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A view of contemporary Australian architecture from the past ten years is provided, featuring the work of fourteen architectural practices. Most are "young" firms with a recognisable body of built work.
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A view of contemporary Australian architecture from the past ten years is provided, featuring the work of fourteen architectural practices. Most are "young" firms with a recognisable body of built work.
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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May 2001, Balmain
May 2001, Balmain
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New directions in australian architecture
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A view of contemporary Australian architecture from the past ten years is provided, featuring the work of fourteen architectural practices. Most are "young" firms with a recognisable body of built work.
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A view of contemporary Australian architecture from the past ten years is provided, featuring the work of fourteen architectural practices. Most are "young" firms with a recognisable body of built work.
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May 2001, Balmain
May 2001, Balmain
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic(...)
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The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Americas
Architecture since 1900, Americas
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January 2024
January 2024
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Modern architectures in Central America
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The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic significance. Such buildings functioned as models for the desired societal, economic, and cultural changes, or as aspirational placeholders for a future state of modernity. With contributions by Mauricio Quirós Pacheco, Andrés Fernández, Hans Ibelings, Gloria Grimaldi, Sandra Gutiérrez, Martín Majewsky, and others.
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The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic significance. Such buildings functioned as models for the desired societal, economic, and cultural changes, or as aspirational placeholders for a future state of modernity. With contributions by Mauricio Quirós Pacheco, Andrés Fernández, Hans Ibelings, Gloria Grimaldi, Sandra Gutiérrez, Martín Majewsky, and others.
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January 2024
January 2024
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Architecture since 1900, Americas
Architecture since 1900, Americas
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The Metropolitan Tower
The Metropolitan Tower
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"The Metropolitan Tower" is the first English-language edition of a French standard reference on the topic of the urban high-rise, published in 2012. It summarizes, interprets, and explains the research of French architect and teacher Michel Kagan (1953–2009). Featuring some six hundred photographs, sketches, and plans, along with Kagan’s writings and contributions by(...)
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"The Metropolitan Tower" is the first English-language edition of a French standard reference on the topic of the urban high-rise, published in 2012. It summarizes, interprets, and explains the research of French architect and teacher Michel Kagan (1953–2009). Featuring some six hundred photographs, sketches, and plans, along with Kagan’s writings and contributions by(...)
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"The Metropolitan Tower" is the first English-language edition of a French standard reference on the topic of the urban high-rise, published in 2012. It summarizes, interprets, and explains the research of French architect and teacher Michel Kagan (1953–2009). Featuring some six hundred photographs, sketches, and plans, along with Kagan’s writings and contributions by twenty-six distinguished international authors who respond to his ideas with key elements of their own research, the volume comprehensively explores the typology of the metropolitan high-rise since the birth of early modernism. For this new English edition, the book’s content has been revised, updated, and expanded in the light of new research conducted by the faculty of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (ENSA) Paris-Val de Seine under the direction of Nathalie Régnier-Kagan. It offers a fascinating and multilayered overview informing students, architects, and critics alike on vertical architecture.
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"The Metropolitan Tower" is the first English-language edition of a French standard reference on the topic of the urban high-rise, published in 2012. It summarizes, interprets, and explains the research of French architect and teacher Michel Kagan (1953–2009). Featuring some six hundred photographs, sketches, and plans, along with Kagan’s writings and contributions by twenty-six distinguished international authors who respond to his ideas with key elements of their own research, the volume comprehensively explores the typology of the metropolitan high-rise since the birth of early modernism. For this new English edition, the book’s content has been revised, updated, and expanded in the light of new research conducted by the faculty of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (ENSA) Paris-Val de Seine under the direction of Nathalie Régnier-Kagan. It offers a fascinating and multilayered overview informing students, architects, and critics alike on vertical architecture.
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December 2025
December 2025
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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Elizabeth Martin draws closely on the work of composer John Cage, with whom she corresponded at length, and her study brings together ten projects by musicians and architects that explore (...)
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Elizabeth Martin draws closely on the work of composer John Cage, with whom she corresponded at length, and her study brings together ten projects by musicians and architects that explore (...)
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Pamphlet architecture #16 : architecture as a translation of music
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Elizabeth Martin draws closely on the work of composer John Cage, with whom she corresponded at length, and her study brings together ten projects by musicians and architects that explore the language, philosophy and character of both disciplines. Pamphlet Architecture #16 contains analytical drawings, diagrams, and models of the translation of minimalist music theory into built form. Case studies include buildings by architects Bernhard Leitner, Ellen Fullman, Maryanne Amacher, Neil Denari, Steven Holl, and Mangurian + Ray.
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Elizabeth Martin draws closely on the work of composer John Cage, with whom she corresponded at length, and her study brings together ten projects by musicians and architects that explore the language, philosophy and character of both disciplines. Pamphlet Architecture #16 contains analytical drawings, diagrams, and models of the translation of minimalist music theory into built form. Case studies include buildings by architects Bernhard Leitner, Ellen Fullman, Maryanne Amacher, Neil Denari, Steven Holl, and Mangurian + Ray.
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May 1994, New York
May 1994, New York
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small format
small format
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Ce volume illustré de photographies, de dessins et de plans architecturaux, retrace l’histoire exceptionnelle de l’architecture moderne au 20e siècle dans ce qu’il était convenu d’appeler la « Reine du Nord ». Le livre, divisé en quatre grandes parties, retrace d’abord l’évolution de la ville. On y présente ensuite les diverses tendances architecturales et les(...)
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Ce volume illustré de photographies, de dessins et de plans architecturaux, retrace l’histoire exceptionnelle de l’architecture moderne au 20e siècle dans ce qu’il était convenu d’appeler la « Reine du Nord ». Le livre, divisé en quatre grandes parties, retrace d’abord l’évolution de la ville. On y présente ensuite les diverses tendances architecturales et les(...)
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Architecture du Québec
Architecture du Québec
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May 2004, Sainte-Foy
May 2004, Sainte-Foy
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Patrimoines modernes : l'architecture du vingtième siècle à Chicoutimi
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Ce volume illustré de photographies, de dessins et de plans architecturaux, retrace l’histoire exceptionnelle de l’architecture moderne au 20e siècle dans ce qu’il était convenu d’appeler la « Reine du Nord ». Le livre, divisé en quatre grandes parties, retrace d’abord l’évolution de la ville. On y présente ensuite les diverses tendances architecturales et les principaux architectes qui ont œuvré à Chicoutimi. On s’attarde enfin aux monuments les plus significatifs du paysage architectural de la ville. L’ouvrage souligne le caractère avant-gardiste de l’architecture moderne de Chicoutimi dans le contexte québécois et démontre la nécessité de protéger et de conserver ses plus beaux monuments.
Patrimoines modernes : l'architecture du vingtième siècle à Chicoutimi
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Ce volume illustré de photographies, de dessins et de plans architecturaux, retrace l’histoire exceptionnelle de l’architecture moderne au 20e siècle dans ce qu’il était convenu d’appeler la « Reine du Nord ». Le livre, divisé en quatre grandes parties, retrace d’abord l’évolution de la ville. On y présente ensuite les diverses tendances architecturales et les principaux architectes qui ont œuvré à Chicoutimi. On s’attarde enfin aux monuments les plus significatifs du paysage architectural de la ville. L’ouvrage souligne le caractère avant-gardiste de l’architecture moderne de Chicoutimi dans le contexte québécois et démontre la nécessité de protéger et de conserver ses plus beaux monuments.
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May 2004, Sainte-Foy
May 2004, Sainte-Foy
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Architecture du Québec
Architecture du Québec
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Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture is the first comprehensive publication on this architect in 20 years, and presents an extensive catalogue of works, featuring original drawings and architectural models from the Kahn archive. Essays by prominent Kahn experts discuss the sources, contexts and influences of his work. In interviews, leading architects such as Frank(...)
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Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture is the first comprehensive publication on this architect in 20 years, and presents an extensive catalogue of works, featuring original drawings and architectural models from the Kahn archive. Essays by prominent Kahn experts discuss the sources, contexts and influences of his work. In interviews, leading architects such as Frank(...)
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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February 2013
February 2013
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Louis Kahn : the power of architecture
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Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture is the first comprehensive publication on this architect in 20 years, and presents an extensive catalogue of works, featuring original drawings and architectural models from the Kahn archive. Essays by prominent Kahn experts discuss the sources, contexts and influences of his work. In interviews, leading architects such as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor and Sou Fujimoto explain Kahn's significance in today's architectural discourse. Topics discussed include Kahn's pioneering role in concrete construction; the visionary plans for his home city of Philadelphia; his years at Yale University; his dialogue with Josef Albers; and his importance for modern architecture in Southeast Asia.
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Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture is the first comprehensive publication on this architect in 20 years, and presents an extensive catalogue of works, featuring original drawings and architectural models from the Kahn archive. Essays by prominent Kahn experts discuss the sources, contexts and influences of his work. In interviews, leading architects such as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor and Sou Fujimoto explain Kahn's significance in today's architectural discourse. Topics discussed include Kahn's pioneering role in concrete construction; the visionary plans for his home city of Philadelphia; his years at Yale University; his dialogue with Josef Albers; and his importance for modern architecture in Southeast Asia.
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February 2013
February 2013
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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Plafonds en bois
Plafonds en bois
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À travers une trentaine d’exemples, choisis dans des châteaux et des hôtels répertoriés dans le fonds du CRMH, cette étude analyse la structure et l’évolution - du Moyen Âge au XVIIe siècle, des dispositions de plafonds en bois (plafonds à la française, plafonds à caissons, plafonds à la fougère, etc.). Cet ouvrage est éclairé à la fois par des traités d’architecture(...)
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À travers une trentaine d’exemples, choisis dans des châteaux et des hôtels répertoriés dans le fonds du CRMH, cette étude analyse la structure et l’évolution - du Moyen Âge au XVIIe siècle, des dispositions de plafonds en bois (plafonds à la française, plafonds à caissons, plafonds à la fougère, etc.). Cet ouvrage est éclairé à la fois par des traités d’architecture(...)
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À travers une trentaine d’exemples, choisis dans des châteaux et des hôtels répertoriés dans le fonds du CRMH, cette étude analyse la structure et l’évolution - du Moyen Âge au XVIIe siècle, des dispositions de plafonds en bois (plafonds à la française, plafonds à caissons, plafonds à la fougère, etc.). Cet ouvrage est éclairé à la fois par des traités d’architecture anciens et par le résultat de recherches récentes.
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À travers une trentaine d’exemples, choisis dans des châteaux et des hôtels répertoriés dans le fonds du CRMH, cette étude analyse la structure et l’évolution - du Moyen Âge au XVIIe siècle, des dispositions de plafonds en bois (plafonds à la française, plafonds à caissons, plafonds à la fougère, etc.). Cet ouvrage est éclairé à la fois par des traités d’architecture anciens et par le résultat de recherches récentes.
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October 2014
October 2014
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Timber Construction
Timber Construction
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New glass architecture
New glass architecture
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The book begins with an introduction that traces the history of key moments in glass architecture--from the stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral to the Crystal Palace of 1851, and early constructions by John Soane, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe. Author Brent Richards explains the importance of glass artists in the second half of the 20th century(...)
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The book begins with an introduction that traces the history of key moments in glass architecture--from the stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral to the Crystal Palace of 1851, and early constructions by John Soane, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe. Author Brent Richards explains the importance of glass artists in the second half of the 20th century(...)
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New glass architecture
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The book begins with an introduction that traces the history of key moments in glass architecture--from the stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral to the Crystal Palace of 1851, and early constructions by John Soane, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe. Author Brent Richards explains the importance of glass artists in the second half of the 20th century and describes developments in glass technology over the last twenty years. Illustrated with newly commissioned photographs by Dennis Gilbert, the book features twenty-five case studies of recent glass constructions from around the world by such leading architects as Foster and Partners, Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito & Associates, Jean Nouvel, Raphael Viñoly, and Peter Zumthor. Each building is illustrated in full color and accompanied by detailed drawings.
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The book begins with an introduction that traces the history of key moments in glass architecture--from the stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral to the Crystal Palace of 1851, and early constructions by John Soane, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe. Author Brent Richards explains the importance of glass artists in the second half of the 20th century and describes developments in glass technology over the last twenty years. Illustrated with newly commissioned photographs by Dennis Gilbert, the book features twenty-five case studies of recent glass constructions from around the world by such leading architects as Foster and Partners, Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito & Associates, Jean Nouvel, Raphael Viñoly, and Peter Zumthor. Each building is illustrated in full color and accompanied by detailed drawings.
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October 2006, New Haven
October 2006, New Haven
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Materials and Lighting
Materials and Lighting
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Urban landscape architecture
Urban landscape architecture
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The urban landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade as cities worldwide implement revitalization plans designed to keep urban areas vital and appealing for both tourism and residency. Bringing a sense of space and place to the public areas of urban cities is essential for the vitality of a city, and many cities are investing heavily in this type of urban(...)
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The urban landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade as cities worldwide implement revitalization plans designed to keep urban areas vital and appealing for both tourism and residency. Bringing a sense of space and place to the public areas of urban cities is essential for the vitality of a city, and many cities are investing heavily in this type of urban(...)
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Urban landscape architecture
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The urban landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade as cities worldwide implement revitalization plans designed to keep urban areas vital and appealing for both tourism and residency. Bringing a sense of space and place to the public areas of urban cities is essential for the vitality of a city, and many cities are investing heavily in this type of urban development. "Urban landscape architecture" showcases the most interesting and innovative urban landscape design and reviews the work of great architects and designers in this area. Each project features sketches, drawings, and photographs and highlights the design details of note for the reader.
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The urban landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade as cities worldwide implement revitalization plans designed to keep urban areas vital and appealing for both tourism and residency. Bringing a sense of space and place to the public areas of urban cities is essential for the vitality of a city, and many cities are investing heavily in this type of urban development. "Urban landscape architecture" showcases the most interesting and innovative urban landscape design and reviews the work of great architects and designers in this area. Each project features sketches, drawings, and photographs and highlights the design details of note for the reader.
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January 2007, Gloucester, MA
January 2007, Gloucester, MA
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Gardens
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The popular image of the winery remains the picturesque European chateau, but a growing number of winemakers around the world are seeking a fresh approach. Architects are being challenged to rethink the winery as a bold contemporary expression of tradition and innovation, agriculture and technology, production and hospitality: powerful architecture with a(...)
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The popular image of the winery remains the picturesque European chateau, but a growing number of winemakers around the world are seeking a fresh approach. Architects are being challenged to rethink the winery as a bold contemporary expression of tradition and innovation, agriculture and technology, production and hospitality: powerful architecture with a(...)
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
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January 1900, Mulgrave
January 1900, Mulgrave
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Adventurous wine architecture
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The popular image of the winery remains the picturesque European chateau, but a growing number of winemakers around the world are seeking a fresh approach. Architects are being challenged to rethink the winery as a bold contemporary expression of tradition and innovation, agriculture and technology, production and hospitality: powerful architecture with a serious purpose. This book by well-known architectural writer Michael Webb contains a selection of wineries designed by architects such as Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano, Steven Holl, Herzog & de Meuron, Santiago Calatrava, Rafael Moneo, Glenn Murcutt, Norman Foster and more. Each project has been carefully chosen for its architectural excellence and offers a new perspective on an age-old craft, and an adventurous approach to building. The locations are evocative: California, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Austria, Spain, Chile and Argentina.
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The popular image of the winery remains the picturesque European chateau, but a growing number of winemakers around the world are seeking a fresh approach. Architects are being challenged to rethink the winery as a bold contemporary expression of tradition and innovation, agriculture and technology, production and hospitality: powerful architecture with a serious purpose. This book by well-known architectural writer Michael Webb contains a selection of wineries designed by architects such as Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano, Steven Holl, Herzog & de Meuron, Santiago Calatrava, Rafael Moneo, Glenn Murcutt, Norman Foster and more. Each project has been carefully chosen for its architectural excellence and offers a new perspective on an age-old craft, and an adventurous approach to building. The locations are evocative: California, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Austria, Spain, Chile and Argentina.
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January 1900, Mulgrave
January 1900, Mulgrave
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
