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Frank Lloyd Wright - Plans Drawn to a Common Scale (Paperback): William Allin Storrer Ph D Frank Lloyd Wright - Plans Drawn to a Common Scale (Paperback)
William Allin Storrer Ph D
R768 Discovery Miles 7 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Ships in 12 - 19 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.    

Alexander Girard, Architect - Creating Midcentury Modern Masterpieces (Hardcover): Deborah Lubera Kawsky Alexander Girard, Architect - Creating Midcentury Modern Masterpieces (Hardcover)
Deborah Lubera Kawsky; Foreword by Ruth Adler Schnee
R1,285 R1,091 Discovery Miles 10 910 Save R194 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Showcases the bold, innovative, and colorful architectural designs of Alexander Girard. During the midcentury period, Michigan attracted visionary architects, designers, and theorists, including Alexander Girard. While much has been written about Girard's vibrantly colored and patterned textiles for Herman Miller, the story of his Detroit period (1937-53)-encompassing interior and industrial design, exhibition curation, and residential architecture-has not been told. Alexander Girard, Architect: Creating Midcentury Modern Masterpieces by Deborah Lubera Kawsky is the first comprehensive study of Girard's exceptional architectural projects, specifi ally those concentrated in the ultra-traditional Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe. One exciting element of the book is the rediscovery of another Girard masterpiece - the only surviving house designed entirely by Girard, and former residence to Mr. and Mrs. John McLucas. Restored in consultation with iconic midcentury designer Ruth Adler Schnee, the McLucas house represents the culmination of Girard's Detroit design work at midcentury. Stunning color photographs capture the unique design elements-including the boldly colored glazd brick walls of the atrium-reminiscent of Girard's role as color consultant for the GM Tech Center. Original Girard drawings for the building plan, interior spaces, and custom-designed furniture document the mind of a modernist master at work and are made available to the public for the first time in this beautiful book. Alexander Girard, Architect is a beautiful, informative book suited for enthusiasts of Alexander Girard, the midcentury modern aesthetic, and Detroit history, art, and architecture.

El Croquis 184 - Amid.Cero9/Mos (Paperback): El Croquis 184 - Amid.Cero9/Mos (Paperback)
R1,620 Discovery Miles 16 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Subversive Utopia - Louis Kahn and the Question of the National Jewish Style in Jerusalem (Paperback): Yasir Sakr The Subversive Utopia - Louis Kahn and the Question of the National Jewish Style in Jerusalem (Paperback)
Yasir Sakr
R471 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R32 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Oswald Mathias Ungers: Morphologie - City Metaphors (Paperback): Oswald Mathias Ungers Oswald Mathias Ungers: Morphologie - City Metaphors (Paperback)
Oswald Mathias Ungers
R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

First published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers' "City Metaphors" juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps throughout history with images of flora and fauna and other images from science and nature. Ungers assigns each a title--a single descriptive word printed in both English and German. In Ungers' vision, the divisions of Venice are transformed into a handshake and the 1809 plan of St Gallen becomes a womb. Ungers writes in his foreword: "Without a comprehensive vision reality will appear as a mass of unrelated phenomenon and meaningless facts, in other words, totally chaotic. In such a world it would be like living in a vacuum; everything would be of equal importance; nothing could attract our attention; and there would be no possibility to utilize the mind." A classic of creative cartography and visual thinking, "City Metaphors" is also an experiment in conscious vision-building.

Werner Sobek: Light Works (English, German, Hardcover): Frank Heinlein, Maren Sostmann Werner Sobek: Light Works (English, German, Hardcover)
Frank Heinlein, Maren Sostmann
R1,080 R911 Discovery Miles 9 110 Save R169 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Werner Sobek is one of the leading engineers and structural designers of our time. His works have been awarded numerous distinctions and enjoy the highest reputation worldwide. They all excel through their high level of sophistication and innovation, both with regard to materials and structural systems, thus demonstrating impressively Werner Sobek's biggest asset: the capacity to design filigree, nearly dematerialised structures with perfect details, structures that are in true harmony with their form and function. This book presents a sample of the most important projects in the fields of design, materials, skins and structures.

The Empty Room - Fragmented Thoughts on Space (Paperback): Reza Aliabadi The Empty Room - Fragmented Thoughts on Space (Paperback)
Reza Aliabadi
R476 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Peter D Savage Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Peter D Savage
R1,085 R909 Discovery Miles 9 090 Save R176 (16%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Sir Robert Lorimer, who practised in Edinburgh between 1893 and 1929 was an architect whose deep response to Scotland's landscape and its crafts is expressed as vividly by his letters as by his buildings. This is the study of Lorimer, one of Scotland's foremost 20th-century architects.

Carry Your Own Joy - The Abstract Paintings and Life of Hari E. Thomas, a San Francisco Artist (Paperback): Asha Carolyn Young Carry Your Own Joy - The Abstract Paintings and Life of Hari E. Thomas, a San Francisco Artist (Paperback)
Asha Carolyn Young
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kip Stowell Artography - Artist, Architect, & Mayor of Harpers Ferry (Paperback): Walton D Stowell Sr Kip Stowell Artography - Artist, Architect, & Mayor of Harpers Ferry (Paperback)
Walton D Stowell Sr; Edited by Walton D. Stowell Jr; Walton D. Stowell
R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Kip was born 'Walton Danforth Stowell' from Massachusetts. He lived a long life as an artist, architect, and politician; settling in Harpers Ferry, WV. This biography spans 73 years of Kip's life, from 1936-2009; and is a summary of people, places, and art related to him. As an architect he worked for the National Park Service, but also maintained private practice. Kip loved entertaining people, and was loved for his enthusiasm for design. Among his most famous designs are the Charles Town War Memorial, Turf Race Track Hotel, Bolivar Community Center, and Harpers Ferry Town Hall. His greatest contributions to Historic Preservation may have been to protect the Town of Harpers Ferry and the Peter Burr House for all time and for all people.

Digital Fabrications - Designer Stories for a Software-Based Planet (Hardcover): Galo Canizares Digital Fabrications - Designer Stories for a Software-Based Planet (Hardcover)
Galo Canizares; Foreword by Ellie Abrons; Designed by Anthony Zukofsky
R635 Discovery Miles 6 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Digital Fabrications is a collection of essays and half-true stories about design software and hardware. Written from the perspective of architectural design, each piece expands on emerging trends, devices, foibles, and phenomena engendered by an increased reliance on interactions with interfaces in the discipline. The essays ask: how do we characterise our post-digital design labour? What are the politics of design software? How is architecture adapting to a world largely dependent on platforms and scripts? What are the spatial mechanisms of the internet and VR? Using storytelling techniques, this book accepts that software is everywhere, and narrows in on a few ways it has taken command of our cultural products. From the perspective of architectural design, a field traditionally associated with sketching and its own myths of creativity, computers are an essential workplace tool. Projects rely on a wide assortment of software packages and standalone applications, but rarely do architects reflect on the structure of those programs or how they have infiltrated our disciplinary conventions. PDFs and JPGs are as much a part of our vocabulary as plans, sections, and elevations. A drawing today might refer to a rendering, a CAD document, a proprietary BIM file, or anything that describes a project visually. While one way of examining this disciplinary shift might be to re-imagine what digital drawing can be, this collection of essays puts forth another way: to look at the behaviours, phenomena, collective trends, and oddities emerging as a result of global software proliferation. In other words, this book accepts that software is everywhere, and narrows in on a few ways it has taken command of our cultural products.

Le Corbusier - L'Unite d habitation de Marseille / The Unite d Habitation in Marseilles - et les autres Unites... Le Corbusier - L'Unite d habitation de Marseille / The Unite d Habitation in Marseilles - et les autres Unites d'habitation a Reze-les-Nantes, Berlin, Briey en Foret et Firminy / and the four other unite blocks (Paperback, Bilingual original ed)
Jacques Sbriglio
R837 R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Save R56 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Unite in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense problem. Freed from restrictive regulations for the first time Le Corbusier was able to put into practice his concept of modern social housing. A milestone of modern architecture and subject of controversial debate, the Unite in Marseille continues to attract numerous visitors and students of architecture. This volume is the latest addition to Birkhauser's series of guides to Le Corbusier's most acclaimed buildings, and includes an additional chapter on his Unites in Reze-les-Nantes, Briey en Foret, Firminy and Berlin. The author, a practising architect and well known le Corbusier specialist, lives in Marseille and teaches at the Ecole d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy.

Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas - Essays on the History of Ideas (Paperback): Ingrid Boeck Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas - Essays on the History of Ideas (Paperback)
Ingrid Boeck
R908 R813 Discovery Miles 8 130 Save R95 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rem Koolhaas has been part of the international avant-garde since the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker Architecture Prize for the year 2000. This book, which builds on six canonical Koolhaas projects, traces the discursive practice behind the design methods used by Koolhaas and his office OMA. It uncovers recurring key themes-such as wall, void, montage, trajectory, infrastructure, and shape-that have structured this design discourse over the span of Koolhaas's oeuvre. The book moves beyond the six core pieces, as well: It explores how these identified thematic design principles manifest in other works by Koolhaas as both practical re-applications and further elaborations. In addition to Koolhaas's individual genius, these textual and material layers are accounted for shaping the very context of his work's relevance. By comparing the design principles with relevant concepts from the architectural Zeitgeist in which Koolhaas has operated, the study moves beyond its specific subject-Rem Koolhaas-and provides novel insight into the broader history of architectural ideas.

AFFAIRS VALENTINO - A Special Edition (Paperback, 3rd Revised ed.): Evelyn Zumaya AFFAIRS VALENTINO - A Special Edition (Paperback, 3rd Revised ed.)
Evelyn Zumaya
R1,245 Discovery Miles 12 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From Mister Magoo to Papa Smurf (Paperback): Gerard Baldwin From Mister Magoo to Papa Smurf (Paperback)
Gerard Baldwin
R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
1969 - Once Upon a Time in Montreal (Paperback): Richard Austin 1969 - Once Upon a Time in Montreal (Paperback)
Richard Austin
R465 R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Save R38 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Quaid Conspiracy (Paperback): Matt Oberon The Quaid Conspiracy (Paperback)
Matt Oberon
R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Charismatic architect Simon Duval's iconic designs brilliantly express the dreams of his clients and his peers. His successes bring international acclaim and publicity which place him in pole position, but an envious self-appointed rival, Catherine Quaid, casts a long shadow over his life and his professional career.

Situated Objects - Buildings and Projects by Stan Allen, Photographs by Scott Benedict (Hardcover): Stanley T. Allen Situated Objects - Buildings and Projects by Stan Allen, Photographs by Scott Benedict (Hardcover)
Stanley T. Allen; Contributions by Helen Thomas, Jesus Vassallo
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Stan Allen is an architect and educator who has won global acclaim, primarily for his work in town planning and his influential 1996 essay Field Conditions. His new book Situated Objects shows a unique facet of his creative process: a selection of small buildings and projects on rural sites, most of them situated within the landscape of the Hudson Valley, New York. They demonstrate an approach to architecture that engages in a dialogue with this partly wild and wholly non-urban environment that lies just outside the gates of New York City. The projects are presented in drawings and a rich array of images by celebrated photographer Scott Benedict. They are arranged in three thematic categories: Outbuildings, Material Histories, and New Natures, supplemented by the architect's writings and essays contributed by Helen Thomas and Jesus Vassallo. The first book on Stan Allen's buildings, Situated Objects highlights Allen's personal engagement with American material traditions, the conventions of architectural drawing, and the challenge of building with nature.

The Autobiography of an Idea (Paperback): Louis H Sullivan The Autobiography of an Idea (Paperback)
Louis H Sullivan
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

2014 Reprint of 1926 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Autobiography of an Idea" is an account of Sullivan's career and his architectural theories. Sullivan was a spokesman for the reform of architecture, an opponent of historical eclecticism, and did much to remake the image of the architect as a creative personality. His own designs are characterized by richness of ornament. His importance lies in his writings as well as in his architectural achievements. These writings, which are subjective and metaphorical, suggest directions for architecture, rather than explicit doctrines or programs. Sullivan himself warned of the danger of mechanical theories of art.

Villa Vuoto - An Architect's Manifesto on the Origin of Creativity (Paperback): Matthew Schlueb Villa Vuoto - An Architect's Manifesto on the Origin of Creativity (Paperback)
Matthew Schlueb
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Villa Vuoto, located in the north hills of Pittsburgh, is home to Matthew Schlueb and his architectural studio, dedicated to the design of private residences. His belief that a home is the most intimate of all space is the foundation for his practice, which he defends in this autobiographical collection of writings. Originally intended to provide insight into the factors that shaped his own family's house, this book ended up a search for the essence of a home, an exploration of his own creative process, and ultimately locating the source of creativity itself ...hidden in the imagination of a child.

The Unfettered Gaze. The Rasch Brothers and their Influence on Modern Architecture (Paperback): Marta Herford The Unfettered Gaze. The Rasch Brothers and their Influence on Modern Architecture (Paperback)
Marta Herford
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From 1926 to 1930 Heinz (1902-1996) and Bodo Rasch (1903-1995) was a highly creative team of architects, furniture designers, typographers and book designers. The brothers were early "networkers", providing a visionary source of ideas which they developed in a rash of projects as major protagonists of the New Architecture. Their early suspended dwellings and bold ideas for modular or air inflated house constructions are unique in 20th century architectural history. This publication focuses on a selection of their early work in the MoMA in New York and the CCA in Montreal and yields insights into the brother's collaboration. The selection is augmented by container, suspended and pneumatic architecture by more than 20 famous architectural firms like Archigram, Egon Eiermann, Foster + Partners, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, Bertrand Goldberg, Kengo Kuma et al, which in turn place the great creative potential of the Rasch brothers in a new light. In addition five contemporary artists discover their inspiring moments in a current context and establish new relationships between ideas from the past and visions for the future.

A Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings (Paperback): Fogg Art Museum A Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings (Paperback)
Fogg Art Museum
R1,171 Discovery Miles 11 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.

Photo Album for Our Baby Boy - Keepsake Photo Journal (Paperback): Speedy Publishing LLC Photo Album for Our Baby Boy - Keepsake Photo Journal (Paperback)
Speedy Publishing LLC
R371 R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Benefits and uses of a Photo Album for a Baby Boy. A Baby Boy's First Moments Should Be Stock-piled. It is known that the act of observing an event influences its outcome. The earliest events in your boy's life won't last forever, so do more than observe. Baby photos can have a profound impact on later life, and organizing them in an album improves that effect. The most immediate use of baby photos is for later embarrassment. As your baby boy rapidly grows into a teenage boy, he gets smarter and more cunning. Baby photos, in addition to being precious memories, are a potential countermeasure against any of a teenage boy's potential transgressions. Is his party getting to loud? Break out the album and watch the tears.

Fifty Paintings - Anthony Ames Architect (Hardcover): Anthony Ames Fifty Paintings - Anthony Ames Architect (Hardcover)
Anthony Ames
R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The paintings in this book depict 'object-type' - general yet specific, generic yet designed, familiar yet estranged. They are 'Purist' forms depicted in a still life landscape. The compositions employ overlap, convergence and diminution to imply depth resulting in the creation of the illusion of perspectival space. However, through the use of juxtaposition, superimposition and ambiguity of scale the perspectival effect is impaired. The result is a blurring of distinction between foreground and background that encourages a reading of pattern that reinforces the presence of the surface plane. A conflict is encouraged between the deep space and the shallow space - between the creation of implied space through perspective and the reinforcement of the surface plane through pattern. A multiple reading is fostered that rewards the careful observer.

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