THAMES & HUDSON

Gustav IIIs Collection including his own and other famous architects drawings, accompanied Gustav IV Adolf during his exile in 1809. The collection was returned to Sweden via a purchase in ...

In the 1910s, immediately after completing his studies, the Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz made a trip to Italy in order to discover classical architecture. Carrying a camera, the photos he ...

Much has been said and written about Picassos life and art, but until now his self-portraits have never been studied and presented in a single book, perhaps because the artist ...

Throughout history, images have been used to reflect the meaning of words and to enhance our understanding of texts. With the invention of mechanized printing in Germany in the 15th ...

The artists workplace has always been an imaginary as well as an actual location, an idealized utopia as well as the domain of dirty, back-breaking work. Written descriptions, paintings, prints ...

Vilhelm Lauritzen (1894-1984) was one of Denmarks most significant architects of his time and one of the most important developers of Danish modernism. Today, a number of his projects remain ...

How does art respond to contemporary social questions? How especially does media art address the themes that move us most? The Kramlich Collection of time-based media art'video, film, slides, digital, ...

Featuring nineteen home-building and design strategies that are direct, original and often surprisingly simple, this inspirational sourcebook presents a mix of new technology and time-tested vernacular methods that will change ...

Following on from David Adjaye - Works: Houses, Pavilions, Installations, Buildings, 1995-2007, published by Thames & Hudson in 2020, this book covers the impressive portfolio of work created by the ...

WOHA is at the vanguard of urban and ecological revitalization in Singapore and a pioneer of Southeast Asias green-building revolution. Founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994, ...

The arts of Africa, Oceania and Native America famously inspired twentieth-century modernist artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Ernst. The politics of such stimulus, however, have long been highly contentious: ...

This is a history of architecture, politics and power. Boris Iofan (1891-1976) made his mark as Stalins architect, both in the grand projects he achieved, such as the House on ...

KHA has grown through the decades from a small studio in Singapore, known for redefining boutique hotels and resorts in Asia, to an architectural practice that embraces a distinguished global ...

Recent decades have seen significant growth in the interest, acquisition and exhibition of modern Indian and South Asian art and artists by major international museums. This essential textbook, primarily aimed ...

Although most of Inken and Hinrich Baller's buildings were developed within the tight constraints of the social housing program in West Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, they always offer ...

This illustrated, edited collection of essays brings together for the first time some of the pioneering art historian Linda Nochlins most important writings on modernism and modernity from across her ...

This monograph on the Barcelona-based architectural firm Barozzi Veiga presents about 30 projects from 2004 to the present - a selection of the most important works developed around the world ...

Figurative painting is due a reappraisal. In this passionately argued volume the distinguished writer and artist Timothy Hyman cuts a new path through the tangle of twentieth-century art. The World ...

Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film-stills and mass-media imagery. In this new, updated edition of In Camera, Martin Harrison reveals how these sources informed some of Bacons most ...

The Baltic States - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - retain strong cultural identities that have survived despite centuries of colonization by powerful neighbouring lands. Following the First World War, a ...