In His Own Words: Stories From the Extraordinary Life of Robert E. Simon Jr.
ISBN: 9780997314113 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on two years of interviews, In His Own Words offers an intimate and entertaining portrait of the man many knew only from a distance. Highlighting his humor, adventurous spirit, and dogged determination, this compilation of life stories introduces Robert E. Simon Jr. to those who never met him and serves as a keepsake for those who want to hear his voice again. Drawing on two years of interviews, In His Own Words offers an intimate and entertaining portrait of the man many knew only from a distance. Highli... |
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142,74 zł |
Space Race Archaeologies: Photographs, Biographies and Design
ISBN: 9783869225371 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,92 zł |
Architecture and the Turkish City: An Urban History of Istanbul Since the Ottomans
ISBN: 9781784531058 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case in the modern Turkish Republic. By exploring Istanbul's modern architectural and urban history, Murat Gul highlights the dynamics of political and social change in Turkey from the late-Ottoman period until today. Looking beyond pure architectural styles or the physical manifestations of Istanbul's cultural landscape, he offers critical insight into how Turkish attempts to modernise have affected both the city and its population.
Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case in t...
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609,27 zł |
Woiksed: Virtual Planet
ISBN: 9781517307738 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Woiksed is a virtual planet created by the architect and urban planner Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta in 1980. It was the first virtual planet in history, anticipating Second Life and similar projects in more than twenty years. In Woiksed - Virtual Planet, Emanuel Pimenta tells how the birth of such project happened, his involvement with personalities like Rene Berger, the Lake Maggiore Prize in 1993, the influence, sometimes at distance, from personalities like Richard Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, Paolo Soleri, John Wheeler, Licklider or Morton Heilig among others. The book includes various...
Woiksed is a virtual planet created by the architect and urban planner Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta in 1980. It was the first virtual planet in histo...
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97,85 zł |
Woiksed: Planeta Virtual
ISBN: 9781517307561 / Portugalski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Woiksed e um planeta virtual criado pelo arquiteto e urbanista Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta em 1980. Foi o primeiro planeta virtual da historia, antecipando o Second Life e outros projetos semelhantes em mais de vinte anos. Em Woiksed - Planeta Virtual, Emanuel Pimenta conta como aconteceu o nascimento desse projeto, o envolvimento com personagens com Rene Berger, o premio Lago Maggiore em 1993, a sua influencia, por vezes mesmo a distancia, de personagens como Richard Buskminster Fuller, John Cage, Paolo Soleri, John Wheeler, Licklider ou Morton Heilig entre outros. O livro inclui varias...
Woiksed e um planeta virtual criado pelo arquiteto e urbanista Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta em 1980. Foi o primeiro planeta virtual da historia, ante...
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97,85 zł |
Los Angeles Union Station
ISBN: 9781606063248 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Union Station today is a celebrated architectural icon and vibrant centerpiece of Los Angeles's regional transportation network. Designed by John and Donald B. Parkinson, its mission revival architecture speaks to a mythic vision of Spanish heritage, but with streamline moderne and art deco details. At first glance this masterpiece, conceived as a magnificent gateway to the growing metropolis, offers no hint of the civic, financial, and legal battles surrounding its development, siting, style, and construction--battles that were waged across decades in the early twentieth century and that...
Union Station today is a celebrated architectural icon and vibrant centerpiece of Los Angeles's regional transportation network. Designed by John and ...
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117,53 zł |
Architectural Temperance: Spain and Rome, 1700-1759
ISBN: 9780415724395 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architectural Temperance examines relations between Bourbon Spain and papal Rome (1700-1759) through the lens of cultural politics. With a focus on key Spanish architects sent to study in Rome by the Bourbon Kings, the book also discusses the establishment of a program of architectural education at the newly founded Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Victor Deupi explores why a powerful nation like Spain would temper its own building traditions with the more cosmopolitan trends associated with Rome; often at the expense of its own national and regional traditions.... Architectural Temperance examines relations between Bourbon Spain and papal Rome (1700-1759) through the lens of cultural politics. With a focus on... |
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863,14 zł |
Designing the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948-1968
ISBN: 9780415823548 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Designing the British Post-War Home Fiona Fisher explores the development of modern domestic architecture in Britain through a detailed study of the work of the successful Surrey-based architectural practice of Kenneth Wood. Wood's firm is representative of a geographically distinct category of post-war architectural and design practice - that of the small private practice that flourished in Britain's expanding suburbs after the removal of wartime building restrictions. Such firms, which played an important role in the development of British domestic design, are currently... In Designing the British Post-War Home Fiona Fisher explores the development of modern domestic architecture in Britain through a detailed s... |
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710,82 zł |
Architecture and the Welfare State
ISBN: 9780415725392 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - housing, schools, new towns, cultural and leisure centres involved not just construction but a new approach to architectural design, in which the welfare objectives of these state-funded programmes were delineated and debated. The impact on architects and architectural design was profound and... In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for... |
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888,52 zł |
Architecture and the Virtual
ISBN: 9781783201945 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Architecture and the Virtual" is a study of architecture as it is reflected in the work of seven contemporary artists, working with the tools of our post-digital age. The book maps the convergence of virtual space and contemporary conceptual art and is an anthropological exploration of artists who deal with transformable space and work through analog means of image production. Marta Jecu builds her inquiry around interviews with artists and curators in order to explore how these works create the experience of the virtual in architecture. Performativity and neo-conceptualism play important...
"Architecture and the Virtual" is a study of architecture as it is reflected in the work of seven contemporary artists, working with the tools of our ...
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443,33 zł |
Saint John's Abbey Church: Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space
ISBN: 9780816676163 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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152,27 zł |
Andalusian Roots of the Cuban House: Syncretism of Islamic, Spanish and Cuban Architecture
ISBN: 9781494727215 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,73 zł |
Gardens of Eden: Long Island's Early Twentieth-Century Planned Communities
ISBN: 9780393733211 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. About the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities
About the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities
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277,86 zł |
The Films of Charles and Ray Eames: A Universal Sense of Expectation
ISBN: 9780415724401 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Films of Charles and Ray Eames traces the history of the Eameses' work, examining their evolution away from the design of mass-produced goods and toward projects created as educational experiences. Closely examining how the Eameses described their work reveals how the films and exhibitions they generated were completely at odds with the earlier objectives exemplified in their furniture designs. Shifting away from promoting the consumer-culture, they turned their attention to the presentation of complex sets of scientific, artistic, and philosophical ideas. During a... The Films of Charles and Ray Eames traces the history of the Eameses' work, examining their evolution away from the design of mass-produce... |
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863,14 zł |
The Urban Design of Intervention: Imposed and Adaptive Places in Asian Cities
ISBN: 9789881311429 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book presents an overview of Asian urbanism and outlines 20 case studies of Asian cities, revealing the diversity and evolution of cultural patterns, geographic spread, density and complexity of urban environment evolution. Featured cities are Bangkok, Beijing, Delhi, George Town, Goa, Hanoi, Jakarta, Kolkata, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Macau, Malacca, Manila, Mumbai, Phnom Penh, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo and Yangon.
The book presents an overview of Asian urbanism and outlines 20 case studies of Asian cities, revealing the diversity and evolution of cultural patter...
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257,67 zł |
Builders of the Vision: Software and the Imagination of Design
ISBN: 9780415744973 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Builders of the Vision traces the intellectual history and contemporary practices of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Numerical Control since the years following World War II until today. Drawing from primary archival and ethnographic sources, it identifies and documents the crucial ideas shaping digital design technologies since the first numerical control and CAD systems were developed under US Air Force research contracts at MIT between 1949 and 1970: the cybernetic theorization of design as a human-machine endeavor; the vision of computers as "perfect slaves" taking care... Builders of the Vision traces the intellectual history and contemporary practices of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Numerical Control sin... |
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888,52 zł |
Aldo Van Eyck
ISBN: 9780300153965 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive look at the life and work of one of the 20th century's most influential architects
Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999) was a Dutch architect, writer, and teacher who helped redefine Modern architecture in the second half of the 20th century. As an advocate for architecture's engagement with history, culture, climate, and the lived human experience of buildings and urban spaces, he created designs that privileged place and the daily rituals in the lives of its inhabitants over universal ideals. In this volume, enlivened by 300 illustrations from the Aldo van Eyck... A comprehensive look at the life and work of one of the 20th century's most influential architects
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267,23 zł |
Louis I. Kahn: Exposed Concrete and Hollow Stones, 1949-1959
ISBN: 9782940222766 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through sheer determination and courage, Kahn has researched the nature of concrete in the form of precast, cast in place or blocks. Each of his renowned works in exposed concrete, such as the Yale Art Gallery, the Richards Laboratories, the Bath House, the Salk Institute, the National Assembly, the Kimbell Museum, the Exeter Library and the Yale Center for British Art, is itself an important chapter in the history of architecture for the exploration into concrete's formal expression, beyond the lessons of Le Corbusier. Kahn's obsession with concrete's fabrication processes,... Through sheer determination and courage, Kahn has researched the nature of concrete in the form of precast, cast in place or blocks. Each of his re... |
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513,07 zł |
Outside in: The Architecture of Smith and Williams
ISBN: 9781606064511 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents works of two pioneering postwar architects. This volume features an array of images, and unveils authors architectural practice. It also includes ideas about the relationship of architecture and environment.
Presents works of two pioneering postwar architects. This volume features an array of images, and unveils authors architectural practice. It also incl...
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240,50 zł |
Il Campidoglio di Le Corbusier
ISBN: 9781505885859 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Il Campidoglio di Le Corbusier'e' un dialogo tra la citta' di Chandigarh e gli architetti. E' un'esatta narrazione della crescita di Chandigarh contemporaneamente alle esperienze di trasformazione e con il ritmo del tempo. Il libro e' una deliziosa sinfonia delle intime conversazioni dell'autore con visitatori che sono venuti a Chandigarh per cercare ispirazione ed introspezione oltre allo stomolo per esaltare il loro senso dell'apprezzamento estetico e di abilita' per la creazione artistica. Narrato in uno stile semplice, scattante e diretto, la tecnica adottata dall'autore e' ipnotica. Il...
'Il Campidoglio di Le Corbusier'e' un dialogo tra la citta' di Chandigarh e gli architetti. E' un'esatta narrazione della crescita di Chandigarh conte...
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90,18 zł |