House Design

House Design

2005 | PDF | 399 pages | 274 mb

In recent years the lines that define the characteristics of the modern house have lost the severity that distinguished them in the past. Although the uses that a home must fulfil - cooking, relaxation, personal hygiene, interaction with other people, etc. - remain the same as ever, the solutions for tackling them are now very different and diverse. As a result, no specific formula can be established to define how a home should be. 

This book shows crossfire of examples of international designers, which have drafted houses with many considerations in mind. Adaptation to the terrain and the climate, the budget and the needs of its future inhabitants has been born in mind. As well the home's three indispensable areas (the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom) have been focused. For example the bathroom is presented in multifarious variations: Either a functional space is apart or it can occupy a privileged spot alongside the garden, with large windows, spread itself out inside the house to such and extent that the bathtub turns into an indoor swimming pool.

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Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City

Tracing Modernity: 

Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City

English |  2004 |360 pages | PDF | 10,3 MB

From the seventeenth century until today, the 'modern' has served as a key category by which to understand an ever-changing present. Art and architecture have played a key role in this pursuit, as the means by which 'the modern' was to manifest itself. The essays in this new anthology trace the modern project through its multifarious manifestation in order to understand contemporary culture in a deeper sense than discussions of 'modernism' and 'post modernism' usually offer. Drawing on architectural and urban history as well as philosophy and sociology, the book outlines the complex and conflicting roots of modernity by tracing its manifestations in architecture and the city. David Frisby, Iain Boyd Whyte, Caroline van Eck, Gabriele Bryant, Dalibor Vesely, Gavin Stamp, Mari Hvattum, Diana Periton, Tomas A. Markus, Detlef Mertins, Dagmar Weston, Jonathan Charley, Juliet Kin

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Building a Revolution: Chinese Architecture Since 1980

Building a Revolution: 

Chinese Architecture Since 1980

 2006 | PDF | 204 pages | 35,5 mb

Since China's modernization began in 1980, the country has witnessed exponential growth in construction activities.

 In a deliberate attempt to break away from the past, China has shown remarkable drive and determination to refashion itself in terms of architectural and town planning practices.

 While there are many books about traditional Chinese architecture and gardens, this is perhaps the first book in English to introduce the dramatic new look of China.

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Villa Tugendhat (Architecture Mies Van Der Rohe)

Villa Tugendhat 

(Architecture Mies Van Der Rohe)

Muzeum mesta Brna |PDF | 21 pages | 10,5 mb

Few monuments of modern architecture can be as much sure of their fate as the villa in Brno. Its status as a national cultural heritage, now reinforced by its listing among the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Herltage, will protect the villa against inappropriate occupancy and consequent undesirable alterations.

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Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean

Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean

320 pages | PDF | 12,5 MB

Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. 

The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.
 

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Architecture and Cubism

Architecture and Cubism

(Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture)

 A fundamental tenet of the historiography of modern architecture holds that cubism forged a vital link between avant-garde practices in early twentieth-century painting and architecture. 

This collection of essays, commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, takes a close look at that widely accepted but little scrutinized belief. In the first historically focused examination of the issue, the volume returns to the original site of cubist art in pre-World War I Europe and proceeds to examine the historical, theoretical, and socio-political relationships between avant-garde practices in painting, architecture, and other cultural forms, including poetry, landscape, and the decorative arts. 

The essays look at works produced in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia during the early decades of the twentieth century.Together, the essays show that although there were many points of intersection -- historical, metaphorical, theoretical, and ideological -- between cubism and architecture, there was no simple, direct link between them. 

Most often the connections between cubist painting and modern architecture were construed analogically, by reference to shared formal qualities such as fragmentation, spatial ambiguity, transparency, and multiplicity; or to techniques used in other media such as film, poetry, and photomontage. 

Cubist space itself remained two-dimensional; with the exception of Le Corbusier work, it was never translated into the three dimensions of architecture.

 Cubism's significance for architecture also remained two-dimensional -- a method of representing modern spatial experience through the ordering impulses of art.Copublished with the Canadian Centre for Architecture/CentreCanadien d'Architecture

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The Empire State Building

The Empire State Building

(Building America: Then and Now)

 English

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The Architecture of Modern Italy

Volume I : The Challenge of Tradition 1750-1900

 English

This groundbreaking and authoritative two-volume survey is the first truly comprehensive history of modern Italian architecture and urbanism to appear in any language. Told in lively prose, it recounts more than 250 years of experimentation, creativity, and turmoil that have shaped the landscape of contemporary Italy.

Volume I: The Challenge of Tradition, 17501900, explores the dynamic balancing of forces demanded by a reverence for Italy's unparalleled architectural patrimony and a desire for new means of expression and technological innovation. From the neoclassical fantasies of Giovanni Battista Piranesi to the spectacular steeland-glass gallerias of Milan and Naples, it reveals an underappreciated history of richness and complexity.

The Architecture of Modern Italy is exhaustively illustrated with rare period images, new photography, maps, drawings, and plans. With Colin Rowe's Italian Architecture of the 16th Century, it provides a nearly complete overview of the history of Italian architecture.

Volume II : Visions of Utopia, 1900-Present

 English

This groundbreaking and authoritative two-volume survey is the first truly comprehensive history of modern Italian architecture and urbanism to appear in any language. Told in lively prose, it recounts more than 250 years of experimentation, creativity, and turmoil that have shaped the landscape of contemporary Italy.

Volume II: Visions of Utopia, 1900-Present, tracks the development of Italys architectural avant-garde through the upheavals of the twentieth century. Beginning with the development of Italian art nouveau--"stile liberty"--and moving through futurism, fascism, rationalism, and on to the creative experimentation of the present day, it explores the work of such pivotal figures as Raimondo dAronco, Antonio SantElia, Adalberto Libera, Giuseppe Terragni, Pier Luigi Nervi, Gio Ponti, Carlo Scarpa, Aldo Rossi, and Renzo Piano. 

The Architecture of Modern Italy is exhaustively illustrated with rare period images, new photography, maps, drawings, and plans. With Colin Rowe's Italian Architecture of the 16th Century, it provides a nearly complete overview of the history of Italian architecture.

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Great Glass Building

Great Glass Building

228 Pages | PDF | 51 Mb

In Great Glass Buildings , Peter and Jennifer Hyatt present fifty exemplary modern projects that explore a number of theories about the nature, mystique and attraction of glass in the architecture of recent years. 

Variously performing roles that include giftwrap, lightweight armour, transmitter and insulator, glass began its re-emergence as an architectural force during the 1990s, as a symbol of new modernism. 

Advances in glass-making and construction technology and the advent of structural glazing, fixing systems, glass coatings and waterproof connections have transformed the ambitious dreams of the past into reality. 

Including projects by Foster and Partners, Murphy Jahn, Santiago Calatrava, Shigeru Ban, Renzo Piano and many others, this book reveals the complex nature of glass in today's architecture.
 

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Best Australian Architecture

Best Australian Architecture

English | 228 Pages | PDF | 165MB

What it means to live in modern Australia conveys something different to all Australians. We all have remarkably different lifestyles and very distinct needs when it comes to the way we go about our daily lives, which consequently reflects the way we design our living spaces. In this book, I have scoured our Australian architectural landscape to discover some of the homes that have been carefully tailored to meet the owners’ individual requirements and desires, as well as homes that have a distinctive ‘best’ factor.
 

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1000 X European Architecture

1000 X European Architecture 

2007 | PDF | 1024 pages | 169 Mb

This is the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date compendium of contemporary European architecture available in one single volume. 

Projects from all parts of the continent have been selected to create a representative overview of the latest European architecture. 

The great variety of European architecture is guaranteed because there is only one project presented per architect with high-quality pictures and plans. 

Particular emphasis has been placed on making sure that many small creative and surprising buildings are presented alongside more familiar projects.
 

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360 Architecture : Public Space, Recreational Space

360 Architecture : 

Public Space, Recreational Space

Text in Chinese and English.

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Domus - projects

Domus - projects

Reproducing the pages as they originally appeared, each volume is packed with articles that bring to light the incredible history of modern design and architecture. A truly comprehensive lexicon of styles and movements, the volumes are accompanied by specially commissioned introductory texts that not only outline the history of the magazine but also describe what was happening in design and architecture during each era covered.

These texts have been written by many of the magazine’s renowned past editors: Mario Bellini, François Burkhardt, Cesare Maria Casati, Stefano Casciani, Germano Celant, Manolo De Giorgi, Fulvio Irace, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Alessandro Mendini, Lisa Licitra Ponti, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Luigi Spinelli, and Deyan Sudjic.

The volumes have also been thoroughly indexed, allowing the reader easy access to key articles —many of which have been translated into English for the first time.
 

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Domus - architecture

Domus - architecture

Reproducing the pages as they originally appeared, each volume is packed with articles that bring to light the incredible history of modern design and architecture. A truly comprehensive lexicon of styles and movements, the volumes are accompanied by specially commissioned introductory texts that not only outline the history of the magazine but also describe what was happening in design and architecture during each era covered.

These texts have been written by many of the magazine’s renowned past editors: Mario Bellini, François Burkhardt, Cesare Maria Casati, Stefano Casciani, Germano Celant, Manolo De Giorgi, Fulvio Irace, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Alessandro Mendini, Lisa Licitra Ponti, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Luigi Spinelli, and Deyan Sudjic.

The volumes have also been thoroughly indexed, allowing the reader easy access to key articles —many of which have been translated into English for the first time.
 

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Smart Space Office Design

Smart Space Office Design

English / Chinese | 2010 | 376 pages | PDF | 51 MB

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The Modern Airport Terminal

The Modern Airport Terminal :

New Approaches to Airport Architecture, Second Edition

This comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities covers all types of airport terminal found around the world and highlights the environmental and technical issues that the designer has to address. 

Contemporary examples are critically reviewed through a series of case studies. This new edition covers the most recent examples of high quality, technically advanced designs from the Far East, Europe and North America.

This book will be a source of inspiration and guiding principles for those who design, commission or manage airport buildings.
 

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Planning the Modern Public Library Building

Planning the Modern Public Library Building

This collection of 22 highly informative essays offers important insight into current activities in the area of building planning.

Topics include space design; collection marketing; furniture selection; landscaping; accommodating different age groups; hosting activities and events; seeking support from the community; and more. Technology is given a high priority. A bibliographic essay provides an abundance of suggested titles for further study.
 

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Residential Skin & Details

Residential Skin & Details

English | 271 Pages | PDF | 28.30 MB

Residential Skin & Details provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern residential architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architect from around the world, this book presents 32 of the most recently completed designs for residential architecture. Each project is presented with colour photographs, plans, sections and elevations, as well as numerous construction details. There is also a descriptive text, detailed captions and in-depth information for each project. Residential Skin & Details is an excellent reference work for practising architects as well as architecture and design students.
 

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New Shop Design

New Shop Design

 202 pages | 43 Mb  |  PDF

In recent years, shopping as an 'experience' has taken the place of shopping as a necessity, and accordingly the design of spaces in which we shop has had to adapt to meet that end. New Shop Design is a dynamic and colorful collection of some of the most forward-looking and inspiring shop designs in the world, created in the studios of some of modern architecture's leading names. Each project is thoroughly documented with the designers' own notes and explanations, sketches, floor plans and glossy full-color photographs. 

Includes works by Herzog & De Meuron, Asymptote Architecture and Rem Koolhaas-OMA.

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ARQUITECTURA MODERNA EN AMÉRICA LATINA 1950-1965

ARQUITECTURA MODERNA EN AMÉRICA LATINA 1950-1965 

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