RENZO PIANO 1966-2005 - XXL

Prezentowana książka, czwarty tom Wykładów z Socjologii, stanowi autorską próbę opisu dwóch fundamentalnych kategorii socjologicznych, jakimi są przestrzeń i miasto. Jest to wydanie drugie, zmienione i poprawione uznanego już podręcznika o tym samym tytule. Przedstawia szkoły naukowe, mistrzów i kontynuatorów, poczynając od klasycznej ekologii chicagowskiej. Ukazuje historyczne etapy rozwoju miast starożytnych i średniowiecznych, aglomeracje epoki industrialnej, miasto "socjalistyczne" i ponowoczesne metropolie. W ostatniej części prezentuje socjologiczne pojmowanie przestrzeni.

Dostępność: na zamówienie Gustave Alexandre Eiffel (Dijon 1832-Paris 1923). This French civil engineer and constructor, is famous for the Eiffel Tower in Paris. He studied at the École Central des Arts et Manufactures, where he demonstrated his interest in metal construction, graduated in Chemical Engineering and in 1866 founded his own company. He directed the building of an iron railway bridge at Bordeaux and the design of the movable dome of the observatory at Nice. He finished his greatest project, the Eiffel Tower, in 1889, in time for the Centennial Exposition, causing commotion and amazement among the artists of the period and the world in general. His next large-scale project was the Panama Canal.

Competitions are among the most exciting occurrences in the field of architecture. It provides designers unique opportunities to pitch their work across the globe. This title features entries of different typologies for various individual competitions as well as today’s main contemporary architectural competitions. For these, like the planning for the grounds of the World Trade Center in New York, the most significant contributions are presented. Competition entries are the original architectural concepts, which usually on the way to becoming completed buildings are subject to many changes and compromises – and sometimes are not built at all.

Trzytomowy PORADNIK INŻYNIERA. SPAWALNICTWO jest jedynym w swoim rodzaju, obszernym i wyczerpującym, obszernym i wyczerpującym kompendium wiedzy. Decydującą rolę w powstaniu tego dzieła odegrał Instytut Spawalnictwa w Gliwicach, ośrodek będący od wielu lat centrum polskiego spawalnictwa, skupiający zespół doświadczonych specjalistów ze wszystkich dziedzin spawalnictwa. Trzon zespołu autorskiego stanowią wybrani pracownicy naukowo-badawczy Instytutu. Do współpracy zaproszono również znanych specjalistów w wybranych dziedzinach spawalnictwa, pracowników naukowo-dydaktycznych krajowych uczelni technicznych.

Faultlessly Stylish Interiors for Business, Pleasure and Leisure As the late twentieth-century fascination with rounded shapes, organic influences, and plastics fades, interior designers are increasingly drawn to deep colours, polished woods, velvets, furs, leather, dark metals, and brick – materials used liberally in the past – that have a nostalgic quality. Efforts to shape a less austere present by creating an idealized version of the past have begun to appear in commercial and residential design throughout the country and abroad.

Frank Lloyd Wright's wife, Olgivanna, is famously quoted as saying that "My husband seemed to thrive on hardships." From the years 1920 to 1932 Wright's fortunes were at a low ebb; he was plagued by financial, personal, and professional setbacks, but saw the time as one of challenges instead of one of defeat. Unable to find patrons, his imagination led to visionary, often splendid, architectural conceptions that laid the groundwork for the revolutionary architecture he would build in the decades to follow. During this period he designed almost fifty projects, of which only a few were realized, but those few are seen today as among his most important creations. 

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