HOW BUILDINGS LEARN WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THEY'RE BUILT
Written by Stewart Brand.
Stock no. 1329827
Published by Phoenix Illustrated; Orion Books Ltd.. 1st PB 1997. Almost very good condition.

The author puts forward the radical proposal that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants and that architects can mature from being artists of space to become artists of time. Oblong format. Cardwraps. 243 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0753800500. Spine and corners bumped and slightly creased. Fading to spine. Name in ink to half title-page. Light damp stain to lower edges of prelims.

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THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF ARCHITECTURE
Written by John Penoyre; Michael Ryan. Illustrated by John Penoyre; Michael Ryan.
Stock no. 1329805
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Observer book no. 13. Over 250 coloured & b/w illustrations. Revised edition. Small format. Brown boards with black titles. Old tape marks to endpapers. Dustwrapper is bright, just a little edge rubbed.

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COTSWOLD STONE HOMES: HISTORY - CONSERVATION - CARE
Written by Michael Hill; Sally Birch.
Stock no. 1329722
Published by Alan Sutton. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The architecture of the Cotswolds in terms of its characteristic building material, Cotswold stone, and a practical and informative guide to its use and care. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. 188 pages. ISBN: 0750903228. SIGNED by Birch to title-page (by means of dedication). Spine and corners bumped. Pale page edge browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is faded to spine and to front edge, small tear to base of spine.

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UNBUILT MASTERWORKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Written by Will Jones.
Stock no. 1329683
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1st 2009. Nearly fine condition.

Inspirational Architecture for the Digital Age - 100 of the best projects to have been proposed since the turn of the millennium by the world's greatest architects. Large, heavy format. Glazed pictorial boards. 900 illustrations, 747 in colour. ISBN: 9780500342541. A super copy.

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THE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESS
Written by Alain De Botton.
Stock no. 1329674
Published by Hamish Hamilton; The Penguin Group. 1st 2006. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A beguiling tour through the philosophy and psychology of architecture. Blue boards, silver title to spine. 280 pages (including index). B/w photos. ISBN: 9780241142486. Name in ink to half title-page. Minimal bumping to spine. Dustwrapper is slightly creased at edges.

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WELLS COATES: TWENTIETH CENTURY ARCHITECTS SERIES
Written by Elizabeth Darling.
Stock no. 1329371
Published by RIBA Publishing; English Heritage; The Twentieth Century Society. 1st 2012. Very good condition.

A book to delight architects, students, architectural historians and anyone who is interested in the Modern Movement in Britain. Cardwraps. Full of b/w and colour photos, the colour photography specially commissioned by James O. Davies. ISBN: 9781859464373. Covers rubbed at spine and corners. Small mark to lower edge of textblock else contents fine.

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ANDREA PALLADIO 1508-1580: ARCHITECT BETWEEN THE RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE
Written by Manfred Wundram; Thomas Pape.
Stock no. 1829654
Published by Taschen. 1st 2008. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

One of Taschen's 25th anniversary special editions. Title to dustwrapper and book cover is: Palladio The Complete Buildings. Brown matt paper boards with white titles. Colour photos. 248 pages. ISBN: 9783836505475. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at edges.

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GIOTTO DI BONDONE 1267-1337: THE RENEWAL OF PAINTING
Written by Norbert Wolf. Illustrated by Giotto.
Stock no. 1829579
Published by Taschen. 1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition.

"Back to Visual Basics" series. Giotto was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations. 96 pages. ISBN: 9783822851609. A nice, clean copy.

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THE DIARIES OF SANDERSON MILLER OF RADWAY
Written by Sanderson Miller; William Hawkes.
Stock no. 1829568
Published by The Dugdale Society. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Dugdale Society Vol. 41. Edited by William Hawkes. Saunderson Miller (1716-80) was a gentleman architect, an amateur pioneer of significance in the development of the Gothic Revival during its delightful and inventive Georgian period. This volume contains the fully annotated text of Miller's diaries of 1750-1756, a self-revelatory Memoir he wrote fo his friend, James Menteath, and a catalogue of his architectural and landscape work. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xiv and 449 pages including index. ISBN: 0852200846. A lovely copy. Blue pictorial dustwrapper has a vertical score to front panel.

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JAMES GIBBS
Written by Terry Friedman.
Stock no. 1829484
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In eighteenth-century England, James Gibbs was perhaps the most successful and prolific architect of his generation. This book is a cogent and fully documented record of Gibbs's career and architectural achievement. Large format. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. vi and 362 pages including index. ISBN: 0300031726. Base of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Diagonal crease to prelims. Title page is a little grubby with imprinting of ink from facing frontis. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is worn at corners and is scuffed, remains of label to lower edge of rear panel.

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ART AND POWER: EUROPE UNDER THE DICTATORS 1930-45
Written by Dawn Ades.
Stock no. 1829477
Published by Hayward Gallery. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

This book is about the relationship between art and politics in the 1930s, in the Europe of the dictators. It provides a history of the plight of individual artists and architects under totalitarian rule, structured around the four capital cities of Paris, Rome, Moscow and Berlin. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, running from 1996 - 1996. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. 360 pages. ISBN: 1853321486. A lovely copy with some minor staining to lower edge of text block else contents clean.

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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM
Written by David King.
Stock no. 1829475
Published by Butterworth Architecture. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The eighteenth century architects Robert and James Adam gave their name to a classical style of architecture, a castle style of architecture and to a style of decoration. This book is the first complete catalogue of their executed works. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams throughout, a few colour photos. xii and 447 pages including index. ISBN: 075061286X. Light rubbing to base of spine. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased.

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