TEORETYCY HISTORIOGRAFOWIE I ARTYŚCI O SZTUCE 1600-1700

Dostępność: na zamówienie The use of light and illumination in architecture and design is currently evolving and making an increasingly significant impact on various creative disciplines. Today, architects use light installations to create a different nighttime identity for their buildings that allow for additional functions and presentations. Light is also important for interior designers, who use it to give the impression of a room where there isn t one or make a space seem bigger or smaller. Others use light to conjure works of art, forms and images out of nothing or to give entire city centres a whole new look.

Culled and assembled by Romeyn Beck Hough between 1888 and 1913 in what still remains a stunning and unparalleled achievement, American Woods —originally published in 14 volumes, with actual specimens mounted on card stock—is a work of breathtaking beauty that has set the standard for the study of trees and wood. TASCHEN`s Wood Book reproduces, in painstaking facsimile, all of the specimen pages from the original volumes; for this purpose we have obtained the use of an extremely rare original set of volumes in very good condition, with minimal damage to the wood cuts.

Dostępność:na zamowienie Landscape Architecture Defining the Craft Holding to the highest standards of technical craft to create problem-solving landscapes that attain artful expression, Peter Walker and Partners (PWP) is responsible for some of most beautiful and iconic works of landscape architecture in the world.

Dostępność:na zamowienie Loft o f Paris is the fourth in a series of seven books that Tectum is publishing on the lofts of seven European cities. After Antwerp, Amsterdam and London and while waiting for Berlin, Barcelona and Stockholm, Tectum has opened the doors of some fifty marvellous loftsin Paris and its outskirts. These lofts were selected to present the challenges of organising and decorating an abandoned industrial site or workshop. Many workshops, garages, warehouses, small factories, printing works and large sheds around Paris have been given a new lease of life.

Celem pracy jest próba udzielenia odpowiedzi na następujące pytania: jakie znaczenie dla kształtowania współczesnych przestrzeni publicznych w mieście może mieć lokalizacja nowych muzeów? Gwałtowny rozwój cywilizacyjny i technologiczny w XX wieku doprowadził do powstania wielu instytucji kulturalnych i naukowych. W przeszłości symbolami bogactwa i znaczenia miast były okazałe katedry, pałace, ratusze. Obecnie w czasach globalizacji i uniwersalizacji kultury, rolę miejskich budynków reprezentacyjnych przejmują prestiżowe obiekty i zespoły architektoniczno-urbanistyczne związane z promocją i prezentacją wiedzy i sztuki, głównie muzea. 

The ultimate garden book - both a collection of gardens from around the world and a resource for those seeking inspiration on garden design and planting. Featuring over 250 permanent gardens by leading garden designers, horticulturalists and landscape architects, from the 14th century to the present day, and covering all key types and styles of garden, this well-illustrated compendium combines images, text, key information and captions for each of the featured gardens, appealing to both amateur and professional gardeners, as well as garden designers.