A limited edition, hardcover book published in 1990 by l'ArcaEdizioni to mark the opening of Bulgari's [then] new NYC Fifth Avenue store designed by Italian architect Piero Sartogo. Text by Paul Goldberger and Richard Reid. Thin oversized hardcover 13 5/8 x 9 3/4", 62 pp., gray textured paper covered boards w/ an image of the Bulgari store tipped on; fully illus. throughout in color, printed on glossy paper.

730 Fifth Avenue, New York

Paul Goldberger

Richard Reid

L'Arca Edizioni

This book is distinctively different from the usual monographs of current architects.  It is, in personal autobiographic form, an account of John Johansen's notable contribution to fifty turbulent years of the Modern Movement.  Profusely illustrated in color and black and white.

John M. Johansen: A Life in the Continuum of Modern Architecture

Arts & Photography

John M. Johansen

Architecture

An architect who designs for himself plans and constructs a house designed to physically embody his own vision of life and, at the same time, architecture. This is the real meaning behind Entelechy II, the beach house on Sea Island, Georgia, that John Portman has created for both himself and his family. This book traces an architectural adventure which has been-and still is-a spiritual journey.

John Portman: An Island on an Island

Portman, John

Meditteranean architecture, characterizeds by a strong sense of colour and light, distinguishes Richard England's work. He contrives to combine the force of history and nature with the princples of modernity.

Richard England: The Spirit of Place (Talenti)

Richard England

Out the outset of every new millennium a good tradition holds that we should make prophecies regarding the future, and in this spirit we say that architecture is bound to continue as the true protagonist in the development of civilization.

XII Prophecies for XXI Century / XII Profecias para el siglo XXI (English and Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The Roesling Nakamura studio can be credited with constructions of all typologies in which the studio has always sought to organize spaces, thouroughfares and structures in such a way as to facilitate their use as much as possible.

Roesling Nakamura Architects: Objectives in Practice (Talenti)

[Roesling Nakamura Architects (Firm)] Condia, Bob

A deep feeling for places and their identity: this is the concept that underpins the work of The Jerde Partnership International. In the concept of architecture asserted by Jon Adams Jerde, FAIA, planning and building means to reinvent the authentic urban experience.

The Jerde Partnership International: Visceral Reality (Talenti)

Schuwirth, Erman &amp; Partner is one of the most important German studios of architecture. Its structures are characterized by its urban spirit-that is, by their ability to make every single creation an element that enriches their metropolitan dynamic. The architectonic idiom of this studio,therefore, addresses the great themes of the contemporary city and interprets them with sober precision.

Schuwirth, Erman & Partner: The Design of the City (Talenti) (English and German Edition)

Arches and diagnols are the distinctive signs of the architecture of Iwona Buczkowska, whose creations range from large school complexes to social lodgings and residential buildings.

Iwona Buczkowska: Breathing Spaces (Talenti)

Buczkowska, Iwona

In Binder's most recent projects there continues to be a systematic rigor of several levels, but also a movement toward a looser, more intuitive, idiosyncratic architecture.

Rebecca Binder: Spatial Dynamics (Talenti)

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