Das international viel beachtete Architekturbüro Berger+Parkkinen Architekten wurde 1995 von Alfred Berger und Tiina Parkkinen mit Sitz in Wien und Helsinki gegründet.
Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius.
Through the 1940s and 1950s, PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) was an alliance of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects known for their innovative joint projects.
Einfamilienhäuser, Familiengräber, Inneneinrichtungen, Platzgestaltungen, Kirchen, Hotels, Pavillons und Kriegerdenkmale – Alfons Fritz (1900–1933) war ein Architekt, der sich jeder Bauaufgabe stellte.
Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture is an indispensable reference book for the scholar, student, architect or layman interested in the architects who initiated, developed, or advanced modern architecture.
Architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1969) was a towering figure in 20th-century Italian architecture, with a significant impact at the international level.
Die acht Bande dieser auergewohnlichen Edition, die zwischen 1929 und 1970 veroffentlicht wurde und seitdem immer wieder nachgedruckt wurde, zeigen die groe Bandbreite des Werks von Le Corbusier.
Buildings and spaces are like instruments: architectural volumes and their materials, surfaces and structures generate a resonance and therefore have a sensorial impact on people.
*; Reveals Crowley's sex magick relations in London and his contacts with important figures, including Dion Fortune, Gerald Gardner, Jack Parsons, Dylan Thomas, and black equality activist Nancy Cunard *; Explores Crowley's nick-of-time escape from the Nazi takeover in Germany and offers extensive confirmation of Crowley's work for British intelligence *; Examines the development of Crowley's later publications and his articles in reaction to the Nazi Gestapo actively persecuting his followers in Germany After an extraordinary life of magical workings, occult fame, and artistic pursuits around the globe, Aleister Crowley was forced to spend the last fifteen years of his life in his native England, nearly penniless.
Almost Islands is a powerfully introspective memoir of the author's friendship with legendary Canadian poet Phyllis Webb - now in her nineties and long enveloped in silence - and his regular trips to see her.
Renzo Piano is one of the world's greatest living architects and creator of a host of iconic modern buildings, including the Pompidou in Paris, the Menil Collection in Texas, Kansai Airport in Japan, the Shard in London and the new Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1969) was a towering figure in 20th-century Italian architecture, with a significant impact at the international level.
In words and photographs, the story of visionary architect Addison Mizner* Introduced the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles to southern Florida* Designed and developed the resort town of Boca Raton* Designed the exquisite Everglades Club in Palm BeachAddison Mizner transformed Palm Beach and South Florida with his visionary architecture.
When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can't help but mention the brilliant names of their architects-Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others.
Michel Lessard a été un monument du patrimoine et son œuvre, la somme impressionnante d’une vie tout entière dédiée à la connaissance des objets qui l’ont façonné et illustré.
As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as "e;contemporism"e; through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements).
This spectacular building is at the crossroads of dominating architectural trends: parametrically designed, it features a Diagrid structural frame and an innovate structural core, allowing it to be the world's furthest leaning tower.
The groundbreaking guide to modern leadership in architectural practice Leading Collaborative Architectural Practice is the leadership handbook for today's design and construction professionals.
Despite a European training and an early career working with Peter Behrens, a migration from Vienna to the Australian state of Queensland positioned the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) at the very edge of both European and Australian modernism.
Die acht Bande dieser auergewohnlichen Edition, die zwischen 1929 und 1970 veroffentlicht wurde und seitdem immer wieder nachgedruckt wurde, zeigen die groe Bandbreite des Werks von Le Corbusier.
