Архитектура

For the first time, a design manual for practicing professionals, drawing on the collective experience of the most senior and respected figures in the rapidly-emerging field of straw bale construction. This is the only book that provides truly useful information to architects, engineers, building officials and builders who want to design intelligently with plastered straw bales.

The Bible of breakthroughs and inspiration! Poised at the start of the 21st century, we can see clearly that the previous century was marked by momentous changes in the field of design. Aesthetics entered into everyday life with often staggering results. Our homes and workplaces turned into veritable galleries of style and innovation. From furniture to graphics, it’s all here - the work of artists who have shaped and recreated the modern world with a dizzying variety of materials. From the organic to the geometric, from Art Deco, through to Pop and High-Tech, this book contains all the great names - Bernhard, Bertoia, De Stijl, Dieter Rams, Starck, Charles and Ray Eames, to name only a very few. This essential book is a comprehensive journey through the shapes and colors, forms and functions of design history in the 20th century. An A-Z of designers and design schools, which builds into a complete picture of contemporary living. Lavishly illustrated, this is design in the fullest sense.

Kit Kemp is back with another colourful and exciting interiors book that showcases her unique approach to design.

For over 20 years, Kit Kemp has been at the forefront of the international design community, developing a signature style which mixes contemporary works of art by both well-known artists and unknowns -- all of whom paint with soul as much as skill -- with Kit's own furniture designs, antiques and junk shop finds, all set against a layered backdrop of luxurious fabrics, bespoke wallpapers and hand-finished detailing which creates instant impact. In Design Thread, Kit shares the inspiration behind her creative process: whether it's a house in the country or a city pied-a-terre, a hotel suite or beach bar, her unique eye for design shines through. Kit considers every element of her interiors in detail, each one treated as a work of art in its own right, with an emphasis on creating personal, authentic, handcrafted spaces which capture the imagination and stand the test of time.

Alongside the stunning images of room sets and detailed close-ups, from her hotels to her private residences, there will be great insight into the inspirations behind Kit's work, including her design collaborations.

About the Author:

Award-winning interior designer Kit Kemp is known for her stylish and witty interiors. With her husband, Tim, she owns Firmdale Hotels, a group of luxury hotels in London and New York, including The Whitby Hotel which opened in New York in 2017. She has collaborated with prestigious brands around the world, including tableware for Wedgwood, furniture and accessories for Anthropologie, fabrics and wallpapers for Christopher Farr, Chelsea Textiles and Andrew Martin, and carpets for Wilton Carpets. She has also created the RIKRAK range of bath and body products

The most helpful book ever for home decorators working out color combinations they will love. Find the best ideas and advice for every room in your house, all in one place. Get tips and color design coaching on everything from bolds to neutrals from some of the leading designers and architects practicing today. Design a friendly family room, a hardworking office space, or a bedroom sanctuary. Discover the best strategies for making your home a reflection of your personal tastes. Learn innovative ways to be eco-friendly with new "green" paints and techniques.

An inspiring walk through the most beautiful international creations of the architecture and design agency FG stijl, based in Amsterdam. Features exclusive top restaurants (such as Michelin's three-starred Parkheuvel), stylish shops and interiors of hotels and houses in Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna and more. A source of inspiration for interior decoration and creating atmosphere, with photographs by British top photographer James Stokes.

FG stijl was founded by Colin Finnegan and Gerard Clintmeijer. They celbrated their ten-year existence in 2005, and were recently awarded for decorating the College Hotel in Amsterdam. Thanks to their decoration of several top restaurants in the Netherlands, they have conquered a position at the top of interior designers.

Мы живем в коробке, но в какой коробке! Работая в условиях замкнутого пространства, современные архитекторы и дизайнеры стремятся выполнить сложную задачу: обеспечить дом всем необходимым и при этом не "съедать" пространство; одновременно быть окном в мир и местом для отдыха и досуга. Соответствовать вкусу каждого, создавая поразительный симбиоз простора в городской квартире и первоклассного дизайна.

Living in a box - and what a box is it! Today, a tastefully designed and furnished apartment may offer just as much comfort as a whole house. Contemporary architecture and modern design have accepted the challenge, creating exciting living environments under restricted space conditions. From wide, airy lofts to cozy maisonettes; on 800 pages, this volume presents highlights of modern living culture, designed and furnished by renowned architects and designers.

Designer Apartments presents the highlights of modern living culture, designed and furnished by renowned architects and designers. Plentiful color photographs, artful and intriguing in themselves, portray houses and apartments from all over the world, mirroring the culture and lifestyle of their occupants. Informative text and detailed floor plans and elevations complement the illustrations. This book is a genuine pleasure for all fans of urban and modern architecture and contemporary design.

Highlights
• Superlative color photographs, often fullpage, of exterior views, interior spaces, and architectural details
• Informative texts
• Detailed floor plans and elevations

This book presents eight outstanding projects by prominent contemporary architects and designers: inspiring villas, apartments and penthouses, where design plays a key role.

Designers Abroad, Michele Keith's follow-up to her highly successful book Designers Here and There, features twenty-two vacation homes of today's top interior designers, exquisitely captured in over 200 lush color photographs.

For some, vacation homes offer an opportunity to escape from the office, to shut off, to wind down. For decorators, however, vacation homes mean just the opposite — they provide the opportunity to bring work home as they roam the globe, honing their design sensibilities and expanding collections of treasures. Designers Abroad takes the reader on a tour of the world, from Sri Lanka to South Africa to Sweden, by peeking into the gorgeously appointed homes of renowned interior designers. In lively and dynamic text, Michele Keith explores how they incorporate the distinct and native character a foreign land into their second homes, all the while expressing personal style. Embracing new cultures’ climates, architectural traditions, and indigenous art, fabrics, and furniture, each designer creates a space at once comfortable and glamorous, a place of solace and inspiration.

Designers Abroad offers inside peeks into residences ranging from a chic studio in Paris to a house perched on windswept cliffs in Nova Scotia, from a beachside abode nestled among boulders in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to a former monastery outside Rome dating back to the fifteenth century. Each project is accompanied by the story of how its design was conceived and executed, and how the attributes of each country inspired its owners — including Lars Bolander, Alessandra Branca, Clodagh, Timothy Corrigan, Mica Ertegun, Fisher Weisman, Juan Pablo Molyneux, Juan Montoya, and Cortney and Robert Novogratz, among others. Designers Abroad demonstrates how these designers incorporate their passion for travel into their own interiors, and thus inspires readers to add a touch of the exotic to their own homes.

During the week, interior designers select fabulous fabrics, furniture, paint, lighting, and accessories for clients’ homes. On the weekends, they can devote themselves to beautifying their own. Materials and finishes that later appear in commissioned work often appear here first, as designers use the rooms and walls of their primary and secondary residences like a blank canvas for perfecting details and techniques central to their trade.

Thirty-eight private primary and vacation residences belonging to today’s most renowned decorators from around the country inspire with full-color images of exquisitely appointed chic city apartments, elegant townhouses, minimalist midcentury gems, quaint cottages, historic mansions and farmhouses, cozy log cabins, and beachside retreats in locations ranging from Palm Desert to Palm Beach, Austin, Chicago, East Hampton, and Boston.

Michele Keith’s lively, accessible text brings each distinct personality to life, revealing how and why the designers gravitate to styles ranging from firmly traditional to coolly contemporary to Hollywood Regency, how the attributes of each location - setting, proportions, and character - influence design direction, and how designers including Martha Angus, Barclay Butera, Eric Cohler, Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman, Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz, Eve Robinson, and Vicente Wolf choose to spend time in the intensely personal spaces they have created. Each designer’s top five favorite decorating tips encourage all eager to perfect their own homes to begin.

From the creative team behind Stone comes another comprehensive study of one of nature's greatest decorating materials: wood. Both an inspirational style guide and a technical manual, Designing a Home with Wood features this fundamental element in every imaginable adaptation: carved entryways, ornate moldings, inlaid floors, beamed ceilings, kitchen cabinetry, and more.

Extensively illustrated with more than 250 full-color photographs, it is sure to inform the professional contractor as well as the do-it-yourselfer.

The book is divided into four sections:

Part 1 identifies the types of wood utilized in interiors, including domestic species like oak, pine, and cedar; exotic varieties like bamboo, cork, and teak; and reclaimed pieces from barn siding, abandoned buildings, and antique furniture.

Part 2 suggests the many ways wood can be employed throughout the house, and spotlights accents like wainscoting and shutters.

Part 3 describes different styles, stains, and finishes of wood, along with how-to instructions for creating your own specialized effects.

Part 4 offers an appendix on purchasing and maintaining wood surfaces - well as a complete section of “stain-and-grain” swatches. Meticulously researched and magnificently presented, this is the indispensable reference for using wood in home decor.

Like working hours, which have changed significantly over the years, so too have the places in which we work. Offices, once enclosed to ensure privacy are now, in many cases, open and transparent, with few dividing screens. Finishes and materials once used exclusively in homes now appear in offices, creating warm environments conducive to productivity and creativity. New attitudes to collaborative work have encouraged the development of 'breakout' spaces, informal meeting areas, and fully equipped kitchens and entertainment areas. New technology used in offices has led to changes in design, as have the expectations of employees for more pleasant working environments that incorporate natural light, ventilation and flexibility in the use of space. The book explores, through full-colour photographs and descriptive text, more than 50 different offices, from home offices, experimental spaces, and traditional offices, to those more akin to 5-star hotels. The author's aim is to encourage us all to re-think our workspaces.

The first part of this book explores Arabella Lennox-Boyd's philosophy and establishes the principles of her approach to design: the importance of relating the garden not only to the landscape but also to the spirit of the house and the individuality of the owner; how to establish the bare bones of a design – enclosing garden rooms, and opening up garden space; how to use vertical structures to best effect; and how to clothe bare bones with plants appropriate to the type of garden. Design ideas for everything from paving and pergolas to perennial plantings burst from every page, captured in Andrew Lawson's atmospheric images and Lennox-Boyd's plans.

The second part of the book looks in detail at more than 20 very different gardens, many these are private and never photographed before.

DESIGING PUBLIC TOILETS presents a compilation of the most outstanding projects worldwide completed in the last two years. With 288 stimulating and inspiring pages, the book showcases more than 50 different public spaces with colour photos which illustrate the last tendencies in urban design. Each projects accompanied by exact line drawings and detailed descriptions that show the transformation such spaces have undergone in the last years.

This book shows the full creative potential of the computer. Packed both with practical applications and new concepts, it demonstrates that computers do not simply perform old tasks more efficiently, but enable us to generate whole new worlds. Robin Baker shows how the computer is potentially the firmest bridge ever built between the two cultures of art and science: once simply a tool for handling abstract symbols, it has engendered - with the advent of VDU technology - the electronic image, and with it a new form of expression. Initially, paint systems and 2-D and 3-D drafting programmes simply transferred traditional methods onto the screen; now our entire visual landscape - from architecture and interior design to film and graphics, from fashion and jewellery to printmaking and industrial design - is being transformed.

Virtual Reality allows 'solid' objects to be viewed from within; shape grammar gives architects the opportunity to recreate any building in an infinite range of forms; neural networks make computers 'see' like humans; rapid prototyping creates an immediate physical model of an electronic design; genetic algorithms provide instant 'generations' of design forms with controlled or uncontrolled mutations; hyperpublishing produces 'personal' magazines or books, created by electronic 'agents' responding to individual needs. Some of these incredible concepts are now actively being used; others lie in the near future. All of them give us a greater capacity for "Designing the Future" than ever before. For the vast audience in the fine and applied arts, in business, in education and in the home for whom the computer has become indispensable, this is essential reading.