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Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Throughout his career, David Hovey has designed spaces for living, exploiting structure and materials to create buildings of strength, simplicity, and grace. The Nature of Dwellings presents a comprehensive view of the seven single-family houses Hovey has designed, three near Chicago and four in Arizona, and relates them to his award-winning portfolio of multifamily housing developments.Lavish…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This epic history is the first comprehensive survey of the use of wood in architecture throughout the ages. The book is organized both chronologically and geographically. It features works from the oldest heritage of wooden buildings (Kyoto's Buddhist temples and Scandinavia's pagan-inspired stave churches) to the latest cutting edge designs, proving that wood is on the rise as the preferred…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 243 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 245) Аннотация: «Sempre più Dorian Gray si innamorava della sua stessa bellezza, con sempre maggiore interesse seguiva il corrompersi della sua anima...» fino a uccidere la sua immagine e se stesso. Sinistra vicenda di magie, delitti e sdoppiamenti di personalità, «Il ritratto di Dorian Gray» non è solamente un romanzo dell'orrore e una profonda riflessione sul tema filosofico del doppio, ma il…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Gwathmey Siegel has long been the architect of choice for clients who want to combine extravagance with an intellectually rigorous, well-crafted modernism. While the houses for which they are so justly renowned often exceed 20,000 square feet, the apartments they have designed are frequently one-tenth that size. The work, however, does not suffer from this reduction in scale, it rather takes on a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site documents not only the master plan competition, won by Studio Daniel Libeskind and sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, but also proposals submitted by invitation of and published by New York magazine, proposals from the exhibition at Max Protetch Gallery, as well as a selection from the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: New Classicism provides an in-depth look at a form of design that appeared lost forever with the rise of modernism in architecture. But now, with an intense revival of interest in classical design, and with the demise in popularity of the subsequent postmodernism, new vigor has infused traditional forms and motifs. Focusing on thirty-four projects by the best classically oriented firms in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Following on the runaway success of This is New York, Universe is thrilled to reissue two more titles from M. Sasek's beloved children's travel series: This is London and This is Paris. Like This is New York and This is San Francisco, This is London and This is Paris are facsimile editions of Sasek's original titles. His brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preserved and remain…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Architecture of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company is a monograph on the highly successful urban design and architecture firm started by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk in 1980 and now known simply as DPZ. Credited with popularizing small towns and villages as welcome alternatives to the bleak monotony of the suburbs, DPZ champions vernacular architecture (traditional buildings with…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A passion for luxury and beauty propels the multifaceted work of acclaimed international architect and interior designer Robert Couturier. Robert Couturier's aesthetic is a dialogue between Old World elegance and contemporary design. His masterful approach effortlessly brings eras together, for example a Louis XVI commode with a 1960s lamp. Couturier's name has become synonymous with continental…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 705 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1120) Аннотация: «Dostoevskij era uno di quei rari geni che avanzano d'opera in opera, per una sorta di progressione continua, fin che la morte non li venga bruscamente a interrompere. Nessun ripiegamento in quella sua focosa vecchiaia, non più che in quella di Rembrandt o di Beethoven, al quale mi piace paragonarlo; un sicuro e violento approfondirsi del suo pensiero» (André Gide). Fëdor M.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 024 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 202) Аннотация: «Questi racconti tesi, asciutti, drammatici, percorsi da una vena sottile di umorismo narrano, in prima persona, alcuni episodi vissuti dall'autore in un angolo sperduto della provincia russa a contatto con un'umanità primitiva e superstiziosa. Essi sono la trasposizione letteraria della durissima «prova iniziatica» subita dal giovane Bulgakov, appena uscito dalla facoltà di medicina e…

Скачать книгу (размер 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 116) Аннотация: Painting in the Netherlands during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries offers a compelling visual record of the tastes and values of a prosperous society mindful of its obligation to personal and public standards. This richly illustrated volume examines twenty-six paintings by master artists from this Golden Age of Dutch art and features essays by leading scholars who explore the various…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: One of the few truly visionary architects of large-scale commissions working today, Thom Mayne's influential firm Morphosis, founded in the early 1970s, has maintained an avant-garde presence among contemporary architecture firms, even as it has garnered high-profile, big-budget commissions from around the world. Since Rizzoli published Volume I of the Morphosis series in 1989, the Los…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Nella felice stagione creativa di Boldino, nellautunno del 1830, Puskin sperimenta nei Racconti di Belkin un'inedita formula narrativa che sara la base della letteratura russa futura. Antitesi ironica e brillante delle Piccole tragedie, i racconti esplorano tutte le potenzialita dei generi letterari allepoca in voga: la Signorina contadina e una scherzosa parodia del racconto sentimentale, II…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: «Il romanzo che diede a Bulgakov celebrità in vita, prima della fama universale postuma raggiunta con «Il maestro e Margherita». Tutto ruota attorno alle vicende dei tre fratelli Turbin (Aleksej, Nikolka ed Elena) nella tempestosa Kiev del convulso inverno 1919-1920. La città è nelle mani dell'avventuriero Simon Petljura ma si trova anche nella morsa di un duplice accerchiamento,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: From master event planner and floral couturier Preston Bailey comes a new book celebrating his latest ideas in floral design. A working carousel composed entirely of flowers. A dazzling floor of orchids underfoot. A Renaissance painting adorned with fresh blooms. At the heart of Preston Bailey's spectacular world-renowned events are the flowers — verdant, lavish, unforgettable. From spectacular…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: «A meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude. Winner of the Prix Mcdicis for nonfiction, The Consolations of the Forest is a Thoreau-esque quest to find solace, taken to the extreme. No stranger to inhospitable places, Sylvain Tesson exiles himself to a wooden cabin on Siberia’s Lake Baikal, a full day’s hike from any neighbor, with his thoughts, his…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: Elegant rusticity meets unpretentious luxury in the work of this award-winning architecture firm. Howard Backen, principal of the architecture firm Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, is at the center of a popular movement in home design that emphasizes elegant simplicity and embraces the rustic charm of natural materials. This volume, the first on his work and that of the firm, is an artful exploration of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: «This extravagant volume is the magnum opus of today's most celebrated interiors photographer. One of Francois Halard's first assignments, to photograph Yves Saint Laurent's legendary Paris apartment when he was in his early twenties, cemented his reputation as one of the most original eyes of our era. His unique photographic sensibility--old-world elegant and bohemian, accessible and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Karim Rashid is one of the most well-known international designers, and his work is known for being innovative, forward-looking, and strikingly relevant. From furniture to fashion to products for hip brands like Umbra and Method, Karim’s colorful projects have burst through the design community and into the mainstream. Inspired by his view that all design is a «rigorous beautification of our…