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Christopher Alexander's influential, beloved and innovative text in the rare first printing.
Condition: Very Good, light soiling and spotting to dust jacket; micro-foxing to top text block.
Item #1597
Considered a classic of architectural criticism and winner of the 1985 Architectural Critics Award. This is the fifth printing from 1989 for the book first published in 1985. A collection of 17 of Colquhoun's essays. Preface by Kenneth Frampton.
Condition: Very Good, band of sunning/fading across top of front and back covers plus sunning/fading to spine; previous owner's name in pen on inside of front cover.
Item #1564
A complete run of 51 issues of Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, spanning the years 2003-2021 and including issues number 1-51 (issues #52 and 53 were published in Fall and Summer 2021). With extras/inserts included, such as the postcards produced for various issues, 3-D glasses (issue 17), and a rear view mirror air freshener tree (issue 8), although it is unknown if all extras/inserts are included. Most issues out of print. Some issues with the previous owner's architecture company stamp to first page (see image). Log has.....
Item #1457
Over 700 pages of essays and writings from the influential architecture journal "Oppositions," published for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies at MIT. Featuring writing by key architectural thinkers of the 20th Century. Articles, subjects and architects covered include: Le Corbusier, Heidegger, Eisenman, Las Vegas, Venturi, Koolhaas, Rafael Moneo, Tschumi, La Roche-Jeanneret, Karel Teige, the beauty of shadows, the modern cult of monuments, editorials published over the years, and much more. Out of print/scarce.
Condition: Very Good, rubbing to edges with chips to orange printing; sunning/fading to spine; reader's.....
Item #1546
A collection of 49 issues (in 35 publications) of the influential film journal Film Culture, known for exploring avant-garde cinema in depth. The magazine was founded and edited by Jonas Mekas (1922-2019), also the founder of the Anthology Film Archives and considered to be the godfather of American avant-garde cinema. Fluxus artist George Maciunas did the layout for select issues, such as Nos. 15 to 23 and No. 30 in this collection. A total of 79 issues of Film Culture were published between 1954 and 1996. A special issue #80 on Barbara Rubin.....
Item #1342
The first four volumes of "Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics" a series of books exploring the relationship between the two topics derived from lectures and presentations at the Nexus conferences occurring in Florence, Mantua, and Ferrara, Italy and Óbidos, Portugal in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002. The Nexus Conferences continue with one scheduled in Torino for 2023. Topics and architects covered in the books are wide ranging, including geometry and Baroque architecture, Pompeii, the American Prairie house, musical proportions in relation to architectural ones, Rome's Pantheon, geometric ideas from African art.....
Item #1498
