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Art & Architecture
Hardcover. Paul Stohrer was born in Stuttgart in 1909 and died there in 1975; from the 1950s to the 1970s he was among that city's most eminent and successful architects. He took advantage of rebuilding phase after 1945 for his professional development, and the boost given by the years of the economic miracle led to a peak in his architectural creativity. Num Pages: 360 pages, 500 illus. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 308 x 235 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1976.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681529
- ISBN
- 9783936681529
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.26
€ 88.26
Hardcover. For over 350 years Parisians have designed and preserved phenomenal public outdoor spaces. This book follows the fine-spun threads of the parklands tapestry in greater Paris. Num Pages: 192 pages, 200 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 306 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1302.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681512
- ISBN
- 9783936681512
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.45€ 54.32
€ 70.45
€ 54.32
Hardcover. From the 1970s to the present day, there is scarcely an architect who has produced such pioneering work as a creative explorer of limits, lateral thinker and stimulating inspirational figure than Hans Dieter Schaal. This title explores various facets of his complex and fruitful oeuvre, revealing its synergetic interrelationships. Editor(s): Hoffmann, Claus-Wilhelm; Werner, Frank R. Num Pages: 568 pages, 500 illus. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 250 x 40. Weight in Grams: 3116.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681499
- ISBN
- 9783936681499
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.91€ 74.92
€ 92.91
€ 74.92
Hardcover. Showcases the innovations that are contributing to architectural forms, this title includes parametric modelling that is enabled by computer-aided technology, environmentally friendly building skins, and HOPSCAs - a hybrid building type - that can house hotels, offices, parking, shopping, a convention centre, and apartments under one roof. Editor(s): Rihan, Xing. Num Pages: 372 pages, 764 colour photos & maps. BIC Classification: AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 269 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2148.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681451
- ISBN
- 9783936681451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.62€ 97.36
€ 97.62
€ 97.36
Hardcover. Rob Krier, perhaps the only urban-planning artist among Germany's architects, has, for the first time in 30 years, completed a major urban project in his home country of Luxembourg. This title, is the first volume in sketchbook format of a series which document the design process from the first hand-drawn sketches, right through to realisation. Num Pages: 1136 pages, 1020 illus. BIC Classification: AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 131 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1306.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 1136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681376
- ISBN
- 9783936681376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.15€ 62.10
€ 81.15
€ 62.10
Hardcover. The way we sit simultaneously defines privileges, social status, power, and taboos. Parallel to the presentation of China as the guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt presents a panorama of Chinese sitting culture through a period of five centuries. Num Pages: 96 pages, 185 colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AKR; JFCD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 309 x 253 x 12. Weight in Grams: 808.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681369
- ISBN
- 9783936681369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 33.91
€ 47.99
€ 33.91
Hardcover. Hollywood is not only the secret world capital of dreams and the fictions of the subconscious, but also the capital of architecture. Hollywood is the Rome and the Versailles of the 20th and 21st centuries. These backgrounds, stage sets and filmic spaces are indelibly fixed in every spectator's mind. Num Pages: 128 pages, 120 b/w photos. BIC Classification: AM; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 295 x 241 x 15. Weight in Grams: 894.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681345
- ISBN
- 9783936681345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.59
€ 21.99
€ 17.59
Hardcover. Architect Hans Dieter Schaal, who has designed scenery for almost every major theatre and opera house in the world, often spent many days in the same city. He began to research the cities, to get the feel of them and to travel them on foot like a wanderer. This work presents a picture of an age dominated by cities. Num Pages: 648 pages, 340 b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 220 x 27. Weight in Grams: 2528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Edition
- 12th Edition
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681314
- ISBN
- 9783936681314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.26
€ 16.99
€ 16.26
Hardcover. Fritz Leonhardt would have been 100 years old in 2009. He studied at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart and then travelled in the USA. He made his professional debut with the German autobahn, for which he designed the Rodenkirchen suspension bridge in 1938-41. This title presents a retrospective of this famous structural engineer's work. Editor(s): Kleinmanns, Joachim; Weber, Christiane. Num Pages: 216 pages, 250 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AMB; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 305 x 250 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681284
- ISBN
- 9783936681284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.15€ 62.10
€ 81.15
€ 62.10
Hardcover. Latvian-born architect Gunnar Birkerts belongs to the second wave of modernists who arrived in the United States from abroad, a group that includes Kevin Roche and Cesar Pelli among others. This work presents his cultural perspectives as well as his family insights to bear, offering a unique portrait of a life and career. Num Pages: 320 pages, 413 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 304 x 249 x 29. Weight in Grams: 2142.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Edition
- 1 Ill
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681260
- ISBN
- 9783936681260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.91€ 74.92
€ 92.91
€ 74.92
Hardcover. Spanish museum architecture has experienced a marked upturn since the 1990s, helping even small towns off the tourist beaten track to acquire extraordinary museum buildings. This book confirms the nature of Spanish architecture, recorded from Rafael Moneo's early Museo de Arte Romano in Merida to Herzog and de Meuron's Calixa Forum art gallery. Num Pages: 200 pages, 277 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; AMG; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 254 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681178
- ISBN
- 9783936681178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.01
€ 21.01
Hardcover. Talks about a museum, a place that serves as an assembly point and information centre and is all things in one: laboratory, workshop, building site, university, theatre, opera house and museum. Broad walkways lead to the entrance. Extensive gardens in gentle geometric patterns invite visitors to rest, play, chat and look. Num Pages: 192 pages, colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 304 x 249 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681147
- ISBN
- 9783936681147
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Hardcover. The fact that there is Gypsy architecture may surprise quite a few people. Nevertheless in southeastern Europe, there exists a remarkable architecture created by Gypsies. It seems unreal, abstruse, and colourful, it is a composition of the various architectural styles of this world. This work deals with this area of gypsy architecture. Num Pages: 160 pages, 180 colour photos. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 306 x 254 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1276.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681123
- ISBN
- 9783936681123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.48€ 61.13
€ 64.48
€ 61.13
Hardcover. The purpose of architecture is first and foremost to create a human environment for human beings. This book presents the author's particular interpretation of the holistic-phenomenological worldview in theory and in practice, a worldview which stands at the forefront of the scientific discourse, and is tightly related to Buddhist philosophy. Num Pages: 248 pages, 596 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 285 x 227 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783936681055
- ISBN
- 9783936681055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 37.23
€ 51.99
€ 37.23
Hardcover. Heroic 20th-century Modernism saw the private home as a place to first test out utopian theories - a place for free play and experimentation where new approaches could be put into action, on a small scale but no less radical. Here, the authors found the suitable space to give their visionary concepts a plastic reality. Num Pages: 72 pages, colour & b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 289 x 13. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783932565762
- ISBN
- 9783932565762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.42
€ 59.42
Hardcover. When the stadium for a 'Workers Olympiad' - one of the most beautiful complexes in Europe - was opened in 1931 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Republic of Austria on the Prater site in Vienna, Otto Ernst Schweizer, the architect, was catapulted into the ranks of internationally acclaimed architects. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 60 pages, 50 b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: AMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 308 x 289 x 11. Weight in Grams: 768.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 60
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783932565755
- ISBN
- 9783932565755
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.42
€ 33.99
€ 24.42
Hardcover. The town hall in Bremen with its associated Roland statue in the market square in front of the building make up a UNESCO World Heritage site and thus count as outstanding examples of architectural and cultural history. The Bremen town hall is an ideal image of this building type that is so important for European and Western history. Num Pages: 72 pages, 70 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 306 x 287 x 12. Weight in Grams: 874.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783932565694
- ISBN
- 9783932565694
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Hardcover. Ernst Leitz was taking the prototype for the legendary Leica camera to be tested in North America when 'Haus Friedwart' in his hometown of Wetzlar was begun. The architect, Bruno Paul (1874-1968) was a sought-after designer of challenging interior designs and architect of grand upper-middle class houses and public buildings. Num Pages: 56 pages, 50 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 306 x 289 x 12. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783932565670
- ISBN
- 9783932565670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 42.78
€ 48.99
€ 42.78
Hardcover. At the time San Francisco International Airport opened as Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco in 1927, most of the San Francisco Peninsula was pastureland. Over the years, new terminals and hangars were built to satisfy the demand of increased air traffic. The airport advanced to the larger San Francisco Airport Administration Building. Num Pages: 60 pages, 60 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 306 x 287 x 11. Weight in Grams: 832.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 60
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783932565649
- ISBN
- 9783932565649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.42
€ 33.99
€ 24.42
Hardcover. With text in both English and German, this text focusses on housing and church architecture, characterised by three-dimensional buildings, spatial effects, handling of light, and material effects. Num Pages: 224 pages, 300 colour & b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 307 x 252 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783932565557
- ISBN
- 9783932565557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.63€ 44.79
€ 57.63
€ 44.79