Libros de PAÍSES: ARQUITECTURA Y ARTE

WA: THE ESSENCE OF JAPANESE DESIGN

An exploration of the beauty and essence of Japanese design through 300 objects: from everyday items, to iconic fashion and furniture.

SCHLUTER IN BERLIN. A CITY GUIDE

Andreas Schlüter (1659-1714) was a well-known Baroque sculptor and the architect behind some of Berlin's most famous buildings, from the legendary Amber Room to ...

MOSCOW IN THE MAKING

This book, published in 1937, reported on a four week visit to Moscow in 1936 to study the making of Moscow as a showpiece ...

LABA EPFL: SWISS LESSONS. TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE

Laba, or Laboratory Basel, was founded in 2005 as a satellite studio affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Swiss architect Harry Gugger ...

CONDITION, IMPROVEMENT, AND TOWN PLANNING OF THE CITY OF CALCUTTA AND CONTIGUOUS AREAS. THE RICHARDS REP

By 1900 the British had undertaken various types of urban planning in their colonial territories, but the early twentieth century brought new ideas and ...

WEST AFRICAN CITY

Rapid growth, unmanageable cities, urban crisis - the cities of West Africa are no longer plannable,at least not by using traditional urban development tools. ...

HUMAN SECURITY AND JAPAN'S TRIPLE DISASTER. RESPONDING TO THE 2011 EARTHQUAKE, TSUNAMI AND FUKUSHIMA NUC

Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the ...

PLANNING ATLANTA

Some cities avoid change. Others accept it. Atlanta pursues it. More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil ...

SUSTAINABLE SUBURBIA? RETHINKING THE NORTH AMERICAN METROPOLIS

The suburbanization of North America has been was one of the most significant social, political, and cultural transformations of the twentieth century. Originally seen ...

SERGISON/ BATES; KRUCKER; NEUWIRTH: THREE HOUSES IN VIENNA CULTIVATING THE ORDINARY

Three Houses in Vienna features a new housing project in the Austrian capital. The multi-family buildings were commissioned by Neues Leben, a private social-housing ...

AMREIN/ HERZIG. ANTHOLOGIE 28

KORSMO: PLANETVEIEN 12. THE KORSMO HOUSE, A SCANDINAVIAN ICON

The Korsmo House, 1955, is an icon of moder n Scandinavian architecture--an experimental house that has been frequently published in magazines and architecture anthologies. ...

SCIENCE IN THE STUDY OF ANCIENT EGYPT

There is a notable lack of archaeological science used in Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology today. The reasons behind this are twofold: one, the discipline ...

THE SHAKERS : FROM MOUNT LEBANON TO THE WORLD

This major new book with essays by prominent scholars presents the austere and simply styled objects of the Shakers in context of their faith ...

PONIS: THE INHABITED PATHWAY. THE BUILT WORK OF ALBERTO PONIS IN SARDINIA

Alberto Ponis, born 1933 in Genoa, was educated at Florence University, where he qualified as an architect in 1960. He worked in London with ...

CHEN ZEN. CATALOGUE RAISONNE

HAMBURG. ON THE ROAD CITY

Amburgo è la prima 'destinazione' proposta da ON THE ROAD, la serie di guide darchitettura che unisce al classico formato cartaceo, lapplicazione per Ipad. ...

URBAN INTENSITIES. CONTEMPORARY HOUSING TYPES AND TERRITORIES

This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of ...

MIES VAN DER ROHE: THE BUILT WORK

This essential and comprehensive Mies monograph focuses in its analysis on Mies' design intentions: it reconstructs the buildings in their orginal state, examines them ...

ARQUITECTURA VIVA Nº 164 GERMAN SPIRIT. SACRED SPACES IN THE HEART OF A TROUBLED EUROPE

ESPÍRITU ALEMÁN Espacios sagrados en el corazón de una Europa convulsa (Dossier rascacielos) Actualidad La Bienal de Koolhaas Zaha Hadid en Qatar Los estadios ...