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Save 3% Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life
Farah Al-NakibCurrent price €109.60Original price €112.99As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regiona...
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Save 13% Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 19301960
Robin SchuldenfreiCurrent price €60.02Original price €68.99An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined modernismIn the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists a...
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Save 10% Critiquing the Modern in Architecture
Jaimini MehtaCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99Written over four decades, Critiquing the Modern in Architecture is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical core of moder...
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Save 13% Hollywood on Location: An Industry History
Rutgers University PressCurrent price €128.75Original price €147.99Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until n...
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Save 3% Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €37.82Original price €38.99Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development in the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to...
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Save 13% Medieval and Early Modern Art, Architecture and Archaeology in Norwich
Sandy HeslopCurrent price €66.11Original price €75.99This volume explores the importance of Norwich as the second city of England for 500 years. It addresses two of the most ambitious Romanesque build...
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Save 13% Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism
Mark CrinsonCurrent price €49.58Original price €56.99Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through...
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Save 10% I methoni kai i istoria: I Venetia kai i eksousia (Greek language edition)
Panayotis FoutakisCurrent price €76.49Original price €84.99This Greek-language monograph on the castle of Modon (Peloponnese, Greece) leads us on a journey from Homer to the 20th century, and concentrates p...
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Save 13% The City as Subject: Public Art and Urban Discourse in Berlin
Carolyn S. LoebCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99In The City as Subject, Carolyn S. Loeb examines distinctive bodies of public art in Berlin: legal and illegal murals painted in West Berlin in the...
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Save 3% Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism
Brian L. McLarenCurrent price €37.82Original price €38.99Current price €37.82Original price €38.99Save 3% -
Save 3% Frome in 50 Buildings
Alastair MacLeayCurrent price €19.39Original price €19.99Situated at the eastern end of the Mendip Hills, the Somerset market town of Frome has a wealth of history, much of which lies waiting to be discov...
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Save 13% Architectural Restoration and Heritage in Imperial Rome
Christopher SiwickiCurrent price €107.87Original price €123.99This volume addresses the treatment and perception of historic buildings in Imperial Rome, examining the ways in which public monuments were restor...
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Save 13% Rebuilding St. Paul''s Outside the Walls: Architecture and the Catholic Revival in the 19th Century
Richard WittmanCurrent price €99.17Original price €113.99In 1823, the fourth-century basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome was destroyed by a catastrophic fire, prompting debate as to whether, ...
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Save 3% Zaha Hadid. Complete Works 1979Today. 2020 Edition
Philip JodidioCurrent price €71.77Original price €73.99Zaha Hadid (1950 - 2016) was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically no...
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Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America
Kevin RobertsCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99What are the suburbs? The popular vision of monotonous streets curving into culs-de-sac and emerald lawns unfurling from nearly identical houses wo...
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Save 3% Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach 1656-1723: Studien zu Werk und Rezeption
Andreas KreulCurrent price €41.70Original price €42.99This book brings together a number of important older texts and three new, unpublished essays on the work and reception of the Baroque architect J...
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Save 10% Representation and Materialization of Architecture and Space in Zimbabwe: Between National Icons and Dispositifs
Langtone MaunganidzeCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This volume is an empirical study examining the extent to which historic and iconic architecture and spaces in Zimbabwe - particularly in urban are...
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Save 15% Mosque: Approaches to Art and Architecture
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €53.54Original price €62.99Mosque examines the history, culture, evolution and functions of the Muslim house of worship through the prism of its artistic objects and architec...
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Save 13% Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction
Mari LendingCurrent price €49.58Original price €56.99We are taught to believe in originals. In art and architecture in particular, original objects vouch for authenticity, value, and truth, and requir...
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Save 7% Researching Urban Space and the Built Environment
Charlotte WildmanCurrent price €17.21Original price €18.50Researching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past. Written...
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Save 3% Sydney Brutalism
Heidi DokulilCurrent price €38.79Original price €39.99Sydney has some of the world's best examples of brutalist architecture. Heidi Dokulil explores these brutal beauties.While modernism is much celebr...
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Save 10% The Making of Modern Muslim Selves through Architecture
Intellect BooksCurrent price €119.69Original price €132.99This collection seeks to explore alternative definitions of bounded identities, facilitating new approaches to spatial and architectural forms. Tak...
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Save 7% architect, verb.: The New Language of Building
Reinier De GraafCurrent price €16.28Original price €17.50No longer does it suffice to judge a building solely by its appearance; it must be measured and certified. When architects talk about 'Excellence',...
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Save 3% Tourist Modernist/Toerist Modernist: Walking Along Modernist Architecture in Belgium
Gerlin HeestermansCurrent price €27.65Original price €28.50Tourist Modernist is a tribute to Belgium's lesser-known modernist heritage. In 2019 Gerlin Heestermans started the online heritage platform toeris...
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Rome: On the Road Architecture Guides
Forma EdizioniCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99Rome, the 'Eternal City', is not only enriched by buildings and monuments that preserve the culture of Italy in the symbolic centre of Christianity...
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Naples: On the Road Architectural Guides
Forma EdizioniCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99The influence of Anjou and Aragon, and the traces left by Bourbon, Hapsburg and Napoleonic domination have made Naples a treasure-trove of differen...
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Save 13% The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €45.23Original price €51.99Epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions, is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman world, whether they regard themselves as literary s...
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Save 13% The Louvre and Versailles: The Evolution of the Proto-typical Palace in the Age of Absolutism
Christopher TadgellCurrent price €69.59Original price €79.99This book traces the evolution of the great palaces of the Louvre and Versailles, from Pierre Lescots designs for expanding the former in the mid-1...
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Save 3% Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €48.49Original price €49.99Mid-20th century sacred architecture in America sought to bridge modernism with religion by abstracting cultural and faith traditions and pushing t...
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Save 13% Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval Hindu-Muslim Encounter
Finbarr FloodCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99Objects of Translation offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, ...
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Mill Reef Style: The Mid-Century Modern Architecture of Robertson Ward
Elizabeth BallantineCurrent price €51.32Original price €58.99In 1946, Robertson Happy Ward, the famed mid-century modernist, embarked on the Caribbeans most successful architectural endeavor: erecting the Mil...
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Save 18% Shinoy and the Chaos Crew: The Day of the Galloping Gargoyles: Band 09/Gold (Collins Big Cat)
Chris CallaghanCurrent price €9.83Original price €11.99Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction an...
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Save 3% Unbuildable Tatlin?!
Florian MedicusCurrent price €26.68Original price €27.50The book series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna Edition Angewandte, published by Birkhäuser Basel and De Gruyter Berlin/Boston, comprises ...
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Save 3% The Architecture of James Gamble Rogers II in Winter Park, Florida
Debra McClaneCurrent price €33.94Original price €34.99Exploring the life and career of one of Florida's premier architectsThis well-illustrated book illuminates the life and career of one of Florida's ...
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Save 3% Contested Legacies: Critical Perspectives on Postwar Modern Housing
Leuven University PressCurrent price €46.55Original price €47.99In the light of the current housing and environmental crisis and increasing social inequalities, there is a growing sense of urgency for architectu...
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