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This is the third edition of the Contemporary Architecture & Interiors Yearbook: a rich collection of never-before photographed, highly luxurious homes and apartments in a contemporary, pure style.
Fifteen architects and designers showcase their most recent projects here, illustrated with the plans of the homes published.

Посмотреть избранные развороты книги  Contemporary Architecture & Interiors: Yearbook 2011  в pdf-формате.

There has never been as much demand among stressed-out professionals for places to get away from it all. Once the beach-side site has been selected, architects are the next port of call in the quest for a coastal dream home. Stephen Crafti walks the reader through another superb collection of architectdesigned beach houses – some permanent residences, some weekenders, some luxury residences, some more redolent of the traditional beach shack.

Glorious locations in Australia and New Zealand together with fabulous designs make another superb coffee table book from one of Australia’s leading architectural and design writers.

This book illustrates trends in contemporary living on the basis of around twenty projects carried out by leading architects and interior designers.

The reports demonstrate that contemporary living nowadays calls for more than the harmonious integration of the latest designer furniture in a modern context.

Whether it’s a new building or a renovation project, all of these clients, architects and interior specialists have worked to create a fascinating mix of volumes and perspective, of light and atmosphere, of materials, texture, shapes and colours.

These are not purely cerebral architectural bravura pieces, but homes whose owners take great pleasure every day in the space that has been created.

There are many different examples of this kind of contemporary living: the modern atmosphere of a country estate with roots in the seventeenth century; the extraordinary metamorphosis of a distinctive long-fronted farmhouse; the serene, pure shapes of a modern home; the minimalist power of a glass-and-brick residential block; the perfect dimensions and colour harmony of some recently completed flats and apartments.

Contemporary Houses and Designer Apartments present the highlights of modern living culture, designed and furnished by renowned architects and designers. Plentiful color photographs, artful and intriguing in themselves, portray houses and apartments from all over the world, mirroring the culture and lifestyle of their occupants. Informative text and detailed floor plans and elevations complement the illustrations. This book is a genuine pleasure for all fans of urban and modern architecture and contemporary design.

Highlights
• Superlative colour photographs, often full-page, of exterior views, interior spaces, and architectural details
• Informative texts
• Detailed floor plans and elevations

Domestic Bliss. Innovative, intimate architecture from China to Chile

Open the door into 100 of the most beautiful and pioneering houses of the past two decades. With featured architects including Daniel Libeskind, Herzog & de Meuron, and Zaha Hadid, this is a dependable global digest of the nuances, challenges, and opportunities of turning all the emotional and practical requirements of “home” into a constructed actuality.

Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The delicate task is to translate all the emotive associations and practical requirements of “home” into a workable, constructed reality.

This publication rounds up 100 of the world’s most interesting and pioneering homes designed in the past two decades, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson,Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza, and Peter Zumthor. Accommodating daily routines of eating, sleeping, and shelter, as well as offering the space for personal experience and relationships, this is architecture at its most elementary and its most intimate.

The author:

Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His TASCHEN books include the Architecture Now! series and monographs on Tadao Ando, Santiago Calatrava, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Richard Meier, and Zaha Hadid.

180 colour and 40 b/w illustrations

Following intense debate throughout the 20th century, the issue of residential
housing is becoming increasingly central to the contemporary situation, characterised by large cities, urban sprawl and general fragmentation in spaces of
the home and collective life.
Projects are attempting to give answers through flexible systems that try to give form to new public and private spaces for the individual. The home speaks of a world that is changing very rapidly and the selected projects can be seen as experimental attempts to give shape to new ways of experiencing the home in the future. Through an analysis of some of the most significant projects built in the last ten years, this book traces pivotal themes such as density, flexibility, the relationship with the land, constructing on the constructed, and the image of the house. Analysis is made in essays written by leading authors in the field.
Maria Alessandra Segantini (born in 1967) is visiting professor at the University of Architecture of Venice and Ferrara. She has published several critical studies on International leading architectural journals, such as Abitare, AD, A+U, Bauwelt, Detail,
L’Architecture d’Aujord’hui, Loggia. She is author of several essays and books.

CONTEMPORARY LIVING 2008-2009 is a reference work on contemporary architecture and interiors.

With hundreds of new photographs of modern homes and interior design that have never been published before.

A thick book (320 p.) with an overview of the most beautiful, never-before photographed entrance halls, sitting rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bathing areas, bedrooms and dressing rooms, relaxation and work areas, terraces and gardens in a contemporary – minimalist style.

The chalets in the exclusive ski resorts like Gstaad, Courchevel, Verbier, Mégève, … have experienced a literal metamorphosis in recent years. On the outside they often seem as though they have remained unchanged for centuries – that is also the charm of these traditional farmer’s homes, which are perfectly integrated in the mountain landscape. But once indoors the rustic charm has made way for a resolutely contemporary interior design, austere and restrained or timeless and modern. Photographer Jo Pauwels spent the last winter at the sophisticated ski resorts in search of a few contemporary pearls of interior architecture: inspiring examples for anyone wanting to design a mountain chalet in a contemporary vein.

Посмотреть избранные развороты книги  Contemporary Living in the Mountains 

30 new private residences and apartments, in a contemporary style, by famous architects and interior designers from all over the world.

For more than two decades, Beta-Plus has specialised in exclusive coffee table books on architecture, interiors and gardens. For this new edition of the Yearbook, the focus, as last year, is on top quality, traditional craftsmanship and understated class.
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This volume, in a handy format, contains exclusive new projects from renowned architects, interior designers, garden and landscape architects, and experienced professionals from all over the world. Published to coincide with Contemporary Living Yearbook 2022 is Timeless Living Yearbook 2022, which emphasises classic and more traditional forms, the integration of antique building materials, wood and natural stone, exclusive fabrics and objects, the restoration of homes and farms. Both Yearbooks complement each other perfectly and together offer a selection of dozens of recently finished villas, country houses, town houses and apartments.

Forty new residential projects from all over the world, in a contemporary style

The fifth edition of this bestseller celebrates 40 of the most beautiful houses and apartments from all over the world, containing exclusive new projects from renowned architects, interior designers, garden and landscape architects, and experienced professionals.

Published to coincide with Contemporary Living Yearbook 2023 is Timeless Living Yearbook 2023, which emphasises classic and more traditional forms, the integration of antique building materials, wood and natural stone, exclusive fabrics and objects, the restoration of homes and farms.

Both Yearbooks complement each other perfectly and together offer a selection of dozens of recently finished villas, country houses, townhouses and apartments.

Contemporary prefab design is on the rise, becoming more and more popular every day. Is it a wonder why?

Once blasted as a cheap building system that harkened back to the days when homeowners could order a home from the Sears, Robuck &Co. catalogue, contemporary prefab has blossomed into a viable industry that has created an unmatched enthusiasm for better living standards in today's modern world. An ever-increasing body of talented architects and designers, including the many practioners showcased within this book, are striving to make prefab the next revolution in residential architecture.

The projects are presented in alphabetical order of the respective architects and designers. An index with contact information is enclosed.

Prefabricated houses are the current trend – module construction and the use of prefabricated building elements have been experiencing a very interesting revival lately. The main reasons for the popularity of this type of residential design include new construction technologies, the importance of sustainability, contemporary urban planning trends and, of course, limited budgets. 

In addition to prefabricated home specialists, renowned and young talents are also increasingly dedicating their efforts to this sector. This title presents the currently best projects from around the world. It shows the diversity of the prefabricated home market and that it includes attractive designs, which are as individual as their owners.

From the contents:

- Villa Libeskind in Dresden, Germany (Studio Daniel Libeskind)
- Hidden Valley in Moab, UT, USA (Marmol Radziner)
- Prefab House in Cadeira, Spain (mycc oficina de arquitectura)
- BaleHouse@Bath, Great Britian (White Design)
- House to Catch the Forest in Nagano, Japan (Tezuka Architects)