A comprehensive monograph on Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the great masters of modern architecture

This comprehensive monograph on the renowned twentieth-century architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, explores both his major architectural designs and many of his minor projects in detail. Robert McCarter analyses Wright’s work chronologically, exploring each building’s spatial experience, material and tectonic character, and relationship to the landscape.

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A collection of 50 stone houses from around the world that make the most of this extraordinary, tactile material

A stunning exploration of London’s most beautiful, interesting and unusual members’ club architecture and interiors. Newly commissioned photography, text by Andrew Jones, travel writer for the Financial Times and author of The Buildings of Green Park. Foreword by interior designer Nina Campbell OBE.

S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well ...

This Construction and Design Manual showcases all aspects of planning hospitals, medical practices, and pharmacies. Around 50 projects are presented in their entirety, accompanied by large photographs, true to scale floor plans, and coloured diagrams. The volume also features scientific contributions concerning methods of planning and questions of design. Additional essays on architectural history and typological classifications make this book, spanning over 400  pages, an indispensable refe...

''Zeven grachtenhuizen aan de Keizersgracht in Amsterdam vertellen over hun geschiedenis''

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Als muren konden spreken - If walls could speak

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De totaal ca. 5800 trefwoorden in dit boek behandelen materialen, technieken, onderdelen van gebouwen, gereedschappen en beroepen van hen die bij de bouw betrokken zijn. Tevens zijn er vier glossaria opgenomen (110 pag.): Nederlands-Engels-Frans-Duits en aparte glossaria Duits-Nederlands, Engels-Nederlands en Frans-Nederlands. 'Bouwkundige Termen' geldt onder bouwhistorici als een absoluut standaardwerk. Onmisbaar voor vertalers.

De Heilige Antonius Abtkerk is een uniek twintigste-eeuws monument in Scheveningen. Het exterieur is sober en zakelijk vormgegeven. Het interieur vormt, mede door zijn vele schitterende emailmozaieken en de in art-decostijl uitgevoerde glas-in-loodramen en het bronswerk, een verrassend gesamtkunstwerk. De auteur beschrijft aan de hand van archiefmateriaal en een groot aantal foto's de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de kerk, de binding met Scheveningen, de kunsthistorische waarde en de onderliggend...

Cities around the world are working to build more livable environments, better-quality public spaces, more resilient and sustainable urban economies, lower resource impacts, greater social equity, and other goals of a “new urban agenda.” In this process, the American movement advanced by the Congress for the New Urbanism has been unquestionably influential, if sometimes controversial. This volume presents a distillation of key essays by CNU proponents in their own words, as well as perspe...