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Titre:
Architectural styles: a visual guide

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''Architectural styles'' is an incomparable guide to architectural styles across the centuries and around the world. Modeled after an architect's plein air sketchbook, the volume features hundreds of detailed drawings by esteemed architectural illustrator Robbie Polley alongside incisive and informative descriptions. This unique guidebook takes readers from Europe and the Americas to Egypt, China, and India. It covers a host of historical and contemporary architectural styles, from ancient and classical to Pre-Columbian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Palladian, art nouveau, Brutalist, and biomorphic. It describes the histories and characteristics of the building traditions of each era and region of the world, and looks at key architectural elements such as buttresses, spandrels, curtain walls, and oculi. The book also includes a section on building parts- from domes and columns to towers, arches, roofs, and vaulting- along with a detailed glossary and bibliography.

Titre:
Voyages en Sardaigne : Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias

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'Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias' is the first part of an exploration that focuses on soil, excavations, incisions, mutations, transpositions and silence of Sulcis-Iglesiente, a territory marked by an industrial history. A wandering through time and space of a region «built», transformed, crossed by different types of works, infrastructures, relationships between things. These signs, these scars, are today the distinctive features of an extraordinary mining landscape. A space to discover through visual and textual narration. 'Voyages en Sardaigne' is a collection of unconventional thematic guides on this island in the middle of the Mediterranean. They offer to the reader different ways of observation and restitution of its territory, always characterized by an uncertain temporality: the present and the past merge to build a unique landscape, far from the convulsive setting of the contemporaneity. Photographs by Giaime Meloni.

Titre:
Why architecture matters, 3rd edition

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"Architecture begins to matter," writes Paul Goldberger, "when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads." In this book, he shows us how that works in examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to the Guggenheim Bilbao. In his afterword to this new edition, Goldberger addresses the current climate in architectural history and takes a more nuanced look at projects such as Thomas Jefferson’s academical village at the University of Virginia and figures including Philip Johnson, whose controversial status has been the topic of much recent discourse. He argues that the emotional impact of great architecture remains vital, even as he welcomes the shift in the field to an increased emphasis on social justice and sustainability.

Titre:
Mexico : petit atlas hédoniste

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Pendant longtemps la capitale du Mexique fut connue pour sa criminalité et sa pollution, mais depuis quelques années, elle est aussi devenue une véritable capitale culturelle. On y observe une effervescence créative à tous les coins de rue : de la Casa Estudio de Luis Barragan, le maître du modernisme, à la cuisine de la meilleure cheffe d’Amérique latine Elena Reygadas en passant par les célèbres mariachis de la Plaza Garibaldi. Un plan de Mexico en début de livre et un découpage clair par région pour se repérer. Dans chaque chapitre : une présentation en images des « Essentiels », des « must » à ne pas rater et une promenade/itinéraire thématique à faire dans chacune des régions du pays comme une promenade artistique dans San Miguel de Chapultepec ou une sortie au cœur du Mexico asiatique, New Little Tokyo et Little Seoul.