DK - Art & Architecture 4

This book is a pioneering study of temporal typography and time-based calligraphic art written in the Arabic system of writing. Inspired by the innate qualities of Arabic script as well as certain p……続きを見る

Trzy tysiące lat starożytności zaznaczyło się wieloma znakomitymi dziełami sztuki i architektury, z których kilka najbardziej znamiennych znane są jako „Siedem cudów Świata Starożytnego”. Splendor i……続きを見る

Budowle innych kultur, jak Indie, Chiny, Japonia, Ameryka Środkowa i Południowa (Majowie, Aztekowie, Inkowie) lub kraje Arabskie, miały charakter "ducha czasu i miejsca", kształtowany przez dominują……続きを見る

For a concise edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz selects entries from the 2018 third edition. Typica……続きを見る

Pittsburgh’s explosive industrial and population growth between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression required constant attention to city-building. Private, profit-oriented firms, ofte……続きを見る

A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven ……続きを見る

This book is a good reference book for city planners, architects and civil engineers involved in the conceptualisation, design and building of urban habitations, who aspire to increase the liveabili……続きを見る

Social Partner Dance: Body, Sound, and Space is an ethnographic theory of social partner dancing built on participant observation and interviews with instructors of tango, lindy hop, salsa, blues, a……続きを見る

Winner of the 2015New York City Book Award The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. This……続きを見る

The photographs taken by Charlotte T. McGraw, the official Women’s Army Corps photographer during World War II, offer the single most comprehensive visual record of the approximately 140,000 women w……続きを見る

Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa. El Arte de la Guerra por Sun Tzu Drácula por Bram Stok……続きを見る

CULINARY LESSONS - The Space of Food is based on a series of events, Culinary Lessons, which were hosted by the Städelschule Architecture Class and which engaged with the relation between food, art ……続きを見る

In The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners, artist and Urban Sketcher correspondent Suhita Shirodkar shares essential skills for sketching architecture, people, and everyday objects o……続きを見る

FULLY ILLUSTRATED, UPDATED GUIDE TO THE STRATEGIC DESIGN OF GREEN BUILDINGS In the tradition of Building Construction Illustrated, Francis D.K. Ching and Ian M. Shapiro offer a fully illustrated gui……続きを見る

This book describes the life and art of Theodore Roy (Ted) Turner. It describes the aspects of his life and art, first as a University of Virginia professor for thirty five years followed by sevente……続きを見る

Gerhard Kühn wurde als Sohn baltendeutscher Eltern 1935 in Libau in Lettland geboren. Heute kann er mit seinen 85 Jahren auf ein ereignisreiches Leben zurückschauen. Der 2. Weltkrieg, die Zwangsumsi……続きを見る

How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A "fascinating" look at the "business of bringing a best-selling novelist to a global audience" (T……続きを見る

Scientists have long been looking for alternative methods for the cleaning of historical and cultural museum objects as conventional methods often fail to completely remove surface films, leaving co……続きを見る

Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles! 続きを見る

Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847–1870 enters deep into an era of comic history that has been entirely neglected. This buried cache of mid-Victorian graphic humor is marvelous……続きを見る

An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical undergroundーwith the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound. This newly expanded edition of England……続きを見る

This is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines historical analysis with the evidence of first-hand accounts. Questioning the universalizin……続きを見る

'Zur Sache, Schätzchen' war der erste Spielfilm der Regisseurin May Spils und ein Film, der in den 1960er Jahren wie kein anderer das Kinopublikum begeisterte und nachhaltige Auswirkungen auf das da……続きを見る

Cosa succede quando uno dei più noti scrittori tedeschi, di origine islamica, si immerge nel mondo dell’arte cristiana? Colmo di stupore e meraviglia, Navid Kermani si innamora dello sguardo di Mari……続きを見る

Renunciation is a core value in the Buddhist tradition, but Buddhism is not necessarily austere. Jewelsーalong with heavenly flowers, rays of rainbow light, and dazzling deitiesーshape the literatur……続きを見る

BUILDING CODES ILLUSTRATED STAY INFORMED OF THE LATEST UPDATES TO THE INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE WITH THE LEADING VISUAL REFERENCE In the newly revised Seventh Edition of Building Codes Illustrated……続きを見る

On an otherwise normal weekday in the 1980s, commuters on busy Route 1 in central New Jersey noticed an alarming sight: a man in a suit and tie dashing across four lanes of traffic, then scurrying t……続きを見る

Written by recognized thought leaders in the field, Meera Klemola and Astrid Kohlmeier, this book introduces the concept of legal design as a method to innovate and solve some of the legal industrie……続きを見る

Schnell, einfach und anschaulich! Innerhalb von 10 einfachen Lektionen à 30 Minuten und unter Verwendung ansprechender Motive werden Ihnen alle Techniken und Fähigkeiten vermittelt, die Sie benötige……続きを見る

It was the mid-1990's, and Ronald Regan had just deregulated the electric industry. I was bored. With deregulation, TVA, (Tennessee Valley Authority), which had once monopolized the generation and d……続きを見る