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"The mid-twentieth century was one of the most popular, collectable and dynamic periods of international design. Drawing on the inventive style of the era, this range... features exclusive illustrations of iconic mid-centruy desings, from Eames chairs to Poul Henningsen lamps and George Nelson clocks, all rendered in a distinctive graphic style."
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"The content of this book represents a wide selection of the plans and projects developed in the city of Barcelona in the period covering from the years 2011 to 2015, divided in types and thoroughly explained."
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"This book provides an overview of the extent to which the 18th-century English Landscape Garden spread through Europe and Russia... The lanscape garden took hold in mainland Europe from about 1760...Each country is considered individually, with a special chapter devoted to 'Le Jardin Anglo-Chinois', since that constitutes a major issue of its own. The gardens have been chosen to illustrate the range and variety of applications of the landscape garden..."
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"The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is one of the Netherlands' most popular museums. The ever-growing stream of visitors requires intelligent solutions for this buildings, which were designed by Rietveld and Kurokawa. For the new entrance building, Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates made a sketch that consists in broad outlines of a further elaboration of the elliptical wing of the building that they had built in Amsterdam in 1999. This idea is further developed, materialized, and realized by Hans van Heeswijk Architects. What was a sombre piece of the Museumplein has now become an inviting orientation site.
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"Haus Ideal, by German architect Oda Palmke, serves as an instruction manual for nonlinear processes of generating new solutions to architectural problems and discovering ideal architectural forms. Images of the architectural models demonstrate different stages of these unconventional design processes."
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"With a view to rebuilding the Victoria Street area of the city, which is punctuated by a number of pedestrian post-war buildings, Lynch Architects, through its use of materials, approach to public space and treatment of the deep facades that are hallmarks of the practice's architecture, are enriching the city such that it becomes a genuinely informed public space. Here the public and building users alike can participate with pleasure in a civic architecture, given all of the historical depth this term implies from the Renaissance through to contemporary architectural and urban theory. The book also foregrounds Lynch Architects collaborative practice with artists and designers including Rut Blees Luxemburg and Timorous Beasties"
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"This Singapore-based studio, founded in 1995 by Siew Man Kok and Cheng Pai Ling, approaches its master planning, architecture, landscape, and interior work with agility of thought and conviction of purpose. What emerges is a distillation of the complex into the simple. Encapsulated in MKPL's work are comfortable spaces that influence the way people live, and forms that inspire a new perception and appreciation of the physical environment - made with the relentless pursuit of an architecture that reverberates the local light and atmosphere."
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"What Architecture Means introduces you to architecture and allows you to explore the connections between design ideas and values across time, space, and culture. It equips you to play an active and informed role in architecture either as a professional or as a consumer, client, and citizen. By analyzing famous and everyday buildings while presenting and questioning the positions of important architects and theorists, this book will help you to evaluate and decide what qualities, ideas, and values you believe are important in architecture."
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