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Dostępność: na zamówienie "Wood is universally beautiful to man. Man loves his association with it; likes to feel it under his hand, sympathetic to his touch and to his eye." Frank Lloyd Wright's appreciation of mankind's oldest building material is still shared by most architects, interior designers, owner-occupiers and tenants.
DOSTĘPNOŚĆ: NA ZAMÓWIENIE The importance of office environments for millions of workers and companies can hardly be underestimated. Ultimately high levels of efficiency depend to a great extent on good design. Assembled here is a remarkable collection of commercial office designs by architects from many different countries. Though diverse in scale and context, the clear evidence of creative intelligence in the design makesthe book a coherent and valuable guide to contemporary challenges and achievements in this sector.
Glass has a history going back more than 4,000 years. The Romans were the first to glaze their windows to keep out wind and weather. But it was only the steady development of rolling and casting techniques in the 18th and above all the 19th century which allowed the production of ever larger, more transparent and thinner panes of glass. The use of glass as a building material was encouraged in particular by garden design, as the protection of exotic plants required the construction of greenhouses and orangeries.
