STORY OF ARCHITECTURE
An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field's eminent authors "Rybczynski's expansive account traces...
BUILDING TOYS: AN ARCHITECT'S COLLECTION
The book Building Toys: An Architect's Collection documents over 100 architectural building toys from the author's collection, from the mid-1800s to...
Architecture Surveys
STEPHAN ZAUBITZER - CINES MEDITERRANEE
Written by Stephan Zaubitzer
For almost two decades, Stephan Zaubitzer has travelled the world in search of cinemas, both operative and inoperative, to capture them with a large-format camera. ?Cinés Méditerranée? presents a photographic journey through five countries on the southern coast of the Mediterranean sea ? Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, and Lebanon ? each of which holds an exceptional architectural heritage.
RESIDENTIAL MASTERPIECES 32: GERRIT RIETVELD - RIETVELD SCHRÖDER HOUSE
Written by イダ・ファン・ゼイル
An icon of the modern movement and De Stijl, the Rietveld Schröder House in the Netherlands was designed by Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld (1888?1964) and completed in 1924. In 2000 the house was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Built together with his client, it was Rietveld?s first architectural manifestation, and would prove to be the key work for his entire oeuvre.
PLIABLE PLANE: THE WALL AS SURFACE IN SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE, 1945-75
Written by Penelope Curtis
In 'The Pliable Plane', curator and historian Penelope Curtis traces the ways sculpture infiltrated architectural thought over the post-war period. Her study identifies the wall as a particular locus of creative thinking - a surface which produces both continuity and separation, and which similarly unites and distinguishes the two disciplines.
MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN JAPAN, MANFRED TAFURI
Written by Manfredo Tafuri
Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994), the celebrated Italian architectural historian, published L'Architettura Moderna in Giappone in 1964. At the time, Tafuri was twenty-nine years old and had not visited Japan. His slim volume on the country's postwar architecture was the first in a series of guidebooks on contemporary architecture under the direction of Leonardo Benevolo.
MATERIAL CULTURES MATERIAL REFORM
Written by Material cultures
The first book by the design and research practice Material Cultures, assembles a series of short essays and conversations exploring the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the destructive ecologies it fosters. The building practices dominating contemporary architecture are rooted in the exploitation of people and the degradation of our landscapes.
EL CROQUIS 213: HECTOR BARROSO
Written by Fernando Márquez Cecilia
Taller Héctor Barroso fue fundado por Héctor Barroso en el año 2011 en la Ciudad de México, México.
EL CROQUIS 212: PALINDA KANNANGARA
Written by Richard C. Levene
The award-winning Sri Lankan architectural firm led by Palinda Kannangara is known for an experiential architecture that hinges on simplicity and connection with the natural environment. Its work has been recognised for a personalised approach, contextual sensitivity, experimental material use, and a minimalism reflective of the Sri Lankan ethos.
DOMA ISSUE 05: AIRES MATEUS, ATELIER FANELSA, BOW WOW, CHRIST&GANTENBE IN, BAROZZI VEIGA
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