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The Queensland House: A Roof Over Our Heads
Rod Fisher; Brian Crozier
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1994.A collection of eight essays on historical and practical aspects of the Queensland house.
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Modern Houses Melbourne
Norman Day
Melbourne: Brian Zouch Publications, 1976.Catalogue of the best built houses in Melbourne in the first half of the 1970s.
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Building and Ornamental Stones of Australia
R. T. Baker
Sydney: Technological Museum, 1915.Technical Education Series, No. 20. Technological Museum, Sydney.
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Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life
J. Prip-Moller
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1967.A labour of love originally published in 1937 by Danish architect Johannes Prip-Moller (1889-1943). Thoroughly researched and illustrated throughout with photographs, floor plans, and architectural illustrations, this tome is still regarded as the definitive work on the subject and provides invaluable insight into Chinese Buddhist monastic life.
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Architectural Details
Antonin Raymond; Noemi P. Raymond
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1947.The Second Edition of this classic of 20th century architecture by Czech-American architecture Antonin Raymond. Raymond commenced his career working with Frank Lloyd Wright and Cass Gilbert. In 19Wright sent him to work in Japan and there he went on to do his own work. This book presents architecture elements developed in Japan during the interwar years. This copy with the original comb binding covers slipped into a custom cloth binding for Michael Hugo-Brunt (1924-1988, an architecture professor at Cornell before moving to the School of Architecture of the University of Western Australia.
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[Architecture of the Kaluga Region: From Antiquity to the Present Day]
A. C. Dneprovskiy-Orbeliani
Kaluga: N. F. Bochkareva, 2006. -
Hohne & Rapp Architekten
Christian Rapp
Rotterdam: Uitgeverij 010 Publishers, 1997. -
Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality
Tim Edensor
Oxford and New York: Berg, 2005. -
The Bridge: From the Story Broadcast by Dr. J. J. C. Bradfield
J. J. C. Bradfield
Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., No date.John Job Crew Bradfield (1867-1943) was the Australian engineer who helped to conceive of, and then supervise, the design and construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He was involved in constructing other major Australian infrastructure projects including Sydney’s Underground Railway and Brisbane’s Story Bridge. This 1930s booklet, illustrated with numerous sepia-tone photographic illustrations and one full page colour illustration, The Great Bridge by Moonlight, by John Charles Allcot (1888-1973, tells Bradfield’s story of the creating the Bridge from figment to reality.
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Sinan: Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Golden Age
John Freely; Augusto Romano Burelli; Ara Guler
London: Thames & Hudson, 1992. -
Fretwork Pediments in Queensland
Richard Stringer
Brisbane: University Art Museum, University of Queensland, 1982.Catalogue for an exhibition of architectural photographs showing fretwork pediment designs adorning the front of Queensland homes by Richard Stringer. Short essay and biographies of notable fret-cutters by Dianne Byrne.
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The New Queensland House
Cameron Bruhn; Katelin Butler
Melbourne: Thames & Hudson, 2022.“Imagine being in a home designed for a sun-drenched lifestyle – a dwelling so attuned to its setting and occupants that it effortlessly adapts to the climate and allows outdoor living all year round. This richly illustrated book takes the reader on an immersive journey through Queensland’s most exciting, contemporary architect-designed houses. The New Queensland House presents 28 awe-inspiring homes from the past decade, describing the architectural atmosphere in the early 21st century and exemplifying the ideas, teaching and buildings that have shaped the state’s residential architecture. Visit glamorous hilltop villas that are a stage set for a splendid tropical lifestyle; go inside the most hospitable family homes in the relaxed garden suburbs; and revel in the perfect requirements for architectural escapism in pristine, remote locations. This illuminating book showcases Queensland’s adventurous and globally acclaimed residential architecture, exploring the integral part it plays in the rich cultural heritage and exciting future of the state. Not only does it present aspirational homes, it also offers replicable models for regionally and environmentally sensitive architecture across the world.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Atlas of Interior Design
Dominic Bradbury
London: Phaidon, 2021.“A unique geographically organized survey of the world’s most desirable and iconic residential interiors from the 1940s to today. The Atlas of Interior Design is an inspiring, unparalleled global tour of more than 400 captivating residential interiors from the past eight decades. From classic to contemporary, minimal to maximal, the homes included illuminate the design tropes unique to their location s context, while others confound preconceived ideas of vernacular design to spectacular effect. Exceptional photography and a descriptive text accompanying each project enrich this thoroughly researched and comprehensive volume a must-have for all design aficionados.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Radical Architecture of the Future
Beatrice Galilee
London: Phaidon, 2021.“Architectural practice today goes far beyond the design and construction of buildings the most exciting, forward-thinking architecture is also found in digital landscapes, art, apps, films, installations, and virtual reality. This remarkable book features projects surprising, beautiful, outrageous, and sometimes even frightening that break rules and shatter boundaries. In this timely book, the work of award-winning architects, designers, artists, photographers, writers, filmmakers, and researchers all of whom synthesize and reflect our spatial environments comes together for the first time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Outils / Tools / Werkzeuge: Bank in Bouge
Pierre Hebbelinck, Sebastien Redecke
Liege: Editions Fourre-Tout, 2010.“The construction of a bank branch in Bouge (Belgium) – the subject of this book – was completed in June 2009. It generated a collection of documents, artefacts and intangible connections. We have organised all this in an editorial form, making it possible to read through a process, removing all mystique from every element to bring it down to its basic function and structure, the tool.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Radical Mix in Hanoi
Ulrich Kirchhoff; Louise Low
Milan: Kaleidoscope Press, 2010.Designs for a mixed use high density structure in Hanoi. Part of the exhibition Radical Mix in Hanoi: Typological Transformations by Ulrich Kirchhoff, guest Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on the occasion of “Teaching Architecture: 3 Positions Made in Switzerland” (Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Venice, October 2010).
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Robin Boyd: Late Works
Peter Raisbeck; Christine Phillips
Melbourne: Uro Publications, 2021.“This title unveils the urban and public architectural projects designed by Robin Boyd, one of Australia’s most iconic mid-century modernists, in the final decade before his untimely death in 1971. Bringing to light material buried deep in the archives of several national institutions, this book documents Boyd’s ambitions and struggles to shape Australia’s understanding of itself as an urban nation during this time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Architecture in Brisbane (Volume 1)
Graham de Gruchy
Brisbane: Boolarong Publications, 2012. -
Charas: The Improbable Dome Builders
Syeus Mottel
Brooklyn: Pioneer Works Press, 2017.A story of the ’70s: when six New York ex-gangsters met Buckminster Fuller and built a geodesic dome.
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A Preliminary Disquisition on the Considerations of the Functional Procedure and Design of Exterior Building Spaces
Robin Phillips; Eugene Lewis
New York: Columbia University, 1966.With especial reference to the Frank W. Abrams Plaza, Columbia University. Unpublished bound photocopy of typed manuscript with some editor’s marks. From the author’s collection.