As co-founder of the Secession, theWienerWerkstätte, and the ÖsterreichischerWerkbund, Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) had a decisive influence onmodern Viennese architecture and design. Around 1948 Hoffmann ...
Manchester: Shaping the City demonstrates the constant spirit and originality of Manchester's people and the physical, social and economic improvements, which continue to drive ...
City Walks Architecture: New York" deck offers the best way for visitors and adventurous locals to experience the world-renowned architecture of the Big Apple. ...
"Graphic Europe" is a guidebook to 31 cities in 31 different European countries written and illustrated by graphic designers based in those cities. The ...
Drawing upon historical, cultural, economic and socio-demographic perspectives, this book examines the role of a sporting mega-event in promoting urban regeneration and social renewal. ...
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome ...
Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became ...
The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders ...
As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was passionate about the sea and deeply knowledgeable about ships and seafaring. Between ...
Hargreaves Associates has been at the forefront of landscape architectural practice since its founding in 1983, creating a narrative approach to landscape architecture that ...
For over sixty years Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's study of European architecture has been regarded as a seminal work which has inspired countless students of ...
This remarkable book, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, is the most comprehensive volume on Ensor in English. Approximately ...
A dense concentration of design talent, uniquely varied topography, and one of the world's most pleasant climates have made Southern California a crucible of ...
Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture - not the friendly unassuming architecture of the vernacular but the uniquely strange and exciting buildings put up by the ...
Les grands principes de l'architecture moderne ou Style International. Les précurseurs Henri Sauvage et Auguste Perret. Les modernes purs et durs : Le Corbusier, ...
In Reykjavik, a new office and commercial centre boasts islands of basalt and green, to echo Iceland's unique topography; in Guangzhou, China, a television ...