Монографії та збірки робіт відомих архітекторів

Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s finest work dates from about a dozen intensively creative years around 1900. His buildings in Glasgow, and especially his craggy masterpiece the Glasgow School of Art, are more complex and playful than anything in Britain at that time. His interiors, many of them designed in collaboration with his wife, Margaret Macdonald, are both spare and sensuous, creating a world of heightened aesthetic sensibility.

Finally, during the 1920s, he painted a series of watercolours which are as original as anything he had done before. Since his death, Mackintosh has been lauded as a pioneer of the Modern Movement and as a master of Art Nouveau.

This book, with illustrations that include specially prepared plans and sections, takes a clear-eyed view of Mackintosh and his achievement, revealing a designer of extraordinary sophistication and inventiveness.

The interior designer’s singular vision revealed through an extraordinary collection of her acclaimed rooms. With her inimitable flair for style, Charlotte Moss has led a celebrated career in the interior design world. Recently honoured with Elle Decor’s Vision Award, Moss’s design philosophy of "couture living" describes her preference for gracefully curated spaces in which one is meant to live, enjoy, and entertain. Charlotte Moss Decorates affords the reader a glimpse into the methods behind her magic.

For each of the rooms featured - from a sumptuous Directoire-style bedroom inspired by the incomparable Pauline de Rothschild to a gentlemen’s billiard room with rich details and a smart tailored feel - Moss breaks down the various stages of her design process, revealing her inspiration and storyboards, as well as sketches and notes she develops for every project. In each chapter, she offers the reader quick "doses" of decorating advice with her signature "Why Not?" decorating maxims.

The book also includes Moss’s recommendations for her favourite flowers and fragrances for the final flourish in creating the perfect room. Her interiors, with a nod to both the historical elegance of the past and the modern necessities of today (comfort and livability), are truly sublime spaces. With over 200 sumptuous photographs, Moss graciously invites the reader to be engaged, inspired, and "ready to decorate."

About the Author:

Charlotte Moss is a renowned interior designer and author. A trusted voice on design and style, she has authored six books, lectures frequently about her design philosophies, is featured in design and shelter magazines worldwide, and has appeared on national television and radio.

From Berlin to Beirut, David Chipperfield (born 1953) aspires to an architecture founded on collaboration, ideas, and excellence. His buildings are intended as physically immediate spaces in which “a sort of ordinariness” becomes remarkable, and by which the individual structure coexists with broader concepts of city-building.

Chipperfield’s vision has driven major projects around the globe, from the famed rebuilding of the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany, to the Amorepacific Headquarters in Seoul. His architec­tural practice has won many international competitions and numerous awards and citations for design excellence.

In vivid images and accessible texts, this book covers Chipperfield’s most striking projects to introduce the architect suspicious of “starchitecture,” but nevertheless a global star on the architecture stage.

About the series:

Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture series features:

- an introduction to the life and work of the architect 
- the major works in chronological order
- information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
- a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
- approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)

While The Images Publishing Group has established a reputation over the past two decades for publishing work of the world's most revered and eminent architects, the dawn of the twenty-first century has brought a new generation of architects whose work is yet to reach a wide audience. IMAGES is delighted to introduce the Neo Architecture series, which focuses on the work of this next generation of master architects. Featured works vary widely, from concepts to built projects, elaborate models and competition entries to modest buildings. All are provocative, and represent the vanguard of international architectural practice.

Перша в серії будівельних монографій IMAGES, The Classic House детально розглядає один із чудових класичних будинків Кена Тейта. Свідченням відданої уваги Тейта до деталей епохи, Windy Hill, здається, розвивався протягом століть, а не лише кількох років, і є вражаючим зразком класичної архітектури в поєднанні з талантами кваліфікованих спеціалістів, включаючи ландшафтних архітекторів, дизайнерів інтер’єрів і майстрів. Вишукана деталізація зафіксована на фотографіях великим планом. Жодна деталь не вислизне від критичного ока камери, від грандіозного масштабу будинку та оточуючих його садів до дрібниць архітектурних деталей. Завдяки детальному плану місцевості, поверху та архітектурному плану читачеві розкриваються різні складові будинку, його господарські будівлі та ландшафтні сади. Чудово відтворені малюнки додають художнього виміру книзі, яка й без того наповнена вражаючими деталями.

Фірма Кена Тейта проектує нові будинки в класичному стилі - це маєток у французькому стилі, побудований у маленькому містечку Міссісіпі. Фотографії гарні та містять зображення будинку всередині та зовні, а також території. Численні фотографії демонструють дрібні деталі дизайну та виготовлення. Включено прості плани поверхів, а також фасади будинку та деталі. Кредити надаються майстрам і компаніям, які виконали великий обсяг робіт. Мені приємно бачити, що хтось все ще піклується про деталі, і майстри все ще є, щоб створити щось подібне навіть у глухому місці.

Comforting Homes illustrates the work and philosophy of interior designer Nathalie Deboel. She aims for soothing, timeless interiors with a well-considered palette of precious materials. The aim is to create a personal and familiar place that fits the clients’ individual needs. This publication visualizes a curated selection of residential projects in Belgium as well as abroad. ‘I strive to create a comforting refuge, a place that feels familiar and soothing to come home to.’

Throughout the book, it will become clear that Nathalie Deboel looks for balance instead of controversy. She aims for soothing, timeless interiors with a well-considered palette of precious materials. The choice of finishes can range from eclectic and exuberant to minimal and quiet. However varied the characters of her clients are, the aim is to create a personal and familiar place that fits their individual needs.

An abstract play of shapes symbolize interior on the cover. On the back of the book, they become a play of lines, embossed in the linnen hardcover, creating a tactile link with the interiors seen inside the book. The book was printed on high-end paper and the first edition was printed in 1000 copies.

Each volume in this collection features the most representative works of 30 leading architects in the international arena. These studios or individual architects have been distinguished with numerous local and international awards for their innovative contributions to the world of architecture and for designing new buildings that fulfil an important cultural, political and social purpose. Their projects have become icons because of their spectacular design or the use of new construction materials. New technologies, home automation, functionality, spectacular structures and respect for the environment have earned them a place in the annals of architectural history.

CA1 continues The Images Publishing Group's commitment to an annual showcase of contemporary architecture. Previously published as the International Architecture Yearbook, this annual series presents a snapshot of current architectural trends. The new title better reflects the spirit and content of the series, which will continue to entertain and inspire with its eclectic mix of international projects. The projects collected in this book are outstanding examples of ingenuity, innovation, cultural sensitivity and ecological preservation. Ranging from the playful to the sombre, from high-tech to historic, from cultural to commercial and all in between, they are among the finest contemporary examples of architecture's unfailing ability to improvise, surprise and delight. More than 50 architectural practices are featured. Many are multi-award-winning household names and some are rising stars in world architecture. Together they present a fascinating view of contemporary architecture.

Introduced by well-known critic and writer Catherine Slessor, CA2 is an important and popular resource. This new volume contains some of the most striking and visionary architecture recently constructed worldwide. Once again, a diverse range of institutional, corporate, educational, public, recreational, residential and retail projects are featured - all comprehensively documented through descriptive text, plans, drawings and full-colour photos. Almost fifty architects are featured, including Bernard Tschumi Architects, Christian de Portzamparc, Claudio Silvestrin, Gehry Partners, Rafael Moneo, Pugh + Scarpa, MVRDV, Murphy/Jahn, Zaha Hadid Architects, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Rafael Viñoly Architects and many more.

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU s projects include recent urban structures like the BMW Welt, Munich (2001 07), the Musée des Confluences, Lyon (2001 10), and the European Central Bank, Frankfurt (2003 11). These and many others are presented through photographs, renderings, planning materials and sketches and offer the reader a look at realized structures as well as construction projects that are still in the planning stages. Texts from Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin and Peter Noever highlight the relationships between the specific work of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU and architecture, history, literature, film and art. Project-specific and programmatic texts from COOP HIMMELB(L)AU offer an in-depth look at the conceptual practices of the architects, whose work is some of the most innovative and important of our time.

Cooper, Robertson & Partners was founded in 1979 on the ambitious premise that the pursuit of excellence in both architecture and urban design could best serve its clients' needs while meeting its own professional goals. The New York-based firm provides design, programming, and development advisory services for private clients, cultural and academic institutions, public agencies, entertainment companies and developers of new communities. Recent projects include the plan for Hudson Yards in Manhattan, the new Battlefield Museum and Visitor's Center at Gettysburg National Military Park, master plans for the medical centers at John Hopkins and Columbia Presbyterian, and waterfront master plans for Detroit, Chula Vista, Miami, and Memphis. This monograph examines the firm's architectural and urban design projects, clearly demonstrating why it is the first firm ever to receive the National American Institute of Architects Award in both architecture and urban design in the same year.

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe organises a series of debates and lectures entitled Coup de Dés that provide an opportunity to discuss some of the most significant architecture being produced today, with the objective of offering a wide panorama of current architectural practice. The debates are generated by the presentation of various projects. Each presentation is followed by a dialogue between the architect and a critic who proposes an interpretation of the project and raises related questions. The Coup de Dés forms part of the GAUDI project sponsored by the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union. This issue s moderators: Peter Cachola Schmal (Deutsches Architecturmusuem, Francfort)/Dietmar Syteinere (Architectkturmuseum, Vienna). This issue s references: Architecture, Identity, Environment, Community. Included: Francis Rambert on Rudy Ricciontti s National Choreographic Centre (Aix-en-Provence, France); Keller Easterling on Louisa Hutton s Federal Environmental Agency (Dessau, Germany); Marc Dubois on Rosa Rull s New City Hall Façade (Manresa, Spain): Ole Bouman on Stéphane Beel s Economic Building (Univ. Ghent, Belgium); Xavier Costa on Vasa J. Perovic s Faculty of Mathematics (Ljubljana, Slovenia); Luca Molinari on Belinda Tato s Ecoboulevard of Vallecas (Madrid, Spain).

Cox Architects is world-renowned for many aspects of its work, not the least of which has been extending an Australian architectural ethos beyond houses and into large-scale projects such as the Yulara Tourist Resort in Uluru. It is also recognised for creating dramatic and sculptural buildings in steel such as the Brisbane and Sydney Exhibition Centres, the Olympic Aquatic Centre and Superdome, and the Australian National Maritime Museum. In concentrating on work produced in the last five years, this publication profiles and explores the much broader idiom in which Cox Architects practices. The book is divided into two sections, the first comprising a series of essays on the nature of different project types and the second describing recent and current projects, putting philosophy into practice. While the projects have been selected for their diversity of problem solving, client requirements, context and scale, they reveal some constant passions for enriching the city and landscape, for harnessing new technologies, and for imparting environmental sensitivity and cultural relevance to the built environment.

This extraordinary collection of thoughts and images adds up to a positive prophecy for a future in which architecture and the stewardship of daily life becomes humanity's greatest work of art. Vernon D. Swaback takes us on a journey through ideas and places, stretching our imaginations and inspiring us to move beyond our patterns of production-driven sameness. This book is both an invitation and a guide for giving our best to the future by first creating it for ourselves. It illuminates a subject that is most often buried in planner's jargon, making it as personal as our own homes, which of course it is.