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Author: Philip Jodidio
Publisher: Tasche
Keywords: architecture, country, contemprary, states, united
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 3822852600
ISBN-13: 9783822852606
Contemporary architecture by country TASCHEN’s new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects?from the firmly established to the up-and-coming?with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects’ or firms’ most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series c
Author: Christian Norberg-Schulz
Publisher: Phaidon Press / Electa
Keywords: architecture, world, history, baroque
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-06-25
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1904313108
ISBN-13: 9781904313106
The "History of World Architecture" series offers scholarship, accessibility, extensive illustration and international scope. This text examines the principal 17th-century architectural themes - "capital city", "church" and "palace" - using the most famous examples of the period in Rome, Paris, Turin and Versailles. A large section of the book is devoted to religious architecture, analysing works by Della Porta, Maderno, Mansart, Borromini, Bernini and Guarini, envisaged in both a local and European context. The book ends with a general survey of the diffusion of the Baroque in Europe, in its
Author: Axel Ritter
Publisher: Birkhuser Architecture
Keywords: architecture, design, interior, smart, materials
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2002-11-20
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 376437327X
ISBN-13: 9783764373276
Smart materials are architectural innovations that merge research, development, and function. With their reversible characteristics and amazing ability to respond to stimuli such as light and temperature, they have become a popular resource for architects. One of the most fascinating developments is the advent of Phase Change Materials. These materials make it possible, for example, to develop self-acting, kinetic facades and wallpaper that changes its color and pattern based on temperature, light, or touch. Smart Materials presents the development of these materials and describes their use in
Author: Bernard Rudofsky
Publisher: University of New Mexico Pre
Keywords: architecture, pedigreed, non, short, architects, introduction
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 1987-07-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0826310044
ISBN-13: 9780826310040
In this book, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the art of building as a universal phenomenon. He introduces the reader to communal architecture--architecture produced not by specialists but by the spontaneous and continuing activity of a whole people with a common heritage, acting within a community experience. A prehistoric theater district for a hundred thousand spectators on the American continent and underground towns and villages (complete with schools, offices, and factories) inhabited by mil
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Publisher: Monacelli
Keywords: architecture, books, columbia, beginning, state, century
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-01-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1580931340
ISBN-13: 9781580931342
In March 2003, Bernard Tschumi convened forty of the worlds architectural designers and theoristsElizabeth Diller, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn, Winy Maas, Thom Mayne, Ben van Berkel, Mark Wigley, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, and many othersfor a conference at Columbia University. The exceptional array was asked to predict the conversations and directions of architectural practice in the twenty-first century. Speakers addressed the categories of current architectural discourseform, aesthetics, material, detail, politicsand questioned their future valid
Author: Gunther Feuerstein
Publisher: Axel Menges
Keywords: architecture, forms, human, biomorphic
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-11-29
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 3930698870
ISBN-13: 9783930698875
Feuerstein has found analogies between buildings and human beings and buildings and animals in the work of famous architects.
Author: Philip Jodidio
Publisher: Tasche
Keywords: architecture, world, years, last, forms, new
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 3822885797
ISBN-13: 9783822885796
This illustrated volume presents an interpretation of contemporary architecture, featuring some of the most impressive constructions of the 1990s. The interplay between architecture and art is featured, as well as the increasing influence of economic, environmental and technological change.
