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The intriguing intent of this book is to document projects as yet unbuilt, or still on the drawing board, in a dashing and stylish attempt to capture the spirit of the future. Plans, projections and technical details from over 40 housing projects worldwide are featured, employing a multitude of differing design styles.

Ce livre présente plus de 400 essences d’arbres issus de bois d’oeuvre, de parcs et de jardins, d’ici et d’ailleurs. Deux collections, l’une en bois de fil l’autre en bois de bout, se complètent dans une approche originale fondée sur la botanique. Les bois se dévoilent sous leur plus joli aspect. Ce livre offre un autre regard sur le bois, une invitation à mieux le connaître et à s’inspirer de son veinage, de ses couleurs de ses singularités en mémoire de l’arbre.

Sommaire :
Première partie : Connaissance du bois : l'arbre, le cycle de la sève, de la feuille au bois, voyage de l'écorce au coeur du tronc, les plans d'observation de la structure du bois, voyage au coeur du bois, esthétique des bois, les singularités des bois.
Deuxième partie : Identité et esthétique des bois : préambule, les gymnospermes, le ginkgo, les conifères, les angiospermes, les dicotylédones, les monocotylédones. Répertoire du classement par ordre alphabétique.

This is a large hardcover book with 336 full color pages with great pictures is entirely dedicated to wood.
Over 420 woods are presented and each wood is described with its name in French, in English and in Latin
together with a very high quality color picture from Marc Auroy.
This book is an invitation to contemplate the coloured and figured landscapes
scribed in the wood fibres, marks of the trees' life and memory.

The English and French texts are written by Paul Corbineau and Jean-Michel Flandin.

Contents :

* Knowing about wood
* Identity and aesthetics of Woods
* Index of families
* Wood alphabetical index
* French - English - Latin

San Francisco is famous for its distinctive and well-preserved Victorian architecture. Victorian architectural historian and longtime SF resident Randolph Delehanty and photographer Richard Sexton provide a pictorial and historical overview of this timeless look. In the Victorian Style traces the development of Victorian architecture - influenced by both aesthetic trends and new advances in building technology - as well as the history of the city's street plan development, building trends, and parks. The book also offers a rare tour of the traditional Victorian interior, room by room, including not only grand halls, parlours, and dining rooms, but also rarely seen details such as kitchens, pantries, and bathrooms. With over 150 color photographs, this informative historical guide is a must for tourists and Victorian lovers, as well as architects, designers, and decorators.

400 illustrations

Urban land is an increasingly precious commodity, particularly in the centre of major cities. Every spare corner of land is in demand, however small, inaccessible or awkwardly shaped. For architects the challenge is to optimize these sites while simultaneously negotiating the web of planning regulations, to create homes suited to today’s lifestyles. Infill profiles 39 innovative and imaginative urban dwellings around the world that fill in gaps left by demolition, or that have been squeezed into plots previously considered unsuitable for development. Each case study is illustrated with photographs, drawings and specially drawn site plans, all accompanied by authoritative commentary. The authors focus particularly on the challenges that each architect faced and how they were overcome.

Contents
Introduction
1. Mid-Terrace
2. Corner & End-of-Terrace Plots
3. Detached
4. Underground & Partially Submerged Sites
5. Sloping Sites
Project Credits
Index
Picture Credits
Acknowledgements

The volume features approximately 60 exceptionally designed rooms with a special focus on the presentation and interaction of individual design elements such as wood, rock, concrete and surfaces. The book’s extensive illustrations present the individual wealth of details of each room as well as its overall impact, inspiring and stimulating the reader. The concept of utilized materials is crucially important for the esthetic design of a body or a shell. Innovative materials have had a lasting effect on interior design efforts of recent years. Interior design should appeal to all senses, i. e. act synesthetically, to create absolutely new and surprising room ambiences.

Current modes of residential design are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Approaches that have prevailed in past decades no longer sustain new demands and require innovative rethinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes to the environment, economy and society.

Design for passive solar gain, solar-powered homes, minimising a dwelling's physical footprint, Net-Zero residences and preserving a site's natural assets are some of the strategies that the architects and builders featured in this book are integrating into their thought processes and design practices.

An important book written by a world expert in the field, Inspired Homes offers information on contemporary sustainable design concepts and illustrates them with examples of truly outstanding design.

About the Author:

Avi Friedman is a professor of architecture at McGill University, Canada, an honorary professor at Lancaster University, UK, and president of Avi Friedman Consultants, Inc., a design firm with a focus on affordable and sustainable residential environments. He has written fourteen books and his design work and projects have been cited in magazines, newspapers and TV shows, including Good Morning America, Dream Builders and Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn. In 2000, Wallpaper* included him in their list of ten people ‘most likely to change the way we live’.

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The most elementary of all the architect's tasks is to provide shelter. Given this age-old adage, it is remarkable to discover just how many residential solutions are being developed in today's architecture world-wide. This book documents a broad range of houses that have been built around the globe in the past ten years. The ca. 200 projects presented span all of the world's continents and hereby provide an extensive overview of the possibilities being explored in an ever tightly woven global community. At the same time, the differences spawned by differing cultural, climatic, regional, and societal backgrounds are examined. This is an essential reference work for all those interested in one of mankind's most pressing themes.

A unique survey of architectural solutions worldwide

Architecture’s most pressing theme

Premium photography

Ground plans for every project

Detailed information on sites and architects

From the places of the Colonna, Farnese, Orsini and Altemps where, whitin their secret rooms, the papal throne was disputed over the course of centuries, to the magnificent ducal palaces of Venice and Genoa, manifest symbol of the political and economic power of the maritime republics, to the royal splendour of the Bourbon and Savoy palaces where bauty and history wonderfully and indissolubly merged.

Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of America’s greatest writers. A comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden architecture and ornamentation, the book explores more than seventy-five villas, capturing what Wharton calls their "garden-magic" and illuminating the intimate relationship between the house, its formal gardens, and the surrounding countryside.This beautiful hardcover facsimile is carefully reproduced from the first edition published in 1904 and features all of the original plates, including twenty-six illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, as well as décollage edges. It is published in association with The Mount Press. A portion of the proceeds of the sale of the book support the restoration of The Mount, the Massachusetts estate designed and built by Wharton based on the principles articulated in this book and in The Decoration of Houses. Elegantly written and informed by Wharton’s sensitivity and wit, Italian Villas and Their Gardens is a work that belongs on the shelf of every lover of gardens and good taste.

Illustrations: over 250 color photos and 40 architectural plans

Japanese residential design has evolved as a distinctive response to social, political, and climatic pressures-along with the powerful individual ideas of its architects. Japan Houses presents 28 of the country's finest contemporary houses. Each house is beautifully captured through breathtaking photographs, showcasing the creativity of Japan's leading architects and designers and their innovative use of building materials, spatial concepts, and aesthetic surprise.

430 илл.

Cуществование в России современной настоящей архитектуры уже не вызывает сомнений во многом благодаря таким коллективам, как архитектурная студия KD. В своих проектах авторы дополнили европейский минимализм любовью русских зодчих к дереву. Воспринимая от мировой архитектуры все лучшее, архитекторы KD чтят и сохраняют традиции, что наряду с новаторством их проектов заставляет рассматривать эту студию как один из самых перспективных коллективов. Книга представляет собой небольшое портфолио проектов последних лет, в котором также можно ознакомиться с полным списком построек, не вошедших в издание.