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Scandinavian Modern was the most influential and enduring design movement of the twentieth century, dominating the international scene in the 1950s and continuing to shape the way we live today. Architects and designers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland - four countries that at the time had a combined population no greater than New York City - were responsible for a range of contemporary homes, furniture, textiles, ceramics, glassware and other products that defined an entire approach to modern post-war the most important designers and their work.

Even in this age of varied home entertainment and fast-paced mass media, immense creative energy is being directed towards new space for live performance. Profusely illustrated with photographs, computer renderings and architectural drawings, Performing Architecture explores fifty of today’s finest performance spaces, as well as recently refurbished, restored and transformed buildings.

Architekturę można nazwać wielką księga ludzkości - jak stwierdził Viktor Hugo - od sześciu tysięcy lat, od odległej pagody Hindustanu po katedrę w Kolonii, zawsze była wielkim dziełem ludzi, olbrzymią księgą zabytków, w której nie tylko każdy symbol, ale też każda ludzka myśl ma własną stronicę. Książka, którą oddajemy do rąk Czytelnika, pomaga zrozumieć architekturę. Cześć pierwsza opatrzona licznymi przykładami, opisuje podstawowe zagadnienia architektury: związek człowieka z otaczającym środowiskiem, ewolucję od osady do miasta, projektowanie przestrzeni, urbanistykę, rodzaje budowli, dekoracje architektoniczne, techniki, struktury i materiały budowlane. 

This book explores the theories, practices and principles of new approaches to solar architecture that foster both design excellence and low-energy use. In response to the challenges of global warming and climate change, design and technology enable architects to achieve greater performance standards while at the same time developing an environmental aesthetic. The book showcases ten award-winning buildings to illustrate the aesthetic and technological design integration of solar response in contemporary zero-energy and low-energy architecture.

Dostępność: na zamówienie Already well established in the fields of travel, journalistic and advertising photography, Horst and Tina Herzig focus on Britain’s dynamic capital city to give us a stunning visual survey in black and white. The results of their walks through London’s streets, parks, and neighborhoods collected here are more than a simple documentary record of a time and a place. Interspersed among the many artfully composed photographs of London’s most famous landmarks are dozens of pictures that capture the spirit and energy of Londoners themselves. 

# Louis I Kahn (1901-74) is one of the most influential architects of the mid-20th century, whose work marked a significant move away from International Modernism towards a monumental and expressive style # In-depth and scholarly monograph providing the definitive account of the life and works of Louis I Kahn

This study of the untamed Roman provincia is the first to illustrate so many different Provencal interiors, which range from the private apartments of a duchess to a beekeeper's home to a monastery renovated in minimalist style. Flexi-cover. People all over the world are fascinated by Provence. It is the untamed Roman Provincia, stretching from the crags of Vaucluse and undulating fields of lavender to fishing villages on the Mediterranean.