Dostępność:na zamowienie Part manual, part manifesto, part monograph, this is the first publication that looks comprehensively at the methods and techniques of Lars Spuybroek’s hugely inventive and influential architecture. In the young generation of ‘digerati’ architects, Rotterdam-based Lars Spuybroek and his studio, NOX, are among the few who have completed built projects. Before the advent of large-scale processing power, digital modelling and computer-aided manufacturing, NOX’s outlandish structures would have been inconceivable.
Dostępność:na zamowienie Part manual, part manifesto, part monograph, this is the first publication that looks comprehensively at the methods and techniques of Lars Spuybroek’s hugely inventive and influential architecture. In the young generation of ‘digerati’ architects, Rotterdam-based Lars Spuybroek and his studio, NOX, are among the few who have completed built projects. Before the advent of large-scale processing power, digital modelling and computer-aided manufacturing, NOX’s outlandish structures would have been inconceivable. Today, and internationally, the work is being taken more and more seriously as the possibilities for construction and spatial innovation have become more feasible. Written and compiled largely by the architect, the book gives the inspirations, insights and methods that allow him to conceive – and build – such original work.
Shigeru Ban (born Tokyo, 1957) attended SCI-Arc in California and earned his degree at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York. Based in Tokyo and Paris, Ban consistently challenges accepted notions of architecture, designing a house without walls, or an exhibition space made from paper tubes and shipping containers. This monograph, compiled with the architect's collaboration, traces his career and features every built work of Shigeru Ban, showing clearly why he is one of the world's most innovative and significant architects.
W niezliczonych restauracjach na Majorce i Ibizie można skosztować zarówno regionalnych specjałów, jak również dań kuchni międzynarodowej. Do 23 wybranych miejsc z tych dwóch wysp na Balearach zaprasza książka „Cool Restaurants Mallorca / Ibiza”. Przyciągają one zarówno wyśmienitą kuchnią, jak również malowniczą lokalizacją i oryginalnym wystrojem wnętrz. Dzięki przepisom potraw wybranym przez szefów kuchni restauracji można zapoznać się z najmodniejszymi trendami w kuchni śródziemnomorskiej. Zdjęcia książki uzupełnia garść praktycznych szczegółów z adresami i stronami internetowymi restauracji, jak również godzinami ich otwarcia, typem oferowanej kuchni oraz wyróżniającymi je cechami. Wszystkie miejsca zostały zaznaczone na załączonej mapie wysp.
New Restaurant Design showcases 45 of the best-designed, most exciting new dining venues around the world. Featured establishments include Patrick Jouin’s Senderens in Paris, Christian Liaigre’s Buddakan in New York and Philippe Starck’s Bon in Moscow. Fans of Bethan Ryder’s earlier books will not be disappointed by this colourful and exciting new survey of the latest projects from the cream of the international design world.
The introduction features interviews with 11 of the world’s most influential interior designers – including Adam D. Tihany, Marcel Wanders, Patrick Jouin and David Collins – who talk about their design philosophy and approach, their favourite eateries and what makes a great restaurant space.
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The Ten Houses series makes the most important elements of architectural design available to a large and varied audience. Each infinitely useful volume presents one of the world’s foremost architects and features 10 of his or her finest residential works-including presentation, drawings, sketches, and working drawings. These full-color, highly affordable volumes will enhance any library, providing an essential reference for architecture students and individuals looking for home design ideas.
Situated amid breathtaking scenery, the cities of Salzburg and Kitzbuehel offer everything the discerning visitor could desire. With Salzburg's Baroque architecture and lively student population, and Kitzbuehel's status as an alluring international center for winter sports, there's something here to please even the most jaded. There are plenty of leisure and social activities to fill up your days and nights, whatever the season. This informative and cutting-edge guide chronicles all that's cool in these captivating cities.
Russia Now
Contemporary Architecture and Design
Presents 35 innovative examples of contemporary Russian architecture, interior design and product design
with full format photos and true to scale floor plans
Currently the only available publication on this subject
Dostępność: na zamówienie Since 1936, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has set the standard for corporate design, producing some of the most iconic buildings of the last century and shaping cities throughout the world. SOM, a small-format volume, amply illustrated and (of course) beautifully designed, places the firm's production in the context of critical discussion among some of the profession’s leading thinkers: artists, engineers, architectural critics and architects themselves.
Every house included in this volume reveals a unique dialogue with the landscape, whether it is designed to merge with its surroundings by integrating water into the home or conceived as a platform from which to appreciate the stunning views of a boundless bleu blanket of water.
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Książka jest fundamentalnym dziełem spełniającym oczekiwania wszystkich, którzy interesują się sztuką i architekturą. Przetłumaczona na wiele języków, stale wznawiana i aktualizowana jest cenną pomocą dla studentów zarówno historii sztuki, jak i architektury. Bogaty materiał usystematyzowany został w przemyślany sposób. Osobne rozdziały poświęcone są wiedzy o stylach w zakresie budownictwa: sakralnego, budowy zamków, pałaców i budownictwa komunalnego. Książka zawiera poza tym: leksykon ilustrowany, 5-języczny słownik pojęć, liczne mapy, indeks miejscowości i nazwisk.
Od czasów zjednoczenia klasyczne typologie architektoniczne takie jak dom, willa miejska czy hotel przeżywają w Berlinie renesans i stanowią jeden z głównych filarów nowoczesnego miasta. W obszernym tomie przedstawiono 30 przykladów współczesnego budownictwa w Berlinie. Wielojęzyczny katalog przedstawia projekty znanych architektów takich jak David Chipperfield, Hilmer&Sattler i Albrecht czy duet Kleihues+Kleihues
Dostępność: na zamówienie "Designing for the Greater Good" features interviews with leading designers who do cause-related work for all kinds of organizations. A wealth of eye-catching full-colour examples include the wildly successful Lance Armstrong Livestrong campaign and other notable and memorable designs from social service campaigns and organizations around the world. Also featured is a valuable Q and A with influential designers from both government-funded and private non-profits which explores the design ideas employed, the designers' inspirations, materials, and the financial results that effective cause-related design work can achieve.
Tectum's earliest bestselling books were those devoted to the fashion for loft living - converting large one-storey spaces within buildings into open plan living spaces. Each volume was a showcase for desirable modern loft spaces in London, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Brussels, Scandinavia, Paris, Berlin and even China. This new photographic collection visits a wide variety of buildings from all over the world, showing how interior designers have transformed them. The choice of subjects mixes classic interior designs with iconic new ones and flea market discoveries. 500 pages of large-format colour photographs illustrate imaginative use of colour and design and the character of space in the open living environment.
Dostępność: na zamówienie Jose Lluis Sert was born in 1902 in Barcelona, where he studied at the School of Architecture. After the Spanish Civil War he moved to the United States and opened Town Planning Associates with Paul Lester Wiener and Paul Schulz. He taught at many universities, including Harvard, where he served as dean of the School of Design. Before his death in 1983 he returned to his native Spain.
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Zen interiors are a reflection of the modern urge to simplify, to pare down, to slow down. This book features serene, uncluttered havens from the outside world, created through the central concepts of Zen: simplicity, inner calm, harmony. In home design, this means simple layouts, subtle light, calming tones, and clean lines. Original floor plans and rich full-color photography, plus detailed commentary from the designers, show the process of creation and the final results. Zen Interiors will produce a sense of inner calm in any architect or designer.
One day, Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman, came across a stone atHauterives near Lyon, and was fascinated by its strange, evocative shape.He spent the next three decades collecting stones, shells, and fossils,and used them to build the Palais idéal.
Arabian Nights in contemporary Morocco Once upon a time in a land not so far away… Though it lies just across the Mediterranean from Europe, barely a stone`s throw from Spain`s southernmost tip, Morocco couldn`t possibly be farther away. With its mountainous and desert landscapes, labyrinthine souks, delectable cuisine, exquisite rugs and textiles, vibrant mosaics, fragrant odors, mesmerizing music, and welcoming people, Morocco is a most alluring and tantalizingly exotic destination. style.
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Dostępność:na zamowienie Part manual, part manifesto, part monograph, this is the first publication that looks comprehensively at the methods and techniques of Lars Spuybroek’s hugely inventive and influential architecture. In the young generation of ‘digerati’ architects, Rotterdam-based Lars Spuybroek and his studio, NOX, are among the few who have completed built projects. Before the advent of large-scale processing power, digital modelling and computer-aided manufacturing, NOX’s outlandish structures would have been inconceivable.
