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SKU 9780714870601
Title Nanotecture
Author Description Rebecca Roke
Uri store/architecture/nanotecture-tiny-built-things-9780714870601/
Web Author Description Rebecca Roke has contributed to more than 350 published works about architecture and design, drawing on her architectural background and extensive experience writing, editing, researching and teaching. She has written widely about the work of leading practitioners, such as Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Thomas Heatherwick, Rem Koolhaas and Hella Jongerius. Rebecca was editor of Monument magazine in Australia and for Foster + Partners in London, and was the London Correspondent for Inside Interior Review. Roke is based in London and Nanotecture is her first book.
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The most wide-ranging, comprehensive and inclusive book on small-scale architecture ever published

An inspiring, surprising and fun collection of 300 works of small-scale architecture including demountable, portable, transportable and inflatable structures as well as pavilions, installations, sheds, cabins, pods, capsules and tree houses.

Binding Hardback
Size Size: 184 x 124 mm (7 1/4 x 4 7/8 in)
Pages Pages: 336
Illustrations 300

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