» Từ khóa: architecture

In 1949, the photographer Lucien Herve took photographs of Unite dHabitation, an innovative apartment building in Marseille, France. He sent them to the building's architect, Le Corbusier, who immediately realised that after forty years of searching he had finally found a photographer with an architect's soul. Their seminal collaboration is extensively documented in this album of 1200 cardboard sheets of Herve's carefully edited, sequenced and...

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Từ khóa: modernist architecture, photography, commercial

The influence of the Austrian architect and designer Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) is extraordinary: for a period of over 60 years he kept up an aesthetic dialog with Modernism, the International Style, and Art Deco. Before being rediscovered in the 1980s by the Post-Modernists, his work was nearly forgotten; now his importance is unquestioned. As a designer he was one of the leading proponents of the Wiener Werkstätte, with its close connection...

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Từ khóa: English books, architecture...

This book gives an overview of contemporary French landscape architecture, to position it, and to offer an immediate and useful resource for policy makers and professionals involved in this field, as well as for everyone who plays a part, consciously or not, in the history of today's landscape.

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Từ khóa: Landscape architecture, Design

Celebrating 30 years of the career of architect Curtis Fentress-student of IM Pei-internationally renowned for iconic airport design-world's most prominent airport designer Considered the world leader in designing iconic public architecture, Curtis Fentress is redefining the art of civic buildings. In Touchstones of Design [redefining public architecture] Fentress presents his design philosophy-eight "touchstones" that have guided him...

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Từ khóa: Fentres Architecture, Public Architecture

Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit Nouveau in 1920. The few buildings he was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and writing, brought him to the forefront of modern architecture. But it was not until after World War II that his epoch-making buildings were constructed, such as the Unite d'Habitation...

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Từ khóa: Design, modern architecture.

Thriving China is a collection of recent contemporary Chinese architecture. The 35 projects selected from 16 well known contemporary Chinese architects reveal a glimpse of the ambition to integrate Western styles alongside a devotion to Chinese heritage, Their efforts in re-interpreting Chinese architecture in a global context cab be seen in these projects which include Museums, industrial and Media Parks, Community , Cultural and Tourist...

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Từ khóa: Architecture, Modern, 21st century, Case studies.

An introduction to housing in the United States: its characteristic forms and its environmental implications. What are the basic requirements for a home? Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family home, in three possible forms: freestanding house, attached house, and apartment. She discusses interior spaces, connections to the...

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Từ khóa: Architecture, Environmental aspects, United States

The buildings burned in our memories, which to us represent the spirit of ’50s and ’60s architectural design, were those whose pictures were widely published in magazines and books. The exchange of visual information is crucial to the development, evolution, and promotion of architectural movements. If a building is not widely seen, its photograph rarely or never published, it simply does not enter into architectural discourse. Many...

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Từ khóa: English books, architecture...

A monograph of one of Britain's most internationally acclaimed architects. Representing the latest generation of the universally popular High Tech movement - and one of its most refined practitioners - McAslan has built his reputation on a combination of sensitive restoration/renovation projects and slick new buildings. An introduction by established architect critic Kenneth Powell gives an overview of McAslan's influences and his career,...

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Từ khóa: English books, architecture...

With the rapid development of the economy and tremendous changes in technology in contemporary China, people are no longer satisfied with the existing living condistions and they demand more comfort, variety, and adaptability. In addition to ensuring a continuing supply of houses, it is increasingly important to improve the functional quality in residential space design. The human-oriented concept pays more attention to the relationship...

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Từ khóa: English books, architecture houses..

HOPSCA (hotel, office, parking, shopping mall, convention, and apartment) is a rising concept for architecture design. With the fast pace of urbanization, we search for an efficient self-sufficient urban model. The projects here make a breakthrough from traditional single-function projects such as commercial places, offices, residences, entertaining places, transportation projects, and so on, to the establishment of organic relationships among...

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Từ khóa: Architecture, urban model

This book celebrates the adventurous innovation of the Bauhaus movement, both as a trailblazer in the development of modernism, and as a paradigm of art education, where an all-encompassing freedom of creative expression and cutting-edge ideas led to functional and beautiful creations.

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Từ khóa: Art, craftsmanship, and technology, design, architecture, film, photography...