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Complex: Architecture Of Ksp Engel And Zimmermann
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Peter Davey (Author)
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KSP Engel and Zimmerman (Contributor)
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Ingeborg Flagge (Editor)
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Hatje Cantz Publishers (Editor)
In the course of the past several years, KSP Engel and Zimmermann have joined the ranks of the most successful architectural firms in Germany. The architects now maintain offices in Berlin, Braunschweig, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Munich. Their projects include office buildings, hospitals, schools, libraries, sports facilities, and residential architecture. Their rich architectural language covers a broad spectrum--from sensitive intervention in existing structures to striking high-rise buildings. This publication features an interview in which the two architects offer insights into their approach to architecture, their curiosity about building abroad, and their recent success. Essays by Peter Davey, editor-in-chief of Architectural Review, and Ingeborg Flagge, director of the Deutsches Architektur Museum, provide a portrait of these self-assured yet open-minded and highly pragmatic architects. The book illustrates the firm's architectural and planning competence in a presentation of 40 different projects, including the Federal Press Office in Berlin, the Trade Fair Forum in Frankfurt, the Volkswagen Hall in Braunschweig, the Bertelsmann Foundation building in Gtersloh, and a number of high-rise projects in Frankfurt.
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Extensions
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Adam Mornement (Author)
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Laurence King Publishers (Editor)
DesignAddict review:
This book is Adjaye's first monograph, and it documents thirteen of his most important projects, presented through descriptions, detailed plans, and photographs. There is also a series of "portfolios," visual essays that highlight the nature of Adjaye?s work, and a reference section. Peter Allison contributes to Domus, The Architectural Review, and other international architecture publications. - A. Rasmussen -
The vast majority of architects cut their teeth designing small-scale additions to private homes. Extensions can be added to roofs, gardens, and underneath buildings or can even be strapped on to the sides. Following a brief introduction, the book is divided into chapters featuring 40 projects that extend spaces up, down, to the rear, to the side, on the roof, internally, and outdoors. Each case study explains how the architects faced design challenges at the same time as meeting their clients' needs. Details covered include choice of materials, planning issues, time, and cost. The book also raises issues that clients ought to consider when commissioning an architect to design an extension, from developing a brief to the finished product. At the end of the book there is practical advice for anyone thinking about extending their own property.
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David Adjaye: Houses; Recycling, Reconfiguring, Rebuilding
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Peter Allison (Author)
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David Adjaye (Author)
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Thames & Hudson (Editor)
A compendium of work by one of the most exciting and accomplished young architects to emerge on the international scene in many years. David Adjaye's practice combines material inventiveness, creative clients, and modest budgets to produce a refined and comprehensive body of work. Adjaye was born in Tanzania, and his wide-ranging education, both cultural and formal, has allowed him to respond deftly to wildly differing projects, from urban contexts to elegant pastoral retreats. The innovation in Adjaye's career is exemplified in his residential works for a wide variety of clients and budgets. Perhaps his best known projects are the houses he has created in a range of settings for people such as artist Chris Ofili and actor Ewan MacGregor, some of which have never been published. This book is Adjaye's first monograph, and it documents thirteen of his most important projects, presented through descriptions, detailed plans, and photographs. There is also a series of "portfolios," visual essays that highlight the tactile, luminous, and luxurious nature of Adjaye's work, and a reference section. 430 illustrations, 162 in color.
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Erwin Hauer: Continua-Architectural Screen and Walls
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Erwin Hauer (Author)
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Princeton Architectural Press (Editor)
Our 2004 book Erwin Hauer Continua resurrected the extraordinary but little known work of this Austrian-born sculptor whose designs of perforated wall screens and modular structures are symphonies of measured elegance. Now available in paperback, Erwin Hauer Continua gathers stunning photographs, drawings, and descriptions of these classic works of design. 'Following a geometric recipe of his own divining, Hauer was able to discover extraordinarily complex patterns that possess a large measure of depth and beauty.' ?Architecture Erwin Hauer has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and his sculptures can be found in many public and corporate collections. He continues his work as a sculptor and is Professor Emeritus at the Yale University School of Art.
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Dwellings
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Paul Oliver (Author)
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Phaidon Press (Editor)
The architecture of ordinary people represents more than ninety per cent of the world's buildings, including some 800 million homes. Dwellings is about the types and forms 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 in many different cultures. First published by Phaidon in 1987, Dwellings, in its new updated, revised and expanded format, takes into account new scholarship in the field, including the author's own fieldwork, and also acknowledges theoretical developments in the areas of cultural geography, gender studies, sociology and anthropology. Dwellings is a fascinating reference work on domestic buildings and also a useful survey for understanding how different communities cope with issues of climate, migration, mass development, and symbolic and cultural meaning in architecture. Paul Oliver is the Chair of the Master's course in International Studies in Vernacular Architecture at the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of numerous books, notably Shelter and Society and Dunroamin: The Suburban Semi and its Enemies, and is the editor of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World.
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Colours are Like the Wind: Jean Pfaff's Colour Interventions in Architecture
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Heinrich Helfenstein (Author)
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Birkhäuser Basel (Editor)
Pfaffs architektonische Farbinterventionen sind nicht Kunst am Bau, sie sind ein spannender und jeweils genuiner Dialog zwischen Farbe und Raum. Die chromatischen Eingriffe lassen Baustoffe anders erscheinen, führen zu Wirkungen der Entmaterialisierung, sind Faktoren im Spiel zwischen Innen- und Außen. Kräftige Farbflächen wechseln ab mit indirekten Farbwirkungen, die ein Gebäude atmosphärisch bereichern. Heinrich Helfenstein dokumentiert in sensiblen Fotografien und erhellenden Texten die Qualitäten von Pfaffs Interventionen anhand von Bauwerken u.a. von Peter Zumthor (Kapelle Sogn Benedetg), Meili und Peter (Hochschule für Holzwirtschaft Biel), Schrodt Architekten (Bürogebäude Iserlohn). Jean Pfaff, geboren 1945, studierte an den Akademien in München und Hamburg und unternahm ausgedehnte Reisen nach Rom sowie Nord- und Südamerika. 1981 entstanden erste Farbgestaltungen mit Architekten. Er lebt seit 1992 in Ventalló/Spanien. Zahlreiche Gruppen- und Einzelausstellungen belegen seinen Bekanntheitsgrad.
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Frank Lloyd Wright The Houses
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Alan Hess (Author)
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Kenneth Frampton (Contributor)
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Thomas S. Hines (Contributor)
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Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Contributor)
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Alan Weintraub (Photographer)
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Rizzoli (Editor)
DesignAddict review:
Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's Fallingwater (1935), the seminal masterpiece perched over a waterfall deep in the Pennsylvania highlands, is perhaps the best-known private house in the history of the world. In fact, Wright's houses-from his Prairie style Robie House (1906) in Chicago, to the Storer (1923) and Freeman (1923) houses in Los Angeles, and Taliesen West (1937) in the Arizona desert-are all touchstones of modern architecture. For the first time, all 289 extant houses are shown here in exquisite color photographs. Along with Weintraub's stunning photos and a selection of floor plans and archival images, the book includes text and essays by several leading Wright scholars. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses is an event of great importance and a major contribution to the literature on this titan of modern architecture.
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Dinner for Architects: A Collection of Napkin Sketches
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Philip K. Howard (Foreword)
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Philip K. Howard (Editor)
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Winfried Nerdinger (Editor)
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Winfried Nerdinger (Publisher)
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Ingrid Li (Translator)
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W. W. Norton & Company (Editor)
DesignAddict review:
The spontaneous sketch, drawn when occasion offers on whatever comes to hand, is a trademark of the architect's creativity. On the occasion of the opening of the museum of architecture in the Gallery of Modern Art in Munich, the museum director asked architects of international standing to sketch their personal greetings and congratulations on a paper napkin. These napkins are now part of a colorful, imaginative, and often droll collection, reproduced here interspersed with pithy quotes from an array of famous architects. Included in this beautifully produced volume?an ideal gift not only for architects?are contributions by Tadao Ando, Mario Botta, Steven Holl, Josef Paul Kleihues, Dominique Perrault, Venturi, Scott Brown, and many more. Color illustrations.
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Contemporary Techniques in Architecture (Architectural Design)
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Ali Rahim (Editor)
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Academy Press (Editor)
Contemporary Techniques in Architecture addresses the translation of techniques in design methodology to their architectural realisation, at the scale of space, material programme and construction. It challenges technique-driven experimental architects at the next intellectually rigorous level - that of exploring concepts and translating them into their material counterparts. How do you think through the building of avant-garde forms? The title includes the work of high-profile philosophers, architects and engineers, such as Manuel Delanda who wrote 1000 Years of Non-Linear History; Greg Lynn and Foreign Office Architects; and Cecil Balmond of Ove Arup, who worked with Daniel Libeskind on his proposal for the Spiral Building for the V&A Museum in London, as well as with Philip Johnson and Studio Baad on the Chavasse Park Project featured here.
Intellectually stimulating and visually engaging, with its inclusion of spectacular writing, designs, manufactured prototypes and full-scale buildings, Contemporary Techniques in Architecture takes architectural publishing's treatment of the digital to a new level, looking at its potential in a realised form as well as a creative medium.
Johan Bettum
Scott Cohen
Foreign Office Architects
Kolatan MacDonald Studio
Greg Lynn
Objectile
OCEAN North
Ali Rahim
Servo
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