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Book Visionary Architecture

Download or read book Visionary Architecture written by Ernest Burden and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic exploration of works of the imagination throughout history. Its emphasis is on how each architect, renderer, artist, and culture envisioned the future, hence the preponderance of buildings and urban cityscapes depicted are unbuilt. A range of work is included, from baroque stage sets to the film Metropolis, M.C. Escher, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hugh Ferriss, virtual L.A., and more. There are sketches, paintings, models, drawings, and computer images in a range of media and stylistic techniques, and a timeline integrates architectural events alongside their historical and cultural counterparts.

Book Architectural Inventions

Download or read book Architectural Inventions written by Matt Bua and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of the drawingbuilding.org online archive, Architectural Inventions presents a stunning visual study of impossible or speculative structures that exist only on paper. Soliciting the work of architects, designers, and artists of renown –as well as emerging talents from all over the world –Maximilian Goldfarb and Matt Bua have gathered an array of works that convey architectural alternatives, through products, expansions, or critiques of our inhabited environments. From abstract and conceptual visual interpretations of structures to more traditional architectural renderings, the featured work is divided into thematic chapters, ranging from 'Adapt/Reuse' to 'Clandestine'' 'Mobile'' 'Radical Lifestyle', 'Techno-Sustainable', and 'Worship'. Along with arresting and awe-inspiring illustrated content, every chapter also features an essay exploring its respective themes. Highlighting visions that exist outside of established channels of production and conventions of design, Architectural Inventions showcases a wide scope in concept and vision, fantasy and innovation.

Book Starchitects

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julio Fajardo
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2010-07-27
  • ISBN : 0061968773
  • Pages : 596 pages

Download or read book Starchitects written by Julio Fajardo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starchitects: Visionary Architects of the Twenty-first Century offers a complete and detailed catalog of some of the world's most brilliant architects working today. Featuring biographies and studio information as well as detailed plants, drawings, and photographs of each building, this book is a must-have compendium celebrating the work of the best and brightest—the stars of architecture.

Book Visionary Architecture

Download or read book Visionary Architecture written by Christian Werner Thomsen and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In short, it is a book about those who have endeavored to preserve creativity in their profession and whose innovative ideas have led, in practical terms, to the development of new architectural concepts, new ways of living and working, and new aesthetic forms.

Book Daniel H  Burnham

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kristen Schaffer
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Daniel H Burnham written by Kristen Schaffer and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the career of nineteenth-century Chicago architect and city planner Daniel Burnham, and features photographs of his creations in Chicago and throughout the United States.

Book Architecture Visionaries

Download or read book Architecture Visionaries written by Richard Weston and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 75 of the world's most influential architects, this book presents the story of 20th-century architecture through the fascinating personal stories and significant works that have shaped the field. Arranged in a broadly chronological order, the book gives the reader a sense of the impact that inventive individuals have had on the development of architecture and our built environment. Key dates in the architects' careers are listed in timeline features, thereby allowing the author freedom to move beyond well-known biographies to analyze the buildings and map out the exciting visions behind them. With insightful text describing carefully selected examples, this is a dynamic and unique guide to the architects whose visions have created the buildings around us.

Book Bernard Maybeck

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sally Byrne Woodbridge
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2006-10-30
  • ISBN : 0789201321
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bernard Maybeck written by Sally Byrne Woodbridge and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this bestselling volume chronicles one of the most innovative, influential, and beloved architects of the early 20th century. Gracefully written and brilliantly illustrated, this handsome new volume captures the vision, the wit, and the down-to-earth inventiveness of one of the most influential and beloved architects of the early twentieth century. Raised in Greenwich Village and trained in Paris, Maybeck spent most of his long career in northern California. An irrepressible bohemian with no desire to run a large office, he spent much of his time designing houses for friends and family, as well as for other patrons so loyal that they often hired him to design more than one house. Maybeck also created two of the most beautiful buildings in all of California: the exhilarating Church of Christ, Scientist, in Berkeley, and the gloriously romantic Palace of Fine Arts, in San Francisco. This incisive overview—the first to feature color reproductions of Maybeck's exquisite interiors and exteriors—analyzes every aspect of his life and work. Not only his architecture but also his furniture, his lighting designs, and his innovations in fire-resistant construction are thoroughly discussed and illustrated. The book is also enlivened by documentary photographs, by clearly drawn plans, and by several of Maybeck's dazzling, previously unpublished visionary drawings. Bernard Maybeck is a major study of an internationally significant architect whose environmentally responsive work has much to offer today's designers and whose houses have given enormous pleasure to those fortunate enough to visit or dwell in them.

Book The Changing of the Avant garde

Download or read book The Changing of the Avant garde written by Terence Riley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 165 expertly reproduced visionary architectural drawings from The Museum of Modern Art's Howard Gilman Archive, this collection brings together a selection of idealized, fantastic and utopian architectural drawings.

Book Boull  e   Visionary Architecture

Download or read book Boull e Visionary Architecture written by Helen Rosenau and published by Crown. This book was released on 1976 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antoni Gaud

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Carmel-Arthur
  • Publisher : Carlton Publishing Group
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Antoni Gaud written by Judith Carmel-Arthur and published by Carlton Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Antoni Gaudi was among the greatest architects of the modern age. In his lifetime, Gaudi pushed the architectural craft to its limits, mastering ever steeper curves and creating some of the world's most magical and sensual buildings. Illustrated with over 50 color images of his creations, including the massive Cathedral of the Sagrada Familia, the Park Guell, Casa Mila and Casa Battio, this book celebrates Gaudi's inimitable talent in vivid detail."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Future City  the Hb

    Book Details:
  • Author : GRIFFITHS
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-10-11
  • ISBN : 9789401478588
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Future City the Hb written by GRIFFITHS and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * An insightful introduction to the most exciting ideas in urban building and development, highlighting 40 revolutionary projects that address crucial issues in design planning for cities of the future* Beautifully illustratedWhat might the city of the future look like and how might it meet the needs of future generations while limiting damage to our planet's fragile ecosystem? This book introduces pioneering architects, designers and planners whose visions for an alternative urban future address issues such as climate change, population density, infrastructure, transportation and digital culture. It includes over 40 radical projects grouped into five key categories: master planning and megacities, transportation and infrastructure, new habitats, green cities/ urban farming, and smart cities. Each category summarizes trends that will drive the development of future cities, with each project representing a unique approach to urban development in the 21st century and beyond.

Book Visionary Architects

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean-Claude Lemagny
  • Publisher : Hennessey & Ingalls
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780940512351
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Visionary Architects written by Jean-Claude Lemagny and published by Hennessey & Ingalls. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works included here by the three 18th-century French architects Boullee, Ledoux, and Lequeu include architectural drawings of geometric, colossal buildings that verge on science fiction, as well as more mundane neo-classical works built for the French aristocracy. Published first as a catalog for a traveling exhibition originating at the U. of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, the 148 drawings from the Cabinet d'Estampes in Paris, are each illustrated with a b&w plate, and followed by a short catalog entry. There is a bibliography, but no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Frank Lloyd Wright

Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright written by David K. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Lloyd Wright's innovative designs grew out of his belief that a building should harmonize naturally with its setting and enhance the landscape. In an astoundingly prolific career that spanned three-fourths of a century, Wright designed more than a thousand buildings, about half of which were built. As an author, educator, and a philosopher, he has twenty published books. Wright also founded a school of architecture to train others in the field. He has influenced and inspired architects around the world with buildings as diverse as his revolutionary prairie houses and spiraling Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Author David Wright chronicles Wright's triumphant career as well as his personal story of ambition and adversity.

Book Joseph Gandy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Lukacher
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780500342213
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Joseph Gandy written by Brian Lukacher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated with regional photography and accessible maps, a visual guide to the Mediterranean city's sites and accommodations is divided into two sections that list top recommended places to visit while profiling neighborhoods of interest.

Book Where are the Utopian Visionaries

Download or read book Where are the Utopian Visionaries written by Hansy Better Barraza and published by Periscope. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fits the era of Obama and financial meltdown. It contains essays by mostly young architects who have gone grass roots to work with people, materials, and building types way off radar for earlier generations of architects. There is an eye-opening essay on bamboo. Jean Chae discusses her work using materials form Home Depot to build communal buildings in villages of Central America. Balkrishna Doshi introduces a "housing development" that its inhabitants, following a few guidelines, built from debris. The point throughout is a reversal of the usual flow of power and ideas. The architects have all endeavored to learn from people who, if noticed by mainstream authorities, have had buildings imposed on them. 175 illustrations

Book Bernard Maybeck

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sally Byrne Woodbridge
  • Publisher : Abbeville Publishing Group
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Bernard Maybeck written by Sally Byrne Woodbridge and published by Abbeville Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As for other patrons so loyal that they often hired him to design more than one house. Maybeck also created two of the most beautiful buildings in all of California: the exhilarating Church of Christ, Scientist, in Berkeley, and the gloriously romantic Palace of Fine Arts, in San Francisco. This incisive overview - the first to feature color reproductions of Maybeck's exquisite interiors and exteriors - analyzes every aspect of his life and work. Not only is his.

Book Alexander Girard  Architect

Download or read book Alexander Girard Architect written by Deborah Lubera Kawsky and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Girard, Architect is a beautiful, informative book suited for enthusiasts of Alexander Girard, the midcentury modern aesthetic, and Detroit history, art, and architecture.