Architecture
A nostalgic photo-essay on America's car-oriented culture traces the development of the gas station from the horse-drawn tank to today's streamlined stations
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...Isms: Understanding Architectural Styles
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Demystifying the 'isms' that are often used to define, yet more often misleadingly cloud, stylistic movements in architecture. Each architectural movement is explained in simple terms and made more accessible to the casual architecture aficionado with an array of pictured examples. Alongside these examples are highlights of the key features of the style, past stylistic sources and influences, important practitioners, and notable built examples. Glossaries. Color illus. 160p.
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A stunning resource containing hundreds of garden design ideas and suggestions features one thousand full-color photographs, along with ingenious solutions to landscape challenges and problems, a directory of suppliers, and inspirational tips on plant selection, pergolas and gazebos, walls and fences, paths and paving, containers, topiary, water features, and much more.
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10 X 10
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A kaleidoscopic view of the work of 100 contemporary architects around the world selected bu ten leading international curators and critics. Features over 250 buildings and projects dating from 1990 to the present encompassing multimillion dollar schemes, small domestic projects and virtual technology. Presented alphabetically with four pages devoted to each architect. Includes essays by each curator about the contemporary scene. Illus., 1,000 color, 500 b&w.468p.
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10 X 10
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10 x 10 is a multi-voiced project presenting a selection of one hundred architects by ten international critics. In their view, these are the architects producing the most exceptional and innovative work today. 10 x 10: a beautifuloverview of work by architects whom are setting the pace for the future.
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10 X 10 / 3: 100 Architects 10 Critics
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This generously illustrated volume presents 100 of the world’s most exceptional emerging architects, selected by 10 internationally prominent critics, architects, and curators. Arranged alphabetically by architect, the book features more than 1,500 illustrations of approximately 350 buildings and projects, from around the globe, completed since 2004 – including recently built work as we; as competition entries, theoretical projects and works under construction. Each curator has contribute…
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10 X 10 /3
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The 100 architects featured in this volume, the latest in Phaidon's '10x10' series, push the boundaries of design & redefine the very meaning of architecture: from a building sliced in half in order to design the space in between to a skyscraper that seems to disappear on sunny days. This comprehensive & global view of architecture presents the works of 100 up-and-coming architects the world over, selected by 10 of the best-informed critics, curators and architects. Arranged alaphabetical…
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10 X 10 2: 100 Architects 10 Critics
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Ten of the world's most respected architecture critics, practitioners, and curators were each asked to select ten architects whose distinctive designs have emerged internationally during the past five years. Arranged alphabetically by firm name, the work of each of these one hundred studios is presented here on four pages and is accompanied by an insightful text by the selecting contributor. A range of aesthetics gets ample play across the four hundred pages, which comprise some 1,500 ima…
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100 Best New Houses
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This book showcases the finest examples of contemporary residential architecture from the world's most innovative architects. From single family dwellings to vavcation homes, city apartments, rural retreats and beach shacks, these 100 homes reflect the way we live in the world and the way we aspire to live in the future. As a result, many of the projects are highly experimental in nature, balacing the needs of comfort, landscape and climate with a shift toward locally sourced materials an…
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100 Contemporary Architects
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An unusual look at the work of five-score modern architects from the world over, going directly to their original drawings for structures built and unbuilt to sneak a peek at their creative minds. The drawings chosenfor this volume were naturally selected for their artistic merit, but also are intended to reflect each architect's individual approach to style and spatial relationships. Essays and brief biographies place theirlives in proper perspective. Architects represented include Frank…
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100 Contemporary Architects A-Z
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(Taschen 25th Anniversary Special Edition). This two-volume-in-slipcase compilation is an indispensable compendium, bringing together highlights from Taschen's title Building a New Millennium in tandem with the first four volumes of its Architecture Now series of books, for an emphatically comprehensive study of architecture the world over at the beginning of the 21st century. Up-and-coming architects are featured alongside the field's most respected practitioneers. Addenda. Massively ill…
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