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Contemporary Glasgow: the Architecture of the 1990s
Johnny Rodger, Charles McKean (Editor)
£7.95
1999, The Rutland Press, 64pp, paperback
ISBN: 1873190514
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Challenging Contextualism
Penny Lewis, Stephen Spear
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£20.00
Paperback 120 pages (21 March, 2003)
Publisher: Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects
ISBN: 1903653150
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The Glasgow School of Art
The Glasgow School of Art: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
(Architecture in Detail Series)
James Macaulay (Editor)
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Phaidon Press, 2002, 58pp, paperback
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ISBN: 0714842214
The "Architecture in Detail" series comprises books that focus on individual buildings noted for their exceptional character, innovative design or technical virtuosity. Each volume contains a text by a respected author, a sequence of colour and black-and-white photographs and a set of technical drawings and working details. One of the great works of Arts and Crafts architecture, the Glasgow School of Art is a synthesis of opposites: austere and delicate, dark and light, derivative yet innovative. While the towering outer wall seems to echo the Scottish baronial tradition and the exterior impression is one of imposing grandeur, the interior is a lively and complex set of spaces.
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Mackintosh's Masterworks: Glasgow School of Art
William Buchanan
Chambers, 1995, 224pp, paperback
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ISBN: 0550225706
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Architect, Artist, Icon
John McKean & Colin Baxter (Photographer)
2000, Voyageur Press (USA)
Hardcover 160 pp
31 Oct 2000
Publisher: ISBN: 0896585190
Dimensions (in inches): 0.86 x 12.18 x 9.64
McKean, professor of architecture at the University of Brighton, and photographer Colin Baxter provide an in-depth overview of the Scottish architect, painter, furniture designer, and graphic artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). Scarcely dead before art critics began calling him a pioneer of modernism, the United Kingdom's master of art nouveau, and the last great Victorian architect, Mackintosh's reputation has withstood the test of time.
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The Quest for Charles Rennie Mackintosh
John Cairney
£16.99
The Quest for Charles Rennie Mackintosh - the first full-scale biography of the architect and artist. Thirty years in the making, John Cairney's personal approach sheds unexpected light on this complex Victorian Glasgwegian, and uncovers the talent and passion that set him apart in his own time.
Luath Press
Arts and Crafts Masterpieces: by Edward Prior, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Bernard Maybeck: St.Andrew's Church, Roker, Sunderland, 1905, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, 1909, First Church of Christ Scientist, Berkeley, California, 1910 (Architecture 3s S.)
Trevor Garnham, Beth Dunlop, James Macaulay
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1999
Media: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
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Arts and Crafts Houses: By Charles Rennie Mackintosh, CFA Voysey and Greene and Greene: Hill House, Helensburgh, Scotland, 1903, The Homestead, Frinton-on-Sea, 1905, Gamble House, Pasadena, California, 1908 (Architecture 3s S.)
James Macaulay
Phaidon Press
Hardcover - 1999
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Part of a series that places buildings within their historical context, this text considers three Arts and Crafts buildings: Hill House, Helensburgh in Scotland; The Homestead, Frinton-on-Sea in Essex; and Gamble House in Pasadena, California. It includes specially produced technical drawings.
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Tea and Taste: the Glasgow Tea Rooms 1875-1975
Perilla Kinchin
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White Cockade Publishing, 1991, 208pp, hardcover
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ISBN: 0951312421
Times Literary Supplement
an expert and seamless combination of social analysis and art criticism --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
C. R. Mackintosh Society Newsletter
a book.. which no Glaswegian nor social or design historian of the 19th or 20th centuries in Britain can afford to be without --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Tea and Taste: the Glasgow Tea Rooms: 1875-1975
Perilla Kinchin
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White Cockade Publishing, 1996, 207pp, paperback
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ISBN: 095131243X
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Central Glasgow - an Illustrated Architectural Guide
Charles McKean
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Mainstream Publishing, 1989, 208 pp, paperback
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ISBN: 1851582002
An illustrated architectural guide to the history and character of the city of Glasgow, in all its incarnations - great ecclesiastical city, the city of the unimaginably wealthy tobacco lords, merchant city, cotton city, industrial city and second city of the Empire.
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Central Glasgow - an Illustrated Architectural Guide
Charles McKean
£11.95
Paperback - 206 pages Reprint (Nov 1993)
The Rutland Press; ISBN: 1873190220
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Architecture of Glasgow
Andor Harvey Gomme, David Walker
Lund Humphries, 1987, 344pp, hardcover
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ISBN: 0853315043
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Graven Images: Design Stories
£18.00
Paperback 68 pages (Feb 2004) Publisher: Graven Images ISBN: 0954710304
Book Description
Graven Images is the cross-disciplinary Glasgow design studio founded by
Janice Kirkpatrick and Ross Hunter in 1986.
This group of creative designers and architects has an international
reputation for diverse and iconoclastic work ranging from brands, books
and typefaces to bars, shops, offices and exhibitions.
This desirable new book, designed and written by Graven Images, gives an
insight into the organisation and its work.
From the Publisher:
Design stories is the first in a series of fabulous feasts to be published
by Graven Images. It reveals the breadth and depth the studio's work
including their unique structure and systematic approach to design.
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