Search Results: Architecture from Fireside Bookshop

Spain: Nexus, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. 12x9x0. Fading to spine. Slight rubbing to corners of covers.

USA: Harry N Abrams, 2008-03-10. paperback. Very Good. 7x1x9. Head of spine a little marked.

Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 2006. First Edition. Cloth. Like New/Like New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Type: Book In this book Nili Portugali, presents her particular interpretation of the holistic-phenomenological worldview in theory and in practice, a worldview which stands in recent years at the forefront of the scientific discourse, and is tightly related to Buddhist philosophy. The purpose of architecture is first and foremost to create a human environment for human beings. The real challenge of current architectural practice is to make the best use of the potential inherent in our modern technological age. Yet, modern society has lost the value of man and thus created a feeling of alienation between man and the environment. Contemporary architecture sought to dissociate itself from the world of emotions and connect the design process to the world of ideas, thus creating a rational relation between building and man, devoid of any emotion. Portugali argues that… Read More

USA: INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2005. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/No D/J. 12x8x0. No D/J. Grey cloth with gilt lettering.Previous owners signature and inscription to ffep.

Spain: Lunwerg Editores, 2002-07-01. Third Edition . hardcover. Good/Good. 12x10x1. Inside D/J a little stained.

London: Artifice books on architecture, 2014-03-31. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/No D/J as Published. 9x1x11. The slightest rubbing to base of spine, otherwise pristine.

Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 2002. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Type: Book This book features text in English and Spanish. In 2000, the Autostadt, a show park for the Volkswagen group and its subsidiaries from Seat via Audi to Bentley and Lamborghini, opened in Wolfsburg. Alfredo Arribas designed the Seat Pavilion, and has brought off the brilliant trick of making an essentially reticent building into the focal point of the Autostadt. The structure is like a snail shell, forbidding and closed with the exception of a band of windows that seems to rise directly out of the surface of the lake on the Autostadt site. The irregular curve of the ground plan is reminiscent of a leaf or other forms borrowed from nature. Access is via two elegant ramps floating over the water and the site and thrusting straight into the centre of the pavilion: a homage to the old master, Le Corbusier. And then inside we are confronted with a surprise-packed… Read More

Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 1997. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Type: Book In 1975, the European Year of Protection of Ancient Monuments, Alsfeld in Upper Hesse acquired model-town status, along with Berlin, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Xanten and Trier in Germany. In this way the Council of Europe was acknowledging the long tradition of monument protection in a place where an astonishingly large number of historic buildings have survived. There are numerous tightly-packed timber-frame buildings in the medieval ground plan of the town, some built as long ago as the 14th century. The market-place, forming the centre of the town with town hall, Weinhaus (wine house) and Hochzeitshaus (wedding house), is one of the most important complexes of its kind in Germany. The town hall, built in a way that inspired many of its German successors, was to have been pulled down in 1878 by order of the town council. It was not until residents protested… Read More

Finland: Rakennustieto Publishing, 2005-06-01. paperback. Very Good. 9x1x11. Previous owners signature to ffep. Slight fading to spine.

UK and USA: Harper & Row, 1980. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Good. 11x11x1. Previous owners inscription to ffep. Rubbing to edges and corners of D/J with small tears. Fading to D/J with some marks.

UK: ITDG Publishing, 1988-11-30. paperback. Good. 1x6x9. Fading to covers and spine. Crease to front cover. Previous owners signature to ffep.

Zurich: Verlag Niggli, 2017. hardcover. Very Good/No D/J as Published. 8x1x10.

London: Alec Tiranti, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No D/J. 9x6x1. No D/J. Rubbing to edges of boards. Scribbles to ffep and front paste down. Mark to rear board.

Zurich: Marp, 1988. Hardcover. Acceptable/No D/J. 10x11x1. Three inch split to top of spine with patch of sellotape. Some light rubbing to edges of boards.

London: Architectural Press, 1969-02-28. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Good. 8x7x0. Sellotape and sellotape marks to boards and paste downs. Previous owners signature to ffep. D/J a little yellowed with slight creasing.

London: B.T.Batsford, 1926. Revised and Enlarged Second Edit. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book D/J complete but with some rubbing and closed cut across d/j spine, book unaffected.D/J fade markings on pastedowns.

London: Michael Joseph, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book N.B. Chipping to head and tail of D/J. Small tear to top edge of rear D/J. 263pp.

London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2018-02-01. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x1x10. Dent to foredge of text block.

Halifax: C. P. Smithies, 1988-10-01. paperback. Very Good. 9x7x0. Bump to base of spine.

Canada: Canadian Center for Architecture, 2011-04-30. hardcover. Very Good. 7x2x10. Small mark to edge of text block, otherwise in pristine condition.