Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection highlights bridge ...
John Singer Sargents approach to watercolor was unconventional. Going beyond turn-of-the-century standards for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently ...
Precast reinforced and prestressed concrete frames provide a high-strength, stable, durable and robust solution for any multi-storey structure, and are widely regarded as a ...
Londons success, Robert K. Batchelor argues, lies not just with the well-documented rise of Atlantic settlements, markets, and economies. Using his discovery of a ...
Nella collana Architetti e architetture, Electa dedica un volume a Félix Candela (Madrid 1910 - Durham 1997), architetto spagnolo naturalizzato messicano, considerato dalla storiografia ...
In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical ...
Embracing that which could dominate us'the city, infrastructure and overpopulation'has been part of the process of Steven Holl Architects as the office has taken ...
City by Landscape documents the work of a landscape architect active in the interface between urban planning, open space planning and architecture. For many ...
Carl Turner Architects was formed in 2006, and has established a reputation for high impact, low cost architecture. The practice works with a diverse ...
The Architecture of Happiness is Alain de Botton's exploration of the hidden links between buildings and our well being. In The Architecture of Happiness, ...
Every year it seems another "world's tallest building" is planned or completed, signalling its city's prominence as a modern Mecca of industry and civilisation. ...
The next book in the Modern Landscapes series discusses the evolution of Pittsburgh's Mellon Square. The first modern garden plaza built over a parking ...
En un período particularmente oscuro de nuestra historia reciente, donde la cultura estaba en gran medida controlada y sometida a la censura, los afanes ...
This highly anticipated book--the first in a series of three--comprehensively chronicles the first two decades of Ed Ruscha's (b. 1937) work on paper, which ...
'The region' has been used to understand and propose solutions to phenomena and problems outside the dominant spatial scale of the twentieth century - ...
