Название: The Age of Glass: A Cultural History of Glass in Modern and Contemporary Architecture
Автор: Stephen Eskilson
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Год: 2018
Формат: True PDF/ePub
Страниц: 243
Размер: 13.9 Mb
Язык: English

Glass has long transformed the architectural landscape. From the Crystal Palace through to the towering glass spires of today's cities, few architectural materials have held such immense symbolic resonance in the modern era.
The Age of Glass explores the cultural and technological ascension of glass in modern and contemporary architecture. Showing how the use of glass is driven as much by changing cultural concerns as it is by developments in technology and style, it traces the richly interwoven material, symbolic, and ideological histories of glass to show how it has produced and dispersed meaning in architecture over the past two centuries.

Название: Houses Made of Wood and Light: The Life and Architecture of Hank Schubart
Автор: Michele Dunkerley
Издательство: University of Texas Press
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 208
Размер: 151 Mb
Язык: English

American architect Hank Schubart was regarded as a genius for finding the perfect site for a house and for integrating its design into the natural setting, so that his houses appear to be as native to the forest around them as the trees and rocks. Salt Spring Island, one of the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada, offered him a place to create the kind of architecture that responded to its surroundings, and Schubart-designed homes populate the island. Built of wood and glass, suffused with light, and oriented to views, they display characteristic features: random-width cedar siding, exposed beams, rusticated stonework.

Название: Pretty Prudent Home: Your Ultimate Guide to Creating a Beautiful Family Home
Автор: Jacinda Boneau and Jaime Morrison Curtis
Издательство: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 84 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Pretty Prudent Home is part design book, part DIY guidebook, with beautiful photography inviting readers to tackle projects both simple and sophisticated. With images from the authors’ homes, as well as those of trendsetters around the world, fans are given an in-depth look into the lives and design sensibilities of a wide spectrum of stylish, aspirational, yet down-to-earth families. With modern projects that include repainting thrift store finds, repurposing vintage heirlooms, creating quick window treatments, sewing your first hand-me-down quilt, and even tips on the easiest ways to throw a last-minute party or host a bake sale, Pretty Prudent Home offers practical projects and a large dose of Boneau and Curtis’s trademark banter and whimsy to help you create a truly inspired yet livable home.

Название: Green House
Автор: Владимир Белоголовский
Издательство: Tatlin
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 214
Для сайта: vtome.ru
Размер: 96.1 Mb
Язык: Русский/Английский

Книга «Greenhouse. 12 “зеленых” проектов», редактором которой выступил известный архитектурный критик Владимир Белоголовский, представляет детальное описание 12-ти наиболее ярких и интересных мировых примеров «зеленой» архитектуры от ведущих мастеров Ренцо Пьяно, Норман Фостер, Том Мейн, Питер Айзенман, Уильям Олсоп и Кенго Кума. Книга содержит максимально подробную информацию о проектах от исходного состояния до реализации, от публикации проектов и интервью с архитекторами и заканчивая их краткими биографиями с интернет-адресами.

Название: Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design
Автор: Aileen Kwun, Bryn Smith
Издательство: Princeton Architectural Press
Год: 2016
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 224
Размер: 11.4 Mb
Язык: English

Twenty Over Eighty is a collection of insightful, intimate, and often irreverent interviews with twenty architecture and design luminaries over the age of eighty. Revealing conversations with leaders from a variety of fields—including graphic designers Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, Lora Lamm, and Deborah Sussman; architects Michael Graves, Denise Scott Brown, and Stanley Tigerman; urbanist Jane Thompson; industrial designer Charles Harrison; furniture designer Jens Risom; and critic Ralph Caplan—spotlight creators, thinkers, and pioneers whose lifelong dedication to experimentation and innovation continues to shape their disciplines well into their ninth decade.

Название: Sustainable Construction Processes: A Resource Text
Автор: Steve Goodhew
Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell
Год: 2016
Формат: true pdf/epub
Страниц: 355
Размер: 23.8 Mb
Язык: English

This book explores the concepts and practicalities that lead to sustainable construction. It breaks new ground by providing the reader with the underlying principles of how to build sustainably and then assesses many of the tools required for the task. From energy to materials and from procurement to operation, all aspects play their part in turning a theoretically sustainable building project into a reality. There are many guidelines for the designer on how to maximise the sustainability of buildings but this resource text supplements these by focusing on the construction and operational aspects of sustainable buildings, as well as some of the more fundamental design-related considerations.

Название: Encyclopedia of Landscape Design: Planning, Building, and Planting Your Perfect Outdoor Space
Автор: Editor-in-chief Chris Young
Издательство: Dorling Kindersley Limited
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Для сайта: vtome.ru
Страниц: 394
Размер: 190,01 МБ
Язык: English

Be inspired to imagine the garden of your dreams with this guide that will help you plan, build, and plant your perfect outdoor space.
Whether you're aiming for a total redesign or targeting a specific area, Encyclopedia of Landscape Design offers fresh and achievable ideas for every gardener: grasp the fundamentals of landscape and garden design, find a style that's right for you, and create the structures and planting plans to bring your ideas to life.

Название: Open Concept Apartments
Автор: Francesc Zamora
Издательство: Harper Design
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 280 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The ultimate resource for modern apartment design and renovation, featuring hundreds of creative ideas from around the world, curated by the author of Open Concept Houses and the 150 Best design series. With the explosion in popularity of urban living, more people are trading houses for high-rises. But these sophisticated urbanites don’t want to sacrifice the expansive feel that a house affords. The answer is open concept apartments. By eliminating doorways and walls, open concept design blends separate areas for cooking, eating, and entertaining into one breezy, bright, large, unconstructed space. Special touches—from furniture to lighting to accessories—can be used to subtly define each area, creating a sense of expansiveness and intimacy.

Название: Candice Olson Everyday Elegance
Автор: Candice Olson
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Год: 2013
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 362
Для сайта: vtome.ru
Размер: 42.5 Мб
Язык: английский

Featuring two dozen gorgeous before-and-after room makeovers, Candice shows how to create grown-up living rooms and dining rooms that are both beautiful and practical enough for daily use.

Название: 21st Century Villa
Автор: Hanlin Liu
Издательство: Design Media Publishing Ltd
Год: 2012
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 258
Размер: 38.4 Mb
Язык: English

The everchanging and renewing life concept and lifestyle of people bring about more and more requirements for the overall qualities of houses and the demands for residences have marched towards the psychological dimension and cultural sphere. Consequently, there arise new design trend and new requirements for environment, material selection and design concept. The design projects in this book lead readers to perceive the comfort and cosiness of the natural space. The designers of these projects have created more natural, and convenient living spaces in the most natural and purest design languages, giving them a comprehensive and vivid explanation of the architecture design concept that buildings are born for human.