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In this book, Helmut Jahn is revealed as an architect committed to exploring the material and perceptual possibilities of creating architecture in a new millennium, one with 'a simplicity of form and construction and a clear expression of its component parts and purpose,' as he describes it. Jahn's designs are both rational and intuitive; he attempts to give each building its own philosophical and intellectual base, and establishes an opportunity to exploit its particular elements to achieve a visual and communicative statement. He is committed to design excellence and the improvement of the urban environment. Now collaborating with structural, mechanical, and environmental engineers, along with physicists and materials manufacturers, Jahn is creating buildings that push glazing technology, environmental systems, and urban place-making to the limits. Introduction by Michael J. Crosbie, an internationally recognised architect, author, journalist, critic, and teacher.

In the long period of adapting to social development, museums have become cultural complexes with multiple functions. With the development of society, the functions of museums are also changing constantly, while new functions, new forms, new solutions and new collections emerge continually. With the development of social culture, science and technology, the quantity and types of museums are increasing. Combining with the development status of museums in different regions, this book introduces features of contemporary museums and summarises design features and standards in various aspects of architectural design, interior layout, lighting design, etc. It is a quality reference for architects and other professionals in the field of architectural design.

As a carrier of human cultural information, the museum is a global cultural facility, which evolves into new functions and forms during the endless social development and gradually develops into a multi-functional cultural complex. The age of traditional collecting and exhibiting functions has passed by; the contemporary museum architecture needs to meet more requirements.

The book selects excellent competition entries and design proposals for art museums, science museums, history museums and local complex museums all over the world since 2007. The rich materials will present the readers a complete design process and reveal current museum development tendency, which have positive guidance and reference for museum design practitioners.

Museums are the mental park of cities. In the long period of social development they have been assembled with multi-functions and become an indispensable part of a city. Then as the complex of culture - how do they perfectly combine the architectural design and cultural contents together? In this book are selected 45 excellent projects of museum display all over the world. The book comprehensively introduces every key point of museum display design to the readers, including space division, internal structure, the use of materials, decorative elements and etc. We believe it would serve as a practical reference for the readers and provide them some brand new design inspirations.

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To some extent, it is from museums that we learn about the past and present of a city. A museum is a materialised history; there, with the historical relics on display, we have dialogues with history. As we have realised that a museum would be a useful tool for the publicity of a city, museums have become projects that architects and designers most long for. In the book we selected 50 world-top museums, including history museums, art museums, science museums, etc. Each project is illustrated with pictures, plans and a brief introduction. While appreciating the museums, readers would learn more about the distinguished concepts and the distinct features of them.

Projects featured in this book:

Museum of Islamic Art
MAXXI: National Museum of XXI Arts
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Art Gallery of Alberta
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Akron Art Museum
New Wing of the Charleroi Museum of Photography
Herning Museum of Contemporary Art
Tampa Museum of Art
Jeju Museum
National Portrait Gallery
The Nerman Museum of Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kalmar Museum of Art
Hermitage Amsterdam
Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Moderna Museet Malmö
Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum
The Museum of Design Art + Architecture (MODAA)
Nakamura Kelth Haring Collection Art Museum
Museion
Rodin Museum Bahia
SSM
Royal Ontario Museum
Getty Villa
New Acropolis Museum
Archeological Museum of Álava
Davidson Museum
The Collection, Lincoln
Ljubljana City Museum
Colognese Mill, Bread Museum and Baking Workshop
Mercedes-Benz Museum
Dornier Museum
Darwin Centre
China Science and Technology Museum
Maritime Centre Vellamo
National Museum of the Marine Corps
Andalucia's Museum of Memory
Wyspianski 2000 Pavilion
Xi Gallery
Lightcatcher at the Whatcom Museum

… from the following designers:

Alberto Campo Baeza
Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten
Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki
Atelier Hitoshi Abe
Atsushi Kitagawara Architects
Bernard Tschumi
Brasil Arquitetura
C. F. Møller Architects
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Daici Ano
Fentress Architects
Francisco Fanucci & Marcelo Ferraz
Francisco Mangado
G.Lab* By Gansam Partners
Hans van Heeswijk Architects
I. M. Pei Architect (New York)
Ingarden & Ewy Architekci
Johnson Pilton Walker
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
Kimmel-Eshkolot Architects
KSV Krüger Schuberth Vandreike
Kyu Sung Woo Architects
L’Escaut Architectures/Olivier Bastin, Eloisa
Astudillo, Nele Stragier, Florence Hoffmann
Machado and Silvetti Associates
Mass Studies
Olson Kundig Architects
Panter Hudspith Architects
Randall Stout Architects
Rok Oman, Špela Videčnik, Rok Gerbec, Josip Konstantinovič, Karla Murovec, Damjan Brada
RTKL International Inc.
Beijing Institute of Architectural Design
SDL
Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects Inc
Steven Holl Architects
Steven Holl Architects
Studio Daniel Libeskind
Studio Pali Fekete architects (SPF:a)
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter
UNStudio
Zaha Hadid Architects

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In this book, the world’s most exciting new museums are shown to be as inspiring as the works they display.

The twenty-first century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations or additions to existing ones. Nearly thirty museums are given close inspection in this generously illustrated volume. Each entry includes a discussion of the building’s cultural and geographic environment, complemented by color photographs, sketches and architectural plans. The book encompasses four continents and highlights the designs of Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Steven Holl, Zaha Hadid, Mario Botta, David Chipperfield, Tadao Ando, Yoshio Taniguchi and Daniel Libeskind. In addition, the authors provide thoughtful commentary on the relationship between architecture and the fine arts and an assessment of museum functionality in modern times.

This book charts the history of muslin from India to Europe to America, illustrated by some of the finest examples from the V&A’s relatively unexplored collection of more than 900 objects, including men’s and women’s dress, dolls, and ballet costumes. Muslin has been used for everything from gowns for Mughal princes and delicate dresses to the humble baby’s diaper. Many Asian examples are dyed vivid colors and embellished with embroidery, gold, silver, spangles, and even propaganda, while in the West muslin was adapted to changing fashions throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and has been used by designers such as Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano.

About the Author:

Sonia Ashmore is a design historian specializing in aspects of cultural exchange and trade between Britain and Asia. She has been published widely and contributed to a number of V&A books, including British Asian Style.

The work of the MVRDV architectural studio can be seen as a symbol for the important turning point in Dutch architecture which took place in the 1990s and which set in motion a radical transformation of the country.

MVRDV, established in 1990, is made up of architects who studied under Rem Koolhaas. The practice is one of the most brilliant and stimulating exponents of recent Dutch modernism. Through its successful projects, international competitions and publications, it has demonstrated a new and experimental way of understanding and designing the contemporary city. At the end of the 1990s it took the spotlight with the VPRO building in Hilversum and the WoZoCo’s special residential buildings in Amsterdam; these projects were supported contemporaneously by the theoretical contributions entitled Farmax and Metacity/Datatown. MVRDV then gained international critical renown with the Dutch Pavilion for the Hanover Expo. The studio is one of the most dynamic concept and design realities in contemporary architecture, able to produce both theory and design, and actively renew the key words and language of architecture in the context of a reality in deep transformation.

This design philosophy can be seen in MVRDV’s most recent works, such as the two houses for Borneo-Sporenburg, the Silodam building of overlapping villas in Amsterdam, the Hageneiland village in Ypenburg, the Central Library in Brabant and the recent residential complex built in Madrid.

This publication by Michele Costanzo examines the entire body of MVRDV design work and theory, from its beginnings to recent thought-provoking buildings. In addition, it offers the reader an original critical look at contemporary Dutch architecture.

As minimalism in interior design becomes more prevalent, a new counter-movement has arisen.Eschewing the clean, precise, empty spaces minimalist themes promote, some homeowners and designers are adopting a resplendent, grand, baroque, look to their spaces. As a reaction against minimalism, this movement could only have one name: maximalism. This new movement is explored through exquisite photography of lush projects drawn from across the world.

Sze-king Kan, an architect who graduated in 1989 from the renowned AA (Architectural Association School of Architecture), has worked for internationally recognized architectural firm - Sir Richard Rogers Partnership (now renamed as Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Thames Wharf) and participated in the London Heathrow Airport project.

Kan returned to Hong Kong in 1996 and established CHK Partnership Ltd to promote his ideology of “Architerior” – minimalist aesthetics. During his school years, he had already won many awards; his interior design projects have also been awarded the APIDA and Perspective Awards. In his early career, he focused on restaurant designs; his projects include the COVA at Pacific Place, Pink Mao Mao at Happy Valley, Star of Shangdong, and over 30 other high class cuisine outlets. In recent years, Kan is engaged in office designs and independent residential projects.

Kan likes photography and mountain biking. Strongly influenced by Louis Kahn’s architectural philosophy, he enjoys seeing things with fresh eyes and unique interpretations.

Do you share your garden with a car? Worried that your neighbour’s trees are blocking your light? Is your garden too big? Too small? An awkward shape? Or maybe you just don’t know where to begin…

Whether you are grappling with a particular dilemma or just need some inspiration, this guide leads the way forward with sharp design advice and beautiful images. Read this book and the prospect of tackling your own garden will seem suddenly less daunting and more fun.

About the Author:

Kendra Wilson has access to some of the most remarkable gardens in England, while dissecting them for the American online publication Gardenista. With experience as a writer, picture editor and designer for Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler and Observer Food Monthly, she brings her unique perspective to the way gardens look and why they work.

Contents:

Introduction
I don’t know where to begin
I’m daunted by the garden I’ve inherited
My garden is overlooked on several sides
My garden is too small
My garden is a car park
I’ve spent all my money on the house
Free food for plants
My garden is excessively hot and dry
My garden is a passageway
I have room for one tree. What should it be?
My garden has no soil, just pots
My garden is too long and narrow
I’d like water without a water ‘feature’
Simple pools, rills, ponds
My garden is overshadowed by trees
I have nowhere to sit
I have high walls and railings
I don’t like gardening in the cold
Large front gardens: what’s the point?
My garden is full of old rubbish
Bomb-proof plants
My garden is under siege
Do painted walls cheer up a garden?
My garden is an awkward shape
My garden is like a child’s tea set
I detest orange in the garden
Are roses complicated?
Ways with roses
Does a cottage garden require a cottage?
Is a white garden a cliché?
Has decking been overdone?
I don’t have time to water regularly
How do cutting gardens work?
I’d like an elegant vegetable garden
Ways with willow and other pliable things
Will chickens destroy my garden?
 I garden on rock
My garden is like a bog
I want an English flower border
I’m worried by wasps
I hear that meadows are difficult
Gallery of grass
I am worried by my wisteria
Is formality out of the question?
I want trees for me, not the next generation
My garden collapses after June
There is nothing to look at in winter
My garden is on a steep slope
Inclines and changes of level
My garden is windy
My garden is too big
My garden is a field
I don’t like digging
My plants prefer to grow in the path
I need a fast-growing hedge
Interesting hedges
I don’t like mowing around trees
I’d like an orchard without the glut
My garden competes with the view
I am fed up with slugs
What can I plant instead of box?
I’d like a wild garden
Garden bestiary
I’m not really a flower person
I don’t like weeding
My garden is not relaxing
Glossary
Index
Voices
Resources

This book presents inspiring work from around the world that is bringing nature back into our cities: from urban farming initiatives, guerilla gardening, and architectural visions, to furniture, products, and other everyday objects that use plants in a functional or aesthetic way.

Some of the included projects are changing the landscapes of our cities as a whole, while others can make our own streets and homes greener — most importantly, all are trying to get people to think differently.

For everyone who has an interest in a more responsible and environmentally friendly lifestyle, this entertaining and socially relevant book makes it clear that we can design our urban future in a way that's green, innovative, vibrant, and constructive.

Saying that an architectural form is naked is a typical affirmation of everyday language that synthesises multiple characters and meanings through a metaphor. Anti-decorative architecture of modern tradition is naked, buildings under construction or ruined are naked, as are in general those whose bare, essential appearance is intended to give an impression of sincerity. Any architecture expressing an archaic or frugal or even at times primitive atmosphere may also be considered naked.

Today, the return to nakedness in architecture may be interpreted as the symptom of the definitive crisis of post-modernism, of its masks and coverings that no longer represent a world with an ever-increasing need for “naked” essentialness.

Glamour at Home is an inspirational design primer from Nancy Corzine, a celebrated and respected name in the fields of furnishings, textiles, and interior design. Corzine’s interiors reflect an elegant and sophisticated approach to life that conjures up classic Hollywood style. Her assemblages of mirrored vanities, silk-covered chaise lounges, and gold-leaf black lacquer armoires decorated with chinoiserie in gorgeous light-filled rooms are dazzling. To demonstrate the foundations of her design aesthetic, Corzine presents homes in a variety of settings — urban, rural, and coastal — as case studies. The book is divided into entryways, living and dining rooms, libraries and home offices, bedrooms and bathrooms, kitchens, and exterior areas. Sidebars cover such useful topics as choosing furniture or a textile ensemble that is appropriate for a particular style, how to incorporate mirrors to their best advantage to enliven a space, and artful ways to display treasured objects. These elegant and composed indoor and outdoor rooms are timeless.

About the Authors:

Nancy Corzine is one of the most respected names in the interior design industry. Her successful company, established over twenty-five years ago, carries luxurious textiles and a line of elegant home furnishings. Corzine has eponymous home furnishings stores in Palm Beach, Florida, and Southampton, New York. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Traditional Home, House Beautiful, O at Home, House & Garden, Veranda, and Elle Decor. Robert Janjigian is the fashion editor of the Palm Beach Daily News and has been writing about design for more than twenty-five years.

With a style that is accessible and chic, Nathan Turner's aesthetic is Nate Berkus meets Colin Cowie and Domino Magazine. Turner's unique approach to design for living incorporates his accessible, California chic aesthetic. He will show readers how to design their home to create a space that is relaxed and stylish, but still functional and affordable. Turner's practical tips and tricks for affordable home makeovers and remodeling will also be included along with many never before seen projects, including his own Malibu retreat or his families Ranch in Northern California. The book will also incorporate another one of Turner's passions; entertaining. Turner will show readers how to create a space that's inviting for others and allows them to easily entertain in their home. His ideas, tabletop design, easy party themes and menus, teach readers to how to be chic hosts, ready to open up their home for visitors at any time. Informed by his eclectic background and varied passions for decor, travel, entertaining and food, Nathan Turner's American Style will appeal to readers looking to incorporate Turner's stylish and relaxed aesthetic into their home and life.