POLSKA. REKORDY I CIEKAWOSTKI

As Asian cities become more densely populated, dwelling spaces become increasingly smaller and, in some cities an entire apartment may be the size of a single room. The homes featured in this artfully photographed volume may be restricted in square footage, but unlimited in terms of innovation. One apartment, for example, features an efficient arrangement of kitchenette, bathroom, and laundry areas in a space dominated by white, transparent materials for an airy effect.

Le Corbusier is often remembered as having been aggressively indifferent to the sites in which he placed his buildings and plans. However, new research reveals that, in keeping with his proposition that ‘the outside is always an inside’, all of Le Corbusier’s projects responded emphatically to specific geographies. This book examines Le Corbusier’s relationship with the landscapes of five continents, in forty essays by thirty of the foremost scholars of his work.

This book shows how the virtual has completely changed the physical world around us. If architecture is the construction of space between people, what happens when that space exists in a virtual world? That question is the starting point for this collection of revolutionary projects by a new generation of designers. The book begins by examining the important issues that have emerged as technology reshapes our idea of place and proceeds to present the four winning projects from the first architecture competition held within the explosively popular Internet community known as Second Life.

Niezwykłą książka, która pomoże Czytelnikom przygotować się do przeżywania kanonizacji Jana Pawła II. Najbardziej osobista książka w dorobku Hanny Suchockiej. Autorka była nie tylko premierem RP i ministrem sprawiedliwości, lecz również przez wiele lat ambasadorem Polski przy Stolicy Apostolskiej. Efektem jej pobytu w Wiecznym Mieście stała się książka poświęcona tradycji nawiedzania kościołów stacyjnych w Rzymie w okresie Wielkiego Postu. Tradycja ta sięga wczesnego chrześcijaństwa, gdy – po zagwarantowaniu wolności religijnej przez cesarza Konstantyna Wielkiego – rozpoczęło się pielgrzymowanie do Rzymu do grobów zmarłych męczenników. Z czasem na każdy dzień Wielkiego Postu wyznaczony został konkretny kościół, w którym odprawiano mszę św. i można było uzyskać odpust.

European emigrés have been changing the face of modern American architecture for decades. Winka Dubbeldam surely belongs to that long list of distinguished practitioners. Working across scales-from a New York skyscraper to a rural house-the Dutch-born architect has established herself as one of the most provocative figures in the field by seamlessly integrating function and form, technology and comfort, city and home. Folded glass facades, intelligent building cores, and interactive environments highlight the work of her progressive, process-based studio/laboratory, Archi-Tectonics.