100 CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTS

Publikacja Architektura ziemi. Tradycja i współczesność autorstwa Teresy Kelm omawia historię, która liczy wiele tysięcy lat, przybliża znajomość odwiecznych technik, ukazujefw najnowsze doświadczenia w dziedzinie budownictwa z surowej ziemi.

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the capital of the European Union, is well-known as an international financial centre, and its growth in importance and affluence is increasingly reflected in high-quality architecture. With the recent opening of the Philharmonie by Christian de Portzamparc and the Museum of Contemporary Art by I. M. Pei, Luxembourg has impressively proven that the city is serious about its ambition to become an significant cultural city and an important European city for contemporary architecture.

For romantic dinners, family meetings or business lunches, restaurants have always functioned as venues of social interaction. Their interior designs are as varied as the types of food served and the culinary delights are aided and abetted by the choice of furniture, materials, floor plans and colors. While some designers strive to produce eccentric and outlandish effects, others distinguish themselves by a minimalist reduction to the essential or a reinterpretation of traditional contexts and classical decor.

Architecture 09 is the official guide to the work of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and all RIBA Awards presented in 2009.The featured awards include the prestigious Stirling Prize, awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution in the past year to the evolution of architecture and the built environment, and the Royal Gold Medal, conferred on a distinguished architect.

Celem tej książki jest przedstawienie historii kształtowania przestrzeni prywatnej i publicznej w okresie 6000 lat. Klasyk dla architektów wnętrz i studentów architektury. 

ART DECO INTERIORS Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s By the time of the great Paris Exhibition of 1925, the idea that an interior and its furnishing should form a complete design - a 'total look' - dominated the thinking of both designers and their sophisticated clients. In the later 1920s and 1930s, whole studios were established, notably in France and the United States, to serve the needs of a design- and style-conscious middle class intent on showing off its newly refined taste for things modern and exotic: the richly lacquered screen, the tubular steel chair, the vivid geometric carpet.

Album zawiera opisy i fotografie najpiękniejszych a zarazem najbardziej fascynujących budynków i budowli na Ziemi. To ekscytująca podróż przez wszystkie kontynenty, dostarczająca wiele emocji i wrażeń estetycznych, ale także wiedzy o odległych zakątkach, doniosłych dziełach architektonicznych i ich twórcach. Od tysięcy lat ludzie próbowali kształtować swoje otoczenie.

Dostępność: na zamówienie If there is a new language of contemporary design, surely it is pattern. Evocative, hypnotizing, sensual, calming, jarring, soothing patterns cover, conceal, and reveal an astonishing range of emotions and are at home on a chair or lamp as they are on the facades of enormous buildings. Patterns in Design examines this new trend, illustrating it with work by design luminaries like Hella Jongerius, Tord Moontje, Michael Lin, Olaf Nicolai, and Sauebruch and Hutton.