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Ce volume est un précis de mise en oeuvre et de restauration d'enduits traditionnels largement revalorisés en protection de façade depuis quelques années. Sains, esthétiques et performants, compatibles avec la plupart des supports, ces enduits sont des incontournables des chantiers d'éco-construction. Voici donc, un guide qui s'intéresse tant au matériau qu'à l'outil, au(...)
Green Architecture
November 2011
Les enduits de façade: chaux, plâtre, terre
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Ce volume est un précis de mise en oeuvre et de restauration d'enduits traditionnels largement revalorisés en protection de façade depuis quelques années. Sains, esthétiques et performants, compatibles avec la plupart des supports, ces enduits sont des incontournables des chantiers d'éco-construction. Voici donc, un guide qui s'intéresse tant au matériau qu'à l'outil, au geste, à l'entretien et à la réfection, et dans lequel vous trouverez des formulations très précises des mortiers d'enduit et des couches de finition, ainsi qu'une décomposition minutieuse de chaque étape de mise en oeuvre.
Green Architecture
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Twenty-five recent residential projects from around the United States take the concept of “green living” to the next architectural level. Going beyond the simple use of sustainable materials, these houses are designed to frame a very particular vision of nature for their owners that brings them as close as possible to nature while remaining indoors. Featured are(...)
Nature unframed: At home in the landscape
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Twenty-five recent residential projects from around the United States take the concept of “green living” to the next architectural level. Going beyond the simple use of sustainable materials, these houses are designed to frame a very particular vision of nature for their owners that brings them as close as possible to nature while remaining indoors. Featured are dynamic designs by today's most energetic architectural firms including ARO, Tod Williams/Billie Tsien, Diller Scofidio + Renfro as well as up-and-coming smaller firms. Houses vary in scale, complexity, and site to give a broad survey of the potential of this cutting-edge approach.
Residential Architecture
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A revised and updated edition of this comprehensive volume dedicated to Wright’s only plantation design. Although Frank Lloyd Wright designed more than 1,000 projects during his long and prolific career, Auldbrass Plantation, in Yemassee, South Carolina, is the only plantation he ever designed. With a recently completed restoration and new photography, this book affords a(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2011
Auldbrass: Frank Lloyd Wright's souther plantation
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A revised and updated edition of this comprehensive volume dedicated to Wright’s only plantation design. Although Frank Lloyd Wright designed more than 1,000 projects during his long and prolific career, Auldbrass Plantation, in Yemassee, South Carolina, is the only plantation he ever designed. With a recently completed restoration and new photography, this book affords a rare opportunity to see one of Wright's greatest works.
Architecture Monographs
Fallingwater 75th anniversay
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This volume commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of arguably the most significant private residence of the twentieth century. With new photography commissioned especially for this book, this volume captures the masterpiece by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright following its recent restoration. With new authoritative texts on Fallingwater’s history, structure,(...)
Fallingwater 75th anniversay
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This volume commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of arguably the most significant private residence of the twentieth century. With new photography commissioned especially for this book, this volume captures the masterpiece by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright following its recent restoration. With new authoritative texts on Fallingwater’s history, structure, restoration, and collections, including the house’s relationship to its setting and its importance to the sustainability movement; its meaning in the context of Wright’s body of work.
Architecture Monographs
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From treehouses to pre-fabs, this book delves into the concept of compact living and demonstrates the possibilities of living with less while maintaining a rich life. As sustainable architecture becomes mainstream, many architects and designers are using technology and wit to experiment with what it means to be green. The rustic treehouses, airy domes, and recycled-scrap(...)
Micro green : tiny houses in nature
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From treehouses to pre-fabs, this book delves into the concept of compact living and demonstrates the possibilities of living with less while maintaining a rich life. As sustainable architecture becomes mainstream, many architects and designers are using technology and wit to experiment with what it means to be green. The rustic treehouses, airy domes, and recycled-scrap structures are presented through photography and detailed building plans, and display a range of environmental influences.
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The hand of Palladio
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This book identifies Palladio's personal touch and pinpoints the most typical features of the architectural language he used.
Architecture Monographs
September 2008
The hand of Palladio
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This book identifies Palladio's personal touch and pinpoints the most typical features of the architectural language he used.
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September 2008
Architecture Monographs
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Chicago is famous for its role in fostering modern architecture. Now Jeanne Gang, founder of Studio Gang Architects, is giving the epithet "Chicago School" a new meaning. Her recently completed 82-story Aqua residential tower is already an icon of the Chicago skyline and has been universally hailed as a masterwork for the young firm. Reveal presents an in-depth look at(...)
Studio Gang Architects: Reveal
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Chicago is famous for its role in fostering modern architecture. Now Jeanne Gang, founder of Studio Gang Architects, is giving the epithet "Chicago School" a new meaning. Her recently completed 82-story Aqua residential tower is already an icon of the Chicago skyline and has been universally hailed as a masterwork for the young firm. Reveal presents an in-depth look at the firm's unique work and working process through drawings, diagrams, sketches, and photographs that illuminate the evolution of each of the book's eight featured projects, both public and private, and ranging in size from exhibition to high-rise.
Architecture Monographs
Alvar Aalto houses
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This book presents twenty-six of Aalto's innovative residences--from small summer homes and postwar standardized housing to large housing complexes for industrial commissions--built between the 1920s to the 1960s.
Alvar Aalto houses
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This book presents twenty-six of Aalto's innovative residences--from small summer homes and postwar standardized housing to large housing complexes for industrial commissions--built between the 1920s to the 1960s.
Architecture Monographs
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House in the Landscape offers a viable alternative for landowners who want to build in a more thoughtful manner. Twenty-two houses by some of today's best-known residential architects illustrate nine site types from all over the United States. Each site, the issues it posed, the solutions the architects found, and the resulting house design are discussed and explained in(...)
House in the landscape: Siting your home naturally
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House in the Landscape offers a viable alternative for landowners who want to build in a more thoughtful manner. Twenty-two houses by some of today's best-known residential architects illustrate nine site types from all over the United States. Each site, the issues it posed, the solutions the architects found, and the resulting house design are discussed and explained in detail, providing siting information.
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The architectural detail
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Edward Ford's forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two influential books, numerous articles, and lectures given from Vancouver to Vienna, there is one question Ford has never answered: 'What is a detail?' Ford walks the reader through five widely accepted and wildly different definitions(...)
The architectural detail
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Edward Ford's forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two influential books, numerous articles, and lectures given from Vancouver to Vienna, there is one question Ford has never answered: 'What is a detail?' Ford walks the reader through five widely accepted and wildly different definitions of detail, in an attempt to find, for once and for all, the quintessential definition of detail in architecture. After shuffling through the history of architecture, he finally reaches a conclusion.
Architectural Theory