David Krut Publishing,
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Bookstore tagged with 'Architecture'

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.

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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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Filed in Architecture, Bookstore, David Krut Distribution, South African

 

Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa


LIGHT ON A HILL: BUILDING THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA
With photographs by Angela Buckland
Edited by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

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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Filed in Architecture, Bookstore, David Krut Bookstores, International

 

Why Buildings Stand Up

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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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Filed in Architecture, Bookstore, Culture, International

 

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.
Johannesburg has the dubious honour of having the only prison in the world where both Mahatma Ghandi and Nelson Mandela were incarcerated. When the Constitutional Court of South Africa was appointed by President Nelson Mandela, after the first democratic election in 1994, [...]

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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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Filed in Architecture, Bookstore, International

 

Icon – Issue #062, August 2008

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