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The esteemed monograph on the globally-revered modern master – includes Roosevelt Island, Four Freedoms Park, which was completed after Kahn’s death

The significance of the work of Louis I Kahn, one of the greatest influences on post-WWII world architecture, has skyrocketed in the twenty-first century. Robert McCarter’s bestselling and critically acclaimed monograph explains how Kahn redefined Modern architecture and why his work remains a fundamental source for architects and designers today. Now thoughtfully updated, this comprehensive and extensively illustrated overview features both built and unbuilt projects, including Yale University Art Gallery, Kimbell Art Museum, and the Salk Institute, along with his work in India and Bangladesh, as well as a project realized forty years after Kahn’s death – New York City’s Four Freedoms Park. 

An indispensable reference work on one of the most important figures in 20th-century architecture. McCarter analyzes each of Kahn’s major buildings from the design process, methods and materials of construction to ‘walk-throughs’ of the spaces themselves and the book includes selected writings by Kahn as well as the complete chronology of Kahn’s projects, compiled by William Whitaker, Curator and Collections Manager of the Louis I Kahn Archives. Each project is illustrated with photographs and drawings that convey the spirit of Kahn’s work, as well as the inspirations that led to the design and buildings featured include such architectural icons as Yale Art Gallery, Kimbell Art Museum, and the Salk Institute, along with Kahn’s work in India and Bangladesh. This is an indispensable reference work on one of the most important figures in 20th-century architecture. 

About the Author:

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007. He taught previously at the University of Florida, where he was Director of the School of Architecture from 1991–2001, and Columbia University, among other schools. He has written for numerous international publications, and his books include: Grafton Architects (2018); Marcel Breuer (2016); Steven Holl (2015); Alvar Aalto (2014); Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture, co-authored with Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); and Louis I Kahn (2005), all by Phaidon Press. He has also published The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic (2017); The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (2016); and Aldo van Eyck (2015), among other books.

For everyone interested in the enduring appeal of Louis Kahn, this book demonstrates that a close look at how Kahn put his buildings together will reveal a deeply felt philosophy.

Louis I. Kahn is one of the most influential and poetic architects of the twentieth century, a figure whose appeal extends beyond the realm of specialists. In this book, noted Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn's focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy. Kahn's work clearly conveys a kind of "transcendent rootedness" -- a rootedness in the fundamentals of architecture that also asks soaring questions about our experience of light and space, and even how we fit into the world. In Louis Kahn: The Philosophy of Architecture, John Lobell seeks to reveal how Kahn's buildings speak to grand humanistic concerns.

Through examinations of five of Kahn's great buildings -- the Richards Medical Research Building in Philadelphia; the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla; the Phillips Exeter Academy Library in New Hampshire; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven -- Lobell presents a clear but detailed look at how the way these buildings are put together presents Kahn's philosophy, including how Kahn wishes us to experience them. An architecture book that touches on topics that addresses the universal human interests of consciousness and creativity, Louis Kahn: The Philosophy of Architecture helps us understand our place and the nature of well-being in the built environment.

About the Author:

John Lobell is a researcher, instructor, and lecturer on the subjects of architecture, creativity, and consciousness. A professor of architecture at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, since 1980, he has lectured widely and is the author of numerous articles. He has studied and worked with major creative and cultural figures of the twentieth century, including mythologist Joseph Campbell; architects Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi; Buddhist masters Chogyam Trungpa, Robert Thurman, and the Dalai Lama; and Tai Chi master Cheng Man-Ch'ing.
His previous books include Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn (Shambhala, 1979/2008), which has sold 25,000 copies across two editions, Joseph Campbell: The Man and His Ideas (1993), and Visionary Creativity (2015).

A seductive vision of the future from the most promising firm in China led by Ma Yansong, an important voice in the new generation of architects.

Conceived and designed by Ma Yansong, founder of MAD Architects, MAD Rhapsody documents the buildings of this avant-garde architecture firm and traces the development of their ideas through associated practice including art, research, and exhibition projects. With photographs, drawings, and models, the book highlights 23 projects from the past six years, both built and in process. Known for their “organic and dreamlike architecture” that creates a dialogue with nature, earth, and sky, MAD projects reach all over the globe.

At age 46, Ma Yansong is one of China’s best-known architects. His curvilinear, free-form, and futuristic designs are often compared to those of his mentor, Zaha Hadid. Ma’s greatest inspiration is nature; his opera house in the northern Chinese city of Harbin resembles a snow-capped mountain, while his master plan for the city of Nanjing calls for sloping buildings covered with vertical louvers that resemble waterfalls. Other projects include the Ordos Museum in the wilderness of Inner Mongolia, the Absolute Towers in Canada, and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles.

About the Authors:

Ma Yansong is founder and principal partner of MAD Architects. Paul Goldberger is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Philip Jodidio has written more than 100 books about contemporary architecture.

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Пролистать книгу MAD Rhapsody: Past, Present, and Future

This is the definitive volume on Craig Ellwood, a visionary architect, designer, and tastemaker often called the “California Mies van der Rohe.”

Craig Ellwood, “the Cary Grant of architecture,” was one of the most visible faces of California mid-century modernism. He was known as much for his exquisitely designed, minimalist structures as he was for his exuberant lifestyle.

This book celebrates and explores the glamour of Ellwood’s work, life, myth, and career. Through photographs, primarily of the iconic houses he designed in Southern California during the 1950s and ’60s, we see a life of refined decadence, expressed through gorgeous architecture, fast cars, beautiful women, Hollywood style, palm trees, swimming pools, and minimalist design — all in the context of the Southern California postwar building boom.

This volume will appeal to design junkies, architecture buffs, students of modernism, and anyone interested in problem-solving and elegant solutions.

About the Author:

Michael Boyd, a designer based in Los Angeles and San Francisco, is a renowned and published expert on twentieth-century design and postwar modernism. Richard Powers is a widely published photographer whose books include Rizzoli’s Making House. Ray Kappe is an internationally recognized architect, urban planner, and educator and is a cofounder of SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

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Пролистать книгу Making L.A. Modern: Craig Ellwood - Myth, Man, Designer

Перша авторитетна оцінка Маріо Буатта протеже декоратора. Ніколи раніше не бачений архівний матеріал вибрано, щоб представити майстра дизайну як людину, яка залишається впливовою в сучасному світі максималістських інтер’єрів.

У цій книзі представлено дизайнерські хитрощі та декоративне життя Маріо Буатта (1935–2018), одного з найвідоміших американських декораторів інтер’єрів. Спираючись на величезні архіви Буатти та розкриваючи основи його роботи, які включають сотні презентаційних дошок, понад вісімдесят альбомів для вирізок із хронікою його кар’єри та листування з клієнтами та такими видатними дизайнерами, як Джон Фаулер і Sister Parish, Anatomy of a Decorator освітлює роботу дизайнера з акцентом на впливах, процесі та еволюції. Його останні проекти, не включені до вичерпної книги Ріццолі про декораторів у 2013 році, оцінюються та пропонують читачам майстер-клас із декорування à la Buatta. Стрічки, вишивка, вишуканий англійський та американський антикваріат, квітчастий ситець, синьо-біла порцеляна, лакований посуд, рослинні вироби, яскраві кольорові комбінації та химерність повно.

Розділи включають детальний огляд важливих фігур, які керували його траєкторією, зокрема Ненсі Ланкастер, Роуз Каммінг, Кіта Ірвайна та Альберта Хедлі; оцінка того, як дизайнер катапультувався зі Стейтен-Айленда без вищої освіти, щоб стати відомим ім’ям; а також розбивка дизайнерського словника Буатти та інструкцій. Ця книга є важливим доповненням до бібліотек шанувальників дизайну.

Про авторів:

Емілі Еванс Ердманс – історик дизайну та засновник Eerdmans New York, галереї образотворчого та декоративного мистецтва та консультації. Серед іншого вона є автором книги Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior Decoration (2013).Патриція Альчул – американська світська левиця та колекціонерка мистецтва. Альтшул мав кілька резиденцій, спроектованих Буаттою.

Gage, Yale theorist, architect, and pioneer of the digital avant-garde in architecture and design, presents here a phantasmagoria of ideas and built work in his first monograph.

Architect to Lady Gaga and Nicola Formichetti, Mark Foster Gage has spent 20 years leading the digital architectural avant-garde, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in architecture and design and exploding expectations. This volume features built and unbuilt work from around the globe, from a penthouse in downtown Manhattan to retail stores in Hong Kong. The work shown goes beyond traditional architecture to the realm of fashion and fine art, and includes Gage’s celebrated Valentine’s Sculpture for Times Square, a 3-D-printed outfit for Lady Gaga, as well as designs for Google Glass, Solar Flowers, and robotic tulips.

Mark Foster Gage, whose work Harper’s Bazaar has called “effortlessly chic” and who has been labeled a “boundary breaker,” is a visionary for today. Filled with surprises and creations of wonder, such as a tower for New York’s 57th Street with mouthlike balconies on giant wings or a retail space bedecked with a hundred-faceted mirror, Gage’s work at once challenges expectations of what architecture might be and, as well, frequently fills one with a sense of excitement. Gage’s work is further elucidated in the book by the critical musings of eminent architects and cultural touchstones Peter Eisenman and Robert A.M. Stern.

About the Authors:

Mark Foster Gage is the principal of Mark Foster Gage Architects and the assistant dean of the Yale School of Architecture. Peter Eisenman is principal of Eisenman Architects. Robert A.M. Stern is founder and senior partner in the firm of Robert A.M. Stern Architects.

The first book on the architect's custom-built residences in California, tailor-made to the highest specification one could ask for.

This collection of visionary residences takes us on a tour of the height in luxury, designed to accommodate all amenities available--from the indoor gym and hair salon to the movie theater, champagne vault and wine cellar, cigar room, and wellness room. California Living looks at McClean's rise to prominence, from his first Bird Streets home in the Hollywood Hills to houses that drew attention from the likes of fashion designer Calvin Klein and the record-setting Bel Air home of Beyoncé and Jay Z. In addition to incorporating water in all of his designs, he makes extensive use of glass to eliminate the barrier between the indoors/outdoors. His sleek designs seamlessly integrate the outdoors taking advantage of the spectacular views and landscapes.

After an illustrated introduction, the portfolio section of twenty-four magnificent ultra-modern homes describes each house in detail with sketches and site plans, explaining the architect's work. McClean offers his reflections on these beautiful projects and the design strategies behind their creation, all completed in the past fifteen years. McClean Design has grown into one of the leading contemporary residential design firms in the fashionable areas of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, with projects throughout the Western United States and beyond to Hawaii and British Columbia.

About the Authors:

Paul McClean grew up in Ireland, where he attended the Dublin Institute of Technology, graduating with honors in architecture in 1994. During this time, he traveled and worked for award-winning architectural practices in London, Dublin, and Sydney. After graduation, he arrived in Southern California and worked for various local architectural firms before establishing McClean Design in 2000. McClean is a member of the American Institute of Architects and works primarily in California and Hawaii. 

Philip Jodidio was born in New Jersey in 1954. He studied art history and economics at Harvard before moving to Paris, where he was editor-in-chief of the French art monthly Connaissance des Arts from 1980 to 2002. Jodidio has written over 90 books about contemporary architecture and art, including Tadao Ando: Venice, Tadao Ando at Naoshima, Tadao Ando Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, and I. M. Pei: The Complete Works for Rizzoli.

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Пролистать книгу McClean Design: Creating the Contemporary House

Design icon and AD100 Hall of Fame member Smith’s highly anticipated book of interiors — the first in nearly a decade — featuring extraordinary projects across the world.

One of the most original and respected talents in design, Smith is revered for his impeccable taste and style. Informed by a deep understanding of design history and the art world, Smith’s work is the ultimate in elegance and luxury, reflecting an uncommon sense of scale and drama and a deft use of craftsmanship and materials. His interiors have earned him enduring accolades throughout the industry, as well as a devoted following of notable clients, from Hollywood mega talents such as Shonda Rhimes to former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

This book is a celebration of Smith’s design aesthetic, a flawless blend of European classicism and American modernism. The projects range from a contemporary beach house in East Hampton to a Moroccan-influenced Mallorca escape, as well as two of Michael’s own homes, including his extraordinary apartment in a nineteenth-century palace in Madrid. Smith shares his inspirations and design process, and explores what makes a room truly comfortable: Can people relax on the seating? Is the furniture arranged to encourage conversation? Is there enough light, and is it flattering?

The book is both an inspiration and an education, from a virtuoso of design.

About the Author:

Michael S. Smith is one of the most talented interior designers of our time, continuously named to the AD100 since early in his career and regularly recognized for his contributions to international culture and the arts. In 2010, Smith was appointed by President Obama to serve on the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.

The newest book from acclaimed designer Michael S Smith showcases his exceptional take on kitchens and baths, the busiest yet most personal rooms in a home. Legendary designer Michael S. Smith has stories to tell about kitchens and bathrooms-those he has designed himself, and those that inspire him. In this fascinating and inspirational book, Smith, who has his own line of kitchen and bath fixtures for Kohler, explains how these rooms define a house.

Kitchens and bathrooms are among the most expensive and labour-intensive rooms to design. But they are also opposites, the most public and private zones of a house. In three in-depth case studies and dozens of supporting examples, Smith discusses his design process for these rooms, from big-picture issues such as the social engineering of the kitchen’s layout to details large and small, including the importance of choosing the right cabinet, which can be a crystallization of the architecture of the house, as well as countertops, fixtures, floors, hardware, and more.

Also including a sampling of dressing rooms and breakfast rooms, along with a comprehensive resource section, this is a uniquely sophisticated take on a subject of perennial interest.     

About the Authors:

 Michael S. Smith, one of Architectural Digest’s 100 Top Designers and the winner of Elle Decor’s Designer of the Year Award in 2003, is regularly featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and House Beautiful.

Christine Pittel is a senior editor at House Beautiful whose writing has also appeared in the New York Times and House & Garden.

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Пролистать книгу Michael S. Smith Kitchens and Baths 

Passionate about nature and the harmony of landscapes, Michel Delvosalle completed his studies as a landscape architect in 1972.

He immediately created his first office for the development of public and private spaces.

His extremely varied career as a visionary garden artist, creator of spaces and atmospheres, painter, sculptor and landscape architect is far from ordinary.

If all the gardens of Michel Delvosalle have a strength and a particularism that make them unique, there is one hallmark: the search for harmony and the flexibility to adapt to places and people.

A selection of gardens created between 1982 - 2020.

Теплі, затишні сучасні будинки, що поєднують у собі внутрішній і зовнішній стиль життя з відтінком екзотики, тропічні будинки – це втілена мрія про рай.

Сучасна тропічна житлова архітектура піднялася з географічно специфічної доморощеної естетики до джерела натхнення для великих сучасних архітекторів і дизайнерів світу. Розташовані в екзотичних місцевостях, з басейнами, пишним листям, барвистими садами, ці будинки визначають спосіб життя. Часто елегантні та лаконічні будинки служать зразком розумного та красивого дизайну з безліччю ідей для власників будинків, які не обов’язково живуть у тропічному чи субтропічному кліматі, але бажають мати щось подібне до привабливості та чутливості у своєму власному домі.

У цій книзі представлені деякі з найбільш інноваційних інтерпретацій жанру за останні п’ять років всесвітньо визнаними архітекторами та декораторами інтер’єрів, такими як Тадао Андо, а також роботи молодих талановитих початківців, зокрема німецького походження Алексіса Дорньє з Балі та мексиканської компанії Roof Arquitectos. Вибрані резиденції охоплюють увесь світ, від півдня США, Карибського басейну та тропічних регіонів Латинської Америки до Південно-Східної Азії, північної Австралазії та Африки.Modern Tropical досліджує вибір екзотичних матеріалів, кольорів, культури, навколишнього середовища та естетики деяких із найкрасивіших житлових об’єктів сучасної архітектури. Кожен будинок представлений захоплюючими фотографіями інтер’єру та екстер’єру та планами орієнтації, що дає читачам глибоке уявлення про швидко розвивається симбіоз між природою та притулком, внутрішнім і зовнішнім, сільським та вишуканим, у остаточному дослідженні сучасного тропічного життя.

Про автора:

Байрон Хоуз – письменник і дизайнер із Нью-Йорка та Торонто. Він є засновником і редактором журналу про андеграундну архітектуру та дизайн Après Garde.Оскар Рієра Охеда є директором однойменного бутикового видавництва архітектури Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers.

A resounding masterpiece of architectural publishing, this volume, Rizzoli's sixth on Morphosis and its founder, architect Thom Mayne, features the work of the award-winning interdisciplinary architectural and design practice over the past fourteen years. Known for its architecture of complexity, disruption, and ambiguity, Morphosis is on the cutting edge of exploration and discovery in design. Sometimes on the border of controversy with daring vision and provocative large-scale urban projects, the firm continually invites us to question what architecture is and can be while remaining sensitive to its central purpose -- to provide safe, sheltering spaces for life, work, and play. This book documents the great variety of the firm's creations across the globe, a new academic building for the Cooper Union in New York, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Texas, the Casablanca Finance City Tower in Morocco, and the Sejong M-Bridge, in Sejong City, South Korea. Like the architecture of this trailblazing firm, the book is an exhilarating demonstration of visual excitement, bold graphics, and innovative design.

About the Author:

Thom Mayne is an American architect based in Los Angeles and founding principal of the firm Morphosis. He helped found the seminal Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he is a trustee. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2005.

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Пролистать книгу Morphosis: 2004-2018

The work of Pritzker Prize–winning architect Thom Mayne and that of the firm Morphosis at its most pure is best seen in the models that preceded the buildings, masterworks made at scale, for the first time comprehensively gathered — and shown here.

Thom Mayne is a deeply theoretical and conceptual architect whose built work and that of the firm Morphosis can be seen worldwide. On the cutting edge of exploration and discovery in design, the architecture is marked by complexity, disruption, ambiguity, and power. In each case, prior to the building came the model, which may serve as a key to understanding and appreciation; models express purely the basis of Mayne’s theory and intention. This volume offers, for the first time ever, an exhaustive look at the models upon which all the rest has been built, and is, as well, an essential history of the work of Mayne and Morphosis. A forty-plus-year office retrospective and a love letter to models, their process and concepts, and those that made them, the book considers at once the evolution of the model and that of the work of the firm. It features small-scale dwellings, such as the early and award-winning Sedlack Residence in Venice, California — a single room and study set atop a one-car garage — to Unicorn Island, a mixed-use master plan including a transit station, university campus, commerical and office buildings, parks, and green space in Chengdu, China.

In addition to models never before documented, the book includes outside commentary from architecture historians, critics, and practicing architects, such as Kenneth Frampton, Steven Holl, and Wolf Prix.

About the Author:

Architect and educator Thom Mayne is co–founding principal of the firm Morphosis. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in March 2005.

A comprehensive monograph of acclaimed design studio Neri&Hu's work

Founded by Lyndon Neri and Rosanna Hu in Shanghai, Neri&Hu is Asia’s leading architecture and design studio. Since 2004, the practice has applied a global design language and sensibility to a broad range of localities in China and across Asia, and increasingly in Western countries. Their international outlook, seen in a critically acclaimed body of work that ranges from furniture design to urban planning, historic restoration projects to gleaming new buildings, has made Neri&Hu one of the most influential and watched architecture firms in the world.

This monograph captures the studio’s work at the height of their powers and with an increasingly diverse portfolio of projects. From the Aranya Art Centre in Hebei to the Suzhou Chapel to the Kimpton Da An Hotel in Taipei, the works presented here – chosen in close collaboration with the architects – reveal a design philosophy that is influenced by Asian traditions but alive to changing conditions, exhibiting an attention to detail that understands the universal importance of human experience in all built environments.

Neri&Hu’s work offers unexpected and intriguing solutions to age-old challenges, refreshed with a 21stcentury mindset, providing a new design humanism against the shifting planes of global culture.

About the Author:

Neri&Hu is a Shanghai-based architecture practice that works internationally providing architecture, interior, master planning, graphic and product design services.

This superbly illustrated book marks Nikken Sekkei's 120th anniversary and celebrates the company's unparalleled innovation in local and international design.

Founded in 1900, Nikken Sekkei is a world leader in architectural innovation, urban planning and technology. Instrumental in achieving the modernization of Japan itself, the company is both a national icon and renowned international creator of architectural, engineering, and environmental landmarks.

This beautifully designed book is an elegant tribute to Nikken Sekkei's remarkable achievements and contributions to world architecture over the last 120 years. A poetic photographic journey features Nikken's approach to timeless design: its integrated perspectives, meticulous craftsmanship, and quintessential Japanese traditions. Tracing the company's exceptional story and its enduring passion for sustainability, it will delight general audiences and experts alike.

Narrated from a "micro to macro" perspective, this book features elemental shapes and surfaces that manifest into spaces and environments, encompassing both intimate and masterful initiatives.

Over twenty-four selected projects showcase Nikken Sekkei's reputation and experience. Some are iconic international landmarks and others are quietly nestled in their respective landscapes. All of them demonstrate the company's dedication to people, communities, and the natural world.

About the Author:

Rosa Maria Falvo is a writer and editor in Milan, specializing in Asia-Pacific and Middle Eastern art and culture projects. She has published widely, including Rashid Al Khalifa: Full Circle (Rizzoli) and Yoo Youngkuk: Quintessence (Rizzoli), and has been a guest presenter at numerous venues.