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The twenty-first century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations or additions to existing ones. Nearly thirty museums are given close inspection in this generously illustrated volume. Each entry includes a discussion of the building's cultural and geographic environment, complemented by color photographs, sketches, and architectural(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
January 1900, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
Museums in the 21st century : concepts, projects, buildings
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The twenty-first century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations or additions to existing ones. Nearly thirty museums are given close inspection in this generously illustrated volume. Each entry includes a discussion of the building's cultural and geographic environment, complemented by color photographs, sketches, and architectural plans. The book encompasses four continents and highlights, among others, the designs of Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Steven Holl, Zaha Hadid, Mario Botta, David Chipperfield, Tadao Ando, Yoshio Taniguchi, and Daniel Libeskind. In addition, the authors provide thoughtful commentary on the relationship between architecture and the fine arts and an assessment of museum functionality in modern times.
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January 1900, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
Commercial interiors, Building types
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The disappearance of urban squares and public spaces in many European cities has led to a critical awareness of the social significance of this traditional zone of community exchange. Boris Podrecca has played a great part in the recent cultivation of urban zones. His designs for squares in Verona, Salzburg, and Piran subtly reflect contemporary modes of living in public(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2003, Vienna / New York
Boris Podrecca : public spaces
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The disappearance of urban squares and public spaces in many European cities has led to a critical awareness of the social significance of this traditional zone of community exchange. Boris Podrecca has played a great part in the recent cultivation of urban zones. His designs for squares in Verona, Salzburg, and Piran subtly reflect contemporary modes of living in public spaces. This book offers comprehensive coverage of 40 projects and work executed in Germany, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia.
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November 2003, Vienna / New York
Architecture Monographs
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This volume chronicles the iconic double house in Mexico City constructed in 1930 by Swiss architects Hans Schmidt (1938–1972) and Paul Artaria (1892–1959). Built in the booming Colonia Del Valle neighborhood, the house was one of the first modernist buildings in Mexico City.
The first modern building in Mexico: twin houses of Paul Artaria and Hans Schmidt
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This volume chronicles the iconic double house in Mexico City constructed in 1930 by Swiss architects Hans Schmidt (1938–1972) and Paul Artaria (1892–1959). Built in the booming Colonia Del Valle neighborhood, the house was one of the first modernist buildings in Mexico City.
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The first six books of the elements of Euclid : facsimile of the famous first edition of 1847
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Red, yellow, blue – and of course black – are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid, published by William Pickering and printed by Chiswick Press, and which prompt the surprised reader to think of Mondrian. The author makes it clear in his subtitle that this is a didactic measure intended to(...)
The first six books of the elements of Euclid : facsimile of the famous first edition of 1847
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Red, yellow, blue – and of course black – are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid, published by William Pickering and printed by Chiswick Press, and which prompt the surprised reader to think of Mondrian. The author makes it clear in his subtitle that this is a didactic measure intended to distinguish his edition from all others: "The Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners." Byrne is not content to trust solely in the supposed intuitive "logical" structure of Euclid's axioms and theorems – who doesn't know the first famous sentences of Euclid's Elements: "I. A point is that which has no parts. II. A line is length without breadth"? –, but translates them into colourful diagrams and symbols. He thereby thinks in terms of the school classroom : he compares his colours to the dyed chalks in which figures are drawn on the blackboard.
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