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The XXL edition “Station to Station” reprints Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige’s legendary series “The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaidō” a stunning representation of the historic route between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. Sourced from one of the finest surviving first editions, this vivid tapestry of 19th Century Japan is in …
Ever since Henry David Thoreau described his refuge existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts, in “Walden” or “Life in the Woods” (1854), the …
Renzo Piano rose to international prominence with his co-design of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times as …
Santiago Calatrava is a world-renowned architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. From the Athens 2004 Olympic Sports Complex to the World Trade …
Julius Shulman’s images of midcentury Southern Californian architecture captured not only the distinctive structural, functional, and design elements of a building but …
Hidden amidst soaring snowy mountains, deep valleys, and desolate deserts are some of the greatest treasures of Buddhist culture and Tibetan heritage. …
In a fleeting 14-year period between the two World Wars, Germany’s Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. …
Renzo Piano rose to international prominence with his co-design of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times as …
Katsushika Hokusai was always a man on the move. He changed domicile more than 90 times during his lifetime and changed his …
Rem Koolhaas founded OMA in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. He graduated from the Architectural Association in …
Fascinated by architecture, Tadao Ando abandoned professional boxing and set out on an initiatory tour of the world to learn about his …
The special two-volume edition “100 Contemporary Artists A-Z” by Taschen Publications, is a comprehensive survey of the art scene, profiling 100 of …
From 18/6 to 3/716, 100 kilometers east of Milan and 200 kilometers west of Venice, “The Floating Piers” by Christo and Jeanne-Claude …
During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere: on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving …
Jean Nouvel is without doubt France’s most important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970, he was an assistant of the architects Claude …
Utagawa Hiroshige’s “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo”, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is …
At the turn of the 20th century, architecture took an imaginative leap. As new construction materials and technologies met such far-flung stimuli …
During the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural language to cities and …
From 18/6-3/7/16, “The Floating Piers” at Lake Iseo in Italy, by Christo and Jeanne-Claude allowed 1.2 million people to walk on water. …
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is a maestro of the slight yet seductive, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard …
By creating photographs that transformed his subjects into abstractions of shapes and patterns, Edward Weston helped bring the medium out of the …
Nomadic homes come in all shapes and sizes. They are for the wealthy and the poor, the trendy and the out-of-luck. Changing …
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating world,” ukiyo-e …
In “Fullmoon” by Taschen Publications, the conceptual meets the poetic, in more than 260 photographs, Darren Almond catches landscapes around the globe, …
