URZĄDZAMY DOM I MIESZKANIE 1/2011

JĘZYK RZECZY. Dizajn i luksus, moda i sztuka. W jaki sposób przedmioty nas uwodzą? autorstwa Sudjic Deyan odpowiada na takie pytania jak: Czemu wymarzony komputer pod dwóch latach wydaje się nam bezużytecznym, tandetnym złomem? Z jakiego powodu niektóre przedmioty stają się fetyszami, a inne archetypami?

Co dziś jest prawdziwym luksusem: posiadanie pewnych rzeczy czy raczej rezygnacja z nich? Dlaczego dajemy się wciągać w obłędny trans konsumpcji?

Dostępność:na zamowienie The Private Garden for the Twenty-First Century The last two decades have seen a great explosion in the diversity, functionality, and beauty of modern garden design. The first major survey of contemporary private gardens, this book explores the imaginative ideas behind landscape design today. Lush color photographs, supported by plans, drawings, and lively commentary, thoroughly document gardens by twenty-eight leading landscape architects, featuring work in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia. An international roster of designers is represented here, illustrating acknowledged masters, such as Dan Kiley and Ian Hamilton Finlay, in addition to vital young talents, including Kathryn Gustafson and Susan Child.

Holy temples to posh hotels: exceptional interiors from Indonesia to Japan Zen. Soothing. Mystical. Meditative. All the most serene words in the world couldn’t begin to describe the effect of Asia’s most beautiful interiors. Whether it’s a temple in Vietnam, a coffee plantation in Java, or a Tadao Ando-designed house in Japan, each interior chosen for this book is remarkable not only for its aesthetics but for its spirit. The book is “clothed” in a silk-like curry-colored fabric adorned with chrysanthemum flowers. These interiors have what it takes to transport you to a sacred place; breathe deeply, delve in, and be inspired.

The amazing story of the prefabricated house A prefab is a mass-produced house, constructed in a factory and assembled on–site in a few days or weeks. Once regarded as a cheap, easy solution for urgent housing problems, the prefab has evolved to become a synonym for ambitious design and sophisticated detailing solutions. The amazing history of prefabricated houses started in England in the 1830’s with a building kit for emigrants moving to Australia. Even today, prefabricated houses provide a high percentage of living spaces in many countries of the world.

From the contents: Black Dog House in Nagano, Japan (Atelier Bow-Wow) House Gerzensee in Bern, Switzerland (Halle 58 Architekten) Villa Bjarne Riis in Veijle, Denmark (Architekthuset A/S) Villa NM in Upstate New York, USA (UN Studio) Living in a Bunker in Munich, Germany (binnberg + eberle) As the focal point of everyday life, living spaces in residential buildings offer limitless design possibilities. The homes featured in this book showcase the stunning variety of materials and designs to be found in contemporary houses, ranging from minimalist concepts employing concrete, glass and steel, to traditional, nature-conscious construction using wood.

Le Corbusier is often remembered as having been aggressively indifferent to the sites in which he placed his buildings and plans. However, new research reveals that, in keeping with his proposition that ‘the outside is always an inside’, all of Le Corbusier’s projects responded emphatically to specific geographies. This book examines Le Corbusier’s relationship with the landscapes of five continents, in forty essays by thirty of the foremost scholars of his work.

Dostępność: na zamówienie In many books there is the issue of saturation-by-computer-rendering, a phenomenon whereby all buildings take on a similar appearance by virtue of using the same digital zeros and ones to create their character. But in the Danish compilations 2 and 3, thereis a greater effort by many of the firms to use advanced rendering technologies to focus on people and their relationships to buildings, rather than on the buildings as art objects in space. The result is to render a fuller Scandinavian regional identity to the work.