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  • (Ri)progettare le città

    Le città sono lo specchio dei nostri tempi: caotiche, inquinate, poco attraenti.Ma qual è la città? Come si evolveranno nel prossimo futuro? Come potranno cambiare per vincere le difficili sfide dei prossimi decenni?Il testo descrive i criteri di base per l'analisi del territorio urbano e propone una serie di linee guida per le misure da applicare al progetto per la necessaria trasformazione delle ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • + 30 Años. Cano y Escario Arquitectura

    Series series Historia empresarial
    Un recorrido por más de 30 años de la emblemática Firma Cano y Escario Arquitectura que cuenta la historia de perseverancia de los arquitectos Benjamín Cano y Diego Escario, el equipo técnico y sus obras y proyectos más representativos.Una encuadernación de lujo en tres idiomas, español, inglés y chino, que recoge una selección de más de 100 proyectos, planos y fotografías, desde su fundación en ... Read more

    $13.31 USD

  • 100 Rooms

    Many Untold Parables of the Empty Room

    by Reza Aliabadi ...
    As a sequel to The Empty Room: Fragmented thoughts on Space (Actar, 2020), this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) elaborates the same theme with one hundred iterations of a square room, each of which tells a different story of the emptiness between the walls.The Empty Room, in the absence of any visual materials, was a written manifesto composed of RZLBD’s poems and collection of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 40 interviste

    Persone & storie

    Alessandro Mendini, Gillo Dorfles, Shiro Kuramata, Pernette Perriand, Yona Friedman, Philippe Starck, Daniela Fantini, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Stefano Boeri, Luisa Bocchietto, Michele De Lucchi, Achille Castiglioni e tanti altri: 40 interviste e storie di incontri speciali con personaggi famosi del mondo del design e dell’architettura, in un arco temporale che va dai primi anni 80 ad oggi. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A colloquio con Franco Purini

    by AA. VV. ...
    Successo è un termine di difficile definizione, legato com'è a fattori spesso aleatori e a ragioni spesso esterne a esperienze disciplinari. Questa collana, dedicata allo specifico mondo dell'architettura, cerca le possibili ragioni di alcuni percorsi di “successo” attraverso le testimonianze-confessioni in forma di dialogo con alcuni dei protagonisti del dibattito contemporaneo sull'architettura ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A colloquio con Marco Petreschi

    Collana Incontri con il successo diretta da Enrico Valeriani

    by AA. VV. ...
    Successo è un termine di difficile definizione, legato com’è a fattori spesso aleatori e a ragioni spesso esterne a esperienze disciplinari. Questa collana, dedicata allo specifico mondo dell’architettura, cerca le possibili ragioni di alcuni percorsi di “successo” attraverso le testimonianze-confessioni in forma di dialogo con alcuni dei protagonisti del dibattito contemporaneo sull’architettura ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A colloquio con Massimiliano Fuksas

    Collana Incontri con il successo diretta da Enrico Valeriani

    by AA. VV. ...
    Successo è un termine di difficile definizione, legato com’è a fattori spesso aleatori e a ragioni spesso esterne a esperienze disciplinari. Questa collana, dedicata allo specifico mondo dell’architettura, cerca le possibili ragioni di alcuni percorsi di “successo” attraverso le testimonianze-confessioni in forma di dialogo con alcuni dei protagonisti del dibattito contemporaneo sull’architettura ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A colloquio con Paolo Portoghesi

    by AA. VV. ...
    Successo è un termine di difficile definizione, legato com'è a fattori spesso aleatori e a ragioni spesso esterne a esperienze disciplinari. Questa collana, dedicata allo specifico mondo dell'architettura, cerca le possibili ragioni di alcuni percorsi di “successo” attraverso le testimonianze-confessioni in forma di dialogo con alcuni dei protagonisti del dibattito contemporaneo sull'architettura ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A History of Architectural Modelmaking in Britain

    The Unseen Masters of Scale and Vision

    by David Lund ...
    Architectural modelmakers have long carried out their work hidden behind the scenes of architectural design, and in presenting a history of architectural modelmaking in Britain for the first time, this book casts a new light on their remarkable skills and achievements.By telling the story of the modelmakers who make architectural models rather than architects who commission and use them, this book ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • A Language of Contemporary Architecture

    An Index of Topology and Typology

    As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as “contemporism” through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements).The contemporary project has been trying to answer the postmodern question ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • A Man Apart

    Bill Coperthwaite’s Radical Experiment in Living

    A story of friendship, encouragement, and the quest to design a better worldA Man Apart is the story—part family memoir and part biography—of Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow’s longtime friendship with Bill Coperthwaite (A Handmade Life), whose unusual life and fierce ideals helped them examine and understand their own.Coperthwaite inspired many by living close to natu... ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Philosopher Looks at Architecture

    by Paul Guyer ...
    Series series A Philosopher Looks At
    What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture first identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius - good construction, functionality, and aesthetic appeal - have remained valid despite constant changes in human activities, building materials and technologies, as well as in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Place for All People

    Life, Architecture and the Fair Society

    Richard Rogers was born in Florence in 1933. He was educated in the UK and then at the Yale School of Architecture, where he met Norman Foster. Alongside his partners, he has been responsible for some of the most radical designs of the twentieth century, including the Pompidou Centre, the Millennium Dome, the Bordeaux Law Courts, Leadenhall Tower and Lloyd's of London. He chaired the Urban Task ... Read more

    $20.99 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

  • A Short History of British Architecture

    From Stonehenge to the Shard

    by Simon Jenkins ...
    Architecture wields great power – a beautiful building inspires awe, an ugly building can oppress – and is an art form unique in being all around us, all the time. But despite its importance and its ubiquity, architecture is a mystery to all but the elite few. In this spectacular history, Simon Jenkins reveals why Britain looks the way it does.Starting with the earliest neolithic structures that ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Abrahão Sanovicz

    Desenhos e gravuras

    O arquiteto santista Abrahão Sanovicz, discípulo de João Batista Vilanova Artigas na FAU-USP, se notabilizou por projetar teatros, centros de lazer, conjuntos habitacionais, escolas, casas e edifícios. O desenho, principal ferramenta de um arquiteto, também foi utilizado por Sanovicz para criar uma atmosfera particular e autônoma. Esta obra reúne trabalhos artísticos do arquiteto por temas: ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • Acessibilidade

    by Tony Santos ...
    Acessibilidade: Abertura de portas: desvendando o universo da acessibilidade é um livro inspirador que mergulha no mundo da acessibilidade, revelando a importância de criar sociedades inclusivas e oferecer igualdade de oportunidades para todos. Nesta obra cativante, você será conduzido a uma jornada transformadora, explorando os desafios enfrentados por pessoas com deficiência e destacando as ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Activism in Architecture

    Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design

    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This edited collection gathers contributions from a diverse range of renowned scholars and professionals to uncover the unique relationship between passive architectural systems and activism. Focusing on the pioneering work of the influential American chemist and inventor, Harold R. Hay (1909–2009), and the environmental awareness events that took hold in the United States during the 1960s and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Addison Mizner

    The Architect Whose Genius Defined Palm Beach

    In words and photographs, the story of visionary architect Addison Mizner* Introduced the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles to southern Florida* Designed and developed the resort town of Boca Raton* Designed the exquisite Everglades Club in Palm BeachAddison Mizner transformed Palm Beach and South Florida with his visionary architecture. He designed, among many others, the ... Read more

    $34.99 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

  • Adolf Loos

    The Art of Architecture

    Series series International Library of Architecture
    Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a celebrity in his own day. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the twentieth. His essay 'Ornament and Crime' equated superfluous ornament and 'decorative arts' with tattooing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Aesthetics and Technology in Building

    The Twenty-First-Century Edition

    The UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The Pirelli skyscraper in Milan. The Palazetto dello Sport in Rome. The "soaring beauty" of Pier Luigi Nervi's visionary designs and buildings changed cityscapes in the twentieth century. His uncanny ingenuity with reinforced concrete, combined with a gift for practical problem solving, revolutionized the use of open internal space in structures like arenas and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Affect, Architecture, and Practice

    Toward a Disruptive Temporality of Practice

    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including geography, cultural studies, and media studies, challenging the nature of textual and representational-based research. Although numerous studies have examined how affect emerges in architectural spaces, little attention has been paid to the creative ... Read more

    $48.99 USD