3,178円 Is architecture inherently complete? Or is it a state of incompletion and seeming inadequacy that incites us to imagine architecture as an armature for an ever-changing daily life? Buildings and Almost Buildings, made possible in part through a grant from the Graham Foundation, explores the work ...

4,643円 Reyner Banham (1922–88) was a prolific, iconoclastic critic of modern architecture, cities, and mass culture in Britain and the United States, and his provocative writings are inescapable in these areas. His 1971 book on Los Angeles was groundbreaking in what it told Californians about their own ...

3,045円 Yona Friedman presents a personal selection of half a century of his work. In 1958 Yona Friedman published his first manifesto on 'mobile architecture' and founded GEAM (Groupe d'Etude d'Architecture Mobile), which proposed different strategies and actions geared to the adaptation of architectura...

3,975円 Sanaa’s housing projects, both finished (House A, S House, House in a Plum Grove, Small House and Moriyama House), and unfinished projects (Flower House, Garden & House, Seijo Apartments, Ichikawa Apartments, House in China and Eda Apartments). SANAA's architecture embraces complexities within de...

700円 Una piccola antologia di testi inediti, selezionati e messi a disposizione dall'Archivio Gae Aulenti di Milano. Con il suo sguardo profondo, competente ed esperto, ma anche personalissimo e anticonformista, Gae Aulenti riflette sull'architettura, l'urbanistica e il design, immaginando un futuro i...

3,205円 It was around Kengo Kumas tenth birthday that he came into contact with Kenzō Tanges fishlike Yoyogi National Gymnasium, completed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and determined that he would become an architect. In the intervening five or so decades, he has become one of the worlds most fascinating...

2,219円 本書以記者視角展現了貝聿銘的一生。既是一部貝聿銘的成長傳記，又是一部貝聿銘建築設計作品的編年史傳。兩位作者實地採訪，內容真實可靠：不僅採訪貝聿銘的兩個兒子、他的幾位助手、項目參與者和傳記作者，還去上海和蘇州尋訪了貝聿銘和貝氏家族的生活史，並實地探訪了貝聿銘晚年在中國的作品，詢問了包括法國前文化部...

9,616円 This book examines the idea of organism in the work of Louis I. Kahn, from the turning point of Rome to the project for Venice. It presents an original interpretation of the work of Kahn during one of the most fruitful periods of his career, when he was working on a particular design method based...

9,119円 Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center are internationally iconic, few who know the icon recognize its architect’s name or know much about his portfolio of more than 200 buildings. O...

2,382円 SOUPERgreen! features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the current approach to “green” architecture and, in turn, demonstrate a more appropriate way for architects to address the challenges posed by the environmental crisis. In sharp contrast to contemporary examples of “...

8,124円 This book provides a clear guide for practitioners looking to establish or already conducting research projects in a practice context and graduate students looking to support their studies and role within practice. The book is divided into three key sections. The first section, across Chapters Tw...

3,973円 Light and architecture lie at the base of the iGuzzini Illuminazione strategy. During the day, a "natural" organic form creates high-quality and highly-ergonomic workplaces. At night, the building is transformed by artifical light into a glowing landmark in the landscape, a gigantic lantern. The ...