Product Description: The book contains sections on Nicoletti's drawings on architecture and nature and completed projects including international competitions and major internationally known works such as the Helicoidal Skyscraper in New York, the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, the Cardiff Bay Opera House and the University of Udine...read more

Product Description: With their strikingly simple shapes in concrete and glass, Amyas Connell, Basil Ward, and Colin Lucas introduced a new and uncompromising architecture to England in the 1930s. In the first full account of their innovative practice, architect Dennis Sharp offers a fascinating historical overview of the firm, then focuses on detailed studies of their houses, housing projects, shops, and cafés...read more

Product Description: Long regarded as one of the most important works ever written in the field of architectural criticism and architectural history Das Englische Haus was first published in 1904 and is now for the first time translated into English in its entirety, with all its original contemporary illustrations and plans...read more

This is a new, revised and fully updated edition of the fully illustrated monograph on the work of the Spanish architect-engineer Santiago Calatrava. It includes sixteen new projects including important urban design schemes. The work of this outstanding architect continues to excite, interest and inform all those interested in the built environment. This new edition includes projects including urban design schemes.

Product Description: Known as the "Big Eye" the Oita Stadium is one of the chosen venues for the next World Cup in 2002. It can be used year-round for public events aided by its retractable roof.

Product Description: Twentieth Century Architecture is a fully documented, richly illustrated guide to the great architectural achievements of the last one hundred years. The book chronicles the technological advances, engineering achievements and aesthetic issues that have led to dramatic changes in every branch of architecture...read more

Product Description: This book pits some of the most famous architectural theorists against each other in one volume. The subject for debate is Modernism, the most pressing issue of the 20th century. This timely publication gives a comprehensive overview of the arguments and counter-arguments that abound...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Kurokawa was commissioned to design the new Kuala Lumpur Airport as well as to create urban-design guidelines for the entire transportation complex. The project will include Kurokawa's main terminal, that, thanks to a generous use of glass, will forge a direct visual link between the rain forest and the terminal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: * Features the work of internationally acclaimed architect/engineer * Beautifully illustrated with Calstrava's own sketches, drawings, photographs of all projects (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Muthesius' classic work, first published in 1904, provides a detailed analysis of the development of nineteenth-century English architecture that examines the principles of layout, construction, design, landscaping, and interior decoration