Архитектура

В издании рассматривается жизненный и творческий путь двух выдающихся архитекторов и общественных деятелей второй половины XIX — начала XX века В. А. Шретера (1839–1901) и И. С. Китнера (1839–1929). Новые данные и материалы, собранные автором в процессе работы над книгой, убедительно иллюстрируют вкл    ...

The orthodox concept of the Modern, as it was passed down from the 1920s to the post-war era, has been in a state of crisis for quite some time. This is particularly visible in the fields of urban planning, architecture, and design. Theorists and practitioners have either fiercely defended it as a crowning historical a    ...

Builders have never been so prolific as they are today. And never have there been so many technical and design-related options available to architects. Yet contemporary architecture often creates a sense of unease. In their book, Sergei Tchoban and Wladimir Sedow show how the balance between prominent buildings and the    ...

This handbook on architectural photography gives an in-depth look into many issues surrounding the art of graphic documentation, from how to technically use equipment to tips in how to succeed as a professional in this field. It provides an explanation of design composition, a variety of post-processing techniques, col    ...

The rendering is the most potent means of communicating an architectural design. It provides a complete image of a building in its planned setting. Unlike a physical or computer model, an elevation or plan, it speaks in a direct and accessible visual language that will enable any viewer to immediately picture the archi    ...

In no other place in Europe have changing ideologies and differing urban planning models left such a far-reaching mark as in Berlin. The German capital enables the reader to make a literal journey through history. In the shape of four excursions, this guide presents prominent architectural highlights from Kurfürs    ...

France, arguably more than any other Western nation, played a central role in the emergence and development of modernism across a variety of disciplines, with its architects in particular creating some of the most iconic buildings of the twentieth century. Yet few histories have attempted to grapple with the continuiti    ...

This guidebook showcases 150 buildings from the past 100 years starting with one of the most influential urban projects ever: the Gran Vía. This main avenue marked a milestone for Madrid which went from being a historic city to the modern capital that it is today. This intervention had been ongoing for almost tw    ...

Rome has shaped European art and culture for over 2,000 years. For centuries the city was considered the caput mundi– ‘capital of the world’– and it is where the foundations of Western architecture were built. Today, more than 12 million people from across the globe flock to the Eternal City eac    ...

Viele schmückende Beinamen trägt Sankt Petersburg: «europäischste Stadt Russlands», «Venedig des Nordens» oder «nördliches Palmyra». 1703 von Zar Peter I. als russischer Zugang zur Ostsee gegründet und quasi auf dem Reißbrett entstanden, bezaubert die &    ...