Art Photography
$42.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This survey presents the work of seventy-six of the most important artist-photographers in the world today. Susan Bright has organized the book into seven sections : City, Portrait, Document, Object, Landscape, Fashion, and Narrative. Each section explores the diverse subjects, styles, and methods adopted by artists. Introductions to each section outline the genres and(...)
Art Photography
Actions:
Price:
$42.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This survey presents the work of seventy-six of the most important artist-photographers in the world today. Susan Bright has organized the book into seven sections : City, Portrait, Document, Object, Landscape, Fashion, and Narrative. Each section explores the diverse subjects, styles, and methods adopted by artists. Introductions to each section outline the genres and consider why photographers are attracted to certain themes and how issues like memory, time, objectivity, politics, identity, and the everyday are tied to certain approaches. Each photographer’s work is then presented in sequence, with commentaries by the author highlighting the art’s most important aspects. Quotations from the artists appear alongside to offer valuable insights into the motivation, inspiration, and intentions behind the work. With an introduction that sets out the historical relationship between art and photography from the early nineteenth century and discusses the art world’s embrace of the medium in recent decades, Art Photography Now is a comprehensive guide to the essential aspects of contemporary photography.
Theory of Photography
The Polaroid book
$51.95
(available to order)
Summary:
In existence for over 50 years, the Polaroid Corporation's photography collection is the greatest collection of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by Polaroid founder Edwin Land and photographer Ansel Adams, the collection now includes images by hundreds of photographers throughout the world and contains important pieces by artists such as David Hockney, Helmut Newton,(...)
Theory of Photography
April 2005, Cologne
The Polaroid book
Actions:
Price:
$51.95
(available to order)
Summary:
In existence for over 50 years, the Polaroid Corporation's photography collection is the greatest collection of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by Polaroid founder Edwin Land and photographer Ansel Adams, the collection now includes images by hundreds of photographers throughout the world and contains important pieces by artists such as David Hockney, Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff, and Robert Rauschenberg. "The Polaroid Book", a survey of this remarkable collection, pays tribute to a medium that defies the digital age and remains a favourite among artists for its quirky look and instantly gratifying, one-of-kind images. The book includes over 400 works from the Polaroid Collections, an essay by Barbara Hitchcock illuminating the beginnings and history of the collection, and a technical reference section featuring the various types of Polaroid cameras.
Theory of Photography
My Dutch design 0809 set
$159.95
(available in store)
Summary:
This 10th anniversary edition is designed by Holland’s most famous designer, now in its eighties and a real icon for young Dutch graphic designers, Dick Bruna. The book contains a cross-section of the current state of design in the Netherlands, in all its diversity - from functional minimalism to experimental indulgence - and covering all disciplines from graphics and(...)
September 2008, Amsterdam
My Dutch design 0809 set
Actions:
Price:
$159.95
(available in store)
Summary:
This 10th anniversary edition is designed by Holland’s most famous designer, now in its eighties and a real icon for young Dutch graphic designers, Dick Bruna. The book contains a cross-section of the current state of design in the Netherlands, in all its diversity - from functional minimalism to experimental indulgence - and covering all disciplines from graphics and product design to interactive media.
New modernist type
$52.50
(available to order)
Summary:
Having surveyed handwritten, new vintage, and new ornamental tendencies in type and lettering, Steven Heller now turns his encyclopedic gaze on Modernism. New Modernist Type reveals how a graphic language of simplicity and economy has impacted contemporary design. Hundreds of examples by international designers are grouped into three thematic chapters: Old Modern, Playful(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
October 2012
New modernist type
Actions:
Price:
$52.50
(available to order)
Summary:
Having surveyed handwritten, new vintage, and new ornamental tendencies in type and lettering, Steven Heller now turns his encyclopedic gaze on Modernism. New Modernist Type reveals how a graphic language of simplicity and economy has impacted contemporary design. Hundreds of examples by international designers are grouped into three thematic chapters: Old Modern, Playful Modern, and Meta Modern. An historical introduction places today's tendencies in context, and the reference section features a list of designers' websites.
Graphic Design and Typography
$55.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This instalment straddles a diverse range of topics and new projects. Near the northern end of the High Line Park, a section of overgrown and neglected land has been transformed into the hottest new place in New York. Vessel, designed by Heatherwick Studio, is now a prominent feature in the public gardens, while The Shed, a massive new arts centre by Diller Scofidio +(...)
C3 401 : vessel and the shed at Hudson Yards
Actions:
Price:
$55.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This instalment straddles a diverse range of topics and new projects. Near the northern end of the High Line Park, a section of overgrown and neglected land has been transformed into the hottest new place in New York. Vessel, designed by Heatherwick Studio, is now a prominent feature in the public gardens, while The Shed, a massive new arts centre by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, will become an adaptable and expandable cultural venue. Also in this issue, new public libraries by ALA Architects and Snøhetta + DIALOG, a feature on architectural insertions, with projects by Herzog & de Meuron and BAAS Arquitectura, and trending school architecture around the world.
Magazines
$38.50
(available to order)
Summary:
For the growing number of people looking to embrace an eco-friendly lifestyle without sacrificing high style, "Ecodesign"—now fully revised and updated—is a shopping resource. The latest edition of this sourcebook includes up-to-the-minute listings for more than seven hundred consumer products—from clothing to kitchenware, electronics to furniture—that have a minimal(...)
Eco design : the source book, revised edition
Actions:
Price:
$38.50
(available to order)
Summary:
For the growing number of people looking to embrace an eco-friendly lifestyle without sacrificing high style, "Ecodesign"—now fully revised and updated—is a shopping resource. The latest edition of this sourcebook includes up-to-the-minute listings for more than seven hundred consumer products—from clothing to kitchenware, electronics to furniture—that have a minimal impact on the earth while remaining useful and beautiful. This compendium also directs readers to little known handcrafted objects from artisanal studios. Detailed, illustrated entries describe the products, while an extensive reference section defines new and hybrid materials and provides information on manufacturers, design studios, and green organizations.
Interior Design
$79.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Until now, the book market has primarily dealt with the popular topic of living by the sea with publications that illustrate the location’s aesthetic appeal. This book goes further to focus on the design, constructional, and technical possibilities that permit one to react to the special conditions of locations by the sea. In an introductory section, the author sets(...)
Residential Architecture
July 2008, Basel, Boston, Berlin
Living by the sea: 25 international examples
Actions:
Price:
$79.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Until now, the book market has primarily dealt with the popular topic of living by the sea with publications that illustrate the location’s aesthetic appeal. This book goes further to focus on the design, constructional, and technical possibilities that permit one to react to the special conditions of locations by the sea. In an introductory section, the author sets forth the principal aspects that fundamentally affect architectural design for this construction task: the geography and geology of the site, climatic conditions, and durability of materials, but also such aesthetic factors as light, landscape, and position, all of which play a special role in approaches to living by the sea. In keeping with this, the following project section, with twenty-five international examples, is organized according to the type of relationship the houses have with the sea: right by the sea, above the sea, or in the sea. The volume uses texts, detailed project information, drawings, and striking photographs to present exemplary design approaches taken by contemporary architects, including Tadao Ando, David Chipperfield, and Steven Holl. Christine Desmoulins is a journalist and architecture critic. She regulary publishes articles in noted architecture journals, including d'Architectures, Construction Moderne, and Abitare, and is the author of numerous books on architecture.
Residential Architecture
books
$63.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Le Corbusier’s Modulor – a fundamental work in the history of architecture – now available in a beautiful facsimile edition. In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier (...)
Le Corbusier : the Modulor, Modulor 2
Actions:
Price:
$63.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Le Corbusier’s Modulor – a fundamental work in the history of architecture – now available in a beautiful facsimile edition. In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor". Based on the Golden Section and Fibonacci numbers and also using the physical dimensions of the average human, Modulor is a sequence of measurements which Le Corbusier used to achieve harmony in his architectural compositions. Le Modulor was published in 1950 and after meeting with success, Le Corbusier went on to publish Modulor 2 in 1955. In many of Le Corbusier’s most notable buildings, including the Chapel at Ronchamp and the Unité d’habitation, evidence of his Modulor system can be seen. These two volumes form an important and integral part of Le Corbusier’s theoretical writings.
books
January 2000, Basel
Architectural Theory
$32.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. The(...)
April 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Guy Debord and the situationist international
Actions:
Price:
$32.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. The emphasis was on the SI’s profound engagement with the art and cultural politics of their time (1957–1972), with a strong argument for their primarily political and activist stance by two former members of the group, T. J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith. Guy Debord and the Situationist International supplements both sections. It reprints important, hard to find essays by Giorgio Agamben, Libero Andreotti, Jonathan Crary, Thomas Y. Levin, Greil Marcus, and Tom McDonough and doubles the number of translations of primary texts, which now encompass a broader and more representative range of the SI’s writings on culture and language. In a field still dominated by hagiography, the critical texts were selected for their willingness to confront critically the history and legacy of the SI. They examine the group within the broader framework of the historical and neo-avant-gardes and, beyond that, the postwar world in general. The translations trace the SI’s reflections on the legacy of the avant-garde in art and architecture, particularly on the linguistic and spatial significance of montage aesthetics. Many of the translated works are by Guy Debord (1932–1994), the impresario of the SI, especially known for his book "The Society of the Spectacle".
$69.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Embracing one's own traditions is not a backward turn. Instead, it represents the chance to obtain a European identity, which after the erratic attemps at finding form in past decades can now be developed further in a new continuity. The works of Ortner & Ortner exhibit this clearly. Following their Primer of Architecture, Ortner & Ortner new provide a compendium of(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2008, Basel Boston, Berlin
Ortner & Ortner: buildings for European culture
Actions:
Price:
$69.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Embracing one's own traditions is not a backward turn. Instead, it represents the chance to obtain a European identity, which after the erratic attemps at finding form in past decades can now be developed further in a new continuity. The works of Ortner & Ortner exhibit this clearly. Following their Primer of Architecture, Ortner & Ortner new provide a compendium of their buildings and designs for 'European culture'. Presented are projects in three areas: theaters, museums, and libraries. The projects begin with the experimental ventures from the Haus-Rucker-Co era and end cultural buildings that are among the most significant internationally. 'European culture' is an exemplary situation in which the old and new concur in an unparalleled wealth of features and are then reunited in a new blend. A comprehensive text section with contributions by Manuela Hötzl, Ernst Hubeli, Bart Lootsma, Sophie Lovell, and Laurids Ortner focuses on selected projects, grasping the ingredients of this European blend.
Architecture Monographs