2002 : le premier Paris Plage fait l'effet d'un véritable électrochoc. Les voies sur berges, "confisquées" durant l'année par l'automobile, sont le temps d'un ...
Since the early nineteenth century, an unusually rich and varied array of housing stock has been created in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Washington ...
The City of Big Shoulders has always been our most quintessentially American'and world-class'architectural metropolis. In the wake of the Great Fire of 1871, a ...
The products conceived by Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni (*1956) are all objects of desire: he has designed a series of timeless, modern ...
The first African-American artist to attain art superstardom, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once ...
Modern British Posters explores the interaction between modern art and graphic design in Britain throughout the twentieth century. A distinctive characteristic of modern society ...
A partire dagli anni Cinquanta lo studio fondato da Vittorio Gregotti ha affrontato tutti gli ambiti progettuali dell'architettura. Questa nuova monografia presenta il ricco ...
This publications contains selected projects that provide an overview of Romero's visions, designs and buildings, documenting the office's accomplishments during its first ten years.
Our traditional image of Chicago - as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends ...
After attaining classic stature with palaces erected in the early 20th century, the American department store continued to evolve in ways that were influenced ...
Painter, printmaker and teacher Sir Terry Frost RA (1915-2003) was a key figure in the development of British twentieth-century abstract art. He was also ...
Aptly described as 'an artist's artist', Peter Kinley (1926-1988) was a well-respected painter who achieved great early success and commanded much attention during his ...
This book provides a stimulating overview of twentieth-century German art, focusing on some of the period's key works by Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hannah ...
Great Britian was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the epicenter of the development of modern industrial design. This book - the fourth ...
Henry Moore's Shelter Drawings are universally recognised as a key element of his oeuvre. However, these drawings should not be seen in isolation: this ...
London's historic houses and domestic interiors have suffered greater loss and change than most of their provincial counterparts due to political and social change, ...
Feminist historians of science and philosophy have shown that during the Italian Renaissance, the profound shift in the concept of nature--from an organic worldview ...