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This book presents eight single-family houses built by Aalto in Finland, Estonia, and France from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s. Markku Lahti, director of the Alvar Aalto Foundation, describes the fascinating history of the selected houses, the people for whom they were built, and how Aalto adapted his own design ideals to the needs of his clients.
This book aspires to create a wide perspective on the various trends in current Finnish office architecture, from traditional brick buildings to the imaginative glazed towers and glass facades today. Featuring 14 contemporary buildings -- a selection of the very best of Finnish office architecture from the present century -- these buildings show that modern Finnish office architecture represents cutting-edge high-technology with a humane and caring aspect.
Architecture tells the story of the world's most incredible buildings, from the ancient world to the present day. Take a closer look at the beautiful details, principal elements, and decorative features of every architectural style, from China's Temple of Heaven and the Great Mosque of Damascus, to the Guggenheim museum and the London Olympic Velodrome. Architecture offers a truly worldwide look at historical and contemporary building, with breathtaking photography, intriguing cross-sections, and unique CGI artwork. Now fully updated, this stunning new edition covers contemporary architecture and green buildings, with incredible new photography to transport you to the most interesting and iconic buildings on earth. Previous edition ISBN 9781405310291 ,
Growing numbers of us work not only from home, but from anywhere; job flexibility has become a key requirement for employers and workers alike. This, in turn, has created new challenges for architects and designers many of whom themselves start out working from home who are tackling demand head on with innovative solutions that allow clients to transform their spaces to suit a wide range of needs, from multifunctional studios to homes that seamlessly combine work and family life. Divided into five thematic sections, this book explores the exciting variety of ways that the workplace can be integrated into the domestic environment. From stand-alone multifunctional furniture to mobile room dividers and dynamic solutions that fold out or pop up to create new work areas, each design addresses the unique needs of the space, client and working practices for which it was required, and tackles new questions about the rapidly evolving relationship between work and domestic life in the 21st century. This es
This book presents a total of 44 individually designed summer villas and saunas in Finland. Representing the best of recent Finnish summer home and sauna architecture, each site is presented in detail through photographs, plans, and text by the architects themselves. Harri Hautaj rvi's fascinating text discusses the history and trends of villa and sauna architecture and life, as well as the challenges of sustainable development to holiday-home buildings of the future.
The new student edition of the definitive architecturalreference For seventy–five years, Architectural Graphic Standards hasbeen the go–to reference for architects, builders, and engineers.Revised for the first time since 2000, Architectural GraphicStandards, Student Edition gives students their own handyresource. Carefully abridged from the Eleventh Edition of ArchitecturalGraphic Standards, this Student Edition features the same richlydetailed graphics and text that have made Architectural GraphicStandards a classic, but updated and reorganized in a way that isrelevant to today′s student. Thousands of illustrations and a richindex offer immediate access to hundreds of architectural elements,while the wide variety of topics covered makes this work relevantthroughout a student′s architecture education and into the earlystages of professional practice. With a wealth of information for the student preparing forprofessional practice, this new edition: Covers building standard
The Case Study House program (1945 1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom. Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture American and international both during the program's existence and even to this day. This compact guide includes all projects featured in our XL version, with over 150 photos and plans and a map of where all houses are (or were) located.
The Pantry Its History and Modern Uses Catherine Seiberling Pond Photographs by Steve Gross and Sue Daley The Pantry ponders the history, return and rebirth of the kitchen pantry. With a nod toward the philosophy "a place for everything and everything in its place," author and historian Catherine Seiberling Pond delves into the past, present, and future possibilities of this important room, and finds ways to incorporate a pantry into any home. Topics include: Food storage solutions What to put in your pantry How to choose the right materials Design and layout of the pantry Display and decor tips How to display dishes and collections Pantries are one of the most requested features being built into today's homes.
Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors serves as the essential reference for designers preparing interiorconstruction documents, explaining how to do a new construction,remodeling, or installation project. In a highly visual format, thebook covers drafting fundamentals and conventions; drawing types,plans, and schedules; and computer-aided design (CAD). Withexpanded coverage of the preparation and communication ofconstruction documents in digital formats, drawing interiorperspectives, and more, the text also serves as an invaluable studyreference for the contract documents section of the NCIDQ exam. Anew companion Web Site supplies template grids for schedules andcontract documents for practice exercises.?
If you are an architect, this book is a useful reference toyour desired needs; if Uou are an voracious educator or a studentinvolved with architecture, this is a great source book for yourstuduy if you are on insightful businessman,you may hope to knowwhat elements in a shopping mall environment mau promote morebenefit; and if you are a cultured man, you are likelu to wonder,after going through a historu of almost fifteen centuries, sincethe first mall Souq AI Hamdia was built in Old Damascus, what arethe modern shopping malls like.
What is contemporary architecture?Can we specify any set offormal or ideological characteristics which could describebuildings of our epoch?Over time it becomes increasingly difficultto assing all trends occurring globally or even locally to onecoherent ideological or stylistic phenomenon.Emergingtheories,instead of crystaliizing,are constantly evolving,rapidlygaining popularity,to disappear just as quickly.Architecture ismore and more like a fashion_the popularity on the buioding'sfunction,architectural,geographical or cultural context or projectsbudget architects are often applying very different designstrategies.
This practical foundation course in architectural design offers key advice on the principles, practice and techniques of the subject. Dealing with much more than just the technical aspects of drawing, it introduces the reader to the visual language of architecture, encouraging them to think spatially and question the built environment. All architecture students, and anyone interested in the creative side of architecture, will find this book an invaluable tool and reference.