ilość książek w kategorii: 223
Towards a New Architecture
ISBN: 9780486250236 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887 1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond "style," to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established "emotional relationships by means of raw materials." For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887 1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted... |
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73,50 zł |
The Possibility of (An) Architecture: Collected Essays by Mark Goulthorpe, Decoi Architects
ISBN: 9780415774949 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural process. Essays and lectures from the last fifteen years discuss these changes in relation to dECOi Architects, created in 1991 as a forward-looking architectural practice. This excellent collection is relevant to architectural professionals, academics and students and also to practitioners in many related creative fields who are similarly engaged in trying to... Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book exp... |
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596,51 zł |
Glenn Murcutt: University of Washington Master Studios and Lectures
ISBN: 9780295989587 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal Glenn Murcutt is an internationally acclaimed Australian architect who for five years taught a series of master studios for graduate architecture students at the University of Washington. This book combines examples of the students' studio work with edited transcripts of Murcutt's public lectures and sessions with students, professionals, and Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa to produce a multifaceted portrait of Glenn Murcutt as a teacher. Essays set the studios in the context of an inquiry into the local... Winner of the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal Glenn Murcutt is an internationally acclaimed Australian architect who ... |
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124,44 zł |
Jóse Salinas & Knobsdesign: Disembodiment
ISBN: 9783939633976 / Angielski / Miękka / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the context of everyday urban existence, disembodiment is defined as the process by which we are robbed of a coherent experience of our own physicality in relation to its surroundings. The work of architect Jose Salinas, examined here, investigates the intimate connection between the body and built structures, deconstructing the energies that accumulate through the city's reconfiguration of ambient space.
In the context of everyday urban existence, disembodiment is defined as the process by which we are robbed of a coherent experience of our own physica...
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94,14 zł |
George Edmund Street
ISBN: 9781445582931 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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155,37 zł |
Agenda: Julien de Smedt Architects: Can We Sustain Our Ability to Crisis?
ISBN: 9788492861620 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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182,13 zł |
Schlepping Through Ambivalence: Essays on an American Architectural Condition
ISBN: 9780300175417 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chicago architect and iconoclast Stanley Tigerman has been called a "design maven who can spit venom like a snake." Though he is at times sharply critical, his ability to cut to the core of architectural discourse has opened this insular world to a broader audience. His words and theories are appealing for their candor and are backed by his long-standing architectural practice. Since 1964 Tigerman has made an indelible mark on his hometown and on cities across the globe, with projects ranging from the Five Polytechnic Institutes in Bangladesh to the Holocaust Memorial Foundation Museum in...
Chicago architect and iconoclast Stanley Tigerman has been called a "design maven who can spit venom like a snake." Though he is at times sharply crit...
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300,30 zł |
Olgiati | Lecture : A Lecture by Valerio Olgiati
ISBN: 9783034607834 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Text and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre. Text and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual im... |
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85,38 zł |
Lecture (French Ed.)
ISBN: 9783034607841 / Francuski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mit der Schule in Paspel, dem Gelben Haus in Flims und dem Atelier Bardill wurde Valerio Olgiati zum Star der jungeren Architektengeneration in der Schweiz, die Bauten sind auch international vielfach ausgezeichneten Die Publikation beschreibt anschaulich wie der Architekt Olgiati seine Projekte entwickelt, welche Parameter seinen Entwurfsprozess beeinflussen und aus welchen intellektuellen Kontext er wirkt. Sie bietet damit einen sehr personlichen Einblick in das Wirken des Graubundner Architekten, ebenso wie in sein architektonisches Selbstverstandnis. Mit der Schule in Paspel, dem Gelben Haus in Flims und dem Atelier Bardill wurde Valerio Olgiati zum Star der jungeren Architektengeneration in der... |
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85,38 zł |
Modernity Unbound: Architecture Words 7
ISBN: 9781902902890 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For almost 20 years, Detlef Mertins has been a critical voice in renewing our understanding of architectural modernity. In these essays he elaborates on key topics such as transparency, glass architecture, organicism, life and event, sameness and difference.
For almost 20 years, Detlef Mertins has been a critical voice in renewing our understanding of architectural modernity. In these essays he elaborates ...
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64,83 zł |
Architecture Inserted
ISBN: 9780393733518 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book features the advanced studios of Chris Perry, Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, and Liza Fior with Katherine Clarke assisted by Andrei Harwell. The research and projects grapple with the issues of how to insert new pieces of architecture both as infrastructural and individual cultural buildings, into sites where existing physical and social issues are at conflict. The design solutions in each case--Cern headquarters in Geneva, the Peripherique of Paris, and the London 2012 Olympic site--unify the urban design and piece together the sites as bits of urban acupuncture creating new amenities...
This book features the advanced studios of Chris Perry, Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, and Liza Fior with Katherine Clarke assisted by Andrei Harwell. The...
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151,78 zł |
Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt: Architectural Words 9
ISBN: 9781907896156 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first time a number of key essays by the New York-based architect and critic Mark Rakatansky is brought together in this instalment in the Architecture Words series published by the Architectural Association.
For the first time a number of key essays by the New York-based architect and critic Mark Rakatansky is brought together in this instalment in the Arc...
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86,51 zł |
On Architecture: Melvin Charney, a Critical Anthology Volume 11
ISBN: 9780773541825 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Melvin Charney (1935-2012) spent his career working on the border between art and architecture. His internationally celebrated art employed a variety of media including photography, montage, painting, sculpture, and temporary and permanent installations, relentlessly pursuing the meaning of architectural images in the age of mass communication. A long career as an educator was punctuated by several high-profile and contentious interventions into debates about architecture and urban life in Montreal. In spite of his renown, few realize that his legacy is also that of a prolific architectural...
Melvin Charney (1935-2012) spent his career working on the border between art and architecture. His internationally celebrated art employed a variety ...
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233,42 zł |
Ideas and Integrities
ISBN: 9783037781982 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In -Ideas and Integrities- Buckminster Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered - among them the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion world map, the Dymaxion 4-D house, the Dymaxion 4-D automobile, and the countless other structures and creations that have changed the face of America and the world. And he sets forth his amazing and challenging ideas for the world of the future - ideas that would revolutionize everything from university education to bathroom design, ideas that, above all, demonstrate how we can and must make far more imaginative and efficient use of the...
In -Ideas and Integrities- Buckminster Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered - among them the geodesic dome, the Dy...
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101,36 zł |
Social Transparency: Projects on Housing
ISBN: 9781941332191 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the past decade, the Los Angeles architect Michael Maltzan has designed multiunit housing in a city known for its proliferation of single-family residences. Working with the Skid Row Housing Trust, these projects advance new forms of supportive housing that address the services and infrastructures needed for their particular populations of inhabitants. For Maltzan, housing manifests an incredibly complex set of spatial problems--social, economic, political, typological, aesthetic, and urban--that recast architecture's role in framing the social relationships and individual challenges of...
For the past decade, the Los Angeles architect Michael Maltzan has designed multiunit housing in a city known for its proliferation of single-family r...
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103,69 zł |
Renewing Architectural Typologies: Mosque, House, Library: Makram El Kadi, Hernan Diaz Alonso, and Aoc
ISBN: 9780989331753 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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151,78 zł |
The Dissolution of Buildings
ISBN: 9781941332184 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can an architect pass through walls? Can the city permeate a house? In The Dissolution of Buildings, architect Angelo Bucci presents projects in his native Sao Paulo and abroad. Advocating an architecture that is "the opposite of global action," his work responds to the topography of the city and to its urban environment. In a lecture delivered at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Bucci discusses work designed with his firm SPBR, projects that span from the scale of the house to the city. His built work is here accompanied by an excerpt...
Can an architect pass through walls? Can the city permeate a house? In The Dissolution of Buildings, architect Angelo Bucci presents projects i...
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103,69 zł |
George Matei Cantacuzino: A Hybrid Modernist
ISBN: 9783803007674 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the twentieth century's least-known polymaths, George Matei Cantacuzino (1866-1960) was a vital protagonist in Romania's modern architectural history. This first monograph on a Romanian architect ever published by a major European publishing house examines Cantacuzino's momentous life and work.
One of the twentieth century's least-known polymaths, George Matei Cantacuzino (1866-1960) was a vital protagonist in Romania's modern architectural h...
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204,90 zł |
Essays on Thermodynamics: Architecture and Beauty
ISBN: 9781940291192 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essays on Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty, is a book that unfolds arguments and designs around the concept of "thermodynamic beauty." This new aesthetic category opens up new and unexpected directions to the architect's work, connecting architecture and thermodynamics without giving up the tectonic tradition. The compendium will be developed through the concepts of Somatisms, Monsters Assemblage, Verticalism and Thermodynamic Materialism, summarizing design strategies, and opening new territories at the scales of building, public space and landscape.
Essays on Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty, is a book that unfolds arguments and designs around the concept of "thermodynamic beauty." This new...
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173,24 zł |
101 Hotel Baths & Spas
ISBN: 9783037681800 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Due to the significant growth of the global holistic health movement during the past years, the wellness factor plays an increasingly crucial role in the hospitality industry. Today, high value is always attached to beautiful bathrooms and spa areas whether for newly constructed hotels, extensions or transformations. Oases of peace, relaxation and retreat from a hectic daily life are gaining in prominence globally. This volume illustrates the wide range of design possibilities with 101 projects by Corinna Kretschmar-Joehnk and Peter Joehnk. Their work comprises elegant bathroom sceneries,...
Due to the significant growth of the global holistic health movement during the past years, the wellness factor plays an increasingly crucial role in ...
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218,13 zł |