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  • Гауди. Архитектор И Художник

    Испанский архитектор и дизайнер Антонио Гауди (1852-1926) - важная влиятельная фигура в истории изобразительного искусства Испании. Его манера использования цвета, применение различных материалов и воплощение движения в зданиях стали революционными в архитектуре. В своем дневнике Гауди свободно описывает свое восприятие искусства: «Цвета в архитектуре должны быть яркими, логичными и насыщенными». ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Антонио Гауди

    * Возвышенная трагичность жизни и творчества Антонио Гауди соперничает с прекрасной и скорбной поэзией Лорки. Удивительная судьба Гауди переродилась в легенду, а портрет художника — в величественный образ богоизбранного творца. * Слабый здоровьем мальчик, рано осознавший хрупкость своей жизни, жил верой в свое высокое предназначение. Художник стремился воплотить любимые им с детства чудеса ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Álvaro Siza Viera: A Pool in the Sea

    In conversation with Kenneth Frampton

    This book documents a unique experience of a journey by Álvaro Siza Vieira, Vincent Mentzel and Kenneth Frampton to the early work of Siza in Porto.This book includes a vast collection of descriptions, drawings and photographs by Vincent Mentzel about the project, as well as a writing by Siza Vieira himself and other texts.The book also includes an analysis of the bathers’ course by Pedro Vieira ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Your Own Construction Journal

    Discover the essence of construction with "P.O.L.C.," ( Plan, Organize, Lead & Control) a journal crafted from 56 years of industry experience. This comprehensive guide illuminates the core principles of construction, catering to everyone from general workers to managing directors. It aims to enhance knowledge, revive forgotten practices, and empower individuals to become invaluable assets in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Yona Friedman / Pro Domo

    by Yona Friedman ...
    Yona Friedman presents a personal selection of half a century of his work. In 1958 Yona Friedman published his first manifesto on 'mobile architecture' and founded GEAM (Groupe d'Etude d'Architecture Mobile), which proposed different strategies and actions geared to the adaptation of architectural creation to modern user requirements concerning social and physical mobility. In this initial ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Years with Frank Lloyd Wright

    Apprentice to Genius

    by Edgar Tafel ...
    From the special vantage point of a former apprentice who for nine years lived and worked under "the fury and wrath of genius," Edgar Tafel presents a wonderfully revealing portrait of America's greatest architect. Unpredictable, cantankerous, a striking figure with white hair, cape and cane, Frank Lloyd Wright was an individualistic spirit who delighted in acting out his own myth. Here is an ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • X!? 2010-2020 TEN YEARS OODA

    by Joao Rapagao ...
    OODA is a Portuguese architecture collective, now celebrating 10 years of practice. Based in Porto with experience gained internationally in notable offices, such as OMA-Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid Architects, the collective aims to expand internationally, namely New York, São Paulo and Shanghai.With a wide range of work (whether idea or built, new or rehabilitation) and participation in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • X!? 2010-2020 TEN YEARS OODA

    by Joao Rapagao ...
    OODA is a Portuguese architecture collective, now celebrating 10 years of practice. Based in Porto with experience gained internationally in notable offices, such as OMA-Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid Architects, the collective aims to expand internationally, namely New York, São Paulo and Shanghai.With a wide range of work (whether idea or built, new or rehabilitation) and participation in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Wright and New York

    The Making of America's Architect

    An “immensely valuable” dual biography of the iconic American architect and the city that transformed his career in the early twentieth century (Francis Morrone, New Criterion).Frank Lloyd Wright took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Worldmaking as Techné

    Participatory Art, Music, and Architecture

    Worldmaking as Techné: Participatory Art, Music, and Architecture outline a practice that challenges the World and how it could be through a kind of future-making, and/or other world-making, by creating alternate realities as artworks that are simultaneously ontological propositions. In simplified terms, the concept of techné is concerned with the art and craft of making. In particular a kind of ... Read more

    $18.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women Making Art

    Women in the Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts Since 1960, Second Edition

    This important interdisciplinary book is a unique and timely contribution to the field of women in the arts. Each chapter is devoted to a single artist and a single ground-breaking work that altered the course of its art form in a full array of genres, including dance, music, installation, photography, architecture, poetry, literature, theater, film, performance art, and popular culture. These ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • William C. Brocklesby: A Connecticut Valley Architect in the Gilded Age

    by Bill Ranauro ...
    The late nineteenth century, known commonly as the "Gilded Age," produced some of the most beautiful yet controversial architecture in America's history. The great influencers of the period, including Richard Upjohn, Henry Hobson Richardson, and Charles McKim, each spread the gospel of his own architectural style. The result was an eclectic mix of styles that some detested but that others embraced ... Read more

    $8.99 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

  • When Eero Met His Match

    Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect

    by Eva Hagberg ...
    A uniquely personal biographical account of Louchheim’s life and work that takes readers inside the rarified world of architecture mediaAline B. Louchheim (1914–1972) was an art critic on assignment for the New York Times in 1953 when she first met the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. She would become his wife and the driving force behind his rise to critical prominence. When Eero Met His ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • When Architecture Meets Activism

    The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City

    by Roger Guy ...
    This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resist the planned construction of a community college in the neighborhood of Uptown. The planner and architect are seldom envisioned as advocates for the urban poor. However, during the 1960s, New Left planners and architects began working with marginalized ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Warum Architektur keine Kunst ist

    Fundamentales über scheinbar Funktionales

    by Adolf Loos ...
    Hat der Architekt alle Freiheiten des Künstlers? Wie modern muss ein Haus sein? Und warum ist Stuck aus Beton ein Verbrechen? Scharfzüngig geht der berühmte und für seine Polemiken berüchtigte Architekt Adolf Loos mit seinen Zeitgenossen ins Gericht. In seinen Essays geht er weit über Architekturthemen hinaus, immer stellt sich auch die Frage: Wie lebt man zeitgemäß? Loos liefert pointierte ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

  • Vasco de Mello

    Expressão de grande complexidade, liberdade de espírito, irreverência nunca descuidada, a arquitetura de Vasco de Mello revela amor pelas formas, busca pela diversidade arquitetônica e uso inteligente de diferentes materiais, sempre considerando o local de inserção da obra e seu usuário. O que disso ressalta é rigor técnico aliado à sensibilidade artística, resultando em contribuições ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Vacant Spaces NY

    Vacant Spaces NY begins gathering the incomplete data available and documenting vacant spaces in New York City. Organized from large to small, general to specific, vacancy in the United States to case studies of specific vacancies in Manhattan, Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and their architecture studio MOS imagine possibilities for repurposing current vacant spaces in New York City.This ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Urban poliphony

    architectures, urbanisms, and mediations

    In Urban Polyphony: Architectures, Urbanisms, and Meditations, the author draws a panorama of the more than eighteen years of the Levisky Arquitetos | Estratégia Urbana architecture firm, discussing and showing the projects that they have been developing, such as the Diversity Boulevard, the expansion project of Albert Einstein Hospital, the Open Museum of Colônia's Crater, requalification of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Unidentified Flying Object for Contemporary Architecture

    UFO’s Experiments Between Political Activism and Artistic Avant-garde

    The first monographic publication focused on the Florentine UFO group (1968-1978), that conducts a historical analysis of its work, reveals its close relationship with the contemporary artistic, literary and architectural avant-garde and, finally, investigates its legacy for the contemporary project.The contemporary context is defined by a unique conjuncture. On one hand, we witness the revival of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Unidentified Flying Object for Contemporary Architecture

    UFO’s Experiments Between Political Activism and Artistic Avant-garde

    The first monographic publication focused on the Florentine UFO group (1968-1978), that conducts a historical analysis of its work, reveals its close relationship with the contemporary artistic, literary and architectural avant-garde and, finally, investigates its legacy for the contemporary project.The contemporary context is defined by a unique conjuncture. On one hand, we witness the revival of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Unearthed

    The Landscapes of Hargreaves Associates

    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    The work of landscape architecture firm Hargreaves Associates is globally renowned, from the 21st Century Waterfront in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to London's 2012 Olympic Park. Founded by George Hargreaves in 1983, this team of designers has transformed numerous abandoned sites into topographically and functionally diverse landscapes. Hargreaves Associates' body of work reflects the socioeconomic ... Read more

    $71.99 USD