Монографии и сборники работ известных архитекторов

ARCHITECTURE IS POLITICAL
The buildings of the foremost Chinese architect of our time

Chinese concept artist Ai Weiwei broke through to fame with a wider audience in Germany with his spectacular presence at documenta in 2007. More recently his hundred million porcelain sunflower seeds at Tate Modern caught the imagination of the public. But Ai Weiwei's architectural projects have attracted less attention to date. He sees architecture as arguably the most political of the art forms. Daab's new richly-illustrated book Ai Weiwei. Architecture is the perfect publication to fill the need...

Architect Léon Krier asks, “Can a war criminal be a great artist?” Speer, Adolf Hitler's architect of choice, happens to be responsible for one of the boldest architectural and urban oeuvres of modern times.

First published in 1985 to an acute and critical reception, Albert Speer: Architecture 1932-1942 is a lucid, wide-ranging study of an important neoclassical architect. Yet is is simultaneously much more: a philosophical rumination on art and politics, good and evil. With aid from a new introduction by influential American architect Robert A. M. Stern, Krier candidly confronts the great difficulty of disentangling the architecture and urbanism of Albert Speer from its political intentions.

Krier bases his study on interviews with Speer just before his death. The projects presented center on his plan for Berlin, an unprecedented modernization of the city intended to be the capital of Europe.

Alberto Pinto has infused contemporary flair into these his most recent interiors, which are the most innovative of his lengthy career...

This sumptuously illustrated book features celebrated designer Alberto Pintos most recent interiors. A diverse range of locationsfrom contemporary apartments in New York and London to an English castle, and from two exceptional yachts to offices in Greece and Turkeythese interiors represent the most spectacular work of his career. Long-time fans of Pintos elegant, refined, and luxurious interiors will find new ideas, while new readers will be drawn to his innovative design responses to an eclectic variety of settings. Bringing fresh inspiration to established design principles, Pinto excels at creating a perfect harmony of volume and space. In Alberto Pinto Today, the designer brings together an unprecedented range of styles; he continues to defy ascribed categories and dismiss common preconceptions by translating his own style into each interior, according to the site, his clients tastes, and his own flair for creativity. To coincide with his companys fortieth anniversary, Pinto has opened a showroom in Paris and online where a broader market of interiors enthusiasts can access his exceptional furniture and tableware that previously had been reserved for his commissioning clients.

Другие книги Alberto Pinto:

Alberto Pinto: World Interiors

Alberto Pinto: Bedrooms

Alberto Pinto: Classics

Alberto Pinto Corporate: Contemporary Offices

Alberto Pinto: Moderns

Alberto Pinto: Orientalism

Alberto Pinto: Table Settings

With an international clientele - among whom may be numbered royalty, giants of industry, and leaders of state - it is no wonder that interior designer and decorator of renown Alberto Pinto feels himself best suited to the shadows - albeit the shadows of the great.

From this privileged position, he subtly shapes lifestyles and, to a certain extent, the images of princes. In Alberto Pinto: Classics, author Philippe Renaud offers us an intimate glimpse of Pinto's world, a world of exquisite luxury and opulence, a world in which, by Pinto's hand, elegance and abundance are brought to balance in harmonious accord. We are shown the magnificent interiors of apartments in New York, mansions in Paris, villas on the Riviera, country houses in England, and palaces in Cairo.

We are also brought to a ranch in the deserts of New Mexico and to the ocean-side hills of Long Islands elegant Hamptons. Here we find Pintos cultivated but decidedly eclectic approach to design - an indirect result, perhaps, of his having grown up in post-colonial Casablanca. His roots are Moroccan - under the certain influence of Paris. Of course, his work is more than this: it is an amalgam of British chic, French elegance, and American rationalism; it is a manipulation of classical styles with a twist; it is frequently a brilliantly daring tendency to juxtaposition and apparent paradox in which a surrealistic painting by Magritte might hang below a Neoclassical bust - all of this ultimately resounding in an affirmation of Alberto Pinto as the interior designer and decorator of choice.

Другие книги Alberto Pinto:

Alberto Pinto: World Interiors

Alberto Pinto Today

Alberto Pinto: Bedrooms

Alberto Pinto Corporate: Contemporary Offices

Alberto Pinto: Moderns

Alberto Pinto: Orientalism

Alberto Pinto: Table Settings

Alberto Pinto is among the most celebrated interior designers at work today.

Here he turns his eye to the wonders of the East and a series of interiors inspired by the colors and textures of Morocco, Byzantium, India, and beyond. Included in this book are interiors in Europe, North America, and North Africa belonging to the jet set and modern elite. Each interior celebrates opulence, whether with fine damasks and silks, intricate tilework, or glittering objets dart.

Included are other visual stage sets for living that are as breathtaking as they are original-vast terraces over sumptuous gardens, shimmering swimming pools open to the sea and sky, filtered light bouncing off floor-to-ceiling mirrors reflecting an infinity of precious woods in an exquisite parquet floor. Pinto designs spaces to delight the senses, and the publication of Orientalism will usher in a new era of sensuality in interior design

Другие книги Alberto Pinto:

Alberto Pinto: World Interiors

Alberto Pinto: Bedrooms

Alberto Pinto: Classics

Alberto Pinto Corporate: Contemporary Offices

Alberto Pinto: Moderns

Alberto Pinto Today

Alberto Pinto: Table Settings

In this sumptuous book, Alberto Pinto excels at creating a perfect harmony of volume and space by bringing fresh inspiration to established design principles. He assembles an unprecedented range of styles by merging his client’s tastes with his own flair for creativity. 

With an unobstructed view of a white sandy beach and shimmering turquoise water, a sprawling apartment in the exclusive Ipanema enclave of Rio de Janeiro is decorated in subdued earth tones, punctuated by animal prints and vibrant works of modern art. The interior of a classical orientalist residence in Kuwait reveals elaborate marble tile and wood details, while more modern spaces are furnished predominantly in black and white with judiciously placed accents in red. The details in a Monaco apartment subtly remind us that the home is perched above the Mediterranean Sea, while an ornate white-and-blue residence in New York is distinctly European in its rich use of antique furniture, ceramics, and ornate moldings. Other striking and sublime spaces include a palace in Riyadh and a home in Santa Rita, as well as grand yachts and private jets. 

Pinto’s Parisian workshop, where his exceptional furniture and tableware can be purchased, is also featured. 

Alberto Pinto is one of the most highly acclaimed interior designers working today. Pinto has published numerous monographs on various aspects of his work, including Table Settings, Moderns, Orientalism, Bedrooms, Classics, Contemporary Offices, and Alberto Pinto Today.
Julien Morel is a lifestyle and design writer at a leading communications and PR agency in Paris.

Другие книги Alberto Pinto:

Alberto Pinto Today

Alberto Pinto: Bedrooms

Alberto Pinto: Classics

Alberto Pinto Corporate: Contemporary Offices

Alberto Pinto: Moderns

Alberto Pinto: Orientalism

Alberto Pinto: Table Settings

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Настоящее издание – это полный каталог проектов современного русского художника Александра Константинова, созданные им для городских и ландшафтных пространств в 2002–2006 годах. Разработав свой собственный стиль и язык в искусстве, Константинов занимает особое место на современной художественной сцене. Его грандиозные произведения требуют нового пространственного опыта и культурно-исторического контекста, расширяя географию современного русского искусства. Уникальная интегрированность его работ в окружающую среду ставит их на самую границу между изобразительным искусством и архитектурой. Трудно представить собранные в книге произведения в контексте какой­либо выставки, настолько они самодостаточны. Но если посмотреть на настоящее издание как на каталог выставки, то ее экспозиционными залами мог бы стать весь мир.

After a successful career in Human Resources, Alexander Cambron started a few years ago with the sale of high-quality residential projects, ready for occupation: exclusive country houses, full of character, in a timeless or contemporary style. His high point is ‘Le Paquebot’, a modernist masterwork by the architect Marcel Leborgne in 1935, which has been transformed by Alexander Cambron and his team into an exuberant villa in which respect for the past and a comfortable contemporary lifestyle go hand in hand.

An XL size book (34 x 27 cm) in which every house is shown at its best.

The work of London-based, Persian-born interior designer Alidad is the realization of a fantasy of splendour in elegant brocade and rich damask. Award-winning interior designer Alidad is renowned for creating interiors of comfort made from a warm, glowing elegance with richness, colour, and sumptuous materials. His work is associated with the exacting use of intricately patterned antique and modern textiles, upholstered furniture, and high quality of craftsmanship.

This book presents his unique aesthetic — a kind of controlled glamour that embraces exotic forms, patterns, and fabrics while at the same time evoking the timeless and comforting. Alidad offers a compelling visual survey of his projects, from apartments in London and Paris and villas in Beirut and Kuwait to seaside homes in Sardinia and Cornwall. The work of Alidad is a resplendent tapestry, sewn through with colour upon colour and texture upon texture.

The book also illustrates creatively for the reader Alidad’s approach to the practical issues of interior decoration, from architectural alteration and furniture design to choosing appropriate textiles, and it serves as an intimate resource and an entry into the secrets of evocative design.

About the Authors:

Sarah Stewart-Smith is a writer and interior designer based in London. Min Hogg, founding editor of The World of Interiors, is an author and principal of Min Hogg Design. James McDonald is a widely published British photographer and writer whose work has appeared in The World of Interiors, Saturday Telegraph Magazine, and House & Garden, among other publications.

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A compact overview of one of the world's greatest architect

Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) was not only influenced by the landscape of his native country, but by the political struggle over Finland's place within European culture. After early neoclassical buildings, Alvar Aalto turned to ideas based on Functionalism, subsequently moving toward more organic structures, with brick and wood replacing plaster and steel. In addition to designing buildings, furniture, lamps, and glass objects with his wife Aino, he painted and was an avid traveller. A firm believer that buildings have a crucial role in shaping society, Aalto once said, "The duty of the architect is to give life a more sensitive structure."

About the Series:

Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:

- approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
- introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
- the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
-an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography, and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings

The Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza is one of the world’s most respected architects. The recipient of many awards, including the US Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 1992, Siza has built and taught in Portugal and internationally since the late 1950s. This monograph is a comprehensive study of Siza’s work, from his early built work – the Boa Nova Tea House, Portugal (1958–63) – to his latest projects. Siza has received critical acclaim for works in Germany (Schlesisches Tor, Berlin), Spain (Galician Centre of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela), Italy (restoration of the Campo di Marte, Venice) and Portugal (Portuguese Pavilion at Expo ’98, Lisbon). His projects have been exhibited widely. Siza’s architecture is vigorous and coherent – able to respond to the environment without detracting from its functional and stylistic identity. The book charts over forty years of work and includes built works, projects, writings, photographs, drawings and many of Siza’s sketches. An introduction by Kenneth Frampton describes the works’ evolution, while writings by Siza are interspersed throughout the book, offering a unique personal perspective to his work and to twentieth-century architecture as a whole.

Complex simplicity. The seminal book on Portugal's master architec

When Álvaro Siza, one of the great figures of contemporary architecture, won the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1992, the Jury described his forms as “molded by light, [with] a deceptive simplicity about them; they are honest. They solve design problems directly…. That simplicity, upon closer examination however, is revealed as great complexity. There is a subtle mastery underlying what appears to be natural creations.”

Born in Matosinhos, Portugal, in 1933, Siza created his own practice in Porto in 1954, and he has been a Professor of Construction at the University of Porto since 1976. The architect can fill shelf afer shelf with his awards and prizes to-date: He received the European Community’s Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1988 and the Praemium Imperiale in Japan in 1997, the 2009 RIBA Gold Medal, and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.

He has built a large number of projects in Portugal, and worked on the restructuring of the Chiado area of Lisbon following a devastating fire in 1988. Siza designed both the Portuguese Pavilion for the 1998 Lisbon World’s Fair and the 2005 Serpentine Pavilion in London in collaboration with Eduardo Souto de Moura. He completed the Serralves Foundation in Porto, 1998, and the Museum for the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2008.

As for all previous TASCHEN architect’s monographs, this book was realized in close collaboration with the architect and includes a full catalogue of his work to date.

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The author:

Philip Jodidio (born 1954) studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN’s Architecture Now! series, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.