Homes in Japan
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The first comprehensive study on contemporary Japanese houses designed by established and emerging architects alike. Featuring a collection of homes designed by the main contemporary Japanese architects, this indispensable volume explores the country’s new architectural trends. This book demonstrates the ability of Japan’s leading young architects to express an intrinsic(...)
Homes in Japan
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The first comprehensive study on contemporary Japanese houses designed by established and emerging architects alike. Featuring a collection of homes designed by the main contemporary Japanese architects, this indispensable volume explores the country’s new architectural trends. This book demonstrates the ability of Japan’s leading young architects to express an intrinsic union with the elements of nature through the language of architecture.
Residential Architecture
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Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century architecture, the skyscraper, Chicago also cultivated a more humble but no less consequential form of modernism--the private residence. ''Modern in the middle: Chicago houses 1929-75'' explores the substantial yet overlooked role that Chicago and its suburbs played in the development of the modern single-family(...)
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June 2020
Modern in the middle: Chicago houses 1929-1975
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Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century architecture, the skyscraper, Chicago also cultivated a more humble but no less consequential form of modernism--the private residence. ''Modern in the middle: Chicago houses 1929-75'' explores the substantial yet overlooked role that Chicago and its suburbs played in the development of the modern single-family house in the twentieth century. In a city often associated with the outsize reputations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the examples discussed in this illustrated book expand and enrich the story of the region's built environment.
Residential Architecture
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The election, in 1979, of a Conservative administration led by Margaret Thatcher effectively marked the end of Britain’s heroic era of social housing provision. Over the next four decades, successive governments put faith in the private sector’s capacity to build homes in the numbers Britain needs. Consistently, that faith proved unfounded. The resultant housing shortfall(...)
Project interrupted: lectures by British housing architects
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The election, in 1979, of a Conservative administration led by Margaret Thatcher effectively marked the end of Britain’s heroic era of social housing provision. Over the next four decades, successive governments put faith in the private sector’s capacity to build homes in the numbers Britain needs. Consistently, that faith proved unfounded. The resultant housing shortfall has sent property prices rocketing beyond the reach of younger people, and led to record levels of homelessness and rough sleeping. At a moment when Britain is finally beginning to confront the enormity of its housing crisis, ''Project Interrupted'' asks what we can learn from the experiences of a previous generation and hears from some of the most ambitious architects working in the field of housing today about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Residential Architecture
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Grâce aux innovations en design et en technologie, les cabanes dans les bois d’autrefois prennent aujourd’hui la forme de véritables trésors architecturaux. Havres de paix en forêt, huttes haut de gamme protégées par des sommets enneigés, retraites lovées au cœur d’îles isolées : cet ouvrage réunit des maisons de partout au monde, avec plus de 400 photos et illustrations(...)
Habitats naturels: architectures de la déconnexion
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Grâce aux innovations en design et en technologie, les cabanes dans les bois d’autrefois prennent aujourd’hui la forme de véritables trésors architecturaux. Havres de paix en forêt, huttes haut de gamme protégées par des sommets enneigés, retraites lovées au cœur d’îles isolées : cet ouvrage réunit des maisons de partout au monde, avec plus de 400 photos et illustrations d'architecture autonome.
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Cet ouvrage révèle l’incroyable diversité et la richesse de la création architecturale en matière d’habitat, présentant à la fois des icônes de l’architecture moderne et des innovations récentes en matière de technologie de construction, de matériaux ou d’utilisation de l’espace.
Maisons : architectures d'exception
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Cet ouvrage révèle l’incroyable diversité et la richesse de la création architecturale en matière d’habitat, présentant à la fois des icônes de l’architecture moderne et des innovations récentes en matière de technologie de construction, de matériaux ou d’utilisation de l’espace.
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44 Low-resolution houses
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"44 Low-resolution Houses" presents a series of houses through a double technological and representational-aesthetic lens. All 44 houses collected here fall into one or more of the following categories of low-resolution: first, houses that vaguely resemble houses, using familiar low-res house elements like pitched roofs, chimneys, windows, doors, porches, etc.; second,(...)
44 Low-resolution houses
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"44 Low-resolution Houses" presents a series of houses through a double technological and representational-aesthetic lens. All 44 houses collected here fall into one or more of the following categories of low-resolution: first, houses that vaguely resemble houses, using familiar low-res house elements like pitched roofs, chimneys, windows, doors, porches, etc.; second, houses that appear to be constructed in a low-res manner, in that one can see the construction, joints, and materials, and have a sort of cheap unfinished quality; and third, houses that are composed of low-res organization with basic geometric primitives squares, circles, and triangles arranged in a non-compositional or abstract manner. By these using these terms, low-resolution is in contrast to high-resolution architectural sophistication, gestural complex curvature, bodily organic figuration, and architectural paradigms focused on seamlessness and integrated smoothness. "44 Low-resolution Houses" was exhibited at Princeton University School of Architecture from 09/11/2018 to 11/09/2018. The exhibition catalog was edited by Michael Meredith, with a foreword by Dean Mónica Ponce de León. It was designed by MOS and Studio Lin, with photographs by Michael Vahrenwald/Esto.
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They come in all shapes and sizes, and somehow the phenomenon is especially prevalent in Switzerland: homemade cat ladders. Taking the city of Berne as an example, photographer Brigitte Schuster shows the variety of ways humans facilitate the comings and goings of their feline friends in the context of the surrounding architecture. From a simple wooden plank to complex,(...)
Arcatecture: Swiss cat ladders
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They come in all shapes and sizes, and somehow the phenomenon is especially prevalent in Switzerland: homemade cat ladders. Taking the city of Berne as an example, photographer Brigitte Schuster shows the variety of ways humans facilitate the comings and goings of their feline friends in the context of the surrounding architecture. From a simple wooden plank to complex, scaffold-like constructions rising up to four storeys in a zigzag fashion, they express sociological, architectural, and aesthetic peculiarities, which are further developed in accompanying texts. As such, the book serves as both a guideline and source of inspiration in creating your own cat ladders.
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De Londres à Casablanca, en passant par Singapour, Sidney ou San Francisco, l’architecture doit prendre en compte les réalités de l’environnement et de la population. Les grands principes du modernisme sont ainsi adaptés aux différents climats, aux densités urbaines, aux usages locaux. La maison individuelle en ville est un terrain d’expérimentation pour les architectes.(...)
Atlas mondial des maisons contemporaines
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De Londres à Casablanca, en passant par Singapour, Sidney ou San Francisco, l’architecture doit prendre en compte les réalités de l’environnement et de la population. Les grands principes du modernisme sont ainsi adaptés aux différents climats, aux densités urbaines, aux usages locaux. La maison individuelle en ville est un terrain d’expérimentation pour les architectes. Les questions d’intimité, de luminosité et d’occupation de l’espace sont au cœur des réalisations présentées dans cet ouvrage.
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International in scope, the book is an A to Z of ideas for the twenty-first century, from a pavilion in Argentina to a forest house in New Zealand, all designed to have minimal architectural traces--made with local materials that harmonize with the surrounding environment. An outdoor care retreat outside Oslo provides space where visitors can benefit from the therapeutic(...)
Into the woods: retreats and dream houses
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International in scope, the book is an A to Z of ideas for the twenty-first century, from a pavilion in Argentina to a forest house in New Zealand, all designed to have minimal architectural traces--made with local materials that harmonize with the surrounding environment. An outdoor care retreat outside Oslo provides space where visitors can benefit from the therapeutic qualities of nature; a residence in Tottori, Japan, adapts with the changing seasons; a treehouse in Cape Town uses cylindrical towers that are elevated on stilts, offering views among the trees; and in Quebec, three geodesic domes were designed as part of an eco-tourism project to highlight the area's natural beauty. Each house is paired with photographs and plans.
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March 2020
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A-Frame. Second edition
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The heyday of the national A-frame craze saw tens of thousands of these easy and affordable structures built as vacation homes, roadside restaurants, churches, and even pet stores. A-frame chronicles America's love affair with the A-frame, from postwar getaway to its recent revival among designers and DIYers. In a fascinating look at this architectural phenomenon, Chad(...)
A-Frame. Second edition
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The heyday of the national A-frame craze saw tens of thousands of these easy and affordable structures built as vacation homes, roadside restaurants, churches, and even pet stores. A-frame chronicles America's love affair with the A-frame, from postwar getaway to its recent revival among designers and DIYers. In a fascinating look at this architectural phenomenon, Chad Randl tells the story of the triangle house, from prehistoric Japan to its lifestyle-changing prime in the 1960s as a symbol of play, leisure, and outdoor living. Part architectural history and part cultural exploration, the book documents every aspect of A-frame living with cartoons, ads, high-style and do-it-yourself examples, family snapshots, and an appendix with a complete set of blueprints in case you want to build your own.
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