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This book presents the radical architectural strategies and poetic cultural projects developed by OPEN Architecture, and the opportunities and challenges that arise from redefining built forms.

Drawing on a series of conversations and site visits to six recent groundbreaking projects, architecture writer Catherine Shaw describes how Beijing-based OPEN Architecture is reinventing and responding to China’s complex and fast-changing cultural landscape with projects that mark a new era for contemporary Chinese cultural architecture. OPEN Architecture was founded in New York in 2003 by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, while their Beijing office opened in 2008.

From a contemporary art gallery buried beneath a sand dune to a sculptural open-air theatre in a remote mountain valley near the Great Wall, co-founders Li Hu and Huang Wenjing re-evaluate conventional Western assumptions about culture and design as they base each pioneering project on the needs and pleasures of humanity within the context of diverse terrains and climates. In doing so, they not only consider how cultural architecture looks, but how it works. Projects are presented with commentary and contextual information as well as new analyses and archival material, including outstanding color photography, plans and drawings, and exploratory sketches. This book provides a fresh perspective on contemporary cultural architecture and place-making, high-lighting the architects’ sources of inspiration, their challenges, and their construction methods, showing how each impactful project responds to China’s distinctive context.

About the Author:

Catherine Shaw is an independent architecture, design, and art critic and published author. Originally an urban planner, she writes extensively on architecture, design, arts, and craft in Asia.  

Thirteen exquisite houses create a portrait of life in one of America’s most exclusive coastal destinations, along the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod.

Hutker Architects, led by founding principal Mark A. Hutker, has designed more than three hundred houses along the New England shore. A member of the close community on Martha’s Vineyard since his arrival in 1985, Hutker has become an expert at interpreting the ideal lifestyles of his clients within the respected traditions and restrictive codes of the beautiful but fragile environment.

In their design and construction, these houses honor the vernacular traditions of craft and indigenous materials, are deeply respectful of the cherished landscape, and demonstrate a lively range of solutions to building on the bluffs and dunes that line the shores of the Vineyard and Cape Cod. A working organic farm fulfills a family’s dream of simpler values; a luxurious renovation saves the best of an antique shingle cottage while transforming it for contemporary family life and a raised structure clad in naturally weathered boards combines the legacy of midcentury regional modern architecture with Cape Cod’s maritime tradition.

The firm is committed to the principle “Build once, well,” looking to the historic architecture of the region and the inherited experience of its carpenters and craftspeople as inspiration for contemporary design. The result is an architecture that is at once adaptable and livable, yet enduring, efficient, inevitable, and appropriate.

The houses sit lightly on the land, deferring to their surroundings, often built as a series of modest pavilions linked by passages or grouped to enclose an outdoor space. Creative design solutions — a light-filled gallery running the full length of a house, a continuous wall of sliding glass doors — make houses both open to views, but protective in a storm. Specially commissioned photography captures the craftsmanship and the settings of the houses, from dramatic bluffs overlooking the sea to secluded coves and rolling meadows filled with wildflowers, creating a unique portrait of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard.

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Packed with images of beautiful decorative objects, extravagant interiors, sumptuous fabrics and ornate furniture, this sumptuously produced book explores the enduring allure of Orientalist decor and introduces the princes and aristocrats, artists and poets who commissioned this opulent 18th and 19th-century interiors.

Architects and decorative artists of the time were constantly seeking new sources of inspiration to satisfy the demands of their rich patrons. While some revisited the canons of the classical world, others began to turn their eyes towards the East, and the 'Oriental' became a byword for spectacle and sensuality.

The result was a wave of creative expression that encompassed everything from the smallest objets d’art to entire buildings.

This sumptuously produced book explores the enduring allure of Orientalist decor and introduces the princes and aristocrats, artists and poets who commissioned these opulent interiors. Packed with images of beautiful decorative objects, extravagant interiors, sumptuous fabrics and ornate furniture, this book will transport the reader to another time and place.

Even today, the design industry of Hong Kong seems to be dominated by men between the ages of 40 and 50. It is challenging for a woman to cut a niche in the professional market, but Anita Tang is a rare exception. Her indulgence and originality has produced unique designs that carry an unspoken sophistication of elegance and extravagance. Her first collection of design projects “A touch of Anita Tang” focuses on residential designs. It contains over 10 household and model home projects which not only expresses the talents of a female designer, but also the prevailing grace and passions exclusively found in feminine practitioners.

Thanks to the omnipresence of computers, cell phones, gaming systems, and the internet, a broad audience has traded its past reservations against technology for an almost insatiable curiosity for all things technical. Against this background, unprecedented new tools and possibilities are opening up for the world of design. In addition to sketchbooks and computers, young designers are increasingly using programming languages, soldering irons, sensors, and microprocessors as well as 3D milling or rapid prototyping machines in their work. The innovative use of powerful hardware and software has become affordable and, most of all, much easier to use. Today, the sky is the limit when it comes to ideas for experimental media, unconventional interfaces, and interactive spatial experiences.

A Touch of Code shows how information becomes experience. The book examines how surprising personal experiences are created where virtual realms meet the real world and where dataflow confronts the human senses. It presents an international spectrum of interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of laboratory, trade show, and urban space that play with the new frontiers of perception, interaction, and staging created by current technology. These include brand and product presentations as well as thematic exhibits, architecture, art, and design.

The comprehensive spectrum of innovative spatial and interactive work in A Touch of Code reveals how technology is fundamentally changing and expanding strategies for the targeted use of architecture, art, communication, and design for the future.

Beautiful reproduction of a 1791 classic describes the qualifications and duties of an architect. The 53 beautifully engraved, fine line plates display ornate compartments for coved ceilings; plans and elevations of pilaster capitals; pedestals for columns; arches; ballusters; and other architectural features. 53 black-and-white illustrations.

Beautiful reproduction of a 1791 classic describes the qualifications and duties of an architect. The 53 beautifully engraved, fine line plates display ornate compartments for coved ceilings; plans and elevations of pilaster capitals; pedestals for columns; arches; ballusters; and other architectural features. 53 black-and-white illustrations.

The newest addition to this highly successful series offers a daily example of architectural splendor, from the Egyptian pyramids and Rome's Coliseum to envelope-pushing masterpieces by today's leading designers.
Those looking for a gift to delight the architecture lover in their lives will find the answer in this book that provides a journey through history and around the globe. Presented in brilliantly colored double-page spreads, each day features a photograph of an architectural icon, details about where and when the building was constructed, an appropriate quote or aphorism, and room for personal notes and dates. These important structures represent nearly every architectural style and function. The gorgeous images in this book allow readers to appreciate mankind's extraordinary accomplishments while deriving inspiration from them every day of the year.

This new A&D (Architecture and Design) Series explores the close connections between contemporary architecture, interiors and home design.

This theme is illuminated with the help of fascinating monographs on leading architects, interior designers and design companies, and also with various thematic publications.
Private residences, public projects, office buildings and shops are all featured.

This first volume is dedicated to architect Pascal van der Kelen. All of his designs (which include a lot of private homes, but also a number of offices, hairdresser's, boutiques, a notary's practice and other projects) are distinguished by an exquisite sense of serenity, and by forms and lines that are pure and clean, yet still luxurious.

This new A&D (Architecture and Design) Series explores the close connections between contemporary architecture, interiors and home design.

This theme is illuminated with the help of fascinating monographs on leading architects, interior designers and design companies, and also with various thematic publications.
Private residences, public projects, office buildings and shops are all featured.

This second volume shows the work of the young, Paris and Brussels based interior architect Olivier Lempereur.

The new A&D (Architecture and Design) Series explores the close connections between contemporary architecture, interiors and home design.

This theme is illuminated with the help of fascinating monographs on leading architects, interior designers and design companies, and also with various thematic publications.
Private residences, public projects, office buildings and shops are all featured.

This third part of the new A&D Series (A&D #3) features around ten exclusive city homes. All of the projects have been photographed in recent months: exceptional city residences, contemporary apartments, lofts with character.

The starting point was the philosophy that runs through the A&D series: the constant interaction between architecture and interior furnishing and design.

This fourth part of the new A&D Series (A&D #4) features twelve office projects by leading architects and interior designers.

This book presents a wide variety of projects by the young Belgian architect Glenn Sestig, who founded his eponymously named studio less than ten years ago. The company has made a name for itself with the great diversity of its creations, and this book offers an opportunity to compare these designs in one place. Placing these reports alongside each other makes it possible to define the essential aspects of his style and his language of forms. Is it possible to talk in terms of ‘a Glenn Sestig style’?

Yes, in a sense, it is. Most of the interior designs he has created to date have at least two characteristics in common. The first and most important characteristic, the backbone of all his projects, is the extreme precision, the rigueur, of his work. The architectural line, the proportions, the perspective, the relationship between the surfaces: all of these are constructed with such mastery that it is easy to forget the careful consideration that has gone into their design and creation.This rigueur allows Glenn Sestig to focus on the essence, onto which he then projects the personal character of every creation. The great versatility shown by this architect during the first decade of his work is also remarkable: clients have asked him to renovate a city apartment with a design to satisfy aesthetes, and, on a different scale, he has also transformed a former bank with spectacular volumes into a temple to fashion. Glenn Sestig has clearly exhibited his ability to pinpoint the essence of a project, and also proven himself a virtuoso within another register that typifies his work: that of elegance and refinement. This feature of his work consists of several aspects. His fondness for very exclusive furniture and objects, often combined with works of art, is perhaps the most easily visible aspect. The second aspect lies in his choice of materials and the inventive way he interprets them to suit the project. One of the many examples: the use of Moroccan tadelakt on the vaulted ceiling of Molotov, a private club located in an époque building.

The way Glenn Sestig works with materials cannot be detached from the choice of colour and the interplay of light: these too are an integral part of the base material from which he creates his spaces. However, his skill is also based on a cosmopolitan vision of the world in which we live, work and travel – and this is undoubtedly the aspect of his creations that lies closest to Glenn Sestig’s heart. Hollywood, Latin America, China or Japan, Africa... different countries take it in turns to feature in his projects, perhaps in a reference to a particular weaving technique, the imaginary atmosphere of a salon where people dance the tango, or the glamorous boudoir of a 1930s star. Make no mistake, though: these references are not conventions and they are never obvious. They are distilled from the art of the moment: his virtuosity could also be seen as sensuality.