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Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Architecture can no longer limit itself to the art of making buildings; it must also invent the politics of taking them apart. This is Jill Stoner's premise for a minor architecture. Her architect's eye tracks differently from most, drawn not to the lauded and iconic but to what she calls "the landscape of our constructed mistakes"--metropolitan hinterlands rife with failed and foreclosed developments, undersubscribed office parks, chain hotels, and...
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"This architectural survey presents an iconic building built each year from 1916 to 2015, as selected by John Hill, founder of the blog A Daily Dose of Architecture. Starting with H. P. Berlage's Holland House in London and closing with Diller Scofidio + Renfro's newly completed Broad museum in Los Angeles, each building included can be seen, approached, or explored by the average person, per Hill's criteria. Each two-page spread includes one to two...
Publisher
The Taunton Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"In this new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine, the authors look at houses both new and remodeled, traditional and modern, urban and rural, by the water and in the mountains. The houses exude as much style as homes many times their square footage, and all are as big as they need to be to fit the lifestyles and aspirations of the people who live in them"--
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Olajumoke Adenowo is a renowned Nigerian architect who heads her own architecture and interior design firm, AD Consulting, which she founded in Lagos in 1994. A gifted student, at the age of 14 she enrolled at Obafemi Awolowo University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours Architecture) by the age of 19, and then completed her Master of Science (Architecture) in 1991. Adenowo's intense interest in architecture and design emerged from...
Author
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Windows are moments in modern architecture where we look to ascertain elegance, technical expression and material language or to capture a certain atmosphere. A window opening is as much an interval and an opportunity as it is a device for admitting light, air or views, it is simultaneously a physical aperture but also a philosophical opening of collaboration and reflection. In order to understand the language of a building we might look to the detail...
14) Steven Holl
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
This comprehensive monograph on Steven Holl, one of America's greatest living architects, offers an extensive overview of both realized and unrealized works from 1974 to today... This book examines the architect's most important works through in-depth analysis of his design processes and ideas, as well as his methods and materials of construction. Experiential 'walk-throughs' of Holl's buildings place the reader within the spaces and describe how...
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A breathtaking survey of contemporary homes, each with a deep connection to the landscapes and vistas of the mountains. Whether snow-capped, rocky, or covered with verdant forest, the sublime wilderness of mountains has inspired humans for millennia. Offering respite from urban living and a profound connection to nature, mountain landscapes also present unique challenges that have resulted in innovative, resourceful, and beautiful residential architecture....
