Название: Antoni Gaudi
Серия: Temptis
Автор книги: Jeremy Roe
Издательство: Parkstone
Год выпуска: 2012
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 208
Язык: английский
Размер: 65 Mb

Испанский архитектор и дизайнер Антони Гауди (1852-1926) - важная и влиятельная фигура в истории испанского искусства. Использование цвета, применение различных материалов и введение движения в его конструкции были нововведением в области архитектуры.

Название: Easy Luxury: An expert guide to creating your perfect home
Автор: Darren Palmer
Издательство: ‎Murdoch Books
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 75 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Easy Luxury is a sourcebook of stylish and achievable ways to create a luxury look in your home. Lavishly illustrated with photographs of Darren's own interior design projects, ranging from apartments to larger family homes, it provides key styling ideas that will help you get the most out of a space and create a big impact for a realistic investment of time, energy and money. Whether you are styling a new home, getting a property ready to sell, or simply redecorating, Easy Luxury provides expert design tips and solutions for creating a home that encompasses a luxe, designer aesthetic while still embodying comfort. The book moves from large-scale practicalities and planning through to the elements of design, and takes a detailed look at styling room by room (and the goals, opportunities and potential pitfalls involved).

Название: Архитектура петербургского модерна. Особняки и доходные дома
Автор: Борис Кириков
Год издания: 2012
Издательство: Коло
ISBN: 978-901841-76-1
Страниц: 576
Формат: djvu
Размер: 42,7 Мб

В книге историка архитектуры Бориса Кирикова детально рассмотрены архитектурные памятники петербургского модерна — особняки и доходные дома. Издание богато иллюстрировано современными и старыми фотографиями, репродукциями проектных чертежей.

Название: История архитектуры и строительства
Автор: Соловьев К. А., Лукаш О. К. Н.
Издательство: Лaнь
Год: 2021 - 2-е изд.
Cтраниц: 628, цвет. и ч/б ил.
Формат: pdf (ocr)
Размер: 156 мб
Язык: русский

В учебнике рассмотрены основные направления развития монументального зодчества в течение многих веков под влиянием социально-экономических, этнических, культовых, природно-климатических факторов, развития истории строительства и строительной техники. Рассмотрены закономерности формирования типологии зданий и их ансамблей, а также конструктивно-технических основ формирования сооружений в архитектуре.

Название: Cozy White Cottage Seasons: 100 Ways to Be Cozy All Year Long
Автор: Liz Marie Galvan
Издательство: Thomas Nelson
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 49 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Whether you want to create a cozy winter wonderland in your living room, a blooming summertime welcome on your deck, or an autumn refuge by your fireplace, Liz Marie Galvan’s Cozy White Cottage Seasons gives you the inspiring photos, DIY ideas, and fun recipes you need to feel at home on any budget and in every season. Do-it-yourself interior designer, popular blogger Liz Marie Galvan helps you create space to snuggle up, stretch out, or kick back at home so you can focus on what matters most during the holidays and every day. Following the popularity of Cozy White Cottage, Cozy White Cottage Seasons is a beautiful, full-color photography holiday lifestyle book with easy-to-do, practical tips to make your home a welcome haven from New Year’s to spring, summer, fall, and all the way through Christmas.

Название: Small Space Decorating Workshop (House Beautiful)
Автор: Tessa Evelegh
Издательство: Hearst
ISBN: 1588164950
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 160
Размер: 101 MB
Язык: English

Small and awkward spaces are a perennial decorating challenge, but House Beautiful has the solution. This follow-up to the popular Window Workshop demonstrates countless ways to make everything from tiny alcoves to stair landings function well and look fabulous.

Название: Zen Landscapes: Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics
Автор: Allen S. Weiss
Издательство: ‎Reaktion Books
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 15 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form, and a memory theater, these gardens exhibit beautiful miniaturization and precise craftsmanship. But their apparent minimalism belies a true complexity. In Zen Landscapes, Allen S. Weiss takes readers on an exciting journey through these exquisite sites, explaining how Japanese gardens must be approached according to the play of scale, surroundings, and seasons, as well as in relation to other arts—revealing them as living landscapes rather than abstract designs.

Название: A Place Called Home: Print, Colour, Pattern
Автор: Cath Kidston
Издательство: Pavilion
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 57 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Cath Kidston--queen of vintage-inspired homeware and joyously decorated spaces--grants unprecedented insight into her creative process and personal style in this lifestyle-meets-memoir-meets-interior-design book. Designer Cath Kidston is famous for her high-street brand and nostalgic floral patterns. In this book, she invites readers into her own home to talk about patterns, color, décor, and more. Room by room, she gives an illuminating tour of her Gloucestershire house, pointing out interesting style choices and snazzy materials. From charming picture frames and fireplaces, to vintage patterns and rugs that tie the room together, Cath Kidston's personal style and interiors vision shines through. Along the way she shares decorating ideas, tips, and tricks for turning a house into a home. Perfect for fans of her designs, this part-interiors book, part-memoir is beautifully photographed throughout by Christopher Sykes.

Название: The Building of Manhattan (Dover Architecture)
Автор: Donald A. Mackay
Издательство: Dover Publications
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 37 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Meticulously accurate line drawings and fascinating text trace Manhattan's growth from a tiny Dutch outpost to the commercial, financial, and cultural heart of the world. This book explains construction above and below ground, including the excavation of subway lines and the building of bridges and skyscrapers. Hundreds of illustrations reveal intricate details of construction techniques. Author and illustrator Donald A. Mackay traces Manhattan's history from its first wood, stone, and brick houses to its famous modern structures, including the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and the World Trade Center. Along with historical background, he presents clear explanations and illustrations of the skilled labor and methods behind the island's tunnels, bridges, and train lines. Mackay describes who does what at a construction site, the assembly of a tower crane, and the construction of skyscrapers, from the foundations to the floor-by-floor elevations, along with other amazing procedures that are all part of a day's work in building the big city.

Название: Summers In France
Автор: Kathryn Ireland
Издательство: Gibbs Smith
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 11 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Home decorating has never been more simple and easy than Summers in France! Come along to Europe with designer Kathryn M. Ireland who celebrates summer living and entertaining in the French countryside. Ireland introduces readers to the town of Montauban, which is near the farmhouse she renovated and remodeled in her classic shabby chic style. Kathryn shares inside details of her remodel along with tips and ideas about entertaining and how to make guests comforable.