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GRAND BATIK INTERIORS
Dostępność: na zamówienie "Grand Batik Interiors" unravels the historical trajectory of batik. It records batik's transformation from its traditional context into the world of modernity. It examines the way this cloth with its deeply embedded, multi-layered meanings has been re-created to become relevant to a modern lifestyle, including its use in the garment/fashion, and interior design industries. The book's mastermind, Joop Ave, was the first person to encourage Indonesian batik masters to venture out into interior design by commissioning them to create enlarged batik motif wall hangings.
Alvaro Siza twenty two...
Reinventing the Wheel: The...
Portraits of the new...
Dostępność: na zamówienie Richard Schulman's color photographs highlight fifty international architects and their buildings. In some ways a product - and critique - of the celebrity status of architects, the candid images of each (mainly individuals but sometimes firms) are the most illuminating aspect of the book.
Expanding the Center:...
Dostępność: na zamówienie Opening to critical acclaim in April 2005, the Walker Art Center expansion was the culmination of an extraordinary partnership between the institution and Pritzker Prize–winning architects Herzog & de Meuron. Expanding the Center chronicles the five-year effort to create a truly 21st-century arts center, a place where contemporary artists, art forms, and audiences meet.
Sticker Stack
Gourmet Shops of Paris
Dostępność: na zamówienie Paris, the food-lover's capital, is adept at satisfying the most discerning gourmand. Gourmet Shops of Paris offers a unique guide to the best addresses for savoring the flavors of Paris, where sampling reigns supreme. Beautiful shops and boutiques offer delectable pastry and tarts, chocolate and candy, wine, bread, and cheese, olive oil, tea, and soup: the finest products from France's many celebrated regions and across the globe.
Corporate Interiors No. 9
Dostępność: na zamówienie CORPORATE INTERIORS 9 documents the resilience of America’s top businesses in the 21st century by showcasing their newest offices, created by some of the nation’s leading architects and interior designers. Roger Yee is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and has received honors for his work in the field from such organizations as the American Institute of Architects and the Society of Interior Designers.
Antiques in Italian...
Dostępność: na zamówienie This volume showcases a marvellous range of antiques—ranging from small works of art to rare decorative objects to precious period furniture—housed in some of the most extraordinary private residences in Italy. The homes of princes, scholars, antiquarians, professors, and magnates are presented in over two hundred of the best of images made by architectural photographer Mario Ciampi during the last twenty years.
Legacy: The Preservation of...
Dostępność; na zamówienie This historic publication defines an important moment, as master photographer Joel Meyerowitz is the first photographer to document New York City's parks since the 1930s, when they were photographed as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s WPA program. In this stunningly beautiful collection of images, Meyerowitz invites the viewer to discover the hidden pockets of wilderness that still exist within the urban environs of New York City.
Vienna objects and rituals
Dostępność: na zamówienie Vienna is wealthy and conservative city that values and exploits its history. Its inner city is brimful with luscious architectural confectionery, a heritage that is a source of both local pride and thourist revenue.
Educational Spaces 2
Architecture Earth
Dostępność: na zamówienie Linking the design of our homes with earthen textures and components is one of the most natural paths architecture can take. Stone, marble, terracotta and adobe are not only innately associated with the construction process but also tend to provide incomparable elegance.
JACOB AND WILHELM GRIMM CENTRE
DOSTĘPNOŚĆ: NA ZAMÓWIENIE The Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Center is a conceptual work of urban architecture of sculptural proportions. The library's design reflects the Humboldt-University of Berlin's status as a world-renowned, time-honoured and yet modern and innovative institution for instruction and research. Located between the River Spree and the elevated commuter rail line in the immediate vicinity of Museum Island, the 10-storey structure rises over the Berlin skyline and is an important fixture of the city's cultural landscape.
NEW PALLADIANS
DOSTĘPNOŚĆ: NA ZAMÓWIENIE 'New Palladians' showcases how, at the outset of the 21st century, classical and vernacular traditions are flourishing as a modern phenomena, practiced by a wide spectrum of architectural firms, scholars, students, universities and institutions. The 'New Palladians' are dedicated to the highest standards of craftsmanship and design, and to the very best ecological building and sustainable urbanism.
ELLSWORTH KELLY
ELLSWORTH KELLY. THUMBING THROUGH THE FOLDER: A DIALOGUE ON ART AND ARCHITECTURE WITH HANS ULRICH OBRIST Ellsworth Kelly, now more than eighty-five years old, reminisces with great enthusiasm and not a hint of nostalgia on his life, his work and encounters and experiences with teachers and colleagues.
THAM AND VIDEGARD ARKITEKTER
DOSTĘPNOŚĆ: NA ZAMÓWIENIE This is a superbly illustrated and perceptive survey of the award-winning work of contemporary architectural firm Tham & Videgard Arkitekter. In 1999, Bolle Tham and Martin Videgard Hansson founded their architectural practice - Tham & Videgard Arkitekter - with the aim of offering a progressive and contemporary vision that was neither stuck in the functionalist past nor preoccupied with the conceptual image.
RICHARD ROGERS + ARCHITECTS...
British architect Richard Rogers has been described as the last humanist, in recognition of his determination to create public spaces that encompass the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world. This book takes a look at the work of Rogers and his partners, from his early career in the Sixties and Seventies, to his collaboration with Renzo Piano on the design of the Pompidou Centre (1971-77), to numerous projects up to present day through his architectural practice, Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners).
NORMAN FOSTER. A LIFE IN...
Norman Foster is a phenomenon - as an architect, but also as an individual. He is responsible for a dozen or more of the most recognisable buildings of the last thirty years. Under his driven leadership, what is now called Foster and Partners has grown to an international firm with almost 1,000 employees, building astonishing constructions all over the world. Deyan Sudjic explores the nature of the impact that he has had on architecture, and on the contemporary city. It traces his remarkable journey from the backstreets of Manchester, the determination with which he has built a global architectural practice, and his huge creative impact on what we see around us.
FULL SPECTRUM THE...
This unique look at Calgary Architect Jeremy Sturgess' creative career is presented as a boxed set of nine portfolios in a print run of only 750 copies. Governor-General award winning architect Jeremy Sturgess recently celebrated thirty years in practice in Calgary where he has been based throughout his career. During that time, Sturgess has made a major contribution to transforming the architectural face of the city, from individual houses to large-scale public projects such as the Calgary Water Centre, the Grand Theatre, and Calgary's most recent downtown LRT stations.