Architecture
-
Outside the LinesOne of 10 Novels You Should Read in June --CrimeReads Starred review, Publishers Weekly Listed on CrimeReads' The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020: Summer Reading Edition Listed in the New York Times Globetrotting 2020 preview Outside the Lines is a journey through the...
- CHF 21.90
- CHF 21.90
- Unit price
- per
-
Andrea Branzi: E=mc2: The Project in the Age of RelativityStarting from the Radical research to contemporary design, the book collects Andrea Branzi's work about the relationship city-design. The publication begins from the Andrea Branzi's reflection on the relationship civility-design, from the Radical's research on mass-production civilization to the "infinite territories", proposing new territories...
- CHF 89.16
- CHF 89.16
- Unit price
- per
-
Fifty Paintings: Anthony Ames ArchitectThis volume presents fifty paintings (1985-2020) with brief references for each. The paintings--executed in acrylic latex paint on two inch deep wooden panels--refer to or are informed by a particular way of looking at architecture. They are abstract in nature, and representative in subject...
- CHF 47.98
- CHF 47.98
- Unit price
- per
-
Olmsted's Elmwood: The Rise, Decline and Renewal of Buffalo's Parkway Neighborhood, a Model for America's CitiesThe fascinating story of the historic Elmwood District is told for the first time, from the arrival on the Niagara Frontier of Joseph Ellicott, through the role played by Fredrick Law Olmsted's parks and parkways, and into the decline and renewal during modern era....
- CHF 41.11
- CHF 41.11
- Unit price
- per
-
The VikingsThis book presents a fresh overview of the Vikings from both conceptual and material perspectives. The prevailing image of a Viking is frequently that of a fierce male, associated with military expansion and a distinctive material culture. In an engaging survey, S bj rg...
- CHF 39.02
- CHF 39.02
- Unit price
- per
-
Ellsworth Kelly: AustinThe only building the artist designed, Austin is Kelly's most enduring legacyIn January 2015, the renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, the design concept for his most monumental work. A 2,715-square-foot stone building with...
- CHF 68.65
- CHF 68.65
- Unit price
- per
-
Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in ArchitectureNot Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture, without requiring that it be interesting. This book explores a set of alternatives to the interesting and imagines how architecture might be positioned more broadly in the world using other terms:...
- CHF 41.11
- CHF 41.11
- Unit price
- per
-
Behavioral Formation: Volatile Design Processes and the Emergence of a Strange SpecificityEmergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena. These processes have come to define our contemporary understanding of the nature of becoming, which stands in contrast to established notions of architectural design and authorship. The design research of Roland Snooks is a...
- CHF 54.84
- CHF 54.84
- Unit price
- per
-
Gensler Research Catalogue Volume 2This is the second in Gensler's Research Catalogue series, and the first to be made available for public sale. Volume 1 received significant praise from academic, business, and design audiences - both for the insights it contained and for its design. Volume 2 builds...
- CHF 68.57
- CHF 68.57
- Unit price
- per
-
Flowers of Battle, Volume III: Florius de Arte LuctandiThe warriors of medieval Italy practised a complex and complete martial art, which included the wielding of sword, axe and spear with wrestling, knife-fighting and mounted combat. In the waning years of the 14th century, Fiore dei Liberi was a famed master of this...
- CHF 205.83
- CHF 205.83
- Unit price
- per
-
Captain of the Guild: Master Peter Falkner's Art of Knightly DefenseIn the late 14th century, the German swordsman Johannes Liechtenauer developed and codified a system of armed combat with sword, spear, and dagger that spread through the Holy Roman Empire and dominated German martial arts for nearly 300 years. By the end of the...
- CHF 88.45
- CHF 88.45
- Unit price
- per
-
Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo HuntersAward-winning author Paul Goble examines the construction, art, and significance of the tipi to the Plains Indians in his newest book, entitled Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters. Through a re-telling of the old-timer's stories, Goble shows how the tipi was more than...
- CHF 43.16
- CHF 43.16
- Unit price
- per
-
New Hampshire Covered BridgesNew Hampshire's Covered Bridges**Color Edition** A Source book for Travelers, Photographers, Explorers** Descriptions to all of New Hampshire's 54 Remaining Historic Covered Bridges, as well as color photos of each one. **GPS Positions**Written Driving Directions**Instructions for Self-Guided Tours which include tours of Carroll County,...
- CHF 28.23
- CHF 28.23
- Unit price
- per
-
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MR HydeThis small novella tells the tale of two impossibly intertwined gentlemen living in Victorian London---the friendly and sociable Dr Jekyll, and the monstrously deformed, obviously dangerous Mr Hyde. As Mr Hyde's crimes gain the attention of the police, the manhunt is on; but every...
- CHF 11.66
- CHF 11.66
- Unit price
- per
-
Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British MuseumThis illustrated volume reproduces and describes effectively every early modern German color print held at the British Museum, one of the world's most significant collections of these rare milestones of cultural heritage and technology. New photography reveals 150 impressions in jaw-dropping detail, some of...
- CHF 104.12
- CHF 104.12
- Unit price
- per
-
In Distant Lands: A Short History of the CrusadesIn the late fall of 1095 Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France and set all of Europe into motion. As many as a hundred and fifty thousand people eventually responded to the call, leaving everything they knew behind to undertake what...
- CHF 25.72
- CHF 25.72
- Unit price
- per
-
King Stakh's Wild HuntKing Stakh's Wild Hunt tells the tale of Andrey Belaretsky, a young folklorist who finds himself stranded by a storm in the castle of Marsh Firs, the seat of the fading aristocratic Yanovsky family. Offered refuge by Nadzeya, the last in the Yanovskys' line,...
- CHF 54.16
- CHF 54.16
- Unit price
- per
-
Junkspace with Running RoomJunkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in...
- CHF 31.94
- CHF 31.94
- Unit price
- per
-
Dark Dance: Book One of The Blood Opera SequenceRachaela has never known her father - he was a taboo subject as far as her mother was concerned. All Rachaela's mother had ever said was 'Keep away from the Scarabae', her father's tribe. Were they bad people, or simply disapproving of the woman...
- CHF 31.09
- CHF 31.09
- Unit price
- per
-
Older Scots: A Linguistic ReaderA full introduction to Older Scots language and literature, with a wide selection of copiously annotated texts from the period. This book enables both students and more advanced scholars to develop a comprehensive understanding of Older Scots, the form of Scots which survives in...
- CHF 36.76
- CHF 36.76
- Unit price
- per