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California Houses
Contemporary California Houses is part of a series that aims to place buildings within their historical context. This text considers Gehry's Schnabel House, Israel's Lawson-Weston House, and Moss's Drager House. It includes specially produced technical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and put together. It considers how the houses are all key buildings in the development of a recognized style of California residential architecture and how the buildings afforded their creator's the reputations as masters of spatial manipulation.
Contemporary California Houses
California Modern
He had no professional license, but was named one of the "three best architects of 1957" along with Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe. He drove a red Ferrari with the license plate VROOM. His succession of wives brought him clients and influenced his designs. Craig Ellwood relied on a staff of talented assistants to realize his ideas.
California Modern: The Architecture of Craig Ellwood
Canal du Centre
The four lifts on the Canal du Centre in Belgium are a showpiece of the Walloon industrial heritage. The construction of the Centre Canal and its works began in 1885 and took no less than 32 years to complete.
Canal du Centre
Case Study Houses
Since the popular Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit of 1989, Blueprint for Modern Living, much attention has been paid to the pioneering work done by the architects of the Case Study Program.
Case Study Houses: 1945-1962 by Esther McCoy
Chinese Architecture
The Culture & Civilization of China series is a joint publishing venture of Yale University Press and the China International Publishing Group in Beijing.
Chinese Architecture
Classic Modern
Midcentury modern is back. From the American classics of Charles and Ray Eames to the Scandinavian elegance of Arne Jacobsen, nothing is hotter today than the endlessly inventive, sophisticated work created by modern architects and designers in the 1940s and 1950s.
Classic Modern: Mid-Century Modern at Home
Collapsible
Every object has a skin. Thick or thin, smooth or rough, porous or impermeable, the skin is the line between the hidden inside and the outside we experience. Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of what we understand as surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, this provocative and stimulating book shows how enhanced and simulated skins appear everywhere in our contemporary world.
Collapsible: The Genius of Space-Saving Design
Concrete Design
Over the last ten years concrete has become established as the favorite material for a number of internationally renowned architects, designers, sculptors, artists, and interior designers.
Concrete Design
Conserving Buildings
The updated paperback edition of Martin E. Weaver's landmark work--the essential manual on materials and procedures for restoring buildings.
Conserving Buildings: Guide to Techniques and Materials
Conservation of Historic Buildings
The result of the lifetime's experience of one of the world's leading architectural conservators, the book comprehensively surveys the fundamental principles of conservation in their application to historic buildings, and provides the basic information needed by architects, engineers and surveyors for the solution of problems of architectural conservation in almost every climatic region of the world.
Conservation of Historic Buildings
Contemporary World Architecture
Contemporary World Architecture is a comprehensive survey of international architecture at the end of the twentieth century, offering a critical study of the social, cultural and political changes that are shaping the built environment. Continual advances in building technology, shifting demographics and increasing levels of global communications each have a continuing impact on architectural ideology and building types.
Contemporary World Architecture
Courtyards
Courtyards Aesthetic, Social, and Thermal Delight Courtyards is an artful, informative exploration of courtyards, from their origins in early civilization to contemporary design concepts. Architects and landscape architects will repeatedly turn to the detailed guidelines for reference, gain a greater sense of balance between building and garden, and cultivate optimal green space by using the practical planting tips. Over one hundred photographs and drawings illustrate the concepts written about by an authority and passionate scholar in his field.
Courtyards: Aesthetic, Social, and Thermal Delight
James Cutler
James Cutler is one of those rare contemporary architects who has converted environmental technology, an ecologically responsible choice of materials, and a strong earth consciousness into art. In his work the site area, regional topography, local vegetation, and the "psychology of situtation" are intrinsic parts of his aesthetic decisions. With regard to this psychological element, it refers to his ability to connect to an ambient sensibility that gives any artform its relevance.
James Cutler
