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Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture
ISBN: 9780195035483 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. A study of the architecture in these styles throughout Italy and Sicily between 1575 and 1750, including such major figures as Bernini, Borromini, and Pietro da Cortona.
A study of the architecture in these styles throughout Italy and Sicily between 1575 and 1750, including such major figures as Bernini, Borromini, and...
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212,76 zł |
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Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture
ISBN: 9780195078190 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The third volume in the University of California Humanities Research Institute Series, this book brings together prominent literary theorists and architects to offer a variety of perspectives on the relation between postmodernism and architecture. The contributors include such luminaries from the forefront of literary studies as J. Hillis Miller, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Francois Lyotard; the architects Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, and Robert Stern offer their perspectives on the critical role of architecture and contemporary culture. The high caliber of the discourse and the...
The third volume in the University of California Humanities Research Institute Series, this book brings together prominent literary theorists...
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866,34 zł |
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Traditions in Architecture: Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania
ISBN: 9780195088915 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Traditions in Architecture: Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania is the first wide-ranging, one-volume study to examine the architectural achievements of diverse cultures outside the Euroamerican tradition. In contrast with traditional chronological surveys of architectural history, this volume is arranged thematically to show the basic commonalties of all human communities. In order to provide a basic understanding of the cultural heritage defining these diverse groups, both vernacular and monumental works are discussed. The book is divided into five major sections, each of which...
Traditions in Architecture: Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania is the first wide-ranging, one-volume study to examine the architectural achie...
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749,69 zł |
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The Look of Architecture
ISBN: 9780195156331 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in The Look of Architecture, he makes a compelling case for the importance of style to the mother of the arts.
This is a book brimming with sharp observations--that form does not follow function; that the best architecture is not timeless but precisely of its time; that details do not merely complement the architecture--details are the architecture. But the heart of... What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low reg...
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90,21 zł |
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The Anatomy of Architecture : Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression
ISBN: 9780226058610 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Blier illuminates the extraordinary architecture of the Batammaliba people of Western Africa, revealing these buildings as texts through which we can read the beliefs, psychology, traditions, and social concerns of their inhabitants. In doing so, she explores the role of vernacular architecture as an expression of culture.
"A splendid analysis of the centrality of architecture in the daily lives of the Batammaliba and its integral role in articulating social values....The story is beautifully told in the best of anthropological traditions." Judith R. Blau, "Contemporary Society" "A... Blier illuminates the extraordinary architecture of the Batammaliba people of Western Africa, revealing these buildings as texts through which we can ...
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125,63 zł |
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The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
ISBN: 9780226080499 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. "There may not be any book on architecture so delightful to dip into; one wishes there were a pocket edition to take on an Italian vacation-not only for its information and vision but for such pleasant reminders as that the citizens of Treviso carried Tullio Lombardo's friezes through the town in triumph before they were attached to a building."-D. J. R. Bruckner, "New York Times Book Review"
"There may not be any book on architecture so delightful to dip into; one wishes there were a pocket edition to take on an Italian vacation-not only f...
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521,37 zł |
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Chicago's Famous Buildings
ISBN: 9780226740645 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The latest edition of theoriginal and best guide to Chicago architecture for tourists and residents.One of the premier architectural cities of the United States if not the world Chicago boasts a breathtaking skyline, dozens of architectural monuments, and a historic legacy few other cities can equal. And it's still growing Since its first appearance in 1965, "Chicago's Famous Buildings" has been the standard and bestselling guide to the city's architectural riches. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this fifth edition will remain the leading pocket guide to some of the world's greatest...
The latest edition of theoriginal and best guide to Chicago architecture for tourists and residents.One of the premier architectural cities of the Uni...
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191,59 zł |
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Morningside Heights : A History of Its Architecture and Development
ISBN: 9780231078511 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Morningside Heights, the institutional heart of New York City, is also one of the city's most architecturally distinguished neighborhoods. The high plateau that forms Morningside Heights is geographically isolated within the city and remained largely undeveloped even as neighboring Harlem and the Upper West Side became prestigious residential communities. At the end of the nineteenth century, institutions relocated to the plateau where sizable plots were available at a convenient distance from the built-up city. In 1887 Episcopal Bishop Henry Potter announced plans for the construction of a...
Morningside Heights, the institutional heart of New York City, is also one of the city's most architecturally distinguished neighborhoods. The high pl...
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284,45 zł |
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Islamic Architecture : Form, Function, and Meaning
ISBN: 9780231101325 / Angielski / Twarda / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This beautifully conceived and produced survey of Islamic architecture explores the glorious world of the caravansarai, mausoleum, palace, and mosque. Focusing on the multifaceted relation of architecture to society, Robert Hillenbrand covers public architecture in the Middle East and North Africa from the medieval period to 1700. Extensive photographs and ground plans-- among which are hundreds of newly executed three-dimensional drawings that provide an accurate and vivid depiction of the structure--are presented with an emphasis on the way the specific details of the building fulfilled...
This beautifully conceived and produced survey of Islamic architecture explores the glorious world of the caravansarai, mausoleum, palace, and mosque....
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548,25 zł |
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Islamic Architecture : Form, Function, and Meaning
ISBN: 9780231101332 / Angielski / Miękka / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This beautifully conceived and produced survey of Islamic architecture explores the glorious world of the caravansarai, mausoleum, palace, and mosque. Focusing on the multifaceted relation of architecture to society, Robert Hillenbrand covers public architecture in the Middle East and North Africa from the medieval period to 1700. Extensive photographs and ground plans-- among which are hundreds of newly executed three-dimensional drawings that provide an accurate and vivid depiction of the structure--are presented with an emphasis on the way the specific details of the building fulfilled...
This beautifully conceived and produced survey of Islamic architecture explores the glorious world of the caravansarai, mausoleum, palace, and mosque....
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422,99 zł |
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Earth Moves : The Furnishing of Territories
ISBN: 9780262531306 / Angielski / Miękka / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Earth Moves, Bernard Cache's first major work, conceptualizes a series of architectural images as vehicles for two important developments. First, he offers a new understanding of the architectural image itself. Following Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson, he develops an account of the image that is nonrepresentational and constructive--images as constituents of a primary, image world, of which subjectivity itself is a special kind of image. Second, Cache redefines architecture beyond building proper to include cinematic, pictoral, and other framings.Complementary to this classification,... Earth Moves, Bernard Cache's first major work, conceptualizes a series of architectural images as vehicles for two important developments. First, h... |
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110,97 zł |
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Architecture Theory since 1968
ISBN: 9780262581882 / Angielski / Miękka / 824 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be understood to rise spontaneously, as a matter of social course, but must now be constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. The development of interpretive modes of various stripes -- post-structuralist, Marxian, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, as well as others dissenting or eccentric -- has given scholars a range of tools for rethinking architecture in relation to other fields and for reasserting architectures... In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be ... |
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226,49 zł |
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The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays
ISBN: 9780262680370 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the architecture of utopia. This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism an... |
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188,09 zł |
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Constructions
ISBN: 9780262680967 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. foreword by Paul Virilio In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes off from the philosophy of the late Gilles Deleuze. Starting from notions of folding, lightness, ground, abstraction, and future cities, he embarks on a conceptual voyage whose aim is to help "construct" a new space of connections, to "build" a new idiom, perhaps even to suggest a new architecture. Along the way, he addresses questions of the new abstraction, operative form, other geometries, new technologies, global cities, ideas of the virtual... foreword by Paul Virilio In this series of overlapping essays on architecture and art, John Rajchman attempts to do theory in a new way that takes ... |
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175,62 zł |
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Artificial Love : A Story of Machines and Architecture
ISBN: 9780262692854 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture-every bit as much as buildings are. In his writings, Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the world around him. Artificial Love weaves together three stories about architecture into one. The first, about machines as architecture, leads to speculations about technology and the human condition and to the... According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architect... |
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100,80 zł |
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Learning From Las Vegas : The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
ISBN: 9780262720069 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments. This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the... Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes ... |
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119,61 zł |
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Architecture and Power in Africa
ISBN: 9780275976798 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Two of the most ambitious religious edifices of the 20th century are the Our Lady of Peace Basilica in the West African country of the Ivory Coast and the Hassan II Mosque in Morocco. Nnamdi Elleh not only provides a substantial architectural and pictorial analysis of the buildings themselves. Using these two buildings as case studies, he also investigates questions of national memory, urban form, architectural styles, concepts of democracy, social hierarchies as well as the elites who make the decisions to build Africa's post-independence monuments and capital cities. His book is an... Two of the most ambitious religious edifices of the 20th century are the Our Lady of Peace Basilica in the West African country of the Ivory Coast ... |
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362,03 zł |
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Texas Log Buildings : A Folk Architecture
ISBN: 9780292780514 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log buildings among several different Texas cultural groups and traces their construction techniques from their European and eastern American origins. Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log h... |
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201,04 zł |
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A History of Russian Architecture
ISBN: 9780295983936 / Angielski / Miękka / 744 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Since its initial publication in 1993, A History of Russian Architecture has remained the most comprehensive study of the topic in English, a volume that defines the main components and sources for Russia's architectural traditions in their historical context, from the early medieval period to the present. This edition includes 80 new full-page color separations, many of which are published here for the first time, as well as a new Prologue and elegant photographic essay drawn from the author's research and fieldwork over the past decade in remote areas of the Russian north and... Since its initial publication in 1993, A History of Russian Architecture has remained the most comprehensive study of the topic in English, ... |
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223,62 zł |
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Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780300060133 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. French architecture of the 18th century - which exhibited great technical ability and refined taste - influenced architectural style throughout Europe. This book is a survey of the French architecture of the period. It begins with the origins of the style moderne under the last years of Louis XIV, discusses the end of Rococo and the return to antiquity, and concludes with the Revolutionary architecture and the house of Madame Recamier.
French architecture of the 18th century - which exhibited great technical ability and refined taste - influenced architectural style throughout Europe...
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465,19 zł |