PODSTAWY MECHANIKI BUDOWLI

Lighting is a key feature of almost all interiors but it is often treated in a rather superficial manner in most books. This volume features more than 40 recent international projects where the lighting is the defining design feature. For large schemes, a professional lighting designer is usually employed, but for smaller projects it will often fall to the architect or interior designer to specify the lighting. In either case, it is crucial that the architect or interior designer understands what lighting is available, how it can be used and controlled and how it can be fitted. Each project includes detailed plans, diagrams, sketches and CAD visuals to demonstrate the lighting techniques involved.

From the contents: New Building in Brione, Switzerland (Markus Wespi and Jérôme de Meuron)House in Mühlgraben, Austria (Maaars Architektur) Molly’s Cabin in Pointe au Baril, Canada (Agathom Co.) Chalet C6 in Lon Andes, Chile (DRN Architects) House on the Mountainside in Hyogo, Japan (Keiichi Hayashi Architect) The typical country homes of mountainous regions, chalets are gaining in popularity around the globe. Implemented in contemporary styles , they offer a refuge in nature from the hustle and bustle of daily urban life. The natural settings offer challenges and opportunities at the same time. The designs have to accommodate the topography of the landscape, combining regional typologies and modern styles.

While computers have facilitated and enriched the ways in which architects can develop and present their ideas, there is also a growing lack of skills in other forms of image-making that was traditionally furnished through training in drawing and sketching. This book focuses on the exciting possibilities for representing the built environment with all the techniques – both ancient and modern – that are now available. Students today need to learn the following skills: how to draw using a range of media, the basic rules of making effective spatial images, how to read a drawing, and how to express ideas through appropriate media and forms of communication.

Apart from being one of Asia’s largest metropolises, Beijing is an ultimate visual challenge. The country's growing economy and construction boom has attracted the attention of the world's finest architects eager to create masterworks in this city. The new is rapidly replacing the old in the country's political, economic and cultural center. When Beijing won the bid in 2001 to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the city started a somewhat controversial transformation. Olympic-driven developments - from sports and cultural infrastructure to business buildings and commercial facilities - have transformed a city once characterized by conservative

The focus of this monograph on Spanish-born Felix Candela (1919-1997) is on modern Mexican architecture and its international influence. Conducting daring structural experiments with materials such as reinforced concrete and experimenting with shell vaulting to find new methods to save costs and material in building, Candela not only succeeded in putting his engineering knowledge into high quality constructions but also into high quality architecture.

Po 79 latach od pierwszego wydania przypominamy WARSZAWĘ FUNKCJONALNĄ - odważną acz racjonalną wizję miasta przyszłości, kamień milowy polskiej i światowej urbanistyki. WARSZAWĘ FUNKCJONALNĄ odkurzamy jako receptę na współczesny miejski chaos - przede wszystkim sprawl i bezłądną suburbanizację. WARSZ AWA FUNKCJONALNA służy za wzór całościowego myślenia o mieście i otaczającym regionie.

A small book of big ideas … The crisis of modern architecture is part of a much larger crisis involving the whole question of the way we live and how we use the resources of our planet. Poor design, monotony, and inhuman scale are the results not of lack of talent nor the failures of the Modern Movement, but of a surrender to selfish interests and short-sighted economies. Richard Rogers, perhaps the most original and inventive architect at work today, is a frequent commentator on the contemporary scene.

Publikacja "Antyki. Poradnik kolekcjonera" jako kopalnia wiedzy o antykach i wielu innych przedmiotach nadających się do kolekcjonowania.

Przekazuje informacje na temat ceramiki, szkła, srebra i porcelany, mebli, dywanów i tkanin, a ponadto podejmuje się takimi obiektami kolekcjonerskimi, jak biżuteria, zegary i zegarki, zabawki, broń i wiele, wiele innych. Daje szeroki opis każdej specjalności. Ciekawe fotografie pozwalają na łatwe rozpoznanie i identyfikację istotnych detali, co sprawia, że publikacja ta jest nieocenionym przewodnikiem po bezdrożach kolekcjonerstwa oraz ważnym źródłem przyjemności i wiedzy.

"Apartamenty - inspirujące wnętrza i projekty" to ponad 600 stron nowoczesnych wnętrz z całego świata - Nowego Jorku, Londynu, Paryża, Mediolanu czy Lizbony. W książce prezentowane są zarówno małe kawalerki, jak i kilkupokojowe apartamenty czy lofty. Są one zaprojektowane przez znanych architektów i dekoratorów wnętrz.

Creating space for the display of works of art has intrigued Renzo Piano throughout his thirty-five years of architectural practice. Today he is acknowledged the pre-eminent designer in this field, entrusted with the collections of the most distinguished art institutions in the world. Renzo Piano Museums presents a portfolio of eighteen museum projects, beginning with the revolutionary Pompidou Center in Paris and continuing to the most current designs for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo.