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The "Architekten Profile 2009/2010" presents 150 selected architects from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland together with their current works and trailblazing projects in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. With extensive information and a wealth of color illustrations, the book provides a clear and vivid picture of the contemporary architecture(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2009, Basel, Boston, Berlin
Architeckten profile 2009-2010
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The "Architekten Profile 2009/2010" presents 150 selected architects from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland together with their current works and trailblazing projects in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. With extensive information and a wealth of color illustrations, the book provides a clear and vivid picture of the contemporary architecture scene. "Architekten Profile 2009/2010" is the indispensable reference work for clients, consultants, and architects who seek quick and targeted access to information on relevant providers.
Architecture Monographs
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Álvaro Siza, known for his poetic modernism, presents his residence on the island of Mallorca in this monograph. Photographed in black and white, the summer house inspired by the surrounding rocky landscape is brought to life through numerous sketches and drawings, its careful conception and creative process illuminated in a text by Siza himself. Every detail is covered,(...)
Alvaro Siza : One house in Mallorca
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Álvaro Siza, known for his poetic modernism, presents his residence on the island of Mallorca in this monograph. Photographed in black and white, the summer house inspired by the surrounding rocky landscape is brought to life through numerous sketches and drawings, its careful conception and creative process illuminated in a text by Siza himself. Every detail is covered, from floor plans, sections and elevations to the design of interior aspects like doors, stairways and the layout of individual rooms.
Architecture Monographs
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Sandy Isenstadt examines how architects, interior designers, and landscape designers worked to enhance spatial perception in middle class houses visually. The desire for spaciousness reached its highest pitch where it was most lacking, in the small, single-family houses that came to be the cornerstone of middle class life in the nineteenth century. In direct conflict with(...)
The modern american house: spaciousness and middle class identity
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Sandy Isenstadt examines how architects, interior designers, and landscape designers worked to enhance spatial perception in middle class houses visually. The desire for spaciousness reached its highest pitch where it was most lacking, in the small, single-family houses that came to be the cornerstone of middle class life in the nineteenth century. In direct conflict with actual dimensions, spaciousness was linked to a tension unique to the middle class - between spatial aspirations and financial limitations.
Architectural Theory
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"Driving along the highways and byways of the Southwest and Interior West, Van Parys has noticed things that you or I might otherwise consider too trivial, too banal, to be worthy of further examination.... She makes us see things that would otherwise remain unseen. The final result is a poignant commentary not only on the desert landscapes to be found 'out west,' but(...)
Photography monographs
December 2008, Chicago
Michelle Van Parys: the way out west desert landscapes
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"Driving along the highways and byways of the Southwest and Interior West, Van Parys has noticed things that you or I might otherwise consider too trivial, too banal, to be worthy of further examination.... She makes us see things that would otherwise remain unseen. The final result is a poignant commentary not only on the desert landscapes to be found 'out west,' but also on the act of seeing the American West." - Geoffrey Batchen, author of Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance"
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302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, 2007.
Adolf Loos : works and projects / Ralf Bock.
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Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, 2007.
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibitions "Our Love is Like the flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours" at Tramway, Glasgow and "Our Love is Like the Earth, the Sun, the Trees and the Birth" at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. It includes installations featuring a series of sculptures that suggest both a park-like landscape and an apartment(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
January 1900, Vancouver / Glasgow
Martin Boyce : this place is dreaming
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibitions "Our Love is Like the flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours" at Tramway, Glasgow and "Our Love is Like the Earth, the Sun, the Trees and the Birth" at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. It includes installations featuring a series of sculptures that suggest both a park-like landscape and an apartment interior in which the artist describes and abstracts cultural and social environments. The catalogue includes Martin Boyce’s conversation with Douglas Coupland, and essays by Raymond MacDonald and Douglas Coupland.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Conceived by photographer Naoya Hatakeyama, this tribute to Toyo Ito’s design for the Taichung Opera House in Taiwan offers an eye-opening look at an extraordinary building, its urban context, and daily use. Completed in 2014, the curving structure with its cut-out voids and sectioned facade has proved to be a magnet, not just for audiences but also for people who come to(...)
Architecture Monographs
February 2024
Toyo Ito: Taichung Opera House
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Conceived by photographer Naoya Hatakeyama, this tribute to Toyo Ito’s design for the Taichung Opera House in Taiwan offers an eye-opening look at an extraordinary building, its urban context, and daily use. Completed in 2014, the curving structure with its cut-out voids and sectioned facade has proved to be a magnet, not just for audiences but also for people who come to enjoy its rooftop landscape, water elements, and cave-like interior spaces. Besides the many photographs by Hatakeyama, the publication includes an illuminating dialogue between Ito and architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori.
Architecture Monographs
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The third in a multi-volume overview of materials in architecture focuses on glass. Presenting more than 60 projects by 51 international practices, it also includes brief statements from 30 offices regarding their views on how to apply glass in architecture. Featuring murmur, Stefano Corbo Studio, OOIIO Architecture, Arphenotype, Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates, Sadar Vuga(...)
Architectural material 3: Glass
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The third in a multi-volume overview of materials in architecture focuses on glass. Presenting more than 60 projects by 51 international practices, it also includes brief statements from 30 offices regarding their views on how to apply glass in architecture. Featuring murmur, Stefano Corbo Studio, OOIIO Architecture, Arphenotype, Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Urban Office, Armin Blasbichler Studio, Henning Larsen, Manuelle Gautrand, Kevin Kennon Architects, Zaha Hadid, and many more. The diverse range of international projects includes interior, residential, housing, education, commercial, office, installation, and public (urban and landscape).
Materials and Lighting
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The second in a multi-volume overview of materials in architecture focuses on wood. It includes more than 60 projects by 55 international practices, as well as brief statements from 25 architecture offices regarding their views on using this traditional material in modern buildings. Featuring SLOT Studio, Donner Sorcinelli Architecture, Piuarch, Mork-Ulnes Architects,(...)
Architectural material 2: wood
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The second in a multi-volume overview of materials in architecture focuses on wood. It includes more than 60 projects by 55 international practices, as well as brief statements from 25 architecture offices regarding their views on using this traditional material in modern buildings. Featuring SLOT Studio, Donner Sorcinelli Architecture, Piuarch, Mork-Ulnes Architects, Keiichi Hayashi, Landinez + Rey Arquitectos, OBRA Architects, Dai Nagasaka, Moussafir Architectes Associés, OFIS arhitekti, Medir Architects, mecanoo, and many more. The diverse range of international projects includes interior, residential, housing, education, commercial, and public (urban and landscape).
Materials and Lighting
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The first in a multi-volume overview of materials in architecture focuses on brick and tile. Besides highlighting more than 60 projects by 47 international teams of architects, it features brief statements from 27 architecture practices regarding their views on using brick and tile in buildings. Featuring Casanova + Hernandez, CEBRA, Studio Farris Architects, BIG, Carlos(...)
Architectural material 1: Brick & Tile
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The first in a multi-volume overview of materials in architecture focuses on brick and tile. Besides highlighting more than 60 projects by 47 international teams of architects, it features brief statements from 27 architecture practices regarding their views on using brick and tile in buildings. Featuring Casanova + Hernandez, CEBRA, Studio Farris Architects, BIG, Carlos Lampreia, TAKK Architecture, Sunil Patil and Associates, BudCud, NL Architects, Nishizawa Architects, UNStudio, modostudio, and many more. The diverse range of international projects includes interior, residential, housing, education, commercial, installation, and public (urban and landscape).
Materials and Lighting