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The book chronicles the thirty-year history of the evolution and development of Seaside, Florida, its global influence on town planning, and the resurgence of place-making in the built environment. Through a rich repository of historical materials and writings, the book chronicles numerous architectural and planning schemes, and outlines a blueprint for moving forward(...)
Visions of Seaside: foundation, evolution, imagination
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The book chronicles the thirty-year history of the evolution and development of Seaside, Florida, its global influence on town planning, and the resurgence of place-making in the built environment. Through a rich repository of historical materials and writings, the book chronicles numerous architectural and planning schemes, and outlines a blueprint for moving forward over the next twenty-five to fifty years. Among the many contributors are Deborah Berke, Andrés Duany, Steven Holl, Léon Krier, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Aldo Rossi, and Robert A. M. Stern.
Urban Theory
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Catapulted to fame by the international media in and around the 1980s, a loosely affiliated cadre of architects-the so-called L.A. Ten - emerged to define the future of Los Angeles architecture. In this book, architects Neil Denari, Frederick Fisher, Ming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Coy Howard, Wes Jones, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Michael Rotondi, and former associates of the(...)
L.A. [Ten]: interviews on Los Angeles architecture, 1970s-1990s
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Catapulted to fame by the international media in and around the 1980s, a loosely affiliated cadre of architects-the so-called L.A. Ten - emerged to define the future of Los Angeles architecture. In this book, architects Neil Denari, Frederick Fisher, Ming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Coy Howard, Wes Jones, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Michael Rotondi, and former associates of the late Franklin Israel offer a casual, witty, and approachable retrospective on the characters, environment, and cultural history of L.A. architecture as they remember it.
Architecture since 1900, Americas
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Contemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island’s treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn’s creative work. Through a series of remarkable and poetic reflections, vignettes, episodes, and illustrated essays,this publication distills the artist’s lifelong experience of Iceland’s natural environment.(...)
Island zombie: Iceland writings
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Contemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island’s treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn’s creative work. Through a series of remarkable and poetic reflections, vignettes, episodes, and illustrated essays,this publication distills the artist’s lifelong experience of Iceland’s natural environment. Together, these pieces offer an unforgettable exploration of the indefinable and inescapable force of remote, elemental places, and provide a sustained look at how an island and its atmosphere can take possession of the innermost self.
Compact houses
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This international survey of the latest in residential architecture proves that small is both beautiful and responsible. The houses profiled are designed to make maximum use of the smallest possible footprint in order to protect the environment. The also show that efficiency as well as beautiful, thoughtful design can be had in a tiny setting. Each project includes a case(...)
Compact houses
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This international survey of the latest in residential architecture proves that small is both beautiful and responsible. The houses profiled are designed to make maximum use of the smallest possible footprint in order to protect the environment. The also show that efficiency as well as beautiful, thoughtful design can be had in a tiny setting. Each project includes a case history describing its design challenges and how the architect overcame them, a detailed blueprint for each house, full-colour photographs of the interior and the exterior, and plans of the layout.
Residential Architecture
100 20th-Century Buildings
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This book showcases 100 standout buildings from 1914 onward, representing the very best of 20th-century British architecture. First published in 2014 and now redesigned and updated in a brand-new edition, its glorious photography is accompanied by insightful texts from a range of expert architectural writers including Alan Powers, Owen Hatherley, and Rowan Moore, along(...)
June 2024
100 20th-Century Buildings
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This book showcases 100 standout buildings from 1914 onward, representing the very best of 20th-century British architecture. First published in 2014 and now redesigned and updated in a brand-new edition, its glorious photography is accompanied by insightful texts from a range of expert architectural writers including Alan Powers, Owen Hatherley, and Rowan Moore, along with several longer essays on different aspects of the 20th-century built environment: Gavin Stamp on the inter-war decades, Elain Harwood on post-war architecture, and Timothy Brittain-Catlin on post-modernism.
Building BAST
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This little book paints a portrait of BAST, an acronym for "Bureau d'Architecture Sans Titre" (Untitled Architecture Office), through 20 identical questions asked to 20 people selected from among the clients, service providers and collaborators of the Toulouse-based agency. Through the answers, sometimes terse, sometimes prolix, grouped together and organised according to(...)
Architecture Monographs
July 2024
Building BAST
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This little book paints a portrait of BAST, an acronym for "Bureau d'Architecture Sans Titre" (Untitled Architecture Office), through 20 identical questions asked to 20 people selected from among the clients, service providers and collaborators of the Toulouse-based agency. Through the answers, sometimes terse, sometimes prolix, grouped together and organised according to a simple principle (one page, one answer), a profile of the agency emerges: positioning, method, qualities, faults... which allows us to better understand its approach, but also the environment and the crisis era in which it is embedded.
Architecture Monographs
Spacing #69: Yonge
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Yonge street very much the spine of Toronto. The city has grown up along and from it, with successive arterial roads radiating outwards like ribs. It’s a line that both divides the city, and its streets, into east and west – marking the beginning of address numbering in each direction – and that ties the city together. As it moves from the lakefront to the city’s northern(...)
Spacing #69: Yonge
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Yonge street very much the spine of Toronto. The city has grown up along and from it, with successive arterial roads radiating outwards like ribs. It’s a line that both divides the city, and its streets, into east and west – marking the beginning of address numbering in each direction – and that ties the city together. As it moves from the lakefront to the city’s northern border, Yonge evolves constantly, at each point reflecting the nature of its new environment, and so showcasing many of the different phases of our vast metropolis.
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Six different climactic zones are presented in "The Green House" : waterfront, forest and mountain, tropical, desert, suburban, and urban, as well as a section on mobile dwellings. Each chapter features a series of homes that show the diversity and possibility of sustainable design. Projects are presented with large colour images, plans, drawings, and an accompanying text(...)
Green Architecture
February 2005, New York
The green house : new directions in sustainable architecture
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Six different climactic zones are presented in "The Green House" : waterfront, forest and mountain, tropical, desert, suburban, and urban, as well as a section on mobile dwellings. Each chapter features a series of homes that show the diversity and possibility of sustainable design. Projects are presented with large colour images, plans, drawings, and an accompanying text that describes their green features and explains how they work with and in the environment. Architects included: Santiago Calatrava, Shigeru Ban, Miller/Hull, Rick Joy, Lake Flato, Kengo Kuma, Glenn Murcutt, Pugh – Scarpa, Werner Sobek, and others.
Green Architecture
The challenge of suburbia
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For an increasing number of people living in Western societies, suburbia is the primary living environment. For example, in the United States more people live in the suburbs than in cities. As a result, 75% of all new construction in the United States is in suburbia when only 5% of this is architect-designed. This new book from Architectural Design presents an(...)
The challenge of suburbia
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For an increasing number of people living in Western societies, suburbia is the primary living environment. For example, in the United States more people live in the suburbs than in cities. As a result, 75% of all new construction in the United States is in suburbia when only 5% of this is architect-designed. This new book from Architectural Design presents an opportunity for architects to rake back a large sector of the housing and construction industry. It argues that suburbia offers a far greater potential for innovation than more conventional urban milieus.
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Nick Cave: Until
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"Until" takes readers inside Nick Cave's newest work. This illustrated book takes us inside of one of his iconic sculptures with an immersive environment populated by a dazzling array of found objects, echoing some of Cave's and America's most confounding dilemmas: gun violence, racial inequality, injustice within our cities police departments, and death. An installation(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
May 2017
Nick Cave: Until
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"Until" takes readers inside Nick Cave's newest work. This illustrated book takes us inside of one of his iconic sculptures with an immersive environment populated by a dazzling array of found objects, echoing some of Cave's and America's most confounding dilemmas: gun violence, racial inequality, injustice within our cities police departments, and death. An installation diary and numerous images reveal how an idea becomes reality. "Until" also incorporates special appearances by dancers, singer/ songwriters, and poets, as well as community forums, and opportunities for public debate and engagement.
Contemporary Art Monographs