JODIDIO PHILIP

(H/B) ANDO
Philippe Starck describes him as a "mystic in a country that is no longer mystic." Philip Drew calls his buildings "land art" that "struggle to emerge from the earth." He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. His name is Tadao Ando, and he is one of the world's greatest living architects. Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of c...
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(P/B) GREEN ARCHITECTURE NOW!
These days green is the name of the game. There has never been so much interest in the ecological impact of buildings as there is today. This is not a negligible fact in the struggle to control pollution and in the search for responsible, "sustainable" methods of construction. Buildings are among the heaviest consumers of natural resources and account for a significant portion of the greenhouse gas emissions that affect climate change. With global warming now a significant international political issue, architecture itself is on the brink ...
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(P/B) JEAN NOUVEL, 1945
Jean Nouvel, winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, is widely regarded as France's most original and important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970 he assisted influential architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, before creating his own practice in Paris. His first widely acclaimed project was the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (1981-87). Since then he has completed the Lyon Opera House and the Fondation Cartier, Paris. His major completed projects since 2000 include the Culture and Convention Center in Lucerne, Switzerland, the spect...
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(P/B) EAT, SHOP, DRINK - ARCHITECTURE NOW!
Some of the most spectacular architectural designs of the moment have to do with our most basic needs: eating, drinking, and shopping. Restaurants, bars, and boutiques are the substance of this new book that puts an emphasis-like all volumes of the Architecture Now!-series-on the very latest and best creations. This is where you will find the likes of David Chipperfield and Peter Marino in the same book, where Jean Nouvel and BIG star Bjarke Ingels meet. But it is also the place to discover new talents like the designer of London's Late Ni...
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(P/B) GREEN ARCHITECTURE NOW! 2
At the turn of the 19th century, William Blake famously lashed out at the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. Years before, in 1791, the steam-powered Albion Flour Mills in Southwark near Blake's residence had burnt in suspicious circumstances. "And all the Arts of Life they changed into the Arts of Death in Albion..." he wrote in "Jerusalem" (Chapter 3), which recounts the fall of Albion, the oldest name of Britain. The mechanisms of "modernity" and its trail of environmental and social destruction were already in motion, but it was ...
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(H/B-25) ARCHITECTURE NOW! (VOL.4)
Architecture Now! Volume 4 proves that the best keep getting better, with new names from all over the world and the most exciting and unique buildings and designs. As always, easy-to-navigate illustrated A-Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and website addresses. Here are just a few of the projects that are featured in the book: A shelter for the needy made out of sandbags Nomadic Museum made by Shigeru Ban out of shipping containers A tree house in Germany New Museums that have been built by G...
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(P/B) MUSEUMS - ARCHITECTURE NOW!
As long as museums have existed, they have been associated with celebrated architects. The civic role of museums as symbols of local, regional, or national pride surely explains this ongoing relationship, as does the "value" placed on their contents. Architecture is called on to some extent to echo the significance of art, and, more frequently today, of the contents of other institutions, such as those devoted to science. Most museum-goers have heard of the so-called Bilbao effect which would have it that Frank O. Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao...
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(H/B-25) 2VOL 100 CONTEMPORARY HOUSES
100 HOUSES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Private houses are in some sense the quintessence of modern architecture, as six well-known examples demonstrate. These examples, ranging from the work of Le Corbusier to that of Rem Koolhaas, show the continuity of innovative residential architecture, a fact that has entered the popular imagination through such a house as Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, the Edgar J. Kaufmann House (Mill Run, Pennsylvania, USA, 1934-37), which may be the most famous private house of the 20th century. Surprisingly, even be...
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(P/B) HOUSES (VOL.1) - ARCHITECTURE NOW!
Though there may be distinctions between a house and a home, the fact remains that the fundamental ideals of shelter, life, and death are intertwined with the architecture of the commonplace in every dwelling, from cave to castle. The house can be a measure of civilization, wealth, or, indeed, intelligence; it is a barometer of existence. Depending on the architect and the client, a house can be at very cutting edge of architecture, casting aside notions of the past in search of a new paradigm; it can accept the rules of urbanism while sta...
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(H/B) 100 CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTS (2VOLUME-SET)
Architecture at the dawn of the the indispensable compendium. This two-volume compilation brings together highlights from TASCHEN's groundbreaking title Building a New Millennium and the first four volumes of our renowned Architecture Now! books for a comprehensive study of architecture around the world at the beginning of the 21st century. Up-and-coming architects-tomorrow's superstars-are featured alongside the field's most respected practitioners, such as Santiago Calatrava, Herzog & de Meuron, Koolhaas/OMA, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Me...
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WOOD - ARCHITECTURE NOW!
Wood is, first of all, the forest, the "plantations of God." It is in the moonlit woods that the characters of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream play out their transformative comedy; it is again in the forest that architecture itself, in disguises ranging from the simple column, to the temple and the cathedral, finds much of its inspiration. A canopy of branches, stacked trunks to provide shelter from the storm, wood is a quintessential element of the earliest built habitations, most of which returned to the earth in time. Architectu...
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HOUSES (VOL.2) - ARCHITECTURE NOW!
A book about houses is interesting for all kinds of reasons, some avowed, and others less worthy of praise. There is always a bit o' voyeurism in the urge to see someone else's interior. How do the rich live? What is it like to have a fabulous beachside house in Bahia, Brazil In fact, the JZ House (Camacari, Bahia, Brazil, 2006-08, page 75) by the architects Bernardes + Jacobsen is, at 1850 square meters, the largest house published in this second volume of Architecture Now! Houses. And a very beautiful house it is. But what of houses of m...
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(P/B) RESTAURANTS AND BARS - ARCHITECTURE NOW!
The latest architecture and design of restaurants and bars, from L.A. to Tokyo, is the focus of this book. Whether the challenge is merely placing furniture in a simple space, or an ambitious structural project, restaurants and bars are the sites of our most expressive architecture; more ephemeral than larger facilities or entire buildings, they are more apt to capture the mood of the times. (...) (From the publisher)...
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SHOPPING - ARCHITECTURE NOW!
"Shopping Architecture Now!" is where the stars of the world of architecture, from David Adjaye to Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid, encounter the people who make the world of design turn, from Jurgen Bey to Tom Dixon, Ingo Maurer, or Philippe Starck. This book is full of the most recent retail spaces in the world, ranging from astonishing shopping centers by Daniel Libeskind or the young Swiss firm HHF to interactive store windows or a tiny jewel-like chocolate shop in the heart of Paris. [...] (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) CALATRAVA - COMPLETE WORKS 1979-2009

(P/B) PUBLIC - ARCHITECTURE NOW!

(P/B) ARCHITECTURE NOW! (VOL.6)
The sixth installment of «Architecture Now!» featuring buildings ranging in size from Terunobu Fuzimori’s tiny (6.07 square meters) Teahouse Tetsu to Norman Foster’s gigantic Crystal Island project in Moscow (1.1 million square meters), provides an overview of what is happening right now in architecture, be it of traditional inspiration, or at the very edge of current thinking. What is the spirit of this moment, and how does architecture reflect the creativity as the first decade of the 21st Century draws to a close? «Architecture Now! 6» ...
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ARCHITECTURE: NATURE (H/B)
The relationship between contemporary architecture and nature is fundamental to today’s creativity. Some architects reject nature or imagine that they can create an artificial world of their own - while others are seeking new ways, aided by science and the computer, to chart new directions for the buildings of tomorrow. From ecologically-oriented designs to the most astonishing new forms, this book shows how essential nature remains to architecture. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(H/B) PIANO
The array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale, material, and form. He is truly an architect whose sensibilities represent the widest range of this and earlier centuries. Such was the description of Renzo Piano given in the Pritzker Prize jury citation as it bestowed the prestigious award on him in 1998. Whereas some architects have a signature style, what sets Piano apart is that he seeks simply to apply a coherent set of ideas to new projects in extraordinary different ways. (ΑΠΟ ...
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(P/B) ARCHITECTURE NOW! (VOL.5)