Hundreds of homes are shown to illustrate an inspiring variety of shutters and awnings found throughout the United States. This unique and rich collection of color imagery provides an opportunity to compare designs and installations. Exterior shutters include traditional Colonial forms, decorative and operational…
A dry-stack stonewall is a project that almost anyone can build, and it will last well over a century if built correctly. Like most projects, knowing all of the steps involved is critical to ensure a safe and solid job. This book provides thorough, step-by-step procedures for three projects using stones of various…
New Orleans was a melting pot of Spanish and French culture, in a climate that forced a uniquely American architecture. More than 260 images present the wide verandahs, hipped and gabled roofs, neo-classical sensibilities, and lavish iron lacework that give this region its unique architectural character. Enter almost…
This photographic story of three dynamic neighborhoods in Philadelphia’s twenty-first ward traces the evolution of each community as defined by its architecture. From the outstanding Tudor Historic District to elegant homes near Wissahickon Avenue, East Falls is a must-see neighborhood for connoisseurs of fine…
For those interested in creating a one-of-a-kind home in a condo or apartment building, this book offers a voyeuristic peek at the way people design, construct, and accessorize these often challenging spaces. Thirty beautifully photographed projects illustrate how their designers overcame the constraints of high-rise…
What elevates a house to best-of-class status? Find out in this insider’s look at more than fifty award-winning homes designed by nearly three dozen A+ American architects. Regardless of their size or design style, the best new and remodeled homes share common traits. They deliver eminently livable space that can…
Art and especially architecture are often seen as the exclusive realm of formally trained experts. Award-winning architects Steven and Cathi House explore the other side of that reality in a part of the world that has been at the crossroads of history for thousands of years. With more than 500 photographs and…
Australia has wildly differing topographies and climates, and its best residential architecture draws on those site conditions in inventive ways. This book illustrates the strength of the country’s shift from British-influenced Georgian-style homes to more indigenous structures attuned to the land—a movement led by…
If German interior designers have a genius, it’s for mixing modern with vintage finds and timeless classics to create looks that you don’t see anywhere else in the world. Their cultural cachet is captured in the 21 projects that rose to the top of a juried residential design competition by Munich-based…
What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for Northern California by directly addressing the climate, landscape, and culture they inhabit. Whether small or large, urban or rural, luxurious or low budget, these resilient outdoor…
What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens
designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for arid Southern California by directly addressing the climate, landscape, and
culture they inhabit. Whether small or large, urban or rural, luxurious
or low budget, these resilient outdoor…
The core idea for this book is the use of operative verbs as tools for designing space. These operative verbs abstract the idea of spatial formation to its most basic terms, allowing for an objective approach to create the foundation for subjective spatial design. Examples of these verbs are expand, inflate, nest,…
Kategorier: Arkitektur Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Konst
Kolossen på Rhodos, Artemistemplet, fyrtornet på Faros – fantasieggande byggnadsverk som aldrig upphör att fascinera.
I Världens sju underverk bjuder Dick Harrison oss med till den hellenistiska världen och går till botten med varför några forntida turistmål blivit ihågkomna som underverk.
Med sin osvikliga…
The Fast Guide to Architectural Form, while staying on theoretical ground, is a very practical guide to the basic forms and shapes in architectural planning and design. The book is foremost a visual guide. The author presents sixty different architectural basic forms with both a schematic illustration and images of the…
Byggnadsanknuten offentlig konst utgör ett tydligt uttryck för det svenska välfärdssamhällets ambitioner att konsten skulle komma fler till del. Denna konst, som exempelvis kan utgöras av en takmålning, en fris på en vägg eller en skulptur i en park, har under de senaste åren i högre grad kommit att betraktas som en…
Kategorier: Arkitektur Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Konst Konst: allmänt Litteraturvetenskap och litteraturkritik
August Brunius (1879–1926) var den första professionella svenska kritikern. Tiden mellan 1902 och 1926 då Brunius var verksam är en oerhört händelserik tid i Sveriges kulturhistoria. Inom måleriet avlöstes de stora nationalromantikerna av expressionisterna; inom arkitekturen växer Det Nya Stockholm fram. Brunius är där…
Medeltidens kyrkor i Villan, Gärds och Göinge härader i Skåne och deras kvarvarande inventarier är en guide-och handbok för den som är arkeologiskt, kyrkohistoriskt och konsthistoriskt intresserad av det medeltida kyrkliga kulturarvet i området. Det är nog den första bok som behandlar dessa 79 medeltida kloster, kyrkor…
Kategorier: Arkitektur Konst Livsstil, hobby och fritid Lokalhistoria Lokalhistoria, familjehistoria och nostalgi
Brutalt eller lekfullt? Tomteverkstad eller postterminal? Monotont eller storslaget?
Tomteboda lämnar ingen oberörd. Och det oavsett om vi ser huset från järnvägen eller från de många trafiklederna som omger denna megastruktur bara några stenkast från Stockholms innerstad.
Sedan början av 80-talet, när huset byggdes,…
Kategorier: Arkitektur Konst Livsstil, hobby och fritid Lokalhistoria Lokalhistoria, familjehistoria och nostalgi
Brutal or playful? Santa’s workshop or mail terminal? Monotone or monumental?
Tomteboda leaves no one unaffected. And that regardless of whether we see the building from the train or one of the many highways that surround this colossal structure just a stone’s throw from downtown Stockholm.
Since the beginning of the…
Modern, Again: The Benda House Garden in Chicagoland is equal parts a history of modern residential architecture in America and a rewarding journey of preservation and stewardship.
Kategorier: Arkitektur Biografi: allmänt Biografi: konst och underhållning Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Konst Särskilda arkitekter och arkitektfirmor
Boken skildrar Ferdinand Bobergs rika bidrag till arkitektur, design av möbler och konstföremål, etsning och akvarell. Den fördjupar bilden av den ovanliga personen, uppvuxen i Norbergs gruvsamhälle, gift med konstnären Anna Boberg.
Ferdinand Boberg stod i spetsen för det moderna genombrottet inom arkitekturen vid…
Lavishly illustrated, this monograph features 27 select homes designed and built by Polhemus Savery DaSilva, reflecting the joy of living by the New England Coast.
In Designing for Empathy, architect Aybars A?ç? puts forth a new perspective on empathy in architecture, which shifts focus toward designing emphatic spaces.
This issue of Architecture Asia reveals the development of Thailand contemporary architecture, and features five essays and twelve projects that elaborate this perspective.
Adolf Krischanitz is undoubtedly considered one of the most important representatives of the vibrant and widely regarded Viennese architectural scene in the 1980s and 1990s. Text in German.
Kategorier: Arkitektur Konst Landskapsarkitektur Särskilda arkitekter och arkitektfirmor Stadsplanering: arkitektoniska aspekter
This book is for anyone seriously interested in the forces that shape the everyday environment of our cities, towns and suburbs, be they everyday citizen, student, aspiring community leader, academician or professional in real estate, architecture, landscape architecture or city planner.
Kategorier: Arkitektur Arkitektur: offentliga byggnader Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management Konst Kontor och arbetsplatser Landskapsarkitektur
Future Offices examines the evolving nature of the office as a spatial asset. Rapid changes in culture, technology, and society have upended longstanding notions of offices and the nature of work itself.
Small footprint design that proves living better doesn’t have to mean living larger.
Following the success of their first book, the second volume of Never Too Small showcases 30 new and outstanding homes from around the world that explore small space living.
Framed by five small-footprint design principles,…
’The reigning Queen of Classics’ Spectator What are civilisations? At the heart of this big question is how people have depicted the human and divine, from prehistory to the present day. Britain’s most famous classicist Mary Beard asks: how have we portrayed ourselves in some of the world’s…
The present office in Zurich dates back to the founding of Dolf Schnebli in 1958. Through various constellations, the team has changed to its present form sam architekten with Sacha Menz as the only one of the founding partners. Text in English and German.
Det hände något stort i stockholmsförorten Björkhagen på 1950-talet då Sigurd Lewerentz Markuskyrka uppfördes. Kyrkan kom att bli mästerverket han skapade på ålders höst efter en tids overksamhet som arkitekt. Den konstnärliga friheten som rådde i det moderna kyrkobyggandet gav den gamla arkitekten nya krafter. Något…
Forty projects from Van Overstraeten, one of the oldest and most exclusive interior design companies in Belgium. Text in English, French and Dutch.
Kategorier: Arkitektur Arkitektur: bostadshus Arkitektur: palats och herrgårdar Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Konst Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
Hellekis säteri på Kinnekulles västsida, bär på många historier. Även om de tar avstamp i det lokala, är de samtidigt delar av en större berättelse. Under flera hundra år har Hellekis ägare rört sig i samhällets övre skikt, där samhällsförändringar och maktspel har påverkat deras tillvaro. Somliga har nästan aldrig…
Epitomizing Aidlin Darling Design’s commitment to creating soulful environments, this beautiful monograph illuminates the design process for High Desert Retreat, a residence tightly nestled into a constellation of boulders on a bluff overlooking the Coachella Valley in Southern California.
Kategorier: Arkitektur Arkitektur: konstruktion och design Geovetenskap, geografi, miljö och samhällsplanering Hållbar utveckling Konst Miljön Miljövänlig arkitektur och design Särskilda arkitekter och arkitektfirmor
A unique survey of design experiments undertaken by renowned Zurich and Los Angeles-based firm agps Architecture, offering illuminating insights into how architecture is thought about and made.