This volume features a wide-ranging selection of residential buildings presented together with their floor plans. The collection illustrates current trends in the design of apartment blocks and the diversity of approaches to issues such as context and community, the efficient use of resources and th...
The title Classic & Modern: Signature Style tells how a signature look can be created by fusing together architectural elements from a variety of styles--from classical to minimalist. It does so presenting a beautiful collection of twenty-first century homes that have successfully done just that. Cl...
In our everyday lives we are constantly bombarded by electronic media. From billboards to the internet, television and movies, special effects rule the day. Whether new technologies such as touch screens or retrievals from the past such as GIFS or 3D graphics, the arsenal is vast. As a result, we ar...
GUIDELINES: an extensive technical introduction lays out all the aspects that the designer or architect will need to consider in each phase of the design process from the first schematic layout to construction, including spatial and functional distribution diagrams, facades and materials.
This volume brings together the best public space projects of recent years, realized by architectural and landscape design studios of international renown. Each of the interventions is illustrated with full colour photographs, diagrams, drawings and a descriptive text by the designers, giving the re...
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[¿Ü¼] Le Corbusier : An Atlas of Modern Landscapes(Hardcover)
In June 2013, The Museum of Modern Art presents the largest exhibition ever produced on Le Corbusier's prolific oeuvre, encompassing his work as architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer and photographer. Over a six-decade career, this towering figure of modern culture constantly ob...
Karen Finerman (pronounced like 'Mighty Fine-rman') likes to tell people she was raised Calvinist. Or as her mother used to say, 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes. Then when they graduate from college they have to pay for them themselves.' In order to keep herself in Calvin, Karen went to work on...
Martha Stewart¡¯s engaging handbook for living your healthiest life after 40?with expertise from doctors and specialists on eating, exercise, wellness, home, and organizing, as well as caring for others. Martha Stewart¡¯s Living the Good Long Life is a practical guide unlike any other: honest and up...
This is a collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic Penguin book jacket. From classics to crime, here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box. In 1935 Allen Lane stood on a platform at Exeter railway station, looking for a good book for the journ...
YOU HOLD IN YOUR HANDS A GREAT SECRET.It has been passed down through the ages, highly coveted, hidden, lost, stolen, and bought for vast sums of money. Fragments of this Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. It ha...
¡°Sighs alternate with gawps at the white-dipped mountains, mist-cloaked seascapes and epic northern roadways. And with more festivals than you can swing a moose at, you¡¯ll even forget it¡¯s cold.¡± - Karla Zimmerman, Lonely Planet WriterOur PromiseYou can trust our travel information because Lonel...
Our all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen.