Cook Crompton Greene (21 results)

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 14pp; b&w illus. 4to. Illustrated French wraps. A few tiny spots of soiling to textblock top, else near fine. Reprint edition, following the first of 1972, of this heavily illustrated document of avant-garde British architectural collective Archigram, featuring images and descriptions of numerous hypothetical building projects animated by the group's visionary and frequently whimsical brand of neofuturism.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

hardcover. Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American. Very Good solid hard cover First American Printing in a Good dust jacket missing many small pieces from the edges. This copy was owned by architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson and is signed by him on the endpaper. I found one pencil mark in the text; there may be a few more. A paperclip was clipped to page 7 and 15 at some point and has left them and some surrounding pages dented. #.…

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 312 pages. 9.00x11.62x11.70 inches. In Stock.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Book is in excellent condition, with very light scuffing only to creaseless covers and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 167 pages in small format with a great many graphics: color and b&w photos, line drawings, architectural details. A revised survey of the influential 1960s British architectural group, presenting their visionary projects for walking cities, plug-in capsule towers, and instant cities, assembled by founding members Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton. Keywords: Peter Cook, Ron Herron, Walking City, Plug In City, Instant City, Experimental Architecture, 1960s Utopia, Warren Chalk, David Greene, Michael Webb, Capsule Architecture, Megastructure.…

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 144p Size: 27.9 x 21.7cm Number of books: 1 book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Large hardback in good condition with good dust jacket. Ex-library. Dust jacket protected in brodart mylar sleeve.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: n/a. Trade paperback. Front cover has a heavy vertical crease and a chipped, creased upper right corner. Spine is faded with multiple vertical creases. Rear cover shows edge wear and light scuffing. Binding remains secure. Internal pages are clean and unmarked, though the paper shows light toning consistent with age. No inscriptions or library markings.…

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 144p Size: 28.5 x 22cm Number of books: 1 book.

paperback. Condition: Good. Prima edizione. Busta cm 26,5 x 16 stampata in blu su carta gialla con illustrazioni nella parte interna. Contiene: 4 fogli stampati al recto e al verso cm 42 x 15; 14 foglietti stampati al recto e al verso cm 15 x 21; 1 foglio stampato al recto e al verso cm 30 x 21.  Il numero è interamente dedicato ai progetti presentati dal gruppo in occasione della XIV Triennale di Milano, svoltasi dal 30 maggio al 28 luglio del 1968.  La raccolta di fogli sciolti presenta disegni, fotomontaggi, scritti frammentari dedicati in particolare al grande numero, all'industrializzazione, Il gruppo fu fondato nel 1961 da un gruppo di archtetti londinesi (Chalk, Cook, Crompton, Greene, Herron e Webb), insoddisfatti dalla situazione dell'architettura modernista , un'architettura 'educata ma senza coraggio' e che aveva tradito gran parte delle filosofie del primo moderno.  Il gruppo fondò una rivista e il suffisso gram 'intendeva esprimere il desiferio collettivo di distinguersi dal mainstream. Book.…

Card Covers. First Edition, First Printing. No. 8, the "Popular Pak" issue (with "Milanogram" material for the Milan Triennale on the theme of population growth): yellow envelope folder with pocket, the cover image printed on the inside, containing eight folded pages (16.5" x 6"), seventeen double-sided sheets (8.25" x 6") and one larger sheet (11.75" x 8.25"). The sheets are unnumbered and unordered, with punch-card coding down their edges, and were inserted in the folder, which was taped shut and posted to readers. Priced at 5 shillings. No. 9, the "Seed Issue" (with a "Free Seed Offer" and the "Archi-zones" of communications and landscapes): eleven sheets (15.75" x 10"), stapled at the left edge and folded once to form twenty-two "pages", printed in one, two and three colours on papers of varying type, weight and colour. Complete with the packet of Night Scented Stock seeds stapled to page 11. Light rubbing, with occasional chipping and creasing to the edges of the envelope housing No. 8, else near fine. Rare in commerce. The magazine of Archigram, the avant-garde architectural group formed in London in 1960, whose name joins "architecture" and "telegram". Its members were Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herron, Dennis Crompton, Michael Webb and David Greene, with the designer Theo Crosby as the "hidden hand" behind the group. The Archigram Archival Project describes them as "amongst the most seminal, iconoclastic and influential architectural groups of the modern age". Their projects rethought the relationship between technology, society and architecture and anticipated the information revolution, and the magazine was conceived as a free-form vehicle for new work and ideas that challenged the modernist orthodoxy of the 1960s.…

Brossura. Condition: ottimo. prima edizione. Catalogue for an exhibition organised by Derek Paul, IDEA co-ordinator. Featuring concepts for experimental and avant-garde buildings from various artists. Featured in this exhibition were, Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, Michael Webb, Claude Parent, Paul Virilio, Yona Friedman, R. Buckminster Fuller, Hans Hollein, Frei Otto, Arata Izozaki, Noriaki Kurokawa, Cedric Price, Arthur Quarmby, Ionel Schein, Eckhard Schultz-Fielitz, Paul Soleri and Josef Weber. Text: Derek Paul, Weber Josef et al. cm 18,5x25; pp. 28; BW ills.; staple binding. A rare item in fine condition.…

First Edition. 28 x 21cm. Paperback, 144pp. Inscribed by Ron Herron on title page. "In this book the gradual dissolve of the work from alternative cities through strange beasts such as 'suits that are homes' to notions of a consumer durable called 'Dreams Come True' is traced. The group's major build project, the Monte Carlo Entertainment Center is also extensively featured". A profusely illustrated survey of the psychedelic-era British architectural group's work and artistic ideas. Minor rubbing to head and foot of spine, internally good condition.…