Individual Architect category: 202 books
Moderne architetture romane
Architetture della scuola romana nel passaggio alla modernità, con particolare riferimento all'opera di Giovanni Battista Milani
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Collana Archinauti diretta da Claudio D'Amato / Archinauti series edited by Claudio D'Amato Questo percorso di ricerca intorno al linguaggio architettonico nel secondo ventennio del ventesimo secolo in Italia, prende le mosse dalla figura “dimenticata” di Giovanni Battista Milani per diversi motivi....
The Sniper's Log
Architectural Chronicles of Generation-X
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The book is like a sniper's log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience for future missions, be it academic or professional, trying to identify tendencies and to assess performances, rather than to establish truth. Written for different media and formats (professional magazines,...
Harry Bertoia, Printmaker
Monotypes and Other Monographics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The seventy-nine monotypes in this catalogue represent the principal styles and themes that emerged not only in Harry Bertoia's printmaking, but in his sculpture as well. June Kompass Nelson, author of Harry Bertoia, Sculptor, analyzes the graphic works and places them in the context of Bertoia's...
Architectures of Transversality
Paul Klee, Louis Kahn and the Persian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Architectures of Transversality investigates the relationship between modernity, space, power, and culture in Iran. Focusing on Paul Klee’s Persian-inspired miniature series and Louis Kahn’s unbuilt blueprint for a democratic public space in Tehran, it traces the architectonics of the present...
The House in Good Taste
Design Advice from America's First Interior Decorator
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
"Good taste can be developed in anyone, just as surely as good manners are possible to anyone. And good taste is as necessary as good manners," declared Elsie de Wolfe, the "first lady" of American interior design. Although de Wolfe decorated the homes of wealthy, socially prominent...
The Changing Shape of Architecture
Further Cases of Integrating Research and Design in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
The discipline of architecture is currently undergoing a significant change as professional practice and academia seem to be transforming one another specifically through succinct research undertakings. This book continues the discussion started in The Changing Shape of Practice – Integrating Research...
by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Extrait : "Ecrire une histoire générale de l'art et de la fortification depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours est un des beaux sujets livrés aux recherches des archéologues, et nous ne devons pas désespérer de le voir entreprendre ; mais on doit convenir qu'un pareil sujet exigerait des connaissances...
by R. Bosworth Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were some of the largest wars that had ever taken place.The term Punic comes from the Latin word Punicus (or Poenicus), meaning "Carthaginian", with reference...
An Architecture of Ineloquence
A Study in Modern Architecture and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Set on a hillside near Cluny, in a region associated with religious institutions and sacred architecture (including Le Corbusier's La Tourette), Le Carmel de la Paix, designed by José Luis Sert, remains tranquilly unvisited and quietly erased from architectural history. Why? This unusual convent...
Studi sui Fontana
Una dinastia di architetti ticinesi a Roma tra Manierismo e Barocco
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Il volume attraverso le vicende dei Fontana racconta da un punto di vista ravvicinato l'epopea della cultura architettonica tra Manierismo e Barocco. Si tratta di una sorta di storia enciclopedica dei Fontana, dove sono confluite le ricerche più recenti sulle opere di questi architetti, nel quadro...
Architects
Portraits of a Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes...
Nicola Maria Pietrocola
Architetto e teorico nel mezzogiorno preunitario
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Antico/Futuro collana diretta da Claudio Varagnoli L’architetto di cui si parla in questo libro è Nicola Maria Pietrocola, vissuto tra la fine del XVIII e la prima metà del XIX secolo, e con un’attività progettuale di lungo corso, sigillata negli ultimi anni della sua vita da un piccolo trattato...
Aesthetics and Technology in Building
The Twenty-First-Century Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
The UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The Pirelli skyscraper in Milan. The Palazetto dello Sport in Rome. The "soaring beauty" of Pier Luigi Nervi's visionary designs and buildings changed cityscapes in the twentieth century. His uncanny ingenuity with reinforced concrete, combined with a gift...
Alvar AAlto. Progetto di complesso residenziale a Pavia
“Onde anomale” lungo il fiume: spazio, architettura, territorio e innovazione
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Il progetto del complesso residenziale denominato “Patrizia” redatto nel 1966-68 da Alvar Aalto, con Elissa Aalto e Leonardo Mosso, collocato nella periferia ovest di Pavia in località San Lanfranco, non è mai stato realizzato. Stupisce, nel progetto aaltiano, la qualità e l’unitarietà delle...