Light is the prerequisite for spatial perception, which is why it is an integral component of architecture. Light design in architecture has become more lively and also more colourful in ...

The Great Builders celebrates the careers of forty great figures whose engineering skills have been crucial to their success. Illustrated with over two hundred photographs, plans and drawings, the book ...

Five North American Architects - An Anthology brings together five architectural practices which, while all distinct, share a particularly sensitive feeling for the impact of craftsmanship and climate on the ...

In the nineteen-fifties the architectural profession turned its gaze towards India where Le Corbusier had been commissioned to build an ideal modern city. Today, Chandigarh is a pulsating metropolis while, ...

When designing small residences, Japanese architects play with the boundaries of space, employ unusual materials, and develop new concepts for living together. The creativity of Japans architects is revealed by ...

Increasingly, architects are hired to design new work for existing structures. Whether for reasons of preservation, sustainability, or cost-effectiveness, the movement to reuse buildings presents a variety of design challenges ...

This is the third in the series of M3 360° Modern Architecture. With global views, this book presents more than 100 creative and cutting-edge projects, showcasing diverse styles and different ...

The book presents 33 individually designed homes from the turn of the century to the end of the 2010s. The houses differ from both mainstream mass-produced houses and from each ...

What kind of architecture do we find in a country that has no traditional building materials such as timber and bricks at its fingertips but instead builds houses using grass ...

En este libro se analizan las Universidades Laborales construidas en Galicia (1960-1975) entendidas como tres momentos diferentes de la recuperación de la modernidad en arquitectura después de la Guerra Civil ...

The global changes taking place in the architectural world are crystallizing right now in Japan, with the past five years being considered one of the most innovative periods in current ...

Prólogo.- Introducción.- Presentación.- Preámbulo.- Prehistoria del entorno.- En pleno Carabanchel Alto.- De 1909 a 1936.- Apéndices.- Bibliografía

The villa stands for sumptuous home decor and upscale lifestyle. However it is more than a large urban mansion with a piece of land: The villa offers its residents an ...

Since the release of 1000 x European Architecture in 2006 , the world of architecture has gone through some major changes: in the midst of a seemingly unstoppable building boom ...

Formas Fuertes 4 Strong Forms JUAN ANTONIO CORTÉSMediateca de Sendai 32 Sendai Mediatheque TOYO ITO Terminal Marítima de Yokohama 88 Yokohama International Port Terminal FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS Embajada de los ...

In our growing cities, space is at a premium. In the countryside, we want to preserve the landscape and build as 'lightly as possible and in impoverished parts of the ...

Since 1995, Italian photographer Guido Guidi has been working on photographic studies of the Brion familys memorial vault, designed by Carlo Scarpa and located in San Vito d'Altivole. Scarpa (1906-1978) ...

The extraordinary accomplishments of the Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme are celebrated in this generously illustrated volume that includes hundreds of photographs, maps, and drawings along with informative text, offering ...

Volume 12 in the series of publications on the Novartis Campus in Basel is dedicated to the laboratory building by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando (b. 1942). Situated prominently at ...