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Hans Scharoun - Buildings and Projects (Hardcover): Carsten Krohn Hans Scharoun - Buildings and Projects (Hardcover)
Carsten Krohn
R1,769 R1,563 Discovery Miles 15 630 Save R206 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hans Scharoun is one of the most important architects of the 20th century; as a proponent of organic architecture, he created unconventional and imaginative buildings which adapt to users' needs in a dynamic way. His oeuvre includes family residences and housing estates but also encompasses the German embassy in Brazil, and urban icons such as the Berlin Philharmonie. The book, a cooperation with Baukunstarchiv (the architecture archive) of the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, documents the entire range of known completed buildings by Scharoun, including, for the first time, early works in East Prussia. The specially taken photographs by Carsten Krohn, together with the historic photographs and plans from the Hans-Scharoun-Archive offer a new overview of this expressive organic architecture.

David Adjaye: Constructed Narratives (Hardcover): David Adjaye David Adjaye: Constructed Narratives (Hardcover)
David Adjaye; Edited by Peter Allison
R1,108 R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Save R293 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Constructed Narratives brings together essays and several recently completed buildings by David Adjaye, in the United States and elsewhere. In the essays, Adjaye shows how his approach to the design of temporary pavilions and furniture, private houses, and installations at the 2015 Venice Biennale feeds into his designs for public buildings. Other essays discuss his engagement with geography, the urban environment, his approach to materiality, and architectural types. The presented projects include two public libraries and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, all in Washington D.C., a residential mixed-use building in New York, and a hybrid art-retail building in Beirut. Two of Adjaye's current projects are also included.

Ludwig Hilberseimer - Reanimating Architecture and the City (Hardcover): Scott Colman Ludwig Hilberseimer - Reanimating Architecture and the City (Hardcover)
Scott Colman
R3,141 Discovery Miles 31 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Despite being internationally-known for his work on Lafayette Park in Detroit, Hilberseimer’s legacy as a whole has been obscured in the history of modern architecture. Whether this is due to the intense shadow cast by Mies, or by his oeuvre being split between the differing languages and contexts of interwar Germany and postwar North America, this book argues that the time is now right for a critical reassessment of Hilberseimer’s work and writings. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this study clarifies and situates Hilberseimer’s ideas both as an architect and writer, and examines their influence on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism. The first synthetic account of Hilberseimer in English, it provides a contextual account of Hilberseimer’s works which have until now been subject to fragmentary or highly specialized interpretations. By demonstrating the influence of Hilberseimer’s ideas on the architecture of Mies van der Rohe, the book also lends Mies’s work a newfound urban significance.

CARTHA - On Relations In Architecture (Hardcover): Elena Chiavi CARTHA - On Relations In Architecture (Hardcover)
Elena Chiavi
R658 R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Save R133 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

CARTHA is a non-profit curated platform for sharing different forms of critical thinking regarding architecture and society, founded in 2015. Through opinions, experiences, and works it aims to map the contemporary architectural landscape and to bridge gaps between academic discourse and practical work. Each year CARTHA dedicates to a specific topic. In 2015 the topic was "Relations within the architectural spectrum." This book collects contributions by forty-two young architects from around the world in four sections: Worth Sharing, Confreres, Mannschaft, and Santisima Trinidad. They aim to develop the ways in which architects share, relate to architects, to workers, and to their clients and user of their buildings. Each section features an introductory interview with a renowned architect and a visual exploration by an up-and-coming photographer.

Decorating in the Grand Manor: A Design Memoir (Hardcover): Carleton Varney Decorating in the Grand Manor: A Design Memoir (Hardcover)
Carleton Varney
R2,033 R1,506 Discovery Miles 15 060 Save R527 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

*A must-have for any design enthusiasts, especially those interested in Carleton Varney and Dorothy Draper*Insider views of the world's most famous resorts, the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia and the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan*Perfect compendium to HSN's television show, Live Vividly*As practical as it is beautiful, this book contains decorating advice from one of Architectural Digest's "Deans of Design" "Everything's grand" says decorator extraordinaire, Carleton Varney. After over forty years in the interior design business, Varney opens his archive and brings together his favorite large-scale luxury decorating projects, including an Irish country manor, a sixteenth-century castle, a colonial mansion, a Southern plantation, along with two of his best-loved resorts - the Greenbrier in West Virginia and the "Queen of the Great Lakes", Michigan's Grand Hotel. On these pages, he also showcases his most recent private residential project - a 6000 square foot Mediterranean-style home, near the Rio Grande. In Decorating in the Grand Manor, Varney focuses our attention on all the elements of elegant design, from crystal chandeliers to magnificent architectural details and dispenses his time-honored advice on how to achieve the look at home.

Peter Arnell - Projects 1980-2020 (Hardcover): Studio Peter Arnell Peter Arnell - Projects 1980-2020 (Hardcover)
Studio Peter Arnell; Text written by Frank Gehry, Peter Lindbergh; Designed by Liyuan Tong; Text written by Tristan Thom, …
R3,488 Discovery Miles 34 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Throughout his 45+ year career Peter Arnell has played a significant role in creating and collaborating on platforms, products and strategies for many of the world's leading brands. Arnell has built his reputation working in architecture, design, photography, communications, technology and publishing. From his earliest days he has been known for creating unique, ground-breaking work bringing design, innovation, brand creation, brand strategy and customer experience to the forefront of his work. This beautifully conceptualized two-volume monograph provides an insight into the great creator's oeuvre, highlighting his contributions to a vast number of industries ranging from technology to automotive design, hospitality to fashion and beyond. The monograph celebrates many of Arnell's works created and developed alongside the highly talented collaborators. It includes projects with contributions by such luminaries as Denis Piel, Neal Slavin, Helmut Newton, Lance Wyman, Michael Graves and Muhammad Ali, to name a few, and spans over four decades. Included are signature projects for Donna Karan, Chanel, Fendi, Chrysler, Nespresso, Goop Pepsi, Reebok, Gucci and Special Olympics and in addition features texts written by Arnell's friends and collaborators architect Frank Gehry and photographer Peter Lindbergh.

Inventive Minimalism - The Architecture by Roger Ferris + Partners (Hardcover): William Saunders Inventive Minimalism - The Architecture by Roger Ferris + Partners (Hardcover)
William Saunders
R1,251 R842 Discovery Miles 8 420 Save R409 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As rigorous as it is sumptuous, the work of Roger Ferris + Partners blends high style and modernist principles. This is the firm's first monograph. From family houses to historic restorations, hotels, and high-tech office spaces - the architectural firm of Roger Ferris + Partners has pursued uncommonly diverse projects at vastly different scales, all with an approach to design that synthesizes imagination and logic. Whether a 1,500-square-foot house on a narrow lot overlooking Long Island Sound, or the Royal Bank of Scotland's US headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut - with a six-story glazed atrium and a "courtyard in the sky" on the roof of its two-story trading floor - a building that is "well conceived and artfully executed, cannot help but be beautiful." Among Ferris' major projects are a golf clubhouse that has turned a conservative typology on its ear with bladelike forms inspired by a racing engine turbine, and a partially sunken service entrance in which impresario Robert Wilson has staged theatrical productions. A design for a restaurant includes not only a central, glass-enclosed kitchen elevated 18 inches above the floor, but an art installation that periodically projects scrolling text on the dining room wall. In every project, the fulfillment of the client's functional needs is rendered in the most elemental and legible way, resulting in both formal elegance and dramatic power.

Shaping Intuition - Architecture and Interior Design by HofmanDujardin (Hardcover): Hofman Dujardin Shaping Intuition - Architecture and Interior Design by HofmanDujardin (Hardcover)
Hofman Dujardin
R1,772 R1,336 Discovery Miles 13 360 Save R436 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shaping Intuition is the design philosophy of HofmanDujardin. They design inspiring spaces with an astonishing simplicity, always focusing on quality and a personal approach. They translate intuitive feelings into architecture, interior and product design. This book for the first time features 25 of their best designs: private homes, interiors and offshore ships.

Dust Free Friends (Paperback): 6a Architects Dust Free Friends (Paperback)
6a Architects
R1,095 R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Save R373 (34%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dust Free Friends is a series of designs for small pieces of domestic furniture, designed by London-based 6a architects, that can be made very simply at home, in restricted spaces, with a small number of tools and without specialist skills. The lightness and simplicity of the pieces is derived from a combination of observation of the way simple plywood constructions on a construction site are adapted to become stools, tables, steps, and stairs, changing quickly and without fuss as workers need them. The designs also re-examine the long tradition of self-build that has shared the journey through modernism with industry and craft. With the Dust Free Friends series, Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald invite the reader make his or her own everyday furniture from dressed plywood. Beautifully produced and illustrated with some 90 easy-to-understand diagrams and images, Dust Free Friends is a comprehensive, precise, and entertaining, manual to furnishing a comfortable place entirely by its users.

Blakstad - Ibiza House Designs (Hardcover): Conrad White Blakstad - Ibiza House Designs (Hardcover)
Conrad White
R1,350 R1,088 Discovery Miles 10 880 Save R262 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Following the success of Conrad White's previous book about Blakstad (Ibiza Blakstad Houses, December 2012 and revised May 2019, ISBN 978 849936 174 1), this new book collects the new and most recent creations of the architecture studio founded by Rolf Blakstad and developed later by his sons Rolf and Nial. This 336-page book shows, through some incredible photographs by Conrad White, some of the most representative houses that the Blakstad family has designed and constructed in the island of Ibiza. Rolph Blackstad exhaustively studied Ibizan architecture when it was still a living millennial tradition, with peasant builders working with rules passed down by word of mouth from father to son. The architect's study of these builders formed the basis of his research, design and building for more than 40 years. This book is the latest tribute to Blackstad's work in the wake of his recent death.

New Chinese Architecture - Twenty Women Building the Future (Hardcover): Austin Williams New Chinese Architecture - Twenty Women Building the Future (Hardcover)
Austin Williams; Foreword by Zhang Xin
R981 R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Save R210 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This celebration of 20 of China's latest generation features detailed profiles of each architect, exploring their routes to success, their inspirations and the challenges posed for those working and designing in this richly diverse and rapidly evolving region. Each profile is followed by a selection of recent works, including everything from small-scale conceptual plans to country houses, schools, offices and large-scale city development projects. From exploring new ways to build with radical, sustainable materials to sensitively honouring the vernacular traditions of the country's complex history, each architect brings their unique vision to the question of what architecture means in China today.

Mathias Goeritz - Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico (Hardcover): Jennifer Josten Mathias Goeritz - Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico (Hardcover)
Jennifer Josten
R1,700 Discovery Miles 17 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first major work in English on Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), this book illuminates the artist's pivotal role within the landscape of twentieth-century modernism. Goeritz became recognized as an abstract sculptor after arriving in Mexico from Germany by way of Spain in 1949. His call to integrate abstract forms into civic and religious architecture, outlined in his "Emotional Architecture" manifesto, had a transformative impact on midcentury Mexican art and design. While best known for the experimental museum El Eco and his collaborations with the architect Luis Barragan, including the brightly colored towers of Satellite City, Goeritz also shaped the Bauhaus-inspired curriculum at Guadalajara's School of Architecture and the iconic Cultural Program of Mexico City's 1968 Olympic Games. Josten addresses the Cold War implications of these and other initiatives that pitted Goeritz, an advocate of internationalist abstraction, against Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, ardent defenders of the realist style that prevailed in official Mexican art during the postrevolutionary period. Exploring Goeritz's dialogues with leading figures among the Parisian and New York avant-gardes, such as Yves Klein and Philip Johnson, Josten shows how Goeritz's approach to modernism, which was highly attuned to politics and place, formed part of a global enterprise.

Re-Visiting Metropolitan Barcelona - Public Space 2013-2017 (Paperback, English ed.): Projects And Urban Design Section Amb,... Re-Visiting Metropolitan Barcelona - Public Space 2013-2017 (Paperback, English ed.)
Projects And Urban Design Section Amb, Poch Comunicacion
R1,060 Discovery Miles 10 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Sergey Kuznetsov - Architecture Drawings (Hardcover): Luca Molinari Sergey Kuznetsov - Architecture Drawings (Hardcover)
Luca Molinari
R1,382 R1,054 Discovery Miles 10 540 Save R328 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Glass Labyrinth in Venice (Paperback): Kashef Chowdhury A Glass Labyrinth in Venice (Paperback)
Kashef Chowdhury
R1,073 R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Save R256 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over the past years, Dhaka-based architect Kashef Chowdhury has become renowned for a body of work that responds with great sensitivity to places, local circumstances, and the demands of a building's users. At the 2016 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Chowdhury presented four recent projects his firm URBANA has realised in Bangladesh in a fascinating exhibition which he has designed with equal sensitivity and care. The labyrinth is an age-old space of intrigue, discovery and accident, which has fascinated architects throughout history. For his installation in Venice, Chowdhury challenged spatial perceptions by a simple turn: the labyrinth - which hides and blocks - is suddenly made transparent. Notwithstanding the obvious reference to Venetian glass, the labyrinth retains, or even accentuates, a sense of spatial disorientation. The installation was conceived not merely as a hyper-maze but rather as an expression of the anxiety that the artist experiences in his work due to a myriad of uncertainties. From design to construction, funding to maintenance, the part of the world where URBANA chiefly works presents itself with challenges at every turn, and it is in this milieu that an architect must operate with firm resolve. Chowdhury's Glass Labyrinth in Venice seems to explicate the notion that, although an architect has a clear vision of what he wants to do, the path to achieving that in the environment in which he operates, is laden with perplexing barriers. This new book explores and documents Kashef Chowdhury's intriguing installation in Venice with beautiful photographs by Eric Chenal and an illuminating text by Robert McCarter.

Jeffrey Bilhuber - American Master (Hardcover): Sara Ruffin Costello Jeffrey Bilhuber - American Master (Hardcover)
Sara Ruffin Costello; Photographs by William Abranowicz; Foreword by Mariska Hargitay
R1,490 R1,187 Discovery Miles 11 870 Save R303 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A dean of American decorating offers his most important projects to date, revealing the foundations of his distinctive style. In his latest book, Jeffrey Bilhuber distills thirty years of expertise and creative inspiration designing beautiful and brilliantly modern rooms. Presenting a diverse range of Bilhuber's most recent and important work from around the country, this lavish volume is centered around forty signature statements-pithy and insightful bedrock principles and axioms that have fueled the designer's process, allowing the reader to glean the essence of his masterful approach to decorating. Bilhuber, in bright and rich prose, offers ideas and inspirations such as: What surrounds us must bring us pleasure; Rooms should reveal themselves gradually like a glorious book, and Rooms can be successful but still remain flat-that's when you add horsepower. Featuring projects from city townhouses to rambling country houses in New York City, Palm Beach, Aspen, San Francisco and Seattle, the decorator's optimistic and classically informed point of view encourages readers to embrace their own unique vision to create interiors that are as confident as they are contemporary. illustrious 30 year career, and eager to share the magic behind his method

The Perfect House - A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio (Paperback): Witold Rybczynski The Perfect House - A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio (Paperback)
Witold Rybczynski
R561 R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Save R64 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident in the ample porches, columned porticoes, grand ceilings, and front-door pediments of America today.

In The Perfect House, bestselling author Witold Rybczynski, whose previous books have transformed our understanding of domestic architecture, reveals how a handful of Palladio's houses in an obscure corner of the Venetian Republic should have made their presence felt hundreds of years later and halfway across the globe. More than just a study of one of history's seminal architectural figures, The Perfect House reflects Rybczynski's enormous admiration for his subject and provides a new way of looking at the special landscapes we call "home" in the modern world.

Fawad Kazi KSSG OKS - Volume I: Project Introduction and Pavilion KSSG (English, German, Hardcover): Marko Sauer, Christoph... Fawad Kazi KSSG OKS - Volume I: Project Introduction and Pavilion KSSG (English, German, Hardcover)
Marko Sauer, Christoph Wieser
R1,368 R1,021 Discovery Miles 10 210 Save R347 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 2011, Zurich-based architect Fawad Kazi submitted the winning proposal for the rebuilding and extension of a hospital complex in the Swiss city of St Gallen. Over a period of ten years, a number of existing structures will undergo vast rebuilding and new ones will be added, transforming a park with individual buildings into a single continuous complex. This new, eventually five-part monograph, documents this project in full detail. It highlights the significance of St Gallen's urban design as well as the specific demands on architectural design and construction and on the hospital's operations. Volume I features the project's genesis and the initial new building, a pavilion structure housing a restaurant and, in the basement, an electrical substation. Text in English and German.

Tom Kundig: Works (Hardcover): Tom Kundig Tom Kundig: Works (Hardcover)
Tom Kundig; Photographs by Jenny Hallengren 1
R1,350 R1,023 Discovery Miles 10 230 Save R327 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"The book offers not only gorgeous studies of Kundig's signature details and integration with natural landscapes, but also a record of his refreshingly straightforward voice."-Archinect "The book is beautifully designed and produced: a match for its content, and a joy to browse."-Form Tom Kundig: Works presents nineteen recent projects from award-winning architect Tom Kundig, from his celebrated modern home designs to commercial projects. Tom Kundig is known for his striking and innovative house design that is rugged, yet elegant and welcoming in style. Tom Kundig: Works illuminates the design process behind his work with lush photography, drawings, and sketches that will inspire any creative home owner. A wide range of projects showcase architectural design from a large scale to small details: Tom Kundig: Works details buildings as complicated as multistory complexes and the Tacoma Art Museum, and also homes in on intimate aspects of interior design such as his line of hardware handles, door pulls, hinges, and more. Architects and design enthusiasts will appreciate the incredible thought and care that goes into each project. As much memoir as monograph: In firsthand accounts, Kundig describes his design process for each project, interspersed with personal anecdotes. The book includes an introduction by design editor Pilar Viladas and in-depth conversations with Kundig's frequent collaborators, including "gizmologist" Phil Turner and contractor Jim Dow (Schuchart/ Dow), and his clients, including Bigwood Residence and Studhorse. Tom Kundig: Works is another stunning addition to Tom Kundig's growing portfolio of architectural masterpieces.

Empathy as Function - The Schools by Emil Jauch (Paperback): Christoph Ramisch Empathy as Function - The Schools by Emil Jauch (Paperback)
Christoph Ramisch; Foreword by Stanislaus Von Moos; Photographs by Rasmus Norlander
R967 Discovery Miles 9 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Until now, Emil Jauch (1911-1962) has been a little-known protagonist of Swiss post-war architecture. Shaped by the Scandinavian Modernity of the 1930s, his buildings are characterised by a remarkable sensitivity. This book demonstrates the Lucerne architect's empathetic design method by presenting his constructed school buildings. The publication describes the architect's life and work in three chapters, recognising his achievements in school building and classifying them within the European context of a humanising functionalism.

Eduardo Souto de Moura (Hardcover, New): Antonio Esposito Eduardo Souto de Moura (Hardcover, New)
Antonio Esposito; Edited by Giovanni Leonie 1
R2,002 R1,585 Discovery Miles 15 850 Save R417 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Eduardo Souto de Moura (b 1952) has long been one of Portugal's leading architects but gained wider international recognition when he won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011. Born in Porto, he collaborated with the much-respected Alvaro Siza from 1974 to 1979 before establishing his own architectural studio in 1980. Since then, he has completed more than 100 projects ranging from private houses such as his Casa do Cinema for film director Manoel de Oliveira in Porto (2002) to larger projects such as the stadium in Braga (2004), the venue for the 2004 European Championships. All are illustrated in this comprehensive book, which also features essays by Souto de Moura and a discussion between Souto de Moura, Siza and fellow Portuguese architect Fernando Tavora. Souto de Moura's work, often compared to that of Mies van der Rohe, was praised by the Pritzker Prize jury for its 'unique ability to convey seemingly conflicting characteristics - power and modesty, bravado and subtlety, bold public authority and a sense of intimacy - at the same time.' His work often reflects his aesthetic interest in architectural ruins and interstitial spaces, and a desire to create a rapport between nature and architecture. This is demonstrated at Braga, where the substantial stadium is carefully inserted into the side of a granite quarry. His most high-profile recent projects show a powerful use of form - at the Paula Rego Museum near Lisbon (2008), for example, two pyramid-shaped towers of red-coloured concrete loom memorably over the entrance. This monograph is a detailed record of Souto de Moura's architecture over 35 years with 600 illustrations that do full justice to this impressive body of work.

Hanging Fred and a Few Others - Painters of the Eastern Townships (Paperback): Nick Fonda Hanging Fred and a Few Others - Painters of the Eastern Townships (Paperback)
Nick Fonda
R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Quebec's Eastern Townships are home to a higher concentration of artists than anywhere else in Canada. With his starting and finishing point being Frederick Coburn (1871-1960), arguably Canada's best-known painter at the peak of his career, author Nick Fonda sets out to revisit his work and provide new insights and facts into Coburn's life and surroundings. To better understand the man, he also introduces other accomplished artists living and working in the same area-not all landscape painters-who have followed quite unusual paths as they responded to the same muse that moved Coburn a century ago. Based on interviews with neighbours and Coburn aficionados and Nick Fonda's own thorough understanding of the milieu in which Coburn grew up, lived, and worked, Hanging Fred and a Few Others is a lively and fascinating story of an important artist but also a reflection on the role of place-the Eastern Townships-in an artist's life. In addition to being a biography of Coburn, Nick Fonda's book provides brief biographical sketches of other artists including Minnie Gill, Denis Palmer, Mary Martin, Stuart Main, France Jodoin, and Kevin Sonmor.

Knud Holscher - Architect and Industrial Designer (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed): Poul Erik Tojner Knud Holscher - Architect and Industrial Designer (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
Poul Erik Tojner
R1,657 R1,303 Discovery Miles 13 030 Save R354 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Outlines this prominent Danish architect and designer's works.

Artists of Wyeth Country - Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth (Paperback, First Edition, A History and Guidebook,... Artists of Wyeth Country - Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth (Paperback, First Edition, A History and Guidebook, Including Six In-Depth Tours)
W. Barksdale Maynard
R599 Discovery Miles 5 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Few artists have ever been so beloved—or so controversial among art critics—as Andrew Wyeth. The groundbreaking book Artists of Wyeth Country presents an unauthorized and unbiased biographical portrait of Wyeth, based on interviews with family, friends, neighbors—even actress Eva Marie Saint.  Journalist W. Barksdale Maynard shines new light on the reclusive artist, emphasizing Wyeth’s artistic debt to Howard Pyle as well as his surprising interest in surrealism. The book is filled with brand-new information and fresh interpretations.   Artists of Wyeth Country also comprises the first-ever guidebook to the artistic world of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, center of the Brandywine Tradition begun by Howard Pyle. Six in-depth tours for walking or driving allow the reader to stand exactly where N. C. and Andrew Wyeth stood, as has never been fully possible before.   As Maynard explains, Andrew Wyeth’s artistic process was influenced by Henry David Thoreau’s nature-worship and by his habit of walking daily. Newly commissioned maps, rare aerial photographs, as well as glorious full-color images and artworks of the landscape (many never reproduced before) illustrate the text.   A fascinating exploration of the world of Andrew Wyeth, Artists of Wyeth Country is sure to become an essential new source for those who love American art as well as for admirers of the scenic landscapes of the Mid-Atlantic, of which the Brandywine Valley is an exceptional example. As a rare, unauthorized biography of Andrew Wyeth, it opens the door for an entirely new understanding of the American master.    

Paulo Providencia-Architectonica Percepta - Texts and Images 1989-2015 (Hardcover): Paulo Providencia Paulo Providencia-Architectonica Percepta - Texts and Images 1989-2015 (Hardcover)
Paulo Providencia
R1,085 R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Save R372 (34%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Paulo Providencia occupies a special place in contemporary Portuguese architecture. He is recognised by many as one of the best of the generation following Eduardo Souto de Moura. His work is concerned about interpretation of programmatic needs, relating architecture to specific cultural contexts. His buildings the vast majority of them located in Portugal are based on sound theoretical background, rooted in philosophical and anthropological research. This new book features seven of Providencia's realised structures in striking duotone photographs taken by the Portuguese photographer Alberto Placido. Each is documented as well with selected plans and key information. Five topical essays by Providencia round out the first monograph in English on this eminent architect and theoretician.

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