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ean: 9781864707540, isbn: 1864707542,

''The difference between inspirational stories to the ones lacking inspiration often depends on the order the storyteller chooses to place his creation. In this sense, not only does this book represent a series of architect Eli Armon's architectural achievements, but also provides a statement on his work in retrospect by attempting a story narrative that looks at the tale of creation. Thus, a new creation is formed, designed by choosing the picture angle, by editing the order of the pictures,

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mpn: 331 S. 867 Abb., 296 in Farbe., ean: 9783037780831, isbn: 3037780835,

Dieses Kompendium bietet einen neuen Einblick in das Werk von sauerbruch hutton: Die Entwicklung ihres architektonischen Denkes lässt sich lückenlos nachverfolgen anhand von den Texten der Architekten, anhand der beachtlichen Anzahl nicht umgesetzter Entwürfe sowie anhand von realisierten oder im Bau befindlichen Projekten, wie z.B. der GSW Hauptverwaltung in Berlin, dem Umweltbundesamt in Dessau oder dem Museum für die Sammlung Brandhorst in München. Das Buch gibt einerseits einen

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ean: 9783764354329, isbn: 3764354321,

The construction of the apartment block at number 24, rue Nungesser et Coli in Paris, between 1931 and 1934, was an important milestone for Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. It was the first opportunity offered to them in France to put to the test theories on urbanism and architecture, which they had been working on since the 1920s (''cinq points de l'architecture moderne''), and marks an important stage on the path to Brutalism. And it is of all the more interest because of the apartment and

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mpn: 51ill.(some col.)., ean: 9783930698080, isbn: 9783930698080,

Montaner was a Catalonian art nouveau artist and a supporter of Modernism, political freedoms, and cultural renaissance..

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ean: 9782879391052, isbn: 2879391059,

Book by Boissiere, Olivier This attractive book traces the professional career of internationally renowned architect Jean Nouvel. By featuring 25 major projects, both built and unbuilt, particular themes and characteristics begin to emerge, such as Nouvel's sense of landscape and his fascination with transparency. This deluxe paperback edition includes over 180 full-color illustrations of Nouvel's projects, such as the Lyons Opera and the Cartier Foundation building in Paris, and is published

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mpn: 600 illustrations, ean: 9783764355036, isbn: 9783764355036,

Die acht Bände dieser außergewöhnlichen Edition, die zwischen 1929 und 1970 veröffentlicht wurde und seit dem immer wieder nachgedruckt wurde, dokumentiert die große Bandbreite des Werks von Le Corbusier. Sie dokumentieren das Werk des einflussreichsten Architekten des 20. Jahrhunderts. In direkter Zusammenarbeit mit Le Corbusier in über 40 Jahren entstanden, bildet das Set eine einzigartige und erschöpfende Bestandsaufnahme seiner

mpn: 303 S., ean: 9783764368470, isbn: 3764368470,

Distinctively Dieter Kienast: his gardens, parks, cemeteries and enclosures bear the unmistakeable imprint of his blend of nature and artifice, order and chaos, geometry and organic forms -- sometimes stringent, sometimes playful, and not without irony. This special edition brings together a selection of his most significant creations drawn from the highly successful three volume Birkhauser edition of his complete works. Udo Weilacher, landscape architect and lecturer at the University of

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mpn: 202, ean: 9783037783016, isbn: 303778301X,

Photographs, newspaper cuttings, postcards, drawings, and slides: on entering the studio of Eduardo Souto de Moura, winner of the Pritzker Prize 2011, one is confronted with a variety of images on the walls that engage in a dialogue. How do these photos, drawings, and illustrations impact his design practice? What is the relationship between the image and the completed building? Floating Images: Eduardo Souto de Moura’s Wall Atlas uses this question as an opportunity to examine the

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mpn: 150 colour illustrations, ean: 9783037781937, isbn: 3037781939,

This book presents three architectural responses to the idea of journeys through outer space in a future based on technology. After the 1969 moonwalk, Alessandro Poli with Superstudio considered it critical to imagine our environment as connected to outer space. His “Architettura interplanetaria” imagined a form of architecture that could be conceived and realized at the galactic scale. Poli's “Architettura materiale,” on the other hand, challenged the optimism of journeying so far from

ean: 9788425215209, isbn: 9788425215209,

Jan Duiker (1890-1935), arquitecto holandés del ala radical del movimiento moderno preocupado principalmente por la mejora del bienestar social, empeñó su talento en proyectos y escritos para un mundo mejor. Este libro, abundantemente ilustrado y documentado, muestra la totalidad de su obra: desde sus primeras viviendas en.

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ean: 9788881187423, isbn: 8881187426,

The Olivetti company is known chiefly in the United States as a manufacturer of typewriters and calculators that has grown into one of the leading European telecommunications companies. What is less well known is how progressive the company was as a sponsor of modern architecture and urban planning in postwar Italy. Starting in the 1930s, Adriano Olivetti, the son of the founder, became a kind of modern day Medici of modern architecture and urban planning, relocating the company to Ivrea,

mpn: 100 ill. in color, ean: 9783037780343, isbn: 3037780347,

Le Corbusier`s buildings have long been part of the inalienable canon of 20th century architecture. But le Corbusier`s work as a book designer and author is scarcely known, and has hitherto not been acknowledged – Le Corbusier meticulously planned and realized over 40 books in his lifetime. Architect of Books shows that Le Corbuiser accorded great importance to books as an essential part of his output. Using unpublished archive material, Catherine de Smet traces the process by which these

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ean: 9783791355504, isbn: 3791355503,

This book explores the possibilities of reimagining the Santa Monica Pier as an interactive public artwork that generates clean electricity and drinking water. Visit the historic Santa Monica Pier at low tide and across the water you’ll see the eroded remnants of a decades-old breakwater sea wall peeking up through the waves. Once a protective barrier for a long lost marina, it’s now the site of the fourth Land Art Generator Initiative design competition. Entrants were challenged to create

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ean: 9783954762095, isbn: 9783954762095,

Dominique Perrault (born 1953 in ClermontFerrand, lives and works in Paris) is one of France's star architects. He became internationally known through the construction of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, which was completed in 1995. In his architectural designs, whose strict formalism is often reminiscent of minimalist sculpture, he always integrates urban planning considerations..

ean: 9783764354336, isbn: 376435433X,

Dieser Führer beschreibt sowohl die Villa La Roche als auch die angebaute Villa Jeanneret, Sitz der Fondation Le Corbusier.Used Book in Good Condition.

mpn: 625 colour illustrations, ean: 9788876240935, isbn: 8876240934,

Direct from notebooks kept in Sottsass's personal archives, here is a rare look at a master's design process: 700 Sottsass drawings spanning a rich career in design and architecture from 1936 to the present. The colorful collection includes sketches of buildings, as well as Sottsass' trademark furniture, ceramics, glass, and jewelry . Many of these drawings have never been published. including more personal jottings and drawings not directly linked to design or architecture. Taken together they

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mpn: Illustrated, ean: 9783942405386, isbn: 3942405385,

Sauerbruch and Hutton are unique among contemporary architects in their redefinition of colour as an essential material of architecture. The polychromatic treatment of their buildings created over the past twenty years reflect and concentrate the colours, forms and energies of the contemporary city. Simultaneously image and sculpture, ornament and text, they allow the complex technical reality of a building to disappear behind a powerful aesthetic experience. Beside Sauerbruch Hutton’s

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ean: 9781580932585, isbn: 1580932584,

Petra Blaisse and her firm, Inside Outside, specialize in the rare combination of interior and landscape design, interweaving architecture and context. Interior projects use materials that introduce visual effects such as color, flexibility, seasonal change, and movement and solve acoustic, climatic, shading, and spatial issues. Landscape projects reflect a fascination with materials, light, and movement within an urban and infrastructural program. This approach brings forth a series of strong,

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ean: 9783037781487, isbn: 9783037781487,

The second issue in the exciting and experimental cross-disciplinary series Findings on... by Astrid van Baalen and Hester Aardse from the Pars Foundation is centred on ELASTICITY in the broadest sense of the word.What happens when one gives a simple rubber band to an architect, historian, choreographer, chemist, artist, mathematician, physicist, economist, anthropologist, and geologist and asks each of them for a statement on elasticity? The economist studies the elasticity of supply and

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mpn: 9783037780800, ean: 9783037780800, isbn: 3037780800,

In 1962 the young photographer René Burri, on the staff of the renowned photo agency MAGNUM, and known for his reportage and portraits, presented the architect, Le Corbusier, with a fold-out book, made with his own hands, containing photographs, dating back to 1953, that he had taken of the architect in various situations. This very personal gift is now a highly prized original owned by the Corbusier Foundation in Paris. The photographs it contains show Corbusier at the height of his