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Publisher
Phaidon Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Provides photographs and descriptions of over one thousand architecturally significant buildings completed since 1998, including residential homes, churches, theaters, wineries, and other building types; covering seventy-five countries, grouped in six geographical regions.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of John Andrews, world-famous Australian architect. In the mid-1960s, when only 29, Andrews was commissioned to design Scarborough College at Toronto University. One of the world’s first ‘megastructures’, it was an important experiment in urban and educational planning. Andrews also designed the Canadian National Tower in Toronto, which was the tallest freestanding structure in the world at the time it was built. Another of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The architect Peter Zumthor lives and works in the remote village of Haldenstein in the Swiss Kanton of Graubünden. Here, keeping the politics of architecture at a comfortable distance, Zumthor enjoys the status of "world-class" architect for his unique modernist buildings. They can be found in many parts of Europe, soon to be followed by a public building in Los Angeles, where he is in charge of a new master plan for LACMA. Visiting him in his studio,...
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditions, materials, and crafts; and strives to create a sense of community is not recent. Yet, the way it has evolved in the past few years in the hands of some of the world's most accomplished architects is indeed defining a new movement. From the rammed-earth houses of Rick Joy and Pacific Northwest...
Author
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
While Harry Seidler is one of Australia's most famous architects, little is known of his European-born contemporaries. The Other Moderns uncovers the work of Sydney's forgotten émigré architects, interior designers, and furniture makers working from the 1930s to 1960s, and reveals their groundbreaking impact on modernist design. Highlighting the direct connections between Sydney and the European design centres of Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest, the...
16) The glass room
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Viktor and Liesel Landauer settle into the beautiful new home in 1920s Europe, hoping to leave behind the old-world styles and values that have shaped them, and find their marriage strained by changing loyalties, hidden secrets, and the dangers of the coming war.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
I.M. Pei leads viewers through some of his more famous creations, such as the Louvre, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the National Gallery of Art, and the Bank of China, and also speaks candidly about his life, his early years in China, his schooling at both Harvard and MIT, and his approach to architecture and design.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Chicago is famous for its role in fostering modern architecture, owing to the legacy of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1900s, and Mies van der Rohe in the mid-20th Century. Jeanne Gang, founder of Studio Gang, gave the epithet "Chicago School" a new meaning. Gang, who started her architectural practice in Chicago in 1997, completed Aqua, an 82-story apartment tower, overlooking the city's Millennium Park in 2009. She differentiated...
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Evoking memories of the past and aspirations for the future to create unique contemporary interiors. Interior design should not be sterile or static; it's a living extension of art meant to be touched, used, and admired. This mindset is the heart of Brian Paquette's interiors. Beginning with the motto, "Function and comfort, first and always," Paquette explores each client's interests and lifestyle to create homes that reflect their identity, history,...
Author
Publisher
No Starch Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Uses LEGO models to explore Neoclassical, Art Deco, Brutalist, Modernist, and other architectural styles. Each chapter includes a discussion of the architectural movement, photographs of famous real-life buildings, and a gallery of LEGO models, with step-by-step building instructions"--
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