Individual architects and architectural firms

By the year 1900, architect Andrew Taylor had designed Bank of Montreal branches across the continent and much of McGill University, helped found the McGill School of Architecture, and played a critical role in creating the first professional organization for Quebec architects.

the Unite in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense problem.

This book tracks the development of Marcel Breuer's aesthetic clash between uniformity and singularity through the detailed examination of his seminal buildings.

This first life of Cezanne in more than a quarter-century offers a vital reassessment of the invisible genius at the very inception of modern art.

Originally published in 1970, EDRA 1 is a record of the conference proceedings of the 1st annual Environmental Design Research Association conference.

Architectural modelmakers have long carried out their work hidden behind the scenes of architectural design, and in presenting a history of architectural modelmaking in Britain for the first time, this book casts a new light on their remarkable skills and achievements.

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio.

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Combining architectural and urban thinking in an unusual and engaging way, this book presents an integrated approach to architectural theory and design.

Mit dem hier vorgelegten Lexikon der Kölner Architekten wird ein Lebenswerk von Wolfram Hagspiel (14.

A timely and important search for architecture's missing womenFor a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared.

Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination, communication, and historical continuity.

"e;A thoroughly invigorating, tightly focused piece of Chekhovian drama, wherein chatter about work and art .

The Unfinished Song of Francisco Urondo: When Poetry is Not Enough is a comprehensive, well-written, documented, and carefully developed study of the literary work and life of Francisco Urondo, an Argentine poet, intellectual, activist, cultural promoter, revolutionary, and clandestine guerilla member who died in 1976 fighting for a cause in which he believed, against the oppressive Argentine Military Junta.

This book considers the architect Le Corbusier's encounters with Australia and New Zealand as a two-way exchange, showing the impact of his ideas and projects on architects of the region whilst also revealing counterinfluences on Le Corbusier in his post-war career that were activated by his contacts.

Alexander Calder was one of the most original artists of the twentieth century and a major figure in American art.

An intimate depiction of the visionary who revolutionized the art world A man who created portraits of the rich and powerful, Andy Warhol was one of the most incendiary figures in American culture, a celebrity whose star shone as brightly as those of the Marilyns and Jackies whose likenesses brought him renown.

Through the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge history, politics and media in the making of postmodern architectural discourse.

This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century.

A uniquely personal biographical account of Louchheim's life and work that takes readers inside the rarified world of architecture mediaAline B.

The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant yet overlooked architect in the American South.

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside the field know her name.

The Unfinished Song of Francisco Urondo: When Poetry is Not Enough is a comprehensive, well-written, documented, and carefully developed study of the literary work and life of Francisco Urondo, an Argentine poet, intellectual, activist, cultural promoter, revolutionary, and clandestine guerilla member who died in 1976 fighting for a cause in which he believed, against the oppressive Argentine Military Junta.

This book is designed to be of interest to many different audiences due to its cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary content.

Constructivist and sculptor Naum Gabo's personal account of his development as an artistA leading exponent of the modern art movement known as Constructivism, Russian-born Naum Gabo was one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century-an artist, designer, and theorist whose work changed the course of modern art.

Did he ever play Hamlet?

Este libro versa sobre la arquitectura moderna que se construyó en Latinoamérica entre las décadas de 1930 y 1960, y sobre el pensamiento que la sustentó.

Das international viel beachtete Architekturburo Berger+Parkkinen Architekten wurde 1995 von Alfred Berger und Tiina Parkkinen mit Sitz in Wien und Helsinki gegrundet.

North Carolina fiddler and banjo player Jim Scancarelli's extensive career as a string band musician began in the early 1960s.

The German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

This edited book explores and promotes reflection on how the lessons of Metabolism experience can inform current debate on city making and future practice in architectural design and urban planning.

Farbe als kreatives Element Farbe ist unlosbar mit der Architektur verbunden - als Medium der Gestaltung, aber auch als eigene Qualitat pragt sie Form und Textur des Gebauten.

The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works.

At the intersection of architecture, art, public culture, and political theory, Socializing Architecture urges architects and urbanists to mobilize a new public imagination toward a more just and equitable urbanization.

Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten + Stadtplaner gehort seit vielen Jahren zu den fuhrenden Buros in den Bereichen Landschafts- und Stadtplanung, dessen Projekte zunehmend auch international realisiert werden - vornehmlich in Nordafrika, dem Mittleren Osten und China.

This beautifully illustrated book showcases the works of one of Sri Landa's most influential architectsAnjaledran, an ethnic Tamil and visionary artist.

Norwegische Architektur steht seit einigen Jahren im internationalen Fokus.

George Heriot (1759-1839), a Scot, is best known as a skilled landscape watercolourist and as the contentious deputy   postmaster general of British North America from 1800 to 1816.

This exceptional Complete Works edition documents the enormous spectrum in the oeuvre of one of the most influential architects of the 20th Century.

A major reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historiansThis is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century.

The concept of sustainability stands at the center of efforts to develop an architecture capable of meeting the challenges of the future.

Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle.