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The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship
ISBN: 9780060988661 / Angielski / Miękka / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy--from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also gave rise to one of the most fascinating and provocative experiments in American cultural history: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary architectural colony where Wright trained hundreds of devoted apprentices and where all of his late masterpieces--Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, the... Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy--from his radical design i... |
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98,25 zł |
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Joseph Dirand: Interior
ISBN: 9780847849376 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first monograph on one of today s most celebrated architects, renowned for designing interiors that combine minimalism with Hollywood glamour and classic French style. When describing a space that intertwines both minimalism and elegance, the name Joseph Dirand immediately comes to mind. The son of Jacques Dirand, one of the most renowned interior photographers of his time, Joseph Dirand is now one of the most sought-after architects. By incorporating a quintessentially French style into otherwise minimalist interiors, Dirand creates instantly recognizable spaces, known for their strong...
The first monograph on one of today s most celebrated architects, renowned for designing interiors that combine minimalism with Hollywood glamour and ...
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297,99 zł |
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Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas: Parque del Este, 1956 - 1961
ISBN: 9780812238044 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For most landscape architects, and designers in general, the name Roberto Burle Marx immediately brings to mind his painterly vision of the landscape as well as his inspired use of the flora of his native Brazil. However, his work has consistently been presented in the design literature as if it existed in a vacuum, disengaged from the historical circumstances that provide both shape and meaning to public landscapes. In Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas: Parque del Este, 1956-1961, Anita Berrizbeitia goes beyond the common formal analysis of his designs to explore the multiple... For most landscape architects, and designers in general, the name Roberto Burle Marx immediately brings to mind his painterly vision of the landsca... |
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231,62 zł |
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The Mythic Modern: Architectural Expeditions Into the Spirit of Place
ISBN: 9780982622681 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architectural Expeditions into the Spirit of Place. .
Architectural Expeditions into the Spirit of Place. .
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277,78 zł |
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Le Corbusier: Beton Brut and Ineffable Space (1940 – 1965): Surface Materials and Psychophysiology of Vision
ISBN: 9780415681711 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking new perspective on Le Corbusier is based on exhaustive archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown documents. It is innovative in showing the role of materials and construction techniques in the architecture of Le Corbusier and the book also delves into the project management and the construction of several buildings in the period 1940 - 1965. Each worksite, from the Unite d'Habitation (Housing Unit) in Marseille to the city of Chandigarh, and the Tokyo museum, the Carpenter Center in Cambridge and the Unite d'Habitation in Berlin, is analyzed in... This groundbreaking new perspective on Le Corbusier is based on exhaustive archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown docum... |
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736,85 zł |
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Sculpting Spaces in the Tropics: Aamer Architects
ISBN: 9781935935117 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of houses that represents the journey of an architect in discovering his artistic soul in designing houses in the tropics. Houses that sit well on the site and integrate the outdoors, allowing natural flow of air and energy with spaces that are physically comfortable and forms that are inspiring. Aamer re-invents the tropical house with contemporary forms that are unique and relevant to today's lifestyle expectations. Tropical elements of light and shade, openness to the landscape are revisited with interesting new forms. Merging the tropical language with...
This book is a collection of houses that represents the journey of an architect in discovering his artistic soul in designing houses in the tropics. H...
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213,68 zł |
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Fuksas: Building
ISBN: 9788492861781 / Angielski / Twarda / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New and expanded edition on Massimiliano Fuksas's work
New and expanded edition on Massimiliano Fuksas's work
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256,20 zł |
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Collector: Secessionist Prints from the Turn of the Century
ISBN: 9780292737211 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These Secessionist art prints, acquired by Frank Lloyd Wright and his lover Mamah Borthwick Cheney during their infamous flight to Europe in 1909-1910, reveal a new dimension of the architect's taste and aesthetic preferences. This previously unknown and newly discovered group of prints from his personal art collection shows that around the turn of the twentieth century Wright had a surprising interest in European artists pursuing their own versions of modernism. Identified from careful archival research, the prints demonstrate how richly diffuse and multifaceted modernism was before the... These Secessionist art prints, acquired by Frank Lloyd Wright and his lover Mamah Borthwick Cheney during their infamous flight to Europe in 1909-1... |
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185,29 zł |
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Enabling: The Work of Minimaforms
ISBN: 9781902902869 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Minimaforms, founded in 2002 by Stephen Theodore Spyropoulos, is an experimental architecture and design practice. Using design as a mode of enquiry, the studio explores active forms of systematic play, enabling the everyday to shape and stimulate social and material interaction.The book features recent work developed in collaboration with Krzysztof Wodiczko (a vehicle for veterans), a pavilion produced with the performance of Stelarc, a video piece with Warp recording artist Mira Calix and Minimaforms' critically acclaimed light installation in Trafalgar Square, Memory Cloud. Accompanying...
Minimaforms, founded in 2002 by Stephen Theodore Spyropoulos, is an experimental architecture and design practice. Using design as a mode of enquiry, ...
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128,00 zł |
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Glorious Visions: John Soane's Spectacular Theater
ISBN: 9780415781572 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The book maps the influences, references, connections, extensions, and productions at play in Soane's house-museum. The house, still a public museum, was highly original in its period, and it continues to influence and impress architects and historians alike. Today's visitor is confronted by a... Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book i... |
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926,48 zł |
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Stirling and Gowan: Architecture from Austerity to Affluence
ISBN: 9780300177282 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Stirling (1924-1992) is acclaimed as the most influential and controversial modern British architect. His partnership with James Gowan (b. 1923) between 1956 and 1963 put postwar British architecture on the international map, and their Leicester University Engineering Building became an iconic monument for a new kind of modernism. Mark Crinson's book is the most thoroughly researched study of Stirling and Gowan's partnership to date. Based on extensive interviews and archival research, Crinson argues that their work was the product of two equally creative partners whose... James Stirling (1924-1992) is acclaimed as the most influential and controversial modern British architect. His partnership with James Gowan (b. 19... |
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216,72 zł |
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The Sheldonian Theatre: Architecture and Learning in Seventeenth-Century Oxford
ISBN: 9780300195040 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A jewel of the University of Oxford, the Sheldonian Theatre stands out among the groundbreaking designs by the great British architect Sir Christopher Wren. Published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the building's construction, this meticulously researched book takes a fresh look at the historical influences that shaped the Sheldonian's development, including the Restoration of the English monarchy and the university's commitment to episcopal religion. The book explains just how novel Wren's design was in its day, in part because the academic theater was a building type...
A jewel of the University of Oxford, the Sheldonian Theatre stands out among the groundbreaking designs by the great British architect Sir Christopher...
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189,63 zł |
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Behind the Iron Curtain: Confession of a Soviet Architect
ISBN: 9783869223599 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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124,61 zł |
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Louis I. Kahn: Towards the Zero Degree of Concrete, 1960-1974
ISBN: 9782940222773 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 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 lesson of Le Corbusier. Kahn's obsession on concrete fabrication processes, on... 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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671,83 zł |
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The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design
ISBN: 9780295994482 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and his innovative work contributed to the increasingly significant design approach known as urban ecological design, which encourages thinking beyond the boundaries of gardens and parks to consider the broader roles that landscapes play within urban... Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bai... |
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277,95 zł |
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Sergey Chernyshev: Architect of the New Moscow
ISBN: 9783869223148 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sergey Chernyshev, one of the founders of Soviet urban planning, deservedly occupies a special place among the leading Russian architects of the 20thcentury. Chernyshev s large-scale designs attracted widespread attention from the 1935 Master Plan for the Reconstruction ofMoscow tohis work on the restoration ofcities such as Kiev, Leningrad, Warsaw, and Berlin. The volume presents Chernyshev s extensive creative work using rich visual material from different archives, some of which is being published for the first time."
Sergey Chernyshev, one of the founders of Soviet urban planning, deservedly occupies a special place among the leading Russian architects of the 20thc...
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245,32 zł |
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Oab (Updated): Office of Architecture in Barcelona
ISBN: 9781940291574 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. OAB draws on the collaborative nature of the Carlos Ferrater previous studio, incorporating new ways of understanding the contributions of each team member to generate richer and more varied, prepared and flexible projects. The creation of this new platform attempts to address the challenges that contemporary architecture has raised in intellectual, social, technological, and environmental spheres. The contents are organized as a collection of chapters that turn the spotlight on both projects and recently built works. These convey a willingness to work in different scenarios, expanding...
OAB draws on the collaborative nature of the Carlos Ferrater previous studio, incorporating new ways of understanding the contributions of each team m...
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234,83 zł |
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Eileen Gray: The Private Painter
ISBN: 9781848221833 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is widely known today as a pioneer of both Art Deco and Modernism. In a career spanning 80 years she she produced innovative designs for furniture, lighting, carpets, interiors and architecture. Much less well known is that throughout her life as a designer and an architect she never stopped producing small paintings and drawings. This book is the first to focus on Eileen Gray's important but essentially private work as a painter.
Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is widely known today as a pioneer of both Art Deco and Modernism. In a career spanning 80 years she she p...
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216,72 zł |
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Alejandro Aravena: Elemental: Incremental Housing and Participatory Design Manual
ISBN: 9783775741422 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What began as an academic initiative to improve the quality of life of the poor strata of the population has now become a professional -do tank- offering services that cover the entire spectrum of urban development. The celebrated Chilean architect, winner of the 2016 Pritzker Prize and Director of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, Alejandro Aravena (born 1967) founded Elemental in 2001 in his hometown with the goal of alleviating social deprivation directly instead of hoping for a balance of income relations. Besides building public facilities and public housing, Elemental also develops...
What began as an academic initiative to improve the quality of life of the poor strata of the population has now become a professional -do tank- offer...
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182,63 zł |
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Centre Pompidou: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the Making of a Modern Monument
ISBN: 9780300221299 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lively intellectual biography of one of the 20th century's most iconic buildings
The Centre Georges Pompidou, also called Beaubourg, is today considered an icon of contemporary Paris, the quintessence of a modern building, and a model for what a museum can be. In 1971, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, together with the engineering firm Ove Arup & Partners, won an international architecture competition with their innovative and irreverent design. Completed in 1977, the building was at first received skeptically by critics, yet it was quickly embraced by the public as a... A lively intellectual biography of one of the 20th century's most iconic buildings
The Centre Georges Pompidou, also called Beaubou... |
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135,45 zł |