Insectes, oiseaux, bombes, bus, outils, etc... la collection extraordinaire des inventaires dessinés par le génie autiste et artiste, Gregory L.Blackstock. ...
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Artists' books have emerged over the last 25 years as the quintessential contemporary art form, addressing subjects as diverse as poetry and politics, incorporating a full spectrum of artistic media and bookmaking methods, and taking every conceivable form. Female painters, sculptors, calligraphers,...
33 projets récents du grand architecte japonais Kengo Kuma réalisés principalement au Japon, mais aussi en Chine, en Corée, en Allemagne, en Italie et en Angleterre. ...
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Mingering Mike s'est inventé de A à Z une production musicale digne d'une superstar de la soul : faux albums et singles, musiques de films fantaisistes, le tout traité avec un graphisme réaliste confondant. ...
Le Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) est un système nord-américain de standardisation de bâtiments à haute qualité environnementale. Son action encourage et accélère la construction et le développement durables, par la création et l'adoption d'outils et de critères d'évaluation co...
The Writing Deck follows a similar format to A Few Minutes of Design: a card deck with writing prompts each describing a 5-10 minute task: Retell a familiar story from three different perspectives. Describe an object without naming it. Describe a scene without using adjectives. These prompts can be ...
17 nouveaux projets résidentiels imaginés par l'architecte Tom Kundig basé à Seattle, lauréat en 2008 du National Design Award attribué par le Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. ...
Une histoire de la représentation graphique du temps, en Europe et aux Etats-Unis de 1450 à nos jours. ...
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Architectural Lighting, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, provides both a critical approach to and a conceptual framework for understanding the application of lighting in the built environment. The key considerations of lighting design are illuminated through accessible texts an...
Philosophy for Architects is an engaging and easy-to-grasp introduction to philosophical questions of interest to students of architectural theory. Topics include Aristotle's theories of "visual imagination" and their relevance to digital design, the problem of optical correction as explored by Plat...
The Architectural Detail is author Edward R. Ford's life's work, and this may be his most important book to date. Ford walks the reader through five widely accepted (and wildly different) definitions of detail, in an attempt to find, once and for all, the quintessential definition of detail in archi...
Chicago is famous for its role in fostering modern architecture. Now Jeanne Gang, founder of Studio Gang Architects, is giving the epithet "Chicago School" a new meaning. Her recently completed 82-story Aqua residential tower is already an icon of the Chicago skyline and has been universally hailed ...
Prior to the publication of Revolution of Forms in 1999, few were aware that the most outstanding architectural achievement of the Cuban Revolution, the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte (National Art School), stood neglected just outside Havana. Three architects who aimed to reinvent architecture just as...
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The Architectural League Prize (formerly known as the Young Architects Forum) is an annual competition and series of lectures and exhibitions organized by the Architectural League and its Young Architects and Designers Committee. The Architectural League Prize was established to recognize specific w...
Un petit livre qui renferme des citations d'une centaine architectes, de Palladio et Buckminster Fuller à Wang Shu et Jean Nouvel. Le petit cadeau idéal pour tous les architectes ! ...
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Dans ce petit livre, l'architecte Paolo Soleri explique sa conception de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme fondée sur les formes de la nature. Il y parle également de son projet au long cours, Arcosanti, village écologique et véritable laboratoire d'urbanisme qui se développe depuis 1970 dans le dése...