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This volume focuses on one of Mumbai’s and India’s perennial and most daunting questions: mass housing. 'How to Build an Indian House' documents, analyses and represents robust examples of different housing types in the city. Along with documentary drawings and photographs, architect Sameep Padora developed a series of analytical models in order to understand spatial(...)
How to build an Indian house: the Mumbai example
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This volume focuses on one of Mumbai’s and India’s perennial and most daunting questions: mass housing. 'How to Build an Indian House' documents, analyses and represents robust examples of different housing types in the city. Along with documentary drawings and photographs, architect Sameep Padora developed a series of analytical models in order to understand spatial organization and infrastructure in residential building typologies.
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''Escapology: modern cabins, cottages and retreats'' is a book of modern-day retreats - bucolic weekend escapes by the sea, remote getaways in the woods, and rustic mountain hideouts - to inspire peaceful and quiet living. The authors genuinely believe that cabin time has a remarkably positive impact on our health, wellbeing and our happiness. Whether it's a rustic(...)
Escapology: modern cabins, cottages and retreats
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''Escapology: modern cabins, cottages and retreats'' is a book of modern-day retreats - bucolic weekend escapes by the sea, remote getaways in the woods, and rustic mountain hideouts - to inspire peaceful and quiet living. The authors genuinely believe that cabin time has a remarkably positive impact on our health, wellbeing and our happiness. Whether it's a rustic cottage nestled deep within a Nordic forest, a robust mountain lodge in Montana, a breathtaking treehouse in Canada, or a steel-walled, one-room "hotel" in Denmark, these retreats share one vital aspect in common: they proffer the chance to escape and to and live in harmony with nature, far from the madding crowd. Part style bible and lifestyle manual, the book features a collection of classic and contemporary cottages and cabins, each accompanied by an informative design profile and photographed images. You'll find relevant information about different types of dwelling styles, builds, sustainability/off-grid living, tiny homes, renovation on a budget, room zonings, decor and everything in between.
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Sustainable homes
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This book presents a selection of eco-houses and sustainable homes built according to what is feasible today in terms of sustainable architecture that respects the environment. It shows us what ecological alternatives are available to standard building design and construction. Once considered architectural curiosities, these houses - built in a way that respects the(...)
Sustainable homes
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This book presents a selection of eco-houses and sustainable homes built according to what is feasible today in terms of sustainable architecture that respects the environment. It shows us what ecological alternatives are available to standard building design and construction. Once considered architectural curiosities, these houses - built in a way that respects the environment - actually lay the foundations of tomorrow's regular construction and the building legacy that we bequeath to our children and grandchildren with which they feel at home and where enjoying a healthy and sustainable environment is the norm.
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''Living in nature'' showcases a selection of architect-designed houses that have something fundamental in common: a special relationship with the natural world. Each of the book's 50 homes is carefully chosen for its stunning location, whether cocooned within the earth itself or soaring high amongst treetops, surrounded by cooling waters, or resisting the desert heat.(...)
Living in nature: contemporary houses in the natural world
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''Living in nature'' showcases a selection of architect-designed houses that have something fundamental in common: a special relationship with the natural world. Each of the book's 50 homes is carefully chosen for its stunning location, whether cocooned within the earth itself or soaring high amongst treetops, surrounded by cooling waters, or resisting the desert heat. With a wealth of photographs showcasing each house inside and out, ''Living in nature'' offers inspiration — and tranquillity.
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The era of moving to the suburbs is coming to an end. Instead, a growing movement of city dwellers are looking for grand architectural solutions in the smallest of spaces. Slender, slim, and tall structures are soaring in the limited land available, offering innovative solutions to a world with ever-growing urbanization. 'Vertical Living' is an introduction to the(...)
Vertical living: Compact architecture for urban spaces
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The era of moving to the suburbs is coming to an end. Instead, a growing movement of city dwellers are looking for grand architectural solutions in the smallest of spaces. Slender, slim, and tall structures are soaring in the limited land available, offering innovative solutions to a world with ever-growing urbanization. 'Vertical Living' is an introduction to the architecture and interior masterminds using skillful, clever design to conquer compact living wherever there is space. As we continue to expect more of our flats and houses, unexpected approaches are necessary for the future of our urban spaces.
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L'Homme et sa maison
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Figure pionnière et incontournable de la géographie française, Pierre Deffontaines publie ce texte majeur en 1972, peu de temps avant sa mort.Le géographe a alors dans ses bagages de « voyageur actif » d'innombrables lectures, carnets de terrain et dessins sur le vif; de quoi nourrir abondamment plusieurs monographies régionales mais, surtout, donner corps à cet ambitieux(...)
L'Homme et sa maison
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Figure pionnière et incontournable de la géographie française, Pierre Deffontaines publie ce texte majeur en 1972, peu de temps avant sa mort.Le géographe a alors dans ses bagages de « voyageur actif » d'innombrables lectures, carnets de terrain et dessins sur le vif; de quoi nourrir abondamment plusieurs monographies régionales mais, surtout, donner corps à cet ambitieux volume sur la diversité des hommes au prisme de leur « marque essentielle » : la maison.De branchages ou de pierre, souterraines ou dominantes, bourgeoises ou agraires, groupées ou dispersées… les habitations des cinq continents sont ici répertoriées dans un souci d'exhaustivité et de description méthodique. Toutes spécifiques et adaptées à leur milieu, elles apparaissent sous la plume de ce passionné comme des structures dont la trame répond aux exigences d'ordre physique, économique et symbolique de leurs occupants.Sous-tendu par la conscience d'une uniformisation progressive de l'habitat et de la fin annoncée des modes de vie traditionnels, ce travail de synthèse s'entend comme une entreprise de recueil des principales empreintes humaines avant que ne s'éteigne un monde séculaire.Mais outre un précieux témoignage historique teinté d'ethnographie, les pages illustrées de ce classique de la géographie humaine recèlent entre leurs lignes un enseignement remarquable; une leçon magistrale sur la science, sinon l'art, de l'attentive observation.« La maison est le reflet de la vie des hommes, de leur effort physique, de leur pensée, de leur état social, de leur degré d'évolution. » Pierre Deffontaines
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Contemporary house India
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India has a long, diverse history of remarkable architecture. This stunning overview of contemporary residential architecture in India features over twenty houses from across the country, designed by leading firms such as Samira Rathod Design Associates and Architecture Brio, as well as emerging architects such as Martand Khosla. Beginning with a helpful essay,(...)
Contemporary house India
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India has a long, diverse history of remarkable architecture. This stunning overview of contemporary residential architecture in India features over twenty houses from across the country, designed by leading firms such as Samira Rathod Design Associates and Architecture Brio, as well as emerging architects such as Martand Khosla. Beginning with a helpful essay, ''Contemporary house India'' is divided into four thematic chapters, each opening with a contextual introduction. Included with each featured home are detailed drawings and plans, specially commissioned photographs of the interiors and exteriors by leading architectural photographer Edmund Sumner, and accompanying text based on interviews with the architects by author Rob Gregory. Gregory places the selected homes in a global context, including the fascinating legacy of major modern architects such as Le Corbusier’s work in Chandigarh, India.
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The Monocle book of homes
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Good homes are places where lives unfold, families grow up, dogs jump on sofas, and friends share meals. They’re also spaces to find some solitude—a quiet corner to read a book or have a Saturday afternoon nap. Homes need to do it all—they sustain you, inspire you, and tell your story through architecture, design, and collections. Monocle has always celebrated everything(...)
The Monocle book of homes
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Good homes are places where lives unfold, families grow up, dogs jump on sofas, and friends share meals. They’re also spaces to find some solitude—a quiet corner to read a book or have a Saturday afternoon nap. Homes need to do it all—they sustain you, inspire you, and tell your story through architecture, design, and collections. Monocle has always celebrated everything that makes a space a home when covering residences—whether featuring a city hideaway, a modernist seaside residence, or a summer outpost in a forest. The Monocle team brings this all together in one volume that explores individual homes, housing projects old and new, communities of self-builders, even whole neighborhoods where a simple philosophy of building well has created quality of life for many. "The Monocle book of homes" is packed with great photography that delivers the bigger picture and the smallest details alongside fascinating essays full of advice by key thinkers, writers, and designers. As we spend more time at home than ever, this is a book that could change how you live.
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Habiter la nature
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Cette publication présente 60 maisons construites entre le milieu du XXe et aujourd’hui, conçues pour entretenir un lien privilégié avec la nature. Les habitations sélectionnées offrent des vues exceptionnelles sur une infinie variété de paysages naturels, se fondent dans leur environnement ou encore utilisent des matériaux et des formes directement issus du paysage(...)
Habiter la nature
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Cette publication présente 60 maisons construites entre le milieu du XXe et aujourd’hui, conçues pour entretenir un lien privilégié avec la nature. Les habitations sélectionnées offrent des vues exceptionnelles sur une infinie variété de paysages naturels, se fondent dans leur environnement ou encore utilisent des matériaux et des formes directement issus du paysage environnant. Chaque maison est imaginée comme un lieu de vie unique : les habitants sont invités à vivre en communion avec l’espace extérieur, qu’il s’agisse de forêts, de montagnes, de lacs, de déserts ou d’océans.
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This book explores contemporary apartments not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through its most innovative 20th-century exemplars, from the urbane blocks of Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage in Paris, to the landscaped housing estates of Weimar Germany(...)
Building community: new apartment architecture
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This book explores contemporary apartments not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through its most innovative 20th-century exemplars, from the urbane blocks of Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage in Paris, to the landscaped housing estates of Weimar Germany and the visionary schemes of Le Corbusier. The heart of the book features 38 recent and ongoing projects, designed by leading international studios and rising talents. Buildings range from social housing and micro apartments to ‘vertical villages’, megastructures and luxury high-rises. Each project is considered for the way in which it enriches the lives of residents and the city, and is shown through drawings and photographs, taken from the street and within. The book also includes interviews with such contemporary masters of apartment design as Michael Maltzan, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Édouard François and Bjarke Ingels. As our cities grow more crowded, it is critical that we produce large-scale buildings that enhance the lives of their inhabitants, their surroundings and the urban environment as a whole. Building Community offers dozens of proven successes to designers and apartment-dwellers.