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architecture under the microscope. rem koolhaas’s essential toolkit to building anatomies This collection is a look through the microscope at the real fundamentals of our buildings, revealing the essential design techniques used by any archi...

Brick by Brick. The world’s most innovative brick buildings Of all building materials in the world, brick is one of the most enduring and ubiquitous. Traces of brickmaking date back to 7500 BC and fired brick first made its appearance in abo...

Timberland. The wooden structures of the 21st century Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolster...

Fine Lines. 100 illustrators to remember Drawn from TASCHEN’s Illustration Now! series, this go-to catalogue brings together 100 of the most successful and important illustrators around the globe. With featured artists including Istvan Banya...

Light up your life. Luminary design of the 20th century Designed to be a companion to our classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1,000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are the 20th century’s ...

In the beginning, there was light. The George Eastman House Collection: photography throughout the ages From a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, George Eastman’s career developed in a particularly ...

Let’s Get Abstract. Making sense of revolutionary new forms The 20th century saw art go abstract. Where once clear certainties and indisputable forms prevailed, now anarchy seemed to reign supreme. Sensibilities diffused into strange new sha...

Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have worldwide influence, Abstract Expressionism denotes the non-representational use of paint as a means of personal expression. It emerged in America in the 1940s, with lead protagonists including J...

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A monumental touch: Tadao Ando, master of the serene yet mighty Philippe Starck describes him as a mystic in a country which is no longer mystic. Karl Lagerfeld regards him as a 21st-century genius who saw everything, learned everything, then forg...

Instant Andy. Before there was Instagram, there was Warhol Created in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, this book reveals hundreds of instant pictures by the artist. From self-portraits to still lives, anonymous nudes to New York high...

The Must-Have Architectural Manual. A century of great buildings and their creators From Frank Lloyd Wright to Antoni Gaudí, Frank O. Gehry to Shigeru Ban and all the best stuff in between, it’s all here. This essential guide celebrat...

Cutting Edge. A revealing trend in turn-of-the-century Vienna Discover a moment when traditional craft met burgeoning modernism. This revelatory catalogue sheds light on the understudied Vienna woodblock revival of the early 20th century, a unique...

Sound Art. An unprecedented collection of artists’ record covers from the 1950s to today Art history acquires a new rhythm in this unique anthology of artists’ record covers from the 1950s to today. More than 500 covers trace the inter...

Forms of feeling. The human body in distress Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909–1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic composition...