Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Individual Architects & Firms - General

LP architektur has created a richly varied body of work in the ten years it has existed. The office s breakthrough came at the Winter Oympics in Turin with the emblematic Austria House. The Salzburg office s buildings have become beacons of regional identity that now reach beyond the borders of Salzburg. This selection of 23 buildings complements the works presented in the first monograph published in 2006.

Ibos-Vitart ist eines der erstaunlichsten Architekturburos in Frankreich und gleichzeitig eines der wenigen, das internationale Anhanger hat. Jean-Marc Ibos und Myrto Vitart starteten ihre Karriere, indem sie mit Jean Nouvel arbeiteten, bei dem sie verantwortlich fur einige seiner wichtigsten Projekte waren. Schon bald nach ihrer Zeit bei Nouvel, hat ihre erste grosse Arbeit der Aus- und Umbau des Museums der schonen Kunste in Lille Frankreichs renommierten Architekturpreis l Equerre d argent gewonnen. Ihr Design ist das Ergebnis einer bewussten Zuruckhaltung und kommt von ihrem...

Friedrich Weinbrenner was the first internationally important German architect of the nineteenth century. His planning for the city of Karlsruhe--and his design of every imaginable type of structure, including palaces, churches, synagogue, government buildings, city gates, shops, fountains, theaters, armories, cemetery buildings and farms--is a remarkable achievement. This collection includes treatment of Weinbrenner's contributions to agricultural architecture. Based on new rationalist models that were greatly influenced by the scientific movement in the mideighteenth century.

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Based on live studio debates between protagonists and critics, the books describe, explore and criticise these major projects.

This first book in the unprecedented series examines Cedric Price's groundbreaking Potteries Thinkbelt project from the 1960s, an innovative high-tech educational facility in the North Staffordshire Potteries. Highly illustrated and with contemporary criticism, this is a book not to be...

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Based on live studio debates between protagonists and critics, the books describe, explore and criticise these major projects.

This first book in the unprecedented series examines Cedric Price s groundbreaking Potteries Thinkbelt project from the 1960s, an innovative high-tech educational facility in the North Staffordshire Potteries. Highly illustrated and with contemporary criticism, this is a book not to be...

Spanning more than five thousand years and representing a significant array of world cultures, this extensively updated, beautifully reproduced volume showcases masterworks of ancient Mediterranean and American art; Asian, African, and European paintings, as well as Byzantine and Western Medieval Sculpture and the Decorative Arts are also characterized.

Von der ersten Begegnung mit Le Corbusier 1958 bis heute hat Heidi Weber sich fur die Verbreitung seines Werks unermudlich eingesetzt. Das Buch dokumentiert ihr 50jahriges Wirken und zeichnet nicht nur die Geschichte einer engagierten und weitsichtigen Frau, sondern auch eine faszinierende Synthese des bildenden Kunstlers LC in all seinen Facetten.