This lavishly illustrated book examines the profound influence of Japanese prints on the Impressionists and their American contemporaries. Richly illustrated throughout, this elegant volume ...
Promoting and underlining the importance of structural thinking, Structural Systems: Behaviour and Design will provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of ...
Using minimal tools and a simple technique of bending, interweaving, and fastening together sticks, artist Patrick Dougherty creates works of art inseparable with nature ...
The East German engineer Ulrich Muther contributed an important chapter to the European history of shell construction. In 1963 he created the first concrete ...
Coming out of an international symposium at Germany's University of St.Gallen and Hamburg's Kampnagel Culture Factory in 2007, this huge book addresses the question ...
In 1995, at the climax of the so-called Berlin Architectural Debate, in the young German capital of Berlin a limited competition for the construction ...
For all the damage that has occurred over the centuries, for all the relentless and destructive modernization still taking place today, Kyoto, imperial capital ...
Semi-sculptural or semi-architectural works by architects such as Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas, and by artists such as Dan Graham or Anish Kapoor are ...
