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| Johannesburg 011 447-0627 / 011 880-5648 • Cape Town 021 685-0676 • New York 212 255-3094 | |||
Our bookstore is located at 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg. Our own titles as well as books from other South African and international publishers are available in the store and on this site. We are the sole distributors in southern Africa of books from Tate Publishing (UK), Assouline (USA), Nazraeli (USA). We specialise in books on contemporary art, architecture, graphic design and monographs.
Revel Fox: Reflections on the Making of Space
Catalogue for work by award-winning senior South African architect with essay contributions by leading international architects and colleagues. Catalogued for an exhibition at the South African National Gallery.
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Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa
The new Constitutional Court of South Africa was inaugurated in 2004, ten years after the demise of apartheid and South Africa’s first democratic elections that brought the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela to power. The historic new building was the work of a team of young South African architects who had won the international competition for the design and building of the Court.
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Cinema Architecture
Movie theater architecture is an architecture of night. Evening screenings take place in buildings that seek out the attention of passersby using their form and light. The interiors of this less-than-a-century-old building type are also very manifold. The range of design is especially evident in the execution of foyers, which span everything from the strict, [...]
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Why Buildings Fall Down: Why Structures Fail
Although modern techniques and new materials have greatly decreased the number of structural failures in today’s world, buildings stil fall down- and whenever a building, a bridge, a tunnel, or a dam collapses, it is front-page news and often the beginning of a hunt for clues and culprits as facinating as any detective story.
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Johannesburg Transition: Architecture and Society From 1950
Johannesburg Transition: Architecture and Society From 1950 is a follow on to Clive Chipkin’s first, highly-successful and now out-of-print book, Johannesburg Style: Architecture and Society 1880s-1960s. Julian Cooke of the school of architecture (UCT) described the way the earlier volume “romps through politics, music, biography, industry and architecture – very consistent and Johannesburg’s mad romp [...]
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Alvar Aalto – Objects and Furniture Design – By Architects
Nature, biology, has rich and luxurious forms; with the same principles of cellular organisation, it can create billions of combinations, each of which represent a highly developed form. Man’s life belongs to the same category. The things that surround him are hardly fetishes or allegories with mystical eternal value: more than anything else, they are [...]
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TAXI Art Films: Touring the Constitutional Court of South Africa
The first in a series of new Taxi Art Films from David Krut Publishing.
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Architecture Transformed: A History of the Photography of Buildings from 1839 to the Present
This magnificently illustrated book documents a history of style in the photography of buildings
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