TENDENCIES OF PORTUGUESE ARCHITECTURE: Works of Alvaro Siza, Hestnes Ferreira, Luiz Cunha, Manuel Vicente, Tomas Taveira / INDIA 1990 - 1991
by Duarte, Carlos S
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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BERKELEY, California, United States
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About This Item
Territorial Commission for the Commemoration of Portuguese Discoveries. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. [1990]. Softcover. Catalog for an exhibition in New Delhi of the work of these five architects which "envisages to offer a clearer version of today's architecture in Portugal." Includes essays titled Portuguese Architecture from the Thirties until today, Modernist Architecture, Rationalism - The Organic Movement and the Market Architecture, From the April Revolution to the Present. A separate section presents the works of each of the architects. Well-illustrated with b&w photos throughout and color photographs showing the work of the five architects. Red wraps, perfect bound, cover design in pink and green, lettering in white and pewter, text is presented in Portuguese and English. Pages are not numbered. ; 9-3/4" (24,8 cm) square; Uncommon, with no copies located in Worldcat or the European Library.; Slight corner wear, sunned at spine, clean and unmarked within. .
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Langer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4965
- Title
- TENDENCIES OF PORTUGUESE ARCHITECTURE: Works of Alvaro Siza, Hestnes Ferreira, Luiz Cunha, Manuel Vicente, Tomas Taveira / INDIA 1990 - 1991
- Author
- Duarte, Carlos S
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Territorial Commission for the Commemoration of Portuguese Discoveries
- Date Published
- [1990]
- Keywords
- CATALOGUE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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