Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750 -2000 is an unprecedented teaching anthology that surveys the history of European and American architecture and design using both historical and contemporary sources. This ambitious volume brings together the best scholarship on the subject - as it has been taught, thought, and talked about in academic and architectural circles - yet it also reconfigures the canon for teaching purposes by introducing a thematic approach.The book covers three major periods - 1750 -1830, 1830 -1910, and 1910 -2000 - with substantial introductions to each section by the editors. Pairing primary documents with well-known historiographical essays, along with some key but underrepresented works, this book will be especially welcomed by those studying architectural history at the undergraduate level.
As the building industry moves toward a single set of construction codes that have no regional limitations, architects, builders, engineers, and interior designers need an interpretive guide to help them better understand how the code affects their practices. The seond edition of Building Codes Illustrated fills this need by interpreting the updated 2006 International Building Code (IBC) in a visual format that designers both need and understand. This unique marriage of bestselling author Francis D.K. Ching's illustrative talent and Steven Winkel's code expertise provides an accessible, time-saving companion guide to the latest code. The visual presentation of information extracts the core portions of the building code that are most relevant for professionals and hones building codes down to the essentials. Organized to correspond with related subject matter in the IBC, Building Codes Illustrated enables architects, engineers, and other design professionals to quickly find clarifying information on the
Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture. Inspired by Nature: Minerals gathers together the work of two dozen architects who have looked for solutions in the world of geology, from the models of organization offered by crystals to the inspiration of the earth’s relief, mineral voids, volcanoes, and monoliths. Among the built examples are a movie complex (Coop Himmelb(l)au), museums (Daniel Libeskind and Tadao Ando), a theater (Antoine Predock), a residence (Will Bruder), a campus (Dominique Perrault), and more, beautifully illustrated in colorful photos supplemented by plans. The visual analogies underline how architects can find elegant solutions and create new, sustainable and efficient architectonic forms by the close and understanding observation of nature.
Get the only comprehensive book about integrated practice in architecture, which is the collaborative design, construction and life-cycle management of buildings. Chapters are clearly organized around critical issues in integrated architectural practice, including teambuilding, project planning, communication, risk management, and implementation.
Hong Kong is Asia's number one shopping destination but with its abundance of malls, department stores, designer boutiques, and bustling open-air markets, it can be confusing for the uninitiated to navigate. This practical guide leads you to the coolest shops, where you can shop in chic surroundings for stylish and imaginative merchandise. This international crossroads of commerce offers the latest trends in clothing, cosmetics and gifts?and we?ll tell you the best places to look. ? Lavishly illustrated with over 130 color photos of shops distinguished by both the range of products they offer, and by their outstanding architecture and interiors.
Light is the element that reveals architecture.It renders texture and materials, illuminates surfaces and spaces, it creates atmospheres. The present book pretends to be a suggestive and useful guide for those who are conscious of the main role natural light and artificial lighting play in architecture, landscape and interior design.
America’s leading businesses and institutions are constantly looking for ways to work faster, cheaper, and smarter in the global economy. With more than 120 projects by 32 design firms, Corporate Interiors No. 9 presents innovative yet practical design solutions from around the country. Corporate headquarters, branch offices, product development centers, overseas offices, and other facilities where professionals are shaping the country’s economy. Each featured project is indexed for easy reference, and a list of suppliers is included. The latest in the successful Corporate Interiors series, this book takes executives, architects, and interior designers serving the corporate and institutional world on a guided tour of the latest in successful design.
This volume in the DesingSource series illustrates a number of inspiring pools created by architects, designers, and pool owners from around the world. The varied aesthetics of the pools shown in Pools DesignSource display numerous design ideas and examples for those who wish to create a pool of their own, or enhance their existing pool. These pools—whether simple and minimalist or extravagantly decorated—offer design solutions to create an attractive and personalized pool.
Landscape architecture involves a challenging assimilation of competencies and knowledge in many disciplines including ecology and botany, as well as techniques, materials, the social sciences, artistic expression and creativity, and their practical application.This book showcases the works of renowned contemporary French landscape architects, currently among the most talented in their field, and their skill and capacity in synthesising the most simple, ecological and sustainable materials and techniques to transform sites and bring the projects to realisation. lllustrated lavishly with full-colour photographs and accompanied by an insightful analysis of the projects, this volume is an invaluable and accessible reference not only for landscape architects and their clients, but the interested layman.
The ultimate resource on strategies for redeveloping abandonedurban sites Architects, urban planners, urban designers, developers, cityofficials, and all those interested in revitalizing theirpost-industrial cities will find the tools they need here.Redeveloping Industrial Sites delivers solutions to complex issuesconcerning urban planning, design, and financing to reveal lessonson ways to successfully convert decaying land and buildings intovibrant parks, stimulating cultural destinations, and activecommercial complexes. In addition, carefully chosen real-worldexamples illustrate topics such as sustainability, public policy,and developer know-how to form a complete picture of the elementsinvolved in planning and executing urban redevelopment projects.Redeveloping Industrial Sites: Covers strategies used to turn abandoned industrial sites intovibrant new neighborhoods and special districts such as Toronto'sDistillery District and Philadelphia's Piazza at Schmidts Emphasizes design
Katie Ridder’s extraordinary palette of primary and secondarycolours, her playful mix of antiques and modern pieces, and her eyefor unusual decorative accents have established her as a leadingfigure in the world of interior design. Clients from Argentina toYonkers have commissioned Katie Ridder to design the interiors oftheir lofts, Japanese pavilions, summer houses and Park Avenueapartments. Now everyone can derive design inspiration from herunique approach – whether it’s something as charmingly simple as acoral finial atop a table lamp or as dramatically daring as intenseblue walls stencilled in an oversize paisley motif – on every pageof this idea-saturated book.
The evolution from yesterdayss bathroom to todays wellnessoasis continues to open new frontiers. New spa areas as such canhardly be distinguished at first glance, and could as easily betaken for lounges, meditation rooms or even museums for modern art.Bath design will be increasingly marked by the identity of theuser. The deployment of new technologies and materials, thetreatment of light and color creates dream-worlds, in which it paysto immerse oneself. With its international selection of projects,Bath Spa represents the spectrum ranging from small andintimate baths to wide open spa landscapes, all with their owninvitation to immerse, relax and let go. With a multitude of designconcepts this volume presents the coming together of solid andfluid elements in architecture and interior design.
This book encompasses a wide selection of trade show stands, realized by the outstanding international architects and designers, who have transformed this extraordinary facet of retail design into a fully-fledged art. Each one of the projects included in this volume has been carefully chosen according to a criterion of originality, creativity and innovation. Full-color glossy photographs, rigorous graphic documentation, and explanations by the authors themselves accompany those selected. All of which, added to the complete follow-up of how the design process developed, makes this work a necessary and exciting tool for architects, designers and students, as well as for all professionals wishing to extend their knowledge in the field of retail space design and the architecture of trade show stands.
Go on a visual jaunt through some of the most engaging and inventive theme hotels in the world. An up-to-date pictorial list of several creative theme hotels, this book promises to delight its readers with striking and original hotel designs, displaying an array of hotels du jour. No longer satisfied with providing the basic bed and breakfast, theme hotels project a lifestyle for the avid traveller, enhancing his or her stay in the host country with an original living concept that is guaranteed to bring travellers back for more.
For the dreamer in every home buyer or builder comes a showcase of the most ambitious and innovative contemporary home designs. In New Houses, editor LlorenC Bonet takes us through thirty six of the most spectacular houses built in recent years. Located all over the world, they are set apart by their imaginative and innovative design, as well as their use of the latest in construction technologies,newly developed building materials, and furnishings from leading designers. Some projects focus primarily on the landscape, while others take into account the conservation of both space and energy. Each architect faces the challenge of producing work that enriches both the local surroundings and the lives of its inhabitants-in other words, the challenge of creating functional yet exceptional architecture.Organized into four specific sections, New Houses pre-sents the best original and innovative designs from the world's most renowned architects. 作者简介：LlorenC Bonet has contributed to sever-a
Sustainable Preservation takes a nuanced look at the hundredsof choices that adaptive reuse requires architects to make-fromingenious ways to redeploy existing structural elements totime-honored techniques for natural ventilation to creation ofwetlands that restore a site's natural biological functions. Inaddition, Sustainable Preservation presents 50 case studies ofprojects-schools, houses, offices, stores, museums, and governmentbuildings-that set new standards for holistic approaches toadaptive reuse and sustainability. The author covers design issues,from building location to lighting systems, renewable poweroptions, stormwater handling, and building envelope protection andintegrity. The book also reviews operational issues, includingmaterials choices for low lifetime maintenance, green housekeeping,and indoor air quality.
A LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED COMPENDIUM OF THE WORLD'S MOST FASHIONABLE RESTAURANTS CULLED FROM TENEUES' BEST-SELLING COOL RESTAURANT SERIES.
This book celebrates the holiday home, traditionally a place of rest, relaxation and escape from the pressures of the 'real' world. Its many incarnations include beach shacks, mountain-top chalets, country estates, ranches and hobby farms, lakeside villas and isolated cabins. The unique styles reflect their owners' very personal approaches to what it means to be 'on vacation'. The architecture of holiday homes reveals the shift in lifestyle that defines a vacation; architects are required to work closely with their clients to achieve just the right spirit. The results of this collaboration can be breathtaking.
On the basis of recent examples by renowned international architects, this monographic work analyzes the difficulty of integrating new residential volumes into sites that are seriously conditioned by their situation and environment. In each case, particularly narrow and awkward dimensions imposed limitations that the architects have resolved with creativity and wit, implementing exemplary technical and formal solutions to make the buildings connect with the existing context while making intelligent use of the available space. Often the facades concentrate the most interesting aspects of the project's composition and construction. The face of the building and its privileged view onto the exterior are the interface with which it relates to the surrounding buildings, contributing to weave the urban fabric and defining the profile of the street and of the neighborhood.
Provides a new look at environmental design in order to promote a sustainable environment and society.
Fame is the lifeblood of architecture.Throughout history fame has motivated architects and their clients to build ever more ambitious schemes.In recent years, the power of the media and the force of celebrity have intensified this.Some kind of public rofile or degree of publicity has become essential to any thriving architectural practice.Fame and Architecture examines the dynamics behind the fame game in architecture, examining it from a historical perspective, its impact on education and the way in which contemporary architects negotiate it. This outstanding issue also includes interviews with world famous architects including Lord Foster of Thames Bank.
Street Furniture takes an up-close look at all of rhe elements that go into rhe design of urban space,Every element shown in the clazzling color photographs was cuctom-designed for a specific project,and all are explained from the drawing board up,from the original sketches and lists of materials to finished product in its setting.The most thorough and complete volume of its kind,Street Furniture is a streetwise resource that every urban design professional must have.
