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Following in the footsteps of Nanotecture, Mobitecture, and Pet-tecture, a fascinating and fun guide to everything inflatable

Although inflatable objects have been around for more than 200 years, architects, artists, and designers keep rediscovering this deceptively simple – often playful, and occasionally bizarre – technology. Bubbletecture brings together inflatables in every conceivable size, shape, and hue across the realms of architecture, design, art, and fashion. From inflatable dresses and hats to buildings employing cutting-edge technologies, from ingenious chairs, lights, bowls, and even egg cups to children's toys and provocative art installations, Bubbletecture demonstrates that inflatable design is simply irresistible.

About the Author:

Sharon Francis is an architect with more than twenty years' experience in private practice in the UK, Hong Kong, and the USA. She has taught at three Australian universities and contributed to several architecture- and design-based books. She currently lives and works in New York City.

A journey through dreamlike landscapes, bizarre buildings, and whimsical interiors floating between reality and fantasy.

Digital renderings have long served architects and interior designers to help visualize spaces before the building begins. But a new generation of digital artists are taking this craft a step further to create otherworldly scenes that can’t, and won’t, ever be built.

This inspiring compilation of the most innovative projects in digital art covers the work of the artists and creatives at the forefront of this aesthetic. Discover Filip Hodas and his captivating pop culture dystopia artwork series, explore Massimo Colonna's surrealist urban landscapes and dive into the abstract compositions of Ezequiel Pini, founder of Six N. Five studio.

Dreamscapes & Artificial Architecture presents the work of leading creatives from across the globe, exploring the infinite ways to conceptualize utopian oases and dystopian nightmares. With their roots in spatial design, their ideas present a new creative current defined by the fusion of digital techniques such as computer rendering and 3D art, and an aesthetic that moves between fantasy and reality. Freed from the constraints of the physical world, these dreamscapes expand the possibilities for architecture and interior design.

A sequel to the extremely popular I Adulted: Stickers for Grown-Ups, I Adulted at Work! is a whimsically illustrated book containing 250 removable stickers that congratulate supposed grown-ups on a job well done . . . or at least a job done.

Despite official reports, most adults feel completely and totally ill-prepared to deal. With anything. They still, as purportedly self-sufficient grown-ups, look toward older generations and think, "How did they do that?" So the easiest and best way to find comfort is to look not ahead at uncertainty (or, heaven forbid, around at the chaos currently surrounding them), but to the past to their simpler childhoods. And it is with brightly colored stickers in the workplace that they will finally find peace of mind. For a little while, at least.
Filled with 250 full-color removable stickers that can be used to decorate journals, notebooks, or your lapel to proudly and publicly proclaim work life's little victories, I Adulted at Work! is the ideal nostalgic and practical book for anyone who feels a sense of accomplishment by making it through a day on the job without calling their mother for help.

About the Author:

Robb Pearlman is an editor, author, and pop culture junkie. He is the author of more than thirty books for adults and kids, including I Adulted!, What Would Skeletor Do?, and The Wit and Wisdom of Star Trek.

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Пролистать книгу I Adulted at Work!: Essential Stickers for Hardworking and Home-Working Grown-Ups

Le Corbusier is a Modernist icon whose buildings and theories have influenced structures the world over. With the help of Marc Hagan-Guirey's new book, Le Corbusier Paper Models, you can create 10 of his most important works in paper using the art of kirigami (cutting and folding). Each project features step-by-step instructions, cutting tips and a template that you can remove from the book. All you need is a scalpel, a cutting mat and a ruler. When you are done, simply display your model and admire your handiwork!

Le Corbusier Paper Models is a must for Corbusier fans and architectural model enthusiasts.

Marc's first book Paper Dandy's Horrorgami was published by Laurence King in September 2015. His second book, Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models was released in June 2017 to mark the 150th anniversary of its namesake's birth.

About the Author:

Marc Hagan-Guirey is a kirigami paper artist and design director. His kirigami commissions for both private and commercial clients include pieces for the National Theatre, London Transport Museum and Samsung Galaxy. He is the author of Paper Dandy’s Horrorgami and Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models (both Laurence King).

Surprising spatial experiences for all senses: This book features art, interior design, architecture, and striking scenography that leave lasting impressions

The foundation of a meaningful relationship between artist and audience, museum and visitor, or brand and customer is based on an unforgettable experience. Yet these groups of people are more discerning than ever before: They want a personalized moment, to be informed and entertained, and above all, to be inspired. 

Liquid Spaces features a wide spectrum of unconventional environments ranging from experimental installations to complex productions. Each one of these spaces plays with the boundaries of human perception, triggering sensual encounters that activate the senses in surprising ways.

Artists, scenographers, and architects, as well as interior and exhibition designers, create these extraordinary situations. Liquid Spaces presents the most innovative concepts, most radical designers, and most demanding clients.

This collection is an inspiring celebration of boundless imagination and the transformative power of design.

Artificial architecture has developed considerably in recent years, giving studios, professionals, students, and passionate enthusiasts the tools to create striking interior and exterior scenes. The limitless ability of the human imagination, coupled with powerful AI tools, has created a possibility to conceive and visualise perfectly realised worlds of dreamy beach houses, utopian skyscrapers, and whimsical interiors.

Living in a Dream is a breathtaking compilation of architectural and interior wonders. This curated collection invites readers to wander through the corridors of limitless creativity, where every page unveils a new realm of aesthetic innovation. The book transcends conventional boundaries, offering a glimpse into the minds of visionary artists who have dared to dream beyond the ordinary.

The freedom of open water and the comforts of home

Moveable homes with endless opportunities for exploration and changes of scenery. Converted ferries provide ample space for families. Shanty boats inspire images of Huck Finn’s literary journey and youthful spirit. Former cruise ships become charming hotels. Rock the Boat’s floating domiciles showcase alternative living solutions from the private to the commercial.

From the romantic lakes of Kashmir to the Bay of Venice, houseboats claim their space atop the water worldwide. A buoyant boutique hotel awaits guests in London. A floating sauna promises relaxation for friends upon the Pielisjoki River. DIY timber rafts evoke pride of craftsmanship whilst inspiring feelings of adventure. These charismatic structures provide refuge from being landlocked and a promise to satisfy curious natures.

Rock The Boat profiles the imaginative inhabitants and designers behind these houseboats; the volume offers inspiration to anyone interested in a touch of escape or even a permanent change of address.

Over recent decades, there has been a rise in the number of grassroots initiatives in urban spaces across Eastern Europe and Eurasia. A variety of groups and individuals are claiming the city space and its development and finding their own ways
to initiate urban change. This book examines central questions about these activities. What are its main features in contem­porary post-Soviet cities? What are the strategies and practices of an urban civic engagement that evolves both on a micro level and through larger-scale processes?

The volume challenges the prevailing simplistic view of weak, passive, and scared citizens in Eastern European and Eurasian cities – places that are themselves often seen as shaped by neoliberal and authoritarian structures. Here, the editors argue
for the vibrant diversity and dynamism in contemporary urban civic activism in Eurasia. Employing diverse sources such as photos, interviews with local activists, and scholarly reports from the fields of anthropology, planning, architecture, political sciences, and sociology, they explore the creativity and novelty of Eurasian grassroots activism. By drawing on these multi-disciplinary perspectives, they aim to overcome distances and initiate dia­logues among the interested public, activists, urban decision makers, and academics in the East and West alike.

With contributions from Levon Abrahamian, Nazaket Azimli, Esma Berikishvili, Jonas Büchel, Tsypylma Darieva, Olena Denysenko, Nadja Douglas, Alexander Formozov, Christian Fröhlich, J. Otto Habeck, Carola S. Neugebauer, Sergey Mayarenkov, Oleg Pachenkov, Lela Rekhviashvili, Andrei Semenov, Gayane Shagoyan, David Sichinava, Elena Stein, Lev Vladov, Lilia Voronkova.

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В последние годы в Восточной Европе и Евразии наблюдается все больше низовых инициатив в городских пространствах. Различные сообщества и отдельные активисты стремятся менять и развивать общественные пространства и находят новые пути для внедрения изменений в городах. В этой книге рассматриваются основные вопросы, касающиеся подобных инициатив.

Издание бросает вызов популярным, но во многом ошибочным представлениям о слабых и пассивных жителях и городских сообществах восточноевропейских и евразийских городов, которые и сами зачастую видятся лишь отражением деятельности неолиберальных и авторитарных структур. Участники исследования анализируют динамичные течения современного городского активизма. Обращаясь к разнообразным источникам, проводя интервью с местными активистами и изучая научные данные в области антропологии, проектирования, архитектуры, политических наук и социологии, они исследуют креативность и новизну подходов низового активизма, а также призывают нас преодолеть дистанцию и начать международный диалог между заинтересованными общественными организациями, активистами, городскими администрациями и учеными.

При участии Левона Абрамяна, Назакет Азимли, Эсмы Берикишвили, Йонаса Бюхеля, Цыпилмы Дариевой, Елены Денисенко, Нади Дуглас, Александра Формозова, Кристиана Фрелиха, Дж. Отто Хабека, Каролы С. Нойгебауэр, Сергея Маяренкова, Олега Паченкова, Лелы Рехвиашвили, Андрея Семенова, Гаяне Шагоян, Давида Сичинавы, Елены Штейн, Льва Владова, Лилии Воронковой.

Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models features step-by-step instructions and templates so you can create beautiful kirigami versions of Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic modernist architecture.

“Kirigami is the elegant Japanese art of folding and cutting paper to create intricate models. It’s also the perfect medium for recreating  the harmonious architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.” - Sunday Express

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) is the most renowned and popular architect and designer in America. His buildings, including Fallingwater and New York’s Guggenheim Museum, are iconic landmarks. Now you can create 14 of his best-loved buildings using the art of kirigami.

Frank Lloyd Wright building kirigami templates included are:

- Unity Temple
- Frederick C. Robie House
- Imperial Hotel
- Aline Barnsdall “Hollyhock” House
- Millard House (La Miniatura)
- John Storer House
- Freeman House
- Charles Ennis House
- National Life Insurance Building
- Taliesin West
- Herbert And Katherine Jacobs I House
- Edgar J. Kaufmann House “Fallingwater”
- Johnson Wax Administration Building
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Perfect for those that enjoy origami, each project features a short history of each house, step-by-step instructions and a template that you remove from the book. You follow the lines on the template, cutting and folding to make your own model. All you need is a scalpel, a cutting mat and a ruler. Clear cutting tips help you with the tricky stages, while photos of the finished model show you the final design. To make things easier, the most intricate parts of the templates have been pre-cut. Simply display your finished model and admire your handiwork. Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models is a must for Wright fans and architectural model enthusiasts.

About the Author:

Marc Hagan-Guirey is a kirigami paper artist and design director. His kirigami commissions for both private and commercial clients include pieces for the National Theatre, London Transport Museum and Samsung Galaxy. He is the author of Paper Dandy’s Horrorgami and Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models (both Laurence King).

Overly cute little bears in a vast range of colors, grinning elephants and cuddly mice cavorting on changing tables, winter parkas and playhouses – the design quality of children's products often in the past left very much to be desired. Children’s furniture, fashion and toys today strive for the aesthetics of a contemporary lifestyle while still being fun and functional for kids. Meeting both demands makes the creation of children’s goods one of the most exciting and challenging tasks for designers.

Successful kids’ design unites quality, sustainability and safety with ingenuity, style and pleasure. This volume presents a selection of the most innovative designs for children, from novelties to established classics. It is for all parents who value great design and want to pass it on to their children.

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- Rip + Tatter Chair (Pete Oyler, USA)
- Bicycle Saddle Bag (Meisen auf Reisen, Germany)
- Playhouse X-Hus (Studio14, Norway)
- Tube Toys (Oscar Diaz, Great Britain)
- Chestnut Paper Lamp (Studio Snowpuppe, The Netherlands)

Theaters, concert halls and opera houses are among the most fascinating architectural tasks of today. Large metropolises as well as medium-sized and smaller communities are enhancing their cultural infrastructure with spectacular new buildings and renovated historical structures for the performing arts. As prestige projects, buildings are emerging that first of all offer compelling designs and functions, but also shape and enrich their settings as outstanding individual structures.

Masterpieces: Performance Architecture + Design presents 69 contemporary international projects by famous architects and up-and-coming young designers. The diversity and creativity of the projects are presented in-depth through high-quality images and plans coupled with informative texts.

From the contents:

* Opera House in Valencia, Spain (Santiago Calatrava)
* Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, USA (Ateliers Jean Nouvel)
* Hessisches Landestheater in Darmstadt, Germany (Lederer+Ragnarsdóttir+Oei)
* Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, Great Britain (Bennetts Associates Architects)
* Guangzhou Opera House, China (Zaha Hadid Architects)

"Any landscape architect worth their soil should pick up The Architecture of Trees, an all-encompassing atlas of all things tree-related." ― The Architect's Newspaper

A 2019 Oprah's Favorite Things Pick

A gorgeous, large-format volume that shows each hand-drawn illustration in stunning detail. The Architecture of Trees is the result of over twenty years of dedicated study by landscape architects Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi. This new edition preserves the original magnificent illustrations and text, translated into English for the first time.

Features more than 550 exquisite quill-pen drawings of trees. Each of the 212 tree species are drawn to a scale of 1:100, with and without foliage. Complete with tables of seasonal color variation and projections of shadows cast during the hours of daylight and season by season, no other tree book contains such detailed and scientific drawings.

A legendary and unsurpassed botanical masterwork. Considered a standard in many landscape architecture firms, the drawings, essays, and detailed charts are essential for large-scale landscaping projects and a helpful tool for backyard renovations. Landscape designers will think in new ways about the effect of seasons and the time of day on trees, and anyone interested in nature and trees will be captivated by the stunning illustrations.

"This book could be considered the Bible for tree lovers." ― Western Art & Architecture

An incredible book for anyone interested in trees:
• An oversized, captivating coffee table book for lovers of art and nature illustrations
• A helpful tree identification book with accurate drawings of trees and detailed looks at branches, leaves, and fruit
• A reference for students of landscape architecture, botany, dendrology, architecture, and illustration

About the Authors:

In 1963, as an undergraduate at Florence University of the Arts, Cesare Leonardi (1935–) opened a design practice with Franca Stagi (1937–2008), a postgraduate at Milan Polytechnic. Together they designed the celebrated Nastro, Eco, and Dondolo chairs before turning to urban and landscape design, renovation, and redevelopment in Modena and its surroundings.

С древних времен люди строили крепости, чтобы защищаться от врагов. Со временем эти крепости разрастались и превращались в замки; возле многих из них происходили самые громкие битвы в мировой истории.
- В книгу вошли описания семидесяти пяти самых красивых замков мира: от небольших фортов до огромных крепостей размером с город.
- На цветных фотографиях вы увидите разные замки: испанские - "алькасар", японские - "сиро", неприступные английские крепости в Уэльсе и элегантные шато в долине Луары, гигантские замки крестоносцев на Ближнем Востоке, брошенные на волю песчаных бурь, и сказочные дворцы в Германии.
- В сопроводительных текстах вы найдете информацию, касающуюся не только истории замка - когда он был построен, сколько времени заняло строительство, с какой целью и кем строился, - но и сведения о его размерах и архитектурном стиле.
Здесь вы найдете образцы самых разных типов замков: от простой крепости, окруженной рвом, до мощных башен; от неприступных замков с концентрической планировкой до укрепленных поселений и прочных цитаделей, защищавших население целого города. Вы ознакомитесь с фортами, стоящими на вершинах скал или на островах, насладитесь красотами роскошных европейских шато и замков на воде, сможете узнать много интересного о сказочных дворцах и готических крепостях, о которых придумано немало страшных легенд. Есть здесь и современные замки - экстравагантные памятники возлюбленным или забавные имитации средневековых крепостей.
Информация об истории замка сопровождается роскошными цветными фотографиями, а также иллюстрациями, посвященными прилегающим к замку территориям. Снимки, сделанные из космоса, позволяют оценить местоположение замка в стране и в мире.

Маяки являются уникальными сооружениями. Они спасли огромное количество человеческих жизней еще до того, как стало известно, что Земля круглая. Многие маяки продолжают работать до сих пор, и у каждого из них есть своя история.

Книга посвящена семидесяти пяти самым красивым маякам мира: от маленьких до больших; от тех, которые полностью обслуживаются смотрителями, до тех, которые были переведены в автоматический режим управления.

На иллюстрациях изображены все основные типы маяков, установленных на самых живописных берегах мира, такие как маяк мыса Гаттерас в американском штате Каролина, передвинутый на 875 м в глубь суши из-за размываемого берега, или французский маяк Кордуан с королевскими апартаментами, или массивный финский маяк Бенгтскяр.

Вы получите важную и интересную информацию о каждом маяке: где и когда он был построен, а также об отважных смотрителях, следивших за ними и тем самым спасавших жизни многим морякам.
В этой книге собраны сведения о 75 самых великолепных маяках, расположенных в живописных удаленных уголках земного шара. Вы ознакомитесь с маяками всех основных типов: сигнальными кострами, которые зажигали древние римляне на высоких утесах; прочными каменными башнями, вынесенными далеко в море, чтобы предупреждать о присутствии смертельно опасных скал и течений; портовыми маяками, встречающими рыбацкие и прочие суда; гигантскими, выкрашенными в яркие цвета конструкциями, стойко сдерживающими натиск непогоды. Здесь же вы найдете сведения и о более скромных навигационных огнях, имеющих довольно оригинальный вид. Маяки были участниками многих исторических событий. Каждому маяку посвящена отдельная статья с качественными фотографиями и дополнительными комментариями, позволяющими оценить истинные размеры сооружения и особенности рельефа местности, в которой он находится. На отдельных схемах отмечено местоположение маяка в стране и в мире.