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Very rare photobook SIGNED in hand BY THE ARTIST : Built in the 7th century, Yakushi-ji is one of the seven large temples in Nara (Todaiji, Daianji, Yakushiji, Saidaiji, Gangoji, Horyuji, and Kofukuji), and the head temple of the Hosso Sect, the oldest Buddhist sect in Japan. In 1976 the present Kondo (Main Hall) was restaurated and return to an original outlook. Shoji Fukai photographed the process
Stunning book: design is modernist – printing exquisite !
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Yakushiji Main Hall Restoration – SIGNED by the photographer Shoji Fukai
Tokyo: Akira Corporation, 1976. Large very heavy tall quarto in original hardcover with original dustjacket in original slipcase. Illustrated with gorgeous deep gravure photography throughout. Text in both Japanese and English. Minimal wear to jacket and slipcase else a fine clean copy
First (and only) edition. Very rare photobook SIGNED in hand BY THE ARTIST / INSCRIBED by Shoji Fukai to free front endpaper
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Special Denmark Issue of the leading French modernist architectural magazine, edited by Andre Bloc and for this issue Alexandre Persitz. With contributions by or about Kay Fisker, Arne Jacobsen, Finn Juhl, Wilhelm Lauritzen etc. Paris, 1949. Large 4to in original magazine wraps. 62 pages. Text in French, richly illustrated. Some…
First published in 1938, this collection of essays sets out some of foundational ideas of 20th-century technology innovator R. Buckminster Fuller, an early pioneer in sustainable design. Written in plain language with a sense of humor, the book outlines his concerns about sustainability, presents his utopian vision of future prosperity driven by technological progress, and reveals his leanings toward poetry and philosophy. This edition contains a brief foreword and two essays on his ideas, plus b&w historical photos of Fuller and some of his inventions
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Spector Books 2020. 8vo in stiff wraps as issued. 192 pp. Text in English. With numerous black-white and colour illustrations. New copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition cycle Space is the Place curated by Lukas Feireiss at BNKR – Current reflections on art and architecture. Texts by Franz…
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Forlaget Tiderne Skifter, 1999. 144 pp. Hft. Pænt rent eksemplar Omslag af Kitte Fennestad.
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