on left and folded in half forming 22 ‘pages’. Various types, weights, colours of paper and range of one, two and three colour printing. Our offering is complete with the packet of 'Night Scented Stock' seeds, and stapled to page 11. /// Light rubbing, occasional chips/creasing along the edges of the packet housing the contents of Issue No. 8 otherwise, the issues remain in near fine condition. Rare in commerce. .

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Book number: 3893

Catalogue: Architecture & Design

Keywords: avant-garde; neofutirist; consumerism; british architecture; history; building; abstract; collective; consumer; marxist; Antonio Sant'Elia; futirist movement; Manifesto of Futurist Architecture; fine press;