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Theatrum Pontificiale, oder Schau-Platz der Brucken und Brucken-Baues
Jacob Leupold
Leipzig: Christoph Zunkel, 1726.First edition, first printing, of the first book printed in Germany on bridges and bridge-building. From the encyclopedic series of works on mechanical technology and engineering, Theatrum Machinarum, by German physicist, mathematician, and engineer Jacob Leupold (1674-1727). [A clear instruction on how one can not only cross ditches, streams and rivers in various ways, but also save one’s life in times of water with certain machines and special clothing. Furthermore, according to all circumstances and coincidences, convenient and durable bridges, both wooden ones with yokes or stone posts, and without them with rigging and blasting works, as well as entirely of stone, according to art, to build advantageously and permanently. Then also how many examples of sailing, flying, storm-field and similar bridges can be given. All with many examples and the most distinguished makers in and outside Germany, but especially with a complete description of their pontoons, presented and explained in 60 copper plates.] The first 4 plates show a variety of methods for crossing bodies of water including an array of unusual diving and floating devices, the rest devoted to the architecture and engineering of bridges.
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Stranger in Paradise: An Expatriate’s Diary
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1980.An Expatriate’s Diary. Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. This work was his first in his Fotokopi series of architecture/artists books, being a collection of articles recording his observations of life, culture, and architecture in his new home as he attends innumerable religious ceremonies. A detailed record from an expatriate perspective of culture and religion in Bali in the late 1970s. This is the First Edition published in an edition of only 4 numbered and signed copies, with a lengthy inscription from the author on the publication information page together with a gratified passport portrait photograph of the author.
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Stranger in Paradise: The Photocopy
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1981.An Expatriate’s Diary. Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. This work was his first in his Fotokopi series of architecture/artists books, being a collection of articles recording his observations of life, culture, and architecture in his new home as he attends innumerable religious ceremonies. A detailed record from an expatriate perspective of culture and religion in Bali in the late 1970s. This copy with 3 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). Originally published in an edition of only 4 copies, this is the second edition with additional content published in an edition of 100 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the contents page. A trade edition was published in 1995.
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Variety & Design in Balinese Sculpture – a glimpse [Statues of Bali]
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, [1986].“Sculpture is the essence of Balinese Temple & Courtyard decoration: as guardian, shrine angel, diety effigy, bas relief or carved gate. The Balinese have been carving up walls, gates and shrines for at least 1000 years and in that time have digested quirks, twirls, borders, styles, movements and colouring techniques from various foreign cultures: Chinese, Javanese, Portuguese, Dutch, 20th Century Urban. The incredibly dynamic nature of Balinese Art is best expressed in carving and sculpture.” (from foreword) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. This work continues his Fotokopi series of architecture/artists books focusing on sculpture, from the mythological to the erotic. This copy with 4 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). Issued in a numbered and signed edition of 500 copies, this one of an unknown number of Special Gift Edition copies further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page.
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Balinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopaedia
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1988.This book grew out of a report by students of the University of Sydney during a holiday design programme in Bali to which Wijaya was the tutor. “Most of the photographers were taken over the six months April – October, 1984. The selection is comprehensive in that it covers the full spectrum of Balinese Architecture — mountain to coastal, north to south, palatial to makeshift..” (from preface) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. The New Compiled Edition, combining volumes 1 and 2. Photocopied pages (as issued) with 14 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). One of 50 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page, and with numerous manuscript corrections as well as additional information tabs further describing many of the illustrations
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Balinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopaedia Volume II
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1985.This book grew out of a report by students of the University of Sydney during a holiday design programme in Bali to which Wijaya was the tutor. “Most of the photographs were taken over the six months April – October, 1984. The selection is comprehensive in that it covers the full spectrum of Balinese Architecture — mountain to coastal, north to south, palatial to makeshift..” (from preface) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. Photocopied pages (as issued) with 14 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). One of 50 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page.
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Balinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopaedia Volume I
Made Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1984.This book grew out of a report by students of the University of Sydney during a holiday design programme in Bali to which Wijaya was the tutor. “Most of the photographs were taken over the six months April – October, 1984. The selection is comprehensive in that it covers the full spectrum of Balinese Architecture — mountain to coastal, north to south, palatial to makeshift.” (from preface) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. Photocopied pages (as issued), this copy with 3 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). One of 50 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page.
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Archi Brut
Peter Chadwick
London: Phaidon, 2017.French edition of This Brutal World, a global survey of Brutalist architecture.
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The Queensland House: A Roof Over Our Heads
Rod Fisher; Brian Crozier
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1994.A collection of eight essays on historical and practical aspects of the Queensland house.
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Modern Houses Melbourne
Norman Day
Melbourne: Brian Zouch Publications, 1976.Catalogue of the best built houses in Melbourne in the first half of the 1970s.
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Building and Ornamental Stones of Australia
R. T. Baker
Sydney: Technological Museum, 1915.Technical Education Series, No. 20. Technological Museum, Sydney.
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Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life
J. Prip-Moller
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1967.A labour of love originally published in 1937 by Danish architect Johannes Prip-Moller (1889-1943). Thoroughly researched and illustrated throughout with photographs, floor plans, and architectural illustrations, this tome is still regarded as the definitive work on the subject and provides invaluable insight into Chinese Buddhist monastic life.
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Architectural Details
Antonin Raymond; Noemi P. Raymond
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1947.The Second Edition of this classic of 20th century architecture by Czech-American architecture Antonin Raymond. Raymond commenced his career working with Frank Lloyd Wright and Cass Gilbert. In 19Wright sent him to work in Japan and there he went on to do his own work. This book presents architecture elements developed in Japan during the interwar years. This copy with the original comb binding covers slipped into a custom cloth binding for Michael Hugo-Brunt (1924-1988, an architecture professor at Cornell before moving to the School of Architecture of the University of Western Australia.
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[Architecture of the Kaluga Region: From Antiquity to the Present Day]
A. C. Dneprovskiy-Orbeliani
Kaluga: N. F. Bochkareva, 2006. -
Hohne & Rapp Architekten
Christian Rapp
Rotterdam: Uitgeverij 010 Publishers, 1997. -
Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality
Tim Edensor
Oxford and New York: Berg, 2005. -
The Bridge: From the Story Broadcast by Dr. J. J. C. Bradfield
J. J. C. Bradfield
Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., No date.John Job Crew Bradfield (1867-1943) was the Australian engineer who helped to conceive of, and then supervise, the design and construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He was involved in constructing other major Australian infrastructure projects including Sydney’s Underground Railway and Brisbane’s Story Bridge. This 1930s booklet, illustrated with numerous sepia-tone photographic illustrations and one full page colour illustration, The Great Bridge by Moonlight, by John Charles Allcot (1888-1973, tells Bradfield’s story of the creating the Bridge from figment to reality.
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Sinan: Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Golden Age
John Freely; Augusto Romano Burelli; Ara Guler
London: Thames & Hudson, 1992. -
Fretwork Pediments in Queensland
Richard Stringer
Brisbane: University Art Museum, University of Queensland, 1982.Catalogue for an exhibition of architectural photographs showing fretwork pediment designs adorning the front of Queensland homes by Richard Stringer. Short essay and biographies of notable fret-cutters by Dianne Byrne.
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The New Queensland House
Cameron Bruhn; Katelin Butler
Melbourne: Thames & Hudson, 2022.“Imagine being in a home designed for a sun-drenched lifestyle – a dwelling so attuned to its setting and occupants that it effortlessly adapts to the climate and allows outdoor living all year round. This richly illustrated book takes the reader on an immersive journey through Queensland’s most exciting, contemporary architect-designed houses. The New Queensland House presents 28 awe-inspiring homes from the past decade, describing the architectural atmosphere in the early 21st century and exemplifying the ideas, teaching and buildings that have shaped the state’s residential architecture. Visit glamorous hilltop villas that are a stage set for a splendid tropical lifestyle; go inside the most hospitable family homes in the relaxed garden suburbs; and revel in the perfect requirements for architectural escapism in pristine, remote locations. This illuminating book showcases Queensland’s adventurous and globally acclaimed residential architecture, exploring the integral part it plays in the rich cultural heritage and exciting future of the state. Not only does it present aspirational homes, it also offers replicable models for regionally and environmentally sensitive architecture across the world.” (publisher’s blurb)