Frame Publishers

How can the discipline of architecture be used as a human-centred practice? Crafting Character presents architecture as a spatial dialogue and an exchange between character and audience, book and reader, building and city in a series of fourteen cinematic vignettes. Fourteen cinematic vignettes highlight projects as personified characters that have their own histories, dreams, secrets and stories to tell. Each vignette emphasises this relational culture and the practice of Chybik + Kristof in working with the common bonds within a space as being more important than any individual arguments and divisions within it. The first monograph of the Brno-based studio, this volume marks an exciting collaboration between Chybik + Kristof, Lukas Kijonka and ExLovers Studio, Adrian Madlener and Frame Publishers. With a passion for experimentation from all parties, the resulting pages stand apart from traditional monographs. From the design to the prose, the values of relationality and human-centric approaches are imbued in the pages, creating a cinematic reference guide to the practice of Chybik + Kristof.

The Healthy Indoors candidly addresses the increasing need for spaces designed to serve multiple and diverse uses while promoting a culture of wellbeing and innovation. Health, wellbeing and comfort have become critical priorities in carving new spaces. Addressed through the use of carefully selected materials, systems and design strategies, these considerations are now widely implemented to augment the structures we inhabit, from our homes and workplaces to shops and healthcare centres. The Healthy Indoors will provide a cleverly guided survey of projects that have successfully put the occupants' physical and mental health at the center of their design. Laying claim to significance beyond that of aesthetics, the 50+ case studies selected for this book will be thoroughly presented in a way that will appeal to both professionals and enthusiasts alike. Find out what are the healthiest new ways to live, work and play!

Where We Learn investigates how learning spaces are evolving to be made more engaging, flexible and all-around better suited to today's challenges and opportunities. When educational spaces are designed not only to suit, but to harness the power of new learning models, they have a catalytic potential to improve the way knowledge is shared and retained. Once static, spaces where learning takes place have expanded far beyond the walls of the classroom to spill into more flexible and interactive settings. Where We Learn will offer some of the most novel insights into the design and performance of new environments that are better adapted to contemporary pedagogical practices. This book will shed light on over 50 projects worldwide, ranging from kindergartens, schools and universities to libraries, study cafes and museums. Geared towards readers interested in understanding the broader impact of design on the human experience, Where We Learn will highlight imaginative projects while remaining grounded in practical contexts and real-world settings.

As we think about the future of the office in a post-pandemic world, Where We Work provides an indispensable reference tool for interior designers, architects and companies alike. The office isn't dead. But just in what form will it live? Departing from Frame's successful The Other Office series, Where We Work explores ground-breaking workspaces, providing an indispensable reference tool for interior designers, architects and companies alike. As we think about the future of the office in a post-pandemic world, this book presents important design lessons from the modern office through a curated showcase of 51 projects by designers worldwide. These lessons are highlighted as key takeaways at the end of each of the book's four chapters: Designing for Community, Flexibility, Identity, and Wellbeing. An introductory essay explores how these four ideas - or ideals - will continue to drive the workspaces of the future.

Architecture influences the way we live and the way we live influences architecture. Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects - Architecture Is a Social Act explores these two ideas at the core of LOHA's work and shows how one informs the other. The book features 25 projects from across two decades and two continents, ranging in scope from housing projects and commercial complexes to cultural landmarks and master-planned communities. Each project demonstrates how the firm responds to the political, economic, and environmental forces that are shaping today's cities by crafting architecture that offers a sense of place and belonging in a rapidly changing world.

Online shopping and changing consumer demands radically transform the food retail industry for the first time since the introduction of the supermarket in the 1930s. After decades of stagnation, food retail is currently one of most creative fields for designers, architects and other professionals developing new formats like bio food markets, `to go' outlets and pop ups. This handbook prescribes hybridization - a fusion of supermarket and gastronomy, co-working, hospitalityor performative formats - as a powerful remedy against the digital disruption. As a result of a 3-year research with 60 students of retail design at PBSA Dusseldorf and for the first time in this field, Hybrid Food Retail offers an overview of the history, an encyclopaedic analysis of the elements and highlights the emerging trends in the food retail industry.

`Architects do not actually build buildings,' says Mikkel Frost, co-founder of Danish architecture firm CEBRA. `What we build is an idea. To visualize it, we build drawings.' The evolutionary process of how aphorisms develop into precise architectural concepts is illustrated through a collection of Frost's sketches and watercolours. Over 200 drawings are organized into 20 sections, each relating to one of CEBRA's projects. An index containing c olour photographs and renders of their works further illuminates how the drawings are translated into reality. Introducing the book, a written version of Frost's TEDx talk Let your fingers do the talking elaborates on the book's impetus: to bring a spotlight to the craft of drawing as a powerful tool for creation and communication.

Powershop 6 explores outstanding and inspirational retail destinations that are setting the direction of of contemporary industry trends. Divided into chapters illustrating key trends in the field, the 500-pages book showcases 100 projects from across the world completed in recent years. Projects are selected based on their original concept, creativity, innovative approach or the project's unmistakable wow-factor. Each project is presented on two or four pages, through an engaging explanatory text about the design, and a curated selection of stunning photography and drawings. Editorial text and interviews introduce each chapter, thereby contextualizing the themes covered by the book. An extensive index at the back of the book presents the company profile, portrait and contact details of each featured design studio.

The modern workplace has evolved from a dehumanized cubicle landscape to space designed for intelligent human life. While utility and amenity are vastly improved, wh at advances have been made in building truly creative communities that spark creativity, knowledge sharing and collaboration? Is the 21st century office performing at peak? Clive Wilkinson - The Theatre of Work proposes an intensified relationship between office users and the space they occupy. The new workspace should amplify and celebrate the activity of work and of human community, and in the process, becoming vital and compelling Theatre. In defining this new landscape, the author examines global devel opments in workplace thinking, historical antecedents, the performance touch-points for the new office, and proposes seven humanistic principles that will inform a holistic design process that can bring this concept of Theatre to fruition. Each of these principles is demonstrated through case studies of the work of his renowned design studio, Clive Wilkinson Architects (CWA), with rich iconography, diagrammatic strategy and contextual ingenuity. The outcome of this process, with its multiple performative la yers, effectively promotes elevating a corporate brief of basic needs and goals to a profoundly human-centred presentation of `work as theatre' .

Night Fever 6 unveils outstanding and inspirational destinations that are setting the direction of contemporary hospitality design. Divided into chapters illustrating key trends in the field, the book showcase s 100 hospitality interiors from across the world , on a total of 500 pages . Projects are selected based on their original concept, creativity, i nnovative approach or the project's unmistakable wow - factor. Each interior is presented in two to six pages, through an engaging explanatory text about the design and a curated selection of stunning photography and elucidatory drawings . Editorial text and interviews introduce each chapter, thereby contextualiz ing the themes covered by the book. An extensive index at the back of the book will present the company profile, portrait and contact details of each featured design studio.

In an age of digi tal predominance, One Artist, One Material celebrates the limitations and possibilities of physical materials, by means of interviews with 50 world - renowned artists about their material of choice. Over the course of their careers, many artists develop a pr eference for a particular material, allowing them to become intimately familiar with its physical possibilities and limitations. The artists who share their valuable experiences in this book include Clint Baclawski, James Bridle, Berline de Bruyckere, Jord an Eagles, Martin Huberman, Yusuke Kamata, Mark Khaisman, Jonas Lund, Jorge Otero - Pailos, John Sabraw, Philip Stearns, Hanayuishi Takaya, and Rebecca Ward. One Artist, One Material is a collection of articles that appeared in the eponymous section in Fram e magazine. Published since 2008, `One Artist, One Material' is one of the longest - running and most successful sections of the magazine. Revisiting each of these interviews for compilation into this new book, One Artist, One Material includes new material and further insights. The book also feature s the most important projects with which these establi shed creatives made their name.

Generational dialogues between 40 world-renowned creatives exploring how the creative legacy of previous generations is being reinterpreted over time. What is this phenomenon we call `legacy'? This intangible inheritance that we eventually leave for our posterity? Is it the creative and intellectual heritage that one generation passes on to the next? Conceived by Lukas Feireiss, the book at hand tries to probe this open question by engaging in critical dialogue different generations of creatives, connectors and thinkers alike. In some cases, between inherent legacy of parent and child, in many cases between mentor and students, or simply between friends. The more than 40 illustrious contributors to this dialogue derive from an array of fields of knowledge and experience. Their stories often provide very personal insights into their work and life. They also reveal a broader perspective on the overall realms of art, design, architecture, music, literature, photography and curation in the 20th and 21st century.

This book highlights outstanding and inspirational spaces that are setting the trends in creative workplace design. At its core are the 100 pioneering projects drawn from practices all over the world, each extensively illustrated with plans and visuals. Fe atured offices include ad agencies, media outfits and technology firms, ranging from compact offices and design hubs to large workplaces. This luxurious volume is an up - to - date reference tool for professionals of the commercial architecture and design comm unity, featuring cutting - edge workplace design. Office designs are presented on 4 to 6 pages, which include an in - depth description of both concept and design, project credits and stunning photography. Outlined are the challenges that designers must overcome to be able to realise more efficient, modern and - all importantly - creative working environments. This book focuses on the current trends in office design, developed with a knowledge of what is at the heart of a creative workforce and its day - to - day requirements. The Other Office 3 highlights outst anding projects and inspirational spaces from across the globe.

Happenings are very much still happening - more than enough reason to launch a sequel to our first event-themed title. In the age of social media, the event is becoming a mass-marketing campaign that targets a global audience. And its reach is far greater if it's both memorable and photogenic. Happening 2 covers over 60 stunning spectacles - from fashion shows to festivals and exhibitions to exclusive product launches - that leave lasting impressions. Events offer designers the perfect testing ground; they are ideal opportunities to experiment with spatial perception and sensory experiences. Happening 2 travels the globe to cover memorable moments by the likes of Bureau Betak, Bompas & Parr, MVRDV, Snarkitecture and TeamLab, revealing how the designers translated their concepts from page to platform. The event industry monumentalizes the fleeting, and Happening 2 does the same.

Based on the available evidence, "Spaces for Innovation" identifies the physical characteristics of offices and workspaces that are associated with high innovation potential and determine why they have an effect. A basic framework for the design of innovative environments and a practical tool in this book can be used in analysing ways to enhance physical space in the pursuit of.