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Lucian Freud’s Sketchbooks
Previously unpublished drawings from the private sketchbooks of the pre-eminent British painter offer a new perspective on the artist s personality and artistic genius
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The Anatomy of Treehouses
This beautiful book shows how the treehouse can be many things: from simple structures based on centuries-old woodworking skills to modern geodesic forms strung high up above the treeline. The book offers both visual inspiration...
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Exploring Architecture: Buildings, Meaning, and Making
Architecture is an art, expressing most clearly the values of its age, as in the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages or the corporate headquarters of today. Buildings work directly on our emotions, filling us with awe or serenity;...
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Melbourne Then and Now (Compact Edition)
Melbourne Then and Now showcases vintage pictures of the city and compares them with the views as they look today.
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Walter Gropius
Bauhaus was more than an architectural trend - it was the birth of a new way of thinking. This is a captivating biography of the visionary Walter Gropius whose ideas still set the pattern for the way we live, work, and think...
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Mr Guilfoyle’s Honeymoon: The Gardens of Europe & Great Britain
A celebration of William Guilfoyle-botanist, landscape designer, tourist and writer
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Spinning Tops & Gumdrops: A Portrait of Colonial Childhood
Spinning Tops & Gumdrops captures a time when 'imagination, skill, and daring' was the source of children's play.
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Unearthed: The Landscapes of Hargreaves Associates
Unearthed examines how one of America's most significant landscape architecture firms approaches the redesign of public places to meet a range of ecological and social needs. With more than one hundred and fifty color and...
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Interior Portraits
Acclaimed photographer, author, and Bay Area native Leslie Williamson returns to her roots with a tribute to the most fertile soil for creativity: California.
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Experiments in Modern Realism
Offers an understanding of the aethetics and politics of postwar European and American art. Questioning the widespread assumption that the most innovative practices were non-representational, this title shows how a powerful...
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Equus (Mini)
From the outset I felt quite strongly that I wanted to celebrate the horse in its own right. At the same time I wanted to show how man has determined the horse without necessarily showing the man. - Tim Flach
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The Liberal Monument
Architect Alexander D'Hooghe believes urban design has lost its way. Once among the most articulate and avant-garde of disciplines, the field now lacks, he suggests, the confidence necessary to address its most critical...
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Remarkable Structures: Engineering Today’s Innovative Buildings
A study of the remarkable balancing act between architecture and engineering. It discusses and illustrates some of the best buildings from around the world, and looks at the relationship between architect and engineer, both from a...
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Le Corbusier, Homme De Lettres
On his French identity card, legendary architect Le Corbusier listed his profession as Homme de Lettres (Man of Letters). Celebrated for his architecture, which numbers fewer than sixty buildings, Le Corbusier also wrote more...
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Louise Nevelson: Art is Life
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was, with Calder, Noguchi and David Smith, one of the great American sculptors of the 20th century. She created extraordinary work, from room-size installations composed of boxes to gnarled and majestic...
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