Rethinking Chongqing: Mixed-Use and Super-Dense: Vincent Lo / Kohn Pedersen Fox
ISBN: 9780989331746 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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151,04 zł |
Los Angeles Union Station
ISBN: 9781606063248 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Union Station today is a celebrated architectural icon and vibrant centerpiece of Los Angeles's regional transportation network. Designed by John and Donald B. Parkinson, its mission revival architecture speaks to a mythic vision of Spanish heritage, but with streamline moderne and art deco details. At first glance this masterpiece, conceived as a magnificent gateway to the growing metropolis, offers no hint of the civic, financial, and legal battles surrounding its development, siting, style, and construction--battles that were waged across decades in the early twentieth century and that...
Union Station today is a celebrated architectural icon and vibrant centerpiece of Los Angeles's regional transportation network. Designed by John and ...
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118,45 zł |
Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent Through History
ISBN: 9780824839529 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection explores built environments and visual narratives in Asia via cartography, icons and symbols in different historical settings. It grows out of a three-year project focusing on cultural exchange in the making of Asia's boundaries as well as its architectural styles and achievements. The editors -- architectural scholars at University of Delaware, Seattle University, University of Washington and Harvard University, respectively - attracted contributions from Asia, Europe, and North America. The manuscript consists of three sections - in Mapping Asia: Architectural... This collection explores built environments and visual narratives in Asia via cartography, icons and symbols in different historical settings. It g... |
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296,26 zł |
The Remittance Landscape: Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA
ISBN: 9780226202815 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico--one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With The Remittance Landscape, Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with that money, and in particular how the building boom that it has generated has changed Mexican towns and villages. Lopez not only identifies a clear correspondence between the flow of remittances and the recent building boom in rural Mexico but also proposes that this construction boom itself motivates migration and changes social and...
Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico--one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With ...
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140,05 zł |
Social Infrastructure: New York: Douglas Durst and Bjarke Ingels
ISBN: 9781940291253 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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151,04 zł |
Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780295993485 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattle's architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the region's built environment. Twenty years later, the second edition updates and expands the original with new information and illustrations that provide an even richer exploration of Seattle architecture. The book begins with a revised introduction that brings the story of Seattle architecture into the twenty-first century and situates developments in Seattle building design within local and global... The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattle's architects by showcasing the work of t... |
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250,74 zł |
New York Visual Notebook: Black Night
ISBN: 9788895218793 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much more than a simple journal, this beautiful line of Visual Notebooks is a hybrid product, the likes of which is unmatched. Part journal, part sketchbook, and part tourist guide to New York City, these innovative notebooks include stunning photographs, a city map, metro guide, and fun factoids about the city's landmarks.
These pocket-size, 5 x 7-inch journals are available in classic Black and five other vibrant color choices: Yellow Saffron, Orange Juice, Blue Duck Egg, Crisp Apple Green, and Coral Reef. Each notebook consists of 160 pages, alternating between blank pages for notes... Much more than a simple journal, this beautiful line of Visual Notebooks is a hybrid product, the likes of which is unmatched. Part journal, part sket...
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77,46 zł |
Escape: The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour
ISBN: 9780847843381 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A nostalgic celebration of the glamour of warm-weather destinations in the Caribbean and Florida, from the great estates of ambitious patrons to the most exclusive resorts of the mid-twentieth century. Through iconic photography capturing the cultural mood at the moment when social codes relaxed from the formality of the Gilded Age to the spontaneity of the jet-set era, Escape: The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour takes the reader inside a world of beach parties and costume balls set in lush tropical landscapes, of rarefied resorts and fairy-tale private estates. Escape presents the visual history...
A nostalgic celebration of the glamour of warm-weather destinations in the Caribbean and Florida, from the great estates of ambitious patrons to the m...
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215,46 zł |
Neighborhood in Motion: One Neighborhood, One Month, No Cars
ISBN: 9783868592948 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the EcoMobility World Festival 2013, the 4,300 residents of the Haenggung-dong neighborhood in Suwon, South Korea, agreed to stop using their cars for a month, removing their vehicles from the quarter and living an -ecomobile- lifestyle. Neighborhood in Motion documents this bold experiment from conception to implementation. It looks at the unprecedented cooperation of local government with community groups, local businesses, cities worldwide and international agencies; the dedication of community volunteers to establishing and maintaining a car-free neighborhood; and the happiness...
For the EcoMobility World Festival 2013, the 4,300 residents of the Haenggung-dong neighborhood in Suwon, South Korea, agreed to stop using their cars...
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131,97 zł |
The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular
ISBN: 9781138833173 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social community. In recent years however, the city's rapid redevelopment has meant that the alleyway house is being destroyed, and this book seeks to understand it in terms of the lifestyle it engendered for those who called it home, whilst also looking to the future of the alleyway house. ...As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western ... |
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266,04 zł |
The Morphology of the Times: European Cities and Their Historical Growth
ISBN: 9783869223094 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book highlights radical urban transformation in eight cities spread across continental Europe. The point of departure, and the foundation of European urbanisation, is the Roman colonial town. In every case social dynamics guided the urban transitions in a traceable way, such that it has been possible to deduce the intellectual underpinnings of the contemporary built environments, as featured in these pages. Differing contexts of time and place show the overarching march of European history and related themes at the urban level. Fundamental changes are brought to light. Each story...
This book highlights radical urban transformation in eight cities spread across continental Europe. The point of departure, and the foundation of Euro...
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134,66 zł |
Hyperlocalization of Architecture: Contemporary Sustainable Archetypes
ISBN: 9781938740084 / Angielski / Twarda / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The evolution of contemporary environmental architecture has outstripped simple labels. A deeper pattern is emerging where the most innovative buildings are a response to place. They resolve the complex intertwining of the site, people and environment, providing a provocative observation of the future of architecture. By starting with the site these projects maximize the natural and cultural resources available and are humancentric. The book explores firsthand how Spain Wraps commercial buildings, Japan Condenses micro homes and Australia Unfolds aggressive design solutions in a climate of...
The evolution of contemporary environmental architecture has outstripped simple labels. A deeper pattern is emerging where the most innovative buildin...
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172,40 zł |
Total Latin American Architecture: Libretto of Modern Reflections & Contemporary Works
ISBN: 9781940291475 / Angielski / Miękka / 431 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A selected, fully open, and deep assemblage, that carries the explicit intent of outlining, conceptual and practical verifications, on critical views and specific projects, concerning the actual architecture in the Latin American territory. The book intends to communicate a targeted objective, to circumscribe a segment, a series of observations and actions in architecture. However, it is a selected, fully open, and deep fragment, outlining conceptual and practical verifications on critical views and concrete projects, concerning the actual, extensive world of architecture in the Latin...
A selected, fully open, and deep assemblage, that carries the explicit intent of outlining, conceptual and practical verifications, on critical views ...
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193,98 zł |
(Re)Stitch Tampa: Riverfront-Designing the Post-War Coastal American City Through Ecologies
ISBN: 9781940291529 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Re)stitch Tampa, an international design ideas competition, challenged designers to consider innovative design ideas and strategies, employing connective urban landscapes and ecological infrastructure as an underlying framework for the post-war coastal city. The competition brief posited that this framework might operate as a catalyst for the economic redevelopment, as well as the landscape and urban recovery of Tampa, Florida. These strategies might physically reconnect a fragmented city, its urban fabric punctured with urban vacancies and significantly impacted by foreclosures during the...
(Re)stitch Tampa, an international design ideas competition, challenged designers to consider innovative design ideas and strategies, employing connec...
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150,82 zł |
Milan: Architectural Guide
ISBN: 9783869223964 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the 1920s onwards, Milan has become a laboratory of architecture due to architects such as Giuseppe Terragni, Gio Ponti and Giuseppe Pagano. Magazines such as Domus and Casabella were founded in the 1920s which influenced international debate throughout the 20th century. A new trend arose following the reconstruction of the city due to damages incurred during World War II: the city is now able to combine modernity with its existing context through the works of BBPR, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Ignazio Gardella and Franco Albini. These architects introduced the renowned design which is...
From the 1920s onwards, Milan has become a laboratory of architecture due to architects such as Giuseppe Terragni, Gio Ponti and Giuseppe Pagano. Maga...
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172,37 zł |
Astana: Architectural Guide
ISBN: 9783869224060 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amid the endless plains of Kazakhstan, an extraordinary architectural experiment has arisen: Astana. Formerly an outpost of the Tsarist Empire in the barren steppe, the location had developed into a typical Soviet provincial town. However, both internationally renowned and local architects are now designing spectacular and unique buildings in this dynamic city. Furthermore, Astana will host the Expo2017 which will take place only twenty years after the city was built in the steppe alongside the old centre, based on a masterplan by Kisho Kurokawa. This exhibition is meant to finally promote...
Amid the endless plains of Kazakhstan, an extraordinary architectural experiment has arisen: Astana. Formerly an outpost of the Tsarist Empire in the ...
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A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture
ISBN: 9780375710827 / Angielski / Miękka / 880 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in paperback: the fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses.
This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line... Now in paperback: the fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic...
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172,62 zł |
Llaw of Wall
ISBN: 9781940743127 / Angielski / Twarda / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. llAW of WAll is a critique of absolutes: absolute closure and openness, absolute privacy and public-ness. The critique is presented through a study of the networks that link two families, two locations, two time frames, two construction technologies, and two acts of family violence: the Loud and Woodford Families; Avon, Connecticut, the residence of the Woodford family, and an Avon prefabricated house, the residence of the Loud family; 1845, the year of the Woodford murder, and 1972, the year of the Loud family live televised break-up; Early American ax carpentry of the Woodford house, and...
llAW of WAll is a critique of absolutes: absolute closure and openness, absolute privacy and public-ness. The critique is presented through a study of...
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107,67 zł |
Die Stadt außerhalb : Zur Architektur der ehemaligen Niederösterreichischen Landes-, Heil- und Pflegeanstalt für Geistes- und Nervenkranke Am Steinhof in Wien
ISBN: 9783035606300 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Monografie des 1907 grossten und modernsten Pavillon-Krankenhauses Europas Am Steinhof in Wien rekonstruiert aus den bisher unveroffentlichten Originalplanen und historischen Fotografien die Baugeschichte des Areals im Detail sowie die medizinisch und politisch motivierten Hintergrunde fur seine Errichtung. Ein Fotoessay uber den aktuellen Zustand der im Original erhaltenen Anlage erganzt die architektur- und kunstgeschichtlichen Erkenntnisse. "Die Monografie des 1907 grossten und modernsten Pavillon-Krankenhauses Europas Am Steinhof in Wien rekonstruiert aus den bisher unveroffentlichten ... |
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Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945 1965
ISBN: 9780691167619 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract houses of America's postwar suburbs represent the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing. Houses for a New World is the first comprehensive history of this uniquely American form of domestic architecture and... While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury... |
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242,39 zł |