Aalto
ISBN: 9783836560108 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern grace: Lyrical forms from Finland Alvar Aalto(1898 1976) made aunique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designedwarm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric designs that characterized much contemporary European practice.Whether a church, a villa, a sauna, or a public library, Aalto'sorganic structurestended to replace plaster and steel with brick and wood, often incoporatingundulating, wave-like forms, which would also appear in his chair, glassware, and lamp...
Modern grace: Lyrical forms from Finland Alvar Aalto(1898 1976) made aunique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political indepe...
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Mies van der Rohe
ISBN: 9783836560429 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Less is more: Finding perfection in purity Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe(1886 1969) was one of thefounding fathers of modern architectureand ahotly-debated tastemakerof twentieth century aesthetics and urban experience.Mies van der Rohe's philosophy was one ofunderlying truth in pure forms and proportions. With the help of contemporary technological and material developments, he sought a stripped-down purity to architecture, showcased by the likes of theSeagram BuildingandFarnsworth House. Some spoke out against this stark approach as the precursor to bland,...
Less is more: Finding perfection in purity Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe(1886 1969) was one of thefounding fathers of mod...
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77,43 zł |
Conflicted Identities: Housing and the Politics of Cultural Representation
ISBN: 9781138784819 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nation-states have long used representational architecture to create symbolic identities for public consumption both at home and abroad. Government buildings, major ensembles and urban plans have a visibility that lends them authority, while their repeated portrayals in the media cement their image as icons of a shared national character. Existing in tandem with this official self, however, is a second, often divergent identity, represented by the vast realm of domestic space defined largely by those who occupy it as well as those with a vested interest in its cultural meaning. Using both... Nation-states have long used representational architecture to create symbolic identities for public consumption both at home and abroad. Government... |
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The Arab City: Architecture and Representation
ISBN: 9781941332146 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moving beyond reductive notions of identity, myths of authenticity, fetishized traditionalism, or the constructed opposition of tradition and modernity, The Arab City: Architectural and Representation critically engages contemporary architectural and urban production in the Middle East. Taking the "Arab City" and "Islamic Architecture" as sites of investigation rather than given categories, this book reframes the region's buildings, cities, and landscapes and broadens its architectural and urban canons. Arab cities are multifaceted places and sites of layered historical imaginaries;...
Moving beyond reductive notions of identity, myths of authenticity, fetishized traditionalism, or the constructed opposition of tradition and modernit...
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170,69 zł |
Frei und Losgelöst / Free and Detached : Architekten der Meisterklasse / Architects of the Master Class Wilhelm Holzbauer
ISBN: 9783035603521 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wilhelm Holzbauer war von 1977- 1999 Leiter der Meisterklasse fur Architektur an der Universitat (damals Hochschule) fur angewandte Kunst Wien. Seine Lehrtatigkeit wurde von einer Reihe von Lehrbeauftragten und Hochschulassistenten unterstutzt. Mittlerweile konnen viele der damaligen Studenten/Studentinnen auf eine Vielzahl von Bauten verweisen. In der Publikation werden die Entwurfe der Studenten den Arbeiten der Architekten gegenuber gestellt. "Wilhelm Holzbauer war von 1977- 1999 Leiter der Meisterklasse fur Architektur an der Universitat (damals Hochschule) fur angewandte Kunst Wien. Sei... |
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174,14 zł |
Where Are the Women Architects?
ISBN: 9780691170138 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects remains stubbornly low, and the higher one looks in the profession, the scarcer women become. Law and medicine, two equally demanding and traditionally male professions, have been much more successful in retaining and integrating women. So why do women still struggle to keep a toehold in architecture? Where Are the Women Architects? tells the story of women's stagnating... For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture sc... |
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90,63 zł |
Obsolescence: An Architectural History
ISBN: 9780226313450 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In our architectural pursuits, we often seem to be in search of something newer, grander, or more efficient--and this phenomenon is not novel. In the spring of 1910 hundreds of workers labored day and night to demolish the Gillender Building in New York, once the loftiest office tower in the world, in order to make way for a taller skyscraper. The New York Times puzzled over those who would sacrifice the thirteen-year-old structure, "as ruthlessly as though it were some ancient shack." In New York alone, the Gillender joined the original Grand Central Terminal, the Plaza Hotel, the...
In our architectural pursuits, we often seem to be in search of something newer, grander, or more efficient--and this phenomenon is not novel. In the ...
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601,51 zł |
Case Study Houses
ISBN: 9783836535601 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modernism to the masses: Pioneering designs for affordable postwar homesThe Case Study House program (1945 1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, the program sought to respond to the postwar building boom with prototype modern homes that could be both easily replicated and readily affordable to the average American.Concentrated on the Los Angeles area, the Case Study Houses included 36 model homes commissioned from such major architects of the day as Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames,...
Modernism to the masses: Pioneering designs for affordable postwar homesThe Case Study House program (1945 1966) was a unique event in the history of ...
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77,43 zł |
Allan Kaprow: Yard
ISBN: 9783033021129 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hauser & Wirth opened its first US gallery with a presentation of Allan Kaprow's (1927-2006) seminal Environment Yard: a mountain of black rubber auto tires and tarpaper-wrapped forms through which visitors jumped and crawled, first made by the artist in 1961 and reinterpreted in other locations. This volume documents a reinvention of Yard by William Pope.L at the site of the work's original creation.
Hauser & Wirth opened its first US gallery with a presentation of Allan Kaprow's (1927-2006) seminal Environment Yard: a mountain of black rubb...
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115,95 zł |
The Planning and Building of the Hebrew University, 1919-1948: Facing the Temple Mount
ISBN: 9780739191613 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the construction of the first Hebrew University, which the author identifies as central to Zionist goals, and details the challenged faced by the well-known architects and planners related to power struggles, donors' wishes, and architectural concerns.
This book analyzes the construction of the first Hebrew University, which the author identifies as central to Zionist goals, and details the challenge...
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416,05 zł |
L'Isthme de Panama
ISBN: 9781523629664 / Francuski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CHAPITRE PREMIER. FORME GENERALE DE L'ISTHME DE PANAMA. Sa grande longueur.-Sur cette longueur, cinq localites ou l'on peut rechercher un passage: 1o isthme de Tehuantepec; 2o a l'est de la baie de Honduras; 3o lac de Nicaragua; 4o isthme de Panama proprement dit; minimum d'epaisseur de l'isthme a la baie de Mandinga; ligne de la Boca del Toro a l'embouchure du Chiriqui; 5o isthme de Darien.-Obstacle qu'oppose dans toute l'Amerique au passage d'un Ocean a l'autre la chaine des Andes; immense etendue de cette chaine.-L'isthme est montagneux; mais la chaine s'y abaisse precisement aux cinq...
CHAPITRE PREMIER. FORME GENERALE DE L'ISTHME DE PANAMA. Sa grande longueur.-Sur cette longueur, cinq localites ou l'on peut rechercher un passage: 1o ...
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The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History: Architecture's Archetypes
ISBN: 9781138898479 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even the most inventive and revolutionary architects of today owe debts to the past, often to the distant past when architecture really was being invented for the first time. Architects depend on their own imaginations for personal insights and originality but their ideas may be stimulated (consciously or subliminally) by particularly powerful buildings from history. The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History: Architecture's Archetypes identifies ten architectural archetypes that have been sources of inspiration for architects through the centuries. Each archetype is... Even the most inventive and revolutionary architects of today owe debts to the past, often to the distant past when architecture really was being i... |
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182,37 zł |
Small Dreams: 50 Palm Springs Trailer Homes
ISBN: 9780764352478 / Angielski / Twarda / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jeffrey Milstein is fascinated with how similar forms repeat themselves in distinctive ways. Here, he examines classic Palm Springs trailer park homes, each composed of the same basic units--the box-like "house," the flanking carport, and the patio shelter. Photographing each one from exactly the same viewpoint, he shows how the owners have personalized their dwellings in a delightful range of architectural styles from Chinese to early Egyptian to Desert Modern. Parked on small plots with their narrow ends facing the street, these tiny homes were made of surplus sheet metal using technology...
Jeffrey Milstein is fascinated with how similar forms repeat themselves in distinctive ways. Here, he examines classic Palm Springs trailer park homes...
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70,90 zł |
Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989
ISBN: 9781472469267 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Developing Expertise: Architecture and Real Estate in Metropolitan America
ISBN: 9780300209938 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Real estate developers are integral to understanding the split narratives of twentieth-century American urban history. Rather than divide the decline of downtowns and the rise of suburbs into separate tales, Sara Stevens uses the figure of the real estate developer to explore how cities found new urban and architectural forms through both suburbanization and urban renewal. Through nuanced discussions of Chicago, Kansas City, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Denver, Washington, D.C., and New York, Stevens explains how real estate developers, though often maligned, have shaped public policy through...
Real estate developers are integral to understanding the split narratives of twentieth-century American urban history. Rather than divide the decline ...
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Remembering Places: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781138242463 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert is one of the best-known critics and historians of architecture. One of very few writers to be awarded the RIBA s highest honour, the Royal Gold Medal in 2014, and author of countless books and essays, his influence over the past 60 years cannot be underestimated. In this autobiography he tells for the first time of how his life s experiences shaped his working life. He addresses the dualities between which he had to navigate: Jewish/Polish, Polish/British and later, Practice/Scholarship. He spent most of his working life between the USA and UK and... Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert is one of the best-known critics and historians of architecture. One of very few writers to be awarded the R... |
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Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home
ISBN: 9780300221763 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A riveting and superbly illustrated account of the enigmatic House Beautiful editor's profound influence on mid-century American taste
From 1941 to 1964, House Beautiful magazine's crusading editor-in-chief Elizabeth Gordon introduced and promoted her vision of "good design" and "better living" to an extensive middle-class American readership. Her innovative magazine-sponsored initiatives, including House Beautiful's Pace Setter House Program and the Climate Control Project, popularized a "livable" and decidedly American version of postwar modern... A riveting and superbly illustrated account of the enigmatic House Beautiful editor's profound influence on mid-century American taste <...
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293,37 zł |
Wright on Exhibit: Frank Lloyd Wright's Architectural Exhibitions
ISBN: 9780691167220 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first history of Frank Lloyd Wright's exhibitions of his own work--a practice central to his career More than one hundred exhibitions of Frank Lloyd Wright's work were mounted between 1894 and his death in 1959. Wright organized the majority of these exhibitions himself and viewed them as crucial to his self-presentation as his extensive writings. He used them to promote his designs, appeal to new viewers, and persuade his detractors. Wright on Exhibit presents the first history of this neglected aspect of the architect's influential career. Drawing... The first history of Frank Lloyd Wright's exhibitions of his own work--a practice central to his career More than one hundred exhibiti... |
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277,37 zł |
Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture: Typology of Other Architecture
ISBN: 9781138280359 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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192,51 zł |
Destination Architecture: The Essential Guide to 1000 Contemporary Buildings
ISBN: 9780714875354 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The definitive architecture travel guide that lets you visit 1,000 of today's most must-see contemporary buildings - whether at home or on the road Featuring 1,000 of today's most compelling buildings by the world's finest architects, Destination: Architecture is an unparalleled and comprehensive resource for anyone wanting to get more out of their travels. No journey, from a long weekend to a long-haul trip, would be complete without this expertly curated 'who's who' of the most exciting architecture in the world. Each building is illustrated with a single image and... The definitive architecture travel guide that lets you visit 1,000 of today's most must-see contemporary buildings - whether at home or on the r... |
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106,42 zł |