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
A townhouse is a residence that combines the best amenities of a single-family home and a condominium. This book provides a look at three types of town house projects that are popular in urban areas and close-in suburbia. It features projects from around the country including Baltimore, San Francisco, Miami, and in smaller metropolitan areas.
ISBN: 978-0-06-113892-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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
Modernist ideas have pervaded every form of design, from graphics to architecture, as well as being a key influence on art, literature and music. In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations. He explores the Modernist movements of the early twentieth century – Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Purism – and concludes with the ‘post-modernist’ experiments of the 1980s and 1990s. He shows how the ‘tradition of the new’ became the creative credo of a small group of progressive artists and how, with the emigration of leading German modernists to Britain and the USA in the 1930s, the theory and practice of Modernism became widespread. What had...
ISBN: 0714840998
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
The twentieth century has produced numerous innovative and memorable designs for private houses, many of which have become architectural icons worldwide. In the 1920s and 1930s the private house was the means by which architects established the early Modern Movement, and clients looked favourably on commissioning the avant-garde. Today, the house is enjoying an architectural renaissance, as private clients have returned to architects to express their wealth and status. The result is a collection of innovative projects that demonstrates some of the real concerns of world-famous architects, and displays the talents of young designers eager to establish their reputations. The thirty recent houses from around the world included in this book...
ISBN: 0714838373
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
In Lucy and the Piano Player, by Elizabeth Neblett, students read about Lucy Karbowski, who falls in love with a piano player. Her family disapproves, but is he the right man? Modern Dramas will keep your students turning the pages to find out what happens next. Each book in thie four-level series tells the lively, action-filled story of a memorable main character.
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
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
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
