Монографии и сборники работ известных архитекторов

Recently awarded the Venice Biennale 2008 ‘Silver Lion for Most Promising Young Architect’, Elemental is a Chilean initiative creating innovative solutions for subsidized housing. The program’s urban projects aim to improve social housing for poverty stricken families. Elemental organized an international architecture competition which resulted in seven constructed projects throughout Chile as hybrids between house and building, pushing the limits of expansion and density. Built in central areas, these houses are half-constructed, offering inhabitants the infrastructure to extend the house to personal needs. This is a fascinating study of the successes and failures of the ‘Elemental Houses’. ELEMENTAL is a Do Tank affiliated with the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and COPEC, implementing urban projects for social interests.

Dutch designer Eric Kuster has become a hot celebrity by designing interiors for famous international restaurants, hotels and clubs, such as Jimmy Woo and Suzy Wong in Amsterdam, but also private (pent)houses from Russian businessmen and sheikhs to soccer players. He has his own interior business B.inc. Interior stuff and has showrooms in Kazachstan, Dubai, Moscow and New York. This beautifully illustrated book showcases some of Kuster's work from around the world and shows why he has become one of the rising stars in the design industry.

Книга Eric Kuster: Metropolitan Luxury II

Вот уже 12 лет Эрик Кустер радует своих клиентов созданием великолепного современного дизайна интерьеров в офисах и домах. Его фирменный знак - изысканный гламур в сочетании с непревзойденным вниманием к деталям, и все это - с легким оттенком некоего отсутствия шаблонов. Создаваемое им пространство доставляет удовольствие всем органам чувств и пробуждает вдохновение в тех, кто его населяет, будь то дом или офис. На страницах Metropolitan Luxury II мы проследим за работами Эрика в разнообразной окружающей атмосфере в различных странах. Среди них и Таиланд, и Испания, и Монако, а также его родная страна - Нидерланды. Каждый проект иллюстрируют восхитительные фотографии.

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Dutch designer Eric Kuster's designs are all about luxury. Despite the economic crisis, Kuster always creates a world of glamour, luxury and beauty. In Kuster's long-awaited second book, "Eric Kuster: Metropolitan Luxury II", the reader is shown some of the most spectacular projects of this famous designer. From the Netherlands to Dubai, London and Moscow, the interiors of the rich and famous are photographed beautifully by top Australian photographer Paul Barbera. Not only his country of origin, but also Asia, the Middle East and Russia have embraced Eric Kuster's designs. He now has become somewhat of a celebrity himself, having designed for prominent international restaurants, hotels and clubs such as Jimmy Woo and Suzy Wong in Amsterdam as well as private homes for famous Dutch footballers Ruud Gullit and Erwin Koeman, and penthouses for sheiks and Russian businessmen.

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Robert A. M. Stern Architects, over its forty-year history and across a wide range of building types, has defined principles common to all projects. Stern articulates the ideas that govern his design process through this rich visual presentation of all types of his work: museums and cultural institutions, colleges and universities, commercial and residential developers, and, famously, private residential clients throughout the United States and Europe.

Evidence serves as a visual synthesis of Stern's methodologies, revealing the firm's vision through juxtapositions of building, material and landscape: "We never think of just the building. We like to think of the next bigger thing—what other buildings will come next to it, but also the siting and landscaping. Abstract compositional principles do interest me but not when I begin a design. I begin with a cultural assessment of the building as a type, the place it is set in, and lastly its obligations to its particular moment in time."

Through 400 illustrations, Stern illuminates key architectural concepts by examining components: stunning windows harmonizing with their views, elegant entryways, meticulous stonework, homes conversing with their settings. On each page, Stern pairs images that challenge the idea that tradition means statis. Rather, tradition can be interpreted to suit all situations in an increasingly complex world.

Другие книги о творчестве Robert A.M. Stern

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Towns

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1999-2003

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 2004-2009

Robert A. M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2010-2014

Robert A.M. Stern: Houses and Gardens

Robert A.M. Stern. On Campus

Designs for Living: The Houses of Robert A. M. Stern Architects

As good as living can get: real estate with a rare combination of outstanding location, timelessly classical architecture, and high-quality materials

Redefining comfort zones — for designers, architects, and residents who have elevated standards for their living spaces

Architectural mastery with handcrafted details, enhanced with all of today’s modern conveniences, is on full display in the elegant residences of RALF SCHMITZ’s extraordinary portfolio. Whether urban villas or townhouses, Wilhelminian style or Art Deco, glimpse refined classical architecture combined with state-of-the-art finishes as you tour an array of luxury interiors in this opulent book.

Exceptional Homes shows a variety of distinctive, newly-constructed buildings and ultra-stylish homes in prime locations. The showroom apartments in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg feature exquisite furnishings and tasteful color combinations that make them truly inspiring. Traditional architectural layouts are skillfully re-imagined and re-designed for modern living, allowing for light-flooded floor plans with harmonious room sequences to create beautiful, upscale home environments. 

Even the common areas of the unique properties are splendidly accentuated — lavish lobbies and elaborate elevators make the mere arrival to a building or residence a memorable experience. Exclusive cooperative projects with prestigious interior design professionals, such as the Italian luxury label Bottega Veneta, demonstrate the exceptional standard upheld by this historic company. All structures are designed by renowned, highly sought-after architectural firms. 

“Only value endures” is the guiding principle of the Schmitz family, the real estate developers for subdued luxury. This is precisely what the founder of the company mandated in 1864. Today, the company embodies the same values: developing and building high-quality residential estates on exclusive properties on the basis of a building culture that stands for architectural perfection.

The London architectural firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects, founded in 1983, has been drawing attention since the 1990s with its wealth of innovative and imaginative designs – notably its spectacular and structurally ambitious bridges. The best-known and most highly acclaimed are the Gateshead Millennium Bridge (2001) and the Floral Street Bridge (2003). The firm has won many prizes, including the RIBA Stirling Prize twice. It has also demonstrated the increasingly international scope of its activities by entering the competitions for the Guangzhou West Tower in China and the Tensegrity Bridge in Washington DC, USA.

This book offers detailed documentation of some 15 structures and projects, with special attention paid to the context of each design. The projects presented include the Stirling Prize-winning Magna Centre in Rotherham, UK; the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, UK; the Guangzhou West Tower in China; and the Gatwick Airbridge, UK, among others.

A comprehensive and authoritative volume on Fabio Novembre, one of the few independent and unconventional voices in the Italian architecture and design scenes.

This new book, elegant and linear, tells the visionary power of the interior and the objects designed in the last twenty years by Fabio Novembre, where every element contributes to the development of a project. The pages show evocative environments characterized by multiple levels, in which the visitor is always the main actor in a world of suggestions, from cinema to fashion, from art to literature. The book's images capture the material perfection and plasticity of the objects. Many of Novembre's most important projects are collected in this volume, including the ORG table, the 100 squares collection, and the Tardini boutique in New York.

About the Author:

Beppe Finessi is an architect, critic, and professor specializing in the work of major Italian designers. He is the author of several books on design, architecture, and contemporary art.

The Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning at the University of Michigan offers three fellowships in the areas of architectural research and design instruction. The exemplary work of 57 of these fellows is the subject of this book, and honors the history of design excellence at the University.

The Muschenheim Fellowship offers design instructors early in their career the opportunity to develop a body of work in the context of teaching. Muschenheim fellows play a significant role in the definition of studio culture while pursuing their own creative endeavors. Proposals for the Muschenheim Fellowship focus upon the development of a specific centering upon a particular set of pedagogical themes to be engaged in the studio context.

The Oberdick Project Fellowship facilitates the development and realization of a significant exploration into some aspect of architectural speculation and production. Projects may range from the exploration of emergent building, fabrication, and environmental technologies to the realization of architectural works and endeavors typically unsupported within conventional models of practice.

The Sanders Fellowship supports individuals with significant, compelling and timely research dealing with architectural issues. Research can encompass architectural, urban, landscape, or cultural history or theory; architectural or environmental technology; or design studies.

A celebration of the enormously popular Italian painter, sculptor and interior decorator

Piero Fornasetti established an enduring reputation as a designer with a style that was all his own – a style based on illusionism, architectural perspectives and a host of personal leitmotifs, such as the sun, playing cards and fishes, from which he spun seemingly endless variations. 'He makes objects speak' said Gio Ponti, his friend and longtime collaborator.

Designers and collectors today celebrate his use of allusion, unsettling images and striking juxtaposition to create unique, whimsical objects. Fornasetti's masterpieces shock, delight and inspire.

200 color and 950 b/w illustrations

40 years, 40 projects, and 40 themes central to the success of Foster + Partners.

In 2007 Norman Foster celebrates 40 years of independent practice. Founded in 1967 as Foster Associates and now known as Foster + Partners, for over four decades his studio has grown to become one of the largest and most respected in the world. Since its inception, the practice has received more than 400 awards and citations for excellence and has won more than 70 international and national competitions. The new book celebrates 40 years of Foster's most important projects, together with 40 themes that have consistently underpinned his work. Echoing the spirit of Foster's architecture, the book itself is designed around a pioneering format which allows the content to be accessed interactively. This inventive volume provides an extraordinary view into the ideas that drive Foster's seemingly inexhaustible creative energy.