In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and ...
This book presents current developments in city planning and architecture in East Asia. It describes the many neighborhoods in which the region?s large cities ...
En el siglo XIX Europa experimenta a la vez una industrialización vigorosa y una urbanización acelerada. La difusión desigual de estos procesos acentúa la ...
Le Corbusier, who famously called a house "a machine for living," was fascinated--even obsessed--by another kind of machine, the automobile. His writings were strewn ...
In his inimitable witty style Ungerer records in a 12-month diary the couple's unexpected successes, dramatic calamities and touching personal moments as they fix ...
Il Premio Internazionale Carlo Scarpa per il Giardino promuove annualmente una campagna di attenzioni verso un luogo particolarmente denso di valori di natura, di ...
Arte experimental en China: conversaciones con artistas, parte de la voluntad de recoger las reflexiones de varios artistas, críticos y comisarios que participan y ...
This fascinating new book explores how Egon Schiele reinvented the art of portraiture, brilliantly capturing the inner lives of his numerous subjects including himself. ...
Now available in a flexi format, this book is a magnificent survey of watercolour masterpieces from artists such as Turner, Blake, Constable, and Whistler. ...
Leonard Manasseh was an 'architect's architect', greatly admired by his contemporaries both on a personal and professional level. He came to prominence at the ...
The architecture of Britain's houses displays a dizzying variety of styles and details. Brimming with 600 full-colour photographs, House annotates hundreds of examples from ...
Studies of Arab/Islamic cities used to be the province of 'outsiders' who not only prematurely generalized to a genre, but encapsulated it in timelessness. ...
Barry McGee's art buzzes with an infectious street vitality that celebrates the rich pageant of city living, while lambasting its ills, overstimulations, frustrations, addictions. ...