Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation examines the effects of this transformation on the architectural discipline and explores how architects have critically integrated procedural thinking into their drawing process.
A penchant for experimentation, transparency and sculptural presence are the salient features of the buildings of Gus Wüstemann, who has offices in Zurich and Barcelona. Text in English and German.
This beautifully illustrated large-format monograph reveals how multi-disciplinary architectural firm 212box has crafted and designed the interiors of a luxurious and bespoke penthouse suite in Houston, Texas.
The office FAZ architectes was founded in Geneva in 2016 by Véronique Favre and Tanya Zein. Its diverse projects always relate to the context and sustainability. In that sense, the atmospheric poetry of the details plays a key role. Text in English and German.
Design-Build Studios in Latin America asks questions about what matters in the present-day training and practice of architecture if we want our discipline to play a leading role in the ecological and social challenges of our time.
Kategorier: Arkitektur Arkitektur: konstruktion och design Geovetenskap, geografi, miljö och samhällsplanering Konst Regional planering och områdesplanering Stadsplanering och kommunal planering
Approximate Translation is a poetic and practical rumination on how to incorporate what makes a city a city — stories about place, an unexpected encounter, the immediacy of experience — into practices of urban design.
This volume compiles the buildings and projects produced by Atelier Scheidegger Keller since 2009. The collection is not a traditional architectural monograph, but is instead comparable to the logbook of a ships voyage: all the particulars and the actions of the voyage are recorded here. Text in English and German.
Through selected works this monograph showcases the design work and research of leading landscape architect Richard Weller, Chair of Landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
Houses that Sugar Built explores the largely unknown architectural legacy to be found in the ancestral houses of Iloilo, Negros Occidental and Pampanga – the three main sugar-producing provinces of the Philippines. These grand residences have yet to receive international exposure.
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…
Boken ”Västra Hamnen, Minnenas Mosaik: Ögonblick att bevara, att älska” är en hyllning till Västra Hamnen, området där paret Joakim och Charlotte Raboff bott i över 20 år tillsammans med dottern Elle Agnes.
Den nya boken tar betraktaren med på resan som Västra Hamnen genomfört – från industriell ödemark…
The book proposes new transdisciplinary methodologies, practices, tools, and strategies to challenge for-profit-driven urban development and the advancement of the right to the city.
Features award-winning buildings of 2020 and 2021 in Austria by Austrian and international architects. Text in English and German.
The first book to offer a deep insight into Novosibirsk’s Paper Architecture movement and a comprehensive survey of this fascinating form of late Soviet-era speculative architecture from the Siberian metropolis, lavishly illustrated with material from formerly inaccessible archives.
Kategorier: Arkitektur Arkitektur: bostadshus Arkitektur: konstruktion och design Konst Särskilda arkitekter och arkitektfirmor
Lifestyle Architecture is a dedication to the work and process of Affiniti Architects which showcases their fluidity of design.
Kategorier: Arkitektur Arkitektur: bostadshus Geovetenskap, geografi, miljö och samhällsplanering Konst Regional planering och områdesplanering Särskilda arkitekter och arkitektfirmor Stadsplanering och kommunal planering
The book features 12 built works and 15 projects on the boards. Richly illustrated, the projects elaborate on FILLAT+s unique approach to designing new destination hotels and resorts, whether building upon historic foundations or designing icons as key anchors in urban redevelopment master plans.
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.
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.
Brutalist Paris is the first thoroughly researched, English language study of Parisian brutalist architecture.
Kategorier: Arkitektur Arkitektur: konstruktion och design Arkitekturteori Konst Miljövänlig arkitektur och design Särskilda arkitekter och arkitektfirmor
The first-ever book on Lausanne-based Swiss firm Farra Zoumboulakis Associés Architectes Urbanistes, featuring three signature designs that exemplify their philosophy of sustainability and carbon neutrality. Text in French.
An inspiring book exploring all aspects of interior design in 100 engaging and beautifully illustrated entries.
Interior design is not about paint colours and accent cushions. It is an important practice that affects all our lives. This entertaining book explores the world of interior design with a snappy set of 100…
Kategorier: Arkitektur Konst Konst: teman och motiv Särskilda konstnärer Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur: allmänt
Just like architecture is spatial, there are spaces inside oneself. We construct them, move through them and let them protect us.
Abody Abode is a poignant collection of fragmentary stories and architectural spaces are both memories of emotions and made-up moments. The outcome is a modest but also rebellious anthology…
Boken Resan till Frihamnen – från dröm till verklighet handlar om Frihamnskyrkan och dess unika utformning. Men den handlar framför allt om den resa som Smyrnaförsamlingen med sina 3 300 medlemmar gjort från Haga till Frihamnen. Ingen lång resa i rummet. Men i tid! Från de förstahändelserna 2008 till invigningen…
How can we understand the design of interior spaces in prisons, forensic psychiatric hospital and special residential youth homes? These spaces are unfamiliar to most people, though we have “visited” prison cells and patient rooms through documentaries and films. For some reason we tend to take the design of them for…