Building from Waste
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This is a conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource for architectural, interior, and industrial design. The inventory ranges from marketed products to advanced research and development, organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials. A product(...)
Engineering Structures
September 2015
Building from Waste
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This is a conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource for architectural, interior, and industrial design. The inventory ranges from marketed products to advanced research and development, organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials. A product directory presents all materials and projects according to their functional uses.
Engineering Structures
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How does one reintegrate old textile mills into the fabric of a community? At a former Leipzig cotton-spinning mill (now the site of the Federkiel Foundation), a group of architects, critics, preservationists, city planners, and artists (among them Anne Dressen and Philipp Oswalt) convened to discuss the conversion of industrial space into cultural gathering place.(...)
How architecture can think socially
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How does one reintegrate old textile mills into the fabric of a community? At a former Leipzig cotton-spinning mill (now the site of the Federkiel Foundation), a group of architects, critics, preservationists, city planners, and artists (among them Anne Dressen and Philipp Oswalt) convened to discuss the conversion of industrial space into cultural gathering place. Chapters here cover P.S.1 in New York and MASS MoCA.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Lofts are open, diaphanous spaces that are often located in old industrial buildings. Conversions of these rooms tend to expose the framing system and installations and to conserve the structure's original manufacturing aspect. The project collected in this book involve flexible dwellings that adapt to the functional needs of their users, and at the same time, permit a(...)
Minimalist lofts - lofts minimalistas
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Lofts are open, diaphanous spaces that are often located in old industrial buildings. Conversions of these rooms tend to expose the framing system and installations and to conserve the structure's original manufacturing aspect. The project collected in this book involve flexible dwellings that adapt to the functional needs of their users, and at the same time, permit a varied domestic use of their rooms.
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March 2001, Madrid
Residential Architecture
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New York is an exciting book dedicated to one of the world's most fascinating and vibrant cities. Lavishly illustrated this architectural overview documents both the historical development and the future prospects of New York. Throughout New York you will find a wide range of projects which demonstrate every aspect of the city's construction, including commercial,(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
February 2001, West Sussex
New York
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New York is an exciting book dedicated to one of the world's most fascinating and vibrant cities. Lavishly illustrated this architectural overview documents both the historical development and the future prospects of New York. Throughout New York you will find a wide range of projects which demonstrate every aspect of the city's construction, including commercial, residential, industrial and public buildings, as well as transportation and landscape works.
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February 2001, West Sussex
Architecture since 1900, Europe
Susanne Kriemann: Duskdust
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Duskdust is an artist book by Susanne Kriemann. It takes as its starting point the former industrial site of limestone mining at Furilden peninsula on the northeastern coast of Gotland, Sweden’s biggest island. It is informed by the artist’s ongoing preoccupation with photography, labor, and archaeology and includes photographs taken during her residencies and site(...)
Susanne Kriemann: Duskdust
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Duskdust is an artist book by Susanne Kriemann. It takes as its starting point the former industrial site of limestone mining at Furilden peninsula on the northeastern coast of Gotland, Sweden’s biggest island. It is informed by the artist’s ongoing preoccupation with photography, labor, and archaeology and includes photographs taken during her residencies and site visits, archival material as well as text contributions by invited authors.
Photography monographs
Bruno Munari: Total artist
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Bruno Munari’s artistic experimentation gave rise to a plethora of creative activities, ranging from drawings to designs, collages, paintings, sculptures, readable and not-so-readable books, new image reproduction techniques, industrial design, editorial graphics, architecture and new pedagogical ideas. 'Bruno Munari Total Artist' is the printed edition that accompanies(...)
Bruno Munari: Total artist
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Bruno Munari’s artistic experimentation gave rise to a plethora of creative activities, ranging from drawings to designs, collages, paintings, sculptures, readable and not-so-readable books, new image reproduction techniques, industrial design, editorial graphics, architecture and new pedagogical ideas. 'Bruno Munari Total Artist' is the printed edition that accompanies the exhibition on show at Museo Ettore Fico in Turin from 16 February to 11 June 2017.
Design Monographs
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From posters to cars, design is everywhere. While we often discuss the aesthetics of design, we don't always dig deeper to unearth the ways design can overtly, and covertly, convince us of a certain way of thinking. 'How Design Makes Us Think' collects hundreds of examples across graphic design, product design, industrial design, and architecture to illustrate how design(...)
How design makes us think: and feel and do things
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From posters to cars, design is everywhere. While we often discuss the aesthetics of design, we don't always dig deeper to unearth the ways design can overtly, and covertly, convince us of a certain way of thinking. 'How Design Makes Us Think' collects hundreds of examples across graphic design, product design, industrial design, and architecture to illustrate how design can inspire, provoke, amuse, anger, or reassure us.
Graphic Design and Typography
The plan 100
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Tycoons of the architecture international scene as well as new young talents discovered by the Committee of The Plan are presented through images and technical drawings showing the transformation from design to realisation. A deep presentation of architectural materials produced by the industry is proposed through this colourful journal. Alongside the in-depth(...)
The plan 100
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Tycoons of the architecture international scene as well as new young talents discovered by the Committee of The Plan are presented through images and technical drawings showing the transformation from design to realisation. A deep presentation of architectural materials produced by the industry is proposed through this colourful journal. Alongside the in-depth architecture articles, new design and in particular practical industrial design, features.
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Dust is a poetic meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages. Examining a thousand years of Western civilization—from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases— Dust offers a story of the(...)
Dust: a history of the small & the invisible
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Dust is a poetic meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages. Examining a thousand years of Western civilization—from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases— Dust offers a story of the genesis of the microcosm.
Architectural Theory
Lumière, light, licht
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Light is the central design element concerning our perception and has the power to change the mental state we are in. Light is equally elementary for life as are water and air. The industrial developments of the past few years have made possible amazing light and lamp designs. This volume illustrates the many new possibilities as well as giving some practical examples of(...)
Lumière, light, licht
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Light is the central design element concerning our perception and has the power to change the mental state we are in. Light is equally elementary for life as are water and air. The industrial developments of the past few years have made possible amazing light and lamp designs. This volume illustrates the many new possibilities as well as giving some practical examples of how to apply light.