Architettura

Super Structures. The Science of Bridges, Buildings, Dams, and other Feats of Engineering

Denny, Mark · 2010 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, paperbound, 8o, vii+266 pp., ca. 100 ills., accessible book explaining the physics behind iconis structures as the Parthenon, the Eiffel Tower, the Forth Rail Bridge and the Hoover Dam; LIKE NEW condition

Structural Design for Archtects [English Heritage Technical Handbook]

Nash, Alec · 1990 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Hants, Gower Technical, 1990, cloth, dustjacket, 8vo, xi+231 pp., ca. 250 ills., physics and mathematics in architecture; materials and form; basic structural elements; beam and truss systems; suspension systems; LIKE NEW condition

The Ark of Architecture. Selected writings of Malcolm Quantrill

Connah, Roger (Ed.) · 2008 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,399)

Helsinki, Rakennustieto Publishing, 2008, paperbound, flaps, 8vo, 238 pp., ills., contrubutions by Norman Foster, Bruce Webb; Kenneth Frampton; Marco Frascari; Roger Connah; LIKE NEW condition

The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art

Prown, Jules David · 2009 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009, clth, dustjacket, 4to oblong, 72 pp., ca. 70 ills., the Yale Center for British Art stands as the final masterpiece of the great American architect Louis I. Kahn; LIIKE NEW condition

Hundertwasserhaus Wien. Ein Bilderbuch über ein außergewöhnliches Haus

Böhm, Peter M. · 1995 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Wien, Hundertwasserhaus, 1995, paperbound, 8vo, 96 pp., ca. 100 ills., Biographie; das Haus; die Hundertwasserbauten in Österreich; text in Deutsch und Englisch; very good condition

Contemporary European Architects. Volume II

Meyhöfer, Dirk · 1995 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Köln, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1995, paperbound, flaps, 4to, 176 pp., ca. 200 ills., text in English, German and French; Botta, Calatrava, Mecanoo, Soeters, Grimshaw and many others; LIKE NEW condition

Contemporary European Architects. Volume III

Jodidio, Philip · 1995 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Köln, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1995, paperbound, flaps, 4to, 176 pp., ca. 200 ills., text in English, German and French; Botta, Calatrava, Coenen, Koolhaas, Piano, Foster and many others; LIKE NEW condition

Architecture: the Story of Practice

Cuff, Dana · 1991 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,399)

Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1991, cloth, dustjacket, small 4to, ix+306 pp., c. 100 ills., why study the culture of practice? beliefs and practice; desgin problems in practice; the making of an architect; excellent practice; LIKE NEW condition

10 Architecture Principles

Slavid, Ruth · 2012 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,519)

Vivays Publishing, 2012, paperbound, small 4to, 192 pp., ca. 250 ills., structure, place, function & flexibility, comfort, sustainability, legibility, light, sound, surface, detail; LIKE NEW condition

Design Thinking

Rowe, Peter G. · 1987 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,519)

Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1987, cloth, dustjacket, 8vo, ix+229 pp., 61 ills., 3 cae studies; procedural aspects of design thinking; normative positions that guide design thinking; LIKE NEW condition

Home Rules

Wood, Denis; Beck, Robert J. · 1994 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,279)

Baltimore, The Johns hopkins University Press, 1994, cloth, dustjacket, 8vo, xviii+331 pp., ills., exploration of the built environment; specific study of the living room at 435 Cutler Street, the home of Denis and Ingrid Wood; LIKE NEW condition

How architecture got its hump. Preston Thomas Memorial Lecture Series

Connah, Roger · 2001 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Cambridge, The MIT Press, 2001, paperbound, 8vo, 209 pp., about the interference of architecture with other disciplines; LIKE NEW condition

40/40 Young Architects from Finland

Connah, Roger · 2002 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

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Helsinki, Rakennustieto, 2002, paperbound, flaps, 8vo, 239 pp., ca. 400 ills., why is Finnish architecture so good? What is its secret? 40/40 is a contemporary mapping of new architecture; LIKE NEW condition

Newly Drawn. Emerging Finnish Architects

Heikkinen, Mikko; Louekari, Meri; Hannula, Mika · 2009 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

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Helsinki, Rakennustieto, 2009, paperbound, 8vo, 207 pp., ca. 400 ills., this book presents nine emerging Finnish architecture practices, their stories and their works so far; Hollmen Reuter Sandmaan, Verstas, NOW, Anttinen Oiva Architects, Lassila Hirvilammi, Avanto, ALA, AFKS...

Landmarks in American Civil Engineering

Schodek, Daniel L. · 1987 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,639)

Cambridge (Mass.), The MIT Press, 1987, cloth, dustjacket, large 4to, 383 pp., ca. 300 ills, canals (Erie Canal, Potomack Caanal); roads; railroads (Durango-Silverton Railroad); Bridges (Brooklyn Bridge); tunnels (Union Canal Tunnel, Holland Tunnel); water supply; daams; build...

Architecture under Construction. Foreward by Joseph Rosa

Greenberg, Stanley · 2010 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,279)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2010, cloh, dustjacket, 4to oblong, 109 pp.; ca. 75 ills., the anatomy and engineering of some of our most unusul new buildings; fine fullpage photographs (b/w) of concrete and steel constructions; LIKE NEW condition

Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World. An Investigation into the Evolutionary Roots of Form and Order in the Built Environment

Crowe, Norman · 1995 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,279)

Cambridge (Mass.), The MIT Press, 1995, cloth, dustjacket, large 8vo, 270 pp., ca. 100 ills., geometry and the primacy of dwelling; nature and the sense of space; unity and the idea of harmony; time and te evolution of things; timelessness and the idea of the classical; LIKE N...

Renzo Piano - Fondation Beyeler. A Home for Art

Beyeler, Ernst; Blaser, Werner; Windhöfel, Lutz · 2001 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,519)

Basel, Birkhäuser, 2001, hardbound, dustjacket, 4to oblong, 150 pp., ca. 200 ills., the museum for the Beyeler Museum in Riehen near Basel by Aldo Rossi; LIKE NEW condition

Meyer en Van Schooten Architects / Volume 1

Ibelings, Hans · 2001 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,639)

Rotterdam, Nai Publishers, 2001, special binding, bords, square 4to, 223 pp., ca. 250 ills., content mostly fullpage colour plates in glossy print on heavy paper; LIKE NEW condition

Lighting in the Theatre (Acta Unversitatis Stockholmiensis / Stockholm Studies in Theatrical Hstory 2)

Bergman, Gösta M. · 1977 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell International / Totowa, Rowman and Littlefield, 1977, paperbound, 8vo, 426 pp., num. ills., in-depth study ranging from the middle ages to modern times; RARE very good condition (almost unused)