Braun/Hogenberg, Cities of the World - Complete Edition of the Colour Plates 1572-1617 (Civitates Orbis Terrarum) - Hardcover

Braun, George; Hogenberg, Franz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3822852724 ISBN 13: 9783822852729

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 2008

Synopsis

Cities frozen in time: a snapshot of urban life, circa 1600 History's most opulent collection of town maps and illustrations The complete reprint of all 363 color plates from Braun and Hogenberg's survey of town maps, city views, and plans of Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America, with dozens of unusual details, two folding maps, as well as selected extracts from the original text and an in-depth commentary. First published in Cologne 1572-1617.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephan Fussel is director of the Institute of the History of the Book at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and holder of the Gutenberg Chair at the same university. He has published widely on early printing, on bookselling and publishing from the 18th to the 20th century, and on the future of communications. Fussel is also the editor of TASCHEN's Chronicle of the World and Luther Bible.

Rem Koolhaas is a co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Having worked as a journalist and script writer before becoming an architect, in 1978 he published Delirious New York, a retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. In 1995, his book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA and established connections of contemporary society and architecture. Amongst many international awards and exhibitions he received the Pritzker Prize (2000) and the Praemium Imperiale (2003).

About this edition

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3822852724
• ISBN 13: 9783822852729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 501
• Editor: Fussel Stephan