ilość książek w kategorii: 578
Along Route 66
ISBN: 9780806132501 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Along Route 66" describes the architectural styles found along the highway from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, and pairs photos with stories of the buildings and of the people who built, lived in and made a living from them. With striking images and unforgettable histories, Scott has documented the culture of America's most famous road. 250 photos.
"Along Route 66" describes the architectural styles found along the highway from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, and pairs photos with stories of...
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171,11 zł |
The Quiet Hours: City Photographs
ISBN: 9780816643288 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A visual tribute to the industrial spaces and commercial interiors of Minnesota's prewar era. A milling district along the Mississippi River. A railroad bridge on Washington Avenue. Jim's Hamburgers in Duluth. A spiral staircase in the Schmidt Brewery. These are the spaces that capture the moods of Minnesota's prewar era. These are the everyday places where ordinary people lived and worked. These are the images that show us the remnants of a city's past. In The Quiet Hours, Mike Melman records a vanishing era of Minnesota's towns and cities through a series of seventy black-and-white...
A visual tribute to the industrial spaces and commercial interiors of Minnesota's prewar era. A milling district along the Mississippi River. A railro...
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146,02 zł |
Still Philadelphia
ISBN: 9780877223061 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book about Philadelphia and about photography, but it is not the usual book about either. On one level, this is the pictorial story of a great industrial metropolis in transition. It is the story of a railroad city, a city of trolleys and subways and horse-drawn vehicles, as it gradually succumbed to the automobile. It is the story of a city filled with neighborhood industry giving way to suburbs, to commuter travel, and to a change in the very nature of work. It is the story of a city spreading out, expanding and doubling in population in fifty years. It is the story of urban... This is a book about Philadelphia and about photography, but it is not the usual book about either. On one level, this is the pictorial story of a ... |
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193,02 zł |
The French Quarter of New Orleans
ISBN: 9781578065240 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is no place in America like New Orleans's famed French Quarter. With photographs and history, The French Quarter of New Orleans explores the unique evolution of this district. The author and photographer team to reveal how war, fire, floods, politics, cultural conflict, and architectural innovation shaped the Quarter. In West Freeman's 160 color photographs the present-day romance of the Vieux Carre is here to savor. But The French Quarter of New Orleans moves beyond the Old World facades and into the heart and history of the many peoples-Spanish, French,... There is no place in America like New Orleans's famed French Quarter. With photographs and history, The French Quarter of New Orleans ex... |
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196,56 zł |
English Shop-Fronts Old and New
ISBN: 9781905217748 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,17 zł |
Lost Waterfront: The Decline and Rebirth of Manhattan's Western Shore
ISBN: 9780823228454 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century, the Hudson River piers in Greenwich Village bustled with the maritime commerce that made New York the greatest port in the country. By the 1960s, after years of economic decline, the great waterfront was disappearing. After the West Side Highway was closed in 1973, many of the piers, now abandoned, burned, while others collapsed into the river. By the 1990s, only ghosts were left.Yet there came a moment in time-fifteen years, perhaps-when the decaying piers supported a thriving other life. These ravaged iron structures became the Jones Beach of Manhattan; rotting...
For more than a century, the Hudson River piers in Greenwich Village bustled with the maritime commerce that made New York the greatest port in the co...
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135,59 zł |
Capitol Hill - Converted
ISBN: 9781436301268 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,02 zł |
A Walk Through the City: Photographer Marco Leonardi's Architectural Washington D.C.
ISBN: 9780615325262 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This publication includes 143 of Marco Leonardi's color photographs that capture the poetry of Washington D.C.'s urban architecture. The original Ektachrome and Kodachrome slides were taken between 1982 and 1988 and converted to digital files for use in this publication. Marco Leonardi was born in Sanremo on the Italian Riviera in 1933. From the mid-1970's until his death in 1990, he had made Washington D.C. his home. Leonardi shared his apartment with his close friend, the visual artist Eugene James Martin, from the late 1970's until 1988. Martin taught him how to look at art and how to...
This publication includes 143 of Marco Leonardi's color photographs that capture the poetry of Washington D.C.'s urban architecture. The original Ekta...
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259,90 zł |
New York. Portrait of a City
ISBN: 9783836505147 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The soul of New York A photographic journey through the history of the world's greatest city This book presents the epic story of New York on nearly 600 pages of emotional, atmospheric photographs, from the mid-19th century to the present day. Supplementing this treasure trove of images are over a hundred quotations and references from relevant books, movies, shows and songs. The city's fluctuating fortunes are all represented, from the wild nights of the Jazz Age and the hedonistic disco era, to the grim days of the Depression and the devastation of 9/11 and its aftermath, as its...
The soul of New York A photographic journey through the history of the world's greatest city This book presents the epic story of New York on nearly 6...
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305,76 zł |
Frederic Chaubin. CCCP. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
ISBN: 9783836525190 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The beauty of Soviet brutalism: A photographic record of 90 weird and wonderful buildings from the last decades of the USSR Photographer Frederic Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be the fourth age of Soviet architecture. His poetic pictures reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagination, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990. Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no school or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system. Their diversity announced the...
The beauty of Soviet brutalism: A photographic record of 90 weird and wonderful buildings from the last decades of the USSR Photographer Frederic Chau...
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229,43 zł |
Best Pictures of Paris: Top Tourist Attractions Including the Eiffel Tower, Louvre Museum, Notre Dame Cathedral, Sacre-Coeur Basilica, Arc de Triomphe, the Pantheon, Orsay Museum, City Hall and More.
ISBN: 9780986600487 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over 100 high-quality color pictures of Paris including top Paris tourist attractions such as: the Eiffel Tower, Louvre Museum, Notre Dame Cathedral, Sacre-Coeur Basilica, Arc de Triomphe, the Pantheon, the Orsay Museum, Opera Garnier, City Hall, Les Invalides, Pompidou Center Museum, the Concorde Square, Luxembourg Gardens, Saint-Jacques Tower, the Seine River, the Seine River Bridges, Champs-Elysees, La Defense, Palace of Versailles, Rodin Museum, Forum des Halles, La Conciergerie, the Vosges Square, Grand Palais, Petit Palais, the Champ de Mars, the Trocadero, Sorbonne University, the...
Over 100 high-quality color pictures of Paris including top Paris tourist attractions such as: the Eiffel Tower, Louvre Museum, Notre Dame Cathedral, ...
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67,15 zł |
Doors and Walls
ISBN: 9781453754979 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Doors and Walls features photography from the hottest new and emerging talent of 2010. Profiling unique, edgy visual art along with many artist statements about their work.
Doors and Walls features photography from the hottest new and emerging talent of 2010. Profiling unique, edgy visual art along with many artist statem...
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91,73 zł |
Robert W. Tebbs, Photographer to Architects: Louisiana Plantations in 1926
ISBN: 9780807142189 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana's plantations in 1926. From those images, now housed in the Louisiana State Museum, and not widely available until now, 119 plates showcasing fifty-two homes are featured here. Richard Anthony Lewis explores Tebbs's life and career, situating his work along the line of plantation imagery from nineteenth-century woodcuts and paintings to later twentieth-century photographs by John Clarence Laughlin, among others. Providing the family lineage and construction... One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana's plantations in 1926... |
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196,34 zł |
Eminent Architects: Seen by Ingrid Von Kruse
ISBN: 9783868591118 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eminent Architects collects Ingrid von Kruse's intimate portraits of the world's most celebrated practicing architects--among them Tadao Ando, David Chipperfield, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Phyllis Lambert, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, I.M. Pei, Dominique Perrault, Richard Rogers, SANAA, Alvaro Siza, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. A selection of sketches and models completes this ambitious undertaking.
Eminent Architects collects Ingrid von Kruse's intimate portraits of the world's most celebrated practicing architects--among them Tadao Ando, ...
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296,42 zł |
Finding Bones
ISBN: 9783868287790 / Angielski / Twarda / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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196,56 zł |
New York Neon
ISBN: 9780393733419 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Yorkers and visitors to the city, neon-sign enthusiasts, and those interested in signs and historic advertising generally, as well as design professionals, serious historians, and casual students of the city, will want this colorful book, which comes at a critical moment when the disappearance of the original signs has inspired a growing interest in neon.
New Yorkers and visitors to the city, neon-sign enthusiasts, and those interested in signs and historic advertising generally, as well as design profe...
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115,27 zł |
Fair Park Deco : Art and Architecture of the Texas Centennial Exposition
ISBN: 9780875655017 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Fair Park Deco" is a fascinating tour of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. Like every American exposition in the 1930s, it began in economic depression. Although its economy had been buoyed by major oil discoveries in the early '30s, Texas agriculture was hard hit by the Great Depression. By the middle of the decade, state officials had set their sights on a great centennial celebration to help stimulate the economy and attract tourist dollars. "If during the next six months the people of the state could become filled with the idea of holding a big celebration on the one hundredth...
"Fair Park Deco" is a fascinating tour of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. Like every American exposition in the 1930s, it began in economic depr...
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209,44 zł |
Lost Baltimore
ISBN: 9781909108431 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A celebration of the cherished parts of Baltimore that are no longer Baltimore today is visited by millions of tourists who come to see the world-famous Inner Harbor, sample mouth-watering blue crabs, take in an Orioles game at legendary Camden Yards, or explore the many cultural and higher education institutions. Locals, meanwhile, enjoy living in a city that is large enough to provide great restaurants and plenty of special events, while it retains its small-town attitude that has earned it its "Charm City" nickname. However, many locals and tourists may not know that Baltimore was...
A celebration of the cherished parts of Baltimore that are no longer Baltimore today is visited by millions of tourists who come to see the wor...
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87,14 zł |
Great Houses of Summit Avenue and the Hill District
ISBN: 9780989262705 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This winner of 11 national publishing awards belongs on every coffee table Summit Avenue, grande dame of Victorian boulevards, is lined with magnificent turn-of-the-century mansions built by railroad magnates, lumber barons and captains of industry. Great Houses of Summit Avenue and the Hill District is a celebration of these homes on St. Paul's best-known and most beloved avenue. With a foreword by Garrison Keillor and fascinating stories penned by four award-winning writers, the book opens the doors to more than two dozen legendary homes situated on America's best-preserved avenue from the...
This winner of 11 national publishing awards belongs on every coffee table Summit Avenue, grande dame of Victorian boulevards, is lined with magnific...
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234,76 zł |
Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
ISBN: 9780262013499 / Angielski / Twarda / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others believed that well-designed buildings... For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century ... |
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376,83 zł |