-Gaudi's complete work, including his interior designs in a high-quality jubilee edition - superb photographs by specialists in architectural photography - with a foreword by Daniel Giralet-Miracle, General Commissioner of the International Gaudi Year 2003 - useful information on business hours of buildings and exhibitions that are open to the public - the perfect gift for all architecture, art, and design lovers View More...
Architecture-Residential Drawing and Design provides comprehensive instruction for preparing architectural working drawings using traditional and computer-based methods. The text also serves as a reference for design and construction principles and methods. Organized logically around the design-building process in an exciting format, the text is easy to understand with much student appeal. Content is up-to-date with coverage of state-of-the-art technology. View More...
Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned architects, philosophers and cultural theorists from both the East and the West. They explore the questions over the built environment that now face architects, planners and politicians in the region. They examine the problems of buildings inherited from the communist era: some are environmentally inadequate, many were designed to serve a now redundant social programme and others carry the stigma of assoc... View More...
Biennial Award, The National League of American Pen Women, Inc. The collection examines what female architects have achieved, how they think about themselves and their work, and what they see as the future role of women in the field. View More...
Boughton House in Northamptonshire is a house of contrasts. Its magnificent, and at the same time, formal exterior in the French style gives little hint of the rambling Tudor manor house embedded within. Involvement with the law and politics at the highest level generated the wealth of its founders and builders, but enlightened artistic patronage and a strong aesthetic sense have been characteristic of many generations of the Dukes of Montagu and of Buccleuch since the 17th century. This book looks at the house and its furnishings. View More...
The first book from twenty-four-year-old photographer and designer Elizabeth Johnson, Chicago Churches: A Photographic Essay, is an insightful look at the church, not just as architecture but as a reflection of the cultural individuality within a city and, more importantly, the universality of faith.Captured through the city's change of seasons, these photographs of 100 Chicago-area houses of worship display an intriguing cross section of religious and cultural groups and the communities they represent. Through the sometimes poignantly editorial and often classically simple photographs, Elizab... View More...
Celebrated for its splendid setting, San Francisco's landscape is one of unparalleled beauty. No less intriguing are its many charming and eclectic restaurants. Here aficionados of great cooking can sample dishes second to none in stylish and eclectic surroundings. The range of California's micro-climates means a wide selection of fresh ingredients is continually available. And many restaurants have quirky decorating touches ? as you might expect of this capital of laid-back chic. This selection of original restaurant interiors is extensively illustrated with over 130 color photographs and rec... View More...
Country churches are humble yet much-loved structures that for centuries have played a central role in the daily lives of people rural communities the world over.
Country Churches is a photographic and historical tour of country churches throughout the Christian world. From Britain's simple stone churches to the austere wood-framed houses of worship of New England, to the ornate stylings of Eastern Europe's Byzantine churches, the nature and history of country churches is beautifully revealed on each page of this stunning volume. View More...
Four areas in Southern Egypt, around Lake Nasser, now contain ancient monuments that were reconstructed and moved from their original positions during the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s: Abu Simbel, New Amada, New Wadi al-Sebua and New Kalabsha. This guide provides an introduction to the history and culture of Nubia during the pharaonic period. It describes each monument in detail, highlighting its history, religion and art. Also included are a short bibliography and brief descriptions of the four temples that were transported and reconstructed abroad - the most notable now residi... View More...
The Henry Art Gallery at the University, of Washington in Seattle desperately needed transforming as it was overshadowed by the large buildings that surrounded it. The award-winning Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, known for its restoration and addition to Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, among numerous other achievements, was commissioned to intervene. The firm was skillfully able to integrate site, circulation, building and context that beautifully reconciles the site with the rest of the campus. View More...
