PODSTAWY ARCHITEKTURY KRAJOBRAZU 1

This collection of outstanding projects for public spaces is an excellent overview of current trends in urban planning; new forms of social existence have led to an increased interest in the definition of urban space. Our cities have already crossed the dividing line between space to inhabit and habitable space and, at present, it is difficult to conceive of a good urban development plan without an equally good plan of the public space involved.

Collective housing has played a major role in the architectural advances ofthe last century, in the process provoking its fair share of controversy,admiration and disapprobation. 

Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (and traveling throughout the world), this exquisitely designed and produced catalog explores the formal aspects of Richard Meier's architecture. Over his thirty-five-year career, Meier has produced a body of work that is recognized for its unceasing pursuit of the ideals of modernism and its sensitive handling of urban contexts. This volume, illustrated with exceptional duotone photographs and Meier's own drawings, is the first to cover his entire career.

ART DECO 1910-1939 przedstawia okres prosperity lat dwudziestych i wybuch wielkiego kryzysu w latach trzydziestych, mieści w sobie zarówno splendor i przepych, jak i hedonizm epoki jazzu.

Było stylem modnych dziewcząt, luksusowych liniowców oceanicznych, hollywoodzkich filmów oraz drapaczy chmur.

Alison and Peter Smithson, founders of Team X and authors of the classic Team X Primer, are among the most influential architects of the postwar decades. Their reevaluation of modernism shifted the focus of architecture and urbanism toward the particularities and uniqueness of human associations, urban patterns, and climatic conditions. Many of their ideas, both social (cluster and human association) and architectural (Brutalism, the nature of materials), profoundly influenced later generations of academics, students, and practitioners.