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Dostępność: na zamówienie “A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, ‘Madame, if that’s the way you see it, so be it.’” An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898–1972)—the complex ambiguities of whose work leave hasty or single-minded interpretations far behind. Long before the first computer-generated 3-D images were thrilling the public, Escher was a master of the third dimension. His lithograph "Magic Mirror” dates as far back as 1946. 

Kolejny tom tej znanej w środowisku budowlanym książki, obecnej na rynku wydawniczym od ponad 25 lat. W sposób pełny ujęto zalecenia zawarte w Eurokodzie 2 i normach związanych. Normy „europejskie” (PN-EN, PN-ISO, PN-EN-ISO) potraktowano jako podstawowe, nie rezygnując z przedstawienia w pełni zaleceń dotychczasowych Norm Polskich (PN). Tekst zilustrowano wieloma rysunkami i zdjęciami ułatwiającymi przyswojenie fizycznego kształtu omawianych elementów i ich szczegółów – pokazującymi je w rzeczywistości. Tom 4 dotyczy obliczania i konstruowania ustrojów szkieletowych i ścianowych, zarówno monolitycznych, jak i prefabrykowanych. 

Może być wiele charakterystycznych różnic w projektowaniu domów, ale fakt fundamentalnej idei schronienia pozostaje niezmienny od wieków. Życie i śmierć wchodzą w architekturę na przykładzie przestrzeni każdego budynku mieszkalnego, od dawnych jaskiń do wielkich zamków. Dom jest wyznacznikiem jego aktualnej cywilizacji, społeczeństwa, jego zamożności, ale najbardziej - inteligencji. W zależności od architekta i jego klienta, dom może stać się tą architekturą, która zwróci na siebie uwagę setek milionów ludzi, może akceptować regulacje urbanistyczne lub z nimi kontrastować. Może także wzbijać się w powietrze lub być schowanym głeboko w ziemi.

A definitive and beautifully illustrated book on this sacred Tibetan site. Lying at the center of an ancient network of Buddhist temples in the Great Temple of Lhasa, the Jokhang Temple is the heart of spiritual and economic life in Tibet. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is the atmospheric focal point of Lhasa, from which bustling narrow lanes of commerce radiate outward in all directions.

European architecture is distinguished by a variety of forms and styles. This building diversity is influenced by architects and agencies throughout ali of Europe.

Dostępność: na zamówienie Already well established in the fields of travel, journalistic and advertising photography, Horst and Tina Herzig focus on Britain’s dynamic capital city to give us a stunning visual survey in black and white. The results of their walks through London’s streets, parks, and neighborhoods collected here are more than a simple documentary record of a time and a place. Interspersed among the many artfully composed photographs of London’s most famous landmarks are dozens of pictures that capture the spirit and energy of Londoners themselves. 

Asian living—often a palette of centuries-old building techniques—is becoming more and more a by-product of dense urbanity, with high-rise apartments and large populations living close together in small spaces and Western-accented fast-paced lifestyles. The apartments presented in this dense and colorfully photographed volume represent current trends in design, which tend to draw inspiration from the past while embracing the future.

Ten years, ten boxes, 118 issues, 6,076 pages! The seminal architecture journal resurrected in facsimile The first part (1945-1954) of our facsimile edition of John Entenza's groundbreaking magazine, which launched the Case Study House Program; in ten boxes, each containing one year's worth of magazines "A&A was instrumental in putting American Architecture on the map." Julius Shulman From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture: emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated low-cost materials and modern design. This trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study House Program, which was championed by the era’s leading American journal, Arts & Architecture.

Architect Louis Kahn discovered late in life how to transform the ruins of ancient Rome into modern buildings. His pursuit of an ideal geometric order was informed by a keen sense of history. Based on platonic shapes, his buildings, at once monumental and human in scale, marked the end of the international style and opened the way for a revival of vernacular and classical traditions. These themes are documented in a lavishly illustrated retrospective survey which accompanies a traveling exhibition. Brownlee, associate professor of art history, and DeLong, professor of architecture, both at the University of Pennsylvania, track Kahn's prodigious career in intimate essays followed by a 160-page pictorial section analyzing 14 key projects.