Hannes Wettstein was one of the most innovative and influential designers in Switzerland. His products, furniture, and interior designs not only influence our everyday ...
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941) could easily have made a career out of pattern design alone, so celebrated were his ingenious textiles and wall ...
Including biographies of some of the great engineers who facilitated change, this book charts the successes of construction from the great engineering advances of ...
Drawn from a 20th-century French collection, this volume interprets classic motifs of ancient Egypt in a dynamic Art Deco style. Hundreds of images include ...
The complete resource on performing sustainable renovations for both Historic and modern existing buildings This forward-looking and insightful guide explores how the sustainable renovation ...
Erschienen in der Reihe "Forschungen zur Nachkriegsmoderne" des Fachgebiets Kunstgeschichte am Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik der Technischen Universität Berlin hrsg. von Adrian ...
Morgantina è un sito indigeno ellenizzato che si trova nell'"umbilicus Siciliae", molto noto per alcuni eccezionali reperti che, prima trafugati, sono stati esposti in ...
Drawing on detailed design, construction and financial histories of six prominent Performing Arts buildings with budgets ranging from £3.4 million to over £100 million, ...
In a suburb just north of Philadelphia stands Beth Sholom Synagogue, Frank Lloyd Wright's only synagogue and among his finest religious buildings. Designated a ...
This detailed guide to the model tenement building displayed at Edinburgh's International Exhibition of Industry Science and Art in 1886 was first published in ...
An unrivaled treasury of the methods, techniques, and examples of the great illustrators, this volume covers five centuries of decorations for the printed page. ...
Pharmacies constitute a special form of commercial architecture. The market for medicines, which is heavily regulated in most countries, has led to a veritable ...
Since signage systems are created to provide orientation, they must be universally legible and understood by people of all ages and culture. Signs must ...
Light is the prerequisite for spatial perception, which is why it is an integral component of architecture. Light design in architecture has become more ...
Tom Holert intends to reframe and re-imagine design in post-capitalist terms. By tracing the appearance of the term 'design' in contemporary critical theory he ...
