Art-sites San Francisco
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San Francisco, a city of spectacular topography and cosmopolitan charm, now also boasts a formidable arts scene. A burst of activity centered around the opening of the Museum of Modern Art with its signature building by Mario Botta in 1995. Expansion by other museums, including projects by internationally renowned architects Aulenti, Herzog & de Meuron, Legoretta, Maki,(...)
Art-sites San Francisco
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San Francisco, a city of spectacular topography and cosmopolitan charm, now also boasts a formidable arts scene. A burst of activity centered around the opening of the Museum of Modern Art with its signature building by Mario Botta in 1995. Expansion by other museums, including projects by internationally renowned architects Aulenti, Herzog & de Meuron, Legoretta, Maki, and Polshek has further enhanced the city's profile. In addition, exhibition programs at alternative spaces and art schools have been reinvigorated, a new generation of artists and galleries has had a reenergizing effect, and the arrival of prestigious design stores has significantly enriched the dynamics.
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"Chicago's famous buildings - fifth edition", completely updated and revised, covers more than a decade of extraordinary new architecture and takes a fresh look back at the city's classical legacy of Adler, Sullivan, Burnham, Root, Wright, and Mies van der Rohe. The authors have added many new descriptions and images of the most important projects in Chicago since the(...)
Chicago's famous buildings - fifth edition
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"Chicago's famous buildings - fifth edition", completely updated and revised, covers more than a decade of extraordinary new architecture and takes a fresh look back at the city's classical legacy of Adler, Sullivan, Burnham, Root, Wright, and Mies van der Rohe. The authors have added many new descriptions and images of the most important projects in Chicago since the fourth edition, including the massive reconstruction of Grant Park around Frank Gehry's Music Pavilion, and they cover as well the current status of older buildings--some destroyed, others, such as Burnham's Reliance Building, restored and brought back to life. This book also includes expanded sections on the city's future and the development of its diverse neighborhoods, presented with new maps to serve as an even more effective walking guide. A glossary of architectural terms, an extensive index, and more than sixty new photographs of both old and new buildings bring this guide completely up-to-date.
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Cracovie possède des chefs-d'oeuvre de la période sécession et de l'art nouveau. Au gré de sept promenades, de Cracovie à Zakopane, vous en découvrirez les différentes facettes à travers l'architecture, la peinture, la sculpture et l'art décoratif. De nombreuses photos couleurs et des cartes claires vous accompagnent dans ces circuits où alternent des visites de musées,(...)
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March 2006, Bruxelles et Cracovie
Cracovie : sur les traces de la Jeune Pologne. La sécession à Cracovie et environs
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Cracovie possède des chefs-d'oeuvre de la période sécession et de l'art nouveau. Au gré de sept promenades, de Cracovie à Zakopane, vous en découvrirez les différentes facettes à travers l'architecture, la peinture, la sculpture et l'art décoratif. De nombreuses photos couleurs et des cartes claires vous accompagnent dans ces circuits où alternent des visites de musées, d'église et d'immeubles, ponctuées de haltes dans des cafés et des restaurants traditionnels et conviviaux. Bilingue français et polonais.
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Le centre-ville de Riga compte plusieurs centaines d'immeubles art nouveau. On découvre les immeubles les plus remarquables au cours de promenades détailées. Chaque promenade est accompagnée d'un plan qui signale par un numéro l'emplacement des monuments les plus intéressants. Des ensembles architecturaux se trouvent également au dehors de la ville. Bilingue en(...)
Riga : sur les traces de l'art nouveau à Riga
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Le centre-ville de Riga compte plusieurs centaines d'immeubles art nouveau. On découvre les immeubles les plus remarquables au cours de promenades détailées. Chaque promenade est accompagnée d'un plan qui signale par un numéro l'emplacement des monuments les plus intéressants. Des ensembles architecturaux se trouvent également au dehors de la ville. Bilingue en français et polonais.
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Bruxelles par-delà les murs
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Ce livre vous ouvre la ville. Il vous dévoile la face cachée de Bruxelles en vous révelant 160 intérieurs d'îlots... qui vont vous surprendre. Beaucoup sont accessibles, les autres ne sont visibles que dans cet ouvrage.
Bruxelles par-delà les murs
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Ce livre vous ouvre la ville. Il vous dévoile la face cachée de Bruxelles en vous révelant 160 intérieurs d'îlots... qui vont vous surprendre. Beaucoup sont accessibles, les autres ne sont visibles que dans cet ouvrage.
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Although postmodern architecture reaches giddy heights in the cinema multiplexes and shopping malls on the outskirts of town, its services have been in greatest demand in the centre of London. The fun, brash style dominated architecture from its radical inception at the end of the 1970's to its soggy death by cul-de-sac developments in the 90's. Why did the postmodern(...)
Postmodern architecture in London
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Although postmodern architecture reaches giddy heights in the cinema multiplexes and shopping malls on the outskirts of town, its services have been in greatest demand in the centre of London. The fun, brash style dominated architecture from its radical inception at the end of the 1970's to its soggy death by cul-de-sac developments in the 90's. Why did the postmodern expire? A change of fashion, maybe? It can certainly be too much at times, all those Plaudoh pediments, Lego walls and cheap multicoloured facings. A victim of its own popularity? We live and work in countless postmodern low-rise houses and offices all over the city; so ubiquitous is it that not a street has been spared.
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Since 1812, when architect Robert Mills drew up plans for rebuilding the steeple of Independence Hall, the impulse to preserve historic American sites and buildings has snowballed. Today tens of thousands of buildings and some 5000 historic districts are recognized by the federally coordinated National Register of Historic Places. In part an illustrated historical survey,(...)
Keeping time: the history and theory of preservation in America
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Since 1812, when architect Robert Mills drew up plans for rebuilding the steeple of Independence Hall, the impulse to preserve historic American sites and buildings has snowballed. Today tens of thousands of buildings and some 5000 historic districts are recognized by the federally coordinated National Register of Historic Places. In part an illustrated historical survey, in part a handbook for civic activists, this primer by the first Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places traces the shift in the preservation movement from the restoration of isolated landmarks and houses where "Washington slept," to an emphasis on outdoor museums (Old Salem, N.C.; Sturbridge Village, Mass.) and, in recent years, a concern for the neighborhood in which a building stands. Through a case study of the Historic Savannah Foundation, which has saved some 1000 buildings in that city, Murtagh illustrates how the public can treat the built environment as a conservable national resource.
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Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design-concious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities.
Wallpaper City Guide : Chicago
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Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design-concious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities.
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October 2007, London, New York
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The other Venice
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To know a city is to become intimately intertwined with its nooks, crevices, secret passageways, and dark places where its lifeblood flows—and what city has more of those than Venice? In The Other Venice, Predrag Matvejevic ventures past the infamous canals and cobblestone streets of the tourist’s Venice to find the heart of the ancient Italian metropolis. A lyric(...)
The other Venice
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To know a city is to become intimately intertwined with its nooks, crevices, secret passageways, and dark places where its lifeblood flows—and what city has more of those than Venice? In The Other Venice, Predrag Matvejevic ventures past the infamous canals and cobblestone streets of the tourist’s Venice to find the heart of the ancient Italian metropolis. A lyric re-imagining of the City of Romance, The Other Venice utterly reconfigures the Venetian landscape, as Matvejevic follows both real and imaginary maps, contemporary and historical, to trace out the details of this sensuous city. He probes into what the ancient metropolis means to its people, the nation, and global culture. But he also finds hints of life in the smallest and most mundane details—ancient bridges, rust-flecked boats, wall sculptures, rivers, and piazzas scattered throughout the city. Each has a little-known story and with Matvejevic as our guide, he reveals the stories behind them all. The book carries readers to a Venice that has escaped the eyes of writers, artists, and photographers through the centuries, and Matejevic by turns plays a historian, cartographer, anthropologist, and philologist as he unravels elusive artifacts of time past. Arresting black-and-white photographs by renowned photographer Sarah Quill accompany the text, offering a silent testament to Matvejevic’s pilgrimage. A fascinating and beautifully written guide, The Other Venice reminds us that there is always another mystery to uncover in the city of water and stone.
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Hertzberger's Amsterdam
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The maquettes of all the designs that Hertzberger has made for projects in Amsterdam have been brought together in this pocket edition. Along with realized plans, an extensive collection of unbuilt projects, unexecuted competition designs, urban design schemes and the now demolished Linmij building are also presented.
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The maquettes of all the designs that Hertzberger has made for projects in Amsterdam have been brought together in this pocket edition. Along with realized plans, an extensive collection of unbuilt projects, unexecuted competition designs, urban design schemes and the now demolished Linmij building are also presented.
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