Following Phaidon’s Modern House (published 1993), Modern House 2 is a survey of the world’s most innovative contemporary houses. Organized thematically, it examines over thirty houses considering contemporary issues, such as ecological concerns, changing patterns of living, building with sensitivity in increasingly populated cities, and respecting the environment when building in isolated rural areas. It also discusses concept houses for the future, focusing on international competition designs or commissions for ‘model houses’ and offers an insight into future possibilities for domestic architecture. Architects featured include, amongst others, Glenn Murcutt, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Foster and Partners, Williams...
ISBN: 0714839876
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
The geographic region around the North Pole is a raw and exotic area of untouched nature and inescapable beauty. Unique among the Earth`s ecosystems, it includes both a vast, ice-covered ocean and a treeless region of tundra. Building in this extremely cold climate requires an advanced degree of ingenuity and resolve. Ecological conditions including high winds, snowdrifts, and permafrost, combined with periods of little or no sunlight, present seemingly impossible logistical hurdles. Recent years have witnessed an explosion of resident and invited architects creating buildings above 60 degrees latitude. The time has come for a new definition of a northern building-one that is both extraordinarily responsive to place and aesthetically...
ISBN: 978-1-56898-899-3
Издательство:
Daedalus
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Jeremy Black`s text provides a thematic account of British history centering on the 20th century. To the traditional, chronological account of historic events, Black adds long range thematic chapters reflecting the full range of topics. These include political structures, ideologies, wars and international relations, economic history, social history as well as consumerism, media and mass communication. The coverage is further enlivened with exhibits providing supplementary background information on key personalities and pivotal events, case studies and numerous illustrations.
ISBN: 978-0-333-71954-1
Издательство:
Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: январь 2012
This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.
ISBN: 0714827584
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life
In the modern art world of intrigue and competition, rumours had long flourished about the existence of a lost masterpiece by Modigliani. Now, with the prize for uncovering the work higher than ever, a chase begins across Europe to see who can get the painting first.
ISBN: 978-0-330-34505-7
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Share in fifty years of a really remarkable cat…Mog is everyone’s favourite family cat! Join her in this warm-hearted and funny escapade about what happens when Mog doesn’t want to eat her supper…Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Mog the Forgetful Cat with special anniversary editions of her much-loved adventures.From the creator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat comes a delightful family adventure about a really remarkable cat!“One day Mog did not want to eat her supper…”It’s snowing and Mr Thomas is cross at having to take the rubbish out. Who would have thought that all this would lead to three foxes in Mog’s kitchen?Mog the Forgetful Cat was first published fifty years ago, and Mog has been...
ISBN: 9780007171361
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Beautiful anniversary reissue of this children`s classic to celebrate Mog`s 40th birthday. A wonderful Christmas story about everyone`s favourite family cat, complete with a gorgeous Mog print and stunning foiled cover for extra Christmas sparkle! The house is full of strange bustling, there are new noises and new smells, and where is that tree going? Disconcerted by all the unusual activities, Mog escapes to the roof, and there she stays until, unexpectedly, she returns with a bump!
ISBN: 9780007347056
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2023
