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The new moderns : architecture and design for living

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This book highlights the work of innovative international designers and architects including Richard Rogers, John Pawson, Eva Jiricna, Charles Gwathmey, Arata Isozaki, and Tadao Ando. Illustrated with over 250 color photographs by interior architect Richard Bryant.

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London : bread and circuses

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Wherever and whenever state and church, state and autocracy, political and architectural ambition have met and loved one another hungrily, domes have raised their imperious, lofty heads. At once magnificent and messy, old-fashioned and ultra-modern, opulent and squalid, London is something of a mongrel city, cross-bred over the centuries from cut-throat commerce, high finance and unrestrained creativity. For all its inventiveness, however, it is now also a city unable to provide its citizens with decent public transport, housing or services, beset and betrayed by governments who take from it but refuse to give back. In the lead-up to the much-hyped Millennium, a fortune was spent on lavish building projects—giant wheels, great courts, titanic art galleries, ambitious museums, a Brobdingnagian dome—but little in the way of public services, intelligent urban planning and infrastructure except by default. Has the right kind of money been spent on the wrong sort of projects? Who, in this pluralistic age, will cut through the layers of bureaucracy to restore some of the city’s unruly splendour? In this elegant and polemical book, the architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explores London’s Millennial follies and asks how and where London might now channel its energies. Combining anecdote and analysis with a sustained critique of the way the city is governed and financed, he draws a detailed picture of the state London’s in and speculates on how it might be transformed.

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What's so great about the Eiffel tower? 70 questions that will change the way you think about architecture

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Why do we find the idea of a multi-coloured Parthenon so shocking today? Why was the Eiffel Tower such a target for hatred when it was first built? Is the Sagrada Família a work of genius or kitsch? Why has Le Corbusier, one of the greatest of all architects, been treated as a villain? This book examines the critical legacy of both well known and either forgotten or underappreciated highpoints in the history of world architecture. Through 70 engaging, thought-provoking, and often amusing debates, Jonathan Glancey invites readers to take a fresh look at the reputations of the masterpieces and great architects in history. You may never look at architecture in the same way again!

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Le spécialiste l'architecture : les grands monuments du monde histoire et styles

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L'outil visuel indispensable - Des ziggourats aux aéroports, découvrez 5000 ans de créations et de styles architecturaux. Explorez les plus grands monuments du monde - D'incroyables illustrations vous plongent au cœur des monuments les plus célèbres. Au-delà de la façade : Étudiez les matériaux et la technologie qui ont donné vie aux monuments. Découvrez les particularités et les caractéristiques esthétiques de chaque style architectural. L'architecture dans le monde - Découvrez des monuments d'Occident, du Moyen-Orient, d'Inde, de Chine et du Japon.

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Buckminster Fuller: Dymaxion car

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In 1933, the visionary architect, engineer and designer Buckminster Fuller built a car that was at that time the world's most fuel-efficient car. The Dymaxion Car ran on 35 miles per gallon. Zeppelin-like in appearance, it was streamlined to minimize wind resistance and was capable of carrying six to eight passengers. Fuller designed two more Dymaxion Cars over the following year, though none of the three saw production. Today the Dymaxion Cars look dynamic, beautifully designed and several paradigm shifts ahead of their time, and Norman Foster has taken up their legacy with a new vehicle of his own. This monograph reconstructs the history of Fuller's first three models for the Dymaxion Car through detailed plans and archival photographs, and relates the production process of Dymaxion #4, a new prototype produced by Norman Foster, which was launched on the street in 2010.