Скачать книгу (размер 1 284 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 253) Аннотация: James Wines is a larger-than-life character whose work cuts a swathe through modern architecture. Since 1970, when he founded SITE, the highly regarded architecture and environmental arts organisation based in New York, he and his practice have led the way in progressing a more socially and environmentally responsive architecture. Early work from the office includes iconic structures such as the…
Скачать книгу (размер 6 317 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1240) Аннотация: «Visionäre Entwürfe von Architekten und Künstlern sorgten im Österreich der wilden sechziger Jahre für internationale Aufmerksamkeit. Diese als „Austrian Phenomenon» bezeichneten Projekte und Installationen enthielten die geballte Kreativität der österreichischen Neoavantgarde der Architektur zwischen 1956–1973. Zu Symbolen dieser avantgardistischen Träume…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 121 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 221) Аннотация: Architectural work on existing structures has become enormously important in recent years. For the majority of architects, this is where future market opportunities will lie. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the field and is thus addressed to all practitioners, students, and building sponsors whose interest goes beyond an initial encounter with this wideranging field of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «In «Unfolded—Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry» paper conquers the third dimension and demonstrates the undreamed-of possibilities it holds today for lightweight construction, product design, fashion and art. From «Paper», the collection of bags by Stefan Diez, to Konstantin Grcic’s paper models and the scented paper garments of Issey Miyake, this book presents paper as a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: Celebrates time, an element in the work of Andy Goldsworthy both as a medium and as a metaphor. This book features an introduction by the artist and a sequence of works made around his home. It includes Goldsworthy`s diaries of visits to five locations in North America and Europe. It is intended as a reference on Andy Goldsworthy and his work.
Скачать книгу (размер 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 175) Аннотация: In reading Chinese cities, as this volume attempts to do, the focus is not primarily on well-known cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an but rather on what it is that is essentially Chinese about the Chinese city — the features and hallmarks that all Chinese cities have more or less in common, their spatial grammar, their syntax, in short: their code. It is only by deciphering their…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Gebraucht -- Wie neu ungelesen, sehr guter Zustand; Rechnung mit MwSt.; unused/unread, very good condition; — «Urbanity Twenty Years Later» ist ein langfristiges Forschungsprojekt, bei dem es darum geht, die mitteleuropäischen urbanen Werte wiederzuentdecken. Das Projekt zielt darauf, regionale Antworten für die Zukunft unserer Städte zu finden. Die erste Publikation des…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A fascinating architectural study in museum design and urban planning. Designed by the internationally renowned Swiss firm of Herzog & de Meuron, winners of the 2001 Pritzker Prize, the new de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is a stunning architectural tour de force. This book documents the complex five-year process that resulted in an outstanding contribution to contemporary…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Living Systems surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. The book proposes a synthesis between technology and theory, focusing on growth, flow,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In today’s fast-moving world everyone welcomes a place to relax, feel good, to recharge their batteries. Wellness and body care are gaining importance, and not only among the rich and famous. A huge number of wellness facilities have opened in recent years. Some are outstanding examples of superb interior design. Relax showcases the hottest 32 designs. It covers Spas and Thermal Baths, Massage,…
Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: Small Scale, Big Change focuses on designing and building in underserved communities around the globe. Rooted in the traditions of early Modernism, the work of the architects shown in this book expresses a desire for social change and a belief in the social responsibility of architecture. The projects – often schools, parks, housing projects and infrastructural interventions – are typically the…
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: «Long regarded in Japan as a master architect, Kengo Kuma first entered the European limelight two years ago when he won the «Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award», being the second architect to win this prize after Renzo Piano. Timber construction, however, is merely one field in which this declared environmentally sensitive architect has specialised. This monograph presents 14 selected…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Nanotechnology is widely regarded as one of the twenty-first century's key technologies, and its economic importance is sharply on the rise. In architecture and the construction industry it has potentials that are already usable today, especially the coating of surfaces to lend them functional characteristics such as increased tensile strength, self-cleaning capacity, fire resistance, and others.…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The new Scale series provides practical tools for architects and students of architecture. Each volume analyses the construction process from the first design idea to the call for bids, covering the fundamental design principles and concrete details. The series title, Scale, signifies that the perfect detail is the result of a process through various levels of conception and design, from the…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Since the earliest people lived as nomads, their buildings were portable, constructed in a way that allowed them to be rebuilt as they moved to new locations for better living conditions as the seasons changed. This book discusses the forerunners, present context, and technology of portable architecture. It documents numerous international examples, organized by areas of application, and offers a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Raghu Rai is India's most famous and most lauded photographer. Here, he lends his creative genius to capturing the changing face of Delhi, the place of his birth and India's capital city, over the last forty years. William Dalrymple says in his introduction to the book that [this is] the work of a sympathetic insider and has a tender and knowing intimacy that no outsider like myself can come…
Скачать книгу (размер 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 175) Аннотация: The opening of the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in the late 1990s caused a public furore and a media frenzy, with both broadsheet and tabloid journalists falling over themselves to comment on the shows controversial images, and unprecedented crowds queuing up to see for themselves what all the fuss was about. This catalogue of that seminal exhibition features the work of over forty…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «Graphic designers love music. This is attested not least by the tremendous enthusiasm that readers of the typography magazine Slanted bring to its «Typo Lyrics» column, in which designers interpret music in entirely new ways with the help of fonts. For this publication of the same name, celebrated graphic designers like Fons Hickmann as well as talented young designers from all over the world…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Although best known for his large-format color photographs made with vintage Kodak Brownie cameras, William Christenberry has also consistently produced work with 35 mm Kodachrome slide film since he took up photography. William Christenberry: Kodachromes is the first publication to showcase this stunning and previously unknown body of work, spanning from 1964 to 2007, of which only a small…