This volume traces the development of the work of the Basle architects Herzog and de Meuron in the first 11 years. Much emphasis is placed on the initial design processes, made tangible through plans and sketches. Finished buildings are presented in great detail. Spanning the years 1978-1988, it covers a number of projects, and explores how the men developed a methodological ba...(展开全部)

More than any of their contemporaries, Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are challenging the boundaries between architecture and art. Natural History explores that challenge, examining how the work of this formidable pair has drawn upon the art of both past and present, and brought architecture into dialogue with the art of our time. Echoing an encyclopedia, ...(展开全部)

Herzog & de Meuron gehoren zu den international bedeutendsten Architekten unserer Zeit. Der jungste Auftrag fur die neue Tate Gallery in London hat das einem breiteren Publikum ebenso signalisiert wie grobe Ausstellungen in Tokio, New York und Paris. Die Gesamtausgabe im Birkhauser-Verlag fur Architektur tragt diesem herausragenden Stellenwert Rechnung und stellt das Werk in se...(展开全部)

The life of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was full of complexity and contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself completely to the construction of one single spectacular church, La Sagrada Familia. In his youth, he courted a glamourous social life and the demeanor of a dand...(展开全部)

This lavishly produced two-volume catalog raisonné, created with the full participation of Yoshitomo Nara, is the most extensive, authoritative, and beautiful expression of the artist’s work ever published. Featuring two 400-page volumes bound in fabric featuring Nara’s designs, the catalog covers all of the artist’s prolific output over the span of his career to date, includin...(展开全部)

Made in close collaboration with Rams himself, this catalogue raisonne is the ultimate reference on one of the most influential product designers of all time "Chances are if you've shaved with an electric razor, blow-dried your hair, or sparked up a cigarette in the past 60 years, you owe a debt of gratitude to Dieter Rams." -Jeff Oloizia, The New York Times Dieter Rams is one ...(展开全部)

This volume documents the complete works of Carlo Scarpa, one of the leadig Italian architects of the twentieth century. There are over two dozen essays by leading architects and architectural critics, including Bruno Zevi, Vincent Scully, Arata Isozaki, and Christian Norberg-Schulz offering an extensive overview of Scarpa's life and career as well as lucid interpretations of h...(展开全部)

Two-volume set edition - The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revised edition contains the substance of the original Translation, slightly emended in light of recent scholarship; three of the original versions have been replaced by new tra...(展开全部)

Two-volume set edition - The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revised edition contains the substance of the original Translation, slightly emended in light of recent scholarship; three of the original versions have been replaced by new tra...(展开全部)