The Kyrenia ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC and sunk off the north coast of Cyprus 294-291 BC, was excavated between 1967 and 1972 under the direction of Michael Katzev. The importance of ...

Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by designers today. It develops a critical ...

The basis for our understanding of Leonardos theory of art was, for over 150 years, his Treatise on Painting, which was issued in 1651 in Italian and French. This present volume offers both the first ...

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Amidst the tumult and revolution that characterized the latter half of the 20th century in Latin America and the US, women artists were staking their claim in nearly every field. This wideranging volume examines the ...

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Expanded edition in a bigger format An ideal compendium and reference work on garden and landscape architecture Numerous historical and contemporary images Attractively illustrated and designed, bibliophile edition, top title for Christmas sales 2017 Aims ...

Ábrase en caso de crisis de proyectos' podría leerse en la portada de este libro, dada su utilidad para cualquier estudiante de arquitectura. Y es que surge de las frecuentes dudas que inevitablemente surgen al ...

Praised by Albrecht Dürer as being 'the best in painting,' Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430-1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes ...

Distant blue hills, soaring trees, vast cloudless skies'the majesty of nature has always had the power to lift the human spirit. For some it evokes a sense of timelessness and wonder. For others it reinforces ...

Dibujar el movimiento es en realidad crear una ilusión visual de tiempo y desplazamiento. Los métodos para conseguirlo son sencillos y muy numerosos, pero hay que conocerlos. Desde difuminar o desdibujar un fragmento de lo ...

En este nuevo libro, Stefano Mancuso continúa la investigación que inició en Sensibilidad e inteligencia en el mundo vegetal. Ofrece de nuevo una revolucionaria mirada al mundo de las plantas, en este caso estudiando las ...

The much noted international architects practice, Berger + Parkkinen, was founded in 1995 by Alfred Berger and Tiina Parkkinen, with practices in Vienna and Helsinki. The practice has worked on a wide variety of projects, ...

This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other ...

La Gestión Sostenible del Drenaje está siendo un asunto de especial importancia para la mejora ambiental de los entornos urbanos, la disminución de las inundaciones (cada vez más severas y peligrosas) y la reducción de ...

This book is the culmination of nearly thirty years' work in caring for, studying, and developing the collections in this Museum by Timothy Wilson, long-time Keeper of Western Art. Wilson is well-known as a specialist ...

The region of the Himalayas and the adjoining Tibetan plateau is known for its unique and characteristic vernacular architecture and housing culture which is slowly but surely disappearing. The first part of the book analyses ...

New extended edition of the cult book Collection of hand-written explanations in an A6 notebook Expanded by 17 new statements Why is it really that architects wear black?" was a question put to Cordula Rau ...

Today Michelangelos painting and sculpture is seen most often in museums, while his archi­tectural designs have been left incomplete or modified by others so that some are barely recognizable. But his art was made to ...

A lo largo de la historia, y con distintos objetivos, multitud de artistas se han enfrentado a un mismo reto: capturar en sus obras algo tan cambiante y efímero como es la apariencia de la ...

Para la elaboración de un proyecto es necesario plantear e interpretar un programa de necesidades, analizando e interpretando los datos existentes y proyectando los requerimientos particulares del proyecto, desarrollando esquemas, croquis y dibujos tanto del ...

El objetivo de este texto es conocer e interpretar los conceptos, los símbolos y las convenciones que se utilizan en el dibujo arquitectónico, para representar y comprender los distintos planos que componen el proyecto, así ...

Arquitectura para principiantes es una obra que llama la atención ya desde el comienzo por su atractiva portada, que sin duda es toda una declaración de intenciones hacia lo que nos encontraremos en su interior. ...

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