ilość książek w kategorii: 948
Constructions
ISBN: 9780262680967 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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249,14 zł |
Small Houses of the Forties: With Illustrations and Floor Plans
ISBN: 9780486455983 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed for the 1940s family with a "limited budget but unlimited good taste,"this fascinating volume presents56 floor plans and elevations of lovelysmall homes that originally cost less than $15,000 to build. Each home, bearing the honorable designation of House-of-the-Month by the era's Monthly Small House Club, Inc., was designed to give prospective homeowners an exceptionally well-planned house that was also a sound investment.
From Cape Cods to Colonials, "Small Houses of the Forties" offers an eden of illustrations of cozy, charming domiciles, complete with color combinations,... Designed for the 1940s family with a "limited budget but unlimited good taste,"this fascinating volume presents56 floor plans and elevations of lovely...
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63,28 zł |
Architecture after Modernism
ISBN: 9780500202944 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Its discussion of the reshaping of urban environment focuses on London's Dockland, the most ambitious and politically sensitive development in postwar Britain. It also considers the work of lesser-known designers and women architects as well as famous international stars.
Its discussion of the reshaping of urban environment focuses on London's Dockland, the most ambitious and politically sensitive development in postwar...
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70,93 zł |
The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony
ISBN: 9780820319285 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and inaccessible social club in America, a group whose members included Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, Goulds, and Morgans, this quiet refuge in the Golden Isles was the perfect winter getaway for the wealthy new industrial class of the snowbound North. In this delightful book, a companion volume to "The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America's Millionaires," June Hall McCash focuses on the social club's members and the "cottages"... During the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and ... |
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212,27 zł |
Architectural Theory: Volume II - An Anthology from 1871 to 2005
ISBN: 9781405102599 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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633,09 zł |
Wittgenstein's House: Language, Space, and Architecture
ISBN: 9780823228805 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relation to an experience that intervened between them: his design and construction of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house in Vienna. Arguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical position between Wittgenstein's early and late philosophy, but a conceptual position as well, the book demonstrates that Wittgenstein's practice of architecture constitutes a fundamental component in the development of his philosophy of language...
Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relati...
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378,65 zł |
The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture
ISBN: 9780252075612 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Re-examining some of the most important western architecture of the twentieth century
Re-examining some of the most important western architecture of the twentieth century
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165,98 zł |
The Country Seats of the United States
ISBN: 9780812241327 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Russell Birch (1755-1834) has long been recognized as the first artist to achieve true commercial success in depicting American scenes for the domestic market. In his early career in London, Birch was influenced by the landscape painters whose work arose in the rich artistic ferment he encountered there in the 1770s and 1780s. After immigrating to Philadelphia in 1794, Birch sought to make his living recording scenes of the young republic, the better to promote "taste" in architecture and landscape design. The illustrations in his copperplate books soon proved to be vehicles for... William Russell Birch (1755-1834) has long been recognized as the first artist to achieve true commercial success in depicting American scenes for ... |
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181,55 zł |
194X : Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front
ISBN: 9780816653652 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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321,59 zł |
194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front
ISBN: 9780816653669 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,69 zł |
James Stirling: Early Unpublished Writings on Architecture
ISBN: 9780415550581 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Stirling (1924-1992) was, arguably, the most influential and controversial post-war British architect. Stirling's reputation is based primarily on such seminal buildings as the Leicester University Engineering Building (1959-63, with James Gowan), at one end of his career, and the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (1977-83, with Michael Wilford) at the other. Although he denied both labels, his work is seen as central to New Brutalism and Post-Modernism and his buildings attracted commentary and theory from the leading architectural thinkers of the day (including Frampton, Tafuri,... James Stirling (1924-1992) was, arguably, the most influential and controversial post-war British architect. Stirling's reputation is based primari... |
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907,73 zł |
Architecture: Movements and Trends from the 19th Century to the Present
ISBN: 9788857204734 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The leading movements, major figures, works, and ideas that shaped the architecture of the twentieth century and the first decade of the new millennium, one of the richest and most complex periods in human history. This volume offers a 360-degree review of the architectural developments of the twentieth century, tracing the best-known groups and movements that played a significant role in the rise and evolution of modern trends in the discipline. A comprehensive study and research tool, this book is divided into chapters devoted to each individual movement, with a selection of critical essays...
The leading movements, major figures, works, and ideas that shaped the architecture of the twentieth century and the first decade of the new millenniu...
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168,90 zł |
Architecture as Revolution: Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico
ISBN: 9780292721951 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The period following the Mexican Revolution was characterized by unprecedented artistic experimentation. Seeking to express the revolution's heterogeneous social and political aims, which were in a continuous state of redefinition, architects, artists, writers, and intellectuals created distinctive, sometimes idiosyncratic theories and works. Luis E. Carranza examines the interdependence of modern architecture in Mexico and the pressing sociopolitical and ideological issues of this period, as well as the interchanges between post-revolutionary architects and the literary,... The period following the Mexican Revolution was characterized by unprecedented artistic experimentation. Seeking to express the revolution's hetero... |
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259,35 zł |
Third World Modernism : Architecture, Development and Identity
ISBN: 9780415564571 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This set of essays challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics look at modernism's part in the transnational development of building technologies and the construction of national and cultural identity.
This set of essays challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics loo...
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933,66 zł |
The Rationalist Reader: Architecture and Rationalism in Western Europe 1920-1940 / 1960-1990
ISBN: 9780415604352 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reader consolidates rationalism into an accessible primer, providing a survey of documents, invited contributions from leading theorists, and an engaging and accessible editorial.
This reader consolidates rationalism into an accessible primer, providing a survey of documents, invited contributions from leading theorists, and an ...
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933,66 zł |
Town House Architecture: 1640–1980
ISBN: 9780747808329 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The architectural history of Britain's towns is a rich tapestry of changing styles and materials that gives each place a unique character. From the classically inspired architecture of the Georgians, through the Victorian gothic revival, to the stark lines of the 1960s, British buildings have undergone many changes of style, and each of these is expertly introduced and explained in this highly illustrated account.
The architectural history of Britain's towns is a rich tapestry of changing styles and materials that gives each place a unique character. From the cl...
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49,09 zł |
Der Städtebau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen : Vermehrt um 'Großstadtgrün'
ISBN: 9783764366926 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diese Arbeit, erstmals 1889 publiziert, veranderte die Stadtplanung in vielerlei Hinsicht. Sie war nicht nur ein Manifest, sondern gleichzeitig seit Albertis Schrift -De re aedificatoria- das erste Buch, das die kunstlerischen Aspekte des Stadtebaus systematisch darstellte. "Diese Arbeit, erstmals 1889 publiziert, veranderte die Stadtplanung in vielerlei Hinsicht. Sie war nicht nur ein Manifest, sondern gleichzeitig sei... |
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128,16 zł |
The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415780803 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology collects, substaniates, and demonstrates the importance of the religious imagination within Western modern and contemporary architecture. The essays written expressly for the anthology take a critical look at the relationship between religion and architecture in the twentieth century, as well as giving a brief look at the pre-history of the modern movement and its relationship to religion and architecture. These are grounded by and help to explicate the reprinted essays that are culled from the last one hundred years. This is an important introduction to the... This anthology collects, substaniates, and demonstrates the importance of the religious imagination within Western modern and contemporary architec... |
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933,66 zł |
Latin American Modern Architectures : Ambiguous Territories
ISBN: 9780415893459 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title has 13 essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians which help the reader understand Latin America's rich and varied architecture. It also introduces readers to major projects that haven't been written about in English.
This title has 13 essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians which help the reader understand Latin America's rich and varied archi...
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907,73 zł |
A Joint Enterprise : Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay
ISBN: 9780816670369 / Angielski / Twarda / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It was the era of the Raj, and yet A Joint Enterprise reveals the unexpected role of native communities in the transformation of the urban fabric of British Bombay from 1854 to 1918. Preeti Chopra demonstrates how British Bombay was, surprisingly, a collaboration of the colonial government and the Indian and European mercantile and industrial elite who shaped the city to serve their combined interests.
Chopra shows how the European and Indian engineers, architects, and artists worked with each other to design a city--its infrastructure, architecture, public sculpture--that was... It was the era of the Raj, and yet A Joint Enterprise reveals the unexpected role of native communities in the transformation of the urban fabr...
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352,72 zł |