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Concrete Concept - Brutalist Buildings Around the World by Christopher Beanland; Jonathan Meades (Foreword by)
Category: Architecture
No modern architectural movement has aroused so much awe and so much ire as Brutalism. This global survey profiles 50 brutalist beasts around the world (built between the 1950s to 1970s), and demonstrates how Brutalism infected popular culture. This is architecture at its most assertive: compelling, dis ...Show more
Lido - A Dip into Outdoor Swimming Pools: the History, Design and People Behind Them by Christopher Beanland
Category: Design
A celebration of outdoor swimming - looking at the history, design and architecture of pools, as well as the social aspect. The 1930s architecture of the pools is often sleek and elegant, evoking speed and efficiency. And the pools themselves are great social levellers - a public space where everyone is ...Show more
Pool - A Dip into Outdoor Swimming Pools: the History, Design and People Behind Them by Christopher Beanland
Category: Architecture
Take a dip into the history, design, and people behind the world's most fascinating outdoor swimming pools. The 1930s architecture of pools is often sleek and elegant, evoking speed and efficiency--and this volume captures their unique beauty in a series of spectacular photographs and archival images. I ...Show more
Station - A Whistlestop Tour of 20th- and 21st-Century Railway Architecture by Christopher Beanland
Category: Architecture
A glorious celebration of modern railway architecture in the 20th century and beyond, travelling all over the world. Many railway books are about nostalgia for the steam age, but this one is different: a global study of railway architecture from the 1950s onwards and into the future. In 50 fascinatin ...Show more
Unbuilt - Radical Visions of a Future That Never Arrived by Christopher Beanland
Category: Non-Fiction
Unbuilt tells the stories of the plans, drawings and proposals that emerged during the 20th century in an unparalleled era of optimism in architecture. Many of these grand projects stayed on the drawing board, some were flights of fancy that couldn't be built, and in other cases test structures or parts ...Show more
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