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BMW CENTRAL BUILDING
Zaha Hadid
With an audacious and abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the BMW Central Building challenges the notion of building as static and is definitive evidence of architecture as art. This seventh volume in the Source Books in Architecture series provides a comprehensive look at this instant modern masterpiece.
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THE SEVENTY ARCHITECTURAL WONDERS
OF OUR WORLD
Edited by Neil Parkyn
Twenty-eight leading architects, engineers and architectural historians explore and explain the modern world's greatest structures : churches, mosques, temples, shrines, palaces and castles, public and state buildings, towers and skyscrapers, bridges, railways and tunnels, canals and dams, colossal statues... charting the progress of human ingenuity and creativity in erecting buildings, from AD 500 to the present day.
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ONE HUNDRED HOUSES
FOR ONE HUNDRED ARCHITECTS
Taschen
It is particularly interesting, therefore, to examine the homes that architects create for themselves. If houses reflect their owners' personalities, then architects' own homes are like autobiographies. Location, layout, style, lighting, artwork, furnishings, every detail adds color to the story. Each of these 100 dwellings, presented by architect, speaks more about its designer than any other building possibly could.
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DELIRIOUS NEW YORK
Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle, "the culture of congestion", and its architecture.
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GEANTS URBAINS
Editions White Star
Une présentation détaillée de trente-deux constructions récentes du monde entier, de Pékin à New York, de Rotterdam à Sydney, accompagnée chacune de dessins et de plans d'architecte. Avant-gardistes, fonctionnelles et même résidentielles, véritables terrains d'expression pour la technologie et l'esthétique contemporaine, elles prolifèrent et modifient le paysage des grandes métropoles.
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A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
By Spiro Kostof
When the late Spiro Kostof's A History of Architecture appeared in 1985, it was universally hailed as a masterpiece, one of the finest books on architecture ever written. Now, updated and expanded, this classic reference continues to bring to readers the full array of civilization's architectural achievements.
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THE ELEMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
By Jean Nouvel
Since his Institut du Monde Arabe opened in Paris in 1987, French architect Jean Nouvel has designed many significant buildings throughout Europe. This volume features 25 built and forthcoming projects, including the Concert Hall in Lucerne, in text and colour illustrations.
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LE PASSAGE
Un type architectural du XIXe siècle
J.F. Geist
Richement illustré de photos et de nombreux plans. Cette étude expose et analyse l'émancipation du passage de son état d'objet de la spéculation privée pour devenir bâtiment à caractère public, les causes du déclin de cette forme d'espace au début du XXe siècle et sa renaissance récente.
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RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP
Complete works Volume Four
Peter Buchanan
One of the most acclaimed designers of his generation, Renzo Piano established an international reputation. This series of four volumes covers his entire body of work to date. Now available for the first time in paperback, volume 4 in this outstanding series examines projects from 1989 to 2000.
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