This book explores the socio-cultural and the tectonic aspects of Kerala's wooden architecture, which is deeply rooted in religious and secular customs and shaped ...
Home to all kinds of cultural extremes, Tokyo is where futuristic meets traditional and tranquility meets speed. Jacketed in a delightful city map drawn ...
Japan is equally as well known for its ecologically-sensitive traditional homes as it is for cutting-edge technology. This book brings you 19 contemporary Japanese ...
At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna became an epicentre for new thought. A multi-disciplinary environment emerged where music, writing and intellectual thought ...
While Josef Albers' Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of ...
Hans Scharoun is one of the most important architects of the 20th century; as a proponent of organic architecture, he created unconventional and imaginative ...
SUOMI ARKKITEHUURIMUSEO / INSTITUTO IBEROAMERICANO DE FINLANDIA
EL autor explora el proyecto en su conjunto, analizando la arquitectura de Dipoli desde angulos objetivos que descubran las claves menos exploradas de su ...
The Domaine of Château-sur-Loire--a fifteenth-century UNESCO World Heritage site--has for centuries been prided for its exquisite gardens. Once a preferred retreat for kings and ...
Le Corbusier is widely acknowledged as the most influential architect of the twentieth century. As extensively researched and documented as his works are, however, ...
Esta edición nuevamente actualizada de "Breve historia de Centroamérica" mantiene el análisis que Héctor Pérez Brignoli hace de la región desde el siglo XVI ...
Best known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones, American artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsman ...
Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) is celebrated as a furniture designer, teacher, and architect who changed the American house after his emigration from Hungary to the ...