Wendepunkt im Holzbau : Neue Wirtschaftsformen
ISBN: 9783035610277 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Faced with man-made climate change and the need to provide housing for a growing world population, society needs to rethink the way future buildings are made. Wood is a truly renewable building material that is unlimited in supply if its growth and harvest are sustainably managed. Recent technological advancements in engineering allow the use of timber for the construction of multi-story structures, turning our buildings into carbon sinks rather than becoming sources for CO2-emissions. Faced with man-made climate change and the need to provide housing for a growing world population, society needs to rethink the way future building... |
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129,96 zł |
Dialoge und Positionen : Architektur in Japan
ISBN: 9783035608458 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das Buch gibt einen Uberblick uber die aktuelle japanische Architektur, ihre Gestaltungskonzepte sowie ihre vielfaltigen Bezuge. Dreizehn Architekten stellen in Interviews und anhand exemplarischer Entwurfe ihre Entwurfsmethodologien vor und geben Einblicke in die Grundlagen und Hintergrunde ihres Schaffens; darunter junge Architekten, die aktuell international Bekanntheit erlangt haben, Architekten, die innerhalb der japanischen Architektur eigenstandige Haltungen vertreten, sowie die Pritzkerpreistrager Toyo Ito und Fumihiko Maki. Das Buch gibt einen Uberblick uber die aktuelle japanische Architektur, ihre Gestaltungskonzepte sowie ihre vielfaltigen Bezuge. Dreizehn Architekt... |
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216,74 zł |
Schwermut und Abenteuer des Hausbaus : 36 Geschichten. Mit einem Text von Manfred Sack
ISBN: 9783035610338 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ein Gartenhauschen entpuppt sich als Spitze eines romanischen Glockenturms. Ein Gourmet-Restaurant wird verkehrt herum erbaut. Ein Stellwerk wird zu einem Musikinstrument umfunktioniert. Ein Wattefabrikant entwirft ein unbewohnbares Familiendomizil. 36 tragikomische Hausergeschichten, bibliophil illustriert mit listig gefalschten "Originaldokumenten," entfuhren uns in eine versunkene Welt skurriler Personen und ihrer aberwitzigen Beziehungen zur Architektur. "Portraits verlorener Gebaude" oder "Aussichtslose Turme" nennt Gottfried Muller die Serien seiner imaginaren Revisionen der... Ein Gartenhauschen entpuppt sich als Spitze eines romanischen Glockenturms. Ein Gourmet-Restaurant wird verkehrt herum erbaut. Ein Stellwerk wird z... |
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108,27 zł |
La+ Journal: Simulation: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture
ISBN: 9781939621405 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our epoch has been dubbed the Anthropocene Era to mark the significance of human activities as the greatest force of environmental change. The distinctions between biology/technology, organic/synthetic, and natural/artificial are increasingly impossible to maintain. Cloned sheep, climate models, digitally-printed tissue and lab-grown meat - this is not the nature of our predecessors. This issue of LA+ addresses the theme of SIMULATION in terms of how recent technologies have changed how we understand the nature of nature. From Plato's Cave to Baudrillard's "Simulacrum," simulations were...
Our epoch has been dubbed the Anthropocene Era to mark the significance of human activities as the greatest force of environmental change. The distinc...
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85,26 zł |
Encounters and Positions : Architecture in Japan
ISBN: 9783035608465 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This publication provides an overview of its many design concepts and cross-references. Using design examples and interviews, the book presents thirteen current positions.The publication focuses on young architects who take up extremely independent positions within Japanese architecture, as well as on Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and Fumihiko Maki. Six essays by European specialists on Japan provide supplementary insights into the aesthetics and space concepts of Japanese architecture, making... Now as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This publication provides an overview of its many design conc... |
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216,74 zł |
Friederich Kiesler - Lebenswelten / Life Visions : Architektur - Kunst - Design. Architecture - Art - Design. Ausstellungen im MAK, Wien, 2016, ab 2017 in Berlin (Martin-Gropius Bau)
ISBN: 9783035611083 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Friedrich Kiesler - Lebenswelten stellt einen Visionar der Wiener Moderne vor. Der Kunstler, Designer, Architekt, Buhnenbildner und Ausstellungsmacher Friedrich Kiesler (1890-1965) beeinflusste mit seinen avantgardistischen Beitragen die europaische und amerikanische Architektur- und Kunstszene; bis heute ist sein Werk eine Inspirationsquelle. Der Katalog beleuchtet Kieslers ganzheitliches Werk und stellt seine Theorie des Correalismus zur Beziehung von Kunstwerk, Mensch und Umgebung ebenso zur Diskussion wie seine innovative Ausstellungspraxis. Beitrage von... Friedrich Kiesler - Lebenswelten stellt einen Visionar der Wiener Moderne vor. Der Kunstler, Designer, Architekt, Buhnenbildner und Ausste... |
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173,34 zł |
Behavioral Formation: Volatile Design Processes and the Emergence of a Strange Specificity
ISBN: 9781940291925 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena. These processes have come to define our contemporary understanding of the nature of becoming, which stands in contrast to established notions of architectural design and authorship. The design research of Roland Snooks is a speculation on the relationship between emergent processes of formation and architectural design intention, and explores the strange specificity of an architecture that is drawn out of this interaction. This research operates within a larger architectural and cultural concern for...
Emergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena. These processes have come to define our contemporary underst...
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170,73 zł |
The Generic Sublime
ISBN: 9781940291758 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, high-rise housing, mixed-use developments, luxury condominiums, airport hubs, suburban office enclaves, industrial and technology parks, hotel complexes and resorts, conference and financial centers, entertainment venues, gated communities, theme parks, branded cities, new central districts, and satellite cities: extra-large architectural typologies dominate the contemporary built environment worldwide. Despite the ubiquity of these building forms, their development has been largely restricted by a reliance on outmoded traditions of urbanism and...
Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, high-rise housing, mixed-use developments, luxury condominiums, airport hubs, suburban office enclaves, ...
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192,10 zł |
The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938-1968: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938-1968
ISBN: 9781138208179 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Optimum Imperative examines architecture s multiple entanglements within the problem of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia. Situated in the period loosely bracketed by the signing of the Munich accords in 1938, which affected Czechoslovakia s entrance into World War II, and the Warsaw Pact troops occupation of Prague in 1968, the book investigates three decades of Czech architecture, highlighting a diverse cast of protagonists. Key among them are the theorist and architect Karel Honzik and a small group of his colleagues in the Club for the Study of... The Optimum Imperative examines architecture s multiple entanglements within the problem of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia.... |
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706,63 zł |
The Living Tradition of Architecture
ISBN: 9781138640504 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Living Tradition of Architecture explores the depth of architecture as it takes flesh in the living tradition of building, dwelling and thinking. This is a timely appraisal of the field by some of its foremost contributors. Beyond modern misconceptions about tradition only relating to things past and conducive to a historicist vision, the essays in this volume reveal tradition as a living continuity and common ground of reference for architecture. This collection of essays brings together world-leading scholars, practicing architects and educators, Alberto Perez-Gomez,... The Living Tradition of Architecture explores the depth of architecture as it takes flesh in the living tradition of building, dwel... |
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247,26 zł |
Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance
ISBN: 9781537265346 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architecture - Gothic and Renaissance By T. Roger Smith Gothic and Renaissance Architecture Fully Illustrated The Classic Publication on Gothic Architecture THE architecture generally known as Gothic, but often described as Christian Pointed, prevailed throughout Europe to the exclusion of every rival for upwards of three centuries; and it is to be met with, more or less, during two others. Speaking broadly, it may be said that its origin took place in the twelfth century, that the thirteenth was the period of its development, the... Architecture - Gothic and Renaissance By T. Roger Smith Gothic and Renaissance Architecture Fully Illustrated |
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58,11 zł |
A Primer on Theory in Architecture
ISBN: 9781138912410 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Primer on Theory in Architecture discusses how theory is defined in architecture, how it is identified, its location in larger perspectives or worldviews, its relationships to other areas in architecture, and how it can be constructed. The book explores the definition, elements and characteristics of theory along with subjects associated with theory and how these associations are recognized. In addition, case studies tackle both individual theorists and common approaches to the topic. Aimed at the new student of architectural theory, if you are just beginning to tackle this... A Primer on Theory in Architecture discusses how theory is defined in architecture, how it is identified, its location in larger perspecti... |
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201,84 zł |
Consensus Design: Socially Inclusive Process
ISBN: 9781138151864 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consensus Design offers a practical step by step guide to co-design; an increasingly important consideration for architects as they compete for work.The text moves from identifying the methodology of the process to developing a series of principles and practical steps which illustrate how consensus design can be established. For easy reference, flow charts show the process of achieving consensus design and include variations for different types of project and different groups of people. It gives clear timings so that agreements can be reached within a specific time frame, and also features a...
Consensus Design offers a practical step by step guide to co-design; an increasingly important consideration for architects as they compete for work.T...
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681,40 zł |
Chicago: Two Grids Between Lake and River
ISBN: 9781939621528 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Redesigning Gridded Cities focuses with extreme detail on four paradigmatic gridded cities, Manhattan, Chicago, Barcelona, and Hangzhou by analyzing these cities and proposing their own interventions that implicate the grid in productive ways. They emphasize the value of open forms for city design, and specifically insist that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly and productively. In both historical and projective, this series of books explore the potential of the grid as a design tool to produce a multitude of urban processes and forms. ...
Redesigning Gridded Cities focuses with extreme detail on four paradigmatic gridded cities, Manhattan, Chicago, Barcelona, and Hangzhou by analyzing t...
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106,84 zł |
Marco Frascari's Dream House: A Theory of Imagination
ISBN: 9781138189645 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unpublished work is a must read for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari s scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Marco does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to enact his theories of drawing and imagination, he teaches how to build one's own through individual practice. An illuminating introduction places Frascari s text in a wider context, providing the reader with a fascinating and important context and understanding to this posthumous work. Marco s sketchbooks are... This unpublished work is a must read for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari s scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also pr... |
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908,52 zł |
Marco Frascari's Dream House: A Theory of Imagination
ISBN: 9781138189652 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari's scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Frascari does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to enact his theories of drawing and imagination; instead, he teaches how to build one's own through individual practice. An illuminating introduction places the text in a wider context, providing the reader with a fascinating and important context and understanding to this posthumous work.... This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari's scholarship and teachings over the last three de... |
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191,75 zł |
House and Home: Cultural Contexts, Ontological Roles
ISBN: 9781138947160 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges these predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently, house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles, and have been assiduously represented in scripture, literature, art, and philosophy. This book presents how the search for home in an unpredictable world led people to create myths about the origins of architecture, houses for their gods, and house tombs for... House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges these predominant definitions and argues that dom... |
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883,29 zł |
Cedric Price Works 1952-2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective
ISBN: 9781907896439 / Angielski / Twarda / 1424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cedric Price Works 1952-2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective by Samantha Hardingham is a two-volume anthology, co-published by the Architectural Association (AA) and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), and is supported by the Graham Foundation and the Cedric Price Estate. The books bring together for the first time all of the projects, articles and talks of British architect Cedric Price, aiming to present his munificence as thinker, philosopher and designer. A student at the AA in the 1950s, Price established his office in London in 1960 and went on to produce some of architecture's...
Cedric Price Works 1952-2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective by Samantha Hardingham is a two-volume anthology, co-published by the Architectural Assoc...
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1431,62 zł |
50 Architects You Should Know
ISBN: 9783791383408 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now available in a new edition, this introduction to fifty visionary architects traces the major aesthetic movements over the past six centuries and offers concise portraits of the geniuses behind them. Starting with the Renaissance, this accessible and lively survey takes readers around the world and through history, from Filippo Brunelleschi through Antoni Gaudi to Frank Gehry. Double-page spreads feature full-color illustrations, informative sidebars, and a timeline. A concise and accessible architectural history, this book is a fascinating look at the enormous variety of ways architects...
Now available in a new edition, this introduction to fifty visionary architects traces the major aesthetic movements over the past six centuries and o...
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79,64 zł |
Die Inszenierung eines Mythos : Le Corbusier und die Akropolis
ISBN: 9783035611182 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Akropolis ist in Le Corbusiers Werk allgegenwartig. Sie war Inspirationsquelle, Prufstein fur die eigene Architektur und Massstab fur die eigenen Anspruche. Sie war aber auch zentraler Bestandteil seiner Selbstinszenierung und trug zur erfolgreichen Grundung des Mythos Le Corbusier bei. Turit Frobe nimmt eine Neubewertung der Rolle der Akropolis fur Le Corbusiers Werk jenseits seiner eigenen Narration vor. Sie rekonstruiert seine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Monument, stellt dar, welcher Quellen er sich bediente und zeigt, was er daruber hinaus an Erfahrungen ganz anderen... Die Akropolis ist in Le Corbusiers Werk allgegenwartig. Sie war Inspirationsquelle, Prufstein fur die eigene Architektur und Massstab fur die eigen... |
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129,96 zł |