The austere, enigmatic rock gardens of Kyoto, Japans ancient capital, have never ceased to fascinate garden lovers. Weather-beaten rocks set in an expanse of ...
This volume looks at nineteen of the most striking and famous works from the much-lauded Swiss architecture firm Bearth & Deplazes Architects. Bearth & ...
The ARC stands for the 'architecture' or 'artistry' of river culture, and contains an elegant and geometric approach that celebrates and records the Four ...
This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted ...
Charlotte Perriand is one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century interior design. Together with her contemporaries and collaborators Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier, she ...
Few architectural firms were more important or influential in postwar Austria than Werkgruppe Graz. The four principals'Eugen Gross, Friedrich Gross-Rannsbach, Herman Pichler, and Wenrer ...
First published to great acclaim in 1996, New Yorker writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins' biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) has ...
Ilya Chashnik (1902-1929) is one of the most outstanding artists of the early twentieth century. As a student and colleague of Kazimir Malevich, he ...
Japanese erotic art, or shunga, has a long history, with thousands of high- quality paintings, prints, handscrolls and illustrated books produced by artists both ...
Los seminarios-taller Proyectar la Memoria, que se vienen celebrando desde el año 2012 en la Escuela de Patrimonio Histórico del Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural ...
Features projects in private houses and a museum, in Belgium and Greece. Ten remarkable projects by the young architect Olivier Dwek. Of English origin, ...
This book offers a thorough study of the relationship between the characteristics of construction density and the ensuing atmospheres, distribution of uses and their ...
Hannover, die deutsche Vorzeigestadt des Städtebaus der Nachkriegszeit, in den frühen 1960er Jahren: Ein junger Architekt - Rolf Ramcke - tritt in die Entwurfsabteilung ...
Architecture with and Without Le Corbusier documents two architectural masterpieces: the Church at Firminy and The Miller House. The church is a late work ...
Agli inizi del 1960, in un'Italia in piena ripresa economica Adriano Olivetti decide di costruire il Centro di calcolo elettronico, la fabbrica destinata alla ...