Handsomely designed book covering railway stations from the 1830s to the 1980s. The book views them not only as gems of architecture but also as feats of engineering, nerve centers of out cities, microcosms of a changing society, and landmarks in our lives. Based on a critically acclaimed exhibit first shown at the Pompidou Center in Paris before it went on to tour Europe and London, the book is a feast of 381 illustrations (152 in color) whose provocative text invites us to take a fresh look at railway stations around the world. 135 pages.

All stations: A journey through 150 years of railway history

Dethier, Jean

Thames and Hudson

The Art of Earth Architecture /anglais

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Thames&Hudson

The essential purpose of a staircase is utilitarian: to facilitate ascent and descent. Yet the design of even the simplest stair is complex, requiring great knowledge, skill, and ingenuity. This volume showcases the astonishing diversity of staircases over the centuries, from the stepped pyramids of the Maya to the exquisitely proportioned stairs of the Renaissance, to the elaborate balustraded confections of the Baroque period, to the virtuosic, computer-aided designs of today. Among the scores of featured staircases are Michelangelo’s double stair at the Palazzo dei Senatori on the Capitoline Hill in Rome; the double-spiral stair at Château de Chambord in France’s Loire Valley; the entrance stair in the Winter Palace (now the Hermitage) in St. Petersburg; the radical spiral ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum; and the exterior stair at the Pompidou Center in Paris. Architectural tours de force all, often charged with religious, mystical, and hierarchical meaning, these staircases are inherently dynamic, as is every page of this fascinating and beautifully illustrated book. Praise for Staircases: "Forget utilitarian, boring staircases. This book illustrates an array of stunners, from Frank Lloyd Wright's spire ramp at the Guggenheim to Michelangelo's Roman masterpieces."—At Home "A useful piece of architecture that transcends cultures and location, staircases have been around almost as long as humans have. A new book, Staircases: The Architecture of Ascent, presents a dizzying array of staircases across the globe and throughout history." —PopSugar "If you, like me, fill your bookshelves with visual passion and lovely bound imagery, then you too will enjoy the downward or upward lift from Oscar Tusquet's Staircases: The Architecture of Ascent." —La Maison Fou "With beautiful images of a range of stairways. . . see a history of the trends, innovations, and modernizations of the seemingly simple invention that helps us get from one floor to the next."—The Daily Beast "The constructions documented in 'Staircases' are like ballets, set to orchestrations of marble, limestone, granite, cast iron, steel and inlaid wood." —The Wall Street Journal

Staircases: The Architecture of Ascent

Arts & Photography

Tusquets Blanca, Oscar

Coignard, Jéröme

Diot, Martine

de Savray, Adelaïde

Architecture

Vendome Press

Down to earth: Adobe architecture, an old idea, a new future : based on an exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou

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Down to Earth: Adobe Architecture : An Old Idea, a New Future (English and French Edition)

Science & Math

Technology

All Stations: A Journey Through 150 Years of Railway History

Science Museum

For almost ten thousand years, unbaked earth has been used to build remarkable structures, from simple dwellings to palaces, temples, and fortresses both grand and durable. Jean Dethier spent fifty years researching this landmark global survey, which spans five continents and 250 sites. The Art of Earth Architecture demonstrates the wide-ranging applications and sustainability of this building material, while presenting a manifesto for its ecological significance. Featuring raw-earth masterpieces, monumental structures, and little known works, the book includes the temples and palaces of Mesopotamia, the Great Wall of China, large-scale urban developments in Tenochtitlan in Mexico, the medinas of Morocco, and housing in Marrakech and Bogota. This definitive reference features many UNESCO World Heritage sites and contains essays on the historical, technical, and cultural aspects of raw-earth construction from twenty experts in the field, as well as hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and architectural drawings.

The Art of Earth Architecture: Past, Present, Future

History

Ancient Civilizations

Princeton Architectural Press

Lehmarchitektur: Die Zukunft Einer Vergessenen Bautradition.

Prestel-Verlag, (1982)

This compendium of ecological clay buildings from antiquity to present day is the first to demonstrate the enormous diversity of this traditional construction method. It also presents various types of clay construction, including mud bricks and packed earth, as well as techniques for constructing walls, arches and so on. An analysis of historical masterpieces, most of which are part of the UNESCO World Heritage List, and the depiction of the most diverse types of clay construction prove that this material still has much to offer to modern architecture. Richly illustrated with more than 600 impressive photos and 100 drawing and architectural plans, this work is the culmination of nearly fifty years of intensive research. As a unique and comprehensive work on clay construction, it demonstrates that the material's potential is far from exhausted.

Lehmbaukultur: Von den Anfängen bis heute (DETAIL Special) (German Edition)

DETAIL

"These photographs by Sebastian Schutyser reveal a neglected African architectural heritage: village adobe mosques. His black-and-white images emphasize an artistic fusion of architecture and sculpture and exalt the strength and beauty of a craft that eludes globalization. The photos emphasize the grain and substance of clay smoothed by villagers' hands or cracked by erosion, and highlight the solidity of the masonry and the sensuality of the textures. The texts that accompany these stunning pictures are by a leading expert on raw-earth architecture and by a major scholar on African vernacular architecture. Included is an appendix that documents all 500 of the principal adobe mosques of the Inner Niger Delta, with the names of the villages and geographical coordinates."

Banco: Adobe Mosques of the Inner Niger Delta (Imago Mundi series)

Eaton, Ruth

Gruner, Dorothee

Photography & Video

5Continents

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