Indeks: HIGHRISES SOCIAL LIVING
Collective housing has played a major role in the architectural advances ofthe last century, in the process provoking its fair share of controversy,admiration and disapprobation.
Collective housing has played a major role in the architectural advances ofthe last century, in the process provoking its fair share of controversy,admiration and disapprobation. While apartment blocks may be seen as moreor less fashionable according to the prevailing wind, the decline of thenuclear family and the manifestation of new models of cohabitation haveconfirmed their value as high-density housing that can limit sprawl andallow for significant aesthetic expression.With other pertinent issuesincluding sustainability and the built environment's carbon footprint, aswell as urban cohesiveness, social living is right back on the agenda.This book presents detailed case studies of 26 high density developmentsfrom varied and sometimes unexpected locations. Big names such as Foster &Partners and MVRDV (represented here by Gemini - converted seaside silos inCopenhagen - as well as the instantly recognisable Mirador development inMadrid) are accompanied by intriguing projects such as Gokay Deveci's7-storey hilltop tower A'Chrannag on the Isle of Bute, Rene van Zuuk'sbulbous wave Block 16 in Almere (Netherlands) and colourful modern housingin Slovenia. All buildings are illustrated with clear plans, plentifulphotographs and explanatory text.
Dostępność: na zamówienie This volume showcases a marvellous range of antiques—ranging from small works of art to rare decorative objects to precious period furniture—housed in some of the most extraordinary private residences in Italy. The homes of princes, scholars, antiquarians, professors, and magnates are presented in over two hundred of the best of images made by architectural photographer Mario Ciampi during the last twenty years.
Niniejsza książka pokazuje klasyczne zagadnienia wytrzymałościowe, jak i nowoczesne elementy wytrzymałości materiałów, m.in. metodę elementów skończonych. Większość tematów jest zilustrowana konkretnymi przykładami, które nie tylko ułatwiają zrozumienie przedstawionych zagadnień, ale również wykorzystanie ich w praktyce. Zespół autorski gwarantuje wysoki poziom merytoryczny. Podręcznik skierowany jest do studentów wyższych uczelni technicznych, zwłaszcza dla studentów wydziałów mechanicznych. Zainteresuje też z pewnością inżynierów zajmujących się projektowaniem urządzeń mechanicznych i konstrukcji budowlanych.
Wybierając się na spacer, zastanawiamy się, jakie wybrać miejsce, aby uniknąć zgiełku miasta oraz spędzić kilka godzin w przyjaznym, zdrowym otoczeniu. Dokonując przeglądu samochodu, pamiętamy o wyczyszczeniu systemu klimatyzacyjnego. Jadąc na wakacje, wybieramy miejscowości oddalone od ośrodków przemysłowych.
After a period in which computation-derived architecture—driven by digital design tools, data analysis, and new formal expression—has thrived, students and their teachers have returned to age-old techniques before employing the digital tools that are a part of every architect’s studio. Tired of the perfectly rendered screen image, architects are making presentations that are clearly the work of the hand and the mind, not the computer. This ambitious publication, organized chronologically, is aimed at a new generation of architects who take technology for granted, but seek to further understand the principles of what makes a building meaningful and enduring.
The new Home Series from Beta-Plus invites you to take a fascinating journey through the most beautiful and inspiring interiors. The thirty volumes in this series are thematically divided by room (living rooms, bathrooms, kitchens and so on), and also by style (including designer homes, country houses and contemporary interiors). The reports in these books combine to create a unique voyage of discovery through modern trends in decoration and architecture, reflecting the lifestyle and outlook of people who live in these beautiful homes.
Far From The Madding Crowd Inspiring getaways from California to Zanzibar The second installment of Angelika Taschen's round-up of the world's most exceptional hotels and retreats is packed with awe-inspiring photos and tantalizing descriptions of the world's greatest getaways.
May 1884 saw the publication in Paris of a fin de siècle novel that became a perverse sensation on the European cultural scene. A ReboursAgainst the Grain and Against Nature) by Joris-Karl Huysmans was written as a seductive textbook of decadence, an antidote to the "banality" of the dominant literary styles, Naturalism and Realism. Symbolism, whose influence would endure well into the modernist era, was an artistic religion-substitute, a spiritually charged cult of beauty.
Collective housing has played a major role in the architectural advances ofthe last century, in the process provoking its fair share of controversy,admiration and disapprobation.
