Since Osaka World Expo ’70 brought contemporary forms center stage, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. Presenting the latest in Japanese building, this book reveals how the likes of Tadao Ando, SANAA, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, and Junya Ishigami are relinking past, present, and future—building greener and smarter than ever before. Hardcover, 24.6 x 37.2 cm, 3.64 kg, 448 pages
First impressions count, especially in Milano. In this unprecedented photographic journey, editor Karl Kolbitz curates 144 of the finest Milanese entrance halls from 1920 to 1970. Sumptuous in diversity and splendor, the volume features some of Milan’s most famous architects, from Gio Ponti to Piero Portaluppi, and showcases the city’s design DNA across high to low architecture. Hardcover, 26 x 34 cm, 3.30 kg, 384 pages
An unprecedented event in architecture history, the Case Study Houses program gave America new models for residential living. This comprehensive account of the project presents each of the 36 prototype homes through floor plans, sketches, and photographs, and explores how architects like Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen redefined the Los Angeles landscape and the modern home. Hardcover, 33.2 x 25.7 cm, 3.58 kg, 440 pages
From Olympic venues to a world-class airport, this monograph gathers the complete works of the first female architect ever to win the Pritzker prize and one of the greatest architects of the 21st century: Zaha Hadid. Photographs, in-depth texts, and Hadid’s own drawings trace her integrated universe of building, furniture, and interior design, including the astonishing Port House in Antwerp. Hardcover, 22.8 x 28.9 cm, 3.34 kg, 672 pages
Latex, plastics, and fervent consumerism: discover the design trends and materials which literally shaped the American 1950s. This overview explores a decade of postwar rebuilding driven by idealistic vision and positive spirit, applied from the suburbs to the inner cities, and from furniture to metalware. This edition revives the rare and revelatory Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook to trace the materials and styles behind the midcentury boom. Hardcover, 19.6 x 25.5 cm, 1.50 kg, 576 pages
With dramatic expressions of futurism alongside rustic eco-trends, this book collects the best of 1970s design in one expertly curated and annotated volume, drawn from the now-classic collectible, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook. Across metalware, textiles, ceramics, and more, explore a decade of fast-moving ideas and vehemently opposing schools and movements. Hardcover, 19.6 x 25.5 cm, 1.45 kg, 576 pages
The Case Study House program was a landmark of American architecture, generating 36 prototype home designs that could be easily built. John Entenza recruited the era’s best architects, such as Richard Neutra, Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, to create the designs. This book reveals the prototypes in photography, floor plans,and sketches. Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.41 kg, 512 pages
Contemporary Houses. 100 Homes Around the World / Автор: Филипп Джодидио, Издательство: Taschen, Серия: , Страниц: 592, Переплет: Твердый, ISBN: 9783836583961
The essential book for admirers of arboreal ateliers everywhere, this whimsical collection showcases 50 of the finest tree houses around the world. Whether serving as a lofty eyrie for childhood adventures or a unique luxury hotel amid the branches, these are some of the most fantastic human roosts in the sky. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.08 kg, 544 pages
Through scorching heat to unforgiving chills, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group presents a dazzling round-up of adaptive architecture in extreme environments around the world. In coordination with a major exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington, 60 case studies show how structures can become holistic ecosystems of both economic and environmental profit. Softcover with jacket, 16.3 x 25 cm, 1.99 kg, 712 pages
Jewellery, ceramic, furniture, fashion, and much more came together under the roof of the Wiener Werkstätte (“Vienna Workshop”). This hub of creativity, founded in 1903, is recognized to this day for its elevation of handcraftsmanship against an industrialised world, its simple, elegant “square style”, and its pursuit of a “Gesamtkunstwerk,” or total work of art, in which all elements of an environment play an integral role. Hardcover, 24 x 31.6 cm, 1.90 kg, 240 pages
Between two world wars, the Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. Realized with the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, this updated edition celebrates the school’s centennial, gathering 550 illustrations across 400 pages, including architectural plans and biographies of key figures like Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, and Marianne Brandt—the ultimate guide. Hardcover, 25 x 34 cm, 3.44 kg, 400 pages
From cameras to kitchenware, Lego to Lamborghini, follow the makers and shapers of industrial design in Industrial Design A–Z. This revised and updated edition covers the individual designers, the global businesses, and above all the genius products that have synthesized form and function to transform our daily lives. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 0.98 kg, 616 pages
Once synonymous with eyesore highway bridges and crumbling, unloved walls, concrete has been reborn as adventurous and sexy. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition considers the elaborate feats and prodigious engineering of contemporary concrete architecture, from stars such as Tadao Ando and Herzog & de Meuron, to fresh new studios like the Russian SPEECH. Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 0.99 kg, 632 pages
Enter the world’s finest homes in this dependable global digest featuring talents like Shigeru Ban and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-comers like Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Organized by architect and brimming with crisp photography and plans, the result is a sweeping survey of the contemporary house. Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.48 kg, 512 pages
Antoni Gaudí merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a Modernista aesthetic that made Barcelona a mecca for architecture fans. With new photography, plans, Gaudí’s drawings, and a complete appendix of his works including unfinished projects, this book takes us into the proud Catalonian’s unique worldview. Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.41 kg, 512 pages
This inventive experience from the socially, economically, and environmentally savvy Bjarke Ingels Group is a radical architectural manifesto inside a comic book. The pioneering firm uses the cartoon format to declare its distinct building philosophy in simple yet succinct terms: a quest to find an equilibrium between utopian design and pragmatic everyday needs, to “move the focus from the little details to the BIG picture.” Flexicover, 16.3 x 25 cm, 1.12 kg, 400 pages
Antoni Gaudí merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a unique Modernista aesthetic that put Barcelona on the global architecture map. With brand-new photography, plans and drawings by Gaudí himself, as well as an extensive appendix of all his works including furniture and unfinished projects, this XL book takes us through the Catalonian’s fantastical universe like never before. Hardcover, 25 x 34 cm, 2.91 kg, 368 pages
From prairie houses to skyscrapers and the Guggenheim Museum, explore the life and work of one of the greatest pioneers in the history of architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright. Sketches, plans, and photographs chronicle all of Wright’s major works, celebrating his organic architecture philosophy, innovative use of industrial materials, and vision for a new way of American living. Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.62 kg, 96 pages
Explore a unique blend of structure and surroundings in this essential architectural introduction to Richard Neutra, pioneer of a particularly holistic brand of modernism which incorporated the ragged lines of a landscape as much as the sleek surfaces and pared down geometries of 20th-century cool. Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 0.56 kg, 96 pages
Архітектура забуття: руїни та історична свідомість у модерній Росії / Автор: Шёнле, А., Видавництво: Новий літературний огляд, Серія: Інтелектуальна історія, Сторінок: 360, Обкладинка: Тверда, ISBN: 978-5-4448-0724-8
100 чудес Китаю. Великі скарби людства на п'яти континентах / Автор: , Видавництво: Мир книги, Серія: Великі скарби людства, Сторінок: 208, Обкладинка: Твердий, ISBN: 978-5-486-00959-3
Влада та монумент. Пам'ятники державним правителям Росії та Європи. 1881-1914 / Автор: Савельєв Ю., Видавництво: Ліки Росії, Серія: Альбом, Сторінок: 296, Обкладинка: Тверда, ISBN: 978-5-87417-367-8.
Теракотова пластика найдавніших держав Середньої Азії IV століття до н. - ІV ст. н.е / Автор: Дворіченська Н. Д., Видавництво: Нестор-історія, Серія: Archaeologica varia, Рік: 2016, Сторінок: 610, Обкладинка: Тверда, ISBN: 978-5-4469-0425-9.