Sunday, May 30, 2010

Architectural Record - 06/2010


Architectural Record - June 2010

Architectural Record Magazine: (New Subscribers only) Essential to the profession for more than 110 years, Architectural Record provides a compelling editorial mix of design ideas and trends, building science, business and professional strategies, exploration of key issues, new product

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Cool Hotels : America


Cool Hotels : America
Cool Hotels: The Americas is an extensive compilation of the most contemporary hotels in North, Central, and South America, all of which have been chosen because they represent the best in innovative design. Copiously illustrated with hundreds of color photographs of hotels designed by renowned figures such as Todd Oldham, Ernesto Goranski, and David Rockwell and accompanied by illuminating sketches as well as explanatory texts and captions, this book is a colorful tour of lodging at the cutting edge.
Bởi Francisco Asensio Cerver, Ana Cristina G. Cañizares.
cộng tác: Ana Cristina G. Cañizares

Xuất bản: teNeues, 2004
ISBN 3823845659, 9783823845652
400 trang

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Friday, May 28, 2010

Hotel Design - 06/2010

Homepage: www.hotelworldnetwork.com >>>

Hotel Design - June 2010

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Architect Magazine - 06/2010

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Architect Magazine - June 2010

ARCHITECT provides a complete suite of information services for the 21st century architect. With breaking news, savvy business tips, and state-of-the-art design inspiration, ARCHITECT is the place to go for professional success. ARCHITECT offers architecture news, market intelligence, business and technology solutions, continuing education, building products, and other resources for practicing architects.

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Concept for Living - 06/2010


Concept for Living - #139 - June 2010

For over ten years Concept For Living magazine has sought out the most exciting interior design projects that the North has to offer, showcased a diverse selection of cutting-edge, design-led products and provided Northern design enthusiasts with a creative commentary on the interiors industry. Jam packed with readers' homes and gardens, product features, interviews, profiles and regional design news, Concept For Living is the must-buy design magazine for the north of the UK.

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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Green Source - 05.06/2010

Home page: greensource.construction.com >>>

Green Source - March/April 2010
English | PDF

Green Source Magazine,The most comprehensive guidance on designing and constructing environmentally responsible buildings. It is produced by the editors of Architectural Record in partnership with editors of Building Green, Inc. Every issue is devoted to green design and construction.

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Cool Hotels Africa/Middle East


Cool Hotels Africa/Middle East
showcases a comprehensive selection of cutting-edge hotels that embody the best in contemporary hotel design. This useful flexicover guide is extensively illustrated with approximately 400 color photographs, highlighting the interiors and exteriors of these striking accommodations. This overview includes designs from Enrico Daffonchio, Peter Matkovitch and Ed Tuttle in locations as diverse as South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius and Morocco. ? An extensive compilation of the most contemporary hotels in Africa and the Middle East ? Illustrations and text provide useful information to both design professionals and travelers
Bởi Martin Nicholas Kunz
cộng tác: Martin Nicholas Kunz
Xuất bản: teNeues, 2005
ISBN 3832790519, 9783832790516
399 trang

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

NZ House & Garden - 06/2010


New Zealand House & Garden - June 2010
New Zealand's favourite home and lifestyle magazine, NZ House & Garden celebrates the homes, lifestyles and creativity of New Zealanders. Always a delight, NZ House & Garden explores an extraordinary variety of inspiring, beautiful and intriguing homes and gardens.

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Canadian Interiors - 05.06/2010


Canadian Interiors - May / June 2010
English | 48 pages | PDF | 7,2 MB

Covers the business of interior design for professionals, including contract and residential interior design, facility management.

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Jean Nouvel (by Ed. H Kliczkowski)



Ed. H Kliczkowski, "Jean Nouvel"
Publisher: Onlybook, S.L
ISBN: 9788496048003
Publication Date: 2002
Language: Spanish
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Book Description:
12 projects presented with photographs, plans, sections, descriptive reports, all works with location map, and technical data and referential. Includes a chronology of works from 1989 to 2002.

Indicates
Institute of Arab World
Nemausus
Opera de Lyon
Hotel Saint-James
CLM BBDO
Culture and Congress Center in Lucerne
Fondation Cartier
Galeries Lafayette
Church of St. Mary of Sarlat
A Gasometer
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
Quai Branly Museum

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Landscape Architecture - 06/2010

Landscape Architecture - the magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects provides timely information on built landscapes and new techniques for ecologically sensitive planning and design.

Landscape Architecture - June 2010

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Style at Home - 07/2010


Style at Home - July 2010

STYLE AT HOME brings an exciting and stylish voice to the world of home decorating. It's the primary choice for Canadians who are interested in living in style.

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Sydney Houses (update pages)


Sydney Houses
In recent years, Sydney has undergone a breathtaking expansion that has transformed it into one of the most prosperous and diverse cities in the world. The contrast between its huge skyscrapers and peaceful natural parks, to some extent legacies of Australia's European heritage and its Aboriginal traditions respectively, has given it a unique style. The natural beauty of Sydney's large bay, often considered the most beautiful in the world, is the spectacular backdrop for a city with a population drawn from over 100 different countries.

This book takes the reader on a fascinating tour of Sydney's domestic architecture, which revels in rich contrasts and a surprising mixture of styles. Photographs, floor plans, and diagrams, all of which are accompanied by concise yet detailed explanatory text, display the youthful spirit and innovative creations of Sydney's most prestigious architects and designers. Here is a book that is sure to become an invaluable reference for the latest design


Francisco Asensio Cerver, Alejandro Bahamón
cộng tác: Alejandro Bahamón
Xuất bản: teNeues, 2003
ISBN 382384525X, 9783823845256
400 trang


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21st Century Hotel


21st Century Hotel

Bởi Graham Vickers
Xuất bản bởi Laurence King Publishing, 2005
ISBN 1856694011, 9781856694018
240 trang

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Hotel and Restaurant Design (update pages)

Hotel and Restaurant Design
Hotel and Restaurant Design No. 4 (2005) (formerly Hospitality and Restaurant Design) showcases the most current, inspiring solutions gathered from fifty leading architecture and design firms. More than 185 international projects in the hotel, resort, theater, and restaurant fields are showcased in 1,050 stunning full-color photos. Every professional in hotel and restaurant design needs this book!

Hotel and Restaurant Design
Bởi Roger Yee
Xuất bản bởi Visual Reference Publications, 2005
ISBN 1584710853, 9781584710851
363 trang


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Saturday, May 22, 2010

New Hotel Design (page update)

NewHotel Design
New Hotel Design
In recent years there has been a remarkable evolution in the design of hotels, with mainstream hotel chains rejecting characterless functionalism in favour of style-led individualism. This book gathers together over 40 of the best examples of hotel architecture and interiors from around the world, illustrating the impressive diversity of styles and forms. Identifying the latest industry trends, Riewoldt makes plain how both chains and independents have adopted individual design strategies to enhance their brand image in an increasingly global marketplace. It features the work of Michael Graves, Jean Nouvel and Philippe Starck amongst other big names.
New Hotel Design
Bởi Otto Riewoldt
Xuất bản bởi Laurence King Publishing, 2006
ISBN 1856694798, 9781856694797

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Salmela Architect


Salmela Architect
By Thomas Fisher
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: 2005-05-05
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 081664256
Binding: Paperback

Book Description:
Salmela Architect provides an in-depth look at one of
America's leading "critical regionalist" architects.
Salmela's buildings resolve a central question of our
time: how to balance the various extreme positions that
characterize contemporary architecture and culture.
Salmela accomplishes this by juxtaposing opposites:
modernist and traditional forms, open and cellular plans,
large and small scales, familiar elements used in
unfamiliar ways. His projects range from a small
stand-alone sauna to commercial spaces visited by thousands
of people, and his buildings, mostly situated
in the upper Midwest, have become nationally and
internationally known. Salmela Architect showcases
twenty-six completed buildings and sixteen current
projects in lavish color photographs and architectural
drawings, enabling readers to get a full sense of the
practicality, ethnicity, and playfulness apparent in
David Salmela's work. Architecture critic Thomas Fisher
explores Salmela's propensity to draw from regional roots
as he creates designs particular to individual places and
cultures yet with universal appeal. Fisher illuminates this
synchronicity with projects as prominent as the Gooseberry
Falls Visitors Center and Wild Rice Restaurant as well as
residential projects including the acclaimed Jackson Meadow
community and photographer Jim Brandenburg's Ravenwood Studio.

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Zaha Hadid Complete Buildings and Projects

Zaha_Hadid
Zaha Hadid Complete Buildings and Projects

Product Description
With her most recent commission, Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center, architect Zaha Hadid becomes the first woman ever to design an American museum. This long awaited frist monograph on one of the world's most important architects collects Hadid's entire oeuvre-more than 80 built and unbuilt projects over 20 years- in one significant volume.Throughout her training at London's Architectural Association, and her work with Rem Koolhaas at OMA, to the establisment of her own worldwide architectural practice, Zaha Hadid has been acclaimed for her vanguard architectonic language. Only a handful of her projects have been built-all to great critcal success- and each new project astonishes the world of design with its commitment to revolutionary forms and ideas. As a result, she has an enormous following of students and practitioners, visionaries and builders.The groundbreaking monograph contains Hadid's own striking drawings and paintings, as well as hundreds of sketches, plans, and models. Readers will recognize her built work-the Vitra Fire Station near Basel and the IBA Building in Berlin- and will welcome details of her competition entry for Chicago's ITT Building, and her winning design for the Cardiff Opera House. With generous commenary by the architect and her office, this is a landmark publication.

About the Author
Aaron Betsky is Architecture and Design Curator of San Francisco's Museum Modern Art. He is the author of Violated Perfection (Rizzoli, 1990) and a contributor to Pacific Edge ( Rizzoli, 1998)

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Dwell - 100 Houses We Love (2010)


Dwell - 100 Houses We Love (2010)

Dwell is the unique modern architecture and design magazine for people who believe that good design is an integral part of real life.
To celebrate our 10 year anniversary, Dwell editors revisit some of the most innovative and architecturally exciting modern homes from the past 10 years of the magazine. You’ll find never-been-printed images and a fresh perspective on residential design. This full sized "look-book" of beautiful architecture will help you discover what it takes to become a House We Love.

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Chicago Home + Garden - 03.04/2010


Chicago Home + Garden - March-April 2010

If you live in the Chicago area and love interior design, you’ll look forward to getting Chicago Home + Garden six times a year in your mailbox. Whether you are looking for inspiration, color advice, quick fixes, or resources, Chicago Home + Garden is the best source in town. From budget to luxe, modern to traditional, our magazine is committed to Chicago - see it in our pages, then find it easily, right in the amazing city where you live.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Hotel Design - 05/2010

Homepage: www.hotelworldnetwork.com >>>

Hotel Design - May 2010

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Architect Magazine - 05/2010

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Architect Magazine - May 2010

ARCHITECT provides a complete suite of information services for the 21st century architect. With breaking news, savvy business tips, and state-of-the-art design inspiration, ARCHITECT is the place to go for professional success. ARCHITECT offers architecture news, market intelligence, business and technology solutions, continuing education, building products, and other resources for practicing architects.

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Residential Architect, - 03.04/2010


Residential Architect, March/April 2010
PDF | 68 pages | English | 259.82 MB
Residential Architect is written for architects and designers who design for residential construction, providing architects with product information, marketing tips, design ideas, management strategies, and profiles of the industry's leading lights.

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Monday, May 17, 2010

Building Innovations - Summer 2010


Building Innovations - Summer 2010
English | 116 pages | true PDF | 14,4 MB

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The Architectural Review Magazine - 04/2010


The Architectural Review Magazine April 2010
English | 40 Pages | 14MB | True PDF

The Architectural Review is a monthly magazine providing inspirational coverage of the best in global architecture. With a 113 year history as the leading publication in its field, AR is the authority on the most beautiful contemporary buildings in existence today. Every month the magazine provides an ultimate collection of the most outstanding new projects; each illustrated with world-class photography and clarified with in-depth plans and drawings. AR is globally recognised as the ultimate design resource for the built environment and the one magazine in which architects aspire to have their work published. It is regarded as a leader of debates and perfectly portrays the cultural life of contemporary architecture through a standard of imagery that seems to ‘live on the page’.

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Canadian Architect - 05/2010

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Canadian Architect - May 2010

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Saturday, May 15, 2010

AD - The 1970s is Here and Now


The 1970s is Here and Now
(Architectural Design)

Wiley | 2005-05-20 | ISBN: 047001136X | 128 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The 1970’s was marked by a seismic change that occurred in the representation of ideas in architecture as they appeared monthly on the pages of AD. The magazine bears out the energetic, experimental, environmentally-conscious and ultimately pluralist culture that prevailed throughout the 1960’s, carrying it through to the emergence of Post-Modernism in the late 1970’s. This issue of AD presents a 'Cosmorama for Now', looking at such subjects as housing, schools, health, urban design and planning.

Contributors will include amongst others: Jon Goodbun, FAT, Kester Ratternbury, David West of Will Aslop Architects, Liza Fior of Muf, Jeremy Till, Nic Clear, Robert Webb, John-Paul Frazer, Pauline van Mourik Brekman and Simon Worthington of Mute Magazine, Sand Helsel, Will McLean & Pete Silver, Adam Kalkin, Chris Muller, Samantha Hardingham.

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AD - Protoarchitecture: Analogue and Digital Hybrids


Protoarchitecture: Analogue and Digital Hybrids
(Architectural Design)

Wiley | 2008-08-25 | ISBN: 0470519479 | 136 pages | PDF | 15 MB
The illusive and uncertain world of translating ideas into matter is a negotiation between the ideal and the real and a central preoccupation of architectural production. By invading the toolbox of digital fabrication, design has transgressed into protocols of manufacturing previously the domain of other disciplines and skills sets. Craft, assembly and installation, once the realm of trades, are qualities that are now dependent upon design information and its status as an instruction to make. The ensuing loop between the physical and tactile, the imaginary and speculative, has defined a new expectation in making architecture as a construct that is part real, part ideal.

With contributions from Lebbeus Woods, Evan Douglis, Theo Jansen, Shin Egashira and many more, Protoarchitecture presents an explicitly diverse collection of works from leading and emerging practitioners, educators, researchers and visionaries from all corners of this innovative field.

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AD - Theoretical Meltdown


Theoretical Meltdown - Architectural Design
Wiley | 2009-03-03 | ISBN: 0470997796 | 136 pages | PDF | 17 MB
If the 20th century can be characterised by theories and manifestoes, which emanated across every sphere of life from politics to the fine arts, the beginning of the 21st century can be distinguished by its very break from theory. This effective ‘theoretical meltdown’ has manifested itself in a period of uncertainty, which can be perceived in the way disciplines coalesce with each other and blur their parameters: fine art becoming indistinct from advertising imagery; architecture incorporating communication techniques; and sculpture dealing with living spaces; while architecture reshapes fragments of the natural environment.

* The issue topically calls the contemporary situation in architecture to account.
* Features writings by and interviews with some of the most remarkable protagonists of the debate: Ole Bouman, Ricardo Diller & Elizabeth Scofidio, Neil Leach, Bernard Tschumi and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
* Acts as a barometer to architectural design, inviting 10 international critics to highlight the most relevant current work.

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Friday, May 14, 2010

AD - Architectures of the Near Future


Architectural Design:
Architectures of the Near Future
Wiley | 2009-11-02 | ISBN: 0470699558 | 136 pages | PDF | 17 MB
In this highly pertinent issue, guest-editor Nic Clear questions received notions of the future. Are the accepted norms of economic growth and expansion the only means by which society can develop and prosper? Should the current economic crisis be making us call into question a future of unlimited growth? Can this moment of crisis – economic, environmental and technological – enable us to make more informed choices about the type of future that we want and can actually achieve? Architectures of the Near Future offers a series of alternative voices, developing some of the neglected areas of contemporary urban life and original visions of what might be to come. Rather than providing simplistic and seductive images of an intangible shiny future, it rocks the cosy world of architecture with polemical blasts.

* Draws on topics as diverse as synthetic space, psychoanalysis, Postmodern geography, post-economics, cybernetics and developments in neurology.
* Includes an exploration of the work of JG Ballard.
* Features the work of Ben Nicholson.

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AD - Versatility and Vicissitude: Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design


Versatility and Vicissitude: Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design
Wiley | 2008-04-25 | ISBN: 0470516879 | 144 pages | PDF | 21 MB
This third AD by the guest-editors of the highly successful Emergence and techniques and technologies in Morphogenetic Design titles shifts the morpho-ecological design project into the realm of performance. Whereas the dictionary definition of performance -to 'carry out an action' or 'to fulfill a task' - invokes a tired utilitarian debate, Hensel and Menges inject the meaning of the word 'performance' with an entirely new life. In this context, form is redefined not as the shape of a material object alone, but as the multitude of effects, a milieu of conditions, modulations and microclimates that emanate from an object's exchange with its specific environment, a dynamic relationship that is perceived and interacted with by a subject. A synergetic employment of performance and morpho-ecological techniques combine to create integral design solutions that will render an alternative model for sustainability. This issue presents historical precursors and precedents for this approach, as well as the current state of the art of morpho-ecological design. Key contributors include: Klaus Bollinger and Manfred Grohmann of Bollinger & Grohmann, Aleksandra Jaeschke, OCEAN, Professor Remo Pedreschi, Defne Sunguroglu, Peter Trummer and Michael Weinstock.

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AD - Cities of Dispersal


Cities of Dispersal (Architectural Design)
Wiley | 2008-03-07 | ISBN: 0470066377 | 136 pages | PDF | 18 MB
Questioning the traditional boundaries between cities, suburbs, countryside and wilderness, this issue of AD explores emergent types of public space in low-density environments. It describes this new form of urbanism: decentralised, in a constant process of expansion and contraction, not homogenous or necessarily low-rise, nor guided by one mode of development, typology or pattern.

While functionally and programmatically dispersed, settlements operate as a form of urbanism; the place of collective spaces within them has yet to be defined and articulated. The physical transformation of the built environment on the one hand, and the change in our notion of the public on the other - due to globalisation, privatisation and segregation - call for renewed interpretations of the nature and character of public space. The concept of public space needs to be examined: replaced, re-created or adapted to fit these conditions. What is the place of the public in this form of urbanism, and how can architecture address the notion of common, collective spaces? What is the current sociopolitical role o such spaces? How does the form and use of these spaces reflect the conception of the public as a political (or non-political) body? And can architecture regain an active role in formulating the notion of the collective? These and other issues are addressed through essays, research projects and built work by distinguished writers such as Bruce Robbins, Albert Pope and Alex Wall, and Practitioners including Zvi Hecker, Vito Acconci, MUTOPIA, Manuel de Sola-Morales, Martha Rosler and Manuel Vicente in a search for new collective architectures within the dispersed city.

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AD - 4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments


4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments
(Architectural Design)

Academy Press | 2007-08-31 | ISBN: 0470319119 | 128 pages | PDF | 14 MB
A new breed of public interactive installations is taking root that overturns the traditional approach to artistic experience. Architects, artists and designers are now creating real-time interactive projects at very different scales and in many different guises. Some dominate public squares or transform a building’s façade – others are more intimate, like wearable computing. All, though, share in common the ability to draw in users to become active participants and co-creators of content, so that the audience becomes part of the project.

Investigating further the paradoxes that arise from this new responsive media at a time when communication patterns are in flux, this title features the work of leading designers, such as Electroland, Usman Haque, Shona Kitchen and Ben Hooker, ONL, Realities United Scott Snibbe. While many works critique the narrow public uses of computing to control people and data, others raise questions about public versus private space in urban contexts; all attempt to offer a unique, technologically mediated form of ‘self-learning’ experience, but which are most effective concepts in practice?

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AD - Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design


Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design
(Architectural Design)

Academy Press | 2006-05-19 | ISBN: 0470015292 | 128 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This issue of AD introduces a new approach to architectural practice based on the interrelationship of emergence and self-organisation concepts. A sequence to the successful Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies title by the same guest-editors, it advances on the previous publication by taking on board the latest developments for fully integrated design evolution, manufacturing and construction.

Emergence requires the recognition of architectural structures not as singular and fixed bodies, but as complex energy and material systems that have a lifespan, exist as part of the environment of other active systems, and as an iteration of a series that proceeds by evolutionary development. Thus the focal point of this issue will be the exploration of techniques and technologies that enable the implementation of such morphogenetic strategies, requiring a new set of intellectual and practical skills. Though the publication stands alone as an investigation and presentation of cutting-edge techniques and technologies within the design and construction field supported by examples from adjacent industries, it also introduces a new springboard for understanding and rethinking the radical changes in which architecture is now being conceived, designed and produced. While representing a timely exploration of the embedding of techniques and technology in an alternative design approach, it also presents wholly new strategies for tackling issues of sustainability.

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AD - Made in India


Made in India
(Architectural Design)

Academy Press | 2008-01-09 | ISBN: 0470034769 | 160 pages | PDF | 22 MB
Architecture is never an isolated production. It is deeply embedded in the fabric of any social and cultural dynamic, even though new impetuses are often made and established through architecture. This is particularly true of the exuberant social and cultural shift that India is undergoing. A multi-disciplinary approach is crucial in order to unravel the scope of the phenomenon and its manifestations. The title features Sunil Khilnani?s meditation on what constitutes the idea of modern India, Prem Chandavarkar's exciting account of the emergence of a new generation of architects in Bangalore and Ravi Sundarum?s description of the visceral city. It also includes project sections that portray the divergent and innovative face of Indian architecture from Bombay to Bangalore, which include sophisticated urban schemes alongside handmade self-built buildings in rural areas.

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Thursday, May 13, 2010

AD - Energies:New Material Boundaries


Energies:New Material Boundaries
(Architectural Design
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Academy Press | 2009-06-02 | ISBN: 0470753633 | 136 pages | PDF | 17 MB
At present, material energies – that is thermal variation, air velocity, spectrums of light and electricity – remain a largely untapped source of innovation and inspiration for architects. Commonly relegated to the production of ambience - ‘moods’ or ‘effects’ - energies tend to be explored, in a design context, as little more than metaphor or poetics. Alternatively, they are regarded wholly as a resource for providing preconceived, rule-of-thumb interior comfort zones or as a set of measurables for determining ‘energy efficient’ buildings. Energies looks at ways of elevating these materials from their dependence on surfaces and services and in so doing, deploying them as building materials in themselves; thus redefining our physical boundaries through a wholly new means of spatial organisation.

* The publication propels the sustainability debate forward by making ‘material energies’ the catalyst
for experimental design.
* The issue deals with a wide range of scales of design, from architecture to building design and that of landscape and urban planning
* Contributors include Michelle Addington, Petra Blaisse, Penelope Dean, Helene Furjan, An Te Liu, Zbigniew Oksiuta, Philippe Rahm and WEATHERS

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

AD - The Patterns of Architecture


The Patterns of Architecture
(Architectural Design
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Academy Press | 2010-01-12 | ISBN: 0470699590 | 144 pages | PDF | 34 MB
Pattern-making is ubiquitous in both the natural and manmade world. The human propensity for pattern recognition and fabrication is innate. Encompassing the historical, vernacular and parametric, this title explores the creation, materialisation and theorisation of some of the world's most significant and spectacularly patterned spaces. It investigates how interiors, buildings, cities and landscapes are patterned through design, production and manufacturing, use, time, accident and perception. It also brings into focus how contemporary advanced spatial practices and CAD/CAM are now pushing patterns to encompass a greater range of structural, programmatic, aesthetic and material effects and properties. Extending patterns far beyond the surface notion of style and decoration, Patterns of Architecture assesses how and why the deployment of patterns is shaping the future of architecture.

* Analysed through a multidisciplinary and international series of essays and designs from architects, engineers, academics, researchers and expert professionals in the field.
* Key contributors include: Hanif Kara, Patrik Schumacher and Alejandro Zaera-Polo.

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AD - Design Through Making


Design Through Making (Architectural Design)
Academy Press | 2005-08-19 | ISBN: 0470090936 | 144 pages | PDF | 17 MB
Most architects who build do not make buildings; they make information that makes buildings. Making buildings requires acquiring knowledge not only of the world of information exchange, but also of the world of making things. It is an expertise that goes beyond the architectural drawing and an expertise that many designers cannot claim to fully possess or practice.

Design through Making is not only directed at architects, but engineers, educators, fabricators, machine operators, and anyone with an interest in the manifestation of ideas. It seeks to challenge outmoded notions that building production is preceded by design, and making is merely the cooking of the raw, or the end game where no further design ideas are explored. Here, a hybrid mode is recognised where the investigation of ideas is fully engaged with the tactile, physical nature of architecture and building processes. It is an issue that celebrates the re-emergence of making, not merely as an immense resource for ideas, experimentation and customisation, but as a critical resource that will redefine architectural practices.

This title includes the work of Block Architecture, Mark Burry, Thomas Heatherwick Studios and Walter Pichler; there is also a special feature on Japanese traditions in architecture. Contributors include: Iain Borden, Sarah Chaplin, David Dunster, Jonathan Hill and Mark Prizeman.

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AD - Architextile


Architextiles (Architectural Design)
Academy Press | 2007-01-10 | ISBN: 0470026340 | 136 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Focusing on the intersections between textiles and architectural design, this title communicates the full range of possibilities for a multidisciplinary design hybrid. It examines the generative concepts, forms, patterns, materials, processes, technologies and practices that are driving this cross-fertilisation in contemporary urban and architectural design. Architextiles represent a transition stage in the reorientation of spatial design towards a more networked, dynamic, interactive, communicative and multifunctional state. The paradigms of fashion and textile design, with their unique, accelerated aesthetics and ability to embody a burgeoning, composite and complex range of properties such as lightness, flow, flexibility, surface, complexity and movement have a natural affinity with architecture's shifts towards a more liquid state. The preoccupation with textiles in architecture challenges traditional perceptions and practices in interior, architectural, urban, textile and fashion design. Interweaving new designs and speculative projects for the future, Architextiles, brings together architects, designers, engineers, technologists, theorists and materials researchers to unravel these new methodologies of fabricating space.

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AD - Landscape Architecture: Site-Non-Site


Landscape Architecture: Site-Non-Site (Architectural Design)
Academy Press | 2007-05-08 | ISBN: 0470034793 | 146 pages | PDF | 23 MB
Charting the latest advances in thinking and practice in 21st-century landscape, this edition of AD looks at the degree to which landscape architects and architects have rethought and redefined the parameters for the interaction of buildings, infrastructures and surrounding landscape. Landscape Architecture: Site-Non-Site defines the key moves affected in the revision of landscape, using a compilation of some of the most current work in the field. Featured designers include: James Corner of Field Operations, Kathryn Findlay, Adriaan Geuze of West 8, Gross Max, Bernard Lassus, Gustafson Porter, Maggie Ruddick, Ken Smith and Michael van Valkenburgh. There are contributions from Lucy Bullivant, Peter Cook, Jayne Merkel, Juhani Pallasmaa and Grahame Shane.

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AD - New Urban China


New Urban China (Architectural Design)
Academy Press | 2008-11-03 | ISBN: 0470751223 | 136 pages | PDF | 17 MB
China is undergoing a process of unprecedented urbanisation, with cities often being built from scratch in just three to five years. It is projected that 400 new cities will be built over the next 20 years with newly urbanised populations of over 240 million. So rapid and intense is this process that consumption of energy and natural resources is outstripping supply, posing unique challenges for the creation of sustainable cities. This issue focuses on how cities are being ‘Made in China’ today and how their development is to impact on the future of cities worldwide.

* Provides the inside story with contributions from Chinese urbanists, academics and commentators.
* Features an interview on Dongtan with Peter Head of Arup
* Dedicates a special section to the emerging generation of Chinese architects: Zhang Ke of standardarchitecture, Atelier Zhanglei, MAD, MADA s.p.a.m. and URBANUS.

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Friday, May 7, 2010

Building Design Construction - 10/2008

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

ETFE: Technology and Design

ETFE:  Technology and Design
“ETFE: Technology and Design”,
Annette LeCuyer

Birkhäuser Basel | 2008-07-25 | ISBN: 3764385634 | 160 pages | PDF | 46,5 MB

Product Description

ETFE foil has recently become an important material for the cladding of technologically sophisticated and innovative buildings. This material is very thin and lightweight and, when used in air-filled cushion assemblies, has enormous strength and a range of adaptive environmental attributes. ETFE cushion enclosures became known primarily through Grimshaw Architects’ Eden Project and Herzog + de Meuron’s Allianz Arena, and they are being used on the spectacular swimming stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the largest ETFE building envelope in the world so far.
This book is conceived as an in-depth introduction to the characteristics of ETFE and its applications in construction. Project examples explore in detail the specific characteristics of ETFE building skins in the areas of structural behavior, light transmission, insulation, acoustics, fire engineering and environmental modification.

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Monday, May 3, 2010

Archmodels vol.63

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Archmodels vol. 63
Evermotion Team offers you an Archmodels 63 Collection a complete new way of creating your own scenes for professional exterior renders. There are no boundaries anymore, no limitations except your own imagination. With just a few mouse clicks you can prepare beautiful hedges and walls around your buildings, colorful lawns, realistic stairs and streets that will breathe life into your scenes.This collection comes with 38 sets with over 470 visualization puzzles. Why waste costly time for making something that you can have from the best at Evermotion?
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