So rich and unique is traditional Japanese architecture that it's nearly impossible to improve upon. Yet contemporary Japanese designers and architects keep finding fresh approaches to...
Since Osaka World Expo '70 brought contemporary forms center stage, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. Presenting the latest in Japanese building, this book reveals how the...
Examines how the comic form became an international publishing sensation, from the Japanese hentai to the transgender comics. *Also appeared in October Buyer's Notes
Architects' Data provides an essential reference for the initial design and planning of a building project. Organised largely by building type, and with over 6000 diagrams, it provides a...
Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history...
This ambitious book is a reenergizing of the architectural publication. It combines a critical selection of the remarkable design work produced by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture...
Richard Meier & Partners 1963-2008 - The great New York architect's career to date From the early days as a member of the celebrated New York Five, Richard Meier has been a central...
Er is een tijd geweest dat je een architect kon herkennen aan zijn Saab of zijn Citroën DS. De voorliefde van architecten voor auto's is gebleven, maar is vandaag meer hybride geworden. En...
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...
Discover the master of Modernist simplicity, Tadao Ando. Bringing our XXL-sized tribute to a smaller, more convenient format, this collection spans the architect's entire career-including...
Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues for, and describes in rich...
With its first issue in January of 1918 Wendingen set a new standard in arts publishing. The pioneering journal sought out the newest ideas by the most creative practitioners in all of the...
The most effective and appealing breakthroughs in houses built within the past five years—to make the most of every foot of space. Forget the McMansions; budgets aren’t what they used to be,...
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Maarten Van Severen" in the project "Furniture from Mechelen. From wood carving to Design. 1500 - 2000." at De Garage, Mechelen Feb. 4-May 7,...
An in-depth study of the work of German-born industrial designer Richard Sapper, most famous for designs such as the Tizio lamp and the Brionvega radio
The Second Edition of this classic introduction to the principles of architecture is everything you would expect from the celebrated architect, author, and illustrator, Francis D. K. Ching....
The Building Development of the City, The Damage Suffered in the Years 1940-1945, and the Proposals for Reconstruction as Incorporated in the Final Report of the Planning Consultants.
Enter the world's finest homes in this dependable global digest featuring talents like Shigeru Ban and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-comers like Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and...
Overflowing with stunning photography, this collection discovers the best contemporary houses across Scandinavia's most beautiful and remote locations, designed by both emerging and...
In praise of Common Sense, the doctoral thesis by the physical planner Coen Van Der Wal, describes the design history from 192O onwards of all new settlements in the polders surrounding the...
The first single-volume of all of Jones's 93 surviving architectural drawings, arranged chronologically. Each well-annotated. With different sections, about Jones as a person, his...
The Art of Looking Sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination. It is an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes,...
Examining the art of displaying books effectively, this book offers advice on organizing and caring for books, looking at the collections of 40 well-known booklovers, including Loren and...
Nederlandse vertaling van "Das Bauen im neuen Reich" en uitgegeven tijdens de bezettingstijd bij -de collaborerende uitgeverij- Westland.
The Building Development of the City, The Damage Suffered in the Years 1940-1945, and the Proposals for Reconstruction as Incorporated in the Final Report of the Planning Consultants.
