Thứ Sáu, 30 tháng 4, 2010

Paulo Mendes da Rocha: The 2006 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate

Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Paulo Mendes da Rocha (Photo by Ana Ottoni)

The Hyatt Foundation which established the Pritzker Prize in 1979 has awarded the 2006 prize to a Brazilian architect -- the second Brazilian in the history of the prize to be chosen for the $100,000 award.

Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been chosen as the 2006 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The 78-year old architect becomes the second laureate from Brazil, Oscar Niemeyer being the first, chosen in 1988.

In announcing the jury's choice, Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation, said, "Mendes da Rocha has shown a deep understanding of space and scale through the great variety of buildings he has designed, from private residences, housing complexes, a church, museums and sports stadia to urban plans for public space. While few of his buildings were realized outside of Brazil, the lessons to be learned from his work, both as a practicing architect and a teacher, are universal."

The formal ceremony for what has come to be known throughout the world as architecture's highest honor will be held on May 30, 2006 in Istanbul, Turkey. At that time, a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion are bestowed.

The new laureate began his career in the 1950s and was part of what was then considered the avant-garde in São Paulo, known loosely as creators of the Paulist brutalist architecture -- practicioners whose work, often using simple materials and forms, emphasized an ethical dimension of architecture. He is widely considered the most outstanding architect of Brazil. He has steadfastly devoted his career to the creation of buildings and spaces guided by a sense of responsibility toward the residents of his buildings and the broader society.

During a career that spans six decades, he has maintained his own practice, taught for many years at the University of São Paulo, and contributed to the professional community through his work as president of the Brazilian Institute for Architects. He has lectured extensively throughout South America and Europe. He has received many awards, but it was the Mies van der Rohe Prize for Latin American Architecture in 2000 that brought international recognition.

Pritzker Prize jury chairman, Lord Palumbo, commented, "Mendes da Rocha brings the joyful lilt of Brazil to his work...never afraid of innovation or of taking risks...indeed, a worthy choice."

Among his most widely known built works is the Brazilian Sculpture Museum, a non-traditional concept of a museum, nestled partly underground in a garden in São Paulo. He made bold use of a giant concrete beam on the exterior that traverses the site.

His Forma Furniture Showroom in the same city is considered an icon of his approach to architecture. The front has a window that spans the length of the building, opening the building to the cityscape, a recurring theme of his work.

His renovation of São Paulo's oldest Fine Arts Museum, the Pinacoteca do Estado, affirmed his understanding and respect for Brazil's legacy -- the basic structure of the 19th century building was simply restored with some striking new functional additions.

Mendes da Rocha revitalized a square in the heart of São Paulo, called Patriarch Plaza, adding an enormous steel canopy that appears to float over the square.

Internationally, he was a finalist in the competition for the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1972, and was the architect of Brazil's Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan in 1970. Currently, in Galicia in the northwest part of Spain, he is developing a master plan for the Technological City, part of the University of Vigo. His task is to integrate new buildings -- library, engineering departments, student residences, administration offices -- designed by several different Spanish architects into an overall landscape scheme that also fosters connections between buildings.

Martha Thorne, speaking as the executive director of the Pritzker Prize, quoting from the jury citation which states, "Inspired by the principles and language of modernism, he brings a renewed force to each of his projects through his bold use of simple materials and a deep understanding of the poetics of space."

Juror Carlos Jimenez from Houston who is professor of architecture at Rice University, said, "...he builds with exceptional economy to achieve an architecture of profound social engagement, an architecture that transcends the limits of construction to dazzle with poetic rigor and imagination."

Balkrishna Doshi, Pritzker Juror from India, spoke of Mendes da Rocha's work, "It is not impossible to create generous architecture even in situations with minimum resources and numerous constraints. What one needs is a largeness of vision and a desire to create something that people can touch, feel, and in which they can participate."

"For Mendes da Rocha, the meaning of architecture is not to create isolated buildings, but to respond to the eternal question of human habitation. His answers are at the same time classical and audacious: a new força geográfica for a new society," is juror Rolf Fehlbaum's comment.

Another juror, Victoria Newhouse, says, "The jury was deeply impressed by this practitioner's ability to create powerful structures working within the technical limitations of his culture."

Juror Karen Stein commented, "As the translation of his surname -- "of the rock" -- implies, he has steadfastly adhered to the experimental approach upon which he established his own architectural practice over half a century ago, consistently pushing the sculptural limits of structural form to surprising and often poetic effect."

The purpose of the Pritzker Architecture Prize is to honor annually a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.

The distinguished jury that selected Mendes da Rocha as the 2006 Laureate consists of its chairman, Lord Palumbo, internationally known architectural patron of London, chairman of the trustees, Serpentine Gallery, former chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, former chairman of the Tate Gallery Foundation, and former trustee of the Mies van der Rohe Archive at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and alphabetically: Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, architect, planner and professor of architecture of Ahmedabad, India; Rolf Fehlbaum, chairman of the board, Vitra in Basel, Switzerland; Frank O. Gehry, architect and Pritzker Laureate 1989 from Los Angeles, California; Carlos Jimenez, professor, Rice University School of Architecture, principal, Carlos Jimenez Studio in Houston, Texas; Victoria Newhouse architectural historian and author, founder and director of the Architectural History Foundation, New York, New York; and Karen Stein, editorial director of Phaidon Press in New York.

The prize presentation ceremony moves to different locations around the world each year, paying homage to historic and contemporary architecture. Last year, the ceremony was held in Chicago at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, designed by Frank Gehry, in Millennium Park. The previous year, it was in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. In the years prior, ceremonies have been at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain; Michelangelo's Campidoglio in Rome, Italy; Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, in Charlottesville, Virginia; as well as at the Jerusalem Archaeological Park.

The list of venues goes on to include not only a great many of the great museums in the United States, but also many other countries including France, England, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Mexico and Japan.

"This year, by going to Istanbul," explains Hyatt Foundation president, Thomas Pritzker, "we hope to increase the awareness of architecture in a country that has historically been the crossroads of eastern and western cultures for many centuries."

The late Philip Johnson was the first Pritzker Laureate in 1979. The late Luis Barragán of Mexico was named in 1980. The late James Stirling of Great Britain was elected in 1981, Kevin Roche in 1982, Ieoh Ming Pei in 1983, and Richard Meier in 1984. Hans Hollein of Austria was the 1985 Laureate. Gottfried Böhm of Germany received the prize in 1986. The late Kenzo Tange was the first Japanese architect to receive the prize in 1987; Fumihiko Maki was the second from Japan in 1993; and Tadao Ando the third in 1995. Robert Venturi received the honor in 1991, and Alvaro Siza of Portugal in 1992. Christian de Portzamparc of France was elected Pritzker Laureate in 1994. The late Gordon Bunshaft of the United States and Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil, were named in 1988. Frank Gehry was the recipient in 1989, the late Aldo Rossi of Italy in 1990. In 1996, Rafael Moneo of Spain was the Laureate; in 1997 Sverre Fehn of Norway; in 1998 Renzo Piano of Italy, in 1999 Sir Norman Foster of the UK, and in 2000, Rem Koolhaas of the Netherlands. In 2001, two architects from Switzerland received the honor: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Australian Glenn Murcutt received the prize in 2002. Jørn Utzon of Denmark was honored in 2003; Zaha Hadid of the UK in 2004; and Thom Mayne of the United States in 2005.

The field of architecture was chosen by the Pritzker family because of their keen interest in building due to their involvement with developing the Hyatt Hotels around the world; also because architecture was a creative endeavor not included in the Nobel Prizes. The procedures were modeled after the Nobels, with the final selection being made by the international jury with all deliberations and voting in secret. Nominations are continuous from year to year with hundreds of nominees from countries all around the world being considered each year.

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Architectural Monographs 11 - Mies van der Rohe - European Works


Architectural Monographs 11 - Mies van der Rohe - European Works
by Sandra Honey, Frank Russell
Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition (October 1, 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 085670685X
ISBN-13: 978-0856706851

Book Description:
A somewhat essential book for the interested student, it lists
out what I believe are the great master's early works before
the Nazi era ended his days in Europe. Though the texts are
brief in description, the black and white photographs screams
for hours of close attention and observation, for though unclear
they are, eaten by the hunger of time, they offer the reader a
different scope about his works. From traditional masonry to
steel and glass, the book offers little stand about van der
Rohe's lines and designs. It doesnt offer much argument if his
steel and glass structures are very much derived from the
proportions of the Romans (the conventional school of thought
today offer this as the truth), nor does it explain much about
his calculated dealings with Hitler's architectural department
before he got caught up and subsequently branded a degenerate,
nor does it elaborate anything on the communist-related projects
he had done before. His later collaborator Ms.Reich does get a
brief mention, but as in the rest of this rather thin monograph,
everything's brief, but makes a good quick reference into the
almost unknown timezones of this 20th century, and perhaps of
all time, greatest master architect.

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Thứ Ba, 27 tháng 4, 2010

Concept for Living - 05/2010


Concept for Living - #138 - May 2010

For over ten years Concept For Living magazine has sought out the most exciting interior design projects that the North has to offer, showcased a diverse selection of cutting-edge, design-led products and provided Northern design enthusiasts with a creative commentary on the interiors industry. Jam packed with readers' homes and gardens, product features, interviews, profiles and regional design news, Concept For Living is the must-buy design magazine for the north of the UK.

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Style at Home - 06/2010


Style at Home - June 2010

STYLE AT HOME brings an exciting and stylish voice to the world of home decorating. It's the primary choice for Canadians who are interested in living in style.

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Thứ Hai, 26 tháng 4, 2010

Archmodels vol.62 - lowpolygon 3D buildings

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Canadian Architect - 04/2010


Canadian Architect - April 2010

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Architect Magazine - 04/2010

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Architect Magazine - April 2010

ARCHITECT provides a complete suite of information services for the 21st century architect. With breaking news, savvy business tips, and state-of-the-art design inspiration, ARCHITECT is the place to go for professional success. ARCHITECT offers architecture news, market intelligence, business and technology solutions, continuing education, building products, and other resources for practicing architects.

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Archmodels vol.60

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Thứ Năm, 22 tháng 4, 2010

New York Spaces - 05/2010


New York Spaces - May 2010
In short, New York Spaces is dedicated to helping affluent, acquisitive users enhance their private worlds — making it a remarkable showcase for the design community and advertisers alike.

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The Essential Building Product Review - Spring 2010


The Essential Building Product Review - Spring 2010
English | 116 pages | PDF | 10.68 MB

The Essential Building Product Review - Online version for building specifiers, contractors and building managers across the private and public sector.

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Thứ Tư, 21 tháng 4, 2010

The Pritzker Architecture Prize 2004 - Zaha Hadid


The Pritzker Architecture Prize 2004 - Zaha Hadid

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The Pritzker 1998 - RENZO PIANO


The Pritzker architecture award 1998 - RENZO PIANO

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Archmodels vol.59 - modern furnitures

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Archmodels vol. 59
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Archmodels vol.58 - Plants

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Thứ Ba, 20 tháng 4, 2010

Norman Foster - The Pritzker 1999


The Pritzker 1999 - Norman Foster

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NZ House & Garden - 05/2010


New Zealand House & Garden - May 2010
New Zealand's favourite home and lifestyle magazine, NZ House & Garden celebrates the homes, lifestyles and creativity of New Zealanders. Always a delight, NZ House & Garden explores an extraordinary variety of inspiring, beautiful and intriguing homes and gardens.

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Garden Design - 05/2010


Garden Design - May/June 2010

Garden Design Magazine: If you long for a garden that blooms with style and color, then youll want to read Garden Design. This magazine features eye-popping photos, understandable illustrations and useful advice on how to create a picture-perfect garden. Writing in the magazine, the editors claim, is intended to be “as stylish as the gardens we feature.

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Thứ Bảy, 17 tháng 4, 2010

Eben Interiors - 03/2010 - N.65


Eben Interiors - March 2010
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EBEN Interiors is magazine of decoration, interior and decorative arts, written nowadays. Contemporary design, reports of housing, latest news... with precision and professionalism.

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Landscape Architecture - 05/2010

Landscape Architecture - the magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects provides timely information on built landscapes and new techniques for ecologically sensitive planning and design.

Landscape Architecture - May 2010

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Hotel Design - 04/2010

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Hotel Design - April 2010

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Thứ Sáu, 16 tháng 4, 2010

Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader


Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press | ISBN: 0816647569 | edition 2006 | PDF | 160 pages | 11 mb
American cities' penchants for single-use zoning and free-market development in pursuit of economic growth have produced problems that have long been recognized: grueling commutes and dependency on automobiles, social isolation, expensive public infrastructure, needless destruction of countryside. Eminent domain disputes rage on, despite recent Supreme Court decisions. Outdated public housing and failed single-function projects litter the landscape. Addressing these urgent problems and debating the public's role in urban planning, the contributors to Urban Planning Today report on real projects in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, Omaha, Portland, and Vancouver. They bring varying, and sometimes divergent, perspectives from backgrounds in urban design and development, city and regional planning, criticism, and law to bear on the mixed bag of results observed in these cities.

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Libraries and Learning Resource Centres (Second Edition)


Libraries and Learning Resource Centres (Second Edition)
Brian Edwards,
Architectural Press | ISBN: 1856176193 | 2009-04-29 | PDF | 288 pages | 14 Mb

Libraries and Learning Resource Centres is a comprehensive reference text examining the changing role and design of library buildings. Critical evaluations of international case studies demonstrate the principles of library design.
Available for the first time in full colour, the second edition of the work focuses particularly on the important question of access and design in public libraries. Updated case studies and technical data allow the professional architect to use the book directly in planning library projects.

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Acoustic Detailing for Multi-Storey Residential Buildings


Acoustic Detailing for Multi-Storey Residential Buildings: A. G. Way, G. H. (Graham H.) Couchman
Steel Construction Institute | ISBN: 1859421539 | 2004 | PDF (OCR) | 44 pages | 1.28 Mb
This publication provides guidance on acoustic details for steel framed residential buildings. Special consideration of acoustic performance is required in order to satisfy Part E of the Building Regulations. The acoustic details given in this publication are expected to satisfy the requirements of the Building Regulations as their performance has been assessed based on test results of similar details. Where appropriate, the details presented have been based on Robust Details (RDs) and amended as necessary to increase the scope provided by the RDs. Details are given for the junction of external walls with separating floors and separating walls with separating floors. The floor constructions included are in-situ concrete slabs with shallow profiled metal deck supported on hot-rolled steel sections, in-situ concrete slabs with deep profiled metal deck supported on ASB (Asymmetric Beams) or RHS edge beams and precast concrete units supported on hot-rolled steel sections. The wall constructions included are light steel framing and masonry blockwork. Floating floor treatments (with expected performance values), ceiling treatment options and details for services are also included.

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Frank Lloyd Wright (by Robert McCarter)


Frank Lloyd Wright
by Robert McCarter
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This monograph explores the underlying themes and principles of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture. It examines the consistent and systematic qualities underlying all of Wright's designs. The text's chronological presentation, which emphasizes key designs and those related to them thematically, is paralleled by an examination of the development of three primary principles, simultaneously active in Wright's work, and singled out by him as being of fundamental importance in his understanding of architecture. First, Wright's development of concepts and methods for making architectural space; how these ideas derived from his designs for interior spaces and their experience; and how in Wright's architecture the occupant's movement (position) was critical to the experience of the spatial order (composition). Secondly, Wright's development of concepts and methods for ordering space through the manner of its construction; how this order determined his search for "the nature of materials" and structures. The author then considers the third aspect of Wright's designs: the architect's development of concepts and methods for establishing the relationship between his architecture and the landscape; and how he designed buildings where landscape, interior space and construction materials are woven together to become the setting for the repeated rituals of daily life.

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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Bio-Bibliography


Frank Lloyd Wright: A Bio-Bibliography
(Bio-Bibliographies in Art and Architecture)

Review
“Langmead's comprehensive biobibliography, a welcome and well-organized addition to the flourishing literature about Wright....This comprehensive work, whose entries, if enumerated separately, would total about 6,000, has a marked emphasis on foreign-language resources that are omitted from previous Wright bibliographies....Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and higher.”–Choice
Book Description

A comprehensive guide to the literature on Frank Lloyd Wright.
Product Description
Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the 20th century's best-known architects. Over 40 years after his death, historical and critical comment and debate are increasing and controversy continues to surround him. This volume is a chronologically arranged, annotated bibliography of English- and foreign-language sources including over 3,500 primary entries, with thousands more connected references, presented alphabetically by decades and genres.
About the Author
DONALD LANGMEAD is Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of South Australia.

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Thứ Năm, 15 tháng 4, 2010

Wrightscapes - Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs


Wrightscapes - Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs
by Charles and Berdeana Aguar
Hardcover: 374 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (May 16, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071377689
ISBN-13: 978-0071377683

Book Description - From Library Journal
Could there be anything more to say about the 20th century's
most written-about architect? Landscape architecture professor
Charles Aguar (Univ. of Georgia) and wife Berdeana find a
fresh perspective by examining Frank Lloyd Wright's work
through the eyes of environmentally conscious landscape
designers. Backed by a decade's fieldwork, interviews, and
archival sleuthing, the authors offer highly informed critiques
of 85 designs that span Wright's 70-year career. Familiar
buildings are seen in an entirely new light as the authors
scrutinize each structure's interrelationship with its grounds,
plantings, and "hardscape" the terraces, walls, and planters
Wright used to anchor his buildings to their settings. They
emphasize Wright's prescient advocacy of sound environmental
planning. Unfortunately, the Aguars' penchant for speculation
sometimes leads to head-scratching conclusions Wright as
feng-shui master? and the book's cramped typeface, eye-straining
illustrations, and perfunctory index detract from a text that
deserves much better presentation. However, by and large, this
lucid, solidly researched analysis will open new avenues of
appreciation and inquiry for Wright fans and scholars. Highly
recommended for academic and large public libraries, and wherever
there is an interest in green architecture and sustainable
landscapes. David Soltesz, Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, OH
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Frank Lloyd Wright - Bruno Zevi

Frank Lloyd Wright-Bruno Zevi
Frank Lloyd Wright
Bruno Zevi

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Thứ Tư, 14 tháng 4, 2010

Frank Lloyd Wright (Usonia)


«Frank Lloyd Wright, Usonia»
Eduardo Sacriste,
Nobuko | ISBN: 950957502X | 2001 | PDF | 168 pages | 8.5 MB

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Frank Lloyd Wright (Taschen Publishing)

frank lloyd  wright - taschen by you.
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright
Taschen Publishing | ISBN: 3822827576 | 2004 |
Widely thought to be the greatest American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a true pioneer, both artistically and technically. At a time when reinforced concrete and steel were considered industrial building materials, Wright boldly made use of them to build private homes. His prairie house concept—that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure—was the driving force behind some of his most famous houses and became a model for rural architecture across America. Wright`s designs for office and public buildings were equally groundbreaking and unique. From Fallingwater to New York`s Guggenheim Museum, his works are among the most famous in the history of architecture.
>Text is in English, German and French.
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:

* approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
* introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
* the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
* an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings.

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Revista de Paisajismo N.36 - 02/2010


Revista de Paisajismo - N.36 -February 2010
(Landscape Magazine)
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Technical journal of professional landscaping.
Our goal is to turn Landscaping in the benchmark which reflects the progress of the landscaping and the concerns of practitioners in order to ensure that landscaping contributes, ultimately, the sector's growth. To do this we have the collaboration of prominent landscape architects, technicians and industry experts, both nationally and internationally, in addition to an editorial team with years of experience in the field and look forward to the project.

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Thứ Ba, 13 tháng 4, 2010

Frank Lloyd Wright - Trewin Copplestone

Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright - Trewin Copplestone

Gramercy Books, 1999 | ISBN 0-517-16115-X | PDF | 87 pages | 56,4 MB
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867—April 9, 1959) was one of the most prominent and influential architects during the first half of the 20th century. He developed a series of highly individual styles over his extraordinarily long architectural career (spanning the years 1887-1959) and influenced the entire course of American architecture and building. To this day, he remains probably America's most famous architect.

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A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects


A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 2000-09

From the Publisher
"Three hundred full-color illustrations and elucidating text showcase the work of the Taliesin Architects, a firm started by the students and coworkers of legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright after his death in 1959. Guided by a desire to create buildings in harmony with nature; to make a positive contribution to the way people live; and to keep Wright's vision alive, this book offers an overview of Taliesin Architects' work of the past forty years and a succinct summary of his design principles.

"John Rattenbury worked and studied with Frank Lloyd Wright for eight years. Since he cofounded Taliesin Architects, he has designed more than two hundred architectural and planning projects. Rattenbury teaches design and professional practice at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and lectures throughout the United States.

"296 pages, size: 10.5" square. 300 color photographs and drawings. Casebound book, with dust jacket. ISBN: 0-7649-1366-2."--© Pomegranate


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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Visual Encyclopedia - Iain Thomson

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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Visual Encyclopedia - Iain Thomson
Publisher: PRC Publishing LTD. | ISBN:1571451870 | May 13, 1999 | English |

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Thứ Hai, 12 tháng 4, 2010

SPA-DE (Space & Design)

Spa-de
Images Publishing Group, "SPA-DE Space & Design"
Images Publishing Dist A/C | ISBN: 1920744762 | February 2005 | PDF | 168 pages | 8 Mb

Product Description
SPA-DE is a newly emerging series for interior architecture and design, focusing on commercial spaces. SPA-DE presents an international selection of distinctive restaurant, bar, caf,, boutique, speciality shop, hotel, beauty salon, office, museum, space installation, display design, etc., by the world's hippest interior designers and architects.

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Chủ Nhật, 11 tháng 4, 2010

New Retail




Raul A. Barreneche, New Retail
Phaidon Press Publishing | ISBN: 0714844993 | 2005 | PDF | 155 pages | 44 Mb

A survey of 24 of the world's most innovative new retail stores from around the world by renowned architects such as Frank Gehry, Herzog + de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas and Renzo Piano Documents a wide variety of projects, from flagship stores for luxury brands to eclectic boutiques, department stores, shopping centres and supermarkets Each project is presented in depth with superior colour photographs of exteriors and interiors, plans and drawings, and descriptive text by a widely published architecture critic Includes projects in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Prague, São Paulo, Austria, Germany and The Netherlands

About the Author
Raul A. Barreneche, a New York-based editor and critic, has been writing about architecture and design for more than ten years. A former executive editor at Architecture, he writes regularly for The New York Times. He is currently a contributing editor to Metropolitan Home, Travel + Leisure, and Architectural Record, and has written for Dwell, House Beautiful, ID, ELLE Decor, Interior Design, Wallpaper, and other publications. Barreneche is co-author of House: American Houses for the New Century, and author of Tropical Modern. Author's residence: New York, NY

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