Though there may be distinctions between a house and a home, the fact remains that the fundamental ideas of shelter, life and death are intertwined with the architecture of the commonplace in every dwelling, from cave...
Architecture Now! = Architektur heute = L`architecture d`aujourd`hui
Now!, more than ever, Architecture is evolving at amazing speed. Appropriated, folded, morphed, contemplated, and contorted - entering into a dialog with fashion, ecology, politics, and art - architecture has become...
Architecture Materials. Glass. Verre Glas
The use of glass as a building material was encouraged in particular by garden design, as the protection of exotic plants required the construction of greenhouses and orangeries. In a record time of just five months,...
Architecture Now! Museums / Architektur heute! Museen / L`architecture d`aujord`hui! Musees
Star architects from Zaha Hadid to Herzog & de Meuron have shaken up the formerly staid world of museum architecture, bringing bravura to new buildings and extensions. But the trend for new museums to opt for bold...
Debate over film`s credibility as an art form is as old as the medium itself, and largely defined in terms of formalist and realist approaches. This book explores how artists have used the medium to explode cinematic...
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Art of the 20th Century (комплект из 2 книг)
Who could possibly have forecast on New Year`s Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The term "art" has been defined and redefined so many times over...
Featuring the best and the most recent advertising campaigns, posters, brand-design projects, corporate identity, package design, and editorial design, Asian Graphics Now! is the ultimate guide to creativity for the...
Asian Living / Ambiances d`Asie / Asiatische Wohnkultur
Nowadays there is hardly an interior design publication which does not contain at least one article on Feng Shui, the one-thousand-year-old Chinese tradition of the harmonious arrangement of sacred buildings, graves,...
Atlas Maior - Hispania, Portugallia, Africa & America
The Atlas Maior, the cartographical masterpiece of the Baroque period, was brought out between 1662 and 1665 by the Amsterdam publisher Joan Blaeu, one of Holland`s leading cartographers. Originally appearing in...
Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery
The four parts of Bourgery`s treatise cover descriptive anatomy, surgical anatomy and techniques, general anatomy and embryology, and microscopic anatomy. Jacob`s spectacular hand-colored, life-size lithographs are...
