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This book explores the theories, practices, and principles of new approaches to solar architecture that foster both design excellence and low-energy use. In response to the challenges of global warming and climate change, design and technology enable architects to achieve greater performance standards while at the same time developing an environmental aesthetic.
Towards zero-energy architecture: new solar design
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This book explores the theories, practices, and principles of new approaches to solar architecture that foster both design excellence and low-energy use. In response to the challenges of global warming and climate change, design and technology enable architects to achieve greater performance standards while at the same time developing an environmental aesthetic.
Green Architecture
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This publication features 50 residential case studies from around the world; all are accompanied by full details, models, sketches, and diagrams, allowing a closer look at their conception and construction.
The new modern house: redefining functionalism
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This publication features 50 residential case studies from around the world; all are accompanied by full details, models, sketches, and diagrams, allowing a closer look at their conception and construction.
Residential Architecture
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Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern concrete architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 49 of the most recently completed and influential concrete designs for both residential and commercial architecture. Each project is(...)
Contemporary Architecture
October 2012
Detail in contemporary concrete architecture
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Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern concrete architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 49 of the most recently completed and influential concrete designs for both residential and commercial architecture. Each project is presented with color photographs, site plans, and sections and elevations, as well as numerous construction details. There is also descriptive text, detailed captions, and in-depth information for each project. A CD-ROM contains all the drawings as printed in the book, in both EPS and DWG (generic CAD) formats.
Contemporary Architecture
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This book presents 40 of the most recently completed and influential landscape designs. Each project is presented with color photographs, site plans and sections as well as numerous consistently styled construction details. Intended for architects, engineers and landscape architects, the book will also be invaluable for architecture, garden and landscape design students,(...)
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Detail in contemporary landscape architecture
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This book presents 40 of the most recently completed and influential landscape designs. Each project is presented with color photographs, site plans and sections as well as numerous consistently styled construction details. Intended for architects, engineers and landscape architects, the book will also be invaluable for architecture, garden and landscape design students, for whom it will be a resource not only for understanding the work of the best contemporary landscape architects, but also as a tool for their own design work.
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Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in the development of contemporary residential architecture. Featuring many of the world's most highly acclaimed architects, the book presents more than 50 of the most recently completed and influential house designs. For each house there are(...)
Detail in contemporary residential architecture
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Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in the development of contemporary residential architecture. Featuring many of the world's most highly acclaimed architects, the book presents more than 50 of the most recently completed and influential house designs. For each house there are color photographs, plans of every floor, sections and elevations as well as numerous consistently styled construction details. The book also features in-depth information for each project.
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The style of the Stedelijk
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The recent reopening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, saw the inauguration of a spectacular new edifice as well as a new style of museum. The Style of the Stedelijk is a fascinating account of the Museum’s unique relationship with graphic design and its search for a new visual identity.
The style of the Stedelijk
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The recent reopening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, saw the inauguration of a spectacular new edifice as well as a new style of museum. The Style of the Stedelijk is a fascinating account of the Museum’s unique relationship with graphic design and its search for a new visual identity.
Industrial Design
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This volume features more than 40 recent international projects where the lighting is the defining design feature. Each project includes detailed plans, diagrams, sketches, and CAD visuals to demonstrate the lighting techniques involved. A CD includes technical drawings from the book.
Detail in contemporary lighting design
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This volume features more than 40 recent international projects where the lighting is the defining design feature. Each project includes detailed plans, diagrams, sketches, and CAD visuals to demonstrate the lighting techniques involved. A CD includes technical drawings from the book.
Materials and Lighting
Rietveld's chair
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In this book, art historian Marijke Kuper investigates the birth, reception and use of Gerrit Rietveld’s world-famous red-and-blue De Stijl chair, an icon of Dutch design and modernism. Kuper’s account – which includes copious new research – is richly illustrated and includes an overview of all known existing examples of the chair. In the accompanying documentary,(...)
Rietveld's chair
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In this book, art historian Marijke Kuper investigates the birth, reception and use of Gerrit Rietveld’s world-famous red-and-blue De Stijl chair, an icon of Dutch design and modernism. Kuper’s account – which includes copious new research – is richly illustrated and includes an overview of all known existing examples of the chair. In the accompanying documentary, directed by the book’s designer, Lex Reitsma, furniture restorer Jurjen Creman reconstructs the lost first version of the chair, and Professor Erik A. de Jong recalls how his grandparents used their Rietveld furniture in the 1920s.
Industrial Design
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This is not the end of the book : a conversation curated byJean-Philippe de Tonnac
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Critical Theory
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Collective commissions are not a new phenomenon in the Netherlands. While in the twentieth century these were mainly idealistic, small-scale initiatives like communes, today motivations are also economic. 'DASH' presents contemporary and historic examples of projects developed under collective commissions, in the Hetherlands and beyond.
Building together: the architecture of collective private commissions
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Collective commissions are not a new phenomenon in the Netherlands. While in the twentieth century these were mainly idealistic, small-scale initiatives like communes, today motivations are also economic. 'DASH' presents contemporary and historic examples of projects developed under collective commissions, in the Hetherlands and beyond.
Collective Housing