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Architecture and Revolution : Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780415139151 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the consequences of the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents a series of essays which offer views on some of the pressing questions that now face architects, planners and politicians alike in Central and Eastern Europe as they consider how best to formulate the new architecture for a new Europe. A fundamental part of the problem for Central and Eastern Europe as it struggles to adapt to the West has been the issue of the built environment. The buildings inherited from the communist era have brought with them a...
This study explores the consequences of the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents a series o...
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325,84 |
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The Experience of Modernism: Modern Architects and the Future City, 1928-53
ISBN: 9780419207405 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making extensive use of information gained from in-depth interviews with architects active in the period between 1930-1959, the author provides a sympathetic understanding of the modern movement's architectural role in reshaping the fabric and structure of British metropolitan cities in the post-war period and traces the links between the experience of British modernists and the wider international modern movement.
Making extensive use of information gained from in-depth interviews with architects active in the period between 1930-1959, the author provides a symp...
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390,02 |
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Architecture and the 'Special Relationship': The American Influence on Post-War British Architecture
ISBN: 9780419209102 / Angielski / Twarda / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With particular reference to the field of architecture, this text examines the economic and political consequences for Britain of the post-war Anglo-American 'special relationship', providing detailed studies of key buildings and urban planning initiatives, blended with a wider theoretical analysis of socio-economic and cultural developments. By looking at the effects on a highly developed Western country of a more powerful ally on which it was becoming increasingly dependent, the book critically revisits the usual themes of post-colonial studies, making this a thought-provoking and...
With particular reference to the field of architecture, this text examines the economic and political consequences for Britain of the post-war Anglo-A...
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765,33 |
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Responding to Chaos: Tradition, Technology, Society and Order in Japanese Design
ISBN: 9780419251101 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A celebration of a unique culture and its experience, this text offers an examination of Japanese design at the start of the new millennium. The country's economic boom of the 1980s produced a surge of interest in land and building, and consequently in design in all its forms. From restaurant interiors to products, from private housing to recreational spaces, design received an unprecedented degree of attention. However the bursting in the early 1990s of this so-called bubble economy has prompted a reexamination of design and its role in urban society. The new environment for design in Japan...
A celebration of a unique culture and its experience, this text offers an examination of Japanese design at the start of the new millennium. The count...
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518,45 |
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Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945-1990
ISBN: 9780750663748 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once again, new interpretations are presented of some of the most famous architecture of the period. Work by lesser-known architects, whose influence and role have been overlooked by conventional histories of the subject, is discussed. The case study structure allows each example to be discussed and used as a springboard to explore different theoretical approaches. Filled with beautiful photographs, plans and architect's drawings, this is a clear and accessible discussion on a period of architecture that engages many questions still under debate in architecture today.
Once again, new interpretations are presented of some of the most famous architecture of the period. Work by lesser-known architects, whose influence ...
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765,33 |
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Minimalist Architecture
ISBN: 9783764366421 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Begriff Minimalismus wurde zunachst in der Welt der Kunst gebraucht, um das Wirken von Donald Judd, Sol Le Witt und anderen zu charakterisieren. Bald zeigte sich auch in der Architektur die Fruchtbarkeit dieser kreativen Herangehensweise. Das Werk von bedeutenden zeitgenossischen Architekten ist ganz oder teilweise dieser Haltung verpflichtet. Die vorliegende Darstellung untersucht zunachst die historischen Wurzeln dieser Stromung: Loos, Wittgenstein, Mies und Asplund gehoren zu den massgebenden Vorlaufern. Im Hauptteil des Buches finden dann die aktuellen Protagonisten... Der Begriff Minimalismus wurde zunachst in der Welt der Kunst gebraucht, um das Wirken von Donald Judd, Sol Le Witt und anderen zu charakterisieren... |
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234,60 |
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Beyond Archigram: The Structure of Circulation
ISBN: 9780415394772 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beyond Archigram is the first study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on the magazine Archigram, the magazine published in London irregularly between 1961 and 1970 and the name of the group that created it. Archigram is among the most significant phenomena to emerge in post-war architectural culture. The wired environments first advertised on its pages formulated an architectural vocabulary of metamorphosis and obsolescence that cross-pollinated industrial and digital technology at the same time as complex systems were becoming commercially available. Through... Beyond Archigram is the first study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on the magazine Archigram, the magazine published in Londo... |
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291,27 |
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Relearning from Las Vegas
ISBN: 9780816650606 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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296,26 |
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Relearning from Las Vegas
ISBN: 9780816650613 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,65 |
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Looking for Mies
ISBN: 9788496954373 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,36 |
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Architecture of Modern China: A Historical Critique
ISBN: 9780415457811 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays on the architecture of modern China covers a period from 1729 to 2008, but focuses mainly on the 20th century. A distinctive feature of the book is a blending of 'critical' and 'historical' research, taking a long-range perspective transcending the current scene and the Maoist period.
This collection of essays on the architecture of modern China covers a period from 1729 to 2008, but focuses mainly on the 20th century. A distinctive...
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335,71 |
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From Bauhaus to Our House
ISBN: 9780312429140 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" (The Atlantic Monthly), examines the strange saga of American architecture in this sequel to The Painted Word, From Bauhaus to Our House.
Tom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" (The Atlantic Monthly), examines the strange saga of American architecture in this sequel to T...
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65,69 |
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Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780812241846 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Nowhere in the world is there a greater concentration of significant skyscrapers than in New York City. And though this iconographic American building style has roots in Chicago, New York is where it has grown into such a powerful reflection of American commerce and culture. In Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century, Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and the way wealth and power have... Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Nowhere in the world is there a greater concentration of significant skys... |
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197,51 |
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BIG. Yes is More. An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution
ISBN: 9783836520102 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Action-packed architecture : A manifesto of architecture as seen by the Copenhagen-based group BIG, told in comic book form Yes is More is the easily accessible but unremittingly radical manifesto of Copenhagen-based architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group, or BIG. Unlike a typical architectural monograph, this book uses the comic book format to express its radical agenda for contemporary architecture. It is also the first comprehensive documentation of BIG's trailblazing practice--where method, process, instruments and concepts are constantly questioned and redefined. Or, as the group...
Action-packed architecture : A manifesto of architecture as seen by the Copenhagen-based group BIG, told in comic book form Yes is More is the easily ...
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115,92 |
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Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tradition and Today
ISBN: 9780415778909 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this beautiful and perceptive book, Dana Buntrock examines, for the first time, how tradition is incorporated into contemporary Japanese architecture. Looking at the work of five architects - Fumihiko Maki, Terunobu Fujimori, Ryoji Suzuki, Kengo Kuma, and Jun Aoki - Buntrock reveals the aims influencing many wonderful works barely known in the West; the sensual side of Japanese architecture borne out of approaches often less concerned with professionalism than with people and place. The buildings described in this book illustrate an architecture that embraces uniqueness,... In this beautiful and perceptive book, Dana Buntrock examines, for the first time, how tradition is incorporated into contemporary Japanese archite... |
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864,09 |
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Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America
ISBN: 9780226846941 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten's stunning photographs. Survival City looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth... On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocal... |
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88,36 |
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Chilean Modern Architecture Since 1950
ISBN: 9781603441353 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chilean architecture - along with that of Sao Paolo and Mexico City - sets a benchmark for the intersection of modernism with vernacular influences in Latin America. Culture, landscape, and the geology of this earthquake-prone region have all served as important filters for the practice of post-1950s design in Chile. This volume introduces the modern architecture of Chile to readers in the United States. Looking primarily at domestic architecture as a lens for studying the larger movement, Fernando Perez Oyarzun considers the relationship between theory and practice in Chile. As he shows in...
Chilean architecture - along with that of Sao Paolo and Mexico City - sets a benchmark for the intersection of modernism with vernacular influences in...
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177,75 |
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Anna Maria Elementary: The Old Buildings Before 2006 - A Photo Book.
ISBN: 9781438267319 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2006 Anna Maria Elementary moved into the new building, and most old buildings were demolished. This book is a historic document, showing the buildings before 2006. All photos are panoramic, and each spreads over 3 double-pages.
In 2006 Anna Maria Elementary moved into the new building, and most old buildings were demolished. This book is a historic document, showing the build...
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121,52 |
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Immaterial World: Transparency in Architecture
ISBN: 9781580933148 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today the excitement in architecture derives from the tension between the need for privacy and the impulse toward community. This unique survey of buildings and interiors captures the multilayered experience that is engaged whenever we look out of or into a work of architecture.
"Immaterial World" examines the built environment as a reflection of the terrors and pleasures of exposure, information overload, and abundance of every sort. Twenty-five projects from around the world by such well-known architects as Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Morphosis, Christian de Portzamparc, Renzo Piano, and... Today the excitement in architecture derives from the tension between the need for privacy and the impulse toward community. This unique survey of bui...
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171,26 |
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Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation : The Reproduction of Post-Fordism in Late-Twentieth-Century Architecture
ISBN: 9780415578233 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. Consequently, it offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, ranging from the ubiquity of landmark buildings to the celebrity status of architects. It concerns the period spanning from 1966 to the first years of the current century ? a period which saw radical change in economy, politics, and culture and a period in which architecture radically transformed, substituting the alleged... Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to... |
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938,15 |