Архітектура

В книге «100 проектов. Дизайн сада» собраны наиболее интересные проекты, представленные за последние 10 лет на всемирно известных выставках Chelsea Flower Show и Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, которые проходят под патронажем Королевского общества садоводов Великобритании.

Читатель найдет в ней оригинальные идеи и современные решения для организации пространства под открытым небом от ландшафтных дизайнеров из разных стран мира. В том числе авторские сады Маурен Базби, Джинни Блом, Кристофера Брэдли-Хоула, Клива Веста, Энди Стерджена, Пола Стоуна и др.

Каждый проект прекрасно иллюстрирован, сопровождается подробным планом и комментариями. В книге собраны более 500 иллюстраций и 100 чертежей.

Представленные работы позволят проследить, как менялся язык ландшафтного дизайна в начале ХХI века, что вдохновляло дизайнеров на создание садов, какие материалы, растения и технологии они использовали.

В основу книги легли фотографии из личного архива Сергея Экономова — архитектора, члена Союза московских архитекторов (СМА), главного редактора Издательского Дома «Красивые дома пресс», действительного члена Королевского общества садоводов Великобритании.

Из семи чудес света до наших дней дошли только египетские пирамиды. А какие чудеса нашего времени увидят потомки? О ста самых значительных архитектурных сооружениях последних десятилетий расскажет эта книга.

This stunning gallery-style volume includes some of the finest examples of contemporary textiles and fiber art being made today. The collection includes wearable art and couture, fashion accessories, soft furnishings and vessels, tapestries, display art, and quilts. A wide variety of techniques are featured, including hand and machine embroidery, decorative stitching, batik, dyeing, fabric painting, appliqué, felt, weaving, and all types of surface decoration. Full-color photography features both full views as well as close-ups that will allow readers to appreciate the finer details of many works.

1000 Designs for the Garden is a highly illustrated sourcebook focusing on the best in contemporary garden product design, including work from designers such as Marcel Wanders, Philippe Starck and Ross Lovegrove. Packed with the very latest in outdoor furniture, garden art and both practical and luxury garden items, the book features sourcing information and full specifications for every product.

This book offers a visual, technical and theoretical analysis of detail in modern architecture. Construction and technical detail is fundamental in architectural study as this minutae reflects the thought and vision of the architect. The 1000 details in this book are shown through colour photographs and drawings, accompanied by descriptive captions.

Highly successful author and innovative designer, Stafford Cliff, has visited hundreds of gardens in the course of his travels over forty years all around the world.

With his unique designer's eye, he has photographed the cleverest solutions, the most original choices the best of everything a gardener could dream of. This fascinating book brings together those images in kaleidoscopic juxtaposition, creating, for the first time, a complete sourcebook of inspiration and reference on all the best ideas for gardens from colour and planting to hard surfaces and features. A veritable visual jigsaw delights the eye with the quirky alongside the classic, the modern set against the traditional.

For every decision that a new gardener has to make, for every change that an established gardener wishes to introduce, here is the complete range of choices the plants, the path, the paving, the pots are all shown. And if you'd never thought of an ornamental gate, a water feature in a container, a sundial, here they are, too. And, as practical as it is inspiring, the book also includes a directory of suppliers so that readers can turn inspiration into reality.

Our homes respond to the way that we live, reflecting the different stages in our lives and revealing aspects of our character.

They need to be flexible - a space for working and relaxing, for entertaining, eating and sleeping, for family and pets. Whether you are a first-time buyer or an experienced home-owner, you will be interested in ideas for your home. How can you enhance its original features or add your own stamp of individuality? What colours will work best, what type of floor will you have? How will you display your pictures, and will you conceal everything in cupboards, or have it all on show? Will you choose minimalist simplicity or ordered chaos; traditional and classic, or modern and experimental?

Whether you've considered having a fire in a glass jar, a new window placed high up in a wall or an outside dining room, this fascinating book answers all your questions and more. A unique and inspiring sourcebook of ideas, Stafford Cliff has put together over 1000 stunning photographs to delight, amaze and provide all the inspiration you will need to make the home of your dreams.

Architecture is an art form that provides both function and beauty. Each architect brings something uniquely distinct to his or her work. Learning what makes an architectural work or the body of an architect's work unique is difficult to deconstruct. This book provides behind the scenes insight into the work of 100 top international designers through the deconstruction of 1000 architectural details and projects. An unrivaled sourcebook for ideas, this collection also provides details and information that are not available on this level through any other source.

Sergi Costa Duran is the author of the architectural books Green Homes, New Prefab, High Density and Earth. He lectures frequently on environmental subjects for the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He lives in Barcelona, Spain.
Mariana R. Eguaras Etchetto is an architecture and interior design editor. She lives in Barcelona, Spain.

A plethora of practical ideas for home improvement. Using interiors created by designers and decorators from all over the world, and incorporating the latest in furniture and object design, this book is a treasure trove of ideas for decorating the home, whether a house in the woods, an airy urban loft, or a post-collegiate studio. Aimed at a general audience, it offers hundreds of useful ideas, tips, suggestions, advice, and solutions for anyone interested in decorating a first-time home or remodeling an existing space.

The book begins with an overview of space, lighting, color, and furniture and continues with a thorough review of the options available when considering flooring, wall coverings, window treatments, color schemes, incorporating furniture, and lighting for every room of the home.

"Do and do not" tips are sprinkled throughout, and this sourcebook of inspirational ideas and themes addresses even the toughest design challenges on the road to transforming any space, big or small.

Beautiful photographs, drawings, and informative sidebars make this volume a one-stop basic resource for interior design.

This book looks at every aspect of interior detail for domestic spaces. It is designed to appeal to anyone interested in improving the home environment, from DIY enthusiasts to professionals such as architects and interior designers. Products selected come from around the world and are all currently available to buy (websites of manufacturers/suppliers are included in the product captions). The selection includes a combination of the newest and the best products launched since the millennium, arranged into chapters to provide inspiration for every space in the domestic interior.

The book has seven chapters: Walls and Floors; Doors, Windows and Stairs; Heating and Cooling; Kitchens; Bathrooms; Lighting; Home Technology. Each chapter is prefaced by an in-depth interview with a leading architect/designer, who has a specialist knowledge of the chapter's subject. For example, James Soane, co-founder of Project Orange, looks at windows and doors. Gregorio Spini, the founder of Kundalini, one of Italy’s most progressive lighting manufacturers, discusses domestic lighting. Jack Mama, creative director at Philips Design, talks about technology in the home.

Designed to be a companion to the classic title 1000 Chairs, this two-volume edition contains an awesome selection of over 1200 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light bulb to Tiffany's beautiful leaded-glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All major styles will be represented: Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Post-Modern and Contemporary.

Designed to be a companion to the classic title 1000 Chairs, this two-volume edition contains an awesome selection of over 1200 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light bulb to Tiffany's beautiful leaded-glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All major styles will be represented: Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Post-Modern and Contemporary.

Designed to be a companion to the classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All major styles are represented here — Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Post-Modern, and Contemporary — in 704 pages of truly illuminated works.

Since the mythical Tower of Babel, humans have continuously tried to erect monuments to match their oversized egos. With ancient ziggurats, the Taj Mahal or the Empire State Building, man has for centuries demonstrated his force by raising structures for purposes both religious and profane.
As international cultural statements without words, symbols of a people’s values - devotion, patriotism, power - symbols of a civilisation’s grandeur, these monuments still fascinate and attract an ever-growing public who is captivated by the creativity and ingenuity of these architects and stonemasons.
Their historical message goes far beyond mere art history, for they tell us of the lives and evolution of the peoples of the past, as does the Parthenon in Athens, many times destroyed, rebuilt, reused, attacked, pillaged and restored once again today.
This work, featuring 1000 monuments chosen from around the globe, retraces human history, the techniques, styles and philosophies necessary for the construction of so many splendours over the centuries, providing a panorama of the most celebrated monuments while evoking the passion of their makers. The reader can explore the changing values of humanity through the edifices it has built and understand these structures as triumphs of humankind.

About the author
Historian of art, architecture and urbanism, Christopher E. M. Pearson is a specialist in twentieth century visual culture. Born in Vancouver, Canada, he holds a degree in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art and defended a thesis in architectural history at Stanford University. He has taught courses in art and architectural history at Stanford, the University of California, Davis, Santa Clara University, Arizona State University, the University of Oregon and Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. In 2006, he was one of the founders of Quest University Canada. His publications number many studies of modern art and architecture.