Negli ultimi dieci anni larchitettura sembrerebbe aver riscoperto lingegneria. Passato il periodo del post-modern in cui la struttura degli edifici era camuffata da rivestimenti di ogni sorta, oggi larchitettura sembra ...

Continua la collana di studi dedicati all'importante Convegno sul Medioevo organizzato dal Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali dell'Università degli Studi di Parma. Importanti studiosi hanno trovato in Parma un punto di ...

Anatxu Zabalbeascoa narra en este libro una crónica amena y apasionante de aquellos hechos que han configurado la evolución de la casa y de nuestros hábitos domésticos. Arquitectura, tecnología y ...

The new importance of kitchens today as a place to spend leisure is reflected in its architecture and design: first of all it means that creative solutions need to be ...

Every good restaurant pays great attention to its spatial design as well as its culinary delights. Just as varied as the menus found in modern restaurants are the ways architects ...

Focuses on the design of modern office spaces and buildings. Starting with traditional cubicles, on to custom designed work environments, and ending in open team spaces and interaction areas.

This book compiles contemporary designs worldwide that break through the stereotype of doctor?s practices as cold and often stressful environments. All projects aim at balancing medical technology and functionality with ...

Over the course of a career spanning more than fifty years, Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) designed nearly one hundred single-family houses. Aalto, who is also known for ...

The New Indonesian House presents twenty-eight homes in Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Bali that illustrate the remarkable advances that have taken place in residential design in Indonesia over the last ...

The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious international prize for architecture. Architect presents all 33 recipients of the Pritzker Prize, and captures in pictures and in their own words the ...

Water is the scarcest of all natural resources. It is a global challenge to develop, produce and deploy technologies, systems and products for sustainable water consumption. The model for this ...

For six months in 2010 Shanghai has been host to the biggest and most ambitious World Expo in history. Central to the event are the truly remarkable pavilions and halls ...

Tenth volume on the new Novartis Campus in Basel, a laboratory building by Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, renowned for his extension to the MOMA in New York. Taniguchi balanced the ...

From treehouses to pre-fabs, this book presents sustainable, micro-green living at its best. Micro Green delves into the concept of compact living and demonstrates the possibilities of living with less ...

Middelfart Savings Bank is far from just a bank and thus its new head office is not just a traditional office building. It is, in fact, a realisation of the ...

Reviewing the use of natural light by architects in the era of electricity, this book aims to show that natural light not only remains a potential source of order in ...

Today the excitement in architecture derives from the tension between the need for privacy and the impulse toward community. This unique survey of buildings and interiors captures the multilayered experience ...

Sou Fujimoto is fast becoming a contemporary icon of Japanese architecture. This Special Volume in the Contemporary Architect's Concept series shows why. The university library is Fujimoto's largest building to ...

With the donation in 1973 of their extraordinary art collection to the University of East Anglia, Norwich, Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury sought to establish the Sainsbury Centre as an ...