Quantrill Eds (6 results)

Condition: Very Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. [ARCHITECTURE]. Eds. Malcolm Quantrill, Bruce Webb. Contributors: Peter Eisenman, Stephen Holl, Colin Rowe, et al. "Urban Forms, Suburban Dreams (Studies in Architecture and Culture 2)." College Station, TX: Texas A and M University Press. Printed in the USA, 1993. First edition. English language. Hardcover in quater brown cloth over white boards lettered gilt on spine in glossy pictorial jacket. Nonfiction architectural criticism text in twelve chapters by various authors with preface and numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations. 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. 34 oz. xviii, 162 pp. Light discoloration, sticker residue, and spotting due to water damage on jacket. Tidelines and mold spotting to bottom of boards. Tidelines to text block. Text clean. Acceptable to Fair. ISBN: 0890965358. "Prominent scholars offer a variety of perspectives and insights that will be of value to architects, urban designers and planners, and others interested in the forms of life in our cities and suburbs.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine dj. First Edition. [nice clean copy, just the teensiest bit of handling wear to book and jacket]. (Studies in Architecture and Culture, No. 4) (B&W photographs, architectural drawings) "The intent of these essays is to explore the notion of a 'culture of silence' through the basis of the architectural culture of modern Finland." Architects whose work is discussed and analyzed in connection with this theme include Alvar Aalto, Reima Pietilä, Juha Leiviska, Gunnar Asplund and Renzo Piano. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.****.…

1st ed. thus dust jacket New Book octavo xv + 389pp., b/w pls., maps, appends., bibliog., index, New edition of the memoirs of George Dennison who fought in various African campaigns inc. the Zulu wars & the Boer War. Originally published in 1904.

Condition: Sehr gut. 271 S. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Inhalt: Roger Connah, Sometimes and Always, with Mixed Feelings: Untimely Notes on a Culture of Silence -- Malcolm Quantrill, Breaking the Culture of Silence; or, the Case of a Talkative Finnish Architect -- Marco Frascari, The Silent Architect and the Unutterable Nature of Architecture -- Randall Ott, Surface versus Structure: Alvar Aalto and the Finnish Wooden Churches -- Drexel Turner, A Certain Slant of Light: Renzo Piano's "Museum without Façades" for the Menil Collection -- Malcolm Quantrill, Alvar Aalto and the Muffled Echoes of Cubism -- Celeste Williams, Recent Austrian Architecture: A Dynamic Silence -- Kaisa Broner-Bauer, Aarno Ruusuvuori and the Continuity of Finnish Modernism -- Claes Caldenby, In the Footsteps of Gunnar Asplund -- Randall Ott, Alvar Aalto and Persepectival Space -- Malcolm Quantrill, Thresholds between Silence and Light: The Architecture of Juha Leiviskä. ISBN 9780890967850 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200 Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag.…

Signed, inscribed & dated by authors. 4to, pp. [2] + 310; black leather bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt; illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light foxing throughout); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; moderate tanning & foxing). …