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Minihouse

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'Minihouse' is a showcase of more than 25 small livingspaces designed by more than 25 internationally renown architects.

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The magic of tents : transforming space

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For years, architects have enjoyed the challenge of incorporating lightweight structures -- fabrics, tents, canopies, membranes, and so on -- into their designs. Such materials are a welcome boon to architectural creativity, allowing designers to envision spaces that take innovative shapes and interact with their surroundings in ways unattainable with conventional materials. Recent years have seen an increase in the use of such structures, in part because advances in computer technology have made it easier to render and model such projects, and in part because such structures are ideally suited to today's increasing concerns about environmentalism and sustainability. The Magic of Tents showcases innovative uses of lightweight, tented structures from across the United States and around the world -- from an Arizona school to an Istanbul bank, from a Miami nightclub on the beach to a private home in Germany, from corporate headquarters in Los Angeles to offices in Oslo, and many more! The book features both residential and commercial projects, projects with both exterior and interior usages, projects where the tented element is the driving component of the design, and projects that incorporate lightweight structures to accent or address a specific need. Endlessly flexible, nurturing of creativity, cost- and energy-conscious, tented structures are an ideal means to address many concerns of modern architecture -- a creative means to not only define space, but also to transform it into something to meet all sorts of design needs, for projects both grand and small.

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Mini house

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This book represents a look at 25 small houses belonging to international architects who’ve demonstrated their ability to take full advantage of every square foot available. Projects range in size and include work like the Keenan Tower house, a home-office in New York city, the Phillips House in Chicago, the Moore Honey House in North Carolina and more.

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Designers hotels

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"Designer hotels" features 26 case studies reflecting the contemporary hotel design.

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Bars and restaurants : eat and drink around the world

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A selection of bars and restaurants that stand out for their interior design. From the restless organic forms of the new restaurant at the Georges Pompidou Center to the most radical proposal of textures and colors created by Fabio Novembre for Shu, the book presents infinite interior design solutions and pays special attention ti every detail and corner. each project illustrates how materials are used and how decorative objects are represented.

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Rematerial from waste to architecture

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This publication brings to light a movement of diverse professionals from around the world who address this fundamental theme: the reuse of materials with architectonic purpose. Though the results are as varied as the designers, all their proposals stem from the intention of giving new life to what had been thrown out. Complementing the built work shown here, the book presents a series of initiatives aimed at promoting the use of waste in architecture, and articles that illustrate a wide panorama of the contemporary recycling culture.

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Inspired by nature : animals: the building/biology connection

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A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture. Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture, and the use of animal forms in contemporary architecture—whether to endow a project with symbolism, find a functional solution, or simply for aesthetic reasons—has become a commonplace practice. Inspired by Nature: Animals focuses on specific analogies, comparing and contrasting techniques and materials used in animal constructions with examples of human architecture. It gathers together the work of two dozen architects who have drawn on such structures as tortoise and snail shells, spiders’ webs and birds’ nests, beehives and beaver lodges.

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Habitat lacustre: l'architecture du vernaculaire au contemporain

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Construire sur l'eau peut sembler une idée révolutionnaire, techniquement complexe et qui renvoie aux images futuristes de structures amphibies sophistiquées. Ce livre nous propose un double regard: d'une part, une vision analytique et synthétique de l'évolution de cette typologie dans son état vernaculaire, pour ensuite, pénétrer plus avant dans l'imaginaire des architectes et divers concepteurs qui se sont inspirés de cette architecture sur échasses pour projeter leurs constructions.

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Maisons retirées: habitat contemporain

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Vouloir construire une maison retirée fait immédiatement penser à une localisation très éloignée d'un quelconque environnement urbain. Ce livre est un outil indispensable à une époque où l'homme acquiert une nouvelle conscience de la relation à son habitat, d'autant plus que les technologies lui permettent aujourd'hui de vivre dans des lieux très reculés.

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Igloo

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Après l'exposition d'une analyse exhaustive sur la conception et le mode de construction traditionnelle de l'igloo, cet ouvrage rassemble les œuvres d'architectes, décorateurs et artistes du monde entier qui se sont servis de cette singulière coupole de neige pour concevoir certains de leurs projets. Une compilation fondamentale qui met en évidence les liens entre le vernaculaire et le design contemporain, établit une piste intéressante pour la recherche architectonique et se présente comme un hommage à une forme constructive millénaire en voie de disparition.