Modern Architecture (World of Art)

An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins.

DescriptionKenzo Tange (1913-2005) is a peerless figure among twentieth-century Japanese architects, unmatched in his talent, influence, and versat...

Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern concrete arc...

Contributor(s): Author: Partha MitterThis concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5, 000 years of Indian art and architecture. A ri...

Reducere. An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday livesWe spend most of our days and nights in ...

From Berlin to Boston, and St Petersburg to Sydney, ancient Egyptian art fills the galleries of some of the world's greatest museums, while the arc...

Description"Art and technology: a new unity." It was with this slogan that the Bauhaus--the German art school famous for combining crafts and the f...

DescriptionThe Art of Japanese Architecture presents a complete overview of Japanese architecture in its historical and cultural context. The book ...

The 1920s and 1930s saw the birth of modernism in the United States, a new aesthetic, based on the principles of the Bauhaus in Germany: its mergin...

Reducere. Art Deco made its formal appearance in Paris at the 1925 L Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, a showcase for ar...

Reducere. Art Deco made its formal appearance in Paris at the 1925 L'Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, a showcase for ar...

DescriptionHow psychological ideas of space have profoundly affected architectural and artistic expression in the twentieth century.Beginning with ...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Africa may have given ri...

Graham has crafted a compact, jewel-like resource for all who seek to understand the sources, evolution, impact, and value of Japanese aesthetics a...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Africa may have given ri...

This new edition of MoMA Highlights presents 375 works from the Museum of Modern Art's unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art. Feat...

DescriptionThe modern world owes a great deal to ancient Rome, including many principles of democratic government, law, poetry, drama, art and arch...

How motor vehicles reshaped the way people lived, worked and played in the 20th century, and their enduring influence on the built environmentDrawi...

Jan Verlinde and Piet Swimberghe publish in leading international magazines such as Milk, IDEAT, The World of Interiors and WOTH Piet Swimberghe is...

Reducere. DescriptionThe world-famous Miracle Mile in Los Angeles was shaped into a great commercial and cultural district by the city's tremendous urban exp...

DescriptionHistory of Art in Japan is a fully illustrated overview of Japanese art, written by one of Japan's most distinguished art historians. Th...

DescriptionThe Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and wood-engraver, Iain McNab, in 1925. Situated in L...

Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture 2 follows on from the success of the first book in the series, and contains all new projects. Featu...

Reducere. One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, this comprehensive survey explores all aspects of its groundbreaking artOne hundred years after the...

This photographic Tokyo travel guide explores the dynamic Japanese culture, art and architecture that make Tokyo a unique, world-class city. It has...

In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day....

A fascinating survey of the enduring human love affair with the exotic and the strange, and its impact on Western cultureExotic explores our obsess...

From world-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offers a unique opportunity to learn about the lives ...

Reducere. Architecture, democracy, the Olympics--the modern world owes a lot to the ancient Greeks In Explore Greek Myths With 25 Great Projects, readers emb...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barry LintonArguably the greatest Empire to ever exist, Rome has indelibly left a significant mark on the modern world. The...

DescriptionLondon: A City in Pictures forms a tour of the city s historic streets of medieval and classical architecture, sumptuous palaces and dis...

Simon Sadler searches for the Situationist City among the detritus of tracts, manifestos, and works of art that the Situationist International left...

From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age, to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership,...

Reducere. Nigeria, one of the largest and most important countries in Africa, is rich in traditions and customs, both indigenous and modern. Culture and Cust...

Reducere. Blacksmithing in the modern age has become as much about art as it is about shaping metal. The artist blacksmith must rely on an ability to design ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingAfrica may have given rise to the firs...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Africa may have given ri...

DescriptionRome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two thousa...

Reducere. The road across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the northwest was one of the three major Christian pilgrimage routes during the Middle ...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Thus says Thoth, judge ...

I See a City: Todd Webb's New York focuses on the work photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed t...

DescriptionLe Corbusier s Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut is one of the most unique and surprising religious buildings of the 20th century. In Roncham...

Reducere. Did you know that the classical Greek philosophers were the earliest people to believe that the earth was a sphere? Among them was Aristotle, the p...

In this follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millennia of circula...

Reducere. "To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days." -PLUTARCH Lives of the N...

NLP has exploded in popularity over the last few years. But while Google, Facebook, OpenAI, and others continue to release larger language models, ...

Reducere. This comprehensive, accessible, and authenticated guide to Islam is essential to understanding the world's fastest-growing religion. This essential...

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." --Dalai Lama That's easy for the Dalai Lama to say--but for the rest of us, understanding th...

DescriptionEgypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world. It is written for the general reader and ...

- A sweeping overview of Charlotte Perriand's career, exploring the interrelation of art, architecture, and design in the work of this legendary 20...

DescriptionOne of the most famous books in the world, the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, read by every Renaissance intellectual and referred to in stu...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Rome, then keep reading...Rome started as a kingdom, thrived as a republic, conquered vast terri...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Rome, then keep reading...Rome started as a kingdom, thrived as a republic, conquered vast terri...