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Build Your Own Life-Size Skeleton. A model of the human skeleton made entirely of foldable cardboard From the medical student and biology enthusiast to the graphic designer and artist: this life-size model gives everyone access to an age-old class...

It was the Belle Époque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870–1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home. From the grand boulevards of Paris t...

It was the Belle Époque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870–1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home. From the grand boulevards of Pari...

Celebrating BUTT magazine`s fifth anniversary, this book is a selection of the most fantastic and the most ridiculous interviews and photos that have appeared in BUTT so far. This anthology also finally makes a lot of material from the now rare, ear...

Born in Jena, Germany in 1954, Werner Büttner was a law student when he befriended artist Albert Oehlen, whose influence prompted him to give up his future law career to take up art. He is now a successful artist based in Hamburg, where he is profess...

Red, yellow, blue – and of course black – are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid, published by William Pickering and printed by Chiswick Press, and which prompt the surprised ...

Ancient Greek mathematics meet modernist design Nearly a century before Mondrian made geometrical red, yellow, and blue lines famous, 19th-century mathematician Oliver Byrne employed the colour scheme for his 1847 edition of Euclid s&nbs...

Life in the woods. Creative cabin architecture Ever since Henry David Thoreau’s described his two years, two months, and two days of cabin existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a refuge ...

Life in the Woods. Creative cabin architecture, from California to Sapporo Yearning for rustic simplicity? Open the door to Cabins, a gorgeous showcase of minimal, low-impact, peaceful abodes around the world. From contemplative bliss in an Englis...

Feats of design and engineering: The work of an unparalleled architectural engineer Santiago Calatrava is not only one of the world s most prominent architects, but is also an engineer, sculptor, and painter. His reputation as an unparalleled archite...

The Masterful Forms of Santiago Calatrava. Balance meets movement in this revised and updated edition This updated monograph includes all of Calatrava’s original collaborative input as well as his latest projects. From the World Trade Center...

West Coast Wild. California’s architectural anomalies In this vivid new examination of a rogue architectural style, discover the roadside structures of California. Fresh discoveries and several pictorial essays explore how these buildings be...

Highlights from the legendary photo journal "This has to be the 'must buy' book of the decade - no photographic library will be complete without it. " - mono, UKPhotographer, writer, publisher, and curator Alfred Stieglitz (1864-...

The focus of this monograph on Spanish-born Felix Candela (1919–1997) is on modern Mexican architecture and its international influence. Conducting daring structural experiments with materials such as reinforced concrete and experimenting with ...

Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his thea...