"Just look closely-and creative doors will open! This second book in the successful Focus series unlocks a doorway to the imagination, with a collection of approximately 250 photographs of passages of all kinds, captured by amateur photographers. Doors are rich in meaning: they …
City of darkness: life in Kowloon Walled City
by Girard, Greg, Lambot, Ian, Goddard, Charles
Architectural photography is an important tool for studying built architecture and documenting students own projects. Basics Architectural Photography provides a practically based explanation of the key technical aspects of photography, image analysis and photo editing, and incl…
"Between 1860 and 1940, Cairo and other large cities in Egypt witnessed a major construction boom that gave birth to extraordinary palaces and lavish buildings. These incorporated a mix of architectural styles, such as Beaux-Arts and Art Deco, with local design influences and ma…
"A travers neuf courts chapitres illustrés, conçus comme un processus d'auto-observation, Peter Zumthor décrit ce qui l'inspire lorsqu'il crée l'atmosphère de ses bâtiments : images d'espace et de lumières, mais aussi photographies, morceaux de musique et livres.
Peter Zumthor's passion is the creation of buildings with architectural atmosphere. But how can one actually set out to achieve it? In nine short, illustrated chapters framed as a process of self-observation, Zumthor describes what he has on his mind as he sets about creating th…
The author documents photographically more than eighty Romanesque and Gothic vaults from medieval churches, cathedrals, and basilicas.