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  • Vittoriano Viganò. A come Asimmetria

    Collana Architettura e Complessità diretta da Antonio Piva Per il terzo anno consecutivo, dopo Franca Helg e Marco Zanuso, il Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione della Facoltà di Architettura e Società del Politecnico di Milano - insieme al Dipartimento INDACO della Facoltà del Design, all'Accademia di Architettura dell'Università della Svizzera italiana e all'Archivio del Moderno di ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • La producción del espacio

    Translated by Emilio Martínez ...
    Series series Ensayo
    Entre una gran diversidad de materias, Henry Lefebvre se ocupó particularmente de los problemas de la urbanización y el territorio, presentando a la ciudad como el corazón de la insurrección estética contra lo cotidiano. La producción del espacio, incisiva y clarividente, es su principal obra filosófica, y estudiosos de muchos ámbitos diferentes llevaban años esperando su traducción. En ella, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vida de Guastavino y Guastavino

    by Andrés Barba ...
    Andrés Barba recupera aquí toda la audacia y libertad narrativa de maestros del género biográfico en una obra sobre la identidad, la paternidad, y los límites entre la narración histórica y la mera ficción.En 1881, sin hablar una palabra de inglés y con cuarenta mil dólares procedentes de una estafa de valores, el arquitecto valenciano Rafael Guastavino viaja a Nueva York con intención de patentar ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Adolf Loos

    Un ritratto privato

    by Claire Beck ...
    Translated by Ilenia Gradante ...
    Nel luglio del 1929 Claire Beck sposa Adolf Loos, uno dei grandi innovatori dell’architettura contemporanea. Lei, ebrea, ha venticinque anni e lui, cattolico, sta per compierne sessanta. Il matrimonio dura tre anni e si conclude poco prima della morte di Loos. Il libro è il diario conciso e toccante di quell’unione. Attraverso una serie di episodi brevi, spesso istantanee folgoranti, Claire ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A vertical forest / Un bosco verticale

    Instructions booklet for the prototype of a forest city / Libretto di istruzioni per il prototipo di una città foresta

    by Stefano Boeri ...
    “In quei mesi del 2007 stavo iniziando il progetto di due torri alte nel centro di Milano e di colpo – le idee interessanti e nuove arrivano all'improvviso – mi venne in mente di progettare (come reazione alle centinaia di grattacieli in vetro che spuntavano nel mondo) due torri biologiche, due torri rivestite di foglie. Foglie di piante, di arbusti, ma soprattutto foglie di alberi. Due torri ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Building Art

    The Life and Work of Frank Gehry

    From Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger: an engaging, nuanced exploration of the life and work of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. This first full-fledged critical biography presents and evaluates the work of a man who has almost single-handedly transformed contemporary architecture in his innovative use of materials, design, and form, and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Antoni Gaudí y obras de arte

    El arquitecto y diseñador español Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) es una importante e influyente figura en la historia del arte contemporáneo de España. El uso del color, la utilización de diferentes materiales y la introducción de movimiento en sus construcciones fueron toda una innovación en el terreno de la arquitectura. En su diario, Gaudí expresó sus propios sentimientos sobre el arte: “los colores ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manual of Section

    Along with plan and elevation, section is one of the essential representational techniques of architectural design; among architects and educators, debates about a project's section are common and often intense. Until now, however, there has been no framework to describe or evaluate it. Manual of Section fills this void.Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis have developed seven categories ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Kengo Kuma: My Life as an Architect in Tokyo (My Life as an Architect)

    by Kengo Kuma ...
    Series Book 1 - My Life as an Architect
    A personal tour of Tokyo’s architecture, as seen through the eyes of one of the world’s most acclaimed architects who is also designing the primary venue for the Tokyo Olympic games.Tokyo is Japan’s cultural and commercial epicenter, bursting with vibrancy and life. Its buildings, both historical and contemporary, are a direct reflection of its history and its people.Kengo Kuma was only ten years ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    The widely admired biographer of Bernard Berenson (“A triumph”—Washington Post; “A perfect riot”—Michael Holroyd; “Astonishing”—London Sunday Times) and of Kenneth Clark (“Splendid, enthralling”—The Wall Street Journal) gives us now a complete and complex portrait of an American titan, Frank Lloyd Wright.Meryle Secrest shows us Frank Lloyd Wright in full scale—the brilliant, outrageous, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Conversations and Allusions: Enric Miralles

    Edited by Catherine Spellman ...
    Enric Miralles (1955-2000) remains one of the most prominent architects of his generation. The significance of his architectural design lies in his seamless integration of site and building and his use of space to serve the everyday conditions of life. Practicing for less than twenty-five years Miralles designed over 150 projects, many are now built including: the Scottish Parliament Buildings, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Fourth Edition

    A Complete Catalog

    From sprawling houses to compact bungalows and from world-famous museums to a still-working gas station, Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs can be found in nearly every corner of the country. While the renowned architect passed away more than fifty years ago, researchers and enthusiasts are still uncovering structures that should be attributed to him.William Allin Storrer is one of the experts leading ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Marcello Piacentini architetto 1881-1960

    by AA. VV. ...
    Il volume raccoglie gli interventi al convegno su Marcello Piacentini a cinquant'anni dalla morte. 1881-1960 tenuto a Roma nel dicembre 2010. Si sono attesi i cinquanta anni dalla morte di Marcello Piacentini per organizzare questo convegno. Un tempo lungo che è servito sia a riflettere sulle vicende del fascismo in tutte le sue espressioni – la politica, l'economia, la cultura, le arti, anche lo ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated)

    by Peter Russell ...
    Series Book 54 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The founder of the nineteenth century French school of Neo-Impressionism, Georges Seurat devised the technique of Pointillism, portraying the play of light with tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colours. A man of studious habits and a scientific mind, Seurat employed his original technique to create huge compositions with tiny, detached strokes of pure colour too small to be distinguished when ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 相聚於美麗的建築中

    by 伊東豊雄 ...
    Series Book 6 - 綠蠹魚YLS
    國際知名的當代建築師――伊東豊雄,在各地創下許多經典建築。在臺灣,亦有他的作品:譬如位於臺中的國家歌劇院、高雄的國家體育場,以及台北文創大樓、國立臺灣大學社會科學院等。2019年初,伊東豊雄先生不慎跌傷,住院治療。在住院的這大半年時間,恰恰給了一個靜思沉澱、與外界減少接觸的機緣。在這些無數夜半靜謐的夜,他回顧了自己的建築生涯,寫下溫柔又深情自我剖析‧‧‧‧‧‧‧‧ ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Interior Design Masters

    Interior Design Masters contains 300 biographical entries of people who have significantly impacted design. They are the people, historical and contemporary, that students and practitioners should know. Coverage starts in the late Renaissance, with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has five sections, with the entries alphabetical in each, so it can serve as a history ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Mies van der Rohe

    A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition

    An “excellent” new edition of the definitive biography of the architectural genius, with more than a hundred photos (Booklist, starred review).Upon publication, this book was praised by the Chicago Tribune and “the most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best,” while the Christian Science Monitor noted that “Schulze has both the gift of an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    Series series Critical Lives
    A cultural icon who defined the twentieth-century American landscape, Frank Lloyd Wright has been studied from what seems to be every possible angle. While many books focus on his works, torrid personal life, or both, few solely consider his professional persona, as a man enmeshed in a web of prominent public figures and political ideas. In this new biography, Robert McCarter distills Wright’s ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Antoni Gaudí

    by Jeremy Roe ...
    Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of a range of materials and the introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal, Gaudí freely expressed his own feelings on art, “the colours used in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where Are the Women Architects?

    Series Book 1 - Places Books
    A timely and important search for architecture's missing womenFor a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects remains stubbornly low, and the higher one looks in the profession, the scarcer women become. Law and medicine, two equally ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Carcassonne

    La restauration de Carcassonne au XIXe siècle

    Avec force précisions historiques, l'architecte et penseur nous livre un ouvrage richement documenté sur la restauration de Carcassonne.Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) demeure un personnage complexe et controversé encore aujourd’hui. Il fait partie de ces artistes et penseurs du début du XIXe siècle qui, loin de renoncer aux charmes de l’Italie, partent à la recherche d’un pittoresque national à ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Interior Urbanism

    Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America

    Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life 'on the outside'.Interior Urbanism ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A Place of My Own

    The Architecture of Daydreams

    A captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and the meaning of modern work“A room of one’s own: Is there anybody who hasn’t at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn’t turned those soft words over until they’d assumed a habitable shape?”When Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was the acclaimed bestseller Second Nature. In A Place ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • You Belong to the Universe

    Buckminster Fuller and the Future

    A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the freestanding geodesic dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring ... Read more

    $20.99 USD