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Chronicle Books Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the
Book SynopsisThis new biography—featuring over 150 archival images and full-color photographs printed throughout—introduces Julia Morgan as both a pioneering architect and a captivating individual. Julia Morgan was a lifelong trailblazer. She was the first woman admitted to study architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first licensed to practice architecture in California. Over the first half of the 20th century, she left an indelible mark on the American West. Of her remarkable 700 creations, the most iconic is Hearst Castle. Morgan spent thirty years constructing this opulent estate on the California coast for the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst—forging a lifelong friendship and creative partnership with him. Together, they built a spectacular and unequalled residence that once hosted the biggest stars of Hollywood's golden age, and that now welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. This compelling biography draws on interviews, letters, and Morgan's diaries, including never-before-seen reflections on faith, art, and her life experiences. Morgan's friendship with Hearst, her passion for California's landscape, her struggles with familial dementia, and her devotion to architecture reveal her to have been a singularly brilliant and determined artist. PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED CONTENT: Victoria Kastner has spent years compiling photographs, interviews, letters, drawings, and diaries—including material never published before—to create the first truly comprehensive portrait of this amazing woman. OVER 150 PHOTOGRAPHS: This book features over 150 photographs, printed throughout the text. These include both fascinating archival images and beautiful, full-color contemporary shots of Morgan's buildings. INSPIRING STORY: By exploring both Morgan's work and her life, Kastner weaves a captivating tale about courage, vision, and resilience. Julia Morgan forged a path for herself against the odds, and her story will inspire contemporary women and creatives. ARCHITECTURAL ICON: Julia Morgan created 700 buildings during her career, from hotels to churches to private homes. Born in San Francisco and trained in Paris, she developed a distinctive aesthetic that now defines certain regions of California. But only in the last twenty years has her contribution to architecture been fully recognized and celebrated. In 2014, the American Institute of Architects' posthumously awarded her its Gold Medal; she was the first female recipient. Perfect for: • History buffs • Students, enthusiasts, and professional architects • Aspiring creatives in all fields • Feminists seeking role models • Visitors to Hearst Castle and Morgan's other buildings • Californians and visitors to California
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Norman Foster Foundation Norman Foster Sketchbooks - Volume I 1975 - 1980
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Counterpoint Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardA Princeton professor-turned-artist recounts her late-in-life career change in this “feisty and delightfully irreverent memoir” about art and coming-of-age in your 60s (Boston Globe).“A glorious achievement . . . a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives.” —Tayari Jones, author of An American MarriageFollowing her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school—in her sixties—to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived.How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, “You will never be an artist”? Who defines what an artist is and all that goes with such an identity, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference?Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, Painter weaves a frank, funny, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art in this “glorious achievement—bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives” (Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage).
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany 2G 82: Ensamble Studio: No. 82. International
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Park Books Louis I. Kahn - Silence and Light: The Lecture at
Book SynopsisLouis I. Kahn is unarguably one of the most eminent and influential figures of 20th-century architecture. He is known as the poet and philosopher among the great modern architects. On 12 February 1969, Kahn gave a lecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), entitled 'Silence and Light'. This fundamental text reveals Kahn's spiritual understanding of architecture and his creative thinking. Kahn's idea of architecture goes far beyond the mere building. He understands architecture as a concept comprising the entire environment of mankind. With this he anticipated more than forty years ago what is branded 'sustainability in architecture' today. 'Louis I. Kahn - Silence and Light' makes this text available again in its original version, for the first time ever also in Kahn's own voice on audio-CD. The book includes a full-length transcript of the Zurich lecture in original English and translations into French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Kahn's sketches drawn while speaking and number of previously unpublished images of the architect lecturing complement the text. Text in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
£999.99
Spector Books Zamp Kelp: Prospector: Casting an Eye on
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Quart Publishers Gion A. Caminada: Cul Zuffel d L'aura Dado
Book SynopsisGion A. Caminada has produced architectural work in Surselva, Grisons that is unique in being directly determined by the ecological, geographical and structural engineering premises of the location and the lifestyles of its population. The new edition includes the texts and project collection of Cul zuffel e l'aura dado and is extended to include a selection of more recent projects since 2015.
£86.40
Skira Rafiq Azam: Architecture for Green Living
Book SynopsisThe first ever monograph on contemporary architectural practice in Bangladesh, dedicated to international-award-winning architect Mohammad Rafiq Azam. Rafiq Azam is a world-renowned architect. He recently received the Residential Building of the Year Award at the 2012 Emirates Glass LEAF Awards, which took place during 2012 London Design Festival. He has a holistic approach to design, which not only incorporates the elements of nature but also harnesses its beauty and potential in a practical way, in order to enhance the personal experience of a building. From his uniquely Bangladeshi perspective, the human being has two parts – the body as shell and thoughts as soul; and his architecture is similar, where the building manifests as the shell and nature as its soul. Considering the socioeconomic and city planning conditions of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, Azam’s architectural vocabulary is kept simple and essential, with traditional spaces like the courtyard, pond, ghat (steps leading into water) and ample internal and external greenery that merge both urban and rural typologies in an intensely urban context. He arranges water courts as swimming pools in the middle of homes, arranges natural light rooms and unfolding wall systems to emphasise the interrelationship between form and void. With more than 200 colour and black-and-white plates, exquisite design sketches and aerial views, as well as watercolour paintings and inspirational phrases, this exceptionally beautiful book is a unique introduction and insight into a visionary architect and Bangladeshi contemporary living and culture.
£48.00
Skira Italo Rota: Projects, Works, Visions 1997-2007
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Legacy of Edith Kramer
Book SynopsisThe Legacy of Edith Kramer presents a unique exploration into the life and work of the groundbreaking artist and art therapist. This edited volume examines the artist's personal and cultural history prior to relocating to the United States as well as the later years when she worked as an artist, art therapist, and teacher as she developed her theoretical understanding of art therapy. Kramer's solutions to creating a meaningful artist's life run throughout the chapters within this book, and provide the reader with a sense of what is possible. Written by an international group of contributors, this informative new text offers a multifaceted view of Edith Kramer that will be appreciated by current and future art therapists looking to better understand Kramer's exceptional mind and contributions to the field.Trade Review"Lani Gerity and Susan Ainlay Anand, along with their cadre of amazing contributors, managed to bring Edith Kramer back to us with integrity, respect and humor, and endowed to us the scholarly perspectives and life lessons that she embodied. You don't often hear this about academic, scholarly texts, but I could not put this book down; it was simply a pleasure to read. Thank you Lani and Susan for keeping her legacy alive." Dave Gussak, PhD, ATR-BC, professor of art therapy, chair of the Department of Art Education, Florida State University, USA."To all those students of art therapy who never had the opportunity to herald the arrival of Edith Kramer in their classrooms, fresh off the train from New York City with a rucksack of client art work on her back and her long gray braid swinging, this book is as close as it gets. The Legacy brings Edith’s work to life, revealing the potency, tenacity, and beauty of theories that form the basis of art therapy."Audrey Di Maria, MA, LCPAT, ATR-BC, editor, Exploring Ethical Issues in Art Therapy: 50 Clinicians From 20 Countries Share Their Stories (Routledge, 2018)."This beautiful book illustrates the legacy of Edith Kramer as a pioneer, which is more and more relevant at this time, when art therapy is becoming global. Indeed, her words may help others to be pioneers in their own countries, focusing on what she describes as the essential simplicity of art therapy: ‘a safe place, where people may be respected and feel alive… and may perceive their world again, and make some sense of it.’"Paola Luzzatto, PhD, registered art therapist, UK and USA, art therapy teacher and supervisor, Italy and Tanzania"The legacy of Edith Kramer has been well documented in multiple publications and countless professional presentations, so why yet another book? Gerity and Anand have gathered contributions from many who knew Edith well, and hence this book provides fascinating and intimate glimpses of Edith as provocateur, critic, friend, colleague, pioneer art therapist, and consummate artist."Bruce L. Moon, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM, professor and chair of the art therapy department, Mount Mary University, USA."This finely-rendered portrait of an art therapy pioneer is a satisfying read: intimacy, history and conviction are interwoven to illuminate ‘our Kramer’s’ theoretical contributions for generations of art therapists to come."Theresa Zip - EnvisageTable of ContentsForeword: A Fortunate Life Edith Kramer Introduction: A Generous and Challenging Artist’s Worldview Lani Gerity and Susan Ainlay Anand HISTORY AND CONTEXT 1. Feelings That Cannot Be Put Into Words Darcy Marlow 2. Mumi Kramer, Grundlsee, and the Caring Net Johannes Reichmayr, Charlotte Zwiauer, Lani Gerity, Martha Haeseler, and Edith Kramer 3. Edith Kramer Remembered Anni Bergman 4. Edith Kramer on Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Erna Furman, and Terezin Interviews with Elena Makarova MORE RECENT HISTORY 5. Edith Kramer: A Generous, Generative Genius Judith A. Rubin 6. Importance of Cultural Roots Irene Rosner David 7. Edith Kramer at New York University: Recollections Laurie Wilson 8. Teaching with Edith Ikuko Acosta 9. Art Therapy Experiences with Edith and a Group of Adults Raffaella Bortino, Wilma Cipriani, and Raffaela Carola Lorio ARTIST IDENTITY 10. Edith Kramer’s Artistic Legacy: Beyond the Studio Geoffrey A. Thompson 11. Remembering Edith Kramer Karl Pallauf (TRANSLATOR, MARTHA HAESELER) 12. An Edith Collage Katherine Williams 13. The Mosaic Edith Kramer 14. Create Your Own: Kramer’s Criteria for Quality as Central to Art Therapy Jordan S. Potash EDITH KRAMER’S THEORETICAL CONCEPTS 15. Edith Kramer’s Notion of "Quality" Elizabeth Stone 16. On Edith Kramer’s Seminal Concept of Sublimation in Art Therapy Elizabeth Stone 17. Sublimation Then and Now Laurie Wilson 18. The Building of an Artist’s Identity Kevin Maxwell 19. Edith Kramer’s Third Hand: Intervention in Art Therapy Karin Dannecker 20. Kramer’s Sublimation: Creative Expansion or Limitation? David Henley MEMORIES 21. Panel Remarks: Edith Kramer David Henley 22. Gleaning the Pearls: Reflections of a Student Kathryn E. Bard 23. Tales of Edith Patti Greenberg 24. Formed Expression David Henley EDITH KRAMER’S CONCEPTS APPLIED TO PRACTICE 25. Edith’s Legacy as Artist and Art Therapist in the Art Room Martha Haeseler 26. Hector: A Case Study Illustrating Edith’s Teachings Martha Haeseler 27. Understanding Lineage, Difference, and the Contemplative Dimensions of Edith Kramer’s Art as Therapy Model Michael A. Franklin 28. Art and Cancer: Transference and Countertransference: Channeling Edith Kramer Esther Dreifuss-Kattan 29. Edith Kramer’s Influence on the Development of Medical Art Therapy Irene Rosner David 30. Experiences of Learning from Edith Kramer and Translating Her Book Shyueying Chiang 31. Edith, Puppets, and the Kindly Superego Lani Gerity ART, ART THERAPY, AND CULTURE 32. Quality and Inner Satisfaction: Re-visiting the Importance of Quality in Art and Art Therapy Edith Kramer, Susan Ainlay Anand, and Lani Gerity 33. Cultural Gifts of Wisdom, Hope, and Beauty Edith Kramer, Lani Gerity, and Susan Ainlay Anand 34. Religion and Cultural Humility: Lessons Learned in Conversation and Practice Susan Ainlay Anand 35. Sense of Place: Edith Kramer’s Wisdom for Times of Isolation and Dissociation Susan Ainlay Anand SAYING GOODBYE 36. Do You Require Inspiration Just to Breathe? Elena Makarova (Translator, Tali Magidson) 37. Lyceum Art Therapy Training Program Margherita Gandini (Translator, Eleonora Marchesi) 38. On Leaving and Preserving David Henley 39. Creating a World of Possibility: Life Lessons from Edith Kramer Lani Gerity 40. Conclusions: Is this the End or the Beginning? Susan Ainlay Anand and Lani Gerity
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Monacelli Press Robert A. M. Stern Architects: Buildings and
Book SynopsisHistory is the lens through which Robert A.M. Stern and his fifteen design partners envision an architecture for today. Robert A.M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2010–2014 is the seventh volume in a series that encompasses the breadth of the firm’s work since Stern’s earliest projects in the mid-1960s. Emphasizing the output of the office over the past five years, this volume covers the most globalized period of practice so far. Featuring profiles of well over 100 designs built domestically and abroad, Robert A.M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2010–2014 includes significant projects in Asia, from China to India. In the United States the firm’s educational, cultural, commercial, religious, and residential work continues to broaden its exploration of traditional and contemporary architectural expression. This volume presents the firm’s continued influence on campuses across the United States, reflecting the position that education holds in its ethic, with new additions to Drexel University in Philadelphia, Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and University of Colorado Boulder. The office also remains key to the ongoing development of its home in New York City, with new residential towers on the High Line and in Greenwich Village.
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Random House USA Inc Magritte
Book SynopsisThe first major biography of the pathbreaking, perpetually influential surrealist artist and iconoclast whose inspiration can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé—by the celebrated biographer of Cézanne and BraqueIn this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898-1967), Alex Danchev makes a compelling case for Magritte as the single most significant purveyor of images to the modern world. Magritte’s surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have become an inescapable part of our visual landscape, through such legendary works as The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe) and his celebrated iterations of Man in a Bowler Hat. Danchev explores the path of this highly unconventional artist from his middle-class Belgian beginnings to the years during which he led a small, brilliant band of surrealists (and famously clashed with André Breton) to his first
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RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives One Vision
Book SynopsisLella and Massimo Vignelli promote a modernist philosophy of designing for a better society: resourceful use of space and materials, clear communication, lasting quality, and logical functionality. Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives, One Vision is a portrait of two important twentieth-century designers whose careers have intertwined since the 1950s. The Vignellis promote a modernist philosophy of designing for a better society: resourceful use of space and materials, clear communication, lasting quality, and logical functionality. Through a mix of archival research and personal interviews with Lella, Massimo, and their many colleagues and clients, Jan Conradi documents the Vignellis' nuanced approach to "cleaning up" an often chaotic and messy society by adhering to a minimalist and structured design method. The Vignellis' lifetime commitment to a world of design ismarked by vibrant client relationships and unwavering attention to detail. With wit, grace, focus, and finesse, the Vignellis' sustained pattern of working and living has influenced, and continues to inspire, generations of designers worldwide. JAN CONRADI is a Professor of Graphic Design at Rowan University in New Jersey, where she teaches typography and design history.Trade ReviewThe Vignellis designed logos and identities and various other two-dimensional commissions that come to mind whenever one mentions 'graphic design.' They also dreamed up furnishings and house wares and buildings and interiors. They were Designers, for god's sake, designing sundry and all, creators on a deific scale. * PASTE MAGAZINE *Table of ContentsPhotos: Five Decades of Vignelli Design Foreword by Deyan Sudjic Preface Acknowledgments The Vignellis: An Introduction Foundation: Growing Up in Italy, Lella and Massimo Meet, Expanding Horizons, Crossing Oceans 1965: Unimark International, The Vignellis Move to New York, etc 1971: The Rise of Vignelli Associates, The Office Expands: Return to East 62nd Street, etc The Showcase Office: Tenth Avenue, Fashion History According to Massimo, etc Working from Home: East 67th Street Design Advocacy Students, Teaching, and Learning, The Vignelli Center for Design Studies A Lifetime, and No Regrets Notes Photos: A Vignelli History, Afterword, Vignelli Awards, Index
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Hatje Cantz Peter Arnell: Portfolio 1980–2020
Book SynopsisThroughout his forty-plus-year career, Peter Arnell has built an unparalleled reputation creating groundbreaking, boundary-averse work for many of the world’s most well-known brands. His unique interdisciplinary approach to brand building unites graphic design, industrial design, automotive design, architecture, photography, filmmaking and more to produce holistic solutions that drive enduring brand value creation. A prolific photographer, Arnell’s work has appeared commercially for numerous fashion and lifestyle brands, and his fine art photography has been included in group and solo exhibitions around the world. Arnell’s work has been described as “revolutionary, brash and brilliant” by Vogue and “powerful, exceptional, and propelling” by André Leon Talley. i-D Magazine calls him “a guru and a genius” while Newsweek has declared him “one of the great brand impresarios of our age.” Martha Stewart lauds “few of us do as much in a lifetime as Peter can do in a decade,” and Advertising Age has proclaimed that “Arnell can help us build the next generation.” In 2002, Arnell was named one of the 1,000 most creative individuals in America on Richard Saul Wurman’s annual Who’s Really Who list. He has held posts as Chief Innovation Officer at both Chrysler and Home Depot, and has served on the board of the Special Olympics for over a decade. This beautifully conceptualized, lavishly illustrated two-volume publication highlights over four decades of tireless innovation and provides rich insight into a great creative mind and an exceptionally diverse body of work. Included are signature projects for Samsung, Chanel, Gucci, DKNY, Pepsi, Reebok, Chrysler, Nespresso, and the Special Olympics, as well as numerous collaborations with figures like Helmut Newton, Duane Michaels, Peter Lindbergh, Denis Piel, Lance Wyman, Paul Rand, Frank Gehry, David Hockney, Muhammad Ali, Tom Brady, Buzz Aldrin, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Lorne Michaels, Steven Spielberg, and Jay-Z to name a few. Also featured are texts by architect Frank Gehry, photographer Peter Lindbergh, and New York Times journalist Michel Marriott.
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Rizzoli Woods Dangaran
Book SynopsisA masterful combination of classically modernist inspiration with comfortable California twenty-first-century living.Architects Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran are devotees of midcentury modernism who are committed to expressing classic modern tenets in a manner perfectly suited to twenty-first-century living. In addition to restoring multiple 1960s houses, including Craig Ellwood’s 1965 Moore House, Woods + Dangaran have created spectacular new residences that have made them one of the newest stars on the Los Angeles architecture scene. As C Magazine noted, “Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran are continuing the spirit of California’s great builders, designing for future decades.” Woods + Dangaran favors rich color palettes and materials, metals that shine, leathers that soften, and clean lines that reveal their work’s modernist soul. The homes they design are filled with vintage furniture and rugs juxtaposed against custom Trade ReviewBest Coffee Table Books 2022: "Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran are midcentury modern design devotees who have their feet firmly planted in the present day. The pair shows off restoration projects and new residences in this monograph." —ELLE DECOR"This book is one part escapism, one part educational, one part pure design inspiration. Architects Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran are devotees of midcentury modernism and this tome celebrates their incredible body of work." —RUE MAGAZINE"A masterful combination of classically modernist inspiration with comfortable California twenty-first-century living." —ASPIRE HOME & DESIGN
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ArchiTangle GmbH Marina Tabassum: Architecture, My Journey
Book SynopsisMARINA TABASSUM ARCHITECTURE: MY JOURNEY is the first book devoted to the Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum and her multifaceted architectural oeuvre.Marina Tabassum’s exploratory approach makes her architectural practice one of the outstanding contemporary positions internationally. Her diverse oeuvre spans from governmental projects to housing and has brought her numerous honors and accolades in the international field of architecture.This volume presents various public and private building projects that Marina Tabassum has worked on since 1995, first with the architectural office URBANA and since 2005 through Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). The selection of her architecture in this book ranges from early projects in the city of Dhaka shortly after completing her studies at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), such as the Museum of Independence and the celebrated Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, to recent mobile modular structures called Khudi Bari. Tabassum is establishing the latter for the people affected by displacement in various geographically and climatically challenged locations—both in the Ganges Delta and in the Rohingya refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar on the border to Myanmar, which is currently the largest refugee camp in the world.The internationally renowned authors reflect on various perspectives and interpretations of Tabassum’s work. Besides the historical and political background, the contributions deal, among other things, with spotlighting particular architectural elements that pervade Tabassum’s work, such as place and memory, light and spirituality, brick and materiality, and people and community.With contributions by Sean Anderson, Vera Simone Bader, Kareem Ibrahim, Hanif Kara, Andres Lepik, Nondita Correa Mehrotra, Tanzil Shafique, Cristina Steingräber, Marina Tabassum, Sarah M. Whiting, and Danny Wicaksono.
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Picador The Grand Affair
Book SynopsisA Wall Street Journal and Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Long-listed for the Plutarch AwardA bold new biography of the legendary painter John Singer Sargent, stressing the unruly emotions and furtive desires that drove his innovative work and defined the transatlantic, fin de siècle culture he inhabited. A great American artist, John Singer Sargent is also an abiding enigma. While dressing like a businessman and crafting a highly respectable persona, he scandalized viewers on both sides of the Atlantic with the frankness and sensuality of his work. He charmed the nouveaux riches as well as the old money, but he reserved his greatest sympathies for Bedouins, Spanish dancers, and the gondoliers of Venice. At the height of his renown in Britain and America, he quit his lucrative portrait-painting career to concentrate on allegorical murals with religious themesand on nude drawings of male models that he kept
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Agwa 2006-2022
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Doshi: The Art of Balkrishna
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Park Books Hermann Czech: An Architect in Vienna
Book SynopsisHermann Czech, born in 1936, is one of Austria’s most eminent and influential architects and theorists. This influence is based not only on his work as a designing architect, which extends to furniture, interiors, and exhibitions. Czech is also widely admired just as much for his writings on architectural theory and as the editor and translator of classics of architectural history, including texts by Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, Josef Frank, and Christopher Alexander, among others. This book is the long-awaited updated and expanded English edition of the only full monograph on Hermann Czech to date. First published in German in 2018, it goes far beyond a mere presentation of an architecture practice’s buildings and projects. The first part traces what links Czech’s work to the approaches of Viennese modernism. The second part explores Czech’s biography and the trajectory of his career, analysing as well the contemporary influences that shape his thinking and designs. The third part features selected buildings and unrealised projects, setting forth also Czech’s numerous references and underlying reflections. A complete index of his buildings, projects, and writings, an essay by Vienna-based philosopher Elisabeth Nemeth on the relationship between architecture and philosophy in Czech’s work, and an introduction by architectural historian Liane Lefaivre round off this volume.Trade Review"Little known outside certain architecture circles, Czech is a cult designer, more interested in buildings as background than in flashy structures." - Financial Times
£999.99
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Seeing Borobudur: Lalita Vistara Reliefs
Book SynopsisArchitectural photography is where Se found his niche and in Seeing Borobudur he turns his expert eye on the world's largest Buddhist monument in Central Java, Indonesia. Dating back to the 9th century, the UNESCO World Heritage site features thousands of stunning relief panels and hundreds of statues set within incredible temple architecture. This book offers a unique perspective on these treasures, taking readers on an in-depth exploration of the temple and the different religious stories, myths and depictions of everyday life found in the panels, which are generally considered to be some of the most exquisite of the ancient Buddhist world.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Charles Bridgeman (c.1685-1738): A Landscape
Book SynopsisAn examination of the garden plans of eighteenth-century landscape architect Charles Bridgeman, shedding light on his artistic vision and contributions to English garden history. Charles Bridgeman was a popular and highly successful landscape architect in the first part of the eighteenth century. He was Royal Gardener to George I and George II, designing the gardens at Kensington Palace for them and working for many of the ruling Whig elite, including Sir Robert Walpole at Houghton Hall in Norfolk. His landscapes were audacious and monumental, but he is barely known outside the world of academic garden history; most of his gardens have disappeared, changed out of all recognition to chime with later tastes shaped by Lancelot Brown's vision of a more "natural" landscape, or buried under housing developments and golf courses; and there is little archaeological or written evidence of his work. This book aims to redress this injustice and rescue his legacy. It draws on the only significant body of evidence which survived him: an extensive but wildly heterogenous corpus of garden plans. Close examination of them reveals an artistic vision heavily influenced by the late seventeenth-century geometric garden but deeply rooted in the "genius of the place", and working methods that include a proto-business model which prefigures the gentleman improvers who followed him. The volume brings him from obscurity to demonstrate his skill as an artist, a manipulator of space on a grand scale and a consummate practitioner, a deserved member of the canon of famous and revered English landscape gardeners.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Who was Charles Bridgeman? 2. Towards a reliable corpus 3. A revised catalogue 4. Reading the plans 5. The art-historical context revisited 6. The 'ingenious Mr Bridgeman' 7. Building a landscape 8. A commercial enterprise Conclusion Appendix I A summary of Willis's catalogue from Charles Bridgeman and the EnglishLandscape Garden Appendix II A Revised Catalogue Appendix III Bridgeman's projects by year Appendix IV Bridgeman's income Gazetteer of Bridgeman sites Glossary Bibliography Index
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JOVIS Verlag Idyll and Ideology
Book SynopsisThis first English-language biography of Hermann Mattern (19021971), one of Germany's principal twentieth-century landscape architects, critically assesses the idiosyncrasies of his organic-functionalist position while offering a new reading of German garden culture of his time. Mattern's work embodies several themes of the German landscape discourse as well as the central ambivalence of his generation: a life spanning the artistic avant-garde of the 1920s and an apparently apolitical career under the Nazi regime and in the postwar period. Based on comprehensive archival research, Hopstock's richly illustrated study uncovers the professional networks, debates, and rivalries that shaped the profession of landscape architecture in Germany during its formative decades. First English biography of landscape architect Hermann Mattern A new reading of German garden culture since 1900 Formerly unpublished archival material and illustrations from rar
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Acc Publishing Group Ltd LP architektur Altenmarkt
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Spectormag GbR Amancio Williams Ap205
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MACK Art Applied
Book SynopsisThis vast and dazzling book provides an authoritative retrospective of the oeuvre of Dutch designer and architect Petra Blaisse, encompassing landscapes, interiors, buildings, and exhibition designs across the globe.
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Park Books Portraits: Architectural Parables
Book SynopsisIt may sound banal, yet it is a fundamental fact in architectural design: All ideas are based on previous ideas, their imitation, inversion, rejection, or adaptation; or on their reinterpretation or ignoration. The same applies to our visual perception and how it influences our thinking and world of ideas. It is actually true for any kind of creation and design. Portraits: Architectural Parables traces these questions through a wealth of images from art history and everyday culture, as well as through analytical and classifying texts. With this book, François Charbonnet and Patrick Heiz, the founding partners of the highly acclaimed Swiss design firm Made in, reveal the approaches they take in their design methodology as well as in their teaching at ETH Zurich’s Department of Architecture and Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio. The distinctive feature lies in the linking and collaging of mutually illuminating, yet apparently antagonistic, programs. Made in’s method does not claim historical accuracy, as sources and facts are intentionally collaged to serve a reductive purpose. The focus is on the potential they see in the cross-fertilisation of different images and ideas rather than on a single, all-embracing model of thought.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Rethinking Frank Lloyd Wright History Reception
Book SynopsisIn a series of engaging and well-illustrated essays, the contributors draw on their wide-ranging understanding of modern architecture to reveal the ways in which Frank Lloyd Wright continues to play an instrumental role in domestic and international spheres, making the case for reevaluating his popular and professional reputations.
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Quart Publishers Rising Oceans & Spaces That Care: Complexities
Book SynopsisIn times of global crises, architecture must also seek new sustainable approaches to climatic and social challenges. Designed by Kashef Chowdhury / Urbana, the Friendship Hospital in southern Bangladesh can be regarded as pioneering in this respect. The hospital, which was awarded the 2022 RIBA International Prize, provides life-saving healthcare, as well as enhancing the identity of a coastal region that has been devastated by cyclones and soil salinisation as a result of rising sea levels. Constructed in local brickwork, the architecture collects the valuable rainwater and uses the wind for natural cooling, while subtly interacting with specific characteristics of the world’s largest river delta. It also applies universal architectural means such as space, light and proportions to ensure the well-being of patients and the people close to them. A profound architectural stance developed out of the geography and history of the local context makes this work globally relevant. This book, which includes a photo essay by Hélène Binet, presents plans, diagrams and model photos that offer insight into the design and construction process in one of the world’s most climate-affected regions.
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Rutgers University Press Photo-Attractions: An Indian Dancer, an American
Book SynopsisIn Spring 1938, an Indian dancer named Ram Gopal and an American writer-photographer named Carl Van Vechten came together for a photoshoot in New York City. Ram Gopal was a pioneer of classical Indian dance and Van Vechten was reputed as a prominent white patron of the African-American movement called the Harlem Renaissance. Photo-Attractions describes the interpersonal desires and expectations of the two men that took shape when the dancer took pose in exotic costumes in front of Van Vechten’s Leica camera. The spectacular images provide a rare and compelling record of an underrepresented history of transcultural exchanges during the interwar years of early-20th century, made briefly visible through photography. Art historian Ajay Sinha uses these hitherto unpublished photographs and archival research to raise provocative and important questions about photographic technology, colonial histories, race, sexuality and transcultural desires. Challenging the assumption that Gopal was merely objectified by Van Vechten’s Orientalist gaze, he explores the ways in which the Indian dancer co-authored the photos. In Sinha’s reading, Van Vechten’s New York studio becomes a promiscuous contact zone between world cultures, where a “photo-erotic” triangle is formed between the American photographer, Indian dancer, and German camera. A groundbreaking study of global modernity, Photo-Attractions brings scholarship on American photography, literature, race and sexual economies into conversation with work on South Asian visual culture, dance, and gender. In these remarkable historical documents, it locates the pleasure taken in cultural difference that still resonates today.Trade Review"A trio performs: a beautiful male dancer of Indo-Burmese origins, a cult photographer with a Leica, the metal prosthesis that acquires a life of its own — 'photo-eroticism'. This expansively researched book with a non-linear structure has a discursive flamboyance. A historical moment spins into the contemporary; the language of the writer enthralls the reader." — Vivan Sundaram, visual artist, founder and trustee, Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation "With extraordinary finesse, Ajay Sinha reconstructs two remarkable artists’ collaborative fantasy-making through a Leica camera, which produced what he calls the 'photo-dance': a voluptuous intermedial object imbued with cross-cultural provocations. As much an astute commentary on Orientalism, postcoloniality, and race as it is an informed critique of the silences of established archival memory, this virtuosic study is a mesmerizing read." — Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Duke University “Sinha’s is an extremely luminous and well-researched project. It is also a beautifully written, deeply analytical, and entirely accessible book, narrated with verve, and a pleasure to read.” — Saloni Mathur, author of A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art “Sinha provides a remarkably rich account that does justice to the contact zone unearthed by his archival discovery. Both vivid and perceptive, Sinha’s prose grips from the start and unfolds three days in the 1930s into a marvellous larger panorama of representational practices, a broader inter-cultural landscape, and the intimacy of personal encounters.”— Christopher Pinney, Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture, University College London “In Sinha’s lucid, incisive analysis, we encounter a world of technological messiness and experimentation, cultural disparities, and new, transitional queer masculinities, all set against the backdrop of the twentieth-century reinvention of Indian dance and the complexities of Euro-American Orientalism. A timely contribution to the fields of both dance studies and visual culture studies."— Hari Krishnan, Wesleyan University, author of Celluloid Classicism: Early Tamil Cinema and the Making of Modern Bha “This book arises from a thrilling pas de deux between a Modernist American photographer and an Indian classical dancer, in which it’s never entirely clear who is calling the shots. In deciphering the subtle aesthetic, erotic, and intellectual weave of these sessions, Ajay Sinha identifies a third partner in this elaborate dance, namely Van Vechten’s German-made Leica camera. This is an exhilarating book, intellectually compelling and visually mesmerizing. And the photographs are to die for.” — Christopher Benfey, author of Degas in New Orleans and The Great Wave "Ajay Sinha has woven a finely detailed tapestry of the social, personal and aesthetic allusions that contribute greatly to understanding and reimagining Ram Gopal's mystique and presence. This is timely, refreshing, colorful and a much needed intervention in our his-and her-stories around dance and the camera."— Uttara Asha Coorlawala, co-curator of Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance "Photo-Attractions is the fascinating account, by a masterful storyteller, of a single extended portrait session that took place between Indian classical dancer Ram Gopal and photographer Carl Van Vechten in New York in 1938. Sinha’s cosmopolitan vision, deeply informed by histories of dance, gesture, performance and photography, offers brilliant new perceptions of trans-cultural exchanges of gender, sexuality and desire in the early twentieth century. An illumination." — Laura Wexler, author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. ImperialismTable of ContentsPrelude Chapter 1: The Photo Studio Chapter 2: The Dancer Chapter 3: The Photographer Chapter 4: The Camera Chapter 5: Photo-Dance Chapter 6: Afterimages Acknowledgements Notes References Index
£28.90
Quart Publishers Florian Nagler Architekten – München: De aedibus
Book SynopsisFlorian Nagler’s work is a veritable “recherche patiente”, as his buildings have an experimental character. For instance the “research buildings” in Bad Aibling are exercises on what building with wood, plastered brick and concrete can each mean. The Wohnen am Dantebad housing development reinterprets the traditional pergola. Text in English and German.
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Rizzoli International Publications From the Land Backen Gillam and Kroeger
Book SynopsisTrade Review“From hilltop homes to seaside retreats, nature and design artfully intersect in these elegant, unpretentious spaces. The simplicity and charm of natural materials such as stone and brick provide a sense of warmth and luxury that you’ll want in your own home.” ~At Home Magazine“…the sheer size and weight of the book reflects the enormity of his accomplishments and influence. But it’s a beauty filled with images of 38 properties, from wineries to seaside retreats, with images so large, you could believe you’ve stepped into the house.” ~Napa Valley Register“..[one of] this fall’s highly anticipated design titles from AD100 talent, filled with remarkable spaces and expert advice. Editor and author Daniel P. Gregory surveys the work of California firm Backen, Gillam & Kroeger whose signature rustic aesthetic emphasizes natural materials.” ~Architectural Digest“This volume…isn’t overrun with text or filled with the filler of meaningless black and white snaps, as so many of these books are. Instead clients are mentioned, plans are explained, materials and layouts are discussed. And the placement of each photo is as deliberate as the projects that are highlighted within. Backen understands that powerful architecture is a successful manifestation of the dialogue between structure and surrounding. His work is brave and moving because it demands that we not only look at it, but beyond it.” ~Nintchka.com“From the Land is an artful exploration of the architecture firm’s aesthetic. Throughout the work, a sense of intimacy, warmth, and informality pervades.” ~Editor at Large“From the Land, a new shelter book by Daniel P. Gregory from Rizzoli, showcases the stunning portfolio of Napa-based architects Backen, Gillam & Kroeger.” ~Gentry Magazine
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Quart Publishers Robaldo Morozzo della Rocca
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MACK Minnette de Silva Intersections
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Fondazione Renzo Piano Centro Botin
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Park Books Fawad Kazi KSSG OKS
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Visual Profile Books Designing Spaces DP Design DP Architects
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Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Chancery Lane: Ernesto Bedmar Architects
Book Synopsis‘Patio, channel of sky/The patio is the window/Through which God watches souls/The patio is the slope/Down which the sky follows into the house/Serene’ - Jorge Luis Borges Bedmar & Shi’s Chancery Lane is the apotheosis of their ongoing interaction with a new language of tropical residential architecture. Evocative of the simple, open structures of time’s past, yet possessed of a modernity of spirit perfectly in keeping with contemporary life. Set around an open courtyard space, with a series of demarcated private abodes, Chancery Lane perfectly embodies the tenets of personal privacy heightened and brought together through shared experience. Subtle and serene, this is a residence borne of a coalescence between the environmental, the aesthetic, and the spatial. A true gem.
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Oro Editions Mark Foster Gage: Architecture in High Resolution
Book SynopsisIn the course of a ten-month invited competition Mark Foster Gage Architects, using tools ranging from artificial intelligence to 3D fractal software, re-invented the design languages of the ancient Nabatean civilisation located on the Arabian Peninsula to propose the first Saudi resort in the modern era that would be open for international tourists. Isolated in a vast desert, with little infrastructure and virtually no visitors, lie the ancient ruins of Mada’in Saleh, and the site for the project. With 500 pages and over 1,500 images this is a book that documents the design process of this project, complete with all of its ideas, misdirections, failures, restarts, breakthroughs, and everything in-between. Of interest to architects and non-architects alike, this book heralds a new generation of creative techniques and design technologies that promise to redefine how we think of the past, present and future of the built environment in the 21st century and beyond.
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Birkhauser Aalto in Detail: A Catalogue of Components
Book Synopsis For the Aalto Moment in Your Projects This carefully curated catalog celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Every support, railing, and handle is the result of intensive formal and functional research. The authors document 50 Aalto buildings – some well-known and others less so – and arrange their photographs by component into 20 chapters. The result is a rich photographic record that will serve as a source of inspiration for every architect. From door handles to skylights: Aalto's infinite wealth of components Inspiring documentation with 400 systematically arranged photos Unconventionally detailed solutions with special attention paid to technical feasibility Also available in German (ISBN 978-3-0356-2331-4)
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Birkhauser Ort der Sinne: Erweiterungsneubau Tanne
Book SynopsisMit den Händen, der Nase und dem ganzen Wesen wahrnehmen Wie konzipiert und entwirft man Gebäude für Menschen mit eingeschränkten Wahrnehmungsmöglichkeiten? Wie fühlen sich die Wände für Taubblinde an? Wie riecht und klingt das Haus? Was spürt man, wenn man sich darin bewegt? Scheibler & Villard Architekten haben die speziellen Anforderungen mit den Erweiterungsneubauten für das bestehende Kompetenzzentrum mit viel Empathie und Können beantwortet: Die zwei neuen Hybridbauten aus Beton und Holz ordnen sich selbstbewusst in den Bestand des Kompetenzzentrums wie ins historische Ortsbild ein und beeindrucken mit einer bis ins Detail klientenorientierten Ausstattung. In dieser Gebäudemonografie kommen neben den Architekten Fachleute der Stiftung sowie Klienten zu Wort. Zahlreiche eigens angefertigte Fotos und Pläne komplettieren das Buch. Exemplarische Neubauten für Menschen mit mehrfacher Sinnesbehinderung Vielfältige Lebensräume für die Klienten Texte von Prof. Andreas Fröhlich, Pädagogik bei schwerster Behinderung, und Dorothee Huber, Kunsthistorikerin
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Quart Verlag Luzern Lukas Raeber
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Lars Muller Publishers Loose Ends
Book SynopsisMaria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 2004 and 2008, and was honored by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 2012. That same year she won a gold medal for her life's work at the Milan Triennial, and has been nominated twice for the Mies van der Rohe Prize. Nevertheless, she's still considered an insider's tip. She lives in Vittoria, a small city in southern Sicily, where she realizes the majority of her architecture, including many transformations of historical buildings, single and multiple-family housing, or projects such as the control tower in Marina di Ragusa. Grasso Cannizzo's special design methods are based on her analyses of the urban context and the landscape, as well as her examination of the specific "story" behind each project. She translates the knowledge gained into minimal, self-aware, and sometimes radical concepts, which are ultimately always open to any changes that life and the passage of time may bring. At the same time, this first comprehensive monograph is also a conceptual manifesto by Grasso Cannizzo. Collected in a black box, loose prints provide insight into her most important buildings and make it possible to see the architect's general design methods.
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Luster Publishing Morphē: Van Damme - Vandeputte Architects
Book SynopsisThe Belgian architectural firm Van Damme – Vandeputte was founded 5 years ago but their portfolio is impressive, featuring a wide range of architectural projects: new residential constructions tailored to the client’s needs, sustainable and high-quality renovations, interior design with special detailing, offices and corporate sites built with, among other things, great attention to the integration into the surroundings, and restorations of (protected) heritage sites. In this coffee-table book, compiled and designed with the greatest care, the architects present a selection of projects and shed light on the process and philosophy behind their oeuvre. The book is like an extension of their work and exemplifies the firm’s passion and dedication, captured in the amazing photos by Thomas De Bruyne (Cafeine). He specialises in architecture and interior design photography and works for renowned clients and firms in Belgium and abroad.Table of Contents Part 1, ‘conversation & inspiration’: the architects are interviewed about their architecture and what inspires them, and photos of these sources of inspiration are included. Part 2, ‘works’: 15 projects are extensively presented in beautiful images by Cafeine. Part 3, ‘looking ahead’: is devoted to ongoing and currently unfinished projects, with renders and sketches.
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Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd Fifty Under Fifty Innovators of the 21st Century
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Goose Lane Editions A Personal Calligraphy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A multi-faceted, deliberately fragmentary, and thoroughly engaging self-portrait." * Quill & Quire *"Pratt combines journal entries, memoir and public utterance to reveal multiple subjectivities... Besides bearing witness to her consummate skill as a painter, the visuals become another form of autobiography... I feel that I have gained access to the heart of her artistic identity." * Canadian Literature *
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Ariadne Press Verbal Visual Art of Alfred Kubin
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Oro Editions Flow The Making of the Omega Centre The Making of
Book SynopsisAn exploration into the work of the Omega Center for Sustainable Living, as it tests what is possible with regenerative design and the outcome when sustainability is moved to the top of the list of criteria.
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