Architecture & Design

Wuhan is considered the engineering centre of China. Its 10 million inhabitants enjoy impressive buildings in an area famous for the three Gorges Dam development. Wuhan's other ambitious projects include power plants, tunnels and bridges, playing an important role in projecting China's ideas on its identity and power. This title deals with Wuhan.

A worldwide history of the house traces its origins and evolution from caves, mud huts, and underground villages to postmodernism and neo-traditionalism, explaining why people historically built as they have and how a house reflects certain ideas.

Spotlighting innovative design projects in places ranging from Texas to Italy and China, this book sounds a call for architects, designers, and regional planners to create a built environment that works on a regional scale in harmony with the planet's ecology.

Between 1957 and 1964 the Conservative governments of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home presided over a short but key period in 20th-century British history. During this period the British Empire was transformed into a multi-racial Commonwealth. This title examines the end of the empire during ...

This volume is a recording of the evolution of an architectural practice. Compiled in this book, MAK Architects approach comes across as both conventional and playful in tone and is marked with a desire to engage with how environments can become meaningful for the user.

Graphic design is, now more than ever, a broad ranging discipline with rigorous demands for its practitioners. It requires a capacity and inclination for invention & rationality as well as an intuitive knack for human communication and cognition. Prague has often historically been at the center of innovative ...

Design Focus Series is a creative platform where East meets West. This brilliant new series published in China is an attempt to bring young Chinese design talent face to face with their hip Western counterparts. The Design Focus Series features cutting edge designs and creative work in individual volumes ...

This text presents the work of Japanese designers Shin and Tomoko Azumi, who have become well known for their folding furniture, such as "table = chest" and "armchair = table".

When Daedalos, the first know architect in ancient Greece, murdered his student and nephew it was to protect his position as the most innovative architect of his age. He must have foreseen a limit to new ideas and was in effect predicting the end of originality in architecture. More than three millennia ...

Tottering her way through the history of women's footwear, the author writes 'Shoes possess magic powers,' and wonders why it is that women love their shoes so much. She also has plenty of advice on choosing the right heel for your physique, how to keep shoes lasting long and how to judge a man by his footwear.

"There is no artist who has done more to define Los Angeles art internationally in the 1990s than Charles Ray, and this exhibition will greatly expand the public understanding of his work to include not only the widely seen figurative works but also minimalist and abstract sculptures and his most recent ...

In architecture, looking to the past is a prerequisite to looking to the future. Innovative design is inevitably informed by an understanding of earlier design and technology. No one exemplifies this more than architect Jan Kaplicky and his firm Future Systems, renowned for its futuristic structures.

"Large Graphics is a reference guide and a book for designing on a grand scale. See how expert designers effectively fill oversized spaces with graphics and copy that deliver a finely tuned message - sometimes when seconds count. Billboards must communicate instantly to motorists speeding down the highway. ...

A guide for designers, students, researchers and anyone needing to find information on art, design, typography, animation, video, photography and other visual arts-related topics by way of the Internet and the World Wide Web.