Книги видавництва Thames & Hudson

In creative advertising, no amount of glossy presentation will improve a bad idea. That’s why this book is dedicated to the first and most important lesson: concept. Structured to provide both a complete course on advertising and a quick ref...

All students who have a budding interest in architectural design will value this book for its solid foundational orientation and instruction. Learn to • See and sketch with accuracy • Develop fundamental drawing and modelling skills &...

An inspirational and insightful resource for architecture students, offering a fresh perspective and new approaches to the challenges of the 21st century In architecture, no amount of fashion-following or flashy presentation can disguise a bad or ...

A comprehensive and thoughtful survey, the book begins with a brief introduction to the history of architecture, seen through the advances and experimentation put forward by architects over the centuries. Separate chapters follow, devoted to specific...

This is the first comprehensive international survey of one of the most neglected but most important building types of the modern era: the parking garage. An introduction sets out the history and architectural significance of these buildings and thei...

Housing the maximum number of cars in a well-designed space is one of the most challenging aspects of twentieth-century architecture, which has attracted a stellar array of architects. This is the first major international survey of parking garage...

Once in every generation comes a scholar who is a master of both the documentary evidence and the buildings themselves. Such a man is Christoph Luitpold Frommel who, after winning a world-wide reputation, here distils his learning into a new synthesi...

Over 300 of the most sought-after examples of poster art created between the wars are included in this definitive volume. This cavalcade of international poster design is organized by subject: aviation, communication, fashion and many more. Featur...

This is the perfect guidebook for all artlovers who visit or live in New York, and an essential reference book for anyone interested in the history of art. Its unique approach draws on the cream of New York’s museums and galleries to create ...

The American video and installation artist Bill Viola is one of the most popular artists in the world today.  Significantly, at a time when an artist's importance is often conferred by small groups of experts and cognoscenti, Viola's ...

All of us have the desire to organize and store the multitude of items that fill our lives - a desire that is not unique to our century. King Tutankhamen's 14th century B.C. tomb contained over 30 chests for storing his possessions. Here, the ...

This magnificent publication presents the highlights of the largest and finest privately owned collection of Islamic art in the world. Nearly 500 masterpieces have been selected from over 20,000 works in the Khalili Collection. The result is a fas...

The Bitter Years celebrates some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century and provides a whole new insight into Edward Steichen’s impact on the history of documentary photography. The Great Depression of the 1930s was still a vivid...

The sensual curve of the hip. The disturbing pucker of a scar. The magnetic pull of the lashed eye. In this book, William A. Ewing presents an archive of over 360 photographic images of the body - beautiful, bizarre, sometimes brutally revealing - re...

A beautifully illustrated visual history of Western book design In this digital age, many designers and readers still feel strongly attracted to the printed book as an object of beauty. Beginning in 1471 with an edition printed by the influenti...