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Philadelphia Preserved: Catalog of the Historic American Buildings Survey
ISBN: 9780877222156 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, William Penn's town is the living history of 300 years of architecture told in outstanding examples of Colonial, Federal, Italianate, and other early styles, and in the twentieth-century innovations of LeCorbusier, Kahn, and Wright. This new paperback edition updates the "Historic American Buildings Survey" collection, with new information on buildings lost through fire or demolition, or altered to restore the original architecture. Organized by the traditional sections of the city, the entries include extensive physical descriptions of the structures, analyses of architecturally...
Today, William Penn's town is the living history of 300 years of architecture told in outstanding examples of Colonial, Federal, Italianate, and other...
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Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture
ISBN: 9780884022541 / Angielski / Twarda / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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173,96 |
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Remembrance and the Design of Place
ISBN: 9780890969229 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all retain memories of places. They help to identify who we are as individuals. At the same time, they tie us to networks of people, culture, and society. Even through time they reach into the past to people whose lives and experiences were as real as ours and into the future to those whose lives we can only imagine.
As a designer, Frances Downing has searched for ways to express or explain why images of place were meaningful to her design life. The reasons are interwoven and complex. Transcending personal experiences by using them to imagine other people and places, to discover... We all retain memories of places. They help to identify who we are as individuals. At the same time, they tie us to networks of people, culture, and s...
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Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799
ISBN: 9780892362813 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first English translation of Gilly's essays demonstrates his influence on Berlin architects, justifying his standing as the founder of the Berlin architectural tradition.
The first English translation of Gilly's essays demonstrates his influence on Berlin architects, justifying his standing as the founder of the Berlin ...
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Toward an Architecture
ISBN: 9780892368228 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.
Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and pro...
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Architectural Theory: Volume I - An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870
ISBN: 9781405102582 / Angielski / Miękka / 618 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870 is a landmark anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from its earliest days to the year 1870. The first truly comprehensive anthology that brings together the classic essays in the field, the volume chronicles the major developments and trends in architecture from Vitruvius to Gottfried Semper.
Architectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870 is a landmark anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from its earliest day...
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Architectural Theory: Volume II - An Anthology from 1871 to 2005
ISBN: 9781405102605 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second volume of the landmark Architectural Theory anthology surveys the development of architectural theory from the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 until the end of the twentieth century. The entire two volume anthology follows the full range of architectural literature from classical times to present transformations.
This second volume of the landmark Architectural Theory anthology surveys the development of architectural theory from the Franco-Prussian war ...
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A Handbook of Architectural Styles
ISBN: 9781410212009 / Angielski / Miękka / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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People, Power, Places: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, VIII
ISBN: 9781572330757 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From workers cottages in Milwaukee s Polish community to Alaskan homesteads during the Great Depression, from early American retail stores to nineteenth-century prisons, different types of buildings reflect the diverse responses of people to their architectural needs. Through inquiry into such topics, the contributors to this volume examine a variety of building forms as they assess the current state of vernacular architecture studies.
Because scholars in vernacular architecture have come to consider thematic questions rather than simply to look at types of structures, the essays chosen... From workers cottages in Milwaukee s Polish community to Alaskan homesteads during the Great Depression, from early American retail stores to nineteen...
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The Half-Timber House: Its Origin, Design, Modern Plan, and Construction
ISBN: 9781589639492 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,83 |
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The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities
ISBN: 9781844720118 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. In a series of linked essays Macarthur shows:
In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque when it was a risky term concerned w... |
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Architecture as a Synthesis of the Arts
ISBN: 9781855840577 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 8 lectures plus extracts and notes (CW 286)
This collection introduces Rudolf Steiner's vision of architecture as a culmination of the arts. Such architecture unites sculpture, painting, and engraving as well as drama, music and dance--a vital synthesis of all the arts working in cooperation through the common ideal of awakening us to our individuality and task in life. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Steiner's ideas did not remain abstract. Within his lifetime he was able to design and construct a number of buildings, including his architectural masterpiece, the... 8 lectures plus extracts and notes (CW 286)
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Landscape and History Since 1500
ISBN: 9781861891389 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Landscape and History explores a complex relationship over the past five centuries. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope, drawing on material from social, economic and cultural history as well as from geography, archaeology, cultural geography, planning and landscape history.
In recent years, as the author points out, there has been increasing interest in, and concern for, many aspects of landscape within British, European and wider contexts. This has included the study of the history, development and changes in our perception of landscape, as well as research... Landscape and History explores a complex relationship over the past five centuries. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope, d...
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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
ISBN: 9781885254009 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle -- "the culture...
Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influent...
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New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial
ISBN: 9781885254856 / Angielski / Twarda / 1376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York 1960 is a massive, in-depth study of the city during a period of unprecedented change. This volume--1,344 pages with more than 1,000 detailed illustrations, including new and period photographs--is part of an ongoing series on the history of New York's architecture and urbanism.
New York 1960 is a massive, in-depth study of the city during a period of unprecedented change. This volume--1,344 pages with more than 1,000 detailed...
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Berlin – Genova: Stadt – Straße – Haus /Citta – Strada – Casa /City – Street – House. Ein internationales Entwurfsexperiment An international Experiment in Design
ISBN: 9783936314397 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These 22 original house plans were drawn up under architect Klaus Theo Brenner's supervision with the -redensification- of historic urban space in mind. The young architects who worked on them addressed Berlin and Genoa as urban areas where new construction must take into account--and take inspiration from--the network of streets around it, the living city.
These 22 original house plans were drawn up under architect Klaus Theo Brenner's supervision with the -redensification- of historic urban space in min...
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Villen und Landhäuser /Villas and Countryhouses: Eine architektonische Erzählung in Entwürfen / An Architectural Story Told in Designs
ISBN: 9783936314700 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The iconic house, as children draw it, is freestanding. It has a peaked roof and one door. But as Ledoux, Le Corbusier, van der Rohe, Melkinov and Libera draw it, the peaks and doors and ideas multiply. These playful reimaginings, each stamped with the personality of architect, client and site, translate the universal concept of the single-family dwelling into new architecture--buildings with outstanding identification value. A document, an album and an inspiration, "Villas and Country Houses" raises the possibility that the application of creative, individualist design lies within reach for...
The iconic house, as children draw it, is freestanding. It has a peaked roof and one door. But as Ledoux, Le Corbusier, van der Rohe, Melkinov and Lib...
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Verb Conditioning
ISBN: 9788495951861 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fourth issue of Verb looks at two related processes: the conditioning of architectural environments and the conditioning of behaviors. On the one hand, studies of luminosity, sound, atmosphere and temperature expand the range of techniques available to the discipline, allowing the production of ever more extensive effects with increasingly minimal means. On the other, the rise of commerce, theming and the manufacturing of identity produce a different set of effects, directing users and their emotions for maximum financial success. What are the real potentials of conditioning? Do these new...
The fourth issue of Verb looks at two related processes: the conditioning of architectural environments and the conditioning of behaviors. On the one ...
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Verb Crisis: Verb #06
ISBN: 9788496540972 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Verb Crisis examines architectural solutions to the extraordinary conditions of an increasingly dense and interdependent world.It presents innovative projects and research through original photos, essays, and exclusive interviews with key figures from architecture and urban planning to environmental, economic, and global affairs. Confronted by shifting densities and uncharted urban transformations, Crisis tackles the conflict between the physical limits of architectural design and the demands on the practice for an updated social relevance. Featuring: FOA, Teddy Cruz, Shigeru Ban, Elemental,...
Verb Crisis examines architectural solutions to the extraordinary conditions of an increasingly dense and interdependent world.It presents innovative ...
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Landmarks of Russian Architect
ISBN: 9789056995379 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive guide to Russian architecture, this volume is designed for students and other readers wishing to gain an understanding of the subject. A comprehensive guide to Russian architecture, this volume is designed for students and other readers wishing to gain an understanding of the subje... |
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