architecture
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British Architects & Craftsmen
- £20.00
- Full title: British Architects and Craftsmen, a Survey of Taste, Design and Style During Three Centuries 1600 to 1830. 'The genius of English architecture is the glory of England, second only to the printed word.' Thus Sacheverell Sitwell (younger brother of Edith and Osbert Sitwell) concludes British Architects and Craftsmen,…
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Capability Brown and Humphry Repton
- £18.00
- Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of landscaping, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from "natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both were gifted architects of beautiful houses;…
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God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
- £14.00
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of Britain's greatest architects, and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of a French draftsman, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21…
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Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
- £22.00
- The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War II Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the…
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Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture
- £50.00
- A Photographic Pilgrimage to the Temples of Modernism Sacred Modernity documents the dramatic shift in ecclesiastical architecture across post-war Europe. Spurred on by the modernizing impulses of the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, and in search for an appropriate architectural language that showed that the Catholic Church was…
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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide To The Hidden World Of Everyday Design
- £18.00
- A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast. Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean? Or stopped to ponder who gets to name the streets we walk along?…
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The Beauties of Wiltshire interspersed with Anecdotes of the Arts (vols I&II)
- £120.00
- The Beauties Of Wiltshire, Displayed In Statistical, Historical, And Descriptive Sketches: Interspersed With Anecdotes Of The Arts. Vol. I & II - each site accompanied by engravings, covering Stonehenge, Bowood, Longleat, Wilton, Longford etc
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British Architects & Craftsmen
- £20.00
- Full title: British Architects and Craftsmen, a Survey of Taste, Design and Style During Three Centuries 1600 to 1830. 'The genius of English architecture is the glory of England, second only to the printed word.' Thus Sacheverell Sitwell (younger brother of Edith and Osbert Sitwell) concludes British Architects and Craftsmen,…
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Capability Brown and Humphry Repton
- £18.00
- Towering above the rest of the professional practitioners of landscaping, in terms both of genius and industry, were two remarkable men, Capability Brown and his successor Humphry Repton. Both transformed many thousands of acres of England and Wales from "natural' into 'picturesque' landscape; both were gifted architects of beautiful houses;…
- Add to basket
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God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
- £14.00
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of Britain's greatest architects, and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of a French draftsman, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21…
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Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
- £22.00
- The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War II Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the…
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Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture
- £50.00
- A Photographic Pilgrimage to the Temples of Modernism Sacred Modernity documents the dramatic shift in ecclesiastical architecture across post-war Europe. Spurred on by the modernizing impulses of the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, and in search for an appropriate architectural language that showed that the Catholic Church was…
- Add to basket
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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide To The Hidden World Of Everyday Design
- £18.00
- A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast. Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean? Or stopped to ponder who gets to name the streets we walk along?…
- Add to basket
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The Beauties of Wiltshire interspersed with Anecdotes of the Arts (vols I&II)
- £120.00
- The Beauties Of Wiltshire, Displayed In Statistical, Historical, And Descriptive Sketches: Interspersed With Anecdotes Of The Arts. Vol. I & II - each site accompanied by engravings, covering Stonehenge, Bowood, Longleat, Wilton, Longford etc
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