Addison Mizner transformed Palm Beach with his visionary architecture. In this detailed biography, Stephen Perkins and James Caughman examine Mizner's life and origins, and explore how the events of his life influenced his marvelous architectural legacy.
Dr Gwyn Lloyd Jones is an architect at Studio Egret West in London. He was the inaugral winner of the RIBA President's Dissertation Medal, has been awarded the Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship to the British School in Rome and has written and presented a television programme on Frank Lloyd Wright for Welsh Channel 4.
Sanjay Patils tryst with architecture began in his early childhood as he soaked up the environs that surrounded him in his birthplace, Nashik. Moving on to formal education in architecture at the Sir JJ College of Architecture in Mumbai, Sanjay returned to his hometown in 1981 to immerse himself into a meaningful and sensitive architectural ......
Spencer Fung is never without a sketchbook or a pencil. Inspiration and ideas can strike at any moment, and often the smallest thing that catches his eye impels him to capture it on paper. Whether it is designing private houses, restaurants, hotels, furniture or lighting, he starts by hand, creating miniature works of art, which he then ......
During the 1960s Italy's museum sector witnessed a fertile period of renewal. A generation of architects, working in partnership with the directors of museums, set about transforming into exhibition spaces a number of ancient monumental complexes located in the historic centres of some of the most important Italian cities. Among these was the ......
The book is structured into three chapters: ‘Houses in the City’, ‘Houses in the Country’ and ‘Places People Go To’. Stunning photography throughout, by Richard Lewisohn, not only shows the reader what the end result will be, but unusually for most architecture books, MBA is keen to show what the construction work looks like as well. This is ......
"A house is a representation of the idea of the world, of life, of existence." Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926 to 2007) In the course of his life, Ungers built himself and his family no less than three houses, two in the Cologne suburb of Muengersdorf, and one in the Eifel highlands. Even the first house, to which this richly illustrated volume is ......
The new Musee des Confluences in Lyon was opened to the public, in late 2014. It was created by Wolf D. Prix of the Coop Himmelb(l)au team, which was founded in the 1970s. Many avant-garde groups from those wild years - such as Archigram, Superstudio, Archizoom, Haus-Rucker-Co, and the Japanese Metabolists - are now consigned to the past, but the ......
Konstantin Melnikov (1890-1974) is unquestionably one of the outstanding architects of the 20th century - in spite of the fact that he fell silent early, leaving behind only limited work that was insufficiently publicised, and restricted almost exclusively to Moscow, the city of his birth in which he spent nearly his entire life. In the late ......
