A short, accesible critical guide to visual culture-what it means to look and see; how the visual impacts our lives, our…

A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti s five built works, suggesting a…

• Rok vydání 2013

Mid-twentieth-century California offered fertile ground for design innovations. The state's reputation as a land of…

A book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of…

• Rok vydání 2007

Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of How to Draw a Line to the…

Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.…

The French Riviera as Eden and muse for modern artists.…

An attempt to free architecture from site and program constraints and to counter the profusion of ever bigger architecture…

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• Rok vydání 2024

The first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex…

A primer in urban literacy that teaches us in words and pictures what to notice if we want to understand the city.…

• Rok vydání 2020

A celebration of communal bathing--swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more--viewed through the…

• Rok vydání 2019

The story of the experimental zeitgeist in Eastern European art, seen through personal encounters, pioneering dialogues,…

• Rok vydání 2020

Written from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the…

• Rok vydání 2010

David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many…

With the publication of The Image of the City in 1959, Kevin Lynch embarked upon the process of exploring city form. Good…

• Rok vydání 1991

The CLOS metaobject protocol is an elegant, high-performance extension to the CommonLisp Object System. The authors, who…

In Architectural Intelligence, Molly Wright Steenson explores the work of four architects in the 1960s and 1970s who…

A monumental, lavishly illustrated book that offers the first global portrait of a complex and definition-defying genre of…

A new interpretation of the work of Bramante, suggesting an agenda for contemporary architectural practiceIn On Bramante,…

• Rok vydání 2021

More than eighty designs--iconic, archaic, quotidian, and taboo--that have defined the arc of human reproduction.While birth…

The author's purpose is to set out as simply and vividly as possible the exact grammatical workings of an architectural…

An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art project-advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional…

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• Rok vydání 2021

The industry bible for communication design and illustration professionals, with updated information, listings, and pricing…

• Rok vydání 2002

The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever…

Studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to…

One of Japan's leading architects examines notions of Japan-ness as exemplified by key events in Japanese architectural…

How posthumanist design enables a world in which humans share center stage with nonhumans, with whom we are entangled.Over…

Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.…

A critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s.…

How modern notions of architectural style were born—and the debates they sparked in nineteenth-century Germany.The term…

• Rok vydání 1984
• Čeština

Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and architecture theorist and the author of The Architecture of the City (MIT Press,…

In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, Rosalind Krauss explores the…

• Čeština

Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art…

The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new…

• Rok vydání 1972

Upon its publication by the MIT Press in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas was immediately influential and controversial. The…

• Rok vydání 2003

As pop culture, games are as important as film or television - but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or…

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability,…