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Concrete

'Watch where you are...' - The Enduring Town Art of Glenrothes
Author
Jeremy Howard; Andrew Demetrius
Publisher
University of St Andrews Library - St Andrews
Date
2018
ISBN
978-0901728333
Concrete

The Secret Lives of Buildings
Author
Edward Hollis
Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Date
2010 (2019)
ISBN
978-1846271281
Concrete

Scotstyle - 100 Years of Scottish Architecture (1916-2015)
Author
Ed. Neil Baxter; Ed. Fiona Sinclair
Publisher
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland - Edinburgh
Date
2016
ISBN
978-1873190715
Concrete

Scotland's Sporting Buildings
Author
Nick Haynes
Publisher
Historic Scotland - Edinburgh
Date
2014
ISBN
978-1849171502
Concrete

Renzo Piano - The Art of Making Buildings
Author
texts by Kate Goodwin; John Tusa; Richard Rogers; Fulvio Irace; Lorenzo Ciccarelli; Susumu Shingu; Paul Winkler; Alistair Guthrie; Eric Kandel; Luis Fernández-Galiano; Roberto Benigni
Publisher
Royal Academy for Arts - London
Date
2018
ISBN
978-1910350713
Concrete

Raw Concrete - The Beauty of Brutalism
Author
Barnabas Calder
Publisher
William Heinemann - London
Date
2016
ISBN
978-0434022441
Concrete

Living with Buildings: And Walking with Ghosts - On Health and Architecture
Author
Iain Sinclair
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd - London; Wellcome Collection - London
Date
2018
ISBN
978-1788160469
Concrete

How to love Brutalism
Author
John Grindrod
Publisher
Batsford - London
Date
2018
ISBN
978-1849944427
Concrete

Estates - An Intimate History
Author
Lynsey Hanley
Publisher
Granta Publications - London
Date
2017 (2007)
ISBN
978-1783783823
Concrete

Concretopia - A Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain
Author
John Grindrod
Publisher
Old Street Publishing Ltd - London
Date
2013
ISBN
978-1906964900
Concrete

Concrete Chicago Map
Author
Iker Gil
Publisher
Blue Crow Media
Date
2018
ISBN
978-1912018635
Concrete

Architecrture in Global Socialism - Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
Author
Łukasz Stanek
Publisher
Princeton University Press - Princeton and Oxford
Date
2020
ISBN
978-0691168708
Concrete

A Living Room for the City
Author
Ed. Sophie McKinlay
Publisher
V&A Publishing
Date
2018
ISBN
978-1851779239
Concrete

CONCRETE
Author
Ed. William Hall
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Date
2019 (2012)
ISBN
978-0714875156
Chasing Rainbows

A Way of Being Free
Author
Ben Okri
Publisher
Head of Zeus Ltd - London
Date
2015
ISBN
978-1784082567
Linen

Award Winning British Design 1957-1988
Author
Lily Crowther
Publisher
V&A Publishing - London
Date
2012
ISBN
978-1851776733
Linen

50 Years Textielmuseum 1958 - 2008
Author
Annemiek van der Veen; Gert Staal
Publisher
Audax Textielmuseum - Tilburg
Date
2008
ISBN
978-9070962418
Linen

100 Sustainable Scottish Buildings
Author
Richard Atkins; Emily Stephen
Publisher
Scottish Ecological Design Association - Glasgow
Date
2017
ISBN
978-0993054457