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Pure. Minimal. Simple. These are the words commonly used to describe the work of contemporary Japanese architects. FOBA, an internationally celebrated architectural practice based in Kyoto, looks beyond the aesthetics of minimalism, instead finding... [ More...]
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UCB Center, a half circle composed of a granite base and two curved buildings connected by a glass walkway, combines the modernism of the curtain wall with the tradition of stone construction. The architecture is sober, avoiding any borrowed vocabulary. The... [ More...]
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This second volume documenting the residential work of Anthony Ames follows "Five Houses," presenting his continuing airy, minimal work—both built and planned—via sketches, drawings, models and photographs. His beautifully designed structures... [ More...]
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The Breakers, the Waldorf, the Biltmore, the Sherry, the Pierre these landmark hotels are synonymous with grand luxury and style. When they were built, in the 1920s, their refined elegance and grandeur set the bar for hotels and resorts the world over.... [ More...]
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A stunning book on nightlife environments - completely in black with dazzlingly illustrations. A large number of exciting contemporary nightspots in cities like London, New York, Amsterdam, Rome, Lisbon, Tokyo are highlighted in this book. In most cases the... [ More...]
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LARGE AND SMALL ARCHITECTURE FIRMS alike will appreciate this survey of the broad array of marketing materials that can help design professionals increase business. The well-designed print and electronic materials shown here—brochures, books, slide... [ More...]
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Perhaps China's most internationally acclaimed architect, Yung Ho Chang is particularly concerned with architecture's role in expressing and reflecting the indigenous culture. He advocates the wide use of bamboo as a building material in Chinese urban... [ More...]
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An examination of the life and works of a major architect whose buildings today surpass him in recognition. In the early twentieth century—a time when modernism was favored over classicism, and architectural iconoclasm over tradition—the... [ More...]
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This building responds to the multiple orientation of the harborside side, radically reconstituting theatre plan form and organizational logistics.
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The first study of a bold, prolific, controversial, early twentieth-century architectural firm. At the turn of the twentieth century, when American architecture blossomed in the spirit of the City Beautiful movement, Beaux-Arts-trained Whitney Warren... [ More...]
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