Архитектура

This richly illustrated monograph tells the comprehensive inside story of one of the greatest architecture achievements in the history of Oklahoma City, and the state's tallest building: the Devon Energy Center. The story begins with the project's origins in Oklahoma City's need for community redevelopment and a desire for corporate growth, through its elegant and collaborative design process, to its complex construction and realization. Intended for everyone interested in the development of landmark structures and 21st-century skyscrapers, the book is both technical and highly visual, including an impressive collection of the concept and architectural drawings and models by Pickard Chilton, the project's Design Architect. Each expertly crafted component of this complex development including its heaven-piercing tower, its glass rotunda, the free-standing Devon Auditorium, the 50th-story restaurant, Devon Gardens, and its exquisite palette of materials are discussed and featured. The monograph concludes with a visual essay of beautiful photographs of the completed project, captured by some of the country's premiere architectural photographers.

Authored by architecture critic Michael J. Crosbie, the narrative takes the reader through the Center's complex history, addressing the project's grand urban design and its vital impact on the civic, social, and urban fabric of the city. Dr. Crosbie also relates tales and insights gained from interviews of the project's many collaborators: Devon Energy, developers, and the many architecture, design, engineering, and construction professionals. The text reveals the project as both an immense collaborative effort and as a singular vision of the philanthropic Devon Executive Chairman, Larry Nichols.

Ce très important ouvrage d’érudition aborde l’ensemble des constituants matériels et immatériels de l’oeuvre peinte. Sous forme de dictionnaire, il s’adresse à tous les publics autour de la peinture et de l’histoire de l’art. Les sujets sont approfondis et offrent des connaissances multiples dans les domaines suivants : les techniques et pratiques de la peinture ; les matériaux et leur chimie ; l’histoire de l’art, de l’esthétique et de la philosophie.

La réédition de ce dictionnaire de référence comble un manque. Publié en 1890, cet ouvrage traite de l’ensemble des thèmes relatifs à l’ameublement et à la décoration. Il comporte de nombreuses définitions et références artistiques et constitue un support dans la connaissance et l’analyse des objets et des lieux par les amateurs et les professionnels.

2600 entrées, 980 pages, 4540 illustrations.
Ce livre est la réédition du célèbre Dictionnaire de Menuiserie, Ébénisterie et Charpente datant du début du XXe siècle. Il s’agit du dictionnaire le plus complet jamais publié sur le sujet, travail considérable qui demanda cinq années de travail à une équipe de spécialistes.
C’est une mine de renseignements où le lecteur trouvera la définition de milliers de termes techniques utilisés par les artisans du bois, coiffant tout le vocabulaire spécifique ou commun aux trois disciplines. Il permet de connaître la terminologie dont la plus grande partie est toujours en usage de nos jours,.et donne des indications précieuses sur les méthodes traditionnelles utilisées dans les métiers du bois. De très nombreux dessins techniques, schémas et illustrations viennent enrichir les définitions.
L’édition originale comprend trois volumes. Elle est ici reproduite en fac-similé mais légèrement réduite en taille, ce qui permet de la proposer en un seul tome plus maniable.
Pour l’anecdote, on peut remarquer que ce Dictionnaire est une rareté éditoriale, puisqu’à partir de la page 144 qui est doublée, les pages impaires se retrouvent à gauche.

Public : Ce livre s’adresse aux professionnels comme aux amateurs. Il intéressera tous ceux qui travaillent le bois ou veulent simplement connaître les termes, les techniques et les outils utilisés dans les métiers du bois.
Un complément plus moderne est le Nouveau Dictionnaire pratique du bois de Georges Cartannaz.

Die Avantgarde-Architektur der 20er Jahre wird heute fast ausschließlich mit dem Bauhaus oder Le Corbusier assoziiert. »Neues Bauen«, für konservative Zeitgenossen seinerzeit ein Schimpfwort, in seiner deutschen Sprachfassung jedoch bald international ein Begriff, beschränkte sich aber keineswegs nur auf die westlichen Metropolen. Nach der Oktoberrevolution von 1917 begann sich das junge sowjetische Rußland zu formieren und auch nach außen als radikal neu darzustellen. Neu waren schließlich auch die Bauaufgaben: Gewerkschaftshäuser und Arbeiterclubs, Kraftwerke und Fabriken, kollektive Wohnanlagen und Sanatorien für die Werktätigen, staatliche Großkaufhäuser, Partei- und Verwaltungsbauten, ein Mausoleum für Lenin… Nicht nur in Moskau und St. Petersburg, auch im fernen Baku (Aserbaidschan), in Sochi am Schwarzen Meer oder im ukrainischen Charkow hielt die Moderne Einzug mit Bauten aus Glas, Stahl und Beton. Utopie, Bauhaus-Ästhetik und russischer Konstruktivismus fanden sich hier in einem auch quantitativ einzigartigen Experiment, das damals weltweit Aufsehen erregte: Avantgarde pur. Wie in Deutschland endete dieses innovative Abenteuer Anfang der 30er Jahre, als die politische und akademische Reaktion die Führung in der Partei übernahm. Die Auflösung der UdSSR 1991 gab den letzten Zeugen dieses so kurzlebigen Aufbruchs in die Moderne schließlich den Rest. Bis auf wenige prominente Ausnahmen erst verunstaltet, dann vergessen und verwahrlost, wurde ein Viertel der noch existierenden Bauten in den letzten Jahren Opfer der Spekulation. Das Buch dokumentiert die Relikte dieser »verlorenen Avantgarde« in ebenso beeindruckenden wie ernüchternden Photographien, die der renommierte britische Architekturphotograph Richard Pare auf mehreren Reisen durch die ehemaligen Sowjetrepubliken in den 90er Jahren aufgenommen hat.

Посмотреть избранные развороты книги  Die verlorene Avantgarde: Russische Revolutionsarchitektur 1922-1932  в pdf-формате на сайте издательства.

Русскоязычное издание книги Потерянный авангард. Русская модернистская архитектура 1922-1932

Today's explosive developments in digital technology have also affected architecture and the urban landscape.

The new possibilities opened up by digital simulation have led to an increasingly strategic approach to planning, an approach based on generating scenarios, which thus represents a radical departure from traditional planning. From the preliminary sketch all the way to the production of individual building components, digital tools offer new possibilities that were still inconceivable just a few years ago.

This volume provides a profound introduction to the important role of digital technologies in design and execution. In four chapters, the author systematically examines the influence of digital culture on architecture but also on the urban landscape as well as product design. The relationship of digital architecture to the city is also an important focus.

This book singles out the approaches of architects or interior designers around the world and makes use of graphic images to settle the principles of their works. With the book, you can have a chance to recognize their architectural thinking and creative idea and meet new spatial concepts.

Contents
6 Son-O-House
12 Stockholm City Library
20 Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum
28 National Library of the Czech Republic
34 Skyscraper Competition 2007
40 National Library of the Czech Republic
50 Theatre Agora
62 ephemeralMATTER
72 Para-city
76 Dragonfly
86 Rossignol"s Global Headquarters
94 Les Tribunes - Philharmonie de Paris
106 Paris Courthouse(TGI)
112 Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art
122 Casitas Gradient Housing
132 Euroscraper
138 Watercube, National Swimming Center
148 People"s Building(REN)
152 Hydropolis
158 technoCLOUD
164 Light House
172 DMC B6/2 Office Building
180 Zero Restrain Mobility
186 Rooted Flow, Seoul Performing Arts Center
192 Fake Plastic Trees
198 Sustainable Dance Club
206 C_Wall
210 Tulum Site Museum
214 National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center
220 Bahai Temple for South America
226 Ozeaneum
232 MUMUT Theatre
240 New Health Science Campus for the University of Granada
250 Renewal of "Giustintano Imperatore?Area
258 Mixed-use Towers in Fujian
264 Los Angeles, 2107
270 Rotating Tower
276 Euro Plaza
280 Terra Incognita
286 Linked Hybrid
298 Apartments in Schwerzenbach
304 An Inverted Skyscraper Typology
310 adaptiveARCHIVE
314 Renovation and New Building for the Madrid Architectural Society
322 Floating Island, National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing(MONAC)
328 New Headquarters for the Province of Arezzo
336 SKIM.COM
344 DADAGROWTH
352 Kindergarten Tree of Dreams
358 Flat City Link City Zero City

This book singles out the approaches of architects or interior designers around the world and makes use of graphic images to settle the principles of their works. With the book, you can have a chance to recognize their architectural thinking and creative idea and meet new spatial concepts.

Contents

6 Stockholm Public Library
14 Health Sciences Campus, University of Granada
20 Jeongok Museum of Pre-History
28 Estonian Academy of the Arts + Prototype
34 Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition, Shenzhen
40 Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition(MoCAPE)
48 Nestl?Chocolate Museum
56 Automotion Museum
64 Organization of Islamic Conference(OIC), Jeddah
72 Daalma
80 National Library of the Czech Republic
88 Sundsvall Performing Arts Theater
96 Cipea
102 CentrePointe
110 Metonymic Landscape
118 Dongdaemun World Design Park & Complex
124 European Solidarity Center
130 Abbey Mills Riverine Islamic Center
136 Mermaid Wellness Center
142 Lilypad
152 Anti-Smog Paris
160 Mountain Dwellings
166 VM House
176 Maritime Youth House
182 Jellyfish House
190 Conway House
202 20?Isometric House
210 Mersey Observation Deck
216 Novosibirsk Summer Pavilion
222 Auditorium & Movie theater, Saint cyprien
230 Aurum(PS1 MoMA 2007-Finalist)
238 PS1 MoMA 2008
246 Convex Hull
256 Tower Infinity
264 Inverse Obelisk
274 City Tower
282 Cheongna City Tower
290 Ecomic Mexico City
298 Eiffel DNA
306 Freaks Towers
314 Hydro-Net History Channel, City of the Future : San Francisco, 2108
322 Multipurpose Urban Mix
328 Perfumed Jungle - Hong Kong
336 Playa Lava
342 Central Open Space
348 Masterplan in Vilnius
356 Nabilrera
364 Hill Fantasia

A richly illustrated survey of advances in creative computing and its impact on fashion, textiles and related digital sectors

The invention of the Jacquard loom in the 18th-century century paved the way for computing and revolutionary change. Since then, code has evolved to enable new methods in design, visualization and production, achieving the previously unimaginable.

Digital Visions for Fashion and Textiles considers how computing has reinvented image, material and structural processes, highlighting advancing 2D, 3D and interactive output. Digital/analogue fusions are defining new contexts for innovative fabrication.

Twenty-two of the most forward-thinking practitioners are profiled here. Featured are household names, such as Hussein Chalayan, Prada and Issey Miyake, early pioneers (Vibeke Riisberg, Peter Struycken) and more independent, avant-garde individuals (Iris van Herpen, Casey Reas, Tom Gallant).

Complete with a reference section and bibliographic information, this unique book is the perfect resource and inspiration for designers, students, industry professionals, and anyone looking for an exploration of how computer technology has permeated fashion, textiles and related digital sectors.

Includes profiles of 22 designers at the vanguard of these developments:

Savithri Bartlett • Basso & Brooke • Daniel Brown • Hussein Chalayan 
Joshua Davis • Hil Driessen • Tom Gallant • Louise Goldin • Jane Harris 
Jakob Schlaepfer • Michiko Koshino • Issey Miyake • Nuno • Prada 
Casey Reas • Vibeke Riisberg • Jonathan Saunders • Peter Struycken 
Simon Thorogood • Nancy Tilbury • Iris van Herpen • Sonja Weber

Doctors’ practices have become a new frontier in construction. Architects and designers around the world have risen to the challenge, successfully creating environments that are as innovative and inviting as they are functional. The patient finds himself or herself in well designed and comfortable surroundings, which contribute as much to the process of healing and recovery as well as the technical equipment and medical competence.

This title features 60 different offices and practices created for a wide variety of fields, from dentistry and pediatrics to Traditional Chinese Medicine. The architects and designers featured demonstrate the most creative solutions to the very particular demands of the healthcare sector.

From the contents:

_Dental Practice Gdent in Vittoria, Spain (Francesc Rifé)
_Mid Atlantic Skin-Surgery Institut in Washington, DC, USA (Forma Architect)
_Ear, Nose and Throat Center  in Tokyo, Japan (L2ds)
_Embryocare Clinic in Athenes, Greece (mab architects)
_Pediatrics and Traditional Medecine Practice in Cologne, Germany (100% interior)

DOLOMITI is the first in a collection of annual books on the Dolomites, with a different and more detailed view than that offered by the traditional iconography of this place, recently declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO. This view, the result of the overlapping work in photography, architecture and urban planning is explained together with research on the alpine landscape produced by the Dolomites Workshop, established at the University of Trento in cooperation with other European schools of architecture. This first volume consists of original images by photographer Gregor Sailer and a series of texts describing the various stages of the UNESCO nomination process.

DOLOMITI è il primo di una collezione di volumi annuali sulle Dolomiti, con uno sguardo diverso e più acuto rispetto alla iconografia tradizionale di questi luoghi, di recente patrimono Unesco. Uno sguardo frutto del lavoro incrociato tra fotografia, architettura e urbanistica che articolano, insieme, ricerche sul paesaggio alpino nell’Atelier Around Dolomiti, istituito presso l'Università di Trento in collaborazione con altre Scuole di Architettura europee.
Questo primo volume è composto da originali immagini del fotografo Gregor Sailer e da una serie di testi che descrivono i diversi passaggi, dalla candidatura Unesco, alla natura delle Dolomiti, fino alle prime ricerche avviate sul questo affascinante complesso naturale.
"Geoscape" è la sintesi che rappresenta al meglio l'area dolomitica, frutto di uno straordinario incrocio tra geografia e geologia determinanti il paesaggio, ma alludendo anche ad una nuova maniera di affrontare la conoscenza e il progetto per i contesti di particolare sensibilità.

An acclaimed interior designer and author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Modern Glamour, Kelly Wearstler presents sumptuous photographs of one of her most incredible design achievements yet -- her family home, the Hillcrest Estate

With her impeccable taste, fearless technique, and discerning eye for color, shape, pattern, and texture, Kelly Wearstler's status as an internationally acclaimed interior designed is unparalleled. With buoyant ease, she will confidently cover walls in iconic graphics, select a captivating animal figure as a focal point, or add a lush expanse of contrasting color to an otherwise monochromatic space. Combining grace and flawless skill, she can change a simple room into a work of art. Her home is no exception. Domicilium Decoratus reveals the most private and challenging undertaking of her career: her family's timeless, astonishingly designed residence.

Originally published as a limited-edition book, Domicilium Decoratus features breathtaking photography of Wearstler's very personal design achievement. Readers' imaginations can wander through this personal haven -- from its fourteen-foot ceilings and windows, walls of glass and layers of warm, opulent color, to its witty details, sophisticated materials and finishes, and ornate collection of artifacts gathered from five continents over many years of travel. Hillcrest Estate is a tour de force, confirming Wearstler's place as an interior designer of consummate skill and singular flair. Domicilium Decoratus discloses her personal masterpiece -- a private and enchanting domestic hideaway.

About the Author:

Kelly Wearstler is the author of Modern Glamour and the founder of the Los Angeles architectural interior design firm kwid (Kelly Wearstler Interior Design). Her designs for the trendsetting Viceroy resorts from California to the Caribbean; such taste-making hotels as Maison 140 and Avalon; unique office, retail, and leisure spaces, including BG restaurant and lounge in Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman; and upscale residences such as the Trousdale Estate have been profiled in House and Garden, House Beautiful, Interior Design, Elle Décor, Vogue, and W. Wearstler is also designer of her own kwid line of furnishings and accessories. She lives in Beverly Hills with her husband, hotelier Brad Korzen, and their sons.