Product Description: For more than fifteen years, Jones, Partners: Architecture has dedicated itself to innovative, iconoclastic architectural projects. Picking up where their 1998 book, Instrumental Form, left off, Jones, Partners: Architecture presents an overview of the work created from their office in El Segundo, California, over the last decade...read more

Product Description: How to launch an international design practice and gain projects overseasA comprehensive overview of the rewards and perils of international practice for architects, this book draws on the experience of dozens of leading practitioners to present lessons for the profession...read more

Product Description: The sequel to Urbanomad (2004), Urbanomad 2 finds Guy Lafranchi as he sets off as his alter ego, the Urbanomad once again. Traveling to Taiwan, South Africa, and the United States, Lafranchi reports on a 1999 earthquake in Chi Chi, Taiwan; sickness and poverty in Siyathemba, South Africa; and technological evolution in Chicago and New York...read more

Product Description: Seit über vierzig Jahren hat das Büro Gerkan, Marg und Partner bis heute weit über zweihundert Bauwerke vollendet. Inzwischen löst das Hamburger Architektenteam mit über dreihundert Mitarbeitern an acht verschiedenen Orten Europas und Asiens eine beeindruckende Vielzahl von Bauaufgaben: Flughäfen und Bahnhöfe, Sportstadien und -zentren, Verwaltungsbauten, Schulen, Universitätsgebäude, psychiatrische Anstalten und Rheumakliniken, Altersheime, Büro-, Gemeinde-, Kontor-, Geschäfts-, Einfamilien-, Miet- und Stadthäuser, Villen und Garagen, wissenschaftliche Institute, Justizgebäude, Stadthallen und Konzertsäle, Fernmeldeämter, Restaurants und Cafés, Banken, Markt-, Kühl-, Ausstellungshallen, Messe-Areale, Spielbanken, Hotels, Hochhäuser,Botschaften und Passagen und nicht zuletzt eine Kirche...read more

Product Description: The book presents ten apartment blocks and two student dormitories built by Aalto from the 1920s to the 1960s in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, and the USA. Among them are Baker House and the Institute of Technology, both in Massachusetts...read more

Product Description: Lyrical and evocative in both concept and form, the work of Catalan architect Carme Pinós is notable for its uncompromising embodiment of the physical, historic, and metaphoric qualities of its sites. Pinós explores the landscape personally, drawing from it a vocabulary of forms -- lines, planes, curves, arches, containers -- and an often geometric grammar of assembly...read more

Highlights structures, both in the planning and executed stages, designed in the 1990s by the firm of Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects, that demonstrate the firm's sculptural achievements, including Da Monsta and the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and its larger projects including the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas. (view table of contents)

Product Description: John Pawson is the foremost proponent of a minimal aesthetic in architecture and design. Already known to designers for his ascetic yet luxurious interiors, he has attained public acclaim for his high-profile retail projects such as the Calvin Klein flagship store in New York, his celebrity clients like Martha Stewart and his book Minimum...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a large format publication filled with full color photos which historically trace the work of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the century’s most important architectural firms. Changes that have occurred in design philosophy are also highlighted in words and visual imagery, demonstrating how this firm has adapted and changed with the passage of time...read more

Product Description: Over twenty-five years ago, John Denton, Bill Corker and Barry Marshall founded the architectural practice Denton Corker Marshall which went on to become one of the most influential architectural forces in Australasia, and now has subsiduary offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Ho Chin Minh City, London and Warsaw...read more

Product Description: The Barcelona-based Spanish architect Alfredo Arribas (born 1954) is known far beyond the borders of his country. He found international acclaim especially as a designer and interior decorator. The architectural works presented in this book are located in Spain, Japan, China, Germany, France, Belgium and Italy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an anthology of writings on Foster, and by Foster, spanning 30 years, from the earliest days of the practice to the present. It includes discussions of all Foster's major buildings and projects, from early work with team 4 to recent landmarks such as the Reichstag and Hong Kong International Airport...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ein Stück deutscher Architekturgeschichte, eine Demonstration der Gegenwartsarchitektur und ihrer Visionen fürs nächste Jahrtausend: das international renommierte Architekturbüro dokumentiert an den neuesten Projekten die Vielfalt seiner Bauaufgaben und die hohe ästhetische Anmutung seiner Architektur...read more

Product Description: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have been practicing architecture for more than sixty years and are amongst the most well-known architectural firms worldwide. They began to attract attention in the 1950s when they created notable corporate buildings such as Lever House in New York, which continued the Modernist style and in particular that of Mies van Rohe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Nicholas Grimshaw is one of the pre-eminent figures of the British architectural scene. alongside Lord Norman Foster and Lord Richard Rogers he is a leading light of the high-tech movement, responsible for some of the outstanding buildings of the last decade...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Founded in 1985, Studios Architecture defies easy categorization.

Product Description: Norman Foster, recipient of the 1990 Pritzker Prize, is one of the most prolific contemporary architects. His remarkable buildings and civic projects have transformed cityscapes, renewed vital transportation hubs, and rejuvenated town centers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Aldo van Eyck, Doyen of Dutch architecture, is one of the most significant architects of the 20th century. His way of looking at buildings, his visual thinking, his way of perceiving and structuring time and space, events and social coexistence had a strong influence on his contemporaries during the 1950s and 1960s...read more

Product Description: A lasting record of the creativity and the legacy of a remarkable pair of architects, "Beyond Architecture" presents a holistic view of the lives and work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney. Encompassing the disciplines of town planning, landscape architecture, and interior design, as well as building design, the Griffins' work spanned thirty years and three continents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: gehry talks: architecture + processWith the completion of the celebrated Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, architect Frank O. Gehry has entered the pantheon of twentieth-century masters. In this wholly unique new book, a condensed edition of the original volume of the same name, Gehry himself offers extensive and illuminating commentary on various aspects of the processes involved in developing his revolutionary designs, including his influences, clients, use of materials, and new technologies...read more

Product Description: James Frazer Stirling was among the most innovative forces of contemporary architecture. With his partner, Michael Wilford (since 1963), Stirling realized numerous projects in which he combined a historic sensibility with a creative architectural language...read more

Product Description: This unique critical appraisal of the work of Foster & Partners offers a number of original revelations about the philosophy and design methods that have generated the designs and reputation of the Foster studio over the past three decades...read more