Framing a Life, Building a House
ISBN: 9781597130943 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it mean to build a house? How can it change a life? What happens if the builder is a woman, a teacher and a writer, a woman unaccustomed to tools? How does such a woman come to build at all? What happens, then, if that first house, whose every nail is known, is sold? How does one leave such a house, leave and go on to build another? This is a building story, but more it is a story of a woman builder and those without whom she could not have built. It is about how building changed not only that woman but also her sense of what a house is, how she came to know that building houses of...
What does it mean to build a house? How can it change a life? What happens if the builder is a woman, a teacher and a writer, a woman unaccustomed to ...
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88,69 zł |
Roman Republican Villas: Architecture, Context, and Ideology
ISBN: 9780472117703 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Roman villa is a classic icon of Western culture, and yet villa can be used to cover a multiplicity of ideas, experiences, and places. In the late Republic and early Imperial periods, villas are inseparable from elite lifestyles, providing a prestigious setting for leisurely and intellectual pursuits. But how did these advanced buildings come about? Roman Republican Villas examines key aspects of early villa culture and architecture, with the goal of understanding the development and deployment of villas in Republican Italy. For instance, where does the "classic" villa...
The Roman villa is a classic icon of Western culture, and yet villa can be used to cover a multiplicity of ideas, experiences, and places. In t...
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318,15 zł |
Roman Villas: A Study in Social Structure
ISBN: 9780415620116 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached, reveal various social patterns, which question traditional ideas about the Roman family and household. J. T. Smith argues that virtually all houses were occupied by groups of varying composition, challenging the received wisdom that they were single family houses whose size reflected only...
Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms...
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221,59 zł |
Renewed Life for Scottish Castles
ISBN: 9781902771861 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Castles, both ruined and occupied, are amongst the most deeply evocative buildings in the Scottish landscape. This book considers the history of the conservation and restoration of a number of those buildings against the background of what the idea of the castle has meant to Scots over the centuries.
Castles, both ruined and occupied, are amongst the most deeply evocative buildings in the Scottish landscape. This book considers the history of the c...
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100,75 zł |
Retreats to Retirement: Dream Homes to Reality
ISBN: 9780764323393 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A vacation home is a dream for many of us, responding to our need for recreation and respite, revitalization, and refuge. The ideal vacation home is one where we escape yearly, weekly, and, eventually, permanently. This book looks at planning a second home to eventually inhabit year-round; a home that will age nicely with you and your whole family's needs. Intelligently designed, the vacation home incorporates flexible, accessible, and user-friendly living space for everyone, well into the future. Over 500 beautiful photos will show you how others have adapted their vacation homes for...
A vacation home is a dream for many of us, responding to our need for recreation and respite, revitalization, and refuge. The ideal vacation home is o...
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186,33 zł |
Small Houses
ISBN: 9781600857652 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. So long McMansions and rambling square footage...small homes are in Easier to maintain and more affordable in hard economic times, small houses are gaining popularity in the housing market after nearly 60 years of trending up in size. Small Houses capitalizes on this shift with an all-new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine. The featured writers, well-respected authors in their fields, look at houses--ranging from less than 1,250 sq. ft. to upward of 2,250 sq. ft.--that are both new and remodeled, urban and rural,... So long McMansions and rambling square footage...small homes are in Easier to maintain and more affordable in hard economic times... |
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91,73 zł |
Jorg Friedrich Pfp Architekten: Works
ISBN: 9783868591408 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past 25 years, Jorg Friedrich and his prominent Hamburg architecture firm PFP Architekten have completed a wide range of public and private architectural projects such as theaters, schools and gymnasiums, all inspired by the ideals of classical modernism. This book provides an overview of the firm's philosophy and working processes, illustrated with many examples.
Over the past 25 years, Jorg Friedrich and his prominent Hamburg architecture firm PFP Architekten have completed a wide range of public and private a...
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214,11 zł |
The Buildings of Detroit: A History
ISBN: 9780814316658 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This magnificent book . . . ranges from the earliest beginnings in 1700 to the present. Hawkins Ferry, a distinguished first citizen, speaks both as lifelong resident and as architectural historian. The book is a well-written word picture of the city taken house by house and building by building. Much can be learned by both the layman and the historian from its descriptions and analyses. --Journal of the Society of Architectural HistoriansThe author s real distinction is his imagining . . . the parade of the city's architecture in every era. He knows, as do few other architectural historians,...
This magnificent book . . . ranges from the earliest beginnings in 1700 to the present. Hawkins Ferry, a distinguished first citizen, speaks both as l...
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519,65 zł |
Bruno Taut: Meister Des Farbigen Bauens In Berlin/Master Of Colourful Architecture In Berlin
ISBN: 9783037681336 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bruno Taut (1880 1938) is generally considered the leading housing estate architect of the modern era. Utilizing the latest architectural techniques and concentrating on the needs of the people who were to inhabit his buildings."
Bruno Taut (1880 1938) is generally considered the leading housing estate architect of the modern era. Utilizing the latest architectural techniques a...
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90,06 zł |
Living for the Elderly : A Design Manual
ISBN: 9783034601078 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Qualitatvolles Leben im Alter ist eines der groen Themen unserer Zeit. Anspruchsvolle Entwurfslosungen lassen die Grenzen zwischen Wohnen und Pflege zurucktreten zugunsten eines umfassenden Trends zu integrativen Wohnformen. Rund 15 Fachbeitrage und 40 internationale Beispiele beschreiben dies. Qualitatvolles Leben im Alter ist eines der groen Themen unserer Zeit. Anspruchsvolle Entwurfslosungen lassen die Grenzen zwischen Wohnen und Pfleg... |
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214,75 zł |
From the Land: Backen, Gillam, & Kroeger Architects
ISBN: 9780847840779 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elegant rusticity meets unpretentious luxury in the work of this award-winning architecture firm. Howard Backen, principal of the architecture firm Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, is at the center of a popular movement in home design that emphasizes elegant simplicity and embraces the rustic charm of natural materials. This volume, the first on his work and that of the firm, is an artful exploration of this aesthetic, featuring farmhouses in the Napa Valley, hilltop homes, seaside retreats, and lakeside hideaways. Throughout the work, a sense of intimacy, warmth, and informality pervades. Natural...
Elegant rusticity meets unpretentious luxury in the work of this award-winning architecture firm. Howard Backen, principal of the architecture firm Ba...
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344,66 zł |
The Work of Art
ISBN: 9781941806135 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before there was a house, there was a place. Raw, untouched swaths straddling a foundation tens of millions of years in the making. Beckoning with promise. Shaped by seasons. Witness to weather. Looming peaks and rolling valleys brimming with life-force. Amidst these fertile landscapes a seed was sown. Pieced together with a pioneering verve-one beam at a time, stone next to stone, one brick shouldered against the next-a roof and four walls emerged along with the architecture of the American West. From utilitarian function to structural works of art, these archetypal ingredients are essential...
Before there was a house, there was a place. Raw, untouched swaths straddling a foundation tens of millions of years in the making. Beckoning with pro...
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271,64 zł |
Holidays After the Fall: Seaside Architecture and Urbanism in Bulgaria and Croatia
ISBN: 9783868592269 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every summer season, the sun-drenched coasts of Bulgaria and Croatia turn into densely inhabited, intensively exploited tourist hotspots. Holidays after the Fall traces the various architectural and urban-planning strategies pursued in these countries since the mid-1950s. It portrays late-modern tourist architecture and resorts of a remarkable diversity, which have endured as playgrounds for both the Bulgarian and Croatian working classes and the international market. These surprisingly glamorous architectural and urban endeavors were often ahead of their time in scope, design and...
Every summer season, the sun-drenched coasts of Bulgaria and Croatia turn into densely inhabited, intensively exploited tourist hotspots. Holidays ...
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128,12 zł |
Great Houses of Summit Avenue and the Hill District
ISBN: 9780989262705 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This winner of 11 national publishing awards belongs on every coffee table Summit Avenue, grande dame of Victorian boulevards, is lined with magnificent turn-of-the-century mansions built by railroad magnates, lumber barons and captains of industry. Great Houses of Summit Avenue and the Hill District is a celebration of these homes on St. Paul's best-known and most beloved avenue. With a foreword by Garrison Keillor and fascinating stories penned by four award-winning writers, the book opens the doors to more than two dozen legendary homes situated on America's best-preserved avenue from the...
This winner of 11 national publishing awards belongs on every coffee table Summit Avenue, grande dame of Victorian boulevards, is lined with magnific...
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246,83 zł |
The Houses of Louis Kahn
ISBN: 9780300171181 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Louis Kahn (1901-1974), one of the most important architects of the postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works, including the Kimbell Art Museum, the Salk Institute, and the National Assembly Complex in Bangladesh. However, the importance of his houses has been largely overlooked. This beautiful book is the first to look at Kahn's nine major private houses. Beginning with his earliest encounters with Modernism in the late 1920s and continuing through his iconic work of the 1960s and 1970s, the authors trace the evolution of the architect's thinking, which began and... Louis Kahn (1901-1974), one of the most important architects of the postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works, including th... |
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304,90 zł |
Tiny Houses
ISBN: 9780847832033 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With -McMansions- increasingly giving way to -tiny- houses, the desire to downsize and be more ecologically and economically prudent is a concept many are beginning to embrace. Focusing on dwelling spaces all under 1,000 square feet, TINY HOUSES (Rizzoli, April 2009) by Mimi Zeiger aims to challenge readers to take a look at their own homes and consider how much space they actively use.
Ranging from tree houses to floating houses, TINY HOUSES features an international collection of over thirty modular and prefab homes, each one embodying -microgreen living-, defined as the... With -McMansions- increasingly giving way to -tiny- houses, the desire to downsize and be more ecologically and economically prudent is a concept many...
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79,28 zł |
Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-century Designers
ISBN: 9780847834181 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Among significant mid-century interiors, none are more celebrated yet underpublished as the homes created by architects and interior designers for themselves. This collection of newly commissioned photographs presents the most compelling homes by influential mid-century designers, such as Russel Wright, George Nakashima, Harry Bertoia, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eva Zeisel, among others. Intimate as well as revelatory, Williamson's photographs show these creative...
An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Among significant mid-...
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201,50 zł |
Danson House: The Anatomy of a Georgian Villa
ISBN: 9781873592755 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Danson House (176266) is one of the finest surviving villas by the architect Robert Taylor (171488). Restrained, compact and ingeniously planned, it was built for the City merchant John Boyd (17181800), who had made his fortune in the West Indies sugar trade. Boyd had a keen eye for the arts. He engaged William Chambers to design chimney pieces, picture frames and garden buildings, the French Provencal artist Charles Pavillon to paint a vibrant suite of allegorical panels for the dining room, and the landscape architect Nathaniel Richmond to remodel the grounds in the manner of Capability...
Danson House (176266) is one of the finest surviving villas by the architect Robert Taylor (171488). Restrained, compact and ingeniously planned, it w...
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143,17 zł |
Country Houses and the British Empire, 17001930
ISBN: 9781526106643 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Country houses and the British Empire, 1700-1930, assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the Empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Using sources from over fifty British and Irish archives, it enables readers to better understand the impact of the Empire upon the British metropolis by showing both the geographical variations and the different cultural manifestations of that impact. The first half of the book concentrates on economic issues, as it lists the more than a thousand houses that were purchased using imperial wealth and analyses the... Country houses and the British Empire, 1700-1930, assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the Empire between the eighte... |
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132,56 zł |
Self-Catering Accommodation in Mauritius
ISBN: 9781481952309 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Self-catering accommodation in Mauritius is a travel handbook when it comes to deciding where to stay and what self-catering accommodation to choose in Mauritius. It includes a wide selection of property websites grouped according to location and by category] with map and colour photographs, links to Mauritius country information, travel advice, flight information and tourist attractions.
Self-catering accommodation in Mauritius is a travel handbook when it comes to deciding where to stay and what self-catering accommodation to choose i...
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96,50 zł |