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Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A.T. Smith
$12.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: very good
The Case Study House program (1945-1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences ...Show more
Victor Horta by Aurora Cuito (Editor); Cristina Montes (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Archipockets Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Unknown Westminster Abbey by Lawrence E Tanner
$10.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: King Penguin Books | Reading Level: good
The Show to End All Shows - Frank Lloyd Wright and the Museum of Modern Art, 1940 by Peter Reed (Editor); William Kaizen (Editor); Kathryn Smith (Contribution by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Studies in Modern Art | Reading Level: very good
In 1940, The Museum of Modern Art staged a retrospective of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the great American architect, then in his 70s, who had experienced a professional rebirth over the previous decade after many years of relative invisibility. Wright was a full collaborator in the organization of ...Show more
The Art of City Making by Charles Landry
$18.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Corrugated Iron in New Zealand by Geoff Chapple
$25.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Valparaíso School - Open City Group by Rodrigo Pérez de Arch; Fernando Pérez Oyarzun; Raúl Rispa (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Architecture
Since 1950 the avantgarde architect Alberto Cruz has had such a defining influence on the Faculty of Architecture at the Catholic University in Valparaíso that the phrase Valparaíso School was soon coined. Out of this work emerged in 1970 the anonymous group "Open City Group". Architects, students, arti ...Show more
Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin West by Kathryn Smith
$20.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Taliesin and Taliesin West are world renowned landmarks of 20th century architecture. Taliesin, a house, studio, and farm built in 1911 in rural Wisconsin, embodied both Wright's frontier spirit and his cosmopolitan tastes. Taliesin West, constructed just over 25 years later in the Arizona desert, was t ...Show more
Architecture Today by James Steele
$40.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
This work is a comprehensive overview of architecture worldwide since the 1960s. A guide to the many and varied contemporary architectural trends, it leads the reader through the styles and movements of architecture in the latter half of the 20th century. The Modern Movement in architecture early in the ...Show more
Buildings of Dunedin - An Illustrated Architectural Guide to New Zealand's Victorian City by Hardwicke Knight; Niel Wales
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good
Jacques Emile Ruhlmann by Emmanuel Breon
$55.00 NZD
Category: Interior design | Reading Level: very good
Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, one of Europe's most influential Art Deco designers, is being celebrated in North America with a major traveling exhibition. Ruhlmann began designing at a young age and exhibited his first pieces in Paris in 1910. By 1919, he had founded his own interior design company, producing ...Show more
Living in Provence - Interior Styles and Decoration by Sara Walden
$20.00 NZD
Category: Interior design | Reading Level: very good