Landscapes and Structures is a striking visual tour of Switzerland’s public structural landmarks through the personal view of the internationally renowned civil engineer Jürg Conzett. The book is published in conjunction with the Swiss pavilion at the Twelfth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which Conzett curated. Civil engineering structures compri...(展开全部)

Landscapes and Structures is a striking visual tour of Switzerland’s public structural landmarks through the personal view of the internationally renowned civil engineer Jürg Conzett. The book is published in conjunction with the Swiss pavilion at the Twelfth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which Conzett curated. Civil engineering structures compri...(展开全部)

This well-illustrated and extensive book on the works of these Swiss architectural firms explores the cultural conditions that have contributed to the establishment of a Swiss context of thought. Italian/English.

introduction by Bernard Tschumi In A Landscape of Events, the celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces."Urban disorientation, the machines of war, a...(展开全部)

John Pawson's career as an architect and designer spans a variety of sizes and programmes: from bowls to bridges, and monasteries to Calvin Klein stores. In addition to his acclaimed design work, he is the author of Phaidon's successful 'Minimum', a book that paired images and captions to illustrate the notion of simplicity in a beautiful and inspirational manner. 'Visual Inven...(展开全部)

比尔·海斯（Bill Hayes），美国加利福尼亚的圣克拉拉大学毕业。畅销书《睡眠的恶魔：一个失眠者实录》的作者。他的作品一直都刊登在《纽约时报杂志》、《详实》及其他出版物上，“沙龙网站”（Salon.com）也是发表他作品的地方。

'It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like this' Sunday Times Germania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate about the region's history, folklore, cuisine, ar...(展开全部)

Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park in Germany, the Plateau de Kirchberg in Luxembourg, Parco Dora in Turin, Italy and numerous other projects designed and built by Peter Latz and Partners stand as examples of an up-to-date and intelligent approach to alternative environmental technologies and the reclamation of extensive industrial landscapes. In Peter Latza (TM)s landscape architect...(展开全部)

帕特里克·苏佩斯（Patrick Colonel Suppes，1922-），美国著名哲学家，哥伦比亚大学哲学博士，师从著名哲学家托马斯·内格尔。1952年起，他任教于斯坦福大学，1959-1992年担任社会科学数理研究中心主任。现为露西·斯特恩哲学教授，斯坦福大学荣誉退休教授。因在数学心理学方面的突出贡献，1965年苏佩斯教授被选为国家科学院院士，1990年被总统乔治·布什授予国家科学奖；同时因其对科学哲学的杰出贡献，苏佩斯教授于2003年获得拉卡托斯奖的殊荣。苏佩斯教授在科学哲学、测量理论、量子力学的基础、决定理论、心理学和教育技术等领域都做出了重要贡献。

Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe’s triumphs and tragedies Winner of the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize • A Financial Times Best Book of 2023 “An irresistibly well-written book, fluent, witty, and intelligent.”—Neal Acherson, New York Review of Books Timothy Garton Ash, Europe’s “histor...(展开全部)