architektura

This international exploration of Jewish and Holocaust museums, modern synagogues, Jewish community centers and schools demonstrates how these important structures lend architectural shape to the Jewish identity. Architects...

Scarcely any other contemporary building has been the focus of so much attention and heated discussion as the Jewish Museum in Berlin. This guide to the museum's architecture sheds light on its symbolism as well as on the...

This book looks at the spatial themes that preoccupy John Pawson's work through a close examination of a range of different projects. It examines how light, mass and structure inform the architecture, the role of ritual and...

Herbert Johnson, grandson of the founder of the SC Johnson Company, turned his corporation's fortunes around during the Depression by developing a highly successful self-polishing floor wax; in 1936 he sought out a suitable...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style...

This latest volume of Harper Designs ongoing Duets series focuses on a special creative relationship indeed -- that between architect Josep Llu?­s Sert (1902-1983) and artist Joan Mir?? (1893-1983).Both Barcelona natives

Does contemporary German architecture have anything to offer to the larger architectural community? Can architects born in the 1950s and 1960s produce, so soon into their careers, buildings that deserve international acclaim?...

SANAA, the collaborative office of architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa is a multidisciplinary practice that extends beyond traditional practice into the realms of landscape, interior, exhibition, furniture, and product...

Featuring 95 of the most significant buildings of the early twenty-first century, this book includes works by such eminent architects as Renzo Piano, Norman Foster, OMA and Frank Gehry, as well as newer names, such as Jamie...