ARCHITEKTURA BEZ TAJEMNIC

Surveying applied arts and industrial design from the 18th century to the present day, this book explores the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social and commercial context in which this relationship developed. The effects of a vastly enlarged audience for the products of modern design and the complex dynamic of mass consumption are also discussed. Part of this dynamic reveals that products serve as signs for desires that have little to do with need or function.

Renesansowy ratusz w Poznaniu, reprezentacyjny gmach miasta będący jego symbolem i dumą, wcale nie jest renesansowy. A przynajmniej nie cały. Przypomina trochę rosyjskie babuszki - po otwarciu jednej, ukazuje się druga, potem trzecia i kolejne. W ratuszu jest podobnie - spod współczesnej, właśnie ukończonej powłoki przeziera klasycystyczna wieża, renesansowa bryła Quadry, późnogotycki, a na końcu gotycki trzon, po części ukryty w przyziemiu, po części widoczny, ponieważ gotycki jest również czworokątny, ceglany trzon wieży. Niejednorodność stylistyczna widoczna jest także we wnętrzach, gdzie od piwnic aż po dach mieszają się style, epoki i gusta twórców. 

YES IS MORE is the first monograph of its kind devoted exclusively to the trailblazing practice of BIG, a Copenhagenbased group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. Unlike a classic architectural monograph, this book is more of a manifesto of popular culture, in which BIG s methods, means, processes and approach to the concept of architecture are revealed as being as unconventional, unexpected and result-producing as the world in which it exists, continually reaffirming its mission with a resounding YES.

Dostępność: na zamówienie The award-winning designer and author of Rooms and Houses returns with inspiring ideas for apartment interiors in this lavishly photographed book. Step into a space designed by Mariette Himes Gomez and you're sure to notice the refined simplicity, clear architectural composition, and thoughtful attention to detail that have made her one of the most respected and sought-after tastemakers in the country.

A personal tour through some of the key buildings by the Renzo Piano Workshop. Each project is introduced with text by Renzo Piano himself and colour photographs take the reader on a visual guide around each building. This book features 25 built projects presented chronologically, starting from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and including the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, the Potsdamer Platz masterplan in Berlin and the Renzo Piano Workshop in Genoa.

Publikacja MOK. ILUSTROWANY ATLAS ARCHITEKTURY PÓŁNOCNEGO MOKOTOWA autorstwa Joanny Koszewskiej, Grzegorza Mika jest kolejnym po, SAS-sie i ŻOL-u, posiadającym ilustracje atlasem architektury po dzielnicach Warszawy.