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The curtain wall—a non-bearing wall attached to a building's structural frame like a curtain made of metal or, more likely glass—is an omnipresent feature of contemporary architecture. Variations of pattern and color, transparency and opacity offer the architect almost limitless design possibilities, a tremendous palette for "skinning" the structural frame of buildings(...)
Curtain walls : recent developments by Cesar Pelli & Associates
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The curtain wall—a non-bearing wall attached to a building's structural frame like a curtain made of metal or, more likely glass—is an omnipresent feature of contemporary architecture. Variations of pattern and color, transparency and opacity offer the architect almost limitless design possibilities, a tremendous palette for "skinning" the structural frame of buildings from museums to skyscrapers.There are few practitioners of curtain wall design as accomplished as Cesar Pelli & Associates, and this book presents twenty of their most exemplary projects.
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The past decade has witnessed a profound transformation in European landscape architecture, away from the formal, centrally-planned garden art that hallmarks traditional European parks, toward projects, often the result of interdisciplinary cooperation between architects, artists, and landscape architects, of a more informal, almost exploratory, nature. "In Gardens"(...)
In gardens : profiles of contemporary European landscape architecture
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The past decade has witnessed a profound transformation in European landscape architecture, away from the formal, centrally-planned garden art that hallmarks traditional European parks, toward projects, often the result of interdisciplinary cooperation between architects, artists, and landscape architects, of a more informal, almost exploratory, nature. "In Gardens" examines more than thirty of the most influential recent landscape projects in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland, and from designers like Kathryn Gustafson, Dani Karavan, and Charles Jencks. In the process, this panoramic book illuminates a new paradigm of garden design in Europe and provides a fount of inspiration for landscape designers everywhere.
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La paysagiste américaine Kathryn Gustafson a acquis une renommée internationale exceptionnelle. Son travail actuel se concentre sur les espaces publics. La récente Fontaine à la mémoire de Diana, Princess of Wales, au Hyde Park à Londres, n'est qu'un exemple d'une longue liste de projets acclamés, réalisés avec ses associés chez Gustafson Porter (Londres) et Gustafson(...)
Moving horizons : les paysages de Kathryn Gustafson et Associés
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La paysagiste américaine Kathryn Gustafson a acquis une renommée internationale exceptionnelle. Son travail actuel se concentre sur les espaces publics. La récente Fontaine à la mémoire de Diana, Princess of Wales, au Hyde Park à Londres, n'est qu'un exemple d'une longue liste de projets acclamés, réalisés avec ses associés chez Gustafson Porter (Londres) et Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (Seattle), dont la Arthur Ross Terrace au American Museum of Natural History (New York), le Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek à Amsterdam, le Lurie Garden à Chicago et le Hadiqat As-Samah à Beyrouth. Les plus de trente projets internationaux présentés dans Moving Horizons illustrent le talent distinctif et éminemment artistique de Kathryn Gustafson et Associés à créer des formes sensuelles, sculpturales. Le livre présente en même temps les collaborations avec des architectes comme Norman Foster, Ian Ritchie, Mecanoo, Valode & Pistre et James Polshek. L'importance de cette œuvre a également été reconnue par de nombreux prix, comme le Chrysler Design Award, et la sélection pour l'exposition " Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape " au Museum of Modern Art de New York.
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American landscape designer Kathryn Gustafson, long one of the most respected in her field, recently garnered international acclaim with her Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, London. Moving Horizons, the first comprehensive monograph on her work, showcases her recent projects for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Millennium Garden in Chicago, the(...)
Moving horizons : the landscape architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners
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American landscape designer Kathryn Gustafson, long one of the most respected in her field, recently garnered international acclaim with her Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, London. Moving Horizons, the first comprehensive monograph on her work, showcases her recent projects for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Millennium Garden in Chicago, the Great Glass House in Wales, the Amsterdam Westergasfabriek Park, and the Garden of Forgiveness in Beirut. In total, thirty projects underline Gustafson's distinctive and highly artistic style, characterized by sensual sculptural forms that have made her the landscape designer of choice for architects like Norman Foster, Mecanoo, and Renzo Piano.
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Filled with comprehensive case studies selected from over thirty-five of Red Feather's completed housing and community-based building projects, this book documents the organization's collaboration with reservation communities and provides a step-by-step, bale-by-bale construction handbook-from initial site selection to finished product. Complete with information on(...)
Building a straw bale house : the Red Feather construction handbook
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Filled with comprehensive case studies selected from over thirty-five of Red Feather's completed housing and community-based building projects, this book documents the organization's collaboration with reservation communities and provides a step-by-step, bale-by-bale construction handbook-from initial site selection to finished product. Complete with information on safety, design, tools, and materials, it is an inspiring lesson for anybody interested in this technique of constructing a house and a hopeful redefinition of the fundamental ideas of architecture and the home. Foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall
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The first publication in a a new series entitled Source Books in Landscape Architecture focusses on Michael Van Valkenburgh's recently completed Allegheny Riverfront Park project for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As part of the city's efforts to restore its downtown district and riverfront, Van Valkenburgh, along with artists Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil, developed an(...)
Michael Van Valkenburg Associates : Allegheny Riverfront Park
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The first publication in a a new series entitled Source Books in Landscape Architecture focusses on Michael Van Valkenburgh's recently completed Allegheny Riverfront Park project for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As part of the city's efforts to restore its downtown district and riverfront, Van Valkenburgh, along with artists Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil, developed an ambitious plan to reform the wasted land along the river into an urban refuge. This collaboration between landscape architect and artists produced a thoughtful, useful, and beautiful park that has successfully renewed the city's core.
Jardins
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Some buildings are famous. Others exist simply as excellent works of architecture. Such is the case with Ohio State University School of Architecture's recently completed Knowlton Hall. Designed by the internationally respected firm Mack Scogin Merrill Elam, Knowlton manages to project both a monumental physicality and a sense of subdued elegance. "Mack Scogin Merrill(...)
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juillet 2005, New York
Mack Scogin Merrill Elam / Knowlton Hall : source books in architecture 6
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Some buildings are famous. Others exist simply as excellent works of architecture. Such is the case with Ohio State University School of Architecture's recently completed Knowlton Hall. Designed by the internationally respected firm Mack Scogin Merrill Elam, Knowlton manages to project both a monumental physicality and a sense of subdued elegance. "Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects/Knowlton Hall" provides a comprehensive look at this impressive new work using sketches, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs. As with all of the books in the "Source books in architecture series", it is accompanied by commentaries from the architects and critics who explore both the technical and contextual elements of the work.
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The mysterious world beneath the ocean's surface has captivated people for centuries - the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and ancient Chinese all kept fish in their homes for purposes other than the culinary. But it was not until the nineteenth-century invention of the aquarium that the deep was truly domesticated, offering the curiously inclined a chance to invent their very(...)
The ocean at home : an illustrated history of the aquarium
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The mysterious world beneath the ocean's surface has captivated people for centuries - the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and ancient Chinese all kept fish in their homes for purposes other than the culinary. But it was not until the nineteenth-century invention of the aquarium that the deep was truly domesticated, offering the curiously inclined a chance to invent their very own exotic sea world within their own walls. In this fascinating history of the aquarium, Bernd Brunner traces the development of this most wonderful invention, giving insight into the cultural and social circumstances that accompanied its swift rise in popularity. Brunner tells a compelling story of obsession, beauty, discovery, and delight, from the aquarium's humble origins as a tool for scientific observation to the Victorian era's elaborately decorated containers of oceanic curiosity, to the great public aquaria of the twentieth century.
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Those familiar with Nova Scotia understand the austere beauty of this Canadian landscape, with its wide open skies and rugged terrain pushing up against the Atlantic. MacKay-Lyons's work responds to this unique topography and to the vernacular building traditions that define its communities. His houses, commercial buildings, and public projects combine regional forms with(...)
Plain Modern : the architecture of Brian MacKay-Lyons
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Those familiar with Nova Scotia understand the austere beauty of this Canadian landscape, with its wide open skies and rugged terrain pushing up against the Atlantic. MacKay-Lyons's work responds to this unique topography and to the vernacular building traditions that define its communities. His houses, commercial buildings, and public projects combine regional forms with local materials, technologies, and building practices to create works that are linked to their environments right down to their DNA. Peaked gables, shed roofs, and sliding doors are inspired by local barn types; corrugated metal cladding comes from the buildings used by the area's fishing industry; structural wooden frames are based on local ship-building traditions. These elements communicate a sense of place that is sophisticated, accessible, and free of sentimentality. Novelist and historian Malcolm Quantrill weaves together an intimate portrait of MacKay-Lyons and his work, elucidating the "peculiar regionality" of his subject's architecture.
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The somethings in the water of DDD9 appear to be biography, Poland, poetry, triads, truth, repetition and the applied fantastic. With contributions from David Reinfurt, Mark and Steve Beasley, Ryan Gander, B.S.Johnson, Esther Johnson, Rob Giampietro, Sanne de Boer, goodwill, David Crowley, Klaus Stadtmüller, Robert Garnett, Rick Poynor, Chris Evans, Maria Fusco, Radim(...)
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The somethings in the water of DDD9 appear to be biography, Poland, poetry, triads, truth, repetition and the applied fantastic. With contributions from David Reinfurt, Mark and Steve Beasley, Ryan Gander, B.S.Johnson, Esther Johnson, Rob Giampietro, Sanne de Boer, goodwill, David Crowley, Klaus Stadtmüller, Robert Garnett, Rick Poynor, Chris Evans, Maria Fusco, Radim Pesko, Steve Rushton, Els Kuijpers, Alon Levin, and Roma Pas.