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Indeks: 100 Contemporary Green Buildings
Where the grass really is greener Eco-friendly building in the world today The most exciting new buildings in the world are now almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume far less energy than ever before. That architecture is one of the major sources of greenhouse gases in the world makes this new trend all the more significant. This book brings the best examples of green projects from the Architecture Now! series together with numerous new, never-seen-before projects. Well-known architects like Frank Gehry and Norman Foster are present right alongside young, up-and-coming creators from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Where the grass really is greener Eco-friendly building in the world today The most exciting new buildings in the world are now almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume far less energy than ever before. That architecture is one of the major sources of greenhouse gases in the world makes this new trend all the more significant. This book brings the best examples of green projects from the Architecture Now! series together with numerous new, never-seen-before projects. Well-known architects like Frank Gehry and Norman Foster are present right alongside young, up-and-coming creators from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Asia. This is not a technical book, nor are its contents limited to any predefined category. Being “green” means being aware of the responsibility implied in the construction and use of modern buildings, and there are many ways to express this rising consciousness. Some solutions, the ones generally called “passive,” are as old as the history of architecture, while others are born of cutting-edge technologies. Both approaches and many more are included in this groundbreaking collection of 100 of the world’s most innovative and recent eco-friendly buildings.
he book begins by surveying the counter culture of the 1960s, when Jane Jacobs and Robert Venturi called for a more complex urbanism and architecture. It concludes by showing how such demands began to be realized by the 1990s in a new architecture that is aided by computer design--more convivial, sensuous, and articulate than the Modern architecture it challenges. Promoted by such architects as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, and Peter Eisenman, it has also been adopted by many schools and offices around the world. Charles Jencks traces the history of computer design which is, at its heart, built on the desire for an architecture that communicates with its users, one based on the heterogeneity of cities and global culture.
Dostępność: na zamówienie Through design prototypes, limited editions and design-as-art objects, Limited Edition documents a new phenomenon in contemporary furniture design. This comprehensive and inspiring volume is illustrated with a rich selection of works that reflect the very best of this new area.
Twórcy oraz badacze, którzy z politycznych powodów musieli szukać nowego miejsca do życia, próbowali w nim zaszczepić to, co przynieśli ze sobą – kapitał intelektualny, bądź artystyczny. Nie obyło się przy tym bez strat, ale odnotowano również (przesunięte w czasie) zyski obydwu stron interakcji.
Explore the building blocks of modern architecture— from first idea to finished building. The Fundamentals of Architecture, like the other books in the successful "Fundamentals "series, gives a comprehensive introduction to the basics of its subject— the building-block ideas behind architecture, interior design, and the graphic language of planning space.
Dostępność: na zamówienie This landmark book takes a unique, original and engrossing approach to design. Whether or not we are consciously interested in it, design is omnipresent; it affects and influences us all in every aspect of our lives. The Genius of Design illuminates what design is, how it works, and how it has shaped the world we live in. Taking a broadly chronological approach, the book shows how the story of design has developed and explores major themes, with chapters including the birth of mass-produced design, domestic design and the contemporary home and the legacy of wartime design.
Książka towarzyszyła wystawie w Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu o tym samym tytule. Przedstawia ona sylwetkę malarza, rysownika i poety Hermanna Finsterlina (1887-1973). Fantazje architektoniczne Finsterlina - dotychczas najbardziej znana część jego dorobku - z których najważniejsze powstały w latach 1919-1924, odzwierciedlają jego ideę, aby projektować architekturę według miękkich, opływowych lub osobliwych form natury i tym samym stworzyć alternatywę wobec znienawidzonego "mieszkania w kostkach".
Publikacja przedstawia nowatorskie wykorzystanie drewna w kilkudziesięciu projektach z całego świata. Fantastyczne fotografie, plany i omówienia autorstwa samych projektantów.
Przeprowadza w książce rozważania na temat najważniejszych elementów kompozycji urbanistycznej, ukazuje zagadnienia percepcji i powstawania określonych wrażeń, a także zwraca uwagę na konieczność świadomego kształtowania zespołów urbanistycznych i krajobrazowych.
No place like home New houses of elegance and distinction from around the world Beyond the fundamental notion of shelter, what defines a house? The broad-ranging selection of extraordinary dwellings in the Architecture Now! Houses series shows the concept to be infinitely malleable: one house seems to hover above the ground, another is embedded in it; some have stark minimal lines, others have tropical gardens; some are palatial, others monastic—all of them displaying remarkable structural and aesthetic mastery.
Where the grass really is greener Eco-friendly building in the world today The most exciting new buildings in the world are now almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume far less energy than ever before. That architecture is one of the major sources of greenhouse gases in the world makes this new trend all the more significant. This book brings the best examples of green projects from the Architecture Now! series together with numerous new, never-seen-before projects. Well-known architects like Frank Gehry and Norman Foster are present right alongside young, up-and-coming creators from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Asia.