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Designed and built in only 15 months, the restructuring of the former Arsenale at La Maddalena, in Sardinia, is a memorable accomplishment. Initiated with the purpose of hosting the 2009 ...

A profoundly humane architecture that celebrates a sense of place, context, ecological sensitivity, and an innovative use of materials. Widely acclaimed for designs that feature environmental sensitivity and meticulous attention ...

An authoritative survey of the masters of twentieth-century modernist architecture in Los Angeles. This revisionist study explores the history of modernist architecture in Greater Los Angeles from the early twentieth ...

The first book to document the Tokyo-based architectural firm, one of the most innovative practices working today. Achieving near cult status among architectural students around the world, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and ...

Indisputably the grande dame of modern design, Andrée Putman burst onto the scene twenty-five years ago with the graphic, black-and-white interiors of the Morgans Hotel in New York. Since then ...

Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 5 comprehensively documents Meiers work since 2004. This extensively illustrated presentation vividly conveys the purity and power of Meiers vision. Thirty residential, commercial, and civic projects ...

This comparative history of American architecture, social spaces, and engineered environments'organized by style, and then by chronology'is for the general reader. Within its heavily illustrated pages, Tom Martinson traces two ...

One of the great architects of our time, Frank Gehry has revolutionized the use of materials in design and redefined how architects use computers as a design tool to advance ...

The English Country House takes a look at the architecture and interiors of sixty-two stunning houses in a range of architectural styles spanning seven centuries'from the medieval Stokesay Castle to ...

Graduating from Antwerps Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion ...

This large-format monograph is the first to chronicle exclusively Shigeru Bans explorations in "paper architecture." Informed by a thorough and early interest in sustainable forms, his innovative practice pioneered the ...

Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London, one of today's most important institutions collecting and exhibiting contemporary art, this mammoth book is the most ...

This is the most comprehensive publication to date, and the only book in print, on the work of Frank Auerbach, a painter who has become one of the pre-eminent artists ...

Famous for the "bias cut," Madeleine Vionnet's sophisticated approach to couture remains a pervasive influence today. Eschewing artificial and restrictive padding and stiffening, she liberated the female form with designs ...

A comprehensive look at the eagerly anticipated New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, and the celebrated collection it houses. Marking the opening of the New Acropolis Museum, this book examines ...

Ruven Afanador-one of today's most respected and in-demand editorial and fashion photographers-presents Mil Besos, a unique and arresting vision of the flamenco women of Spain. Often photographed wearing haute couture ...

A renowned gallerist and collector, the late Ileana Sonnabend acquired an impressive collection of seminal work directly from the Warhol studio at the time of its making. Sonnabend was an ...

Tracey Emin has stirred controversy as well as acclaim since she rose to fame as the most highly publicized of the infamous Young British Artists. Though denounced by conservative critics ...

At age 100, Oscar Niemeyer is universally acknowledged as a master of form, color, and light'the last living Modern master. Niemeyer is known primarily for his large-scale institutional and civic ...

Gio Ponti (1891-1979) was one of Italys most influential designers whose work includes automobiles, furniture, interiors, and buildings. Working in a multitude of materials, he is a pivotal figure in ...