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Bricks have been in constant use for a long time. Brick is inexpensive and flexible in its use and, today, the appreciation for its versatile application, constructive qualities and eco-efficiency remains intact. This book presents selected designs through detailed descriptions accompanied by beautiful images, site and floor plans, elevations and sections. Focusing on(...)
Brick architecture: Layer by layer
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Bricks have been in constant use for a long time. Brick is inexpensive and flexible in its use and, today, the appreciation for its versatile application, constructive qualities and eco-efficiency remains intact. This book presents selected designs through detailed descriptions accompanied by beautiful images, site and floor plans, elevations and sections. Focusing on residential and interior architecture, this volume is a celebration of contemporary Brick Architecture, a great exploration of the most surprising, fascinating and inspiring recent projects.
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The book is a record of a creative quest sought by Japanese architects that researched the forgotten masterpieces of timber architecture in the early modern period of Germany. It introduces the buildings with architectural drawings and pictures taken during the research trip and vividly depicts the excitement of the trip with cartoons. Essays and discussions of the(...)
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September 2020
Holz Bau: Timber architecture
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The book is a record of a creative quest sought by Japanese architects that researched the forgotten masterpieces of timber architecture in the early modern period of Germany. It introduces the buildings with architectural drawings and pictures taken during the research trip and vividly depicts the excitement of the trip with cartoons. Essays and discussions of the meaning of architects to research are also included. The first copies were sold out immediately after release, and this expanded edition includes a new discussion with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow.
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Today the excitement in architecture derives from the tension between the need for privacy and the impulse toward community. This survey of buildings and interiors captures the multilayered experience that is engaged whenever we look out of—or into—a work of architecture. Immaterial World examines the built environment as a reflection of the terrors and pleasures of(...)
Immaterial world: transparency in architecture
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Today the excitement in architecture derives from the tension between the need for privacy and the impulse toward community. This survey of buildings and interiors captures the multilayered experience that is engaged whenever we look out of—or into—a work of architecture. Immaterial World examines the built environment as a reflection of the terrors and pleasures of exposure, information overload, and abundance of every sort. Twenty-five projects from around the world by such well-known architects as Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Morphosis, Christian de Portzamparc, Renzo Piano, and many others, are presented. These works range from complete transparency to bunkerlike opacity, depending upon who’s doing the looking and who or what is being seen.
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An original and absorbing cross-disciplinary look at the many-layered connections between architecture and engineering in the 19th century, this book will captivate anyone interested in how the style of the modern city evolved when iron became the primary building material used. Extensively illustrated with photos and schematics, this book takes the reader into the(...)
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May 2011
Before steel : the introduction of structural iron and its consequences
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An original and absorbing cross-disciplinary look at the many-layered connections between architecture and engineering in the 19th century, this book will captivate anyone interested in how the style of the modern city evolved when iron became the primary building material used. Extensively illustrated with photos and schematics, this book takes the reader into the massive social transformation and increased industrialization of Europe through the 1800s, showing how the new, formable building materials re-defined architecture.
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Cet ouvrage propose un vaste éventail de nouvelles possibilités pour la pratique architecturale. Les matériaux exposés représentent les dernières nouveautés technologiques et innovatrices. Les propriétés et les usages potentiels de chaque matériau sont expliqués à travers des photographies et des schémas qui complètent les textes informatifs. Le livre dispose également(...)
Matériaux : impact et innovation
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Cet ouvrage propose un vaste éventail de nouvelles possibilités pour la pratique architecturale. Les matériaux exposés représentent les dernières nouveautés technologiques et innovatrices. Les propriétés et les usages potentiels de chaque matériau sont expliqués à travers des photographies et des schémas qui complètent les textes informatifs. Le livre dispose également des adresses et mails de tous les fournisseurs.
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Andrew Watts and owner of the London studio newtecnic, combines two previous volumes, Modern Construction Facades and Modern Construction Roofs, into one massive tome that completely exhausts the topic of roofs and wall construction. In over 500 pages of uncoated stock, the numerous illustrations are organized into material themes: walls and roofs in metal, glass,(...)
Modern construction envelopes
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Andrew Watts and owner of the London studio newtecnic, combines two previous volumes, Modern Construction Facades and Modern Construction Roofs, into one massive tome that completely exhausts the topic of roofs and wall construction. In over 500 pages of uncoated stock, the numerous illustrations are organized into material themes: walls and roofs in metal, glass, concrete, masonry, plastic, wood and fabric, along with comparisons, methodologies and technological innovations, especially in the chapter on plastics. The volume also provides the latest techniques regarding traditional wood construction systems.
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As in architecture, fashion creates a second skin that can adapt to the human body. Depending on its programming, the skin changes. In terms of spatial organization, we can learn many things from techniques that are used by fashion designers. The book contains many visuals of the form studies between fashion, textiles, space, and architecture.
Performative geometries: Transforming textile techniques
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As in architecture, fashion creates a second skin that can adapt to the human body. Depending on its programming, the skin changes. In terms of spatial organization, we can learn many things from techniques that are used by fashion designers. The book contains many visuals of the form studies between fashion, textiles, space, and architecture.
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This publication gives product information, technical specifications, and suggestions for ways in which to use the latest materials and finishes. It also includes the names, addresses, phone numbers, and websites of suppliers — all the information needed to contact and purchase every item featured in the book.
Material world 3: innovative materials for achitecture and design
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This publication gives product information, technical specifications, and suggestions for ways in which to use the latest materials and finishes. It also includes the names, addresses, phone numbers, and websites of suppliers — all the information needed to contact and purchase every item featured in the book.
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Reviewing the use of natural light by architects in the era of electricity, this book aims to show that natural light not only remains a potential source of order in architecture, but that natural lighting strategies impose a usefully creative discipline on design. Considering an approach to environmental context that sees light as a critical aspect of place, this book(...)
The architecture of light: recent approaches to designing with natural light
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Reviewing the use of natural light by architects in the era of electricity, this book aims to show that natural light not only remains a potential source of order in architecture, but that natural lighting strategies impose a usefully creative discipline on design. Considering an approach to environmental context that sees light as a critical aspect of place, this book explores current attitudes to natural light by offering a series of in-depth studies of recent projects and the particular lighting issues they have addressed. It gives a more nuanced appraisal of these lighting strategies by setting them within their broader topographic, climatic and cultural contexts.
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This book deals with technical textiles in three sections: in the first chapter, the material is introduced with its specific properties; the second chapter deals with its uses in the areas of architecture, textile facades, solar protection, and interior design, with special attention to finishing techniques and construction principles. The third chapter illustrates the(...)
Flexible composite materials : in architecture, construction and interiors
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This book deals with technical textiles in three sections: in the first chapter, the material is introduced with its specific properties; the second chapter deals with its uses in the areas of architecture, textile facades, solar protection, and interior design, with special attention to finishing techniques and construction principles. The third chapter illustrates the various fields of application with a selection of 20 international built projects.
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