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The desert is a huge paradox. Beneath its outward appearance of immensity and silence, are the sounds of various experiments, mysteries, and utopias. The setting of outrageous true histories, entertainment oases founded on consumerism and play, and the secret staging of military power, the desert is far from empty. Instead, it is full of activity: unexpected, uninhibited,(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
December 2005, Barcelona
Desert America: Territory of paradox
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The desert is a huge paradox. Beneath its outward appearance of immensity and silence, are the sounds of various experiments, mysteries, and utopias. The setting of outrageous true histories, entertainment oases founded on consumerism and play, and the secret staging of military power, the desert is far from empty. Instead, it is full of activity: unexpected, uninhibited, and excessive. Not subject to barriers and seemingly free of the formal, ideological or cultural ties of global society, the desert cultivates alternate architectures, urbanisms, and built phenomena. Through photographs, essays, and history, this book emerges as an exploration of some of these phenomena and the protagonists that made them possible.
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Berlin street art
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Street art is a phenomenon which exists across the world's urban centers. What was once regarded as a nuisance at best or vandalism at worst, is now increasingly being recognized as an important art form. This book brings together the finest examples of street art in Berlin, a city bursting with artistic energy and expression. Working primarily at night, street artists(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2005, München, Berlin, London, New York
Berlin street art
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Street art is a phenomenon which exists across the world's urban centers. What was once regarded as a nuisance at best or vandalism at worst, is now increasingly being recognized as an important art form. This book brings together the finest examples of street art in Berlin, a city bursting with artistic energy and expression. Working primarily at night, street artists leave their messages on building facades, mailboxes, advertisements, traffic signs and trash bins. The author has spent many years photographing street art before it is erased by the authorities and he collects here the best work of the city's preeminent street artists.
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Architecture : art
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This illustrated collection features designers and projects that push the boundaries of art and architecture. "Architecture : art" explores the disparate ways in which contemporary artists and architects handle the blurring lines between their disciplines. Contemporary art often oversteps the limits of its traditional concepts and modes of presentation, increasingly(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2005, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
Architecture : art
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This illustrated collection features designers and projects that push the boundaries of art and architecture. "Architecture : art" explores the disparate ways in which contemporary artists and architects handle the blurring lines between their disciplines. Contemporary art often oversteps the limits of its traditional concepts and modes of presentation, increasingly moving into virtual and actual spaces. Similarly, many of today's architects depart from the principles of classical modernism and historical models to integrate artistic concepts into the design and construction of their buildings. The book highlights the most exciting examples of these interdisciplinary activities, from Zaha Hadid's Guggenheim Museum in Taichung, Taiwan to Richard Meier's Jubilee Church in Rome, Italy, and from Hiroshi Sugimoto's Go'o Shrine to Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses. Profiles of the featured artists and architects are included, along with an introductory essay elucidating the historical foundations from which architecture and art have coevolved to the present day.
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This volume highlights the world's best modern architecture, the people behind the buildings, and the impact they have had on their surroundings. From New York city's Chrysler Building to the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain; from the Sydney Opera house to Kansai international airport, the buildings profiled here have proved enduring monuments to their architects'(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2005, München, Berlin, London, New York
Icons of architecture : the 20th century
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This volume highlights the world's best modern architecture, the people behind the buildings, and the impact they have had on their surroundings. From New York city's Chrysler Building to the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain; from the Sydney Opera house to Kansai international airport, the buildings profiled here have proved enduring monuments to their architects' visions and the hopes and dreams of their eras. Presented in full-color, double-page spreads, these buildings represent nearly every continent on the globe and almost every architectural trend of the past century. The double-page spreads provide numerous photographs and plans, a summary of the architect's career, and anecdotes about building sites, materials, and construction.
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This volume explores fifty buildings from around the world and the people who created them. Organized according to the idea that architecture is the result of basic human desires to live, work, pray, play, and stay, "50 great adventures" traces architecture back to the people who made it happen. Offering a global spectrum of architectural destinations, the book journeys(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
October 2005, München, Berlin, London, New York
50 great adventures : extraordinary places and the people who built them
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This volume explores fifty buildings from around the world and the people who created them. Organized according to the idea that architecture is the result of basic human desires to live, work, pray, play, and stay, "50 great adventures" traces architecture back to the people who made it happen. Offering a global spectrum of architectural destinations, the book journeys from Lanzarote, Spain, home of César Manrique's Jameos del agua grotto, to India, the site of Nek Chand's rock garden of Chandigarh; and from Arizona, where Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti, a vision for a utopian community, shimmers in the desert, to China's Forbidden city. Travel advice accompanies each piece, giving readers all the information they need to experience these extraordinary places for themselves.
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Design city : Melbourne
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"Design city Melbourne" is devised to illustrate a wide range of interiors and their architecural matrices, and to describe the people behind them and how these spaces support the vital culture of this mixed and cosmopolitan city. Photography by John Gollings.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 2006, Chichester
Design city : Melbourne
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"Design city Melbourne" is devised to illustrate a wide range of interiors and their architecural matrices, and to describe the people behind them and how these spaces support the vital culture of this mixed and cosmopolitan city. Photography by John Gollings.
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Design through making
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Most architects who build do not make buildings; they make information that makes buildings. Making buildings requires acquiring knowledge not only of the world of information exchange, but also of the world of making things. It is an expertise that goes beyond the architectural drawing and an expertise that many designers cannot claim to fully possess or practice.(...)
Design through making
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Most architects who build do not make buildings; they make information that makes buildings. Making buildings requires acquiring knowledge not only of the world of information exchange, but also of the world of making things. It is an expertise that goes beyond the architectural drawing and an expertise that many designers cannot claim to fully possess or practice. "Design through making" is not only directed at architects, but engineers, educators, fabricators, machine operators, and anyone with an interest in the manifestation of ideas. It seeks to challenge outmoded notions that building production is preceded by design, and making is merely the cooking of the raw, or the end game where no further design ideas are explored. Here, a hybrid mode is recognised where the investigation of ideas is fully engaged with the tactile, physical nature of architecture and building processes. It is an issue that celebrates the re-emergence of making, not merely as an immense resource for ideas, experimentation and customisation, but as a critical resource that will redefine architectural practices. This title includes the work of Block Architecture, Mark Burry, Thomas Heatherwick Studios and Walter Pichler; there is also a special feature on Japanese traditions in architecture. Contributors include: Iain Borden, Sarah Chaplin, David Dunster, Jonathan Hill and Mark Prizeman.
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Exhibition catalog. This guidebook is a device and also an invitation to navigate through the educational landscape of four Swiss schools of architecture, presented in the exhibition "Inventioneering architecture". Reflecting and commenting on the display, it suggests future challenges and shows a broad spectrum of strategies of the profession, developed by numerous(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
October 2005, Zurich
Inventioneering architecture : Switzerland - Suisse
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Exhibition catalog. This guidebook is a device and also an invitation to navigate through the educational landscape of four Swiss schools of architecture, presented in the exhibition "Inventioneering architecture". Reflecting and commenting on the display, it suggests future challenges and shows a broad spectrum of strategies of the profession, developed by numerous design and research studios.
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Its restrained design once again makes this year's annual an inspiring overview of present-day design education. This annual gives an overall view of education at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Shedding light on how theory and professional skills are conveyed, it also shows how a new generation of architects, urban designers and landscape architects adopts a(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 1900, Rotterdam
A/S/L - A/U/L : yearbook academy of architecture, amsterdam 2003-2004
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Its restrained design once again makes this year's annual an inspiring overview of present-day design education. This annual gives an overall view of education at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Shedding light on how theory and professional skills are conveyed, it also shows how a new generation of architects, urban designers and landscape architects adopts a design stance and relates it to current design briefs. To give form to the study programme, the Academy enlists the aid of top designers and researchers and organizes public exhibitions, talks and discussions.
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This book is a presentation the ten nominees of the year, chosen from a total of 151 entries. The selection shows the foremost achievements of Swedish wooden architecture in the past four years, "Swedish architecture in wood" is illustrated by photographer Åke E:son Lindman and with descriptions and drawings from the architects themselves. The Timber Prize was founded(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 1900, Stockholm
Swedish architecture in wood : the 2004 Timber prize
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This book is a presentation the ten nominees of the year, chosen from a total of 151 entries. The selection shows the foremost achievements of Swedish wooden architecture in the past four years, "Swedish architecture in wood" is illustrated by photographer Åke E:son Lindman and with descriptions and drawings from the architects themselves. The Timber Prize was founded in 1967 and is presented by the Swedish Forest Industries Federation.
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