From his Great Bamboo Wall house to the Japan National Stadium for the planned 2020 Tokyo Olympic Summer Games, Japanese architect Kengo Kuma pioneered a truly sustainable approach to architecture, translating local craftsmanship... Zobraziť viac
In contrast to a decade ago, when ecological architecture was considered a luxury, it has now become essentially impossible to build without considering sustainability issues... Zobraziť viac
Making Marks follows up the highly successful Architects’ Sketchbooks, which presented, for the first time, the rich breadth of sketches being created by contemporary architects following the digital revolution. Taking a post-digital perspective, ... Zobraziť viac
Wood has very many positive attributes as a natural construction material, but was for a long time neglected in the architecture of western Europe. However, this situation has changed a great deal over the course of recent decades... Zobraziť viac
This volume of our series Construction and Design Manual addresses what is in fact one of the very earliest building typologies: single-family houses. Ever since antiquity, architects have been devising new ways to accomplish this task... Zobraziť viac
Take an incredible journey through the streets of London and see beautiful buildings as you've never seen them before! An elegant horizon of historic masterpieces mixed with sleek modern skyscrapers, the familiar London skyline seems to change every... Zobraziť viac
In the world today, the homogeny of most services and the low-cost tag applied to nearly any entity ends up creating a self-defensive reaction in those still searching for something specific, the particular in the regular. It therefore means finding that Zobraziť viac
Part biography, part critical analysis, part catalogue, this updated edition brings back TASCHEN's best-selling Collector's Edition, designed by Christo himself. It spans Christo and Jeanne-Claude's entire work, from early drawings and ... Zobraziť viac
Vila Tugendhat – prostor ducha a umění je reprezentativní fotografická publikace, která slovem i obrazem představuje tuto památku UNESCO jako umělecký a architektonický skvost světového významu. Autor textu knihy prof. Jan Sedlák... Zobraziť viac
The life of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was full of complexity and contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself ... Zobraziť viac
