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A rich, fascinating saga of the most influential architectural firm of their time and of the dazzling triumvirate—Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White—who came together, bound by the notion that architecture could help shape a nation in transition. They helped to refine America’s idea of beauty, elevated its architectural practice, and set the standard on the(...)
Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White
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A rich, fascinating saga of the most influential architectural firm of their time and of the dazzling triumvirate—Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White—who came together, bound by the notion that architecture could help shape a nation in transition. They helped to refine America’s idea of beauty, elevated its architectural practice, and set the standard on the world’s stage. Triumvirate is a book about America in its industrial transition; about money and power, about the education of an unsophisticated young country, and about the coming of artists as an accepted class in American society.
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Contemporary prefab houses
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This title showcases the work of architects and builders who are striving to bring design and production concepts together to embrace modernist ideals and deliver affordable designs. The challenge is to combine the need for mobility and sustainability with a building design that appeals to clients and overcomes potentially negative stereotypes that are conventionally(...)
Contemporary prefab houses
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This title showcases the work of architects and builders who are striving to bring design and production concepts together to embrace modernist ideals and deliver affordable designs. The challenge is to combine the need for mobility and sustainability with a building design that appeals to clients and overcomes potentially negative stereotypes that are conventionally associated with prefab.
Residential Architecture
Green design
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Sustainability has become one of the most important words and objectives in the last years. The modern society gains to live more conscious and to leave only a small footprint on earth. Eco-friendly and eco-friendly produced products are being hyped, especially if they are well designed. Green Design encompasses products from vastly different areas of life representing(...)
Green design
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Sustainability has become one of the most important words and objectives in the last years. The modern society gains to live more conscious and to leave only a small footprint on earth. Eco-friendly and eco-friendly produced products are being hyped, especially if they are well designed. Green Design encompasses products from vastly different areas of life representing different aspects of environmentally friendly and sustainable design. This book presents around 100 products that are not only Green, but also Design: beautiful and functional everyday objects that qualify through certain principles of environmental sustainability. These include environmentally friendly resources, production and disposal, sustainability via a long life cycle, energy efficient or energy self-sufficient use as well as fair production.
Green Architecture
Low price houses
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This volume presents 60 projects from around the globe. Unconventional building methods and forms are combined to create unusual structures that suit a limited budget and are of good value, compared with other similarly-sized structures in the same country.
Low price houses
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This volume presents 60 projects from around the globe. Unconventional building methods and forms are combined to create unusual structures that suit a limited budget and are of good value, compared with other similarly-sized structures in the same country.
Residential Architecture
Vers un nouvel habitat
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Quinze expériences pour un habitat durable sont décrites ici par ceux qui les ont menées : des femmes et des hommes qui ont fait le choix d'un habitat respectueux de l'Homme et de l'environnement. Ils sont maîtres d'ouvrage, architectes, habitants propriétaires ou locataires. Ils nous expliquent avec enthousiasme et vérité leurs motivations, leurs solutions, leurs(...)
Vers un nouvel habitat
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Quinze expériences pour un habitat durable sont décrites ici par ceux qui les ont menées : des femmes et des hommes qui ont fait le choix d'un habitat respectueux de l'Homme et de l'environnement. Ils sont maîtres d'ouvrage, architectes, habitants propriétaires ou locataires. Ils nous expliquent avec enthousiasme et vérité leurs motivations, leurs solutions, leurs compromis, leurs réussites et leurs petits tracas. Ils nous entraînent au coeur de la vie dans des maisons, des appartements, une crèche et un bâtiment de bureaux éco-construits. On y parle de matériaux sains, d'économie d'énergie, de produits locaux, de mobilité douce, de qualité de vie.
Green Architecture
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A travers leurs réflexions, leurs projets et leurs réalisations, architectes, urbanistes, designers, ingénieurs, économistes, élus, promoteurs, sociologues, philosophes... répondent aujourd'hui à toutes ces interrogations pour habiter demain.
Habiter demain: de l'utopie à la réalité
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A travers leurs réflexions, leurs projets et leurs réalisations, architectes, urbanistes, designers, ingénieurs, économistes, élus, promoteurs, sociologues, philosophes... répondent aujourd'hui à toutes ces interrogations pour habiter demain.
Experimentale architecture
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The Edible City considers how one city eats. It includes dishes on peaches and poverty, on processing plants and public gardens, on rats and bees and bad restaurant service, on schnitzel and school lunches. There are incisive studies of food-safety policy, of feeding the poor, and of waste, and a happy tale about a hardy fig tree. Together they form a picture of how(...)
The edible city: Toronto's food from farm to fork
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The Edible City considers how one city eats. It includes dishes on peaches and poverty, on processing plants and public gardens, on rats and bees and bad restaurant service, on schnitzel and school lunches. There are incisive studies of food-safety policy, of feeding the poor, and of waste, and a happy tale about a hardy fig tree. Together they form a picture of how Toronto - and, by extension, every city - sustains itself, from growing basil on balconies to four-star restaurants.
Architecture in Canada
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This book presents and analyses the career of architect Carlos Ferrater since the creation of his new studio called OAB (Office of Architecture in Barcelona). With the arrival of young architects to the team, the activity of OAB is not only deployed in the execution of construction projects, but how it is also complemented and enriched by going into depth in other fields(...)
OAB: Carlos Ferrater and partners
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This book presents and analyses the career of architect Carlos Ferrater since the creation of his new studio called OAB (Office of Architecture in Barcelona). With the arrival of young architects to the team, the activity of OAB is not only deployed in the execution of construction projects, but how it is also complemented and enriched by going into depth in other fields such as teaching and academic research. OAB draws on the collaborative nature of Carlos Ferrater’s previous studio, incorporating new ways of understanding the contributions of each team member to generate richer, more varied, and flexible projects. Their most relevant projects are the Beach Promenade in Benidorm, the Mandarin Hotel, the Zaragoza-Delicias Station, House A and Roca Barcelona Gallery, among many others. Recent works and projects presented by means of extensive photoreportages, plans, drawings and QR codes which link the printed matter and the digital world.
Architecture Monographs
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This book is the report of Antoni Muntadas's intervention in Mies van der Rohe Pavilion: the project introduces the invisibility of the archive through its olfactory presence: the archive, as well as all the documents about the project. The mediatic role of the Pavilion and knowledge of it through writings, the press and bibliography, which has reached so many people, led(...)
Muntadas: on translation: paper BP/MVDR: intervention in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
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This book is the report of Antoni Muntadas's intervention in Mies van der Rohe Pavilion: the project introduces the invisibility of the archive through its olfactory presence: the archive, as well as all the documents about the project. The mediatic role of the Pavilion and knowledge of it through writings, the press and bibliography, which has reached so many people, led Muntadas to another type of olfactory proposal.
Architecture Monographs
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The Hawkins\Brown architectural firm in London, was founded in 1988 by Roger Hawkins and Russell Brown. The spectrum of the firm's works ranges from residences and interior design by way of office buildings and various public buildings such as theaters and university buildings all the way to urban planning, such as designs for squares and subway stations.
Ideas exchange: The collaborative studio of Hawkins\Brown
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The Hawkins\Brown architectural firm in London, was founded in 1988 by Roger Hawkins and Russell Brown. The spectrum of the firm's works ranges from residences and interior design by way of office buildings and various public buildings such as theaters and university buildings all the way to urban planning, such as designs for squares and subway stations.
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