Twenty-five homes are featured here, complete with drawings, site plans, and vivid photographs that reveal their varied functional and dramatic natures.Collins, 2005; 254 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; pbVan/List Price € 44,95 Voor/Our Price € 19,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
In vivid details, the authors reveal the elegant simplicity of the adobe design style -sculptural walls, nichos and bancos, breezy portales, stone-paved courtyards, and gleaming Saltillo-tile floors- from rugged Arizona ranches to Santa Fe homes.Gibbs Smith, 2002; 96 pp.; EN; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 23,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 67 %
This volume showcases a wide array of solutions to the architectural challenge of good design and structure on a budget. The projects featured include extensions of houses, ecological housing design, sustainable cost-effective homes, and new buildings.Harper Design, 2005; 173 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 38,00 Voor/Our Price € 14,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 61 %
Architect Tadao Ando combines influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism. He has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete, wood, water, light, space and nature. His complete works to date.Tachen, 2010; 600 pp.; EN / FR / GE; ills. b/w & col; XL; hbhb € 99,00
A beautifully designed object in its own right, this oversized monograph on American architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is exceptional in its presentation as well. The residences exemplify the firm's acute sensitivity to the environment.ORO Ed., 2005; 420 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 135,00 Voor/Our Price € 59,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
This book examines one of the key notions of modernist architecture formulated in Vienna around 1900. Providing a close analysis of 4 major buildings, Topp investigates how truth had a variety of meanings -purpose, symbolist, authenticity.Cambridge, 2004; 231 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 99,95 Voor/Our Price € 29,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 70 %
The past five years have seen a revolution in Chinese architecture -the emergence of independent designers- and above all new and interesting buildings that are not the product of direct Western influence.Taschen, 2007; 192 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 19,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 50 %
This volume highlights architectural trends in France. The 15 entries include short biographies in addition to illustrated descriptions of the architects' most recent projects. Includes Perrault, Valode & Pistre, Ricciotti, Nouvel, Odile Decq a.o.Taschen, 2007; 192 pp.; EN / FR / GE; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 19,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 50 %
The book presents a selection of over 100 extraordinary shots taken by Rosselli worldwide from the early 1980s to the present to major and most impressive masterpieces of modern architecture.Skira, 2001; 142 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; pbVan/List Price € 25,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 62 %
TASCHEN’s new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Architects included are Zaha Hadid, Will Alsop, Norman Foster, Richard Rodgers, dECOi, FOA, Laurie Chetwood a.o.Taschen, 2006; 192 pp.; EN / FR / GE; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 19,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 50 %
This lavishly illustrated volume features 17 architects - from the firmly established to the up-and-coming - with the focus on how they have contributed to recent architecture in the United States. Includes Gehry, Predock, Rural Studio, Asymptote.Taschen, 2007; 192 pp.; EN / FR / GE; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 19,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 50 %
These days, green is the name of the game. There has never been so much interest in the ecological impact of buildings as there is today. At a certain age, green buildings were ugly and complicated affairs. This is no longer the case, as this book shows.Taschen, 2009; 416 pp.; EN / FR / GE; index; ills. b/w & col; flexi bflexi b € 29,95
In today's changing world, architects are addressing issues of sustainability with visionary solutions when designing buildings, homes and urban development. This book collects the most innovative projects that address environmental challenges.Gestalten, 2009; 240 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbhb € 47,95
Fumihiko Maki is regarded as a doyen of modern Japanese architecture. Taylor places Maki's work within the context of modern architecture and identifies space, city, order and making as the parameters which define Maki's oeuvre.Birkhauser, 2003; 200 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 69,95 Voor/Our Price € 24,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
Focusing on buildings of the period between 1418 and 1580, and the 35 key architects who designed them, this volume gives equal weight to social context, technical innovation and aesthetic judgement.Thames & Hudson, 2007; 224 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbhb € 56,90
In deze architectuurgids Nederland, 1980-nu wordt met meer dan 500 objecten een overzicht gegeven van de meest recente ontwikkelingen binnen de Nederlandse architectuur met werk van o.a. Mecanoo, OMA en buitenlandse architecten die hier actief zijn.OIO Publ., 2009; 371 pp.; NL / EN; index; ills. col; flexi bflexi b € 39,50
This book celebrates the cultural riches of Mantua, one of Italy's most dazzling artistic cities. New photographs reveal superb detail and bring the city and its treasures to life.Thames and Hudson, 2008; 278 pp.; EN; index; ills. col; hbhb € 67,50
Het bruisende en trendy karakter van het hedendaagse Barcelona vindt zijn oorsprong in de periode rond 1900. De essays in dit boek schetsen een beeld van Barcelona uit zijn gouden periode, aangevuld met een selectie poezie en literatuur van die tijd.Mercatorfonds, 2007; 215 pp.; NL; ills. b/w & col; hbhb € 39,95
Luchthaven Schiphol, het Anne Frank Huis, de Malietoren - het zijn bekende bouwwerken van Benthem Crouwel Architekten.BC AD bevat 30 jaar ontwerpen van een van Nederlands succesvolste architectenbureaus.OIO, 2010; 511 pp.; NL; ills. b/w & col; hbhb € 39,50
While enthusiasts of straw bale house construction praise the exceptional energy efficiency of bale buildings, and the use of an agricultural byproduct as an affordable contruction material, another reason why bale homes have excited people is because they are often extraordinarily beautiful and inviting. The authors have built many different bale buildings. Here too are larger-scale institutional buildings.Chelsea Green, 2000; 113 pp.; EN; ills. col; pbVan/List Price € 24,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
The Foch-Allenby and Etoile area epitomizes the development of Beirut's civic, business and cultural identity as a national capital and as a port city. The area became the symbol of the city's reconstruction following the 1975-1990 Lebanon war.Steidl, 2004; 285 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 75,00 Voor/Our Price € 24,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 67 %
Exhibition halls and sports arenas, factories and warehouses, airports and railway stations, arts centres and concert halls - big sheds are all around us. This book is an exploration of contemporary architecture's decision to think big.Thames and Hudson, 2007; 304 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 39,50 Voor/Our Price € 16,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
From idiosyncratic statements of pure creativity -Gaudi's Sagrada Familia church- to shaped buildings that reflect their purpose -the Big Duck in Flanders, NY, this album celebrates some of the world's most unconventional buildings.Firefly, 2007; 224 pp.; EN; index; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 40,00 Voor/Our Price € 16,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 58 %
This heavily illustrated book examines the construction of some of the most outstanding early Renaissance buildings in Venice; Richard Goy explores how and why great buildings came to be built through a series of case studies.Yale, 2006; 316 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 70,00 Voor/Our Price € 29,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
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