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| Installations by Architects: Experiments in Building and Design |
| The first survey of its kind, Installations by Architects features fifty of the most significant projects from the last twenty-five years by today's most exciting architects, including Anderson Anderson, Philip Beesley, Diller + Scofidio, John Hejduk, Dan Hoffman, and Kuth/Ranieri Architects. Projects are grouped in critical areas of discussion under the themes of tectonics, body, nature, memory, and public space. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/1568988508 - November 2, 2009 - details
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| Tadao Ando at Naoshima: Art Architecture Nature |
| Tadao Ando at Naoshima: Art, Architecture, Nature showcases the latest work in an on going process of building by Tadao Ando at the acclaimed Naoshima Island Art Complex. Featured here is Ando's recently completed Chichu Art Museum, an underground facility built on the small island in the Inland Sea of Japan. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/0847832325 - October 26, 2009 - details
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| The Atlas of American Architecture: 2000 Years of Architecture |
| This comparative history of American architecture, social spaces, and engineered environments - organized by style, and then by chronology - is for the general reader. Within its heavily illustrated pages, Tom Martinson traces two millennia of the built environment of this endlessly fascinating, extraordinarily expansive, and utterly diverse nation. Pairing vibrant photography with a rich knowledge of the history of architecture in America - from the Hopi and Colonial years to neomodernism, Robert A. M. Stern, and Zaha Hadid - the book is a comprehensive overview of styles and developments, as well as telling the story of a country through its buildings. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/0847832570 - October 26, 2009 - details
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| Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture |
| In this collection of fifty-seven essays, the critic Tracy Kidder called "America's foremost interpreter of public architecture" ranges from Havana to Beijing, from Chicago to Las Vegas, dissecting everything from skyscrapers by Norman Foster and museums by Tadao Ando to airports, monuments, suburban shopping malls, and white-brick apartment houses. This is a comprehensive account of the best-and the worst-of the "age of architecture." |
astore.amazon.com/detail/1580932649 - October 26, 2009 - details
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| Living West: New Residential Architecture in Southern California |
| A dense concentration of design talent, uniquely varied topography, and one of the world's most pleasant climates have made Southern California a crucible of architectural innovation. Thirty of the best designs by the most creative firms portray the diversity of Southern California's architecture. Author Sam Lubell draws examples from Montecito to San Diego and the arid conditions of Joshua Tree to illustrate the wide range of responses to geography, budget, and space. Featured architects include Barbara Bestor, Belzberg, Griffin Enright, Lorcan O'Herlihy, Michele Saee, the Office of Mobile Design, and Predock Frane, among others. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/1580932495 - October 26, 2009 - details
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| New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars |
| The tumultuous period witnessed the contruction of many of the architectural monuments that have come to define New York: the Chrysler Building, the Empire State, Rockefeller Center, and the George Washington Bridge. While focusing on these landmark structures, the authors consider other components of the built environment as well: the public housing projects, highways, parks, and commercial, residential, and entertainment districts. Their delight in their subject is evidenced by the lively text and careful selection of over 600 period photographs and illustrations. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/0847830969 - October 26, 2009 - details
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| Wendy Evans Joseph Pop Up Architecture |
| Using the latest in paper engineering, craft and mischief abound in this unique architectural monograph. The book includes an essay by Paul Goldberger and pop-ups by renowned paper engineer Kees Moerbeek. Featured projects include Inn at Price Tower, the Holocaust Memorial Garden, and the Writer's Studio, Home Observatory and more. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/1595910603 - October 14, 2009 - details
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| Selldorf Architects |
| The work of Selldorf Architects is known for its clarity of distribution, elegant proportions, deliberate rendering of light, and integrity of structure. This monograph, the first published on the firm, concentrates on twenty major projects from institutional, commercial, high-end retail, residential, and art-related spaces. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/1580932266 - October 3, 2009 - details
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| Architecture in Times of Need: Make It Right |
| Architecture in Times of Need is the first book to document the projects and progress made by the Make It Right Foundation, established by actor Brad Pitt during the redevelopment of New Orleans' vibrant Lower Ninth Ward which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The projects by David Adjaye, GRAFT, MVRDV, and Shigeru Ban, among others, are shown in numerous photographs and renderings with sketches, building plans, and informative commentary by the architects. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/3791342762 - September 28, 2009 - details
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| Houses of Steel |
| Central to the initiative are the Living Steel International Architecture Competitions, each presenting architects with a unique opportunity to bring their vision to life. This book presents the winning and finalist schemes from the three competitions held to date. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/1864703660 - September 27, 2009 - details
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| Timeship: The Architecture of Immortality |
| When built, Timeship will be the world's most secure and technologically advanced facility for the long-term storage of cryopreserved biological materials and a centre for research into life extension. "Timeship: The Architecture of Immortality" examines the creation of this remarkable building, its symbolism and the technology that will make it possibly the most innovative building of our time, a Noah's ark of time travel. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/1864703245 - September 27, 2009 - details
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| Architectural Spatiality |
| The subject of this book is twofold - a concept and its meaning, an architectural culture and its preoccupation. This book examines the meanings of space in relation to the notion of enclosure and cladding (Bekleidung), particularly in the related work of five theorists and architects: August Schmarsow, Gottfried Semper, Camillo Sitte, Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/3639195752 - September 25, 2009 - details
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| Jean Tschumi: Architecture at Full Scale |
| Jean Tschumi: Architecture at Full Scale is the first book on the Swiss architect who, after his training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, entered the polemical field of modernity and its technological expression. Interrupted by his tragic death in 1962 at the age of 57, Tschumi's work is rich in theoretical questions. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/885720071X - September 17, 2009 - details
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| Framework: Gluckman Mayner Architects |
| Richard Gluckman is an architect who creates spaces comparable to minimalist art. His careful consideration of the basic components of architecture-structure, scale, proportion, material, and light-produces buildings and interiors that heighten the perception of physical space and what is contained in that space. More than fifteen projects for artists, collectors, and museums are presented in this volume, including the Gagosian and Mary Boone Galleries in New York; the Mori Arts Center in Tokyo, Japan; the Museo Picasso Malaga in Spain; the Perelman Building at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the recently completed expansion of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; and the design for the Contemporary Art Museum of the Presidio in San Francisco. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/1580932258 - September 17, 2009 - details
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| Building London: The Making of a Modern Metropolis |
| The London cityscape has been intensely chronicled in photographs from daguerreotype to digital and is a visual laboratory for understanding the evolution of the modern city. This wonderful collection of images spans the city's entire history, from ancient byways to beloved icons like St. Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, and the neon lights of Piccadilly Circus. |
astore.amazon.com/detail/0789320002 - September 17, 2009 - details
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