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V období před první světovou válkou i v letech poválečných vedlo několik předních středoevropských architektů – Adolf Loos, Oskar Strnad a Josef Frank – teoretickou debatu o prostoru a toto téma reflektovali ve svých spisech a zejména v realizovaných dílech. Při hledání nových způsobů prožívání architektonického prostoru zkoumali možnosti, jak se v něm pohybovat, jak jej obývat a jak jej navrhovat, aby odrážel moderní způsob života. Výsledkem byla jedna z nejpozoruhodnějších kapitol dějin raného modernismu.
Massimo Listri. The World's Most Beautiful Libraries. 40th Ed.
From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of knowledge, learning, and imagination offers a sense of infinite possibility. It’s the unrivaled realm of discovery, where every faded manuscript or mighty clothbound tome might reveal a provocative new idea, a far-flung fantasy, an ancient belief, a religious conviction, or a whole new way of being in the world.
In this new photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries to reveal their architectural, historical, and imaginative wonder. Through great wooden doors, up spiraling staircases, and along exquisite, shelf-lined corridors, he leads us through outstanding private, public, educational, and monastic libraries, dating as far back as 766. Between them, these medieval, classical, baroque, rococo, and 19th-century institutions hold some of the most precious records of human thought and deed, inscribed and printed in manuscripts, volumes, papyrus scrolls, and incunabula. In each, Listri’s poised images capture the library’s unique atmosphere, as much as their most prized holdings and design details.
Featured libraries include the papal collections of the Vatican Apostolic Library and the Trinity College Library, home to the Book of Kells and Book of Durrow. With meticulous descriptions accompanying each featured library, we learn not only of the libraries’ astonishing holdings?from which highlights are illustrated?but also of their often lively, turbulent, or controversial pasts. Like the Franciscan monastery in Lima, Peru, with its horde of archival Inquisition documents.
At once a bibliophile beauty pageant, an ode to knowledge, and an evocation of the particular magic of print, Massimo Listri. The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries is above all a cultural-historical pilgrimage to the heart of our halls of learning, to the stories they tell, as much as those they gather in printed matter along polished shelves.
About the series
TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program?now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.
Staviteľ Juraj Hudec 1858 – 1920
Po Ladislavovi Eduardovi Hudecovi predstavuje C.A.L.E.H. n.o. verejnosti jeho otca Juraja Hudeca, ktorý patril medzi významné osobnosti Banskej Bystrice na prelome 19. a 20. storočia. Juraj Hudec bol predovšetkým staviteľom, ale podieľal sa na stavbách aj ako projektant a reštaurátor. Okrem toho bol členom Obchodnej a priemyselnej komory, Uhorského karpatského spolku, viacerých mestských komisii a pri magistráte zastával funkciu mestského staviteľa a hospodárskeho inšpektora. Prelom storočí jeho povolaniu prial, keďže mestá a mestečká prechádzali veľkým stavebným rozmachom a modernizáciou. Juraj Hudec získaval zručnosti vo firmách Cserey a Wünsch, ktoré neskôr zúročil vo vlastnej firme založenej spolu s Ľudovítom Rosenauerom. Firma Hudec a Rosenauer patrili medzi dôležité spoločnosti pri rozvoji mesta. V prehľade Hudecovej stavebnej činnosti vidíme širokú škálu stavieb - od verejných budov, cez vily až po zázemie elektrárne a turistické útulne.
Výskum ku knihe potvrdil Hudecovu odbornosť, všestrannosť a inovatívnosť, ktoré ho spolu s dobrými kontaktmi predurčili na úspešnú profesionálnu dráhu, aj keď iba v rámci provinčného mesta, akým bola Banská Bystrica na prelome 19. a 20. storočia. Komplikovanosť daného obdobia mohla byť príčinou, prečo sa na meno Juraja Hudeca v priebehu 20. storočia vytratilo. Jeho stavby ale pretrvali a môžeme ich dodnes obdivovať – väčšina budov postavených Jurajom Hudecom stále stojí a mnohé plnia podobnú funkciu ako za jeho života.
Prebal knihy je zároveň mapou, na ktorej nájdete všetky spomínané stavby spolu s krátkym popisom v slovenskom a anglickom jazyku. Vďaka tomu môžete stavby Juraja Hudeca na Slovensku spoznávať nielen prstom na mape.
Ithra, A Home for the World
he first in-depth exploration of the award-winning King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabia, designed by Norwegian architects Snohetta
Ithra, also known as the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, is an unprecedented architectural achievement. Designed on a monumental scale by the Norwegian architectural firm Sn?hetta, built by Saudi Aramco, and inaugurated by King Salman bin Abdulaziz in late 2017, Ithra has been listed in Time magazine as one of the world’s top 100 places to visit and is the winner of Project of the Year and Best Innovative Project of the Year at the Construction Innovation Awards in 2019.
This multi-purpose cultural institution, with its unusual geometric sculptures, is one of a kind in contemporary architecture. With stunning imagery and a holographic wrap-around case, the book offers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the inspiration for Ithra, from the competition process and selection of the architect to its complex construction and reveals the story behind this striking architectural gem, from its inception to its realization.
Timber Homes
Elaborating the diversity of wood architecture today for private homes
More and more architects and builders are exploring the possibilities of a material for the construction of houses that offers unparalleled major advantages regarding design, function and ecology. Wood is a renewable building resource that impresses with its natural qualities as well as its astonishing versatility, especially given a number of new techniques, processing options, and innovations. Moreover, wooden architecture represents a promising opportunity to work towards a more CO2-neutral future.
Frank Lloyd Wright said about the world's oldest building material that it is "universally beautiful" and "the most human of all materials", facts that are highlighted in this volume focusing on residences. The presented projects demonstrate the sheer endless possibilities of timber for architecture and interior design. From an esthetic point of view, they also show completely new ways for, but not limited to, the design of individual homes.
Habitat
A compact edition of this landmark publication, which celebrates humanity's ability to create buildings that for millennia have responded ingeniously to cultural and environmental conditions.
There has never been a more important time to understand how to make the best use of local natural resources and create buildings that do not rely on stripping our planet or transporting materials across the globe. First published in 2017, this major book gathers together the world's leading experts on vernacular architecture to examine how local buildings have stood the test of time and offer lessons for the future.
The core of the book is arranged by climate zone, from desert to tropical, temperate to arctic. Within each section, buildings are presented regionally, showing how climatic conditions and vegetation affect the evolution of building styles. This central part is bookended by a range of essays exploring the economic and anthropological aspects, while the reference section offers information on materials science and engineering, including how buildings have been adapted to contend with natural disasters.
The traditions of vernacular architecture have much to teach us. Given our ecosystem's increasing frailty, the architecture and building trade's new role in a post-digital era, and the desperate need to record fading cultural traditions, the relevance of this book is greater than ever.
Katedrála sv. Víta, Václava a Vojtěcha
Průvodce svatovítskou katedrálou seznamuje návštěvníky s dějinami, uměleckými poklady a krásnou architekturou tohoto klenotu Prahy i naší země. Publikace sleduje nejprve historický a stavební vývoj katedrály: od rotundy sv. Václava a Spytihněvovy baziliky přes stavbu gotické katedrály za Matyáše z Arrasu, Petra Parléře a jejich nástupců, její úpravy v době renesanční a barokní až po obnovu a dostavbu v 19. a 20. století. Publikace je nepostradatelnou pomocí pro každého, kdo se vydá do pražské katedrály, ať už jako poutník, milovník krásných staveb nebo turista.
Norman Foster
With a career spanning across continents and over six decades, the work of the renowned architect Norman Foster is nothing short of extraordinary. His creative innovation and holistic approach have made him one of the world’s most influential and well-known architects. From the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, to the Reichstag in Berlin, the enclosed court of the British Museum in London to the Millau Viaduct in France, with his practice of Foster + Partners, he has created celebrated landmarks that stand out for their inventive modernity and for what he calls “a sustainable approach to the design of the built environment.”
This is the first time Foster’s complete body of work has been published in one edition on such a grand scale. Giving a rare insight into the inner workings of his creative practice. It details his personal approach to his work, his inspirations, the link between art and architecture, and the significance and correlation between his passions, such as being an avid aviator, and his work.The XXL monograph encompasses a lifetime of achievement and originality in two volumes.
The first presents his architectural oeuvre and is filled with numerous unpublished images and sketches handpicked by Foster from his archives. Paired with nearly 1000 illustrations, the second book contains eight essays he wrote explaining his sources of inspiration.Aside from the 1999 Pritzker Prize, he has won the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture, the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, and the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture. This is a magnificent visual journey not only through significant buildings of our time but also into the mind of a genius. Norman Foster sketched every page of this book and spent countless hours with the author and the graphic designer to make it one of the most remarkable architecture books ever published.
Also available as an Art Edition of 300 copies with a 1-meter-wide signed print of a drawing by Norman Foster, picturing the upcoming multifunctional community and business center InnHub in La Punt, Switzerland. The two volumes of this edition are collected in a custom-designed slipcase that folds into a book stand.
Haute Bohemians: Greece
A glorious, intimate homage to this magical country from bestselling photographer and writer Miguel Flores-Vianna
A land immortalized by poets for its otherworldly beauty, Greece is the birthplace of iconic monuments that are known the world over. Yet, at the same time, it is also home to an organic architectural language, the product of centuries of rural and island lifestyles—it is the heir both to the timelessness of classical architecture and the simplicity of rustic living.
This stunning volume chronicles Miguel Flores-Vianna’s photographic odyssey through the beautiful Greek landscape, showcasing historical houses alongside contemporary homes, united by the colorful characters who either live or have lived in these places—the “haute bohemians.”
From the sophisticated residences of collectors and painters to island hideaways, centuries-old tavernas, royal follies, breathtaking gardens and even a restored sailboat, Flores-Vianna transports his armchair travel companions to a wondrous world, bathed in the glow of an ethereal light. An extraordinary range of characters emerges—including historic figures such as the shepherd Alexandros Rodakis and Queen Amalia, and contemporary creatives such as antique dealer Eleni Martinou and architect Katerina Tsigarida. Featured, too, are the homes of international residents who share a passion for this magical land, such as interior designer John Stefanidis, artists Helen and Brice Marden, and financier and philanthropist Jacob Rothschild.
A self-confessed “Hellenophile” who has visited Greece countless times since his childhood, Flores-Vianna invites us to join him in paying tribute to his beloved adopted nation, capturing the character and patina of this enchanting country through his trademark intimate, atmospheric photography, and engaging texts.
Making Waves
The ultimate inspirational guide for anyone dreaming of living on a boat of their own, featuring practical tips on everything from clever storage solutions to finding moorings and living off-grid.
Every boat has a story. For thousands of years, water vessels have provided livelihoods, catered to our spirit of adventure, and served as retreats from the pressures of modern life. It is little wonder that life on the water calls out to the creative and the curious?the mavericks, artists, architects, crafters, and designers who have made their homes on barges, shipping containers, houseboats, and more.
Featuring an international range of vessels, Making Waves celebrates those outliers seeking a different way of life; those exploring how livingon a boat offers the chance to achieve a more satisfying work-life balance while holding much of the paraphernalia and constrictions of the modern world at bay. With stunning photography and packed with practical advice and inspiration, the book reveals how anyone can transform a boat into a beautiful and unique place to live and work.
Each home featured offers its dwellers a retreat. Some glide through the extraordinary countryside, while others bob companionably in city wharfs. Their interiors reflect the residents’ imaginations, styles, families, and working lives, demonstrating how even seemingly challenging spaces can be transformed into unique and intriguing living quarters. The compelling personal stories behind each boat will encourage and inspire readers to consider a shift in their own lifestyles and embrace a life on the water.
400 color illustrations
About Architecture
Hugh Pearman deftly guides us through the compelling stories of fifty-five buildings that explain our world, from antiquity to the present day
About Architecture is an engaging introduction to architecture, exploring the ways in which we construct our built environment, and why. Hugh Pearman guides us through the architecture that shapes our lives?from how our towns and cities are organized, to where we live, learn and work, and how we get around, interact with others, and relax. Organized by type?from civic spaces, to homes, offices, and museums?the clear and straightforward structure demystifies the many styles and functions of architecture. Pearman explores how architecture responds to our changing lifestyles and how some buildings evolve or find new uses. He demonstrates that while there is endless variety within each building type, the essence of architecture?the way buildings serve their users?remains surprisingly constant.
Through fifty-five fascinating international examples, from antiquity to the present day, About Architecture reveals the intriguing stories of the buildings that explain our world.
Building With Wood
Learn how cutting-edge innovations using one of civilization's oldest construction materials are reshaping the built environment in sustainable and beautiful ways.
Natural, renewable, reusable, and aesthetically pleasing, wood is the consummate building material. Thanks to incredible advances in both application and sustainability, it is being used across the world to create new and surprising styles.
This exhilarating global survey features exquisite photography that captures a wide range of twenty-first century construction in residential, public, cultural, educational, commercial, and entertainment-related spaces. From the Mount Fuji World Heritage Center in Shizuoka, Japan and the Eystur Town Hall in the Faroe Islands to the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, each building is featured in double-page spreads with lush color photographs that allow readers to appreciate timber's intrinsic qualities against a variety of backgrounds, scales, and typologies. Plans and building specifications are accompanied by the latest developments in research and design.
Eco-friendly and robust, timber's applications are almost unlimited, extending to the tallest skyscrapers, and to every livable corner of our planet. This volume offers encouraging proof that architects around the world are responding to the climate crisis in ways that not only preserve the earth, but also provide pleasing environments in which to live, work, and play.
Česká architektura 50. let
V padesátých letech 20. století se architekti museli podřídit nekompromisním dogmatickým požadavkům, aby jejich stavby naplňovaly pokrokové kulturní dědictví, socialistické obsahem, národní formou, s důrazem na umělecké mistrovství, pravdivost, vysokou ideovost a stranickost. Architektura měla být výrazem revolučního přetváření světa, budovatelského elánu a optimismu socialistického člověka.
Nikoli architekti, nýbrž politicko-ideologičtí aktivisté byli těmi, kdož prosazovali historizující architektonický sloh, který se měl stát jedním z nejdůležitějších nástrojů politické propagandy stalinistického režimu v Sovětském svazu a rovněž ve všech zemích, jím mocensky i ideologicky ovládaných. Při své koncepční práci tak byli architekti podrobeni stálému ideologickému dozoru a nátlaku a jejich formální výkony se posuzovaly především z hledisek hodnoty ideového obsahu. Ta však byla definována příliš obecně, a proto v tvorbě architektů panovaly stálé pochybnosti o ideové správnosti jejich projektů – a „ideovost“ projektu byla zároveň interpretována jako výraz třídního postoje architekta a jeho politické angažovanosti. To vše pak vytvářelo všeprostupující atmosféru nejistoty a strachu, z níž nebylo úniku.
Práce historika a teoretika architektury, vysokoškolského pedagoga a překladatele Pavla Halíka (30. 6. 1935 – 21. 6. 2021) se zabývá poměrně krátkým obdobím první poloviny padesátých let, později eufemisticky nazývaným obdobím deformací a kultu osobnosti, a absurdní situací, v níž se tehdy ocitla většina architektů bývalé avantgardy (jíž se v padesátých letech dostalo nejtvrdšího odsouzení – a to i ze strany samotných představitelů avantgardy, tedy funkcionalismu a konstruktivismu), když se jim začal násilně vnucovat sovětský vzor a metoda socialistického realismu. Aby bylo možné této situaci porozumět a pochopit nepochopitelné jednání jejích protagonistů, zabývá se Halík zejména sférou, ve které se odehrávalo stalinistické drama především: sférou verbálních projevů a rituálních textů. Oproti nim vlastní architektonická produkce, označovaná jako architektura socialistického realismu, byla vcelku nevinná a nejsou na ní tolik zjevné stopy teroru, jenž tehdy ovládal a deformoval mysli lidí.
Tiny Living Spaces
The trend towards the Tiny House - and also the Micro Flat - is more than just a short-term hype. It is an attitude towards life, a contemplation on the essentials to which more and more people are attracted. The past months have shown us what we really need - and that is often not so much.
All over the world, houses and housing units in mini format are en vogue. For many, they are the only way to fulfil the dream of owning one's own home. The carefully selected projects from all over the world show how space can be gained by concentrating on the substantial, intelligent floor plans, well thought-out storage solutions and nesting of functions. They highlight in very different ways that great living quality can be wonderfully made possible in a small space through a clever design.
Herman Miller, A Way of Living
The acclaimed chronicle of the rich history of this innovative furniture company, from its founding in the early twentieth century to today
For more than 100 years, Michigan-based Herman Miller has played a central role in the evolution of modern and contemporary design, producing timeless classics while creating a culture that has had a remarkable impact on the development of the design world. Herman Miller is known as much for its pioneering designs and international influence as for its emphasis on environment and community service.
In this far reaching survey, new and archival photography illustrates the evolution of Herman Miller's furniture designs over the course of the century. Featuring the stories and creations of legendary designers including Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, and Alexander Girard, and through its thousands of illustrations, this book tells the Herman Miller story as never before, documenting its defining moments and key leaders, and making Herman Miller: A Way of Living an indispensable volume for the bookshelves of design-lovers around the globe.
Room 606
An updated, rewritten and expanded edition of the cult classic exploring Jacobsen's midcentury design through the microcosm of a single hotel room
In the center of Copenhagen, on the sixth floor of the Royal Hotel, Room 606 preserves the definitive masterwork of the Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen, in microcosm. Room 606 is the only surviving interior of the SAS House; the combined luxury hotel and satellite air terminal that Jacobsen designed for the Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and completed in 1960.
The SAS House was the most complete commission of Jacobsen’s career, in which he exercised the full range of his talents as a designer of furniture, lamps, textiles, gardens, tableware and graphics. As the fragment that encapsulates the basic ideas of the whole building, Room 606 provides a lens for reconstructing Jacobsen’s vanished masterwork in words and images.
Richly illustrated with nearly 500 photographs and drawings, this book guides the reader on a virtual tour through the Royal Hotel and SAS Air Terminal as they stood in 1960. Along the way, the author reveals the connections between the SAS House and Jacobsen’s earlier buildings and objects. As a result, the tour that begins in Room 606 provides a general introduction to Jacobsen’s career.
Based on his ongoing study of modern Nordic architecture, Michael Sheridan has developed ideas established in his 2003 cult classic?also titled Room 606 and long out of print?to arrive at a fresh perspective on Arne Jacobsen’s life’s work. Using new text and images, Sheridan reveals the essence of Jacobsen’s creative practice, in which he employed technology to heighten the presence of nature.
New York–based architect Michael Sheridan is an internationally recognized authority on modern Danish architecture and design. His earlier books on those subjects include Landmarks: The Modern House in Denmark (2014) and Louisiana: Architecture and Design (2017).
The Art Museum
Visit the world’s most comprehensive and compelling museum in a single book – the ultimate gallery in your own home
Housing the finest art collection ever assembled, this classic format of Phaidon’s bestselling The Art Museum offers the ultimate museum experience without the boundaries of space and time. The rooms and galleries that live within this volume display more than 1,600 artworks, expertly selected from the original collection, including paintings, sculpture, textiles, photographs, installations, performances, videos, prints, ceramics, manuscripts, metalwork, and jewelwork.
The artworks included were carefully selected by a team of 28 curators, critics, art historians and artists who contributed their expertise to create this revolutionary 'virtual' museum. These experts came from such institutions as: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The British Museum, London; the Museum of Fine Art, Boston; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu; the University of California, Berkley; LaTrobe University, Melbourne; the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London; and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Works originate from the Palaeolithic era to the present and come from all around the globe and include both iconic and lesser-known pieces. This extraordinary book takes the reader on a tour around the world and through the ages, presenting the finest examples of human creativity within its covers – a dream museum without the boundaries of walls.
Architektonické Struktury / Architectural Structures
Kniha Architektonické struktury je vysokoškolským učebním textem, který shrnuje dlouholeté pedagogické a profesní zkušenosti doc. Ing. arch. Jaroslava Drápala, CSc. (* 1934) na Fakultě architektury Vysokého učení technického v Brně. Inspirován metodou německého inženýra a architekta Curta Siegla (1911–2004) z roku 1960, vyvinul vlastní způsob výuky principů nosných konstrukcí pomocí modelů z papíru, tkaniny či textilního vlákna. Jeho metoda se brzy stala známou nejen v Brně, ale na všech školách architektury u nás.
Budování Dystopie
Budování Dystopie je nepochybně nejvíce normativně laděná práce renomovaného britského historika architektury Jamese Stevense Curla. Předkládá komplexní dějiny architektury 20. století a přináší neidealizovaný pohled na vývoj západní architektury od roku 1918 až do současnosti. Přibližuje modernistickou revoluci a některé její devastující dopady na stavební kulturu posledních desetiletí, životní prostředí a tvář mnoha dnešních měst. Rozebírá rovněž neblahé účinky špatné architektury na psychiku lidí, kteří jsou nuceni v ní žít. Autor se kriticky věnuje i soudobé architektuře a všímá si například toho, že s každým dalším rokem je takzvaná ikonická architektura, produkovaná slavnými architektonickými celebritami, stále bizarnější, znepokojivější a dražší. Kniha svým kritickým ostřím vyvolala živou mezinárodní diskusi, která je v odborné i laické veřejnosti velmi potřebná.
Toto je priestor venovaný fascinujúcemu svetu stavebných diel, dizajnu a konštrukcie. Kategória kníh o architektúre vás zavedie do sveta, kde sa stretávajú funkčnosť, estetika a inovácia, aby vytvorili unikátne a pôsobivé stavby.
V tejto kategórii nájdete rôzne aspekty architektúry, vrátane historických pamiatok, moderných stavieb, urbanistického plánovania a dizajnu interiérov. Tu môžete objaviť rozmanité štýly a prístupy k architektonickému návrhu, ktoré odrážajú nielen funkčné potreby, ale aj kultúrne, sociálne a estetické hodnoty.
Od majstrovských diel starovekých kultúr po súčasné inovatívne konštrukcie, kategória architektúry vám umožní preskúmať rôzne éry a technológie, ktoré formujú vývoj stavebného umenia. Taktiež tu nájdete informácie o slávnych architektoch a ich prínose k architektúre.
Táto kategória je ideálna pre všetkých, ktorí majú záujem o architektúru ako umeleckú formu, ale aj o praktické a technické aspekty stavieb. Nech už máte záľubu v historických budovách, súčasných inováciách alebo budúcnosti urbanistického plánovania, kategória architektúry vám otvorí dvere do fascinujúceho sveta konštrukcie a návrhu.
