ý kiến bạn đọc

Frank Lloyd wright : natural design, organic architecture : lessons for building green from an American original

Nhóm Tác giả: Alan Hess, Alan Weintraub

This book explores Wright’s lessons on how climate, sustainability, sunlight, modern technology, local materials, and passive environmental controls can become the inspiration for excellent design, and highlights a selection of Wright’s buildings to show how he dealt with these issues. The book is ...

History of architecture : from classic to contemporary

Tác giả: Rolf Taman

History of Architecure presents a comprehensive survey of world architecture from antiquity to the present. Over a thousand superb photographs illustrate 500 important buildings, further elecidated by plans and details of infividual architectural elements. An informative, chronologically organized ...

Castles of Britain and Ireland

Tác giả: Rodney Castleden

The first part of the book is made up of thematic chapters ranging in subject from "What Is a Castle?" to "The End of the Castle". The second part is a gazetteer -- by far the most comprehensive ever published in a single book -- that describes in great detail more than 115 castles in Britain ...

Starchitects : visionary architects of the twenty-first century

Tác giả: Julio Fajardo

Starchitects reveals the best practicing architects and architectural firms around the world: the stars of architecture, including designers such as Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry and firms such as Morphosis and Future Systems. With full-color photos, drawings, and floor plans, Starchitects is a ...

Decorative art 50s

Nhóm Tác giả: Charlotte Fiell, Peter Fiell

Explores the spirit of optimism and the fervent consumerism of the decade. Technology and construction had been enervated by research during the war and these discoveries could now be applied in peacetime. The popularization of plastics, fiberglass, and latex literally shaped the decade. Rising ...