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The architect Andrea Palladio was a draughtsman and a designer, a mason and an engineer, an innovator and an image maker. His growing importance from the 16th century onwards was based on his profound expertise in architectural issues that went beyond...

In this personal and revealing book, Anthony Poon takes us on a creative journey that begins with his re-envisioning of a seaside public space as a very young architect. Poon has designed hundreds of buildings across the United States and...

Renowned in Europe as an avant-garde architect in the 1970s, the Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill was called to the French stage following the destruction of Les Halles de Baltard in 1971. Called upon to compete in 1974, the architect attempted to revive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944083032Author Kristin FeireissFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 264mm * 183mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783935567916Author Peter PakeschFormat HardbackPage Count 54Imprint Holzwarth PublicationsPublisher Holzwarth Publications

From office planning and museum concepts to medical practices: this handbook shows 50 examples from the creative oeuvre of architect Carsten Wiewiorra. The project collection from his many years of practice also provides the basis for his teaching as a...

This book captures the insights and moments of discovery gained from their encounters with the land. The Fields' responsive approach and meticulous execution extends to every element of their architectural practice, from considering the way that a tree...

When Isaiah Rogers died in 1869, the Cincinnati Daily Times noted that "in his profession he was, perhaps, better known than any other person in the country." Yet until now there has been no study that fully examines his remarkable, influential, and...

Architects of Little Rock provides biographical and historical sketches of the architects at work in Little Rock from 1833 to 1950. Thirty-five architects are profiled, including George R. Mann, Thomas Harding, Charles L. Thompson, Max. F. Mayer, Edwin B...

"Looking to learn", an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, challenges the decontextualized approach to images and learning by setting ritual, functional and intentionally aesthetic objects side by side, together with...

The Smart Museum's Classical collection began developing in the 1890s and now consists of approximately eight hundred pieces, including large-scale statuary and floor mosaics, vases, figurines, coins, lamps, and other utensils. The first extensive study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933856431Author Chicago Museum Of ConteFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Museum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoPublisher Museum of Contemporary Art, ...

In larger projects these days, architects are often merely service providers: under the control of those responsible for the project or the general contractors the architecture is cut and trimmed for reasons of costs - with consequences we can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503506494Author Z GulacsiFormat HardbackPage Count 638Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Text in English and German. Peter Kulka is a major German architect. His buildings in recent years have been characteristically succinct and minimalist. This started with the Sachsischer Landtag in Dresden. Since then Kulka has produced numerous works of...

Text in English and German. 2 Books in slipcase. Karl Friedrich Schinkel called his designs for a palace on the Acropolis in Athens and for Orianda Castle in the Crimea a 'beautiful dream'. They date from 1834 and 1838 and were Schinkel's last major...

An architect, philosopher, and teacher who had a crucial effect on modern architecture.About the AuthorImmo Boyken is professor of architectural history in Konstanz, Germany.Book InformationISBN 9783930698011Author Immo BoykenFormat HardbackPage Count...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Architecture shapes people, and people shape architecture. This illustrated volume delves into the personalities and thoughts of those who designed the buildings that give form...

Architectural work in dialogue with different disciplines Founded by Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi as a design network between Milan, London and Mumbai, OBR explores new modes of contemporary living, developing an architecture that responds...

Architects who believe that designs should be based on past architecture.About the AuthorStanislaus von Moos is professor of art history at the University of Zurich. He was the "inventor" and first editor of the magazine archithese, which succeeded in...

Gracefully written and brilliantly illustrated, this handsome new volume captures the vision, the wit, and the down-to-earth inventiveness of one of the most influential and beloved architects of the early 20th century. Raised in Greenwich Village and...

With debates about the decriminalization of drugs on the rise, an exploration of drug maps is long overdue. Narcotic Cities traces the complex entanglements of drugs, institutions, activities, and the way they are represented with spaces and places,...

A photographically rich biography of protean architect Albert Kahn.Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit by Michael H. Hodges tells the story of the German-Jewish immigrant who rose from poverty to become one of the most influential...

Mexico City's first modernist building: A house by Swiss architects Hans Schmidt and Paul Artaria This volume chronicles the iconic double house in Mexico City constructed in 1930 by Swiss architects Hans Schmidt (1938-1972) and Paul Artaria...

It is impossible to imagine Austrian architecture and contemporary history without Karl Schwanzer, who would have marked his hundredth birthday in 2018. His buildings, like the BMW administration building in Munich, caused quite a furor domestically and...

From the 1870s to the 1920s, British-born architect Alfred Giles designed everything from simple domestic residences and showy mansions to county courthouses and commercial structures throughout Texas and northern Mexico. He was highly regarded at the...

The Roman architect Maurizio Sacripanti, had a deep connection with the group of artists who were carrying fresh streams of creativity in Rome between the sixties and the seventies, reason for his work spans from architecture to contemporary arts. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884541097Author Jenelle PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint University of Pennsylvania,Institute of Contemporary ArtPublisher University of...

“Even though it’s bold, it doesn’t shout at you,” David Salmela says of the silvery house he designed for a woodsy setting in Deephaven, Minnesota. “It’s not a barking dog. It’s a resting, very gentle animal.” The American Institute of Architects,...

Salmela Architect provides an in-depth look at one of America's leading "critical regionalist" architects. Salmela's buildings resolve a central question of our time: how to balance the various extreme positions that characterize contemporary...

Published to coincide with her solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, this catalogue surveys over five years of Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner's (born 1960) wall-based ceramic works. Larner's process explores the natural compression and...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Theater buildings are, and always have been, a characteristic feature of the European city. It is they, above all else, which provide impulses for the regeneration of the city...

Architectural research by the two Geneva architects in their office Bassicarella focuses on a few fundamental themes: Materiality, presence, construction, pre-fabrication and the internal figure. In a sequence of volumes in the Bibliotheca series, the...

In 2010, the two Lausanne architects Eric Frei and Kaveh Rezakhanlou produced an exceptional school facility in Chermignon, Lower Valais. Like a Greek temple, it has the power to combine the landscape, topography, urban morphology and building type. The...

Few people in the history of art and architecture have planted a seed of inspiration that grew to become a towering oak of lasting influence. There are those, particularly colleagues and students of Louis I. Kahn, who would say that he was one of these...

Text in English and German. The new Leipzig/Halle airport has not just one, but two predecessors. One was Leipzig-Mockau airport, opened in 1923 and often still used after the Second World War in the GDR days to serve the Leipziger Messe. The other was...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is a unique collection of architectural works -- the Caroline Wiess Law Building, comprising the original William Ward Watkin Building of 1924 and the 1958 and 1974 additions designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; the...

Norman Foster, one of the most consistent advocates of architec- ture based on modern technology, achieved a world-wide reputa- tion with the headquarters for the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hong Kong, Stansted Airport in London, Century...

Text in English & German. Not just a winner, but a major winner. And Fellbach won it by letting Zurich architect Ernst Gisel build its new town hall. And it is just the same as winning the lottery: it takes time for it to sink in and to be really pleased...

Richard Meier's architecture in dialogue with the Ulm Munster, the most famous German Gothic cathedral.Book InformationISBN 9783930698097Author Manfred SackFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Edition Axel MengesPublisher Edition Axel MengesWeight(grams)...