Québec, splendeurs capitales
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Afin de souligner les 125 ans de l'hôtel du Parlement, l'Assemblée nationale du Québec, en collaboration avec la Commission de la capitale nationale, a produit ce ouvrage qui illustre la colline Parlementaire et ses environs.
Québec, splendeurs capitales
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Afin de souligner les 125 ans de l'hôtel du Parlement, l'Assemblée nationale du Québec, en collaboration avec la Commission de la capitale nationale, a produit ce ouvrage qui illustre la colline Parlementaire et ses environs.
Architecture du Québec
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La perspective est une technique indispensable pour l'artiste comme pour le graphiste, mais elle paraît souvent un peu rébarbative et difficile à assimiler. Le dessin de perspective par l'exemple propose une approche résolument pédagogique qui laisse à chacun le loisir de progresser à son rythme en trouvant les explications qu'il recherche. Que vous soyez artiste(...)
Le dessin de perspective par l'example
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La perspective est une technique indispensable pour l'artiste comme pour le graphiste, mais elle paraît souvent un peu rébarbative et difficile à assimiler. Le dessin de perspective par l'exemple propose une approche résolument pédagogique qui laisse à chacun le loisir de progresser à son rythme en trouvant les explications qu'il recherche. Que vous soyez artiste confirmé ou amateur, designer, graphiste, vous trouverez dans ces pages matière à vous perfectionner. Après un bref historique de la représentation des volumes à travers les siècles, vous commencerez par bâtir des perspectives simples d'après nature. Progressivement, vous découvrirez les perspectives à deux ou trois points de fuite, et la représentation de volumes de plus en plus complexes. Puis vous apprendrez à renforcer les perspectives en jouant sur les ombres et la lumière, à donner une idée de l'échelle en ajoutant des personnages, à appliquer des trames et des textures aux objets. Agrémenté de nombreux exemples et d'illustrations détaillant pas à pas la construction des perspectives, ce livre deviendra vite votre référence absolue. Avec plus de 600 dessins et schémas, la mise en pages aérée a été conçue pour vous permettre d'annoter les pages et d'ajouter vos propres croquis et commentaires.
Architectural Drawing
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Ingénieur, journaliste depuis 1982, Frédéric Lenne a été rédacteur-en-chef adjoint de l’hebdomadaire « le Moniteur » de 1985 à 1989, puis directeur de la rédaction au sein du Groupe Moniteur des revues du département « Bâtiment ». Il est actuellement directeur du département Architecture, Urbanisme, Technique du Groupe Moniteur, comprenant entre autres activités la revue(...)
AMC hors série: Matières plastiques, platics
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Ingénieur, journaliste depuis 1982, Frédéric Lenne a été rédacteur-en-chef adjoint de l’hebdomadaire « le Moniteur » de 1985 à 1989, puis directeur de la rédaction au sein du Groupe Moniteur des revues du département « Bâtiment ». Il est actuellement directeur du département Architecture, Urbanisme, Technique du Groupe Moniteur, comprenant entre autres activités la revue AMC- Le Moniteur Architecture dont il est directeur de la rédaction. Il assure l’organisation et la coordination des Prix d’architecture du Moniteur (Equerre d’argent, généralement considéré comme le « Prix Goncourt » de l’architecture et Prix de la première Œuvre, récompensant un bâtiment qui est la première commande d’un jeune architecte). Il a coordonné l’ouvrage « 1900 – 2000, Un siècle de construction » paru en octobre 1999 aux Editions du Moniteur. En 2003, il a reçu la médaille des publications de l’Académie d’Architecture et il a été nommé en 2005 au grade d’officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Magazines
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This book is a biography of the friendship between Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi. Fuller's development of his Dymaxion Map and Car, and Geodesic geometry, are discussed in detail as is Noguchi's multifaceted career as sculptor, landscape architect, industrial designer, dance-set designer, and artist without borders who challenged the artificial opposition between(...)
Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Best of friends
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This book is a biography of the friendship between Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi. Fuller's development of his Dymaxion Map and Car, and Geodesic geometry, are discussed in detail as is Noguchi's multifaceted career as sculptor, landscape architect, industrial designer, dance-set designer, and artist without borders who challenged the artificial opposition between the fine and applied arts. Author Shoji Sadao, who was friend and business partner to both, chronicles the respect, affection, and support they had for one another.
Architecture Monographs
To market, to market
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Known for art that celebrates the virtues of community, hard work, and living gently on the planet, Nikki McClure here explores a topic close to her heart : the farmers market. Alternating between story and fact, this picture book follows a mother and son to the weekly market. As they check off items on their shopping list, the reader learns how each particular food was(...)
To market, to market
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Known for art that celebrates the virtues of community, hard work, and living gently on the planet, Nikki McClure here explores a topic close to her heart : the farmers market. Alternating between story and fact, this picture book follows a mother and son to the weekly market. As they check off items on their shopping list, the reader learns how each particular food was grown or produced, from its earliest stages to how it ended up at the market. This is a timely book that shines awareness on the skill that goes into making good food.
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Diener and Diener
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This is the only available monograph on the remarkable architecture of the Swiss practice of Diener & Diener. Known for their subtle, sophisticated Modernist buildings and town plans, Diener & Diener have recently begun to design buildings that add a new lightness and liveliness to the geometric rigor and intellectual clarity that have always characterized their deigns.(...)
Architecture Monographs
May 2011
Diener and Diener
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This is the only available monograph on the remarkable architecture of the Swiss practice of Diener & Diener. Known for their subtle, sophisticated Modernist buildings and town plans, Diener & Diener have recently begun to design buildings that add a new lightness and liveliness to the geometric rigor and intellectual clarity that have always characterized their deigns. This book covers the more than 30 years that the firm has practiced with a selection of over 40 key buildings illustrated with a wealth of material from the firm’s archives, as well as Roger Diener’s own writings and essays by prominent architectural historians Martin Steinmann and Joseph Abrams.
Architecture Monographs
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In 2050, over three quarters of the world’s population will live in cities. This follow-up to Phaidon’s successful The Endless City is a close look at the issues that affect cities, and thus human life across the globe in the twenty-first century. Based on a series of conferences held by the London School of Economics, Living in the Endless City examines Mumbai, Sao Paolo(...)
Living in the endless city: The Urban Age Project
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In 2050, over three quarters of the world’s population will live in cities. This follow-up to Phaidon’s successful The Endless City is a close look at the issues that affect cities, and thus human life across the globe in the twenty-first century. Based on a series of conferences held by the London School of Economics, Living in the Endless City examines Mumbai, Sao Paolo and Istanbul through a series of essays by global scholars and thinkers, photographs illustrating key aspects of life in the three cities, and compellingly presented analytical data.
Urban Theory
A taxonomy of office chairs
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Details over 180 of the most innovative office chairs designed and built from the 1840s to the present, details of the designer and manufacturer, and a short text accompanying each chair. Features designs from numerous well-known designers, including Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Gio Ponti, Richard Sapper, Jasper Morrison and Konstantin Grcic. Gives a visual(...)
A taxonomy of office chairs
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Details over 180 of the most innovative office chairs designed and built from the 1840s to the present, details of the designer and manufacturer, and a short text accompanying each chair. Features designs from numerous well-known designers, including Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Gio Ponti, Richard Sapper, Jasper Morrison and Konstantin Grcic. Gives a visual overview of the entire evolution of the modern office chair. Includes ten chapters of technical drawings, comprising over 400 drawings.
Industrial Design
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The first complete monograph on the work of Swiss graphic designer Max Huber, one of the most significant designers of the 20th century. Huber's work was consistently innovative, and by combining painting and photography with other graphic media, he remained avant-garde throughout his career, bringing the utopian vision of the modern masters to bear on corporate(...)
Graphic Designers, Monographs
March 2011
Max Huber
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The first complete monograph on the work of Swiss graphic designer Max Huber, one of the most significant designers of the 20th century. Huber's work was consistently innovative, and by combining painting and photography with other graphic media, he remained avant-garde throughout his career, bringing the utopian vision of the modern masters to bear on corporate typography and identity design. Three essays cover Huber's entire career from the early 1940s, including his wide-ranging work in the fields of magazine, identity and exhibition design as well as expanding on his close links with a circle of brilliant artists, designers and intellectuals such as Josef Muller-Brockmann, Achille Castiglioni and Italo Calvino, among others.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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This provocative survey reveals how four of the most destructive dictatorships of the 20th century - Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Soviet Russia and Communist China - used graphic design to sell their messages. Explores each regime's distinctive strategies for seducing public opinion and infiltrating people's lives, in media ranging from logos, flags, typefaces and posters(...)
Iron fists: Branding the 20th Century totalitarian state
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This provocative survey reveals how four of the most destructive dictatorships of the 20th century - Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Soviet Russia and Communist China - used graphic design to sell their messages. Explores each regime's distinctive strategies for seducing public opinion and infiltrating people's lives, in media ranging from logos, flags, typefaces and posters to children's books and figurines Remarkable archival photographs set the disturbingly powerful graphic devices in historical context. The perceptive text analyses how these four regimes established the most effective modes of visual propaganda, which were later adopted and adapted by many other dictatorships.
Graphic Design and Typography