Architektura

Wydawnictwo: Prestel

A guide to the Jewish Memorial.

Wydawnictwo: Phaidon Press Ltd

Railway stations have long held a special place in the public's affection. The lure of the great terminus has been especially strong, the breathtaking grandeur of its architecture fused with a promise of adventure and escape. This book is a celebration of the railway station's life and architecture....

Wydawnictwo: John Wiley & Sons

One of the oldest and most versatile building materials available, brick is used for period landscape design in walkways, entry pavements, courtyards, terraces, porticoes, steps, and fencewalls. With the increased interest in traditional landscape design, this book will appeal to anyone who is inter...

Wydawnictwo: Butterworth Heinemann

The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think through the use of drawings to approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into...

Wydawnictwo: Braun

Libraries are no longer simply storage facilities for books. In the last decade they have expanded beyond their physical structures to become multimedia portals, through which entire communities gain access to new methods of research, communication and entertainment. Architects worldwide have respon...

Wydawnictwo: Braun

Starter Homes, Minimal Houses, Emergency AccommodationWhat is needed to create a home and how much does it cost to do it in style? This volume pursues the answer to this question by presenting around 60 projects from around the globe. Unconventional building methods and forms are combined to create ...

Wydawnictwo: Braun

Economic and societal transitions have left many buildings redundant and numerous structures are waiting to be put to new uses. Due in part to an increasing awareness of ecological issues, but mainly thanks to the esteem currently enjoyed by any sort of historic building fabric, unused structures ar...

Wydawnictwo: McGraw-Hill

Time Saver Standards for Urban Design, in the tradition of the Time-Saver Standards series, is the world's foremost professional reference on the physical design of cities and urban places including communities and civic and public places. Scope of the work is international and topics include preser...

Wydawnictwo: Laurence King Publishing

The physical scale model is often cited as an important tool of communication for architecture students and practitioners alike. Although the proliferation of CAD programmes has enabled the creation of increasingly complex computer models and virtual environments, there is also a growing need to add...

Wydawnictwo: Laurence King Publishing

Timber is having a renaissance as an architectural material, as more architects come to understand its properties and enjoy adding it to their repertoire of materials. With a growing crop of good new timber buildings, architects are coming to realize that this is no longer the sole preserve of the t...

Wydawnictwo: I.B. TAURIS

Wydawnictwo: I.B. TAURIS

Wydawnictwo: John Wiley & Sons

Where would we be without the traditional London caff? Milk bars, ice-cream parlours and espresso bars are all a feature of the London landscape that were borne out of the 1940s to 1960s. It is a time when floods of immigrants set up their businesses providing frothy coffee to the city?s workers. ...

Wydawnictwo: Birkhauser

Anyone wanting to find out about the current design trends needs and reads form, the international design magazine. Each issue focuses on the design process proper: Wideranging features offer insights into how extraordinary products and graphic projects have unfolded.

Wydawnictwo: Braun

Theaters, concert halls and opera houses belong to the main building tasks of our times. Numerous cities as well as communities are adding stage buildings for performing arts to their cultural infrastructure and are renewing historical buildings. The acoustics and stage mechanisms are adjusted to mo...

Wydawnictwo: V & A Publications

Quilts evoke the past - they stimulate our earliest memories of security and comfort and resonate with historical and cultural references. For the first time, the V&A showcases its extensive patchwork and quilt collection in one sumptuously illustrated publication. Major essays by leading textile an...

Wydawnictwo: John Wiley & Sons

This title of AD heralds a new era of exuberance in digital design. Having overcome the alienation and otherness of the cyber, having mastered the virtual qualities and protocols of the parametric, having achieved the intricacy and elegance of the digital, and having fully embraced the potential of ...

Wydawnictwo: Phaidon Press Ltd

The Colours of Light is a beautiful, compact, dense little book that showcases English photographer Richard Pare's stunning takes on the respected, influential Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Pare photographed Ando's work over a 10-year period and, with remarkable consistency, has realised the intric...

Wydawnictwo: Harry N. Abrams

A variety of writers are featured, such as Gerald Clarke (Cary Grant and Randolph Scott), Nancy Collins (Cher and Diane Keaton), and Donald Spoto (Marilyn Monroe). The superb images were by a range of photographers as well, including Architectural Digest regulars Tim Street-Porter, Durston Saylor, a...

Wydawnictwo: Harry N. Abrams

Since the late 1800s, a surprising number of the most celebrated architects, along with their artisan-builder counterparts, have transformed the popular notion of the simple pioneer log cabin into a supremely crafted work of high-art architecture. Examples can be found everywhere from the skyscrapin...

Wydawnictwo: John Wiley & Sons

Despite the intolerable costs of greenhouse emissions and the dwindling of natural oil, gas and uranium reserves, the vast majority of cities and urban communities are managed, administered and planned as if this crisis does not exist. Hence the transition from fossil fuel dominated cities to an urb...

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson LTD

'So much more than an interiors book ... a truly international view of urban living' - The TimesBeyond and behind the life of the streets lie the private spaces - interiors and rooms where the tastes and aspirations of individuals are reflected in the design and arrangement of objects set among d...

Wydawnictwo: Flammarion

The works of French photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) can be considered as prototypes for some of the great aesthetic movements (cubism, surrealism, conceptualism) that continue to influence modern and contemporary art. His detailed visual record of Paris and its environs were sold to painters t...

Wydawnictwo: Laurence King Publishing

Architectural detailing makes a building unique, and an architect outstanding. "Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture" provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in the development of contemporary residential architecture from 2000 to 2005. Featuring ma...

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the last thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and reinvention o...

Wydawnictwo: Art Directors Club of Europe

This publication is a compendium of award-winning projects by architects Jos Antonio Sosa and Magi Gonzlez, professors at the Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Among their many award-winning projects are the remodelling of the town hall building in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the public squ...

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson LTD

For many years planning was something done in the name of progress by distant committees with the abstract aim of tidying boundaries and controlling growth. In the past decade, however, heavy-handed ideology has given way to a new generation of planners from diverse backgrounds -- architecture, land...

Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press

"Modern Architecture" is a landmark text - the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by co...

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson LTD

Presenting the hottest architectural visionaries from around the world, "Digital Architecture Now" celebrates the conceptual architects who are pushing digital design and software to their limits. In his introduction and concluding essay, Neil Spiller places this contemporary work in the context of ...

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson LTD