Inch's Books

Sert's Architecture in the Miró Foundation

ZEVI Bruno · 1976

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Barcelona, Polígrafa, 1976. 164pp inc 116 b&w photos, many text photos & drawings. Cloth. 21x21. Very good copy in slightly chipped dust wrapper. Excellent illustrations.

Making Architecture: The Getty Center

MEIER Richard, HUXTABLE Ada Louise, ROUNTREE Stephen D & WILLIAMS Harold M · 1997

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, T&H, 1997. 168pp, a great many photos, many colour, & drawings, chron. Pictorial stiff card. 26x25. Very good copy. Lovely photos.

Museum für Kunsthandwerk: Richard Meier

BRAWNE Michael · 1992

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Phaidon, 1992. 12pp text & illustrations, 25pp photos (many colour), 18pp drawings, bibliog, chrons. Pictorial stiff card. 30x30. Fine.

The Museum Projects

KLEIHUES Josef P. (text) & SHKAPICH Kim (ed) · 1989

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

NY, Rizzoli, 1989. 160pp, copious photos & figs, some in colour, chron list of museums. Stiff card wraps. 25x21. Few small marks on front cover else vg. Studies of seven of Kleihues' museum buildings.

Fair Horizon: Buildings of To-day.

HILL Oliver · 1950

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, Collins, 1950. Frontis photo, 127pp, inc many b&w photos. 26x21, cloth, illlustrated dw. Eps browned and spotted, edges a bit dusty, contents very good, in chipped and worn dw, this now protected. Oliver Hill's well illustrated account of the new architecture in Euro...

Three Japanese Architects/ Drei Japanische Architekten. Mayekawa: Tange: Sakakura.

ALTHERR Artur · 1968

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

New York, Architectural Book Publishing Co. 1968 (originally published by Arthur Niggli Ltd) 179pp, mostly photos and plans, short biographies. 23x29, boards, illustrated dw. Bump to bottom edge of boards, not effecting contents which are very good, in rather rubbed and creas...

La Cité de Refuge di Le Corbusier 1929/33

TAYLOR Brian Brace · 1979

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Rome, Officina Edizioni 1979 192pp, 171 illustrations. 21x14, illustrated wraps. Wraps and spine slightly sunned, very good thus. Originally Italian edition of this fascinating study of this early Corbusier project in Paris for a sheltered housing complex commissioned by th...

Le Corbusier: The City of Refuge, Paris 1929/33

TAYLOR Brian Brace · 1987

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press 1987 xiii, 185pp, 183 illustrations. 24x16, blue cloth, illustrated dw. A few very light pencil marks, very good thus in similar dw. Originally published in Italian in 1978 (and then French in 1980), a fascinating study of this early Co...

Theatrum Mundi. Through the green membranes of space [cover title]

LIBESKIND Daniel · 1985

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Architectural Association, 1985. 12 plates on stiff fanfolded card. Wraps, 34x28. Very good copy, dust wrapper. Published to coincide with an exhibition. Catalogue designed by Lorraine Wild and Dennis Crompton. Libeskind's musings on the modern city: 'The premonition ...

The Buckminster Fuller Reader

MELLER James (ed) · 1970

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, J. Cape, 1970. 383pp+ 15 illustrations and incl bibliog. Intro by the editor. 22x15, dark cloth, illustrated dw. Very good in chipped and price-clipped wrapper. First book on Fuller to appear in Britain.

Eric Mendelsohn

WHITTICK Arnold · 1940

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Leonard Hill (1940) 2nd edition, 1956. 219pp, 75 plates, and incl bibliog, list of works, exhibitions. 28x19, blue cloth, illustrated dw. Cloth marked, bit grubby, book plate on ffep, contents very good, in rather chipped dw (now protected). This second edition of W...

Wells Coates, a monograph.

CANTACUZINO Sherban · 1978

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Gordon Fraser, 1978. Frontis portrait, 119pp, a great many photos, plans, drawings etc, list of works, chronology, bibliography. 30x22, cloth, illustrated dw. Very good in price clipped but otherwise very good dw. Detailed informative monograph on this architect (189...

Stefan Wewerka. Drawings earth architecture watercolours 1955-1958. February 1984. [cover title].

GALERIE FRED JAHN · 1984

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

München, 1984. 55pp (mainly images, also bibliography, list of exhibition) + 3pp (essay in English), all on single sided cards. In original pictorial & lettered portfolio. 26x26. Wraps split, good thus. Issued for the exhibition. Interesting item.

Perret

CHAMPIGNEULLE Bernard · 1959

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1959. 160pp inc illustrations, errata slip. Wraps, 27x24. Very good copy in dust wrapper. A well illustrated account of Perret's architecture including writings and lectures by Perret himself. Perret (1874-1954), comes across as the father o...

Architecture: City Sense

CROSBY Theo · 1965

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, Studio Vista, 1965. 96pp, many illustrations, with some use of colour, bibliog. 20x16, pictorial card wraps. Some edge rubbing, place of purchase written on fep, generally good. Nicely designed '60s study, focusing on the need for compact, well-designed urban spaces.

Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt. Drawings by James Wines for the unpremiated competition submission by SITE

WINES James · 1985

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Architectural Association, Folio VII, 1985. 16pp booklet incl plans, drawings, biographical notes plus eighteen duotone plates, all in presentation box. Essay by Herbert Muschamp. Light grey band. 31x31, black box with silver text and illustration. Slight marking to ...

Tea & Coffee Towers. Twenty-two tea and coffee sets

MENDINI Alessandro (ed) · 2003

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Milano, Electa, 2003. 192pp inc illustrations. Wraps, 24x17. Very good copy. Research project between Mendini and Alessi which resulted in 22 designs and 20 realised projects from architects such as Chipperfield, Alsop, Hadid, Future Systems, Nouvel, Morphosis et al. Interest...

Brian Clarke Architectural Artist.

HARRISON Martin, POWELL Kenneth CLARKE Brian (essays) · 1994

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, Academy, 1994. 128pp incl many colour photos, biography. Wraps, 30x25. Fine copy. Concentrates mainly on his stained glass. 9 projects in England, Germany and Japan plus the Clinical Research Building and Hammersmith Cancer Centre.

Arup Associates. Unified Design

BRISLIN Paul (ed) · 2008

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Chichester, John Wiley, 2008. 208pp inc photos, drawings, sections etc. Boards, cloth spine with silver lettering, 25x22. Fine copy. Beautifully produced book.

Les Villas de Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret 1920-1930

BENTON Tim · 1984

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Paris, Philippe Sers, 1984 (first edition) 224pp, 50 col, 250 b/w ills, incl 181 drawings by Le Corbusier, photos by Lucien Hervé. 29x23, cloth, illustrated dw, card slipcase. Very good in very good wrapper; slight rusting to staples on slipcase. Excellent detailed study. ...