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This comprehensive monograph documents the work of Maurizio Cattelan, the best-known Italian artist to have emerged internationally in the 1990s. His work has featured in three editions of the Venice ...

John Nash - architect, town-planner, landscape designer, bridge-builder, engineer and entrepreneur - was born in 1752 and died in 1835, outliving his principal patron, George IV, by five years. After ...

The Architectural Documents series sees the publication of the first monograph on one of the most extraordinary figures on the contemporary architectural scene, Toyo Ito of Japan (born in 1941). ...

Electa presents the complete edition of the work of Dominique Perrault, who achieved worldwide acclaim with the construction of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (1997). Born in 1953, Perrault won ...

This book is the first comprehensive study dedicated exclusively to the work of Achille Castiglioni, one of the great twentieth-century designers. At work since the 1930s, and still today one ...

This book is a monographic study of Sigurd Lewerentz, one of the major architects of the Swedish Modern School, who develops a sensitive and distinctive response to the the most ...

The Sydney Opera House is one of the worlds great icons and a symbol of Australia. The overall image which it has maintained does reflect the brilliant design work that ...

Le Corbusier, the brilliant architect of twentiethÐcentury, always carried along a sketchbook, a kind of diary in which, observing the grand tour tradition and the fads of famous nineteenth century ...

Le Corbusiers notebooks pertaining to his travels in Germany precede the Orient ones, spanning the period from April to May 1911. His travels in Germany, touching on Munich, Berlin, Halle, ...

Internationally renowned as one of the major achievements of modern architecture, the work of Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) is deeply rooted in the culture and landscape of his native Finland. Throughout ...

This book, the last to be completed by the author, is a study of a recurring phenomenon in the history of changing taste in the visual arts, namely the feeling ...

Charles and Ray Eames were the most innovative and broad-based of American designers. The Eames House was one of his few experiments with architecture. Highly successful, it is one of ...

Sydney Opera House is one of the best-known buildings of the late twentieth century and perhaps Australias most potent landmark. The sight of its white shell-like forms is inextricably linked ...

Louis Kahns Salk Institute sits high above the Pacific at La Jolla, southern California. The project presented Kahn with the opportunity to design for a closed community, here research scientists. ...

Villa Mairea is one of the finest houses of the twentieth century. For those familiar with it only from a few images, this book is a revelation. Aalto used his ...

Tadao Ando (b. 1941) is Japans leading architect and a designer with a dazzling international reputation. This complete catalogue of Andos work examines in detail over one hundred buildings and ...

Cai Guo-Qiang is one of the most important Chinese artists to have emerged internationally in the 1990s. Best known for his spectacular gunpowder projects at locations ranging from museum entrances ...

The architecture of ordinary people represents more than ninety per cent of the worlds buildings, including some 800 million homes. Dwellings is about the types and forms of vernacular houses ...

This monograph is the first to document all of the built work by Morphosis, a Los Angeles-based practice headed by Thom Mayne and one of the most influential architecture firms ...

Raphael Soriano (1907-88) was one of the early Case Study architects working in postwar Los Angeles and a talented advocate of the new building materials and construction techniques developed at ...