Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6661&N=3+3347+4294963851 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1558392 Presents a wide range of container architecture projects along with an in-depth investigation into the background and evolution of this topical field... and reveals a profound variety of functional and aesthetic building possibilities. -- from back cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110446 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1009367 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993198 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=721825 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=674861 The Stirling Prize honours all the shortlisted and winning buildings from the first ten years of the award. Authoritative commentaries explain how each building was planned and constructed, and reveal the thoughts of the Stirling jury. In specially commissioned essays some of the best-known critics and commentators from the national and architectural press reflect on each years prize and voice their own opinions on the shortlist.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=633532 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=654170 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=675395 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=604895 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=675381 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=631815 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=297468 Antoni Gaudi is perhaps the best-known artist and architect of the art-nouveau style in Barcelona: the avant-garde, flowing, natural forms that were simply called Modernisme at the time. But the city is filled with superb examples of art nouveau by many other architects -- not least of which, the remarkable building that houses the famous literary cafe Els Quatre Gats, by Josep Puig in Cadafalch; and the vast, colorful Hospital de Saint Pau, by Lluis Domenech in Muntaner. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=313553 Palm Springs is famous as a mecca for the international jet set. But the city has also attracted its share of eccentrics and mavericks who have left an architectural legacy that remains unsurpassed for Its originality and International Influence. Palm Springs Modern examines the Impact that architects and designers have had on the desert oasis, primarily from the 1940s to the 1960s, when they created one of the most important concentrations of modernist architecture In the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1604655 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=280483 The Burton Barr Central Library (Phoenix Central Library) has quickly become a point in the communitys pride while serving as an exciting background to the regions library and information needs. It is a regular tour stop for visitors as well as architects and scholars from around the world. This architectural masterpiece works with the beautiful desert setting, and is designed to display the natural beauty of the West. The top of the library has a great public reading room, reminiscent of older libraries, with the entire non-fiction collection. The design is a mix of futuristic aspects combined with a respect for historical detail. The studio of William Bruder has gained professional expertise in the field through the development of building programs, site and building feasibility analyses, creation of community interaction workshops, owner and design team case study tours, and full implementation of all architectural and interior design services for more than a dozen library projects. This volume explores the design of this building and reveals the expertise of the architects. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=281826 In the years since its 1985 founding, the architectural firm TEN (Taller de Enrique Norten) Arquitectos has altered not only the face of Mexico City but also the international perception of Mexican architecture. This monograph features twenty-one buildings and projects. The chronological presentation offers an analysis of the development of TEN Arquitectos; it also emphasizes the partners view of each design as both culmination and departure, every project informing those to come. Among the completed buildings, almost all in Mexico City, are two major projects for TELEVISA, the largest television network in Mexico; the spectacular National School of Theater; commercial and retail projects; and a series of remarkable private residences. Also included are the firms first projects in the United States. Three essays provide a context for the firms practice. Terence Riley discusses the work of Norten and Gomez-Pimienta in relation to other practitioners of their generation, concentrating on the themes of lightness, movement, and information technology. Richard Ingersoll explores the role Mexican - and architectural - tradition plays for the partners. And Michael Sorkin (who has collaborated with the architects on a project for Los Olivos Park in Mexico City) suggests ten forms of expression characteristic of TEN Arquitectos.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=268493 Wrens Tracts on Architecture and Other Writings is the first scholarly study devoted to the theoretical work of one of the most important architects of early modern Europe. Trained as an astronomer, Wren applied seventeenth-century scientific methods to his investigation of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance architecture. From his analysis of ancient buildings, he posited a new version of the origins and development of the Classical style, thereby becoming one of the first to challenge theoretical principles of architecture that had been upheld since the fifteenth century. This edition of Wrens architectural writings includes, for the first time, accurate annotated transcriptions of the texts.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=117960 In this unprecedented investigation, architectural historian Victoria Newhouse challenges many hitherto accepted premises of museum design. She demonstrates that new museums - with a social function equal in importance to that of the 19th-century opera house - are often still based on old concepts that no longer apply to contemporary art forms. This unvarnished analysis is informed by interviews with museum directors and curators, collectors, artists and the architects themselves.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=266789 This long-awaited anthology presents forty-seven of the primary texts of contemporary architecture theory, introducing each by detailing the concepts and categories necessary for its understanding and evaluation. It also presents twelve documents of projects or events that had major theoretical repercussions for the period. Several of the essays appear here in English for the first time.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=311054 Steven Ehrlich Architects. One of an emerging group of important young architects from Southern California, Steven Ehrlich explores the vitality of serene yet kinetic forms and spaces, the richness of texture and materials, and the relationship of architecture to community. The work of Steven Ehrlich Architects is distinctly modern, yet informed by the simplicity and directness of vernacular forms and a vigorous sensitivity to the urban conditions of the Pacific Century. Their designs represent the intersection of cultural influences as diverse as traditional African mud construction, the ancient Chinese discipline of feng shui, and Californias Latino community.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=150903 Library Builders presents over forty contemporary libraries, ranging in scale from the grandeur of national libraries to small, intimate community libraries, from public libraries to university libraries, which feature the different qualities of both the traditional bibliotheque and the futuristic mediatheque. It examines the potential future of this building type in the twenty-first century, with ever-changing demands for supply and dissemination of information. The wider issues of current library design are addressed in a selection of essays by prominent library builders and critics: Michael Brawne, John Olley, Paul Lukez, Michael Spens, Richard MacCormac and Merrill Elam. Among the many library types presented here are the national: Dominique Perraults Bibliotheque Nationale de France and Colin St John Wilsons British Library; the city: Richard Meiers City Library in The Hague, Bolles-Wilsons Munster City Library, bruder DWL architects Phoenix Central Library, Mecanoos Almelo Public Library; and the academic: Sir Norman Foster and Partners Squire Law Library, Cambridge and Hodgetts + Fungs unorthodox Towell Library at UCLA. Other prominent architects featured include: Jose Ignacio Linazasoro, Moore Ruble Yudell, Antoine Predock, Aldo Rossi, Moshe Safdie, Schwartz/Silver, Scogin Elam and Bray, and James Stirling Michael Wilford & Associates.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=240065 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=220608 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=291839 The Contemporary Mosque features over 70 mosques designed and built since the 1950s throughout the Islamic world and for Muslim communities in other countries. This survey of the contemporary scene presents projects ranging from buildings commissioned by wealthy private individuals and local Muslim communities to imposing State Mosques serving as symbols of national prestige. Mosques with strikingly modern designs for which the latest materials and construction techniques have been used contrast with examples in regional architectural styles - notably in Southeast Asia and West Africa - using traditional materials. Color photographs of the mosques and of their richly detailed interiors are complemented by architectural plans and drawings and a text outlining the individual design briefs and solutions, together with a background history for each project.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=234184 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653101 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=238956 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=283987 Many books cover the sublime forms and colors of Luis Barragans architecture - its visual aspect - yet are silent on his education and development as an architect, his methods and his theories. Luis Barragan: Mexicos Modern Master, 1902-1988 is the first in-depth study of the architect and his work. It also includes a great number of exquisite visual representations, thereby presenting a complete treatment of Barragan that enhances an understanding of the equally poetic and architectonic nature of his work and places him within the historical and political context of Mexico. The author portrays the myriad influence on the young Barragan: early trips to the United States and Europe, where he became acquainted with some of his most important and lasting models, Le Corbusier, Frederick Kiesler, Jose Clemente Orozco, and above all, Ferdinand Bac; the strong sense of identity of the tapatios, natives of his home city of Guadalajara; and his circle of contemporaries, all in the arts, all committed to discussing and publicizing new social and artistic ideas. Barragans early works synthesized many of these elements, and a quality of Mediterraneanism was their strongest characteristic. This monograph also features the most extensive documentation available on Barragan. In addition to photographs and architectural drawings of his best-known projects, it features a myriad of previously unpublished photographs, an extensive illustrated list of over sixty built and unbuilt works, and a complete register of projects.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=162940 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=75958 Celebrated for his sensitive choice of materials, his innovative use of space, and his ability to merge architecture and the natural world, Frank Lloyd Wright was equally attentive to the structural and decorative details that give each of his buildings its distinctive character. His influence was profound in California, and his work there is a true reflection of this philosophy. Details of Frank Lloyd Wright: The California Work, 1909-1974 features the exterior and interior design elements of twenty-four California buildings created by this architectural legend. Scot Zimmermans gorgeous full-color photographs and Judith Dunhams illuminating text lead readers room by room through each building, focusing on such features as entryways, furniture and cabinetry, woodwork and masonry, fenestration, fireplaces, terraces and landscaping. Organized chronologically, the book represents virtually every important period and type of building in Wrights career from textile-block houses and civic buildings to church and commercial buildings to residences, including the Morris Gift Shop and the Marin County Civic Center. Together they offer a valuable opportunity to study the masters comprehensive approach to architecture in response to the California landscape.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=151361 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=130774 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=103875 All the baths featured in this exquisitely illustrated volume were built between 1872 - 1940 during the period of the Grunderzeit and Jugendstil in Germany. Their architectural beauty and quality is revealed through the stunning photography of Dieter Leistner, as is the joy and pleasure of swimming. Baths have always been places of meeting for conversation and relaxation, awakening associations with literature, art and music. Dirk Meyhofers essay comments not only on the architecture but on the social and cultural history and function of public baths from Roman times to the 20th century. The history of the German baths ties in closely with the new emphasis on public health, fitness and cleanliness promoted at the turn of the century by the leading military powers of Europe. Many of these baths have now fallen into disuse and decay, their future is uncertain and therefore a photographic documentation takes on an increasing urgency. The essay by Hans-Eberhard Hess discusses the history of architectural photography from the Alinari brothers in Florence to Leistners poetic depictions of the German Bathing Temples presented in this volume. Amongst the many baths featured are the Karl-Muller Public baths in Munich, the Friedrichs Baths in Baden-Baden, the Elisabeth Hall in Aachen and the Vierodt Baths in Karlsruhe.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=109045 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=241270 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=104655 Philippe Starck was born in Paris in 1949 and became the Artistic Director of Cardin at a young age. In the late seventies he realised the night clubs Le Main Bleue and Les Baines-Douches, prototypes of the hard clubs. In 1982 he refurbished the Presidential Apartments in the Elysee for Francois Mitterand. He is most famous for his work as a designer - of chairs, beds, tables, watches and kitchen equipment - objects which have met with an enthusiastic reception from both private clients and an international public. Here, his entire architectural activity is dealt with for the first time: from his interiors for the Cafe Costes and those in Tokyo (the Manin Restaurant and Cafe Mystique); through the projects for the Tokyo Opera House and French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; to the realised works in Madrid, New York and Tokyo (Asahi, Nani Nani and Le Baron Vert) and the most recent project for the Prefabricated House for 3 Suisses to be sold by mail. All break through the conventions of the traditional architectural discipline with their strength of innovation and symbolic power.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=123734 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) is recognised as one of the most original and important designers of the 20th century, and his best known work, the Glasgow School of Art, has achieved the status of architectural icon. Hailed by some as an early progenitor of the Modern Movement, and others as Art Nouveau, the diversity and distinctiveness of his architecture, furniture, graphic design and watercolours has always eluded stylistic categorisation, as has Mackintosh himself. This book focuses on Mackintoshs architecture, the medium in which his comprehensive objectives found synthesis, using newly commissioned photographs. Arguing for an inclusive and non partisan approach, James Steele highlights Mackintoshs integration of the decorative arts and the crafts, his reinterpretation of traditional forms derived from vernacular prototypes and his espousal of modern materials and methods made possible by the age of rapid industrialisation.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=120673 Oscar Niemeyer, born in 1907, is widely considered this centurys leading Latin American architect, as well as one of the pioneers of modern architecture. This volume explores the major themes and sources of the most important works from all phases of Niemeyers career, from the early collaborations of the 1930s and 1940s with Lucio Costa, the spiritual father of Brazilian modernism, to the 1989 Memorial da America Latina in Sao Paulo, a complex that reveals the maturation of Niemeyers free-form style in the service of his utopian vision. A central theme of Niemeyers work has been its reflection of the Brazilian jeito, a sinuous and improvisational style manifested in everything from the countrys sensual, undulating landscape to its attraction to spontaneous impulses, best known through its vibrant music and dance. The jeito and the milieu of Rio de Janeiro lie at the heart of Niemeyers free-form style, which emphasizes the inherent plasticity of the native curve over the rigid rectilinearity of the International Style in Europe. A second theme treats the influence on Niemeyer of the poetic style of Le Corbusier. Also considered are Niemeyers attraction to surrealist biomorphic forms and his desire to express a sense of the fantastic in architecture. A final theme is Niemeyers search for an aesthetic utopia that would resolve social dilemmas by wishing them away through architecture. Herein lies Niemeyers strength, for as his architecture reflects the multiple dichotomies of the Brazilian experience, it projects an emotive universality that few architects have been able to achieve.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=234511 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138558 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=264317 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=152647 A brilliant exercise in urban archaeology: a completely original interpretive account of the golden age of the New York luxury apartment house, a book that reveals how New York was transformed architecturally, socially, and psychologically from a provincial place to a great metropolis. With the help of 65 photographs, drawings, and floor plans, Elizabeth Hawes shows us how New York changed from a town of private-house dwellers in the Civil War years to the great city of the Roaring Twenties and the dawn of the Art Deco Thirties, when 98 percent of the population had become apartment dwellers. She shows us how Victorian New York became modern New York, how the plush decors of rich nineteenth-century New Yorkers evolved into the cool, the white, the cubist style, the modern style. We see how such memorable apartment buildings as the Stuyvesant, the Villard Houses, the Dakota, the Navarro, and the Apthorp sprang up in all their Queen Anne, neo-Gothic, and High and Low Renaissance glory out of the rubble of recently demolished brownstones...how the apartment, which began as an awkward imitation private house, emerged as a genre of its own...how the changes wrought in New York social life reverberated in the lives and work of such people as Henry James, Edith Wharton, and William Dean Howells. We meet the architects, builders, and financiers who were responsible for the triumph of the apartment house - among them, Richard Morris Hunt, Charles Mott, Paul E. M. Duboy, Emory Roth, Jay Gould, John La Farge, Henry Hardenbergh, Whitney Warren and Charles Wetmore, W. K. Vanderbilt, and William Waldorf Astor. We discover how to read an apartment building - what its location, size, look, texture, style, and design can tell us about the life of a city. And we meet the society grandes dames, the celebrated men and women, the style setters, who made apartment-dwelling the thing in New York. Taking us inside the often amazingly innovative, often extraordinarily beautiful and luxurious apartment houses, this book makes us feel what it must have been like to live in these cloud palaces as opulent pioneers of a new kind of New York life. More profoundly, it shows how social and economic forces and human needs and dreams continue to change our lives - and it enriches our understanding of a great city.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=239838 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=151444 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=139530 This monograph outlines the social background to its design in post-war welfare state Britain; discusses its acoustic design; and presents it as a fine example of the technology and detailing of the period. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=158347 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=58531 Le Corbusiers arrival in the USSR in October 1928 to build the Moscow headquarters for Centrosoyuz created an international sensation in both the artistic and political communities: finally the crusader of machine-age architecture was going to encounter this seemingly modern nation whose economy and culture were in the making. Viewing the Soviet Union as a factory for blueprints, where his role as an international expert would at last be recognized, Le Corbusier soon met with disappointment. Soviet authorities rejected his urban plan for Moscow, which laid the groundwork for the Ville Radieuse (1930) and included designs for the 1932 Palace of Soviet competition. In this detailed, colorful account of the vicissitudes of Le Corbusiers Soviet adventure, translated from the French, Jean-Louis Cohen brings to light a whole cycle of transformations in the architects project and design strategies while providing new interpretations of Soviet avant-garde culture. It was the USSR, Cohen maintains, that furnished Le Corbusier with one of his greatest sources of artistic inspiration and with an ideological pretext for the extraordinary and often frenzied assertion of his ambitions. All the leading Soviet intellectuals and architects of the period--llya Ehrenburg, Sergei Eisenstein, Moisei Ginzburg, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Vesnin--play major roles in this chronicle of hope and disillusion. Heretofore unpublished drawings and texts illuminate controversies surrounding Le Corbusiers urban doctrine in the face of Soviet disurbanization and his violent opposition to the early stages of Stalins socialist realism.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=190880 Any serious observer of Hawaiis architecture will be struck by the frequent recurrence of one name: Charles Dickey. This prolific and multifaceted architect enjoyed a remarkably successful career. From the intimate tropical bungalows he designed in Waikiki to the large-scale commercial projects and schools that dominated his California years, Dickeys work exhibits both eclecticism and diversity. For many years the preeminent figure in Hawaii architecture, he is often identified with the development of a uniquely Hawaiian style. The first individual raised in Hawaii to receive a classic architectural education in the U.S., Dickey joined the Honolulu firm of Clinton B. Ripley in 1896. In the years that followed, the Ripley-Dickey partnership played an enormous role in transforming both the burgeoning business district and the residential neighborhoods of the city. Working in a wide variety of architectural styles, the young Dickey reflected both his own historicist training and the diverse demands of his corporate clients in turn-of-the-century Honolulu. He also began to explore the vernacular traditions of Hawaiian architecture, traditions that would form the basis for his later work in Hawaii and become a signature of his style. In 1905 Dickey relocated to Oakland, where, although he encountered keener competition than he had known in Honolulu, he enjoyed a successful practice for twenty years. Of particular interest are his experiments with Californias Mission Style architecture and his innovative use of structural steel, which enhanced his reputation in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake. It was there, too, that he added Japanese architectural traditions to his increasing range of stylistic options. Upon his return to Honolulu in 1926, Dickey began to cultivate what he considered to be a uniquely Hawaiian style of architecture, a style that increasingly emphasized broad double-hipped roofs and open, spacious plans that were intimately linked to the surrounding tropical environment. In the late twenties and thirties, Dickey developed this style in a remarkable variety of building types, becoming the truly dominant architect of Honolulu. The Architecture of Charles W. Dickey provides a convenient overview of much of Hawaiis architectural history. Robert Jay begins his study with a concise historical survey of nineteenth-century Hawaiian architecture; Dickeys own career takes the story from the mid-1890s to World War II, encompassing a period of enormous change in modern architecture; the conclusion highlights the significant architectural contributions of Dickeys contemporaries and of firms operating today. This work will be of interest to historians of American architecture, as well as specialists in American and Hawaiian studies. It will also appeal to those interested in the history of Honolulus urban development, who will find that the spirit of Dickeys work survives even today.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=234091 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=129603 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=187388 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=217040 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=134896 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=91609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=54702 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=47445 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=86059 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=122152 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=41277 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=73855 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=294706 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=199565 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=45666 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=299893 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=76861 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=129675