Throughout history diverse cultures have crossed paths in Sicily. Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Normans were drawn to the island by its strategic location. Their ...
Das Architekturbüro Gigon/Guyer Architekten hat seit seiner Gründung 1989 eine eindrucksvolle Serie von Projekten konzipiert. Zu den wichtigsten Realisationen zählen Museumsbauten, Wohnbauprojekte, Bürobauten und ...
The paintings of Robert C. Jackson are introduced by Philip Eliasoph in the artists first monograph. Using paintings from artists as diverse as Andrew ...
First published in 1892, this work by the architect Reginald Theodore Blomfield (1856-1942), illustrated by Francis Inigo Thomas (1865-1950), uses historical evidence to vindicate ...
During his brief yet prolific career, Egon Schiele created hundreds of drawings, watercolours, and oil paintings of the women in his life. His work ...
Per Kirkeby (b. 1938) is Scandinavia's most highly acclaimed artist since August Strindberg and Asger Jorn. His early training as a geologist is evident ...
In America during the 1960s, sculpture as an artistic practice underwent a series of radical transformations. Artists including Lee Bontecou, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, ...
For armchair travelers, a new two-volume architectural guide to Pyongyang offers a fascinating look via photos and commentary. Architectural and Cultural Guide Pyongyang (DOM ...
Die vorliegende Werkmonografie des Berliner Künstlers Christopher Lehmpfuhl bietet mit 400 Arbeiten die bislang umfangreichste Sammlung von Lehmpfuhls künstlerischer Auseinandersetzung mit Berlin - einer ...
Questo lavoro costituisce il tentativo di aprire un varco nella conoscenza del percorso professionale (e umano) dell'architetto Giovanni Pirrone (1924-2004) attraverso la lettura dei ...
Considerato da Argan per la "modernità addirittura d'avanguardia connessa alle essenze storiche" e nonostante gli ulteriori riconoscimenti da parte di Portoghesi e di Zevi ...
In 1860, Palmerston's parliament sanctioned the construction of the largest system of fortifications that the British Isles had ever seen, or would ever see ...
Architecture in and from Berlin has established a brand name in the last 20 years. Berlin architectural subjects and debates are followed with great ...
In 2012 seven major Dutch urban development projects are being brought together under one roof at the 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. Design research ...
As one of Britain's most celebrated architects, Basil Spence's beautiful and varied oeuvre has until now defied proper analysis in the wider twentieth century ...
Sauerbruch and Hutton are unique among contemporary architects in their redefinition of colour as an essential material of architecture. The polychromatic treatment of their ...
This is an in-depth, vibrantly illustrated survey of palm-leaf architecture: its history and traditions, its present and its future. Traditional buildings made from the ...
The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-1937 focuses on the great aesthetic innovations that were made by artists throughout Germany in painting, sculpture, ...
In recent years renowned artist David Hockney has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood in East Yorkshire. Although his passionate ...
Photographer, designer, architect and author on topics ranging from winter sports to the history of photography, Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) accomplished himself in a dizzying ...