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The Nature of Order, An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe (Book One, The Phenomenon of Life; Book Two, The Process of Creating Life; Book Three, A Vision of a Living World; and Book Four, The Luminous Ground). Christopher Alexander.

The Nature of Order, An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe (Book One, The Phenomenon of Life; Book Two, The Process of Creating Life; Book Three, A Vision of a Living World; and Book Four, The Luminous Ground)

(Berkeley, California): (The Center for Environmental Structure, 2002-2005), 2002. Hardcover. Quarto size, 2228 pp. Complete four-volume set of the philosophy of architecture; as the dust jacket so aptly phrases it: "Neither scientists, nor mystics, nor architects, nor politicians have so far found a single view of the world in which... More

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Zaha Hadid, Complete Works; Major and Recent Works; Projects Documentation; Texts and References; Process: Sketches and Drawings. Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Gordana Fontana-Giusti, Greg Lynn, Peter Cook, Andreas Ruby, Artist, / Contributor, Foreword, Contributor.

Zaha Hadid, Complete Works; Major and Recent Works; Projects Documentation; Texts and References; Process: Sketches and Drawings

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., (2004). Hadid, Zaha. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition, four vols., various sizes, 240; [112]; [96]; 127 pp. Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid "combines painting, projective geometry, perspective, model building, now computer renderings and smooth curvaceous geometric surfaces into the masses, interiors and structure... More

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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Michael Kelly, in Chief.

Encyclopedia of Aesthetics

New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Third Printing. Hardcover. Four volumes, quarto size, each copy is approx. 500 pp. An English language reference work devoted to "aesthetics", using a definition of aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture, and nature." The encyclopedia includes over 600 essays arranged alphabetically, covering about... More

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Antigas Fazendas de Cafe da Provincia Fluminense [The Old Coffee Estates of the Fluminense Provence] (ASSOCIATION COPY - once owned by Claudio Arrau). Fernando Tasso Fragoso Pires, Paulo Mercadante, Ralph E. Jennings, Foreword, English Translation.

Antigas Fazendas de Cafe da Provincia Fluminense [The Old Coffee Estates of the Fluminense Provence] (ASSOCIATION COPY - once owned by Claudio Arrau)

[Rio de Janeiro]: Nova Fronteira Memoria Brasileira, 1980. Hardcover. Folio size, 124 pp., inscribed by Claudio Arrau. A little-known work on the great coffee plantations of the nineteenth century in the area around Rio de Janeiro. Coffee first started to appear in the area around 1760, and by 1822 there... More

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Learning From Las Vegas. Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour.

Learning From Las Vegas

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. Folio size, 206 pp. Authors Robert Venturi (b. 1925) together with his wife Denise Scott Brown (b. 1931) are among the most influential figures in architecture in the twentieth century. After gaining popularity with his radical "Complexity and... More

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