books
Description:
191 pages : color illustrations, color maps, plans ; 18 cm
Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, ©2008.
A guidebook to contemporary architecture in Montreal / Nancy Dunton, Helen Malkin ; with essays by Georges Adamczyk, Ricardo L. Castro.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
191 pages : color illustrations, color maps, plans ; 18 cm
books
Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, ©2008.
The stones of Venice
$21.50
(available to order)
Summary:
John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are exquisitely expressed in "The Stones of Venice". This edition contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," a marvelously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank(...)
History until 1900, Italy
September 2003, New York / Cambridge, Mass.
The stones of Venice
Actions:
Price:
$21.50
(available to order)
Summary:
John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are exquisitely expressed in "The Stones of Venice". This edition contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," a marvelously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank God I am here, it is a Paradise of Cities."
History until 1900, Italy
$37.50
(available to order)
Summary:
More than ten years after reunification, the creative scene in Berlin is characterized by a wealth of ideas, unconventionality and an international approach. Based on their most important works, the “Design Berlin: New Projects for a Changing City” exhibition, which will go on an international tour, as well as the publication accompanying it, introduce the most innovative(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
August 2003, Berlin
Design Berlin : new projects for a changing city
Actions:
Price:
$37.50
(available to order)
Summary:
More than ten years after reunification, the creative scene in Berlin is characterized by a wealth of ideas, unconventionality and an international approach. Based on their most important works, the “Design Berlin: New Projects for a Changing City” exhibition, which will go on an international tour, as well as the publication accompanying it, introduce the most innovative young designers and architects based in Berlin.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
books
$37.95
(available to order)
Summary:
The Good Life takes the reader on a tour of houses of the 20th century with the aim of freeing his or her vision of various preconceptions and prejudices. It is an invitation not only to celebrate the diversity of 20th century houses, but also to stimulate the pleasure of thinking, planning and living intensely, to encourage the invention of a house that doesn't yet exist.
The good life : a guided visit to the houses of modernity
Actions:
Price:
$37.95
(available to order)
Summary:
The Good Life takes the reader on a tour of houses of the 20th century with the aim of freeing his or her vision of various preconceptions and prejudices. It is an invitation not only to celebrate the diversity of 20th century houses, but also to stimulate the pleasure of thinking, planning and living intensely, to encourage the invention of a house that doesn't yet exist.
books
October 2000, Barcelona
Residential Architecture
$75.00
(available to order)
Summary:
An artist’s mobile museum in the tradition of Robert Filliou and Marcel Broodthaers. Founded in Brussels in 2013 by Pierre Leguillon (born 1969), the Museum of Mistakes is a traveling exhibition composed of postcards, record sleeves, posters, pieces of fabric, ceramics, folk art and children's drawings. This book, the first on the museum, also includes items deemed too(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
November 2020
Pierre Leguillon: The Museum of Mistakes
Actions:
Price:
$75.00
(available to order)
Summary:
An artist’s mobile museum in the tradition of Robert Filliou and Marcel Broodthaers. Founded in Brussels in 2013 by Pierre Leguillon (born 1969), the Museum of Mistakes is a traveling exhibition composed of postcards, record sleeves, posters, pieces of fabric, ceramics, folk art and children's drawings. This book, the first on the museum, also includes items deemed too small or fragile to take on tour.
Contemporary Art Monographs
$30.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Spanish photographer Andre's Gallardo Albajar has traveled the globe to capture the mesmerizing silhouettes, colorful juxtapositions and angular forms of the world’s most exciting buildings. Symmetry, line, shadow and color: these photographs, taken in 20 cities across the world, provide an immersive visual tour of contemporary architecture. From Bilbao to Beijing,(...)
Andres Gallardo Albajar: Urban geometry
Actions:
Price:
$30.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Spanish photographer Andre's Gallardo Albajar has traveled the globe to capture the mesmerizing silhouettes, colorful juxtapositions and angular forms of the world’s most exciting buildings. Symmetry, line, shadow and color: these photographs, taken in 20 cities across the world, provide an immersive visual tour of contemporary architecture. From Bilbao to Beijing, Stockholm to Seoul, journey through the urban geometry that forms the spatial soundtrack to our lives.
Photography monographs
$51.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This fascinating tour through typographic history provides a visually rich exploration of digital type revival. Many typefaces from the pre-digital past have been reinvented for use on computers and mobile devices, while other new font designs are revivals of letterforms, drawn from inscriptions, calligraphic manuals, posters, and book jackets. "Revival type" deftly(...)
Revival type: digital typefaces inspired by the past
Actions:
Price:
$51.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This fascinating tour through typographic history provides a visually rich exploration of digital type revival. Many typefaces from the pre-digital past have been reinvented for use on computers and mobile devices, while other new font designs are revivals of letterforms, drawn from inscriptions, calligraphic manuals, posters, and book jackets. "Revival type" deftly introduces these fonts, many of which are widely used, and engagingly tells their stories.
Graphic Design and Typography
Glasshouse Greenhouse
$47.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The Haarkon Greenhouse Tour, a conceptual photoseries project by India and Magnus--the creators of Haarkon, began as a self-initiated adventure in Oxford's botanic garden four years ago. Since then, Magnus and India have visited countless locations in the UK, Europe, America, Asia, and beyond in search of dream glasshouses and greenhouses, capturing dramatic palm houses,(...)
Glasshouse Greenhouse
Actions:
Price:
$47.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The Haarkon Greenhouse Tour, a conceptual photoseries project by India and Magnus--the creators of Haarkon, began as a self-initiated adventure in Oxford's botanic garden four years ago. Since then, Magnus and India have visited countless locations in the UK, Europe, America, Asia, and beyond in search of dream glasshouses and greenhouses, capturing dramatic palm houses, tropical hothouses, and private potting sheds along the way.
Gardens
Metropolis
$21.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Metropolis, c’est un tour du monde de vingt huit villes des plus aimées! Attractions touristiques, immeubles et architecture iconiques, points chaud culturels, lieux et personnages célèbres. 32 villes : Montréal, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Paris, Londres, Moscou, Berlin, Zurich, Rome, Stockholm, Barcelone, Amsterdam,(...)
Metropolis
Actions:
Price:
$21.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Metropolis, c’est un tour du monde de vingt huit villes des plus aimées! Attractions touristiques, immeubles et architecture iconiques, points chaud culturels, lieux et personnages célèbres. 32 villes : Montréal, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Paris, Londres, Moscou, Berlin, Zurich, Rome, Stockholm, Barcelone, Amsterdam, Athènes, Istanbul, Le Caire, Fès, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Bombay, Seoul, Jakarta, Sydney et Auckland.
Children's Books
$54.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Franz Mayer of Munich takes readers on a tour of the company’s long history, from its genesis as a fine arts manufacturer to the establishment of a stained glass department in 1860 and the period of rapid growth and expansion. In addition to the company’s history, essays and photographs, this publication provides insight into Franz Mayer of Munich today, documenting(...)
November 2012
Franz Mayer of Munich: architecture, glass, art
Actions:
Price:
$54.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Franz Mayer of Munich takes readers on a tour of the company’s long history, from its genesis as a fine arts manufacturer to the establishment of a stained glass department in 1860 and the period of rapid growth and expansion. In addition to the company’s history, essays and photographs, this publication provides insight into Franz Mayer of Munich today, documenting projects’ development and realization.