BUILDING BERLIN, Vol. 2

Dostępność: na zamówienie "We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept." – Philippe Starck. Philippe Starck wants to bring love and happiness into your life by designing objects, environments, and appliances that will brighten your days. He spent his childhood under his father's drawing boards, sawing, cutting, gluing, and sanding, dismantling bikes, motorcycles and other objects.

Dostępność: na zamówienie Systems that can be used in many different ways for efficient building Architects have always planned and built using construction systems consisting of a few identical elements with a focus on more efficient and economical construction progress and possible subsequent dismantling or modification. Prefabricated systems of components that can be combined with each other and with modern planning and production methods will be an increasingly important aspect of architecture in future. "Components and Systems" describes various prefabricated construction components and open and closed systems in the context of frame, panel and modular construction methods. 

Sztukatorstwo jako dyscyplina artystyczna na pograniczu rzeźby i architektury, znalazło się nieco na uboczu głównych nurtów badań nad sztuką nowożytną. A przecież to w tej właśnie technice najczęściej powstawały najbardziej awangardowe dzieła o genezie włoskiej. Stiuk, jako materiał stosunkowo tani i łatwy w modelowaniu, stał się idealnym tworzywem dla artystycznych eksperymentów, które w XVII wieku otwierały nowe fazy rozwoju rzeźby i wystroju wnętrz.

A pictorial list of 50 spans, Graf's album exalts both famous and utterly obscure bridges. By including rope bridges in Nepal, and the newest suspension bridge giants in Japan and Denmark, the author underscores the commonality to any bridge's purpose: vaulting chasms and straits to link people and commerce. Florence's famous Ponte Vecchio, with the shops built onto its spans, expresses the idea literally, while other celebrated bridges do so symbolically, like the now-destroyed Stari Most in Mostar, Bosnia. Whatever a bridge's exact physical purpose, it also exudes a powerful aesthetic presence that Graf handsomely displays: the book's design faces a one-page historical description with a full-page photograph, with an oblong format enhancing the feeling of length.