A companion to the popular Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century, this book includes classic residential works by such seminal architects as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, as well as houses by more recent masters such as Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas, and Glen Murcutt. It provides accurate scale plans of every floor, together with elevations, sections, and site plans where appropriate, for each house. All have been specially drawn for the purpose and are based on the most up-to-date information and sources. Amplified with full-color views of the houses, a concise text explains the significant architectural features of each building and the influences it shows or generated. Cross-references to other buildings in the book highlight the various connections between these key houses. The introduction discusses the idea of an architectural canon of houses and gives an overview of the development of the house in the twentieth century. The quality and number of the drawings allow the houses to be understood in detail and, together with the authoritative text and images, make this book indispensable for all students of modern architecture. As an added bonus, the book includes a CD-ROM containing digital files of all the drawings.

Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations (Key Architecture Series)

Arts & Photography

Davies, Colin

Architecture

W.W.Norton&Company

Part of a series of technically informative monographs embracing a broad spectrum of internationally renowned buildings. This work deals with the British Pavilion from the 1992 Seville Exposition, and includes a comprehensive set of technical drawings and working details.

British Pavilion: Saville Expo (Architecture in Detail)

Phaidon Press

Hopkins is a paradoxical British architect a high-tech historicist. This fully illustrated monograph features all his major built works and projects together with essays by Davies, Patrick Hodgkinson, and the internationally respected critic Kenneth Frampton. 10x11.75". Distributed by Chronicle Books. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Hopkins: The Work of Michael Hopkins and Partners

Phaidon Inc Ltd

This is an authoritative monograph on one of Britain's most internationally respected contemporary architects, Michael Hopkins. The book presents all Hopkins' major buildings and projects, with essays by well-known critics.

The architecture of Michael Hopkins' formative years has evolved into something that defies easy stylistic categorization. In buildings such as the Glyndebourne Opera House, the Inland Revenue Centre and the New Parliamentary Building, a new individuality has emerged. These works have the uncompromising quality of certain nineteenth-century industrial buildings, yet they have gained acceptance among some of Britain's most ancient institutions. They are often hybrid creations, juxtaposing strongly contrasting elements, while also remaining loyal to a strict code of truth to materials and honesty of expression. Traditional and new forms of construction are combined in unconventional ways, often using innovative prefabrication techniques, but without sacrificing traditional craft virtues.
Detailed presentations of twenty-six buildings and projects analyse the genesis and logic of a unique, and now instantly recognizable, architecture. The book's publication coincides with Hopkins' most important commission to date: the New Parliamentary Building in London, which has an extensive presentation and is the subject of an essay by Patrick Hodgkinson. An essay by respected architecture critic Charles Jencks examines themes and historical precedent in the buildings, and an interview with Michael Hopkins gives a personal perspective to the work and office of Michael Hopkins and Partners.

The Work of Michael Hopkins - Volume 2

Shows examples of experimental homes, medical facilities, community centers, stores, supermarkets, labs, golf clubs, breweries, ice rinks, warehouses, and office buildings

High Tech Architecture

Rizzoli

"The Way We Were" Around Red Bluff in the 1970s

Galves Pub.

Why would Pi stop Dye Ameter walking more than three times round the table? And why would Mr Ameter do what Pi told him? Ben Small is good at English but rubbish at Mathematics. Branded a cheat by the headmaster of Cottomwall Grammar School because of the inconsistencies in his test results Ben feels he has no choice but to run away. Due to the storm he beds down for the night in the science lab of his school where, quite by chance, he meets a talking snake called Adder. Hearing Ben's story Adder asks Ben to come with him to Mathamagical, the city of Maths to help them solve an English problem and stop a war with the Advancing Alphas. Join Ben and Adder as they journey across the mathematical landscapes in their quest to save the numbers.

Mathamagical: An Alice in Wonderland Styled Tale set in the world of Mathematics

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

lulu.com

'Twas the night of Halloween, and all through the house, all the ghosties were stirring, even the dead mouse...This Halloween retelling of the "Visit from St. Nicholas" adds wonderfully spooky and ghoulish fun to the season of fright. So gather the little ones around the fire on this cold Autumn night, and share in this tale of ghosts, ghouls, zombies, vampires, werewolves and creatures.Happy Halloween everyone, I hope you sleep tight. Colin Davies, the author of the Mathamagical (The Ben & Adder series) has blended his love of spooky stories with the most traditional of Christmas poems to create this illustrated spook tale to enhance the atmosphere on a Halloween night.

'Twas The Night of Halloween: a spooky parody of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore, or was it Henry Livingston Jr?

Literature & Fiction

Independently published

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Books by Davies, Colin

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Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations (Key Architecture Series)

British Pavilion: Saville Expo (Architecture in Detail)

Hopkins: The Work of Michael Hopkins and Partners

Hopkins: The Work of Michael Hopkins and Partners

The Work of Michael Hopkins - Volume 2

High Tech Architecture

High Tech Architecture

"The Way We Were" Around Red Bluff in the 1970s

Mathamagical: An Alice in Wonderland Styled Tale set in the world of Mathematics

'Twas The Night of Halloween: a spooky parody of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore, or was it Henry Livingston Jr?