История архитектуры

A previously unknown portrait of the Italian architect in the role of illustrator and theorist on the militia. Published here for the first time are Palladio's preparatory materials for an illustrated edition of Polybius' Histories alongside Palladio's material for his edition of Julius Caesar' Commentaries, (1575). Long thought to have been lost, his original Polybius has now been recomposed by drawing on three manuscript copies: the mock-up used by Palladio to plan the edition, rediscovered in the London British Library in 1977; a second copy found in Florence in 1986 and a third exemplar only very recently found in the New York Public Library. Here the reproductions of the 43 etchings for the Polybius have been accompanied by 42 etchings which Palladio dedicated to Caesar's deeds. This offers us a complete picture of his effort to reconstruct those excellent features of ancient warfare on which Palladio wished to base his own proposals for reforming the contemporary Venetian militia, as well as to give a different point of view on the history of architecture. The volume includes contributions from several scholars including: Stephen Parkin, Sara Mazzarino, Marco Formisano, Luciano Pezzolo, Claudio Povolo, and Paolo Fiore.

About the Author:

Guido Beltramini is the director of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura "Andrea Palladio," Vicenza. He has taught Architectural History at the University of Ferrara (Italy) and is the author of: Andrea Palladio. The Complete Illustrated Works (2000) and Palladio privato (2008). He has also edited: Palladio and Northern Europe: Books, Travellers, Architects (with H. Burns, K. Forster, W. Oechslin, 1999), Andrea Palladio e la villa veneta da Petrarca a Carlo Scarpa (with H. Burns, 2005).

Andrea Palladio influenced the history and evolution of Western architecture like no other.

This book is the first of three in a series set to be the largest and most complete publication ever on the work of the great architect. Relying on comparison with drawings in Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (Venice, 1570), the author highlights the links between the realized buildings and the theoretical designs, and between the concepts derived from classical architecture and the work of Vitruvius and their subsequent development.

This volume is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in Palladio's villas.

Dazzling illustrations and concise, helpful texts make this an indispensable reference for anyone curious about the great architects and buildings of yesterday and today.

From Alvar Aalto to Peter Zumthor, from the Renaissance to the 21st century, this comprehensive guide introduces readers to the major names, schools, and structures in the field of architecture. Each entry focuses on a seminal figure and one of his or her career-defining works. Arranged alphabetically, the book is easy to use, and the large, superbly reproduced color illustrations allow readers to examine the details of each of the buildings it celebrates. The volume also features a glossary of architectural movements and technical terms. Beautifully produced and reasonably priced, this reference guide is a great addition to any coffee table.

The first and authoritative story of the rise of interior design from an intimate trade industry to celebrity decorators of today, as seen through the eyes of Architectural Digest and intimately told by Paige Rense-the magazine's iconic former editor-in-chief for over four decades.

Respected as the international authority on architecture and design, Architectural Digest magazine gives readers an exclusive look into the most spectacular properties and private homes of celebrities and cultural figures, highlighting the work of the world's top architects, designers, and interior decorators. This volume celebrates the evolution of the revered magazine as told through the voice of its legendary editor for four decades, Paige Rense. An epic visual history of the magazine's meteoric rise penned by Rense, this volume documents exclusively and intimately the renowned magazine's history and cultural significance, and celebration of the ever-evolving homes and lifestyles.

This volume is full of candid recollections, commentary, archival covers, and interior shots of the magazine and also features the work of the world's top architects and interior designers such as Mario Buatta, Philip Johnson, Tony Duquette, and Sally Sirkin Lewis, as well as the homes of celebrities like Truman Capote, Sonny & Cher, Elton John, Diane Keaton and Ralph Lauren. Each chapter, written in the first person -- is followed by lavishly illustrated anecdotes from Rense's memories of past issues. As the editor who gave readers a glimpse into the most enviable homes around the world, Rense is uniquely qualified to tell the story of Architectural Digest, a tale that her nearly one million loyal fans and readers of the magazine will be eager to read.

About the Author:

Paige Rense became editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest magazine in 1975, turning a provincial black-and-white Los Angeles publication with a circulation of 50,000 into an international superstar with a monthly readership of 5.4 million. She is also a published author and the founder of the Arthur Rense Prize poetry award. She has been the recipient of: The Museum of Arts & Design Achievement Award (2006), The American Academy of Achievement Award (2000), The Pratt Institute Founder Awards (1997), The Interior Design Hall of Fame Award (1985)

This volume provides an overview of architectural drawings from the Middle Ages to the 19th centuries portraying the cultural habits, tastes and styles of each.

The homes of the bourgeoisie in Vienna and London, the Sun King's palace, the private residences of Italy's oldest families all feature, as do places of worship that range from country churches to city cathedrals, royal chapels, solitary bell towers and large monumental complexes as well as the various transformations of St. Peter's Basilica, the heart of Christendom.

Sentence structures. The architectural treatises which shaped our world

If you’ve ever wondered what goes through architects’ minds when they design buildings, you’ll be happy to know that there’s no shortage of brilliant reading material to satisfy your curiosity. Wading through the archives at your local library may prove fruitful to your endeavour, but it won’t give you the instant gratification that Architecture Theory will.

This book brings together all of the most important and influential essays about architecture was written since the Renaissance, copiously illustrated and neatly organized chronologically by country. From Alberti and Palladio to Le Corbusier and Koolhaas, the best treatises by architecture’s greatest masters are gathered here, each accompanied by an essay discussing its historical context and significance. This is the all-in-one, must-have book for anyone interested in what architects have to say about their craft.

The comprehensive overview that will help transform even the most uninformed novices into well-informed connoisseurs!

About the series:

Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite!

Architecture & Arts documents the innovations brought about by painters, sculptors, designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers, as well as creators from the widest variety of artistic circles and expressive styles, into the field of architecture. At the same time, it reveals the digressions of architects into the visual arts, a discipline that has shared with architecture a common project of a radical, at times visionary, aesthetic transformation of reality. The volume includes works by Malevich, Cartier-Bresson, Steichen, Terragni, Depero, Fritz Lang, Le Corbusier, Gehry, Rossi, Piano, and Oldenburg, to name a few. This richly illustrated volume offers a complete overview of architects and artists from the historic avant-gardes (Futurism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Dadaism, Neoplasticism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and the modern movements until the postwar period) to the contemporary world, starting from Informal-Spatialist work and continuing with Situationism, Brutalism, Pop Art, Minimalism, and Post modernism to the present day.

Collection of constructions, both civil and sacred buildings, ranges from pre-Christian basilicas to buildings dating from the early 19th century, and includes such gems as the cathedrals of St. Peter and Chartres, the Paris Opera House, and the Taj Mahal. Fully illustrated.

L'art de la Russie Ancienne s'épanouit durant plus de 700 ans, du Xème au XVIIème siècle. Profondément marquée par l'empreinte religieuse, son évolution est étroitement liée au christianisme et aux finalités du culte orthodoxe. Très vite, les bâtisseurs russes manifestent un authentique génie créateur, marqué par l'élégance et l'harmonie des proportions. Il ne faut pas attendre longtemps pour voir surgir les principaux chefs-d'œuvre de l'époque kiévienne (Xe-XIIIe siècles), à commencer par les cathédrales Sainte-Sophie de Kiev et de Novgorod, puis la Dormition de Vladimir.
Au XIIIe siècle, l'irruption des Mongols oblige les Russes à se replier sur eux-mêmes. La renaissance artistique s'amorce au XVe siècle, sous l'égide du prince de Moscou qui impose son autorité à l'ensemble du pays et fait de sa ville une métropole aussi bien politique qu'artistique et culturelle. Le XVIIe siècle est marqué par un essor remarquable de l'architecture civile, dont témoignent encore de nombreux palais et demeures princières. Le règne de Pierre le Grand signe la rupture avec l'art traditionnel : le tsar impose les modèles occidentaux et enracine définitivement la Russie dans l'histoire architecturale du reste de l'Europe.
La présente étude se propose de recenser les caractéristiques nationales de l'architecture de la Russie ancienne et de présenter les chefs-d'œuvre de tous ordres produits jusqu'à la fin du XVIIe siècle. L'iconographie, somptueuse et entièrement inédite, témoigne avec éloquence de la maîtrise et des dons artistiques des Russes. Une attention particulière est apportée aux bâtiments de bois, dont il subsiste de nombreux exemples dans les régions du Nord.

Véra Traimond est docteur en Histoire et maître de conférences à l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, où elle enseigne l'Histoire de l'Art Russe.

L'art de la Russie Ancienne s'épanouit durant plus de 700 ans, du Xème au XVIIème siècle. Profondément marquée par l'empreinte religieuse, son évolution est étroitement liée au christianisme et aux finalités du culte orthodoxe. Très vite, les bâtisseurs russes manifestent un authentique génie créateur, marqué par l'élégance et l'harmonie des proportions. Il ne faut pas attendre longtemps pour voir surgir les principaux chefs-d'œuvre de l'époque kiévienne (Xe-XIIIe siècles), à commencer par les cathédrales Sainte-Sophie de Kiev et de Novgorod, puis la Dormition de Vladimir.
Au XIIIe siècle, l'irruption des Mongols oblige les Russes à se replier sur eux-mêmes. La renaissance artistique s'amorce au XVe siècle, sous l'égide du prince de Moscou qui impose son autorité à l'ensemble du pays et fait de sa ville une métropole aussi bien politique qu'artistique et culturelle. Le XVIIe siècle est marqué par un essor remarquable de l'architecture civile, dont témoignent encore de nombreux palais et demeures princières. Le règne de Pierre le Grand signe la rupture avec l'art traditionnel : le tsar impose les modèles occidentaux et enracine définitivement la Russie dans l'histoire architecturale du reste de l'Europe.
La présente étude se propose de recenser les caractéristiques nationales de l'architecture de la Russie ancienne et de présenter les chefs-d'œuvre de tous ordres produits jusqu'à la fin du XVIIe siècle. L'iconographie, somptueuse et entièrement inédite, témoigne avec éloquence de la maîtrise et des dons artistiques des Russes. Une attention particulière est apportée aux bâtiments de bois, dont il subsiste de nombreux exemples dans les régions du Nord.

Véra Traimond est docteur en Histoire et maître de conférences à l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, où elle enseigne l'Histoire de l'Art Russe.

The must-have architecture manual. A century of great buildings and their creators

This is the be-all-end-all reference work for architecture in the 20th century. From Frank Lloyd Wright to Antoni Gaudí to Frank O. Gehry to Shigeru Ban and all the best stuff in between, it’s all here. The chronologically organized chapters put it all into perspective, illustrated by hundreds of large-format photos as well as a plenitude of drawings and floor plans. The biographical appendix covers all of the century’s greatest architects, including today’s new talents. An indispensable reference work and an absolute must for all lovers of architecture!

This is the be-all-end-all reference work for architecture in the 20th century. From Frank Lloyd Wright to Gaudi to Frank O. Gehry to Shigeru Ban and all the best stuff in between, it's all here. The chronologically organized chapters put it all into perspective, illustrated by hundreds of large-format photos as well as a plenitude of drawings and floor plans. The biographical appendix covers all of the century's greatest architects, including today's new talents.

This special expanded edition, presented in two volumes packaged in a slipcase, brings our classic title up to date with coverage up until the present day, more colour photos, more architect biographies, and new insights on recent architectural trends and movements.

This book is the first of its kind to discuss the history of the Balkan Peninsula from late antiquity to the height of the Ottoman era by focusing on architecture as its principal gauge. In doing so, it transcends various established conventions in scholarship to present the architectural heritage in the Balkans in a manner that is accessible and comprehensible.

Throughout the book architecture is viewed as a function of distinctive needs (social, political, religious), distinctive means (economic, technical know-how, material availability) and distinctive goals (aesthetic, propagandistic, protective). As a result, the book covers the full range of architectural enterprises, from simple residential buildings, to public monumental structures; from fortifications, to utilitarian buildings (cisterns, bridges, etc).

The urban context of architecture is emphasized, while its role in rural settings is used as a gauge of other distinctive phenomena.

Illustrated with several hundreds of photographs and drawings, most of them specially commissioned, the book presents a generally unknown body of material in a distinctive, unprecedented manner.

From the pyramids to the Guggenheim Museum, discover how these groundbreaking structures changed the course of architecture through the ages.

Architecture evolves in response to man’s technological advances and environmental demands. Driven by these developments, architects can be seen as the most innovative of artists. In twenty-five beautifully illustrated chapters, this volume for general readers and architecture lovers alike identifies the most important advancements in the field of architecture, and demonstrates how these innovations influenced the development of architecture. Chapters focus on topics such as monuments to the dead and places of worship; domes; pillars and arches; towers from Pisa to Eiffel; stadia and theaters; palaces and skyscrapers. Readers will learn about the introduction of glass, steel, iron, and concrete; how buildings express ideas; and the rediscovery of antiquity. Arranged chronologically, these chapters can be studied individually to deepen our understanding of particular aspects of architecture or as a whole—to appreciate the ever changing patterns of architectural advancement.

Водонапорная башня УЗТМ – один из самых известных в мире образцов промышленной архитектуры советского конструктивизма. Архитектурный образ башни создан уральским архитектором Моисеем Рейшером. Башня запланирована ключевой градостроительной доминантой в проекте рабочего поселка Уральского машиностроительного завода (УМЗ) архитектором Петром Оранским в 1928 году. Высота башни 35 метров. Книга повествует об истории создания башни, ее конструктивно-технологическом решении, истории ее строительства и жизни до сегодняшнего дня. Издание призвано актуализировать значимость проекта и найти возможные пути сохранения и преобразования значимого объекта мирового культурного значения.