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  • FLA Learning Centre

    Series Book 6 - EUROPEAN PRACTICE
    Built after Giuseppe Marinoni’s design had won an international competition, the Learning Centre FLA (Lombardy Foundation for the Environment) at Seveso looks on the outside like a primary volume, divided up by vertical fissures and sectioned by the glass front: a wing of the square and proscenium opening onto the town. The rigorous elliptical layout of the plan is in fact a collage of irregular ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bruce Goff

    Architecture of Discipline in Freedom

    by Arn Henderson ...
    Renowned today as one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904–1982) was only twelve years old when a Tulsa architectural firm took him on as an apprentice. Throughout his career he defied expectations, not only as a designer of innovative buildings but also as a gifted educator and painter. This beautifully illustrated volume, featuring more than 150 photographs ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Arquitectura de Ser

    by Alan Faena ...
    Authored during the height of the pandemic amidst a period of self-reflection, culture and style impresario Alan Faena conceives a deeply personal framework of attributes to liberate the self in this highly personal manifesto exploring the constructs of human potential.To build my dreams, I first had to build myself. In this book I share the secrets of that Architecture. — Alan FaenaAs a creative ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Richard Riemerschmid's Extraordinary Living Things

    How Richard Riemerschmid’s designs of everyday—but “extraordinary”—objects recalibrate our understanding of modernism.At the beginning of the twentieth century, German artist Richard Riemerschmid (1868–1957) was known as a symbolist painter and, by the advent of World War I, had become an important modern architect. This, however, the first English-language book on Riemerschmid, celebrates his ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Kate Chapman

    Adobe Builder in 1930s Santa Fe

    Kate Muller Chapman arrived in New Mexico at the time Santa Fe Style architecture was just developing. In the 1920s and 1930s Kate designed adobe houses, and directed local workmen during construction. Well versed in the tenets of the evolving Santa Fe Style, Kate also added her own distinctive touch to the projects. Kate Chapman skillfully directed rehabilitation projects preserving the essential ... Read more

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  • Michelangelo

    Michelangelo war, genau wie Leonardo, ein “universeller” Künstler: Maler, Baumeister, Bildhauer und Dichter. Er war der Hauptmeister der italienischen Hochrenaissance und Wegbereiter des Manierismus. Seine Vorliebe galt der als Ausdruck der Leidenschaft angesehenen Skulptur. Nach Landschaften sucht man bei ihm vergeblich. Alles, was den Menschen ausmacht, seine Gefühle, Leidenschaften, seinen ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion

    With contributions from over fifty architects, planners, geographers, historians, and journalists, The Arsenal offers a wide-ranging view of the forces that shape our cities.Who gets to be where? The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion examines some of the policies, practices, and physical artifacts that have been used by planners, policymakers, developers, real estate brokers, community activists, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • States of Entanglement

    Data in the Irish Landscape

    Investigates how data production and consumption territorialize the physical landscape filtered through Ireland’s role in global communications and, as told by the Irish Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, features an installation that focuses on the materiality of data infrastructure in space.As our everyday lives become increasingly entangled with data technologies, the book ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 鯉魚山下種房子:假日農夫奮鬥記

    by 陳寶匡 ...
    Series Book 16 - Taiwan style
    友善土地的田園生活設計書種房子,我想要的不只是那棟房子,而是實現的過程。從空無一物的農地開始,引進自然流水,種樹種籬種草,然後才種房子。我們開了草原便利商店,讓昆蟲鳥蛙日夜享用不盡;我們開了草原托兒所,讓小孩們觸摸泥巴沒有教養;我們回收破銅爛鐵妝點草原風景;自己做木工、種稻、蓋雞寮、用泥巴蓋大地窯,嘗試用最簡單的生活方法體驗人生,用最簡單的豐盛,讓家人們黏在一起。────────────────────────────────────────────────────**「草原生活分享會」抽獎活動公告**感謝讀者參加遠流出版舉辦的「草原生活分享會」的抽獎活動,以下是本次活動的幸運讀者,遠流已於2012/9/5(三)寄出中獎通知。期待您會喜歡這個活動,同時請您繼續支持遠流與遠流出版的「粉絲團」Facebook,以持續收到更多更好的出版訊息。(若放棄本活動,將再抽出其他讀者遞補)錢定媛、陳芳葵 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Louis I. Kahn

    The Nordic Latitudes

    Series series Fay Jones Collaborative Series
    Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes is a new and personal reading of the architecture, teachings, and legacy of Louis I. Kahn from Per Olaf Fjeld’s perspective as a former student. The book explores Kahn’s life and work, offering a unique take on one of the twentieth century’s most important architects.Kahn’s Nordic and European ties are emphasized in this study that also covers his early ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Rathaus, Türmli und Telldenkmal in Altdorf

    Rathaus, Türmli und Telldenkmal bilden das historische Zentrum des Urner Kantonshauptorts. Der Rathausplatz in Altdorf öffnet die Bühne für das elegante klassizistische Rathaus des Standes Uri von 1806. Das Telldenkmal von Richard Kissling von 1895 ist eines der bekanntesten Denkmäler der Schweiz. Es ehrt den Nationalhelden Wilhelm Tell auf eine zeitlose künstlerische Art. Zusammen mit dem ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Merging City & Nature

    10 Commitments to Combat Climate Change

    by Batlleiroig ...
    After 40 years of professional experience developed in three areas of work —City-Territory, Landscape-Public Space and Building—, Batlle i Roig acquires a new commitment and positions itself in the face of the climate emergency, generating a sustainability matrix through which to contextualize your urban projects and urban strategies.At Batlleiroig we have been talking about Landscape and Nature ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lives in Architecture

    Nigel Coates

    by Nigel Coates ...
    Irreverent and iconoclastic, Nigel Coates has been stirring up the architectural scene for over 40 years. In this warm and compelling autobiography, he explores the highs and lows of life at the cutting edge of architecture and design. Coates’ work often treads playfully at the intersection between bodies, sexuality and design. His portfolio includes interiors for Liberty, Jigsaw and Caffè Bongo ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Architect John D. Parkinson: Eternally Elevating the Los Angeles Skyline

    Author Marques Vickers examines architect John D. Parkinson’s life and creative legacy. Parkinson is most noted for his iconic Los Angeles landmarks. His most recognized works include the Los Angeles City Hall, Memorial Coliseum, Union Station, Bullock’s Wilshire and the nucleus of USC’s campus.Vickers photographs thirty-six of his standing projects and provides background details on their origins ... Read more

    $5.98 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Da Maastricht a Lisbona: Come è cambiata la vita dell'architetto italiano

    Il libro ripercorre il processo politico, storico ed economico che dal 1992 al 2007 porta l’Europa alla firma del Trattato Maastricht e quello di Lisbona e trasforma la Comunità Europea nell’Unione Europea, tutto questo visto attraverso sguardo di un architetto che cerca di comprendere le cause del cambiamento della sua professione e prova a cercare prospettive future. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alvar Aalto

    A Critical Study

    Alvar Aalto was remarkably inventive in architecture and industrial design. Moreover, his command of technology was integrated with a humanistic style of building, and like Saarinen and Frank Lloyd Wright he sought an organic synthesis of his structures with their surroundings. Aalto's success in approaching these ideals may account for the extraordinary spread of his influence on an international ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Architects

    Portraits of a Practice

    by Thomas Yarrow ...
    Series series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
    What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes us inside the world of architects, showing us the anxiety, exhilaration, hope, idealism, friendship ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Cultures of Glass Architecture

    by Hisham Elkadi ...
    When designing, architects are responding to and creating a relationship between identity, culture and architectural style. This book discusses whether the extent of the use of glass facades has increased, or indeed enhanced, the creation of meaningful place-making, thereby creating a cultural identity of 'place'. Looking at the development of perceptions of glass facades in different cultures, it ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • La forma dell'energia

    La ex sottostazione di trasformazione di energia elettrica 120/40 KW a Peretola, Firenze

    Cronologia, stato attuale e ipotesi di restauro della ex sottostazione di trasformazione di energia elettrica 120/40 KW a Peretola, Firenze.Rielaborazione della Tesi di Specializzazione in Beni architettonici e del Paesaggio dal titolo “Nuovo centro culturale nell’antico borgo di Peretola”, Università degli Studi di Firenze. A cura dell'arch. Filippo Cherubini ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Natured

    Iroje, Seung H-Sang

    A compedium of essays and projects that creates a projective document capable of setting up new scenarios for the architecture of the next decade. This publication wants to transmit the constant values of the Seung H-Sang's architecture, which has been routed on principles and ideals driven by sensuous and essences of raw materials, echoing the extemporal features of the culture where buildings ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Dare To Be Different: The Albert Hong Story

    In this book, Dr Albert Hong tells his own story.Today, he is prominent in his field, as chairman of RSP Architects Planners and Engineers (Pte) Ltd. His life began 80 years ago, in a humble medical clinic in Neil Road, Singapore. In the years between, he has achieved success in business based on hard work and high aspirations. Albert Hong and RSP have grown as Singapore has grown, overcoming many ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Residential Architecture as Infrastructure

    Open Building in Practice

    Edited by Stephen H. Kendall ...
    Series series Open Building
    This edited collection provides an up-to-date account, by a group of well-informed and globally positioned authors, of recently implemented projects, public policies and business activities in Open Building around the world.Countless residential Open Building projects have been built in a number of countries, some without knowledge of the original theory and methods. These projects differ in ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Changing Shape of Architecture

    Further Cases of Integrating Research and Design in Practice

    The discipline of architecture is currently undergoing a significant change as professional practice and academia seem to be transforming one another specifically through succinct research undertakings. This book continues the discussion started in The Changing Shape of Practice – Integrating Research and Design in Architecture on architectural offices’ modes of research and lines of inquiry in ... Read more

    $56.99 USD