Category: Architecture
In Maori culture, architecture is approached as a construction of beliefs: a building must emulate and amplify personalities, hopes, and aspirations, becoming a physical expression of those who inhabit it. These ideas and others are the inspirations behind the design projects of New Zealand architect An ...Show more
Category: Architecture
An on-trend home design book, featuring an inspiring array of homes that have made good use of recycled and upcycled materials, structures, spaces and furnishings. Included in the mix are industrial and farm buildings that have been converted for living and furnished appropriately with vintage and repur ...Show more
Category: Architecture
This handsome book is a rich and loving tribute to the work and culturalsignificance of one of New Zealand's most influential but least well-documented architects, John Scott (1924-1992). Over 25 projects, from Scott's famous FutunaChapel to the Werry House and the Maori Battalion Hall to the Martin Hou ...Show more
Category: Architecture
Dieser Band zeigt herausragende Beispiele von Privathäusern in Fertigbauweise. Es wird deutlich, dass beim Fertighaus ein besserer Überblick über den Bauprozess, eine Reduzierung der Kosten und eine bessere Anpassung an die Umgebung erreicht werden kann. Mit 500 Illustrationen, Pläne ...Show more
Category: Architecture
The treehouse in its most simple and fundamental form enables us to escape from the everyday pressures of modern life and feel closer to nature. It can also be an architectural wonder, showcasing the most creative of small space design and engineering solutions. This beautiful book shows how the treehou ...Show more
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 ...Show more
Category: Architecture
Galicia in northern Spain has been historically characterised by its location at 'the edge of the world' and the resulting close relationship between the inhabited and the natural worlds, by the intense dialogue between people and nature, which is the basis of the man-made landscape. Architect Cesar Por ...Show more
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 ...Show more
Category: Architecture
Wooden Houses places the wooden house into a historical, social and decorative context, explores the decorative potential of wood in our homes and provides inspiration for anyone who appreciates the beauty and soul of this wonderful natural material. Wooden houses range from rustic log cabins a ...Show more
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 ...Show more
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 ...Show more
Category: Architecture
The book also tells the vexed story of the chapel's sale to a developer in 2001 and its subsequent dereliction and, at the eleventh hour, rescue. Since then, the chapel has been transformed from a place of Catholic worship to a non-denominational centre for spiritual, cultural and artistic expression. W ...Show more
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