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Part 1 of this three volume, comprehensive guide to contemporary American architecture focuses on the West and features 247 buildings along with 17 access maps for 69 different cities. Each building is dedicated one page, accompanied with colour photographs and a brief outline. Buildings featured include: Seattle Central Library (Rem Koolhaas/Oma), San Francisco(...)
A guide to contemporary architecture in America, volume 1 : Western U.S.A.
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Part 1 of this three volume, comprehensive guide to contemporary American architecture focuses on the West and features 247 buildings along with 17 access maps for 69 different cities. Each building is dedicated one page, accompanied with colour photographs and a brief outline. Buildings featured include: Seattle Central Library (Rem Koolhaas/Oma), San Francisco International Airport (SOM), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank O. Gehry) and the Denver Central Library (Michael Graves).
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Thisbook takes readers on a tour of American architectural treasures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It provides the practical information such as addresses, phone numbers, visitor hours, and maps. Among the new buildings included in this edition are Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank Gehry), Seattle Library (Rem Koolhaas), American Folk Art Museum (Tod(...)
The architecture traveler : a guide to 263 key American buildings, revised edition
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Thisbook takes readers on a tour of American architectural treasures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It provides the practical information such as addresses, phone numbers, visitor hours, and maps. Among the new buildings included in this edition are Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank Gehry), Seattle Library (Rem Koolhaas), American Folk Art Museum (Tod Williams/Billie Tsien), Contemporary Arts Center (Zaha Hadid), Milwaukee Art Museum (Santiago Calatrava), and the 'Solar Umbrella' House (Larry Scarpa/Angela Brooks).
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Krakow is home to many Secession and Art Nouveau masterpieces. In the course of seven walks around Krakow and Zakopane we discover the various faces of these styles in architecture, painting, sculpture and decorative art. Each walk is accompanied by colour photographs and maps as we visit museums, churches and other sites, including period cafés and restaurants. Text in(...)
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March 2011, Brussels and Crakow
Cracow : rediscovering the Young Poland movement. Secession in and around Cracow
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Krakow is home to many Secession and Art Nouveau masterpieces. In the course of seven walks around Krakow and Zakopane we discover the various faces of these styles in architecture, painting, sculpture and decorative art. Each walk is accompanied by colour photographs and maps as we visit museums, churches and other sites, including period cafés and restaurants. Text in Polish and English.
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L'art pour guide : Paris
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Suivre "L'art pour guide : Paris", c'est surprendre la Vénus de Milo, chercher les traces de la ville médiévale ou percer le mystère de la Dame à la Licorne dans le Quartier latin, imaginer un bal de la Renaissance au Louvre ou voir l'Opéra avec les yeux d'un architecte, comprendre les révolutions de la peinture au Musée d'Orsay ou au Centre Pompidou avant de se laisser(...)
L'art pour guide : Paris
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Suivre "L'art pour guide : Paris", c'est surprendre la Vénus de Milo, chercher les traces de la ville médiévale ou percer le mystère de la Dame à la Licorne dans le Quartier latin, imaginer un bal de la Renaissance au Louvre ou voir l'Opéra avec les yeux d'un architecte, comprendre les révolutions de la peinture au Musée d'Orsay ou au Centre Pompidou avant de se laisser conter par des artistes la création d'aujourd'hui. À partir d'un choix d'œuvres et d'artistes, "L'art pour guide" fait défiler les époques et ouvre sur toute l'histoire de l'art.
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Art-sites San Francisco
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San Francisco, a city of spectacular topography and cosmopolitan charm, now also boasts a formidable arts scene. A burst of activity centered around the opening of the Museum of Modern Art with its signature building by Mario Botta in 1995. Expansion by other museums, including projects by internationally renowned architects Aulenti, Herzog & de Meuron, Legoretta, Maki,(...)
Art-sites San Francisco
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San Francisco, a city of spectacular topography and cosmopolitan charm, now also boasts a formidable arts scene. A burst of activity centered around the opening of the Museum of Modern Art with its signature building by Mario Botta in 1995. Expansion by other museums, including projects by internationally renowned architects Aulenti, Herzog & de Meuron, Legoretta, Maki, and Polshek has further enhanced the city's profile. In addition, exhibition programs at alternative spaces and art schools have been reinvigorated, a new generation of artists and galleries has had a reenergizing effect, and the arrival of prestigious design stores has significantly enriched the dynamics.
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"Chicago's famous buildings - fifth edition", completely updated and revised, covers more than a decade of extraordinary new architecture and takes a fresh look back at the city's classical legacy of Adler, Sullivan, Burnham, Root, Wright, and Mies van der Rohe. The authors have added many new descriptions and images of the most important projects in Chicago since the(...)
Chicago's famous buildings - fifth edition
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"Chicago's famous buildings - fifth edition", completely updated and revised, covers more than a decade of extraordinary new architecture and takes a fresh look back at the city's classical legacy of Adler, Sullivan, Burnham, Root, Wright, and Mies van der Rohe. The authors have added many new descriptions and images of the most important projects in Chicago since the fourth edition, including the massive reconstruction of Grant Park around Frank Gehry's Music Pavilion, and they cover as well the current status of older buildings--some destroyed, others, such as Burnham's Reliance Building, restored and brought back to life. This book also includes expanded sections on the city's future and the development of its diverse neighborhoods, presented with new maps to serve as an even more effective walking guide. A glossary of architectural terms, an extensive index, and more than sixty new photographs of both old and new buildings bring this guide completely up-to-date.
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Cracovie possède des chefs-d'oeuvre de la période sécession et de l'art nouveau. Au gré de sept promenades, de Cracovie à Zakopane, vous en découvrirez les différentes facettes à travers l'architecture, la peinture, la sculpture et l'art décoratif. De nombreuses photos couleurs et des cartes claires vous accompagnent dans ces circuits où alternent des visites de musées,(...)
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March 2006, Bruxelles et Cracovie
Cracovie : sur les traces de la Jeune Pologne. La sécession à Cracovie et environs
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Cracovie possède des chefs-d'oeuvre de la période sécession et de l'art nouveau. Au gré de sept promenades, de Cracovie à Zakopane, vous en découvrirez les différentes facettes à travers l'architecture, la peinture, la sculpture et l'art décoratif. De nombreuses photos couleurs et des cartes claires vous accompagnent dans ces circuits où alternent des visites de musées, d'église et d'immeubles, ponctuées de haltes dans des cafés et des restaurants traditionnels et conviviaux. Bilingue français et polonais.
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Le centre-ville de Riga compte plusieurs centaines d'immeubles art nouveau. On découvre les immeubles les plus remarquables au cours de promenades détailées. Chaque promenade est accompagnée d'un plan qui signale par un numéro l'emplacement des monuments les plus intéressants. Des ensembles architecturaux se trouvent également au dehors de la ville. Bilingue en(...)
Riga : sur les traces de l'art nouveau à Riga
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Le centre-ville de Riga compte plusieurs centaines d'immeubles art nouveau. On découvre les immeubles les plus remarquables au cours de promenades détailées. Chaque promenade est accompagnée d'un plan qui signale par un numéro l'emplacement des monuments les plus intéressants. Des ensembles architecturaux se trouvent également au dehors de la ville. Bilingue en français et polonais.
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Bruxelles par-delà les murs
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Ce livre vous ouvre la ville. Il vous dévoile la face cachée de Bruxelles en vous révelant 160 intérieurs d'îlots... qui vont vous surprendre. Beaucoup sont accessibles, les autres ne sont visibles que dans cet ouvrage.
Bruxelles par-delà les murs
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Ce livre vous ouvre la ville. Il vous dévoile la face cachée de Bruxelles en vous révelant 160 intérieurs d'îlots... qui vont vous surprendre. Beaucoup sont accessibles, les autres ne sont visibles que dans cet ouvrage.
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Although postmodern architecture reaches giddy heights in the cinema multiplexes and shopping malls on the outskirts of town, its services have been in greatest demand in the centre of London. The fun, brash style dominated architecture from its radical inception at the end of the 1970's to its soggy death by cul-de-sac developments in the 90's. Why did the postmodern(...)
Postmodern architecture in London
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Although postmodern architecture reaches giddy heights in the cinema multiplexes and shopping malls on the outskirts of town, its services have been in greatest demand in the centre of London. The fun, brash style dominated architecture from its radical inception at the end of the 1970's to its soggy death by cul-de-sac developments in the 90's. Why did the postmodern expire? A change of fashion, maybe? It can certainly be too much at times, all those Plaudoh pediments, Lego walls and cheap multicoloured facings. A victim of its own popularity? We live and work in countless postmodern low-rise houses and offices all over the city; so ubiquitous is it that not a street has been spared.
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