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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: One of the few truly visionary architects of large-scale commissions working today, Thom Mayne won the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize, his field's most prestigious award. Mayne's influential firm Morphosis, founded in the early 1970s, has maintained an avant-garde presence among contemporary architecture firms even as it has garnered high-profile, big-budget commissions around the world. Since…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Between 1941 and 1966, Florida became host to sweeping innovations in residential architecture, rivaled only be what was happening in California with the Case Study Houses. This volume documents the best work of the era, from key West to Jacksonville.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The allure of postwar Italy continues to seduce and captivate us, and now our love affair is rekindled through these remarkable and candid photos of stars whose timeless glamour endures: Audrey Hepburn with her hairstylist; Anna Magnani hailing a cab in Rome; Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini on Capri. The Italy of the 1950s and '60s was a time of high style that bedazzled Americans and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 243 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 245) Аннотация: »Sempre più Dorian Gray si innamorava della sua stessa bellezza, con sempre maggiore interesse seguiva il corrompersi della sua anima...» fino a uccidere la sua immagine e se stesso. Sinistra vicenda di magie, delitti e sdoppiamenti di personalità, «Il ritratto di Dorian Gray» non è solamente un romanzo dell'orrore e una profonda riflessione sul tema filosofico del doppio, ma il…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Prior to the 1960s, Andrew Wyeth enjoyed a stellar reputation as a rising star in the art world. Since then, critics and scholars have largely ignored him. Wyeth, however, who is age 88 at the date of publication, has continued to paint, to the delight of his admirers, collectors, and the art-loving public. Now, in association with the High Museum exhibition, Andrew Wyeth: Memory & Magic takes a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's Fallingwater (1935), the seminal masterpiece perched over a waterfall deep in the Pennsylvania highlands, is perhaps the best-known private house in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Jed Johnson: Opulent Restraint is the first book to chronicle the fascinating career, work and times of an interior design superstar whose life was cut short in 1996 by the disastrous explosion of TWA Flight 800. From humble beginnings in Minnesota, Johnson rose to prominence in nineteen-seventies New York, via the Warhol Factory, to the highest echelons of the rarified world of design and…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The stairwell of New York photographer Mark Seliger may be unadorned, decidedly offstage, and very small, but the creativity of so many talented people jammed into one space is enormous. Each artist, dancer, and writer brings a different personality to the room, and Seliger captures that spirit in each photograph. From Paul McCartney to Susan Sarandon, from Tom Wolfe to Lou Reed, all of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Without question, Claude Monet (1840-1926) ranks among the most beloved artists of all time. Often referred to as the founding member of the impressionist movement. Monet popularized the style of painting referred to as en plein air, which he learned from his teacher Eugene Boudin in Le Havre. Monet soon formed a group of painters that included Camille Pissarro and Pierre Auguste Renoir and would…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: One of the most revered figures in the history of Western art, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) championed a style of painting during the late nineteenth century that emphasized emotion and sensuality over form and composition. Van Gogh's life has been offered up in numerous histories, biographies, and films, and his own correspondence has been preserved in the form of an extensive series of letters…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This pioneering art series combines stunning high-quality color reproductions with expert commentary on the most popular artists of all time at an extremely accessible price. Giotto, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Vermeer are names well known to any student of art history, museum-goer, or culturally engaged individual. Rizzoli is pleased to launch its Classics of Art…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 426) Аннотация: The architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson believes that “the sensuality of place, the emotive qualities of materials, and the ability to give pleasure and insight, to comfort and to transport can produce humane and spirited architecture”. Whether designing corporate headquarters for Pixar Animation Studios, the Software Engineering Institute for Carnegie Mellon University, the new Apple…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Prairie Skyscraper traces the history and evolution of Wright's recently restored nineteen-story-skyscraper masterwork, which takes its place beside the S.C. Johnson Wax Research Tower as one of Wright's only two vertical structures-and, at 221 feet tall-his largest. Built as a multi-use skyscraper in 1956, the building is now a luxury hotel and arts center, featuring collections of the works of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Throughout his career, David Hovey has designed spaces for living, exploiting structure and materials to create buildings of strength, simplicity, and grace. The Nature of Dwellings presents a comprehensive view of the seven single-family houses Hovey has designed, three near Chicago and four in Arizona, and relates them to his award-winning portfolio of multifamily housing developments.Lavish…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This epic history is the first comprehensive survey of the use of wood in architecture throughout the ages. The book is organized both chronologically and geographically. It features works from the oldest heritage of wooden buildings (Kyoto's Buddhist temples and Scandinavia's pagan-inspired stave churches) to the latest cutting edge designs, proving that wood is on the rise as the preferred…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Blends together Surrealism and Dadaism to create works of art. Recipes such as Cucumber Boats with Apple-Ginger Chicken Salad and Curry Infused Oil allow you to experience European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern flavours. Despite the high concept, the recipes are simple and make creating a masterpiece on your plate easy.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Architecture of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company is a monograph on the highly successful urban design and architecture firm started by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk in 1980 and now known simply as DPZ. Credited with popularizing small towns and villages as welcome alternatives to the bleak monotony of the suburbs, DPZ champions vernacular architecture (traditional buildings with…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A passion for luxury and beauty propels the multifaceted work of acclaimed international architect and interior designer Robert Couturier. Robert Couturier's aesthetic is a dialogue between Old World elegance and contemporary design. His masterful approach effortlessly brings eras together, for example a Louis XVI commode with a 1960s lamp. Couturier's name has become synonymous with continental…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Gwathmey Siegel has long been the architect of choice for clients who want to combine extravagance with an intellectually rigorous, well-crafted modernism. While the houses for which they are so justly renowned often exceed 20,000 square feet, the apartments they have designed are frequently one-tenth that size. The work, however, does not suffer from this reduction in scale, it rather takes on a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site documents not only the master plan competition, won by Studio Daniel Libeskind and sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, but also proposals submitted by invitation of and published by New York magazine, proposals from the exhibition at Max Protetch Gallery, as well as a selection from the…