Sustainable Visions: An Architect's Critique of Modern MauritiusBy Rambassun (Sandeep) SewpalIn this compelling and timely collection, acclaimed Mauritian architect Rambassun Sewpal offers a bold, critical examination of an island nation at a crossroads.
A comprehensive blueprint for fixing America s cities and towns, updated and expanded This book should be required reading in schools of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, and an understanding of it should be part of the licensing requirements for civil, traffic, and transportation engineers.
'In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies' Will SelfDuring the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image.
This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "e;dream state"e; inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world.
A biography of an unsung Victorian hero, Joseph Paxton was the man behind the garden design at Chatsworth and the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Hier verschmelzen Leidenschaft und Architektur zu einem Gesamtkunstwerk: 45 spektakulare internationale Projekte zeigen, wie Automobile, Sammlungen und Wohnraume neu gedacht und inszeniert werden.
This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "e;dream state"e; inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world.
To present at a single glance a comprehensive view of the History of English Church Architecture from the Heptarchy to the Reformation, and to do this in a manner, which, without taxing too seriously the memory of the student, may enable him to fix in his mind the limits, and the general outline of the inquiry he is about to enter upon, is the object of the present treatise.
A SUNDAY TIMES DESIGN BOOK OF THE YEAR_________________________________________The definitive guide for harnessing the power of colour to improve your happiness, wellbeing and confidenceWouldn't you like to boost your confidence simply by slipping on 'that' yellow jumper?
Este libro examina la importancia de los viajes formativos en la arquitectura como experiencia educativa, como fuente de conocimiento y herramienta de proyecto.
Wenige Architekturen sind in Deutschland so mit Bedeutung aufgeladen wie Synagogen - darunter besonders jene, die in den ersten Jahrzehnten nach dem Holocaust errichtet wurden: Judische Neubauten dieser Art gelten zumindest in der BRD als Beleg fur eine geleistete 'Wiedergutmachung' fur die systematische Zerstorung judischen Lebens und judischer Architektur durch den Nationalsozialismus.
A beautiful tribute to some of the UK's strangest, most charismatic structures - and an invitation to see the world around us a little differently'Allow me to vent my enthusiasm for the oddest book of the year.
'Provocative, elegant, intriguing - Jenkins is a bold, imaginative writer, brilliant at challenging old assumptions and encouraging you to look at British architecture in a new light' Rory StewartThe story of Britain is revealed through its buildings, and yet the language of architecture is a mystery to all but a few.
The revised and updated edition of Texas Then and Now features the most prominent locations from around the state, pairing vintage photographs with modern shots of the same sites today.
A rich, thought-provoking collection of essays, critiques and interviews from the influential author of Ain't I a Woman and All About Love There must be a revolution in the way we see, the way we look'In a collection of essays, critiques and interviews, bell hooks responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting and criticising art and aesthetics in a world increasingly concerned with identity politics.
An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold on us today.
Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil.
