“A favorite old nursery ballad now appears in resplendent new dress. . . . Illustrator Feodor Rojankovsky somehow manages to combine quaintness with sophistication and his doughty frog, the coy mouse . . . and others make charming company.”--The New York Times Book Review
Architecture as Experience - Radical Change in Spatial Practice
This book investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it with theoretical sophistication.
A Contemporary Mind and Other Crimes - An International Cosmopolitan
The book is a weave of three themes an international story of an individual confronting his received limitations and a life adventure’s experiences of insightful information, which evolve into a pragmatic contemporary sophistication, based on an “what is superior.”
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Cecily von Ziegesar - Gossip Girl
The Gossip Girl series is the ultimate in glamour and cool - set in New York's glamorous Upper East Side the narrative follows the thrills and spills (with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way) of its richest and most beautiful teenage residents Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, Nate Archibald and others. 'Gossip Girl' is the ultimate in sophistication, scandal and luxury. The book has the effect of gossip itself - once you enter it's hard to extract yourself...
Itsuko Hasegawa: Selected and Current Works 1976-1996
A leading Japanese architect whose projects range from formal beginnings through Shondndai cultural centre and beyond to the sophistication of recent work which is an orchestra of practicality and elegance.
