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The See-Through House
'A charming account of a daughter, a house and a fastidious dad' Sunday Times
Shelley Klein grew up in the Scottish Borders, in a house designed on a modernist open-plan grid. With colourful glass panels set against a forest of trees, it was like living in a work of art. Her father, Bernat Klein, was a textile designer whose pioneering colours and textures were a major contribution to 1960s and 70s style.
Thirty years on, Shelley moves back home to care for her father, now in his eighties: the house has not changed and neither has his uncompromising vision - or his distinctive way of looking at the world. Told with great tenderness and humour, this is Shelley's account of looking after an adored yet maddening parent and a piercing portrait of the grief that followed his death.
'A sad, funny, utterly fascinating book about families, home and how to say goodbye' Mark Haddon
'Original, moving and bracingly honest... often hilarious' Blake Morrison, Guardian
'It is strange that grief should produce such a life-affirming book, but it has. Read it for the solace it contains, or for its captivating descriptions. Either way, it's a delight' Telegraph
Contemporary Wood Buildings
Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered by new manufacturing techniques and ecological benefits, wood has seen a fabulous resurgence in contemporary construction.
This book explores how architects around the world have created and invented with this elementary material. Featuring follies, very large buildings, and ambitious urban renewal schemes, it celebrates the diverse deployment of wood by architects around the world. We see how wood can at once transform urban spaces, as in the Metropol Parasol in Seville by Jurgen Mayer H., and allow for sensitive interventions in natural environments, such as at the Termas Geometricas Hot Springs Complex in Pucon, Chile, by German del Sol.
True to all TASCHEN architecture titles, the book pays tribute to many emerging international talents as well as to such renowned figures as Tadao Ando and Renzo Piano. It celebrates each architect's vision and innovation, as well as investigating the techniques, trends, and principles that have informed their work with wood. It examines the computer-guided milling that has allowed for novel new forms, the responsible harvesting that allows wood to align with our environmental concerns, and, above all, wood's enduring appeal to our senses and psyche, comforting hectic modern lives with a sense of Arcadian simplicity.
Architecture Today - Pools
An architect's guide to swimming pools, garden pools and other flat surface water features.
This book offers ideas, inspiration and advice based on the most recent projects of 30 leading architects and landscape designers around the world. Over 500 inviting colour photos illustrate the many options from spectacular "infinity-edge" pools to attractive garden pools.
Valuable advice is included on site selection, materials, financing and more. This gorgeous compilation is beautifully printed, and exquisitely designed. Ann essential volume not only for architects and landscapers but also for designers, design and architecture practices, students, university libraries, real estate companies & developers, manufacturers and furniture designers, product designers, public and private institutions, large and local retailers, architecture & design bookstores, museum bookstores and individual non-professional readers with an interest in architecture, pools and home gardens.
High On... Exhibition Design
Exhibition design is the process of conveying information through visual storytelling and environment. It is an integrated, multidisciplinary process that often combines architecture, interior design, graphic design, multimedia and technology, lighting, audio and other disciplines to create multilayered narratives around a theme or topic.
High On...Exhibition Design presents around 30 designers, architects and advertising agencies with their latest trade fair, cultural and social exhibition projects. From generously designed exhibition stands at motor shows or furniture fairs to smaller conferences, trade shows and temporary displays for businesses, museums, libraries and art galleries, the book presents a wide range of different presentation approaches.
Curbing Traffic
In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherlands. They had packed up their family in Vancouver, BC, and moved to Delft to experience the cycling city as residents rather than as visitors. A year earlier they had become unofficial ambassadors for Dutch cities with the publication of their first book Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality.
In Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett chronicle their experience living in the Netherlands and the benefits that result from treating cars as visitors rather than owners of the road. They weave their personal story with research and interviews with experts and Delft locals to help readers share the experience of living in a city designed for people.
In the planning field, little attention is given to the effects that a "low-car" city can have on the human experience at a psychological and sociological level. Studies are beginning to surface that indicate the impact that external factors, such as sound, can have on our stress and anxiety levels. Or how the systematic dismantling of freedom and autonomy for children and the elderly to travel through their cities is causing isolation and dependency.
In Curbing Traffic, the Bruntletts explain why these investments in improving the built environment are about more than just getting from place to place more easily and comfortably. The insights will help decision makers and advocates to better understand and communicate the human impacts of low-car cities: lower anxiety and stress, increased independence, social autonomy, inclusion, and improved mental and physical wellbeing.
The book is organised around the benefits that result from thoughtfully curbing traffic, resulting in a city that is: child-friendly, connected, trusting, feminist, quiet, therapeutic, accessible, prosperous, resilient, and age-friendly.
Planners, public officials, and citizen activists should have a greater understanding of the consequences that building for cars has had on communities (of all sizes). Curbing Traffic provides relatable, emotional, and personal reasons why it matters and inspiration for exporting the low-car city.
Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra-Thin
In Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin, Matthew Soules issues an indictment of how finance capitalism dramatically alters not only architectural forms but also the very nature of our cities and societies. We rarely consider architecture to be an important factor in contemporary economic and political debates, yet sparsely occupied ultra-thin "pencil towers" develop in our cities, functioning as speculative wealth storage for the superrich, and cavernous "iceberg" homes extend architectural assets many stories below street level. Meanwhile, communities around the globe are blighted by zombie and ghost urbanism, marked by unoccupied neighborhoods and abandoned housing developments.
Learn how the use of architecture as an investment tool has accelerated in recent years, heightening inequality and contributing to worldwide financial instability:
* See how investment imperatives shape what and how we build, changing the very structure of our communities
* Delve into high-profile projects, like the luxury apartments of architect Rafael Vinoly's 432 Park Avenue
* Understand the convergence of technology, finance, and spirituality, which together are configuring the financialized walls within which we eat, sleep, and work
Includes dozens of photos and drawings of architectural phenomena that have changed the way we live. Essential reading for anyone interested in architecture, design, economics, and understanding the way our world is formed.
Ecological Buildings
In contrast to a decade ago, when ecological architecture was considered a luxury, it has now become essentially impossible to build without considering sustainability issues. Aspects of ecological balance have become an important part in the planning and construction process. In recent years, a canon of standard methods and possibilities has emerged to achieve this goal of environmentally friendly architecture. However, there are architects whose ideas and techniques for sustainable buildings go beyond the standards that have now been established such as the LEED rating system and are sometimes also mandatory. This publication discusses such new and innovative solutions for ecological construction. The author presents projects from all over the world that stand out from the standard measures and concepts and point the way to the future.
Chihuly and Architecture
Internationally acclaimed artist Dale Chihuly's site-specific installations in the form of architectural commissions and exhibitions.
Forty years of Dale Chihuly's spectacular site-specific glass installations are captured in this large-format publication examining architectural commissions, temporary art installations, and museum exhibitions around the world. Chihuly's installations on walls, windows, ceilings, stairways, courtyards, and fountains are closely examined. Chihuly and Architecture explores entire rooms and galleries, glasshouses and castles, and travels from the canals of Venice to the Citadel in the Old City of Jerusalem, providing rare insight into Chihuly's inspiration and global footprint.
Good Energy
Good Energy delivers a declaration that renewable energy can be beautiful, affordable, and easy to implement. Jared Green highlights 35 case studies from around the world, featuring a wide array of designs
and building types that achieve good energy, good design, and excellent cost-efficiency. Single-family homes, townhouses, community
spaces, schools, offices, and even power plants demonstrate that relying on solar, wind, and geothermal energy doesn't have to cost more. Each inspiring design harmonizes nature, technology, and democratic space and
shows that renewable energy can be appealing and accessible to everyone.
An interview with Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University
professor of civil and environmental engineering and cofounder of the Solutions Project, discusses pathways to 100-percent renewable energy
around the globe through good design.
Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances
From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances argues for the city as a socialist project. Combining memoir, history, portraits of particular places and things, Hatherley argues for those who have tried to create and imagine a better modernity, both in terms of architecture, such as Zaha Hadid or Ian Nairn, in terms of the urban space, like Jane Jacobs or Marshall Berman, and the way we see the world more widely, like Mark Fisher or Adam Curtis. Together, these outline a vision of the city as both as a place of political argument and dispute, and as a space of everyday experience, one that we shape as much as it shapes us.
Síla i budoucnost jest národu národnost
Tato kniha je výstupem projektu Architektura a česká politika v 19. 21. století, na němž tým Katedry teorie a dějin umění UMPRUM pracuje od roku 2018. Autoři nechtěli mapovat politickou architekturu českých zemí v 19. století, nýbrž zkoumali různé podoby interakcí architektury a politiky. Zajímalo je, jak architektonické formy reprezentovaly ideologické a sociálně-psychologické obsahy nebo jak spoluvytvářely mocenské vztahy a politické pozice. Motto v názvu knihy, jehož autorem je architekt a mecenáš Josef Hlávka, poukazuje k ústřednímu tématu svazku úloze architektury při formování moderního českého národa. Kromě toho autoři ukazují, jak monumentální architektura z pojednávaného období vyjadřovala či formovala loajalitu občanů ke státu či dynastii, jak přispívala k rozvoji demokratických institucí a občanské společnosti, případně jakou roli hrála v sociálních procesech spojených s industrializací a modernizací. Grafika Tereza Hejmová a Kristýna Žáčková. Kniha vychází v česko-anglické verzi za podpory Ministerstva kultury České republiky v rámci Programu aplikovaného výzkumu a vývoje národní a kulturní identity (NAKI II).
Architectural Styles
Gothic, Romanesque, Modernist, Metabolist... The variety of styles through architectural history can be bewildering. Whether it be a Gothic crocket or a simple Modernist join, this book illustrates all the key architectural styles from around the world using beautiful, specially commissioned drawings to identify key features and details.
It begins with the earliest styles of the ancient civilizations - Egypt, Greece and Rome - before travelling through Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque and into the modern world via the panoply of 19th century revivalist styles. Also covered is the traditional architecture of China, India, Japan and Pre-Columbian America. A final section gathers together key architectural elements from different periods - columns, towers, doorways, windows.
Filled with hundreds of drawings by an expert architectural illustrator, this book is ideal for anyone with a general interest in architecture as well as for students.
Gio Ponti
To study Gio Ponti's prolific body of work is to appreciate the clear, unifying vision behind a complex creative universe. A synthesis of the arts, his creations expand intuitively with the Italian grandeur and studied lightness that defined his iconic style. Ponti's rare capacity to move seamlessly between scales allowed him to approach the design of a teaspoon with the same conviction as he did an entire city. He was as much an architect and designer as he was a publisher, poet, and man. A treasure in its own regard, his contribution is also a distinctive landmark of Italy's mid-century Renaissance and the modernist values it sought to realize.
This new book is the most comprehensive account of Ponti's work to date, unprecedented in scale and scope. It tracks the development of his oeuvre over 6 decades, with 136 projects indexed and reproduced in high resolution, each object framed by the context in which Ponti had created it. Like windows onto his elusive life, unpublished materials and candid imagery create new dialogues between his famous masterpieces and his lesser-known feats. A rich layer of texts, featuring an extensive biographical essay by Stefano Casciani, was produced in close collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archives offering an intimate insight on his life's work. Materializing Ponti's core philosophy of modernity, this book presents architecture as a performing object, a "self-illuminating" stage for his humanistic art de vivre and boundless creativity.
High On... Scandinavian Architects
Scandinavian design is a movement characterised by simplicity, minimalism and functionality that emerged in the early 20th century, and subsequently flourished in the 1950s throughout the five Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland.
Scandinavian designers are known especially for household goods including furniture, textiles, ceramics, lamps, and glass, but Scandinavian design has been extended to be an influential movement in architecture and industrial design.
High On...Scandinavian Architects presents twenty-eight architects from Scandinavia with their latest projects from the areas of residential, commercial and public buildings. Whether large or small, sharp-edged or soft, coarse or fine, the architecture depicted in this volume is characterised by the iconoclastic flair of Scandinavia.
Budapest katolikus templomépítészete a két világháború között
Fabó Beáta, a könyv szerzője így vall munkájáról: "Ránézünk egy emberre és valamilyen benyomásunk keletkezik róla, csinos, okos, buta, semmilyen, vagy van kisugárzása. Amikor elkezd beszélni magáról, megismerjük a hátterét, a gondolatait, feltárul a világ, amely egy kimondott szó mögött rejtőzik. Kiléphetünk a sztereotípiákból, és sokkal árnyaltabb képet kapunk róla, jót vagy rosszat, de gazdagot.
Így van ez a két világháború közötti templomépítészet világával is. Ha megismerjük a meg nem valósult gondolatokat, a finomságokat és főleg a miérteket, akkor sokkal közelebb kerülhet hozzánk ez a templomépítészeti korszak. Nem jobb vagy rosszabb lesz a képünk róla, hanem árnyaltabb, ezáltal szerethetőbb."
A kötet mögött hatalmas levéltári és egyéb forrásfeltáró munka áll. A levéltári iratanyag közelsége Fabó Beáta számára lehetővé tette eddig kevésbé vagy egyáltalán nem kutatott irategyüttesek szisztematikus átnézését. Munkájában kiemelten foglalkozik a születendő templomok tervezési hátterével, az épületek elhelyezésével, városképben elfoglalt szerepével, a tervező megválasztásával, a stílus és anyag választásának okaival, az elhúzódó döntések hátterével. A szerző egyik fő célja volt, hogy a nagyszámú terv-és képanyag egyesítve, egy helyen megtalálható legyen. A kitűzött célt sikerült elérni: a tartalmában és kivitelezésében is impozáns kötet átfogó képet ad a két világháború közötti katolikus templomépítészetről, alapmunkának fog számítani a korszak egyházi építészetének kutatásához.
The Great Builders
The Great Builders surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of architectural innovation make for a survey of spectacular scope and depth: from churches and fortresses to bridges and high-tech skyscrapers, it includes masterpieces from all over the world and covers 700 years of architectural history.
Here is Brunelleschi, who built the 'unbuildable' dome of Florence Cathedral; Sinan, a Christian engineer who became chief architect to the Ottoman court; Joseph Paxton, scribbling down a design for the Crystal Palace, London, on a piece of blotting paper; and James Bogardus, an early American evangelist of the opportunities offered by cast-iron architecture.
Rapid advances in industrial production inspired experiments with new materials and techniques, gradually allowing a whole new architecture to emerge: reinforced concrete, plate glass and steel were central to the creations of Le Corbusier, Auguste Perret and Mies van der Rohe, for instance; and, in the High-Tech architecture of the present day - represented by Norman Foster, Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava, among others - computer-aided design has seemingly tested the boundaries of the possible.
Introduction to Architectural Technology
Understanding the relationship between design and technology is critical to the understanding of architecture. This book clearly explains the core aspects of architectural technology: structural physics, structural elements and forms, heating, lighting, environmental control and computer modelling. The third edition includes six new case studies, more on structural types, new information on construction detailing, passive building principles and designing for different climatic conditions. This essential introduction to architecture will help students to integrate their design thinking with the appropriate structural and environmental solutions.
The Architecture of Yemen and Its Reconstruction
First published in 2007, The Architecture of Yemen was the first book to offer an in-depth investigation into the characteristic architecture of country and the result of nearly two decades of research. This new, revised edition includes drawings, documentation and information on the building and reconstruction projects carried out from 2008 to 2014 at locations in Hadrumat and Dawan. Moving beyond the major cities, Salma Samar Damluji explores the architecture of regions that could be said to be the last strongholds of traditional Arab architecture. The Architecture of Yemen and its Reconstruction features a wealth of insights from both the master builders and home owners and contains photographs and surveyed drawings of many locations that are now extremely difficult to visit. It also examines in detail building techniques and methods little known outside of Yemen and includes well-known UNESCO World Heritage Sites as well as remarkable buildings from less-visited areas. Praise for The Architecture of Yemen Historians, planners and architects will find much useful detail in The Architecture of Yemen and the general reader much charm in the beguiling photos. In addition, those concerned by the rash of more recent and hasty development will find some hope for the inspiration of a new generation of master builders in Yemen and the Gulf.
Current World Archaeology
Vizionáři architektury
Tento jedinečný průvodce představuje 75 nejvýznamnějších světových architektů 20. století prostřednictvím jejich fascinujících osobních příběhů a významných děl.
Najdete v něm hlavní myšlenky a stavby duchovních otců moderní architektury jako Antoni Gaudí, Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier a Louis Kahn, až po dílo současnějších architektů jako Oscar Niemeyer, Kenzó Tange, Alison a Peter Smithsonovi, Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid a mnohých dalších.
Toto je priestor venovaný fascinujúcemu svetu stavebných diel, dizajnu a konštrukcie. Kategória kníh o architektúre vás zavedie do sveta, kde sa stretávajú funkčnosť, estetika a inovácia, aby vytvorili unikátne a pôsobivé stavby.
V tejto kategórii nájdete rôzne aspekty architektúry, vrátane historických pamiatok, moderných stavieb, urbanistického plánovania a dizajnu interiérov. Tu môžete objaviť rozmanité štýly a prístupy k architektonickému návrhu, ktoré odrážajú nielen funkčné potreby, ale aj kultúrne, sociálne a estetické hodnoty.
Od majstrovských diel starovekých kultúr po súčasné inovatívne konštrukcie, kategória architektúry vám umožní preskúmať rôzne éry a technológie, ktoré formujú vývoj stavebného umenia. Taktiež tu nájdete informácie o slávnych architektoch a ich prínose k architektúre.
Táto kategória je ideálna pre všetkých, ktorí majú záujem o architektúru ako umeleckú formu, ale aj o praktické a technické aspekty stavieb. Nech už máte záľubu v historických budovách, súčasných inováciách alebo budúcnosti urbanistického plánovania, kategória architektúry vám otvorí dvere do fascinujúceho sveta konštrukcie a návrhu.
