Friday, August 7, 2009

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Carlos Broto, Architectural Design — Houses
Links Internacional Publication | 1999-10-01 | ISBN: 8486426510 | 233 pages | PDF | 45 MB

- Twenty-five spectacular houses
- Hundreds of full-color photos plus floor plans
- Presents the story behind each design
What makes a house a home? That’s the question answered by each of the twenty-five remarkable houses showcased in this colorful book, illustrated with hundreds of photographs and floor plans. In-depth commentary by the contributing architects explores the personality and mood of each design, as well as the technical details. Houses Now takes readers into the minds of the designers and the homeowners to reveal how thinking outside the box produces beautiful and inspiring architecture.




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Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection

Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection


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Sustainable design has made great strides in recent years; unfortunately, it still falls short of fully integrating nature into our built environment. Through a groundbreaking new paradigm of "restorative environmental design," award-winning author Stephen R. Kellert proposes a new architectural model of sustainability.

In Building For Life, Kellert examines the fundamental interconnectedness of people and nature, and how the loss of this connection results in a diminished quality of life.

This thoughtful new work illustrates how architects and designers can use simple methods to address our innate needs for contact with nature. Through the use of natural lighting, ventilation, and materials, as well as more unexpected methodologies-the use of metaphor, perspective, enticement, and symbol-architects can greatly enhance our daily lives. These design techniques foster intellectual development, relaxation, and physical and emotional well-being. In the works of architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Cesar Pelli, Norman Foster, and Michael Hopkins, Kellert sees the success of these strategies and presents models for moving forward. Ultimately, Kellert views our fractured relationship with nature as a design problem rather than an unavoidable aspect of modern life, and he proposes many practical and creative solutions for cultivating a more rewarding experience of nature in our built environment.
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10 X 10


10 X 10

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10x10 is a comprehensive view of new architecture today. 10 of the world’s best-informed critics each selected 10 of the world’s most exceptional emerging architects. The diverse and innovative projects of these 100 architects make up an inspirational and unique collection of recent architecture. The book features over 250 buildings and projects, including recently built work as well as projects currently under construction and due for completion. Each critic also contributes an essay exclusively for this publication and has selected 10 works from varying genres and media to illustrate the context in which architects operate today.


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Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival


Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival

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Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves.

As we find ourselves on the steep slope of several exponential growth curves - in global population, in heat-trapping atmospheric gases, in the gap between the rich and poor, and in the demand for finite resources, Fisher lays down a theory of architecture based on ethics and explores how buildings can and do provide both social and moral dimensions. The book also has practical goals, demonstrating how architects can make better and more beautiful buildings whilst nurturing more responsible, sustainable development.

Architectural Design and Ethics will prove an invaluable text not only to those in the architecture field, but to anyone simply interested in the ethical issues surrounding our built environment.

* Joins the dots between architectural form, ethics and professional practice
* Uses the history of ethics to present relevant lessons for today's practitioners
* A wake up call to architects, advocating a greater focus on ethics over aesthetics

About the Author
Thomas Fisher is a Professor and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. Educated at Cornell University in architecture and Case Western Reserve University in intellectual history, he previously served as the Editorial Director of Progressive Architecture magazine in Stamford, Connecticut. He has lectured or juried at many schools and professional societies, and has published two-dozen book chapters and over 250 major articles. He has also published three books over the last five years: In the Scheme of Things, Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture; Salmela Architect; and Lake/Flato Buildings and Landscapes.

LINK : http://www.easy-share.com/1907230097/Architectural Design and Ethics.pdf
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Architect's Drawings: A selection of sketches by world famous architects through history

Architect's Drawings: A selection of sketches by world famous architects through history
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The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think through the use of drawings to approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide this insight. Here for the first time, a wide range of world famous architects' sketches from the Renaissance to the present day can be seen in a single volume. The sketches have been selected to represent the concepts or philosophies of the key movements in architecture in order to develop an overall picture of the role of the sketch in the development of architecture. The book illustrates the work of designers as diverse as Andrea Palladio, Erich Mendelsohn, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Le Corbusier, Michelangelo, Alvar Aalto, Sir John Soane, Francesco Borromini, Walter Gropius, and contemporary architects Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry to name but a few. Each chronologically placed sketch is accompanied by text providing details about the architect's life, a look at the sketch in context, and the connection to specific buildings where appropriate. Style, media and meaning are also discussed, developing an explanation of the architect's thinking and intentions.

As creative designers themselves, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think and draw and approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide this insight.

Listed chronologically each sketch will be accompanied by a text which provides: A short synopsis/history of the architect's life; a look at the sketch in this context; the connection to a specific building (where appropriate); techniques of the sketch: style and media; meaning - what the sketch shows about the architect's thinking and intentions followed by a select bibliography for each section.

** Sketches from prominent architects, drawn from an international selection
** A unique insight into how architects use sketches to develop and transfer complex concepts into physical form, enabling readers to improve the connection between their own ideas and designs
** Reveals the secrets of the most successful sketching techniques used by architects for today's designers

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Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users

Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users

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Actions of Architecture begins with a critique of strategies that define the user as passive and predictable, such as contemplation and functionalism.


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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order

Architecture: Form, Space, & Order

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A superb visual reference to the principles of architecture

For more than thirty years, the beautifully illustrated Architecture: Form, Space, and Order has been the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. The updated Third Edition features expanded sections on circulation, light, views, and site context, along with new considerations of environmental factors, building codes, and contemporary examples of form, space, and order.

This classic visual reference helps both students and practicing architects understand the basic vocabulary of architectural design by examining how form and space are ordered in the built environment.? Using his trademark meticulous drawing, Professor Ching shows the relationship between fundamental elements of architecture through the ages and across cultural boundaries. By looking at these seminal ideas, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order encourages the reader to look critically at the built environment and promotes a more evocative understanding of architecture.

In addition to updates to content and many of the illustrations, this new edition includes a companion CD-ROM that brings the book's architectural concepts to life through three-dimensional models and animations created by Professor Ching.


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