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Every house has a history, and this book tells the often intimate stories of some remarkable buildings and their architects and clients. Concise, with informative texts, the publication features many illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs as well as floor plans and drawings, and offers a detailed documentation, which includes a bibliography,(...)
November 2009
The iconic house : architectural masterworks since 1900
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Every house has a history, and this book tells the often intimate stories of some remarkable buildings and their architects and clients. Concise, with informative texts, the publication features many illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs as well as floor plans and drawings, and offers a detailed documentation, which includes a bibliography, gazetteers and a list of houses by type, whether Arts and Crafts or Art Nouveau, Modernist or Minimalist, High-Tech or vernacular.
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This publication features 100 projects which have been proposed since the turn of the millennium. It includes projects by UN Studio, Foreign Office Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Zaha Hadid and J. Mayer H. Architects and Asymptote, amongt others.
Unbuilt masterworks of the 21st century : inspirational architecture for the digital age
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This publication features 100 projects which have been proposed since the turn of the millennium. It includes projects by UN Studio, Foreign Office Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Zaha Hadid and J. Mayer H. Architects and Asymptote, amongt others.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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French cultural historian DeJean presents an entertaining account of how home life was virtually reinvented in Paris from 1670 to 1765 as sofas, running water and flush toilets appeared in modern residences: the city became a giant workshop in which inventions in the arts and crafts and innovative technologies were tried out. Louis XIV's and Louis XV's royal mistresses(...)
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September 2009
The age of comfort: when Paris discovered casual and the modern home began
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French cultural historian DeJean presents an entertaining account of how home life was virtually reinvented in Paris from 1670 to 1765 as sofas, running water and flush toilets appeared in modern residences: the city became a giant workshop in which inventions in the arts and crafts and innovative technologies were tried out. Louis XIV's and Louis XV's royal mistresses displayed a bold vision for integrating architecture, interior decor and fashion, thus influencing modern comfort. In private mansions, French architects subdivided interior space to allow for varying degrees of privacy. As bathing became a pleasurable, commonplace activity, tubs became more comfortable and were redesigned as decorative objects in their own right. Men fell in love with the superexpensive flush toilet; the sofa—created by the architect Meissonnier—attained instant celebrity status; and interior decoration became a subset of the new architecture of private life as Parisians discovered that domestic interiors should be the expression of their personal taste.
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Small architecture now !
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Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be in diminutive in their dimensions, but which are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese(...)
Small architecture now !
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Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be in diminutive in their dimensions, but which are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese cities, where large sites are hard to come by, or at the frontier between art and architecture, small buildings present many advantages, and push their designers to do more with less.
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De la pyramide de Kheops au Chrysler Building, Patrick Weber, historien d'art et journaliste, vous propose une mise à jour ludique et pédagogique de vos connaissances architecturales. Ce livre offre un panorama des différents courants architecturaux, mêlant définitions techniques et repères historiques.
HIstoire de l'architecture: de l'antiquité à nos jours
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De la pyramide de Kheops au Chrysler Building, Patrick Weber, historien d'art et journaliste, vous propose une mise à jour ludique et pédagogique de vos connaissances architecturales. Ce livre offre un panorama des différents courants architecturaux, mêlant définitions techniques et repères historiques.
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July 2008
History since 1900, Reference Books
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Architecture: The Whole Story is a reference for anyone interested in the evolution of our built environment. Ranging chronologically from the Neolithic period to the sustainability movement of today, it looks at hundreds of examples of structures, their designers, and their contextual significance.
Architecture: the whole story
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Architecture: The Whole Story is a reference for anyone interested in the evolution of our built environment. Ranging chronologically from the Neolithic period to the sustainability movement of today, it looks at hundreds of examples of structures, their designers, and their contextual significance.
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Elucidating the history of world architecture--from the pyramids of Egypt and the temples of Greece to the ecological architecture of today--for both student and general readership, this ambitious book presents key buildings and styles in a passionate and engaged style. Pavlos Lefas emphasizes the contemporary applications of past architectural practices worldwide,(...)
Architecture: a historical perspective
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Elucidating the history of world architecture--from the pyramids of Egypt and the temples of Greece to the ecological architecture of today--for both student and general readership, this ambitious book presents key buildings and styles in a passionate and engaged style. Pavlos Lefas emphasizes the contemporary applications of past architectural practices worldwide, thematizing his chronology into such topics as architecture and mathematics, scale, utopia, minimalism, grids, tall buildings and landscape architecture.
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Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the(...)
Architectural styles: a visual guide
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Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the classical age to the present day.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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From Rome’s Parthenon to Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia; from the ancient village of Petra to Beijing’s Forbidden City; from New York’s Empire State Building to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, this collection of 100 milestones of architectural history explores how they changed the course of architecture. Why do some buildings stand the test of time? What makes a building(...)
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February 2015
The buildings that revolutionized architecture
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From Rome’s Parthenon to Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia; from the ancient village of Petra to Beijing’s Forbidden City; from New York’s Empire State Building to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, this collection of 100 milestones of architectural history explores how they changed the course of architecture. Why do some buildings stand the test of time? What makes a building unique, or groundbreaking? How do function, environment, and technology impact an architect’s vision? These questions and more are succinctly addressed in this wide-ranging tour of 100 of the world’s most important manmade structures. This compilation spans the ancient to the modern eras and represents nearly every continent.
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The history of modern architecture is diverse, varying wildly from region to region and era to era. Here Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, explores 50 of the most significant and striking buildings in the world, from the modernist aesthetic of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye to the eye-catching flair of Beijing's CCTV Headquarters. Fifty Modern Buildings That(...)
Fifty modern buildings that changed the world
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The history of modern architecture is diverse, varying wildly from region to region and era to era. Here Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, explores 50 of the most significant and striking buildings in the world, from the modernist aesthetic of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye to the eye-catching flair of Beijing's CCTV Headquarters. Fifty Modern Buildings That Changed the World is one of two new titles in the Design Museum Fifty series published in conjunction with London's Design Museum.
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