Книги по архитектуре городов мира

The Big Apple, cosmopolitan city par excellence, capital of the world; these are some of the adjectives that have defined New York over the course of history, although words are never quite enough to describe this fascinating and vibrating city. Its strategic geographical position, its historical record as the primary doorway open to the New World, its rapid economic growth and its role as meeting point and gathering place for the cultures of the world make it a city that never stops re-inventing itself. New York’s recent architecture illustrates this dynamic character. What several decades was possibly perceived as an obsessive appeal for skyscrapers and the creation of a singular skyline has now given way to a body of architecture the exhibits articulate forms, incorporates advanced construction systems, explores new materials and above all, seeks a continuous interaction with the city’s inhabitants. The current book propose a tour of the most recent corporate buildings, commercial spaces, museums, hotels, restaurants, bars and public spaces within the edition, a complete and thorough study of the most recently constructed works and future projects of a city that continues to stand as reference point for the contemporary architecture stage.

In this book, Jake Rajs' amazing eye has captured seventy-five of New York City's most celebrated landmarks in ways never seen before. Each image is accompanied by a short text, written by Francis Morrone, offering the full details of the monument - the date built, the location, the architect/designer - as well as a comprehensive history and anecdotal tidbits.

Jake Rajs is a New York-based photographer with a career that spans over 30 years. He specialises in commercial and art photography and is best known for stunning and timeless architectural and landscape imagery. He has over fifteen art books currently in print, and his photography has been featured in thousands of publications, including Time, Life, Newsweek, The New York Times, Esquire, Town & Country, Travel & Leisure, New York, Men's Health and National Geographic. His commercial work includes award winning, global campaigns for clients such as American Express, Nike, AT&T, Ford, Honeywell and the US Army.

Francis Morrone is an author, arts critic, newspaper columnist, literary historian, lecturer, and teacher. His books include An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn, and An Architectural Guidebook to New York City. Morrone wrote the weekly column Abroad in New York, on New York buildings and history, for the New York Sun. He teaches at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He also regularly leads architectural walking tours of New York City for the Municipal Art Society of New York.

Completely updated with new photographs and text, New York from the Air is a lush, romantic, and ultimately hopeful tribute to one of the most thrilling cities in history. World-renowned bestselling photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand—shooting from vantage points few people ever attain—presents the power and beauty of Manhattan’s amazing skyscrapers, the bucolic joys of Central Park, the majesty of the Upper West Side’s castle­like apartment buildings, and much, much more. This new edition includes unpublished photographs of landmarks built since the 2003 edition. New York historian and cartographer John Tauranac’s lively commentaries lead readers on a truly spectacular tour from above the city that never sleeps.

It's a classic thing we've all heard: "New York is great to visit, but I wouldn`t want to live there." New Yorkers laugh it off because they know the secret: it's even better when you live there. New York Interiors offers readers the chance to see the Big Apple`s most fabulous pads in all their eccentric splendor. The Hell's Angel who sleeps next to a coffin, the painter who makes art from trash, the woman who's brought Provence to Downtown, the couple who live in the Brooklyn of the 19th century - "typical" New Yorkers` homes are presented alongside those of its glitterati (such as Leo Castelli, Wolfgang Joop, Isabella Rossellini and Steven Spielberg). With beautiful photographs of over 40 homes in and around New York City, this book is bound to convince the nay-sayers that New York really is the place to be - and live.

From midtown Manhattan to the Hudson Valley, discover the most unique interiors that the Big Apple and its environs have to offer.

    A favorite haunt of designers, artists, artisans, decorators, and architects from around the globe — as well as all those who delight in creatively embellishing their home — New York never ceases to enchant us with its wealth of exceptional interior spaces. The harmonious coexistence of traditional and avant-garde, chic and bohemian, imposing and intimate — both in and out of doors — defines the city’s unique style. A luxury apartment with magnificent paneling hung with old master paintings; a glassed-in eagles’ nest perched atop an art deco skyscraper; or a delightful brownstone with a private garden worthy of a picturesque country village — this multifarious city captivates and seduces its visitors.
   Offering exclusive access into seventeen homes of prominent New Yorkers, this book showcases the often colorful and audacious, but always fashionable and sophisticated interiors of New York’s best style-setters.
   Barbara and René Stoeltie take readers on a personalized journey through New York, from antiques expert Louis Bofferding’s elegant Manhattan apartment, to architect James Joseph and composer Scott Frankel’s meticulously restored bucolic haven on the outskirts of the city, via the dizzying heights of decorator John Saladino’s exquisite apartment in the Olympic Tower, a Fifth Avenue skyscraper.
   Lavishly illustrated, this volume presents an array of New York residences that perfectly reflect the diversity and eclecticism of  the city’s inhabitants and provide endless inspiration for contemporary interiors.

  Barbara and René stoeltie, writer and photographer respectively, have collaborated on over forty art, lifestyle, and interiors books since 1984, including Parisian Interiors: Bold, Elegant, Refined (Flammarion, 2011).
They have also published articles in prestigious magazines, such as The World of Interiors, AD, Vogue, Elle, House and Garden, House Beautiful, Maison Française, Résidence, and Mezzonin.

This illustrated volume on "Plazzi of Rome" presents the magnificent residences of popes and nobles of the Eternal City in an extraordinarily comprehensive and vivid way. Each palazzo and villa is described within its art historical context. Brilliant photographs capture the atmosphere of these fine palaces and villas in their whole splendor. How tightly the histories of the Borghese, Farnese, Colonna, Corsini, and many other of the grand old Roman families are interwoven with the histories of their stately residences becomes evident in the effort they spent in the construction, decoration, and upkeep of the buildings.The reader will learn how the Roman high nobility was obsessed over generations by the ardent desire to have an adequate palace to represent itself within the City of Cities. The competition for the most sumptuous palazzo led to the creation of some of the famous works of art that exemplify the refined - and often revolutionary - tastes of the great art patrons of the Italian capital.

In the tradition of Addison Mizner, Maurice Fatio, John Volk, and Howard Major - the early architects of Palm Beach’s great estates and public buildings of the Gilded Age - the architecture of Jeffery W. Smith stands resplendent as a testament to the refined elegance of another time, and is as well a promise of the grandeur that the future holds.

Hailed by Town & Country as “the most adept young historicist working in Palm Beach today,” preeminent Palm Beach architect Jeffery Smith is a paragon of exquisite design sense, as is clearly evident in the houses featured here. Smith’s work - a continuation of the classical Mediterranean style characteristic of the town that has come to be known as the “American Riviera” - is showcased in Palm Beach Splendor in seventeen of his most recent projects, in magnificent full-colour photographs featuring interiors by such well-known designers as Peter Marino and David Easton.

It has been the French revolution that has paved the way for an inventive and creative spirit in the arts, architecture, literature, and music that enhanced the development of science and technology of the future.

Even a few years back, on the 200th anniversary of the revolution, the city presented more breath-taking monuments to modern architecture, which rival any in Europe.

This book presents new and innovative projects by architects, who on the one hand, bear witness to the desire to combine environmentalism with the urban needs and, on the other, to the diversity of influence and changes needed in the architectural outlook.

All projects will be listed in alphabetical order to the architects and designers, presented in a very clear layout. As far as available floor plans will give additional insights.

Take a journey through the world’s most romantic city, traveling from color to magnificent color with this beguiling book. An orange café chair, bright blue bicycles against a fence, a weathered white door—Nichole Robertson’s sumptuous photographs of the distinctive details of Paris, all arranged by color, evoke a sense of serendipitous discovery and celebrate the city as never before. At once a work of art and a window into the heart of the city, Paris in Color will surprise and delight those who love art, design, color, and, of course, Paris!

French cuisine may be one of the most refined in the world, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to find great food in Paris. That’s why you’d be smart to carry this fabulous little guide book along with you, secure in the knowledge that your Parisian meals will be nothing but délicieux. Packed with photos, information and hotspot recommendations, this little treasure will have you eating in not only the yummiest and most chic restaurants, but also being seen in the city’s nicest bars, cafés, and beautiful tea salons.

Highlights:
• Chartier, authentic traditional brasserie opened in 1896
• Jean-Jacques Costes's Café Marly with spectacular views of the Louvre
• Brasserie Lipp, Hemingway's favorite brasserie in Paris
• L'Avenue, the hangout of the beautiful, rich, and famous
• the most elegant bar in Paris, Bar George V

Special features:
• exclusive hand-illustrated cover
• exclusive hand-illustrated map for each area
• information such as history, design, opening hours, and signature dishes
• hand-illustrated postcard
• softcover with a sturdy PVC jacket

Arm yourself with the stylish guide to style in the world’s style capital! Small enough to fit in a tiny handbag but big enough to include descriptions and photographs of Paris’s best fashion, shoe, and perfume shops, but also concept stores, bakeries, cheese and chocolate havens, and other hotspots, this little number will help you get the most out of your Parisian shopping experience. Warning: most shops accept credit cards!

Highlights:
• Louis Vuitton's amazing flagship store
• Colette, the pioneer of concept stores
• La Maison du Baccarat, a palais for French crystal brand designed by Philippe Starck
• the Marais boutique of Jamin Puech
• Diptyque, famous scented candles and perfumes since 1961

Special features:
• exclusive hand-illustrated cover
• exclusive hand-illustrated map for each area
• information such as history, design, opening hours, and signature dishes
• hand-illustrated postcard
• softcover with a sturdy PVC jacket

An exhaustive monograph on the eminent architect, emblematic of Milanese, and also Italian, 20th-century architectural and figurative culture.

Celebrated in the 1930s, controversial and forgotten during the postwar period, and finally rediscovered today, Piero Portaluppi was an undisputed protagonist of 20th-century Italian architecture. An eclectic protagonist who steered clear of specific styles and schools, a master of hydroelectric architecture, and a great town planner whose projects changed the face of Milan. Produced in collaboration with the Fondazione Piero Portaluppi, this new exhaustive monograph comprises a large photo album with new colour images of Portaluppi’s architectural projects and interiors, taken by the well-known photographer Ciro Frank Schiappa; three previously unpublished essays, illustrated with vintage photos by Antonio Paoletti; views and models of Portaluppi’s projects; items documenting his personal interests (cartoons, diagrams, sundials, postcards, newspaper cuttings). The volume also features an interview with Portaluppi’s nephew, architect Piero Castellini, by the famous film director Luca Guadagnino; an unpublished essay by architect Paolo Portoghesi; a biography of Piero Portaluppi by Jacopo Ghilardotti; a list of works and a bibliography compiled by Ferruccio Lupi, conservator at Fondazione Piero Portaluppi.

About the Authors:

Piero Maranghi, great-grandson of Piero Portaluppi, is director of the Fondazione Portaluppi.
Ciro Frank Schiappa (Dublin, 1971) studied photography at Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence, Italy. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide