New York Architecture

$40.00 NZD

Category: Architecture

From the skyscrapers and the lofts which occupy the brick buildings in Downtown New York, to the new elevated gardens on the urban map and the planned ecological constructions which form part of the scheme to convert New York into a green city by 2030, this book presents the transformations which are ta king place in the metropolis. It also features the neo-Gothic, Art Deco and Rationalism buildings which have contributed to molding the booming, revolutionary character that represents one of the most vibrant cities on the planet. ...Show more

JAVIER ARTADI THE CUBE IN THE DESERT

$25.00 NZD

Category: Architecture

'I am an architect from the coast of Peru, a desert strip with unique characteristics due to the presence of the Humboldt cold water current in the ocean that creates an environment that is not too hot, not too cold and where it never rains.' Javier Artadi is emerging as the leading Latin American conte mporary landscape architect for his work and ongoing research on the relationship between architecture and desert landscape of the Peruvian coast. Winner of the Fourth Latin American Architecture Biennale of Architecture with Playa Las Arenas, he took fourth place in the Contest Place of Memory and two honourable mentions at the Fourteenth National Architecture Biennale 2010 with projects in House in La Encantada, Edificio Residencial Costa, among others. This monograph is the result of his work as an architect, researcher and teacher and, therefore, an essential reference work for scholars and professionals. ...Show more

LIGHT INNOVATIONS by Borr s Montse

$38.00 NZD

Category: Architecture

100 Contemporary Architects by Philip Jodidio

$50.00 NZD

Category: Architecture

Keeping up with the fast-paced world of architecture, this is the indispensable compendium of the most cutting-edge architects around. This two-volume compilation brings together highlights from TASCHEN's groundbreaking title Building a New Millennium and the first four volumes of our renowned Architect ure Now! books for a comprehensive study of architecture around the world at the dawn of the 21st century. Up-and-coming architects - tomorrow's superstars are featured alongside the field's most respected practitioners, such as Santiago Calatrava, Herzog & de Meuron, Koolhaas/OMA, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, and Jean Nouvel. ...Show more

The Coolest Apartments by UNKNOWN

$50.00 NZD

Category: Architecture

Contemporary Architects 1 by Loft Publications

$50.00 NZD

Category: Architecture

The Philip Johnson Glass House - An Architect in the Garden by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger; Charles A. Birnbaum (Foreword by); Peter Aaron (Photographer)

$119.00 NZD

Category: Architecture

The first authoritative book on the history of the Glass House property--Philip Johnson's fifty-year project of iconic modernist design, encompassing the remarkable buildings, landscape, and follies. From its completion in 1949 to the present day, Philip Johnson's Glass House has drawn cognoscenti and t he curious from around the world to New Canaan, Connecticut, to experience what might be the most photographed modernist residence in America. The property--an architectural playground on forty-seven acres with eleven Johnsonian follies dating from 1949 to 1995--is an icon of twentieth-century architectural and landscape design. The book chronicles how Philip Johnson and David Whitney, the architect and the plantsman, lived on the property for decades and used the landscape as an ever-changing canvas for their designs--the result of a unique synthesis of influences and ideas from across history and geography. New research reveals Johnson's and Whitney's interaction with the landscape and the evolution of the site from a five-acre parcel to a world-renowned gentlemanly estate for modern times. The Philip Johnson Glass House--beautifully illustrated with vintage and commissioned photography--will be a must-have for connoisseurs of architecture, landscape design, photography, and social history. ...Show more

New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture by Philip Goad

$113.00 NZD

Category: Architecture

This book features extended profiles of leading architects in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Java and Bali. Their major works are fully documented through plans and drawings, photographs and analytical text. Far-reaching and provocative essays by Philip Goad and Anoma Pieris precede th e architects' profiles. The pleasures and rewards of designing in the world's most exotic locations are tempered by the realities of architectural responsibility in some of the world's fastest-growing cities. ...Show more

Ecological Architecture by Chris van Uffelen

$60.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Series: Architecture in Focus

Ecological rethinking and sustainable building concepts have become important topics in contemporary architecture. The use of renewable resources and the intention to build in harmony with nature are characteristic aspects for this development. Apart from the use of ecological building material, the att ention is also drawn to reaching a high degree of independence from fossile energy sources and aiming for a high energy efficiency level. This volume presents about 100 of the most outstanding recent projects on this field. A wide selection of groundbreaking concepts from private residences to public business buildings is presented through texts, photos and drawings. ...Show more

The Solar House: Pioneering Sustainable Design by Anthony Denzer

$100.00 NZD

Category: Architecture

The first comprehensive study of the development of solar house design in the United States and around the world. The Solar House explores the development of solar residential architecture over the course of the twentieth century and up to the latest designs today. The solar house is often understood as a product of the 1970s, and few people are aware of the influential experimental solar houses which were constructed during the previous four decades, beginning with the work of masters of twentieth-century architecture such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Paolo Soleri, Louis Kahn, Pietro Belluschi, Edward Durell Stone, and Harwell Hamilton Harris, and continuing with more recent innovations like the German Passivhaus movement and the Heliotrope, the first house to produce more energy than it consumed, and the U.S.-based Solar Decathlon, conceived as a living demonstration laboratory and recently expanded to include contests in Europe and China. Not only are these innovative projects the models for architects exploring environmentally conscious design today, they hold the imagination of the wider public, beginning with the idealism of the 1960s, the pragmatism that accompanied the energy crisis of the 1970s, and continuing into the twenty-first century with the demand for environmentally sustainable living. The first complete study of solar house design through the decades, this volume is a must-have resource for designers today. ...Show more

Re-use Architecture by Chris van Uffelen

$60.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Series: Architecture in Focus Ser.

Economic and societal transitions have left many buildings redundant and numerous structures are waiting to be put to new uses. Due in part to an increasing awareness of ecological issues, but mainly thanks to the esteem currently enjoyed by any sort of historic building fabric, unused structures are no w examined to determine what kind of new use might be suitable. Buildings are therefore emerging with layers superimposed on top of one another: the original function usually still provides the scale and structure, into which a new matrix of utilization is installed. This volume presents unique projects that see churches transformed into restaurants, barns into houses, apartments into offices and multi-storey car parks into apartments, but also large-scale conversions, such as the remodelling of an entire port into a new city district with a vast functional diversity. From the contents: Before: Market Hall, Frankfurt, Germany - Now: European Central Bank (Coop Himmelb(l)au) Before: Power Station, London, UK - Now: Tate Modern (Herzog und de Meuron) Before: School, Southwark, UK - Now: Siobhan Davies Dance Company (Sarah Wigglesworth) Before: Factory, Kiev, Ukraine - Now: LOreal Headquarters, Kiev, Ukraine (m2r) Before: Church, Maastrict, Netherlands - Now: Selexyz Dominicanen Bookstore (Merkx + Girod) ...Show more

One Year Drawn: Through The Eyes of an Architect by Pete Bossley

$55.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Reading Level: near fine

A Year spent travelling as a young architect tuaght Pete Bossley how to 'read' a building and instilled in him a life-long love of drawing. In One Year Drawn he shares this voyage of discovery - and the places and people he encounters along the way. Now one of New Zealand's most respected architects, Pe te writes of a European odyssey that saw him visit and sketch many of the world's great buildings. The reader joins him as he travels from London to Italy, onwards to Greece and Turkey, and north to visit the works of the great Scandanavian architects. Too poor to afford film for his camera, he resorts to buying a hotchpotch of sketchbooks in which to record his observations and thoughts. Part travelogue, part memoir, this unique book will appeal to lovers of architecture and art, and anyone who enjoys an intelligent and at times humorous read. ...Show more