THAMES & HUDSON

In many ways the history of civilization is a history of our relationship with nature and landscape. Christophe Girot sets out to chronicle this intimate connection, drawing on all aspects ...

Prototyping is an essential part of designers repertoires, allowing them to test their projects from structural, aesthetic, and technical standpoints. Prototyping for Architects examines how architects are combining new digital ...

Peter Stutchbury's award-winning architecture continues to stimulate a new and increasing awareness of the potential for designing with the Australian landscape and its environment. His architecture has attracted international acclaim ...

The Haggadot commissioned by wealthy patrons in the Middle Ages are among the most beautifully decorated Hebrew manuscripts, and the Brother Haggadah - so-called because of its close relationship to ...

The first survey in decades of the witty Belgian conceptualist Marcel Broodthaers' extraordinary artistic output placed him at the center of international activity during the transformative decades of the 1960s ...

A global overview of the most exciting lighting designs for interior spaces, featuring the latest interactive technologies, energy-efficient systems and otherworldly experiencesBOOK ARCHITECTURAL Light makes an architectural space livable, shapes ...

An introductory history of haute couture in the 20th century, decade by decade What defined the way women dressed in the 1930s? When did haute couture become off-the-peg? How did ...

When Cecil Beaton died in 1980, it was not surprising that one of his tailors was telephoned with the news before Buckingham Palace, despite his close association with the Royal ...

The richness of Wassily Kandinskys life, work and thought make him one of the leading figures of 20th-century art. He was a founder member of Der Blaue Reiter and his ...

Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise, or box in a suitcase, is a portable miniature monograph including sixty-nine reproductions of the artist's own work. Between 1935 and 1940, he created a deluxe edition of ...

This guide will enhance the appreciation some of the worlds greatest art and architecture for visitors to the great Maya sites of Mexico and Central America and museum-goers. In the ...

Garden and landscape designers are adept at interpreting outdoor spaces and transforming them into creatively conceived environments. Their ideas rarely come spontaneously:?rather, the thoughtful designer considers a space from different ...

Published to accompany a major international exhibition at the Barbican, London, this definitive monograph explores the era-defining work of the Eames Office, an active 'laboratory for over four decades, where ...

Introduces the 'Smart Light' movement that is illuminating and enriching our urban spaces and nighttime surroundings with spectacular new lighting technology In recent years, new lighting technologies have been used ...

With three major films-East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant-all releasedwithin a year of each other and within months of his tragic death, James Deancaptured the world's imagination ...

Matisse in the Barnes Foundation is a vibrant celebration-slip-cased and beautifullyproduced-of the Barnes's extraordinary Matisse collection; comprised of fifty-nine works from every stage of the artist's career, it is among ...

The work of Anselm Kiefer begins with a crucial question: how, after the Holocaust, can one be an artist within the German tradition? Born at the end of the Second ...

Established on the global stage by the international success and influence of architects such as Peter Zumthor and Herzog & de Meuron, todays generation of architects in Switzerland draws on ...