Enter the world’s finest homes in this dependable global digest featuring talents like Shigeru Ban and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-comers like Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Organized by architect and brimming with crisp photography and plans, the result is a sweeping survey of the contemporary house. Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.48 kg, 512 pages
Frédéric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed features 90 Soviet buildings throughout the former USSR, each built between 1970 and 1990. It is a journey through time. With local exoticism, outlandish ideas, and a puzzle of styles, these weird and wonderful buildings are unearthly reminders of a fallen ideology. View Rating and Reviews Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.08 kg, 440 pages
The Case Study House program was a landmark of American architecture, generating 36 prototype home designs that could be easily built. John Entenza recruited the era’s best architects, such as Richard Neutra, Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, to create the designs. This book reveals the prototypes in photography, floor plans,and sketches. Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.41 kg, 512 pages
Islamic Art and Architecture / Автор: Robert Hillenbrand, Издательство: Thames and Hudson Ltd, Серия: World of Art, Страниц: 336, Переплет: Мягкий, ISBN: 9780500204559
Between two world wars, the Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. Realized with the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, this updated edition celebrates the school’s centennial, gathering 550 illustrations across 400 pages, including architectural plans and biographies of key figures like Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, and Marianne Brandt—the ultimate guide. Hardcover, 25 x 34 cm, 3.44 kg, 400 pages
From cameras to kitchenware, Lego to Lamborghini, follow the makers and shapers of industrial design in Industrial Design A–Z. This revised and updated edition covers the individual designers, the global businesses, and above all the genius products that have synthesized form and function to transform our daily lives. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 0.98 kg, 616 pages
Once synonymous with eyesore highway bridges and crumbling, unloved walls, concrete has been reborn as adventurous and sexy. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition considers the elaborate feats and prodigious engineering of contemporary concrete architecture, from stars such as Tadao Ando and Herzog & de Meuron, to fresh new studios like the Russian SPEECH. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 0.99 kg, 632 pages
Renowned for his distinctive, elongated female nudes, Amedeo Modigliani is a legend of early modernism. His unique figuration corresponded to his own personal idea of beauty, but drew upon a rich variety of visual influences, including contemporary Cubism, African carvings, Cambodian sculptures, and 13th-century painting from his native Italy. Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.56 kg, 96 pages
Pierre Koenig (Basic Art Series 2.0) / by Neil Jackson (Author), Peter Gössel (Editor), Издательство: Taschen, Серия: , Страниц: 96, Переплет: твердый, ISBN: 9783836544375
Brace yourself for the blues: Declaring that a “new world calls for a new man”, showman-artist Yves Klein made his name with his large monochrome canvases, International Klein Blue, and “living paintbrushes,” in which naked women, daubed in paint, made imprints of their bodies on large sheets of paper. Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.56 kg, 96 pages
Antoni Gaudí merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a Modernista aesthetic that made Barcelona a mecca for architecture fans. With new photography, plans, Gaudí’s drawings, and a complete appendix of his works including unfinished projects, this book takes us into the proud Catalonian’s unique worldview. Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.41 kg, 512 pages
Antoni Gaudí merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a unique Modernista aesthetic that put Barcelona on the global architecture map. With brand-new photography, plans and drawings by Gaudí himself, as well as an extensive appendix of all his works including furniture and unfinished projects, this XL book takes us through the Catalonian’s fantastical universe like never before. Hardcover, 25 x 34 cm, 2.91 kg, 368 pages
Brutal beauty dominates in Frédéric Chaubin’s images of extreme Soviet architecture from the final years of the USSR. In these photographs, we explore the disappearing world of totalitarian structures, originally designed to dominate and exert omniscient power over civilians through both spectacular forms and austere aesthetics. Hardcover, 26 x 34 cm, 2.66 kg, 312 pages
From prairie houses to skyscrapers and the Guggenheim Museum, explore the life and work of one of the greatest pioneers in the history of architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright. Sketches, plans, and photographs chronicle all of Wright’s major works, celebrating his organic architecture philosophy, innovative use of industrial materials, and vision for a new way of American living. Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.62 kg, 96 pages
Explore a unique blend of structure and surroundings in this essential architectural introduction to Richard Neutra, pioneer of a particularly holistic brand of modernism which incorporated the ragged lines of a landscape as much as the sleek surfaces and pared down geometries of 20th-century cool. Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.56 kg, 96 pages
Українські палаци. Відновлення історії. Золота доба / Автор: Галімов А., Шаріпов Р., Издательство: Ранок, Серия: , Страниц: , Переплет: тверда, ISBN: 978-617-522-175-4
