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Among the fifty projects presented in this monograph are 'Windows of the world' restaurant in the World Trade Center and Bryant park in New York, the Cleveland Public Library, the Hawaii Theater Center in Honolulu, the comprehensive development plan for Warner Bros. Hollywood studios and the Los Angeles Public Library.
HHPA : buildings and projects, 1993-1998
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Among the fifty projects presented in this monograph are 'Windows of the world' restaurant in the World Trade Center and Bryant park in New York, the Cleveland Public Library, the Hawaii Theater Center in Honolulu, the comprehensive development plan for Warner Bros. Hollywood studios and the Los Angeles Public Library.
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Catalogue qui accompagne l'exposition de la Galerie Aedes à Berlin sur des travaux de huit équipes de jeunes architectes français : Atelier Akahori, Avant-travaux, Bente & Gantillon, BMC architectes, Devin & Rannou, Jumeau + Paillard, Jung et Dreyfus, Tautem, ainsi que des dessins du dessinateur Willem.
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Catalogue qui accompagne l'exposition de la Galerie Aedes à Berlin sur des travaux de huit équipes de jeunes architectes français : Atelier Akahori, Avant-travaux, Bente & Gantillon, BMC architectes, Devin & Rannou, Jumeau + Paillard, Jung et Dreyfus, Tautem, ainsi que des dessins du dessinateur Willem.
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September 1998, Berlin
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Venice and the East
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This lively and richly illustrated book investigates the influence of oriental trade and travel on medieval Venice and its architecture. Architectural historian Deborah Howard examines the experiences of Venetian merchants overseas, focusing on links (...)
October 2000, New Haven
Venice and the East
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This lively and richly illustrated book investigates the influence of oriental trade and travel on medieval Venice and its architecture. Architectural historian Deborah Howard examines the experiences of Venetian merchants overseas, focusing on links with Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, as well as with Persia and the Silk Route. She argues that many Venetians gained insight into Islamic culture through personal contacts with their Muslim trading partners. Based on wide-ranging multidisciplinary research, this book examines the mechanisms that governed the exchange of visual culture across ideological boundaries before the age of printing. Howard explores a range of building types that reflect the impact of Islamic imagery, paying special attention to two icon buildings, San Marco and the Palazzo Ducale. She considers the complexities of importing Muslim ideas to an unambiguously Christian city, itself the point of embarkation for pilgrims to the Holy Land.
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October 2000, New Haven
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When World War II came along, the American military found itself in need of a prefabricated, lightweight shelter that could be easily shipped and quickly assembled. The quonset hut, that sliced tube of corrugated metal, was the answer. Over a hundred thousand were produced as part of the war effort. In its aftermath, even more were built and existing huts were adapted to(...)
Quonset hut : metal living for a modern age
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When World War II came along, the American military found itself in need of a prefabricated, lightweight shelter that could be easily shipped and quickly assembled. The quonset hut, that sliced tube of corrugated metal, was the answer. Over a hundred thousand were produced as part of the war effort. In its aftermath, even more were built and existing huts were adapted to house the postwar population boom. Of course, it couldn't last: the American desire for permanence meant decay and neglect for many of these rough-and-ready shelters and quickie warehouses. But in the midst of its almost tragic tale of extinction, the quonset hut has emerged as an unexpected icon of Americana and an oasis of architectural imagination. Travel the back roads of America and you will find the quonset's distinctive shape enclosing everything from houses of worship to houses of pancakes. "Quonset Hut" tells the story of this unique architectural phenomena, from its birth during WWII as a mass-production shelter to its new status as an icon of American pragmatism, ingenuity, perseverance, and individuality.
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The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Possessed of enormous talent and ambition, these two artists -- one trained as a sculptor, the other as a stonecutter -- met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome and ended their lives as bitter enemies. Over(...)
The genius in the design : Bernini, Borromini, and the rivalry that transformed Rome
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The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Possessed of enormous talent and ambition, these two artists -- one trained as a sculptor, the other as a stonecutter -- met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome and ended their lives as bitter enemies. Over the course of their careers they became the most celebrated architects of their era, designing some of the most beautiful buildings in the world and transforming the city of Rome. “The Genius in the Design” is an extraordinary tale of how these two men plotted, schemed, and intrigued to get the better of each other. Full of dramatic tension and great insight into personalities, acclaimed writer Jake Morrissey's engrossing and impeccably researched account also shows that this legendary rivalry defined the Baroque style that immediately succeeded the Renaissance and created the spectacular Roman cityscape of today. Almost exactly the same age -- Bernini was born at the end of 1598, Borromini nine months later -- they were as alike and as different as any two men could be, each a potent combination of passion and enterprise, energy and imperfection. Bernini was a precocious talent who as a youth caught the attention of Pope Paul V and became Rome's most celebrated artist, whose patrons included the wealthiest families in Europe. The city's greatest sculptor -- the creator of such masterpieces as Apollo and Daphne and the Ecstasy of St. Teresa -- Bernini would also have been Rome's pre-eminent architect had it not been for Francesco Borromini, the one man whose talent and virtuosity rivalled his own. In contrast to Bernini's easy grace, Borromini was an introvert with a fiery temper who bristled when anyone interfered with his vision; his temperament alienated him from prospective patrons and precipitated his tragic end. Like Mozart and Salieri, these two masters were inextricably linked, their dazzling work prodding the other to greater achievement while taking merciless advantage of each other's missteps. “The Genius in the Design” is their story, a fascinating narrative of beauty and tragedy marked at turns by personal animosity and astonishing artistic achievement.
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March 2005, New York
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The abrupt conflict in Brian Rose's subjects between an older world, sometimes rural and sometimes urban, and the brutal political division imposed on it is not only historically important, but in Rose's hands, a subject for the camera. Previously priced at $56.00. Brian Rose is a photographer based in New York and Amsterdam.
Brian Rose : the lost border, the landscape of the Iron Curtain
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The abrupt conflict in Brian Rose's subjects between an older world, sometimes rural and sometimes urban, and the brutal political division imposed on it is not only historically important, but in Rose's hands, a subject for the camera. Previously priced at $56.00. Brian Rose is a photographer based in New York and Amsterdam.
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The book serves as a histirical survey of architectural lighting throughout the twentieth century and also examines the cultural, social, and artistic issues surrounding this phenomenon. During the 1920's and 1930's architectural floodlighting was at its most intense, considered an essentially modern abstract art form that crossed the boundaries between film,(...)
Architecture of the night : the illuminated building
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The book serves as a histirical survey of architectural lighting throughout the twentieth century and also examines the cultural, social, and artistic issues surrounding this phenomenon. During the 1920's and 1930's architectural floodlighting was at its most intense, considered an essentially modern abstract art form that crossed the boundaries between film, architecture, and painting. "Architecture of the Night" explores this dynamic period in depth, considers its impact today, and addresses the new issues that confront contemporary lighting, such as "light pollution", conservation, and aesthetics. The book features close to 200 illustrations and examines 100 examples of building illumination, including the Paris Opera House (1880), the Gas and Electric Building, Denver (1910), the Empire State Building, New York (1931), the Seagram Building, New York (1958), the Lloyds Building, London (1988) and the Anzeiger Hochhaus, Hanover (2000).
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February 2002, Munich
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In 1996-97, Harvard's graduate students studied China's Pearl River Delta (PRD), a cluster of five cities with a population of twelve million that will probably reach thirty-six million by the year 2020. The establishment in the PRD of Special Economic Zones - "laboratories for the contained unleashing of capitalism" - has hastened an unprecedented experiment in(...)
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November 2001, Cologne
Great leap forward : project on the city 1
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In 1996-97, Harvard's graduate students studied China's Pearl River Delta (PRD), a cluster of five cities with a population of twelve million that will probably reach thirty-six million by the year 2020. The establishment in the PRD of Special Economic Zones - "laboratories for the contained unleashing of capitalism" - has hastened an unprecedented experiment in urbanization on an astonishingly large scale. "Great Leap Forward" contains essays that explore, in a theoretical and statistical context, the results of this rapid modernization, which has produced an entirely new urban substance.
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November 2001, Cologne
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Essays by Irini Athanassakis, Stéphanie Bédat, Christophe Blaser, Lorette Cohen, Patrizia Crivelli, Christian Muhr, Michelle Nicol, Chantal Prod’Hom, Kathrin Stirnemann, Philip Ursprung. Previously priced at $59.95.
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June 2003, Baden
Swiss design 2003 : désir design
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Essays by Irini Athanassakis, Stéphanie Bédat, Christophe Blaser, Lorette Cohen, Patrizia Crivelli, Christian Muhr, Michelle Nicol, Chantal Prod’Hom, Kathrin Stirnemann, Philip Ursprung. Previously priced at $59.95.
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Since 1997 Heinz Moser and Roger Nussbaumer have served as the directors of Burckhardt+Partner Architects in Zurich - a team made up of around thirty architects from several countries. During this period a body of work has emerged that is surprising not only for the number of projects and their size, but also for their high level in terms of both creativity and(...)
Moser Nussbaumer : vision and architecture
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Since 1997 Heinz Moser and Roger Nussbaumer have served as the directors of Burckhardt+Partner Architects in Zurich - a team made up of around thirty architects from several countries. During this period a body of work has emerged that is surprising not only for the number of projects and their size, but also for their high level in terms of both creativity and content. These include entries to competitions as well as free designs created without a contract and without any promise of immediate realization
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July 2004, Basel
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