K. Ching's illustrated introduction to interior design is now completely revised and even more clear and accessible than in the previous bestselling edition. His unique approach is more useful than ever, with a reformatted, larger trim size for easy reading and an all-new full color section! The book includes new and updated material on finishes, furnishings and textiles, lighting, sustainability, acoustics, workstations, and much more. Order your copy today!

    But this sense of wholeness is lacking in modern urban design, with architects absorbed in problems of individual structures, and city planners preoccupied with local ordinances, it is almost impossible to achieve. In this groundbreaking volume, architect and planner Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of urban design which attempts to recapture the process by which cities develop organically. To discover the kinds of laws needed to create a growing whole in a city, Alexander proposes here a preliminary set of seven rules which embody the process at a practical level and which are consistent with the day-to-day demands of urban development. He then puts these rules to the test, setting out with a number of his graduate students to simulate the urban redesign of a high-density part of San Francisco, initiating a project that encompassed some ninety different design problems, including warehouses, hotels, fishing piers, a music hall, and a public square. This extensive experiment is documented project by project, with detailed discussion of how each project satisfied the seven rules, accompanied by floorplans, elevations, street grids, axonometric diagrams and photographs of the scaled-down model which clearly illustrate the discussion. A New Theory of Urban Design provides an entirely new theoretical framework for the discussion of urban problems, one that goes far to remedy the defects which cities have today.

    The definitive work on this period of social upheaval, now back in print.From the Hardcover edition.

    Dwellings is about the vast range of types of vernacular houses around the world. It documents the form of traditional buildings that are self-built by their owner-occupiers or built by members of a community, recording the means of construction and decoration of the house across a spectrum of different cultures.First published by Phaidon in 1987, Dwellings - in its new updated, revised and expanded format - assimilates new scholarship in the field, including the author's own research, and traces theoretical developments in the spheres of cultural geography, gender studies, sociology and anthropology. It is not only a fascinating reference work on domestic buildings, but also a useful survey for understanding how diverse communities cope with issues of climate, migration, mass development and, in turn, how this brings to life symbolic and cultural meaning in architecture.

    Instead of transforming reality, modern avant-garde artists, in Tafuri's tough judgment, are merely playing with techniques, their private dialogue a "glass bead game." Tafuri's essays throw down a gauntlet to avant-garde movements in architecture, theater, painting, film and literature: he mocks today's New York architects who work in self-defined limbo to entertain a select public; he examines the "total theater" of such architects as Moholy-Nagy and Gropius, who envisioned a "counter-city" as a global alternative to the real; and he makes provocative connections between the arts, showing, for example, why Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein saw Piranesi's drawings as a forerunner of new film language. Tafuri probes the lines between reality and ideology, the gap that avant-garde ideology places between its own demands and its translation into techniques, the ways in which the avant-garde reaches compromises with the world, and the conditions that permit its existence. Interweaving intellectual models and modes of production and consumption, Tafuri constructs an elaborate network of references, comparisons, and analogies — drawing on such intellectual giants as Marx, Nietzsche and Freud — that leads to an interpretation of history as an archaeology of fragments and interpretations rather than a linear progression or compact block. These wide-ranging essays, moving from the cross-pollination of German and Soviet artists in Berlin of the 1920s, to the designs of architects like Venturi, Graves and Rossi, challenge an avant-garde that has lost its moorings in contemporary life."As it traces the derailing and mistranslations of utopian intentions, [The Sphere and the Labyrinth] offers a powerful corrective to conventional histories emphasising the heroism of the avant-garde. It also forces the question of whether an ethical architecture is possible." — Christina Spellman, Telos"Tafuri's work is probably the most innovative and exciting new form of European theory since French post-structuralism, and this book is probably the best introduction to it for the newcomer. His diagnosis of the dilemmas of modernity and of late capitalism extends the Frankfurt School in new ways, and is bleak, implacable, and for that very reason, therapeutic and painfully stimulating." — Frederic Jameson

    A tour of the astonishing and stunning newly painted Victorian homes now beautifying all of the United States as ancestors of the original Painted Ladies of San Francisco! 172 full-color photographs.

    It was a role Wright often disdained but which he also obviously enjoyed. Including thoughtful analysis with introductions by editor Patrick J. Meehan, AIA, Truth Against the World provides the first comprehensive, single-volume collection of Wright's most important speeches during his 70-year career to diverse audiences--high school and college students, architects, engineers, business executives, and society matrons. Topics covered by the 32 presentations include Wright's thoughts on Beaux Arts architecture and the Columbian World Exposition of 1893, organic architecture, prefabricated housing, hospital design, the use of the machine in design, and contemporary society, among many others.

    Restaurant design is also constantly evolving as changing fashions and competition demand more frequent refurbishment and reinvestment coupled with technical advances in food production and equipment. Now available in paperback with new material, this handbook covers all aspects of planning, design and investment in commercial restaurants, from fast food outlets to night clubs, and also examines requirements for food services in the social and welfare sector. The book is illustrated by many examples of the most interesting projects in the field worldwide. Any student or practising caterer, architect or interior designer working in a restaurant in the food service industry will find this volume packed with invaluable guidance on planning, design and management.

    Step-by-step advice on making every construction job profitable and successful Covering every aspect of the job, from writing initial contracts to complying with OSHA regulations, this trusted resource outlines the essential tenets of project management including estimating, purchasing, and administration of the contract.

    

    Includes a spirited social history and an in-depth look at 11 homes. 450 full-color photographs.

    All are lavishly produced in full color and blend archival and contemporary illustrations with provocative scholarship and charming anecdotes. Each volume features an exclusive, spell-binding portfolio tour of homes and gardens, illustrating how the ever-present Old South awareness of the past is often mixed with resourceful accommodations for modern living. The array of sizes, styles, and taste that unfolds within the portfolios provides a beautiful testament to the vigor and variety of Southern home-building.

    Schindler designed and built for himself and his wife and another couple in West Hollywood, California, in 1921-22. The author documents the design and construction of the house, covers life in it (many artists, architects, writers, and others stayed at or lived in the house), and analyses the critical response to the house through its 80-year history.

    Wild Heron, located just south of Savannah on the Little Ogeechee River, is the oldest plantation house still standing in Georgia. A one-and-a-half story farmhouse built in the style of a West India cottage, it is being restored to reflect the period of the early 1800s.Farther to the interior, in the area around Augusta, are such homes as Fruitlands, now the clubhouse of the Augusta national Golf Club; Meadow Garden; Ware's Folly; and Montrose, built in 1849 and one of the Loveliest Greek Revival houses in the area. Houses photographed along the Plantation Trail, from Athens to Macon, include the white-columned President's House, home since 1949 to the presidents of the University of Georgia; the Howell Cobb House, in Athens; Whitehall, in Covington; Glan Mary, in Sparta; and the Woodruff House, in Macon.Gleason devotes considerable attention to the homes of the western side of the state, from Chickamauga to Thomasville. The Gordon-Lee House, constructed in 1847, was headquarters fro the Union army during the battle of chickamauga. Other houses in this part of Georgia are valley View, which overlooks the Etowah River, west of Cartersville; the Archibald Howell House, near downtown Marietta; Lovejoy, in Clayton Country; The oaks, in the vicinity of LaGrange; and Greenwood and Pebble Hill, near Thomasville.In all, Gleason captures more than one hundred of Georgia's most beautiful antebellum homes, including many lesser-known houses. In addition to exterior photographs, Antebellum Homes of Georgia contains a number of interior views as well as aerial photographs that show the relationship between the houses and their environs: outbuildings, formal gardens, and recd clay fields that were once white with cotton. Captions provide brief histories of the houses and their owners as weel as notes on construction and outstanding architectural details.

    Designed and built by the villagers themselves, it manifests the creative and aesthetic skills of the Malays.It is a near-perfect houseform which is appropriate to local climatic conditions and expresses the way of life of its inhabitants.The house is extremely well designed to suit the warm and humid Malaysian climate and for the optimal and multifunctional use of space. Its design is also flexible as it caters to the widely different needs of the users and it has an addition system which allows the house to be extended to meet the growing needs of each family.Fully illustrated by full-colour photographs and three-dimensional drawings, this book documents the architecture of the traditional Malay house, giving details of the various housetypes, the construction system, the climatic design and the adaptations to the social and cultural requirements of the Malays.This book is essential for those interested in Malaysian culture, indigenous architecture and the future of housing for people in the Third World.

    Together, Asplund and Lewerentz collaborated on the development of the Woodland Cemetery. Their buildings were profoundly personal; and while their output was not large, it covered a wide range of design, from furniture to landscape. Asplund gained immediate fame and success, inspiring others and attracting disciples, but the uncompromising and solitary Lewerentz has been recognized only recently. Janne Ahlin's is the first major study of this enigmatic figure who was an early force in the shaping of modern architecture.Lewerentz's work is presented in over 300 black and white and full color illustrations; the drawings and watercolors are particularly revealing as he rarely wrote or talked about his projects. It includes an astonishing variety of projects simple worker's housing and aristocratic homes, factories, churches, cemeteries, office buildings, store interiors, furniture, town plans, and ingeniously designed window and door fittings that he patented and manufactured in his own factory.Lewerentz, who was born in 1885 and died in 1975, began study at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Breaking away almost immediately, he founded the Klara school, gathering an independent and radical group of architects who endorsed the use of indigenous materials and forms and whose concern with direct and authentic expression paved the way for modern architecture in Sweden. Lewerentz was in fact the first Swedish architect to work actively with the newly formed Deutscher Werkbund in Germany, where he became acquainted with Le Corbusier.The book follows his design career from such neoclassical projects as the Halsingborg Crematorium and the Woodland Cemetery to the more expressionistic banners, program covers, signs, pavilions, motor vehicles, and touring boats for the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition. It includes his contribution to industrial design and furniture design, his lighting fixtures, and a number of other glass products.Janne Ahlin teaches at the School of Art and Design in Stockholm and maintains an architectural office in Lund.

    400 full-color photographs.

    Today, historians consider Artistic Houses the best source of information and illustrations for private houses in major Eastern cities in the early 1880s. Although its authorship is not certain, the text is generally attributed to noted author and art critic George William Sheldon.This volume retains all of the photographs from the original two-volume work; the text, however, has been replaced with a version specially written for this edition. In addition to an introductory essay on the period's social and esthetic trends, extensive captions for each plate include most of the valuable information from Sheldon's descriptions plus biographical comments on the homeowners and their families, comments on paintings and sculptures, present condition of the houses, and locations.Over 200 photographs of 97 grand buildings include rare photographs of the New York homes of Hamilton Fish and Ulysses S. Grant; multiple views of the Henry Villard house, now part of the Helmsley Palace Hotel in Manhattan; rooms from William H. Vanderbilt's Fifth Avenue residence; interiors from J. Pierpont Morgan's Madison Avenue home; the Marshall Field house in Chicago, and many others. Here are richly paneled rooms that rivaled the baronial halls of European castles, miniature art galleries, magnificent tapestries, plush draperies, and brilliant chandeliers. With its thorough scholarship and wealth of detail, this impressive survey offers not only inside views of the homes of the rich and powerful families during the Gilded Age but also fascinating insights into the social history and architectural development of the United States.

    

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    Each book has a unique and engaging cover that is sure to charm people everywhere.

    It is also one of the least understood. It transformed not only how objects looked but how people looked at objects. It changed American attitudes toward design and the home, and compelled people to think about the relationship of art to everyday life. The results can be seen in such diverse styles as Gothic, Oriental, Aesthetic, Colonial Revival, Native American, Mission, and Art Nouveau. "The Art that is Life" was initially published in conjunction with a 1987 exhibition originated by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the first to synthesize the decorative arts and architecture of this period in America. Works include such objects as furniture, glass, silver, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, books, and architectural drawings. With eight essays by distinguished scholars and more than 300 illustrations, this book serves not only as a classic reference on American design reform but also as a celebration of the era that so unified the "artful" with the "useful."

    More than 100 line drawings of floor plans and over 100 black-and-white photographs as well as fascinating mini-histories detail the vital statistics on 73 of New York City's best luxury apartment addresses.

    Hundreds of superb and carefully researched line drawings.

    

    But not all prospective homeowners could easily afford the services of an architect, so the nonprofit Architects' Small House Service Bureau was organized in the 1920s to provide plans and other technical documents. This book of the Service's housing plans is a complete republication of a rare edition, containing floor plans, construction materials, and drawings or photographs for a wide variety of small homes. Models range from charming five-room English cottages of brick and stucco to attractive two-story shingled Colonials with six rooms, fireplace, French doors, and a generous attic. Clearly written descriptions of interiors and exteriors complement detailed plans for each of 254 homes. Remarkable for their spacious and well-lit rooms, ample closets, large basements, and eat-in kitchens, many of these models also offer sun rooms, fireplaces, open porches, and second-story "sleeping porches." Richly illustrated with over 800 black-and-white line drawings and photographs, this attractive, modestly priced edition will appeal not only to builders and restorers of older houses, but also to professional architects, students, and anyone interested in distinctively American homes of the early twentieth century.

    Both playful tribute and handy how-to, this is a wonderfully illustrated volume that features hundreds of photographs and detailed scale drawings. Whether you're a student of philosophy aspiring to build a replica of Thoreau's cabin, an ice fisherman in need of four walls to fend off winter winds, or just a dreamer with a vision of a humble cottage on a quite seashore, Tiny Houses is a precious resource for ideas, instruction, and inspiration.