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Unbuilding: Salvaging the Architectural Treasures of Unwanted Houses
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Bob Falk (Author)
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Brad Guy (Author)
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Taunton (Editor)
The country's two leading expert advocates for salvaging parts of unwanted houses rather than demolishing them explain the "green" art of unbuilding (or deconstruction) and take the reader on a fascinating tour of the process. This is the first and only book that addresses this growing trend.Contains fascinating details on construction techniques for houses both ancient and of more contemporary vintage and methods used to determine their value or salvagability. Covers a variety of projects, from simply dismantling a wall to completely unbuilding an entire house safely, while saving the reusable parts and pieces for another building or for another purpose - including sales. It is satisfying, fun and economical to reuse old building materials both for their original purpose or for decorative purposes.
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The Snow Show
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Lance Fung (Editor)
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Thames & Hudson (Editor)
DesignAddict review:
Breathtaking, sublime, illuminating, and meditative works in snow and ice?a tribute to the ingenuity of the participants and an inspiration and cause for reflection in an age of global warming. In early 2004, in a remote area of Finnish Lapland, one of the most ambitious art and design events in recent history took place. Seventeen collaborations between international artists and architects, the finished works were a triumph of creativity over matter, beauty over ego, hot ideas over arctic materials. Pieces ranged from room-sized cylindrical ice-block lanterns to an amphitheater made from snow. The exhibition was one of the most fascinating events of the year?and it was only the beginning. Traveling and expanding in size and planned as a centerpiece of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, "The Snow Show" will continue to delight visitors from around the world. With exquisite photography, detailed plans and sketches, and project descriptions written by the artists and architects, this book is a celebration of overcoming nature's harshest conditions with elegance and beauty. Artist/Architect collaborators: Eva Rothschild/Anamorphosis, Yoko Ono/Arata Isozaki, John Roloff/Diller + Scofidio, Lawrence Weiner/Enrique Norten, Jene Highstein/Steven Holl, Robert Barry/Hollmén-Reuter-Sandman, Tatsuo Miyajima/Tadao Ando, Anish Kapoor/Future Systems, Rachel Whiteread/Juhani Pallasmaa, Kiki Smith/Lebbeus Woods, Osmo Rauhala/Asymptote, Top Changtrakul/LOT-EK, Do-Ho Suh/Morphosis, Ernesto Neto/Ocean North, Lothar Hempel/Studio Granda, Carsten Höller/Williams & Tsien, Cai Guo-Qiang/Zaha Hadid. 250 illustrations, 150 in color.
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Xtreme Houses (Architecture)
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Courtenay Smith (Author)
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Sean Topham (Author)
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Prestel Publishing (Editor)
The computer age, environmental concerns, overpopulation, suburban sprawl, economic boom and bust have all conspired to bring about enormous change in our everyday lives, and perhaps nowhere more so than in our homes. This collection of photographs, drawings, plans, and essays features exciting, newly designed and built dwelling spaces by architects, artists, and individuals that respond to our increasing awareness of architecture?s ability to shape the way we live. Whether they are floating on top of water or nestled underground, seemingly transparent or apparently invisible, these homes push the envelope of what?s considered "normal" in domestic architecture. Yet each was designed in response to a very real and immediate concern, be it economic, spatial, resource-related, or aesthetic. Innovative, bold, and sometimes shocking, these homes, like their Modern predecessors, signal a new way of thinking about what our homes can be. They will no doubt set the standard for where and how we live, now and in the future.
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XS: Big Ideas, Small Buildings
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Phyllis Richardson (Author)
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Lucas Dietrich (Editor)
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Universe Publishing (Editor)
This book is the celebration of small buildings, those unexpected structures that make us momentarily pause to ponder their meaning, or our own meaning, or simply to appreciate the elegance of their creation. From the spectrum of functions and styles of these structures, it is clear that size imposes no limits on creativity, and utility is no constraint to beauty. Thinking small is a wonderfully constructive exercise.
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