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1000 X Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture is considered to be one of the most important disciplines in designing living spaces. This text presents 1,000 projects by established and upcoming landscape architects.
Touch Wood
This is a presentation of 60 examples of the latest international architectural designs for which wood has been used extensively - both for its functional capabilities and its aesthetic appeal. It shows the innovative ways in which timber is currently being used, and the influence of new technologies on the field.
Bookshops
This volume is dedicated to the most beautiful bookstores in the world, ranging from the classical and comfortable, the modern and innovative, small shops and larger enterprises.
Where Architects Stay
The combination of architecture and vacations is highly inspiring. It promises relaxation and pleasure, beauty and style, all in one. Each of the vacation domiciles presented here can fulfill even the most discerning demands of a traveling architect. All lodgings are unique architectural jewels with a wellbeing guarantee and a personal touch that are (design-)visions come true. From the archaic forest hut in the mountain, the luxuriously decorated loft in a major metropolis, or the romantic idyllic house by the lake - these part-time dream houses allow visitors to forget the hustle and bustle of everyday life and they are the perfect place for a short escape or a longer time out.
Healing Architecture
How can architecture contribute to healing and recovery? And how do our surroundings - both built and unbuilt - influence our prospects of staying healthy?. This title addresses the development and design of spaces for hospitals and other healthcare institutions, how they are perceived, and their overall impact on combating illnesses. This volume presents in detail the principles of this field of study and all the major issues involved, using a range of international projects as illustrative examples. In order to present a comprehensively interdisciplinary analysis of the subject matter, architects, medical practitioners, economists, artists, urban planners and communication scientists discuss the various aspects of 'Healing Architecture'. This book thus makes an important contribution to achieving an architecture that is attuned to people's needs and helps to promote the recovery process.
Architecture for Health
The authors' rich professional wealth of experience and holistic approach allow profound insights and interesting perspectives on the subject of hospital architecture and design.
Ecological Buildings
The latest innovative solutions of ecological construction that point the way to the future.
Packaging Design
Along with the classics of the age of mass-consumption, this title presents many examples of innovative contemporary design solutions of product packaging.
Massive, Expressive, Sculptural
Buildings designated brutalist in style were largely built in the 1960s and 1970s, exuding an aura of daring, uncompromising design today. Vilified for decades as the step-child of modernism, brutalist architecture is now enjoying an astonishing comeback by inspiring contemporary architecture. This book offers a sophisticated overview of post-war and contemporary brutalist buildings and of the relationship in appearance and design, in the grand concepts and the smallest details between brutalism today and its ancestors.
Nomadic Living
The four walls that we inhabit are far more than just a roof over our heads - it's the place where our personal and unique life is played out with all its complexities and nuances. It is not uncommon when we move to feel regret that we cannot simply take our abode, the focus of our lives, along with us. For many people it is increasingly important to be able to move easily, to be able to react spontaneously to personal desires or life changes of all kinds. Because of the increased needs to both preserve our identity that is rooted in our home and to be more geographically mobile, the market for "movable" houses has grown and diversified. This is most noticable in the growing numbers of commissions received by architects and designers for technical and creative conceptions of mobile houses. As much as concept, appearance and construction might vary greatly from house to house, what unites all of the projects presented in this volume is the claim to a design that is both larger than life and consistently compelling.
