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Maya
Lin - Boundaries - "her first book; an eloquent visual/verbal
sketchbook."
H/cover 224 pages, 2000.
AMAZON 37% OFF SALE PRICE
$US 24.50 + P/P ($US5-12)
(melbourne bookshops 02/05 $AU75)
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Diller
+ Scofidio: Eyebeam Atelier of New Media & Technology: The
Charles and Ray Eames Lecturer - anything by this crowd
has got to be worth a peek.
Spiralbound 96 pages, 2004.
AMAZON 32% OFF SALE PRICE
$US 12.21 + P/P ($US5-12)
(melbourne bookshops - can't locate)
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Daniel
Libeskind - Breaking Ground - Adventures in Life and Architecture
Daniel's first memoir.
H/cover 288 pages, 2004.
AMAZON 60% OFF SALE PRICE
$US 11.18 + P/P ($US5-12)
(melbourne bookshops 02/05 $AU60)
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blowup
- Inflatable Art, Architecture, and
Design
by Sean Topham. H/cover 142 pages, 2002.
AMAZON 30% OFF SALE PRICE
$US 20.97 + P/P ($US5-12)
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lot/ek:
urban scan
by Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano, Philip
Nobel. 176 pages, 2002.
AMAZON 30% OFF SALE PRICE
$US 28.00 + P/P ($US5-12)
[ COMPARISON
PRICE IN JULY 2003 IN MELBOURNE WAS $A 98.00 ]
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Parallax
authors: Steven Holl. Avoid
reading the Amazon review - scroll down for the student ones.
Read some Holl for free at his website,
where two essays are published. 384 pages, 2000.
AMAZON 30% OFF SALE PRICE
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ARCHITECTURE
ON SALE
Modern
Architecture since 1900 by
William J.R.Curtis. 736 pages.
AMAZON DISCOUNT PRICE $US26.37
+ P/P ($US5-12)
[ COMPARISON PRICE IN MARCH 2002 AT DYMOCKS
AUSTRALIA WAS $A 85.00 ] |
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KOOLHAAS
& CO. ON SALE
Harvard
Design School Guide to Shopping
by Chuihua Judy Chung (ed.), Rem Koolhaas, Jeffrey Inaba Sze
Tsung Leong. 800 pages. 2002.
AMAZON PRICE $US50.00 + P/P (ABOUT
$7)
[ COMPARISON PRICE AT ARCHITEXT IS $A110.00] |
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MORPHOSIS
ON SALE
MORPHOSIS
- DIAMOND RANCH HIGH SCHOOL
by Thom
Mayne, Todd Gannon, Jeffrey Kipnis (eds).
AMAZON 30% OFF DISCOUNT PRICE $US20.97
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KOOLHAAS
SELLS PRADA
Projects
for Prada: Part 1
by Rem
Koolhaas, Miuccia Prada, Paritzio Bertelli, Michael Kubo.
AMAZON PRICE $US60.00
+ P/P (ABOUT $7)
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FRANK
ON SALE
Frank
Gehry, Architect
editor:
Fiona Ragheb : with essays by Beatrix Colomina and William
Mitchell and others. 500pages.
2001.
AMAZON 30% OFF SALE PRICE $US59.50
+ P/P (ABOUT $7)
[ COMPARISON PRICE AT ARCHITEXT IN APRIL
2002 WAS $A 194.00 ]
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CHILDRENS'
BOOK
Roberto
the Insect Architect
author:
Nina Laden : Roberto is a termite with ambition, who sets
out for the big city to battle with Hank Floyd Mite and Fleas
Van Der Rohe to stake his claim. Much clever wordplay to keep
adults awake. Suitable for ages 4 to 8. Hardcover.
AMAZON 30% OFF SALE PRICE $US11.17
+ P/P (ABOUT $7)
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IN
THE CLOUDS
Blur
: the making of nothing
authors: Elizabeth Diller
and Richard Scofidio. This book is being released to accompany
the firm's Swiss Expo 2002 cloud building, a steel platform
in a lake with 30,000 fog nozzles built into it.
Elizabeth Diller was interviewed on
ABC radio's The
Comfort Zone on June 29. This show can be heard
on line until the end of July, though I couldn't make it work.
Requires RealPlayer.
AMAZON 30% OFF SALE PRICE
$US 24.50 + P/P (ABOUT $7)
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BUILT
BEFORE
prefab
by Bryan Burkhart, Allison Arieff
"Prefab takes a look at prefabricated
housing's fascinating history and imagines its promising future
by presenting a group of innovative homes and concepts from
over 30 contemporary architects and designers including Shigeru
Ban, Thomas Sandell, David Hertz, Greg Lynn, and KFN."
160pages, 2002
AMAZON PRICE
$US 39.95 + P/P (ABOUT $7)
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a computer perspective - a background
to the computer age - Not
quite architecture, but this book of strange machines was designed
and built by the office of Charles and Ray Eames.
P/back 174 pages, revised 1990.
AMAZON 30% OFF SALE PRICE
$US 15.05 + P/P (ABOUT $7)
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the
modern chair - Classic Designs by Thonet, Breuer, Le Corbusier,
Eames and Others - over 40
chairs, with illustrations and comments by Clement Meadmore.
P/back 192 pages, 1997.
AMAZON 30% OFF SALE PRICE
$US 10.47 + P/P (ABOUT $7)
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