Why is the only non-American winner of the AFI`s prestigious Life Achievement Award a Scotsman? Perhaps because Sean Connery`s career, though international in scope and global in appeal, made him a "genuine movie...
Contemporary Landscape Architecture
The landscape architect shapes the terrain and the space around a pre-existing construction or a developing urban or regional project. His aim is to offer the most poetic transcription of the language associated with...
Converted Spaces / Convertir I`Espace / Verwandelte Raume
The task of restoring a building can sometimes prove more difficult than constructing a new one from scratch, not only because some parts of it may have to be preserved on account of their historical value, but also...
Majorca is, quite simply, a paradisical island. This book reveals the secret, hidden side of the island, where private houses quietly exist behind thick dry-stone walls and olive trees, protected from the curious...
Creative Community: Designing for Life
Illustrated with more than 20 drawings and 450 photographs, this extraordinary collection of thoughts and images adds up to a positive prophecy for a future in which the architecture and stewardship of daily life...
Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism was the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. Heavily influenced by the stark power of African and Native American art and sculpture, it deconstructed conventions...
A precursor to Surrealism, the Dada movement stressed the absurd and unpredictable, the illogical and chaotic, lashing out against traditional aesthetics and upending artistic conventions. Emerging from the artistic...
The `Swinging Sixties` were years of unprecedented experimentation in architecture and design, during which new materials and increasingly casual ways of living helped fuel the evolution of extraordinary forms....
The cellular BC25 Capsule Building in Tokyo and the brutalist Barbican Complex in London were just two of a host of revolutionary architectural projects to erupt onto the world`s skyline in the 1970s. The Decorative...
Taschen`s Great Adventure began back in 1980, when eighteen-year-old Benedikt Taschen opened a shop in his native Cologne, Germany, to market his massive comics collection. Within a year he began publishing catalogs...
Description of Egypt / Beschreibung Agyptens / Description de L`Egypte
A hugely ambitious and comprehensive work, the ten volumes of "Description de L`Egypte" were published following Napoleon Bonaparte`s 1798 invasion of Egypt. This book presents highlights carefully plucked from the...
Design is one of the most fascinating cultural phenomena of the 20th century. This publication outlines the pioneer years of modern design history, tracing the development of the classic avantgarde design from 1880 to...
A sneak preview of 21st century aesthetics via the vision of today`s most innovative designers. How do today`s best and brightest designers see the future of design? Including a cross section of the world`s most...
Исаакиевский собор - выдающийся памятник русской архитектуры, один из лучших кафедральных соборов Европы XIX века, величайшее купольное здание, уступающее по масштабу только соборам Св.Петра в Риме, Св.Павла в Лондоне...
