ilość książek w kategorii: 793
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Douglas Garofalo
ISBN: 9780300120585 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Announcing A+D (Architecture and Design), a new series from the Art Institute of Chicago, which highlights the work of important architects and designers from around the world. Innovatively designed by the New York firm 2x4, the titles are either historical in nature or investigate current critical thinking and practice in architecture and design.
This handsome book presents the oeuvre of Douglas Garofalo, principal of Garofalo Architects, internationally renowned for its innovative residential, commercial, institutional, and public building projects. With an impressive list of... Announcing A+D (Architecture and Design), a new series from the Art Institute of Chicago, which highlights the work of important architects and...
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48,14 zł |
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The Architecture of John Simpson: The Timeless Language of Classicism
ISBN: 9780847848690 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The residential and institutional architecture and interior design by an eminent London-based classical architect. John Simpson is one of the world's leading practitioners of new classicism, a contemporary architecture movement that continues the practice of classical and traditional architecture and embraces the virtues of durability, functionality, and beauty. Simpson's design ethos revolves around the notion that architecture is a public art where each facade forms the character and shape of the public realm--the streets, the squares, and the major civic spaces that we use--and as such...
The residential and institutional architecture and interior design by an eminent London-based classical architect. John Simpson is one of the world's ...
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294,53 zł |
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The Legacy of Albert Kahn
ISBN: 9780814318898 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Legacy of Albert Kahn salutes the achievements of one of America's most distinguished architects. Originally the catalog for a major retrospective exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, this volume has become an invaluable handbook in tracing the creative genius of Albert Kahn. The Legacy of Albert Kahn salutes the achievements of one of America's most distinguished architects. Originally the catalog for a major retrospect... |
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180,48 zł |
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Living Space
ISBN: 9780875805863 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This sociological analysis of Wright's architecture examines the interaction between people and the spaces they create. Satler shows how Wright explored a new architectural dimension, the space in which we live. Focusing on the Larkin Building (1904) and Unity Temple (1907), works that Wright considered important but that have received little attention, Satler delineates the social nature of space. She provides an analytic framework through which to understand Wright's buildings and his writings, revealing how the history of such works and cultural landscapes offer a basis for making social,...
This sociological analysis of Wright's architecture examines the interaction between people and the spaces they create. Satler shows how Wright explor...
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127,13 zł |
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Km3-Excursions on Capacities
ISBN: 9788495951854 / Angielski / Twarda / 1408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 8 let projektů a výzkumů nejznámější světové architektonické kanceláře MVRDV obsahující i DVD.
Three-dimensionality can be seen as architecture's fundamental existence, the profession's acclaimed domain. In times of globalism and scale enlargement, an update of this definition seems needed: metres turn into kilometres, “M3” becomes “KM3”. KM3 is a story about a world that is getting dense. Very dense. It constructs its logical response: a city that is denser. A city that is continuously under construction, with space for limitless capacities, populations and... 8 let projektů a výzkumů nejznámější světové architektonické kanceláře MVRDV obsahující i DVD.
Three-dimensionality can be seen as ar... |
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339,36 zł |
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Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone
ISBN: 9780300119299 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engaging and beautifully illustrated book looks at the remarkable life and work of Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)--by turns businessman, soldier, playwright, and (despite lacking either training or qualifications) the architect of some of the most important country houses of his era. Architectural historian Vaughan Hart examines Vanbrugh's surviving, destroyed, and unrealized buildings--among them Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace--outlining the contemporary political and social events that influenced their design and showing how these strikingly original buildings can be interpreted...
This engaging and beautifully illustrated book looks at the remarkable life and work of Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)--by turns businessman, soldier, ...
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192,78 zł |
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Morphosis Buildings & Projects: 1999-2008
ISBN: 9780847830725 / Angielski / Twarda / 487 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the few truly visionary architects of large-scale commissions working today, Thom Mayne's influential firm Morphosis, founded in the early 1970s, has maintained an avant-garde presence among contemporary architecture firms, even as it has garnered high-profile, big-budget commissions from around the world. Since Rizzoli published Volume I of the Morphosis series in 1989, the Los Angeles-based firm has continued to push its intricate modernism into new territories. In the tradition of its four visually groundbreaking predecessors, this fifth volume packs 500 illustrations into a...
One of the few truly visionary architects of large-scale commissions working today, Thom Mayne's influential firm Morphosis, founded in the early 1970...
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240,98 zł |
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Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture
ISBN: 9780754663089 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856a 1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded romanticism. In this study, Lauren Weingarden reveals Sullivan's eloquent articulation of nineteenth-century romantic practices a literary, linguistic, aesthetic, spiritual, and nationalistic a and thus rescues Sullivan and his legacy from the narrow role imposed on him as a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. Using three interpretive models, discourse theory, poststructural semiotic...
For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856a 1924) and the majority of his th...
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712,22 zł |
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Architectus: Between Order and Opportunity
ISBN: 9780981462868 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This monograph on the Australian and New Zealand architects presents 25 buildings with photographs, plans, sections and some details.
This monograph on the Australian and New Zealand architects presents 25 buildings with photographs, plans, sections and some details.
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275,73 zł |
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Marion Manley: Miami's First Woman Architect
ISBN: 9780820334066 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marion Manley (1893-1984), Miami's first female architect, successfully maintained an independent architectural practice in South Florida over much of the twentieth century. In this first comprehensive, illustrated work on Manley, Catherine Lynn and Carie Penabad explore the relationship of Manley's work to her life and to the broader historical moment of which she was a part, including the overall development of the city of Miami. The book catalogs all of Manley's known work, includes images and plans where available, and provides detailed examinations of what the authors consider to be... Marion Manley (1893-1984), Miami's first female architect, successfully maintained an independent architectural practice in South Florida over much... |
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152,50 zł |
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Burkhard Pahl & Monika Weber-Pahl: Structure in Mind
ISBN: 9783868590166 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first comprehensive showcase of the Darmstadt-based practice of Pahl & Weber-Pahl presents projects from the past 20 years, from their multiple-award-winning railway station in Bochum and the footbridge at the IBA Emscher Park, to their internationally acclaimed interpretation of a ski jumping hill in Willingen, Germany.
This first comprehensive showcase of the Darmstadt-based practice of Pahl & Weber-Pahl presents projects from the past 20 years, from their multiple-a...
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187,96 zł |
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The Home Within Us: Romantic Houses, Evocative Rooms
ISBN: 9780847832897 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architect and designer Bobby McAlpine creates idyllic houses that wed historical precedent with gracious modern living. His distinguished firms, McAlpine Tankersley Architecture and McAlpine Booth & Ferrier Interiors, are renowned nationwide for their talent in designing residences that resonate with nostalgia, fantasy, and a sense of place. Their dwellings--from country and seaside retreats to homes in historic American neighborhoods--offer favorite period styles with a timeless quality. Presented are over twenty houses in a variety of settings that illustrate concepts running throughout... Architect and designer Bobby McAlpine creates idyllic houses that wed historical precedent with gracious modern living. His distinguished firms, Mc... |
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254,52 zł |
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Hart Wood: Architectural Regionalism in Hawaii
ISBN: 9780824832360 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lavishly illustrated book traces the life and work of Hart Wood (1880-1957), from his beginnings in architectural offices in Denver and San Francisco to his arrival in Hawaii in 1919 as a partner of C. W. Dickey and eventual solo career in the Islands. An outspoken leader in the development of a Hawaiian style of architecture, Wood incorporated local building traditions and materials in many of his projects and was the first in Hawaii to blend Eastern and Western architectural forms in a conscious manner. Enchanted by Hawaii's vivid beauty and its benevolent climate, exotic flora, and... This lavishly illustrated book traces the life and work of Hart Wood (1880-1957), from his beginnings in architectural offices in Denver and San Fr... |
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133,61 zł |
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Entasis 1995-2015
ISBN: 9783775740272 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This two-volume monograph presents structures by the small team of architects comprising the Danish firm Entasis (founded 1996). The firm has won international awards for their sustainable approach on projects such as the Carlsberg district in central Copenhagen. Photographs by Jens Lindhe capture the feel of the buildings.
This two-volume monograph presents structures by the small team of architects comprising the Danish firm Entasis (founded 1996). The firm has won inte...
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360,57 zł |
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Heidi Weber - 50 Years Ambassador for Le Corbusier 1958-2008
ISBN: 9783034602495 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 Frau, sondern auch eine faszinierende Synthese des bildenden Kunstlers LC in all seinen Facetten. "Von der ersten Begegnung mit Le Corbusier 1958 bis heute hat Heidi Weber sich fur die Verbreitung seines Werks unermudlich eingesetzt. Das Buch dok... |
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231,34 zł |
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Live and Work: Modern Homes and Offices: The Southern California Architecture of Shubin + Donaldson
ISBN: 9780979539558 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Live + Work' is a visually immersive monograph of the work of Shubin and Donaldson Architects, whose creative commercial spaces and high-end residential projects draw on the complex vernaculars of southern California's cultures and traditions. Organized around the organic process of practice, the complex genealogy of projects, and the flow of influence, this monograph examines the contemporary conditions by which we live and work, and how those terms are increasingly blended.
'Live + Work' is a visually immersive monograph of the work of Shubin and Donaldson Architects, whose creative commercial spaces and high-end resident...
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254,52 zł |
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Wingårdhs
ISBN: 9783868590357 / Angielski / Miękka / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Already regarded as the most successful Swedish architect of all time, Gert Wingardh is nevertheless not a -pure product- of Swedish architecture--the solutions he devises for his various projects are too multifarious and cosmopolitan. Eschewing both dogma and predefined individual style, with each new building Wingardh surprises his clients and admirers. This monograph reveals his blend of function, sustainability and aesthetics.
Already regarded as the most successful Swedish architect of all time, Gert Wingardh is nevertheless not a -pure product- of Swedish architecture--the...
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125,31 zł |
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Szyszkowitz + Kowalski: Architecture 1994-2010
ISBN: 9783868590333 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Graz-based architects Karla Kowalski and Michael Szyszkowitz, operating as Szyskowitz + Kowalski, have enjoyed worldwide recognition over the past two decades. This monograph looks at buildings and projects dating from 1994 to the present, and includes a wealth of images, short descriptions of works, a chapter on unrealized competition entries and an index of built projects.
The Graz-based architects Karla Kowalski and Michael Szyszkowitz, operating as Szyskowitz + Kowalski, have enjoyed worldwide recognition over the past...
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209,65 zł |
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CBA Christian Bauer: Jovis Portfolio
ISBN: 9783868590364 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Luxembourg ascends to the forefront of innovation in contemporary architecture, one firm stands out for its decisive impact on the city's horizon. Christian Bauer and Associes Architectes has furnished Luxembourg with museums, schools, banks and residential and commercial buildings. This volume is the first monographic publication to present the office's extensive and varied work.
As Luxembourg ascends to the forefront of innovation in contemporary architecture, one firm stands out for its decisive impact on the city's horizon. ...
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125,31 zł |
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Louis Kahn: On the Thoughtful Making of Spaces: The Dominican Motherhouse and a Modern Culture of Space
ISBN: 9783037782200 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It was not by chance that Louis Kahn's move into his profession's spotlight coincided with the crisis of modern architecture: representing, as his work increasingly did,
those aspects of space which modernism had so ambitiously removed from its program. Kahn's rethinking of modern architecture's paradigm of space belongs to his most important contributions to the metier. In tracing the genesis of the unbuilt project for the Dominican Motherhouse we are given a close-up view of Kahn at work on a few fundamental questions of architectural space: seeking the sources of its meaning in its... It was not by chance that Louis Kahn's move into his profession's spotlight coincided with the crisis of modern architecture: representing, as his wor...
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169,68 zł |