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Eerste boek over de Amsterdamse architect Philip (F.A.) Warners die in het interbellum een pioniersrol vervulde bij de introductie van het luxe appartementencomplex in Amsterdam. De rijk gedetailleerde interieurs van een aantal van deze gebouwen Westhove, Loma, De Steenhoek en Oldenhoeck zijn gefotografeerd door Arjan Bronkhorst. Dit materiaal, met originele tekeningen en plattegronden levert een nieuwe kijk op de periode van de Amsterdamse School. War...

The first of a unique series of translations of Scamozzi's L'Idea della Architettura Universale. The northern Italian architect, Vincenzo Scamozzi, (1548-1616) designed a number of important palaces, villas and churches in and around Vicenza, Padua and Venice. In addition, he completed a comprehensive study of ancient classical architecture. including the possibilities for its application in a modern context. The first edition of the book was published in 1615. Scamozzi distinguishes himself ...

Kristine Miller is a professor Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota and author of Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York's Public Spaces.* Her new book will appeal to landscape, garden, and architectural historians for its new information, details about Jekyll's collaboration with the noted architects like Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker, and Charles Holden, and never before published original drawings.* Projects: King Edward VII Sanatorium Phillips Memorial Cloist...

In this in-depth conversation, illustrated by extensive plans, models, references and photos, the founders of Baranowitz Kronenberg Architecture, the acclaimed Tel - Aviv-based studio, provide a personal analysis of the thinking behind seven of their projects: two hotels, three restaurants, a store and a private home. Incorporating culture, time and place into the design process is fundamental to Baranowitz Kronenberg's approach. Symbolic starting points as disparate as, among others, the art...

Thomas Karsten (1884 - 1945) was one of a small group of modern Dutch architects that included men like Henri Maclaine Pont and C.P. Wolf Schoemaker who developed their careers in the Dutch East Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Karsten laid the foundations of modern urban Indonesia with work represented in Semarang, Solo, Padang, Palembang and Medan.