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Beautifully photographed country houses, mountain retreats, and coastal cottages located in and beyond the American South demonstrate this prestigious firm’s talent for translating traditional architecture into charming and inviting designs. Interiors and exteriors combine the formal and informal — drawing equally from refined houses in Beaufort, Charleston, and Savannah, as well as rural farmhouses and rustic cabins in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Simultaneously elegant and casual, a Beaufort-style house combines classic revival details with painted plank walls. A waterfront retreat overlooking a tidal marsh mixes eclectic elements from Southern coastal cottages, such as a tin roof and sleeping porch, with Caribbean details like French doors and Bermuda shutters. Reclaimed planks and beams in a barrier island vacation home capture the romance of living in a converted barn.

Designed for relaxed family living, these homes often include screen porches with swinging daybeds, great rooms with rough-hewed beams and stone fireplaces, and light-filled master suites. Their traditional materials, artisanal craftsmanship, and atmosphere of comfort and hospitality express the spirit of Southern style.

About the Authors:

James Lowell Strickland is the president and senior partner of Historical Concepts. Established in Atlanta in 1982, the firm has designed plans and buildings for the South’s most respected communities. Their work has earned prestigious design awards and has been featured in numerous magazines.

Author and journalist Susan Sully is one of the leading experts on Southern regional architecture and design.

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The poetic aspect of a construction material – about 70 projects from the last five years present how architects “knead” concrete structures, which amazing qualities can be developed by exposed concrete and that concrete does not need to be grey. In this book, it is shown that the popular material has more to offer than it is usually assumed.

Born out of the heritage of structures first imagined by and constructed for the British aristocracy, the contemporary conservatory represents the ultimate in traditional elegance married to informal comfort. With or without plants and flowers, they come in every conceivable size and shape-square, oblong, octagonal, or whatever your pleasure.

The conservatory adds a treasured space to any home and makes a strong statement of individual style. The conservatories surveyed here play a rich architectural role through the use of classic detailing or sophisticated modern materials. Some are based on graceful Victorian antecedents while others are modernist sculptures of glass and steel.

The evocative photographs in the book survey the spectrum of styles and interior design-everything from a Zen-inspired glass perch where the landscape outside becomes the room to a casual lounging area enclosed by a virtual jungle canopy. Specific chapters focus on decorating and accessorizing and demystify difficult decisions (colour schemes, floor materials, and controlling natural light).

Recent advances in weatherproofing, glass engineering, flooring, lighting, and zoned heating and cooling are covered. Also included is an A-to-Z glossary of recommended plants plus a directory of manufacturers and suppliers.

This book presents 25 in­novative examples of contemporary­­­­ treehouses and 10 conceptions of treehouses created­ by Andreas Wenning. With large-scale photos and substantial­ essays on questions of statics and construction­.

The first edition of the Contemporary Architecture & Interiors Yearbook was immediately a great success and consequently the decision was also taken directly to publish an annual repeat of this fundamental work. As in the previous edition this book presents about twenty detailed projects of contemporary, recently finished residences, with technical plans and a detailed commentary.

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