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 ...

It is well known that architecture has the potential to support and promote ideological propaganda. In the totalitarian regimes of twentieth-century Europe, political leaders clearly understood that potential and knew ...

A selection of twelve previously published papers by Ernst Grube which examine specific materials used in Islamic decorative arts. Six papers examine pottery and tiles, one considers Ilkhanis stucco work ...

A testament to the Detroit Institute of Arts rich and diverse collection, this impressive catalogue brings together a selection of the museums masterworks in American, European, African, Asian, Native American, ...

An in-depth look at the influence of Zaha Hadid's pedagogy on her practice and the architecture field The first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and the designer of ...

Opened in 1992, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam is a key design in the portfolio of Rem Koolhaas and OMA, the renowned firm Koolhaas co-founded in 1975. It is part of ...

This eighth edition of Best of Austria offers a survey of the cre-ative and economic achievements of Austrian architecture firms and the countryâeuross building culture in general, exemplified by the ...

This book arose from two observations: that building design in the first decades of the 21st century accepts and pursues some increasingly odd and disturbing trends; and that there seems ...

The name Montessori is widely and inextricably associated with an entirely child-centered and careful pedagogy and education of children. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian physician, reform educator, and philosopher ...

Around 500 illustrations in the book are supplemented with texts by Marc Angélil, one of the founders of agps, and Cary Siress, architect and professor at the Nanjing Universitys Graduate ...

A provocative study of a freedman painter that recognizes the labor of enslaved artists and artisans in seventeenth-century Spain Diego Velázquezs portrait of Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608-1670) has long ...

The German Architectural Annual, edited by the German Architecture Museum (DAM), has been documenting contemporary architectural projects in Germany for the past 40 years. This year´s edition of the annual ...

Scenic Architecture Office always starts with responding to needs from body & mind, nature, and society, and tries to establish a balanced and dynamic relevance among them through ontological orders ...

Arquitectura-G is a young architectural studio based in Barcelona run by Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, Igor Urdampilleta that began its professional career in the midst of the economic ...

Robin Donaldson: Hill House Montecito Camilo Rebelo: PROMISE Katsufumi Kubota: KI-HOUSE Eric Logan: Logan Pavilion Ryue Nishizawa: Inaba House Leopold Banchini: Marra Marra Shack Natsuko Kiuchi: Outside-less House Daisuke Ibano ...

Works Morphosis: Orange County Museum of Art Costa Mesa, California, U.S.A. Morphosis: Vialia Estación de Vigo Vigo, Spain SANAA: Art Gallery of New South Wales Expansion Sydney, New South Wales, ...

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) is best known for his religious subject matter, yet some of his most iconic works depict secular themes. Celebrating Murillos genre paintings and shedding new light ...

Including Indigenous works from the southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, the Isthmo-Colombian Area, and the Andes of South America, this book showcases more than 100 masterpieces of art from the ancient ...

The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most accounts miss the defining impact of the periods youth culture, largely incubated in California, on artists who came of ...

As a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, ...