Expo: International Expositions 1851-2010

A vibrant and engaging history colorfully illustrated with posters, ephemera, photographs, and catalogs, this book traces the past, present, and future of expositions across the globe, from Europe to Asia to America. From Paris’s Eiffel Tower to Seattle’s Space Needle, some of the world’s most recognizable monuments to innovation have been created for international expositions. Unsurpassed in its scale and confidence, the “World’s Fair” has helped to shape the modern world and ranks among the most spectacular, popular, and important gatherings ever...

Exit to Tomorrow: History of the Future, World's Fair Architecture, Design, Fashion 1933-2005

Focusing on the golden era of world's fairs, from the 1930s to the 1970s, this book offers a nostalgic glimpse of the future in vintage photographs, postcards, previously unpublished memorabilia, and drawings of pavilions, created by such designers and architects as Buckminster Fuller, Norman Bel Geddes, Kisho Kurokawa, and Le Corbusier. Innovative, informative, and entertaining, this souvenir of yesterday's tomorrow is a superb tour of the achievements of avant-garde architecture and design.

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China Today, Shanghai EXPO 2010

Special feature of Shanghai Expo 2010 and also includes some of the latest architectural works by prominent Chinese architects.

Blur: The Making of Nothing

When the visionary American architectural team of Diller + Scofidio won a commission for Swiss EXPO 2002, they reinvented the tradition of creating spectacular buildings for World's Fairs by creating an empty one—an ephemerally beautiful yet eerily vacant pavilion. Consisting of a mist formed by 30,000 fog nozzles mounted on an immense structure of steel cables, the Blur Building appears to float above a Swiss lake. It's a fabricated cloud, complete with a water bar. The book of Blur captures the experience of passing through this vaporous maze.

Shanghai Transforming

Over the last few years, architects from around the world are discovering China as the perfect place to develop their architecture. By contrast to the restrictions and limitations of European and American cities, Shanghai, with its seemingly boundless possibilities, represents a bold new opportunity for architecture and urbanism. Shanghai, with the upcoming 2010 World Expo, is immersed in a deep physical transformation, reconsidering the relationships within the city as well as surrounding neighborhoods, and investing in buildings with national and international...

The Opening Celebration & Site Opening Ceremony of World Expo 2010 Shanghai China

Live Bilingual Narration in Chinese and English. This Product includes The Opening Celebration & Site Opening Ceremony of Expo 2010 Shanghai China. The Opening celebration includes Indoor Opening Ceremony & Celebration Gala, and Outdoor Lighting, Fountain & Firework Show.

Expo Guide 2010

The most comprehensive and thoroughly researched bilingual guide to the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, including pavilions introductions, event calendars, maps, cultural tips, traffic tips and information on accommodation, business and leisure activities. This guide will assist guests from around the world achieve a more satisfying visit to Shanghai while attending the most exciting international event of 2010.

The USA Pavilion Expo 2010 Shanghai: Rising to the Challenge

The 2010 Shanghai Expo is unparalleled, a gathering like no other. One of the top experiences at the Shanghai Expo is the USA Pavilion, perhaps the leading international attraction of the entire Fair. At least 70 million guests are expected to tour the fairgrounds, making the Expo not just the largest World's Fair in history, but also the largest attended event of any sort in human history. A lucky five million or so of these fair-goers will enter the USA Pavilion, where an engaging...

And Guide Shanghai: Architecture And Design

Shanghai is a city of juxtapositions with a long and complicated history. Once a magnet for foreigners because of its sophistication and exoticism, it has re-emerged after decades of eclipse to become the economic powerhouse fuelling much of Chinas fevered growth. This attractively designed little guide gives tourists and professionals alike an overview of notable architecture created in Shanghai during this period (Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai Stadium, Three on the Bund).

Expo 58: Between Utopia and Reality

Great Vision for the Future: World Expo 2010 Shanghai

The official catalogue to an accompanying exhibition about the World Expo of 1958

Shanghai Expo

This is the only book on the World Expo authorized by the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination. Comprehensive and authoritative, the book is divided into three parts. Part I - Reviews the history of the World Expo and analyzes China's connection with it. Part II - Is a focused introduction to Shanghai as an international metropolis and reveals the secret of Shanghai's successful bid to host the 2010 World Expo. Part III - Looks ahead to the 2010 World Expo and covers the ongoing preparations and plans.

Architecture Expo 02

Five iconic installations: one mobile and four fixed "Arteplage" locations; 500 individual structures in transition from experimental architecture to scenographics; 45 international designer teams. Fascinating illustrations, exact detailed plans and instructive texts portray the architecture of the Expo in all its complexity: from Pipilotti Rist's Laboratory of Ideas, the visionary models of 1998 and the international competition, through to its fulfilment. The project concepts are explained by the authors in their own words: Coop Himmelb(l)au and GLS (Biel), Jean Nouvel...

Architecture at the Expo: An Urban Project in Zaragoza

The International Exposition, Expo Zaragoza 2008, is one of the greatest international events of the year, featuring large scale urban projects. With water as the central theme, the building designs of acclaimed architects Enrique de Teresa, Nieto y Sobejano, Francisco Mangado, Olano y Mendo Arquitectos, Álvaro Planchuelo, Torres y Martinez Lapeña, ACXT and Zaha Hadid hosted the different events and pavillions. This volume analyzes the making of the architectonic complex and its landscape, critically examining the meaning and importance of Expo Zaragoza 2008...

Visions of the Future: Worldwide Projects, Global Dialogue and Thematic Area of EXPO 2000

Documenting the 11 scientific and technologically themed exhibitions about the 21st century that made up the theme park at the Expo 2000 in Hannover, this book presents various ideas for the future in the fields of nutrition, energy, transportation, and more. German/English

Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s

In the midst of the Great Depression, America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s gave hope to millions, sustaining the assembled with visions of future progress. These grand expositions in Chicago, San Diego, Dallas, Cleveland, New York, and San Francisco showcased an optimistic, consumerist future society and symbolized the Modernist message of progress through design. Designing Tomorrow celebrates the influence and impact of these international expositions. Offering an overview of the fairs and detailed discussions of individual works, distinguished authors examine...

Barcelona Pavilion