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Biennials and Beyond documents 25 of the most significant and pioneering exhibitions that took place between 1962 and 2002. Some shows have been selected for their innovative installation, others for ...

20th-Century World Architecture portrays, for the first time, an overview of the finest built architecture from around the world completed between 1900 and 1999. The unprecedented global scope of this ...

Richard Meier (b.1934) is one of America's most distinguished architects and the winner in 1984 of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. This detailed monograph is a comprehensive study of his ...

Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the ...

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was the greatest artist of the Northern European Renaissance. Dürer's virtuoso woodcuts and engravings ensured his fame throughout the Continent during his own lifetime. Yet he also ...

The Sites of Ancient Greece presents 150 of Georg Gerster's most spectacular and evocative photographs of the landscapes and architecture - both ancient and modern - of Greece, a country ...

A Visual Inventory is a selection of images chosen and annotated by John Pawson from his personal archive. A selection of images from the archive of acclaimed architectural designer John ...

A contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Gunnar Asplund pursued a unique architecture that displayed a blend of classical tradition, vernacular architecture and Modernism. ove all, he achieved a ...

Truly far-ranging -- both conceptually and geographically -- The Future of Architecture Since 1889 is a rich, compelling history that will shape future thinking out this period for years to ...

Nineteen stunning houses by Latin Americas most innovative contemporary architects, including 2006 Pritzker Prize-winner Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mathias Klotz, Angelo Bucci and LBC Arquitectos.

'Twenty Houses by Twenty Architects' presents twenty houses designed by the most celebrated architects of the moment, in a wide range of countries. Technical data, plans and a biographical profile ...

Few architects shaped the course of architectural history as dramatically as Frank Lloyd Wright. While Wright has long been the focus of scholarly debate, among his other many accomplishments during ...

The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled between two covers. This revolutionary and unprecedented virtual art museum in a book, features 992 oversized pages of nearly 2,700 ...

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated study of the Katsura Imperial Villa, Japan, considered the most outstanding example of 17th century Japanese architecture and precursor of modern tendencies Includes a wealth ...

Panorama d'un mouvement artistique de la 2e moitié du 19e siècle en Angleterre... Moins connu que l'Art nouveau, le Mouvement esthétique, qui anima la Grande-Bretagne de 1860 à 1900, fut ...

Diener & Diener is an international architecture office located in Basel, Switzerland. They are known for their sophisticated, subtle take on Modernism, which combines intellectually rigorous thinking about urbanism, history ...

Un estudio clave sobre el lugar que ocupa la fotografía en la historia del arte reciente Artistas internacionales de las últimas cuatro décadas representados por una obra o una colección ...

Michelangelo (1475 - 1564), one of the great artistic figures of the Renaissance, is best known as a sculptor and painter. However he was also an important and highly original ...

ohn Pawson is an architect and designer whose exceptional work combines an essential simplicity with a keen attention to the details of everyday life and human experience. His pared-down yet ...

It has been said that the Sendai Mediatheque (2000), with its revolutionary approach to engineering, marks a turning point not only in Toyo Ito's architecture but in contemporary architecture in ...