See-Through Houses explores daring and dynamic glass homes all over the world, plus examples of glass as an exciting new element of interior design. The first part of the book, Pioneers, discusses the work of the architects over the last century who embraced the potential of glass, including Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and ...
"100 of the World's Best Houses" features exciting contemporary houses from some of the greatest architects, including Hugh Newell Jacobsen (Buckwalter House), Daryl Jackson Architects (Jackson House), Glenn Murcutt (Southern Highlights House), Kisho Kurokawa (Residence), Eric Owen Moss (Lawson-Western House), Ray Kappe (Shapiro Residence), Harry ...
This work is a celebration of Beardsley's work, reproducing hundreds of examples of the artist's disturbing and unique synthesis of abstraction and reality. The book also analyzes the cultural transformations that influenced Beardsley's vision.
This text presents the work of four international architects, each of whom has combined vernacular building with the use of concrete, to create buildings that respond sensitively to their environments while functioning as symbols that transcend their immediate surroundings. The approaches of the architects featured here have allowed them to forge ...
Doorways are more than just functional divisions of space or security barriers. Throughout the ages, architects have explored the symbolic and aesthetic values of thresholds, doors and entrances. In the past architects, such as Philippe Starck and Norman Foster, have experimented with the door to create innovative interpretations of how we move ...
This yearbook continues to be a valuable resource, containing the finest architectural projects worldwide. This issue is edited by well known critic and writer, Cathy Slessor, and contains some of the most stunning and adventurous work that has been built in the last 18 months.
Eco-Tech seeks to combine nature and technology in an architecture that plays one off the other. This book features 40 representative examples of the style, including the "Western Morning Post" headquarters in England, distinguished by its distinctive nautical and animal imagery.
Provides an insight into staircases found in homes, galleries, shops, hotels and offices across the world. Construction techniques, design features and impact of the project within its setting are explored with an overview of the evolution of the staircase. It should be a resource for students of architecture.
China Construction Design International (CCDI) is one of Asia's premier architecture firms. It was ranked as the number one private architecture firm in China in 2004. In 2005 it became the first firm from China to receive an award from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT). As a new "Master Architect Series" title, this book ...
Examining recent developments in the relationship between glass and contemporary residential architecture since the early 20th century, this work looks briefly at the work of such innovators as John Lautner and Philip Johnson. An array of contemporary urban and rural houses in which glass plays a central role are presented, showing how glass ...
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