One hundred plates of royalty-free Gothic designs, meticulously reproduced from rare 19th-century engravings. Many are floral and foliate designs rendered from panels, capitals, borders, brackets, friezes, grotesques, and other decorative elements.
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century's great visionaries, both in the fields of furniture design (he created the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables, for example) and in architecture. Among his greatest accomplishments are monuments that shaped architecture in postwar America and became icons in themselves: Washington D.C.'s Dulles International Airport, the very sculptural and fluid TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York, and the 630-foot high "Gateway to the West," the Arch of St. Louis. Marrying curves and dynamic forms with a Modernist aesthetic, he brought a whole new dimension to architecture.
This compact tome delivers a brief but excellent "tour" of Venice through its photographs and de*ions. Though small in size it offers a huge amount of information on art and architecture, as the title implies, but also on history and some of the traditions. Separate articles are dedicated to specific people and events, such as Antonio Vivaldi, the Jewish Ghetto and the Carnivale, among others.,
Once strictly applied to the reconversion of old warehouses and industrial spaces, the concept of loft has evolved since its conception in 1960s, and now it applies to any open--plan space. This evolution has allowed the architects and designers to go beyond the while walls and exposed beams, resulting in an explosion of new materials, colors and textures. Whether they house a dwelling, a working space, or both, these tendencies are presented in this volume through the latest projects of world-renowned architects and designers.