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The definitive worldwide architectural history of the library, with spectacular original photography by one of the finest architectural photographers at work today

Ambitious and wide-ranging, this is the first single-volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world and from the beginnings of writing to the present day.

Book collections have always served to display their owners’ culture and learning and the word ‘library’ has come to mean not only the books themselves, but also the buildings that house them. Each age and culture has moulded them to reflect its own priorities and preoccupations – mirroring the history of civilization itself.

In its highest form the library became a total work of art, combining painting, sculpture, furniture and architecture. From their designs for the libraries of ancient Rome to those of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, architects have sought to outdo each other by producing ever more spectacular settings.

The author and photographer have travelled the globe, documenting some eighty libraries. Architectural historian James Campbell contributes an authoritative and highly readable account. Will Pryce is one of the world’s leading photographers of interiors and architecture. Arresting and technically flawless, his photographs are both lucid and deeply atmospheric.

Contents List:

Preface; Introduction • 1. Lost Beginnings – Libraries in the Ancient World • 2. Cloisters, Codices and Chests – Libraries in the Middle Ages• 3. Cupboards, Chains and Stalls – Libraries in the Sixteenth Century • 4. Walls, Domes and Alcoves – Libraries in the Seventeenth Century • 5. Angels, Frescoes and Secret Doors – Libraries in the Eighteenth Century • 6. Iron Stacks, Gas Lights and Card Catalogues – Libraries in the Nineteenth Century • 7. Electricity, Concrete and Steel – Libraries in the Twentieth Century • 8. The Future of Libraries in the Electronic Age

About the Authors:

James W. P. Campbell, Fellow in Architecture and History of Art, Queens’ College, Cambridge, is the author of Building St Paul’s and Brick: A World History, also with Will Pryce.

Will Pryce, a trained architect and award-winning photographer, is the author of six books, all published by Thames & Hudson.

A privileged invitation into a world of beauty -- from a seventeenth-century Italian palace and retreats in the Swiss Alps and Morocco to artists' studios and noble residences in Austria and Spain. Simon Watson takes the reader into highly personal environments that reveal the creativity and personality of their esteemed inhabitants.

Since the 1990s, Watson has been one of the most prolific chroniclers of remarkable interiors and portraits, gracing the pages of W magazine, Vanity Fair, AD, and T Magazine. From hard-edged modernity and historical exoticism to pure classicism, the photographer has documented rooms of note in cities, atop mountains, and by the sea.

Complementing his masterful images, Watson gives an intimate description of each location. On this journey with the photographer, one experiences the Duchess of Alba's Palacio Liria in Madrid, filled with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century masterpieces; interior designer Roberto Peregalli's splendid riad in Tangier; the magnificent and vast Castello Gardena in the Italian Alps owned by the Franchetti clan; Guinness
heir Garech de Brun's hillside retreat in County Wicklow, Ireland; the Renaissance Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne in Rome, designed by Baldassarre Peruzzi in the sixteenth century; shoe designer Christian Louboutin's fanciful Parisian apartment; and many other splendid places around the world.

About the Author:

Simon Watson, a native of Dublin, is one of the leading interiors photographers of today. His work appears in notable fashion, travel, and interior publications. Marella Caracciolo Chia is a design journalist for several industry publications. Tom Delavan is the design/interior director of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. James Reginato is writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and a contributing editor of Sotheby's Magazine.

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The salon is the main room in the home, the place where family and friends come together. Previously found only in the mansions of the upper classes and reserved for banquets and balls, the salon has today evolved into the lounge or living room. The living rooms in this 600 page volume have been arranged according to decorative and architectural style. In addition to contemporary lounges in keeping with the majority of tastes, there are vintage lounges, and the minimalist living rooms that have now become a classic.

Creative Homeowner's lead title in its tremendously successful, ground-breaking home plan series, The Lowe's Ultimate Book of Home Plans, 3rd edition, offers readers 730 of the best-selling designs from leading architects and designers.

Over 550 gorgeous, full-color photographs and 1,600 illustrations allow readers to experience homes actually built from the designs, plus some interiors. Virtually every home style is offered, including farmhouses, country cottages, contemporaries, luxury estates, vacation retreats, and regional specialties. In addition to these designs, The Lowe's Ultimate Book of Home Plans, 3rd edition, offers practical tips and advice on everything from selecting a site and hiring a contractor to adding such finishing touches as trimwork and landscaping.

Owning your own swimming pool is a dream that is coming true for more and more people. So, for the first time in this series of lifestyle books, we are devoting a volume to swimming pools and everything related to the subject: pool houses, bathing spaces, saunas and hammams, and also garden designs, materials used for cladding the pool, terraces, furniture and so on.

"A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles, you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, ‘Madame, if that`s the way you see it, so be it.`" An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898–1972) - the complex ambiguities of whose work leave hasty or single-minded interpretations far behind. Long before the first computer-generated 3-D images were thrilling the public, Escher was a master of the third dimension. His lithograph "Magic Mirror" dates as far back as 1946. In taking that title for this book, mathematician Bruno Ernst is stressing the magic spell Escher`s work invariably casts on those who see it. Ernst visited Escher every week for a year, systematically talking through his entire œuvre with him. Their discussions resulted in a friendship that gave Ernst intimate access to the life and conceptual world of Escher. Ernst`s account was meticulously scrutinized and made accurate by the artist himself.

Escher`s work refuses to be pigeonholed. Scientific, psychological, or aesthetic criteria alone cannot do it justice. The questions remain. Why did he create the pictures? How did he construct them? What preliminary studies were necessary before he could arrive at the final version? And how are the various images Escher created interrelated? This book, complete with biographical data, 250 illustrations, and explications of mathematical problems, offers answers to these and many other questions and is an authentic source text of the first order.

Photographs detailing architectural features and interior design, accompanied by a text capturing early twentieth-century ways of life explore the lavish houses built by the Vanderbilts, Morgans, and others on Long Island's North Shore, in an expanded, beautifully illustrated celebration of the design of a bygone era.

Human factors research impacts everything from the height of kitchen counters to the placement of automobile pedals to a book′s type size. And in this updated and expanded version of the original landmark work, you′ll find the research information necessary to create designs that better accommodate human need.

Featuring more than 200 anthropometric drawings, this handbook is filled with all of the essential measurements of the human body and its relationship to the designed environment. You′ll also discover guidelines for designing for children and the elderly, for the digital workplace, and for ADA compliance.

Measurements are in both English and metric units.

Inspired by the romance of Italian villas, Spanish farmhouses, and Moorish courtyards, the Mediterranean Revival style became an archetype for sophisticated suburban homes throughout America in the early 20th century. The characteristic white stucco house, roofed with terra-cotta and ornamented with ironwork, decorative tiles, and fountains, remains the dominant style for new residences in California, the Southwest, and Florida.

The Mediterranean house’s longevity is rooted in an overall simplicity and an emphasis on the outdoors. Its central courtyard, terraces, and loggias provide a fluidity between interiors and exteriors equally prized by the architects of ancient Pompeii and groundbreaking modernists.

The Mediterranean House in America provides the first comprehensive survey of this popular style, beautifully illustrated in full-color photographs by Juergen Nogai, archival photos, and drawings.

Метаполіс (багатомісто): За межами мегаполісу індустріальної епохи виникає Метаполіс цифрової епохи. Місто тепер є місцем місць, де співіснують численні міські моделі, кожна з яких має свої якості, що відрізняють її від інших. У Метаполісі житло стає місцем, де ми живемо, працюємо та відпочиваємо – завдяки аудіовізуальним та телематичним системам – де район є багатонаціональним середовищем прямих зв'язків між громадянами, і де зонування більше не має жодного значення. Метаполіс створює цілісні середовища (житло, відпочинок, торгівля, освіта) поблизу житла. – зі статті про Метаполіс у Словнику передової архітектури Метаполіса.

Словник світу, міста якого з'єднані оптоволоконними кабелями, а громадяни якого практично глобальні, світу, де аеропорти є місцями зустрічей, а зустрічі відбуваються через веб-конференції, Словник передової архітектури Метаполіса визначає нову архітектурну волю та нову соціальну та культурну панораму.

Від «викрадення» до «зуму» – радикальних визначень безліч. Зібрані разом, вони утворюють глобальне, міждисциплінарне, багатоголосе бачення нової архітектурної дії. Вони визначають архітектуру, вписану в інформаційне суспільство, на яку впливають нові технології та нові економіки, і яка турбується про довкілля та сталий розвиток.

Статті написали шість основних авторів – Гауса, Гуалларт, Мюллер, Моралес, Поррас та Соріано – а також десятки міжнародних авторів, включаючи Іньякі Абалоса та Хуана Еррероса, Стена Аллена, Сесіла Балмонда, Бена ван Беркеля, Аарона Бетскі, Едуарда Бру, Грега Лінна, Хосепа Луїса Матео, Фредеріка Мігайру, Маркоса Новака, Хосе Переса Арройо, Андреаса Рубі, Антоніно Саджіо, Саскія Сассен, Келлі Шеннон, Ларса Спуйбрука, Ремера ван Турна та Марка Віглі.

Для зручності словник організовано за трьома різними системами.

Основний словник розташований в алфавітному порядку, кожен запис пояснюється одним або кількома інтерпретаціями авторів, а також списком споріднених слів.

У цьому більшому словнику є два менших: ідеологічний словник (див. «ідеологічний словник»), розташований приблизно в центрі книги, пропонує аналогічні групи слів, пов’язані з певною ідеєю; словник афоризмів (див. «синтетичний») синтезує деякі ключові визначення з основного словника у формі девізів.

Насамкінець, зверніть увагу, що це ілюстрований словник із зображеннями, що використовуються для швидкого пояснення пов’язаних термінів.

The Modern Californian Beach House catalogues the eclectic and always original modernist beach house architecture of Patrick Killen, who for more than thirty years has been Managing Principal of the renowned Studio 9one2 architectural firm.

Killen, along with a handful of other architects, was responsible for introducing serious modern design to the Los Angeles beach communities in the mid-80s, which at the time was a ‘crazy quilt of fantasy structures all built on postage-stamp sized lots wedged together in a dense pattern laid out generations earlier’.

The projects featured in this collection span Killen’s stellar career, from the Shearin House, which established modernism as a viable architectural motif on the western edge of Los Angeles, to 139 Hermosa Avenue, a definitive and welcome statement of modernity amid a sea of ramshackle and derelict structures.

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All of the libraries in the world – small or large, public or private – serve the same purpose: to preserve, cherish, or show off the riches of human knowledge.

Now, for the first time, an internationally renowned photographer takes the reader on a journey to more than twenty of the most historical of these magical places, all architectural treasures. From the dramatic, baroque Library of the Institut de France in Paris, to the splendid Vatican Library in the Vatican City; from the majestic Royal Library at El Escorial, Spain, to the famed New York Public Library, a Beaux-Arts masterpiece – here are some of the most exquisite libraries of the Western world.

Included are national, scholarly and religious libraries from twelve countries, which have in common a distinguished heritage and an architectural setting that emphasizes art and culture. The accompanying text traces the history of libraries to the present day, and describes how they came to serve famous personalities and men of letters. Libraries must be counted as among civilization’s crowning achievements; this elegant book is a fitting tribute to that accomplishment.

Ecological swimming ponds are hip nowadays and they offer many advantages over traditional swimming pools: the water is pure, soft and without chlorine. You can swim between the water plants and the pond can be perfectly integrated in the garden.

Jean Vanhoof, an authority when it comes to swimming ponds, went looking for the 20 most prestigious ponds in Europe and explains here how the different systems work.