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Salk Institute
Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute sits high above the Pacific at La Jolla, southern California. The project presented Kahn with the opportunity to design for a closed community, here research scientists. Incomplete on Kahn’s death, it survives as an enduring reminder of his genius. James Steele has written numerous books and contributes frequently to Architectural Design and Architectural Review.
Salk Institute
Santa Barbara Style
Santa Barbara. For centuries this temperate, inviting locale has glowed with subtle but unmistakable light-a beacon of warmth beside the profound blue of the Pacific. From the Chumash, whose predecessors can be traced to 11,000 b.c.e., to the present-day resident, vacationer, and tourist, diverse and countless peoples have been enchanted and enraptured by Santa Barbara's spell.
Santa Barbara Style
Great Houses of Scotland
'Another bull's' eye! 'was John McEwen's response in the Literary Review to 'this companion to the well-matched partnership's Great Houses of England and Wales', on its original publication in hardback. 'As before', wrote McEwen, 'it is the charm that tells, the humorous and poetic eye for idiosyncrasy which distinguishes both the writing and the photographs... the exteriors invariably taken at first and purest light, the interiors amusingly probed downstairs as well as up.' And in the Spectator, Patrick James commanded Syke's 'well-trained eye always scanning an unusual view or a forgotten corner' as well as 'Massingberd's wit and his authoritative prose'.
Great Houses of Scotland
Small Houses
Small houses are no longer synonymous with cheap houses and lack of privilege. Instead, they symbolize a range of culturally coded values: compactness, efficiency, discrimination, discreteness, minimalism. Opening with a detailed exploration of the social and historical background behind compact housing in the twentieth century, this book goes on to feature thirty-seven illustrated case studies that represent some of the best examples of small houses built worldwide within the past decade.
Small Houses: Contemporary Residential Architecture
Raphael Soriano
Raphael Soriano (1907-1988) was one of the early Case Study architects working in postwar Los Angeles and a talented advocate of the new building materials and construction techniques developed at the time. Raphael Soriano was a significant member of this informal gang of architects that also included Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra and Craig Ellwood.
Raphael Soriano
Albert Speer
Gitta Sereny first saw Albert Speer on trial at Nuremberg. Over the last years of his life she came to know him - through hundreds of hours of conversations - as no other biographer has known a Nazi leader. Sereny interviewed as well the people around him - the celebrated, the notorious and the ordinary. Albert Speer gave Gitta Sereny, for her use, a number of unpublished manuscripts, and after his death she obtained access to many of his papers.
Albert Speer
Albert Speer Final Verdict
Albert Speer is a great enigma. An unemployed, mediocre architect when Hitler came to power in 1933, Albert Speer was soon designing the Third Reich's most important buildings, developing grandiose plans to turn Berlin into "Germania, capital of the world," and stage-managing the Nazi Party's Nuremberg rallies. In 1942 Hitler appointed him Armaments Minister and he quadrupled production, an astonishing achievement that kept the German Army in the field and prolonged the war.
Albert Speer Final Verdict
Steel Construction Manual
Steel is one of the most versatile materials available in the construction industry and its many applications have enabled architects and engineers to go far beyond what was once considered possible. The second volume in this new series documents all aspects of steel as a construction material.
Steel Construction Manual by Helmut C. Schulitz
Stijl 1917-1931
Schroder House, built in 1924 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is the first and perhaps the most famous structure designed by revered de Stijl architect Gerrit Rietveld. A pilgrimage site for architects and historians, this small townhouse is considered the first truly modern residence. Its revolutionary open-plan layout provided an alternative to confining small rooms, its strip windows broke down the barrier between inside and outside, and its primary color scheme and shifting wall planes were symbols of its rupture with tradition.
De Stijl 1917-1931 The Dutch Contribution to Modern Art
Structural Renovation of Buildings
Make any renovation job go smoother. Building renovation, conservation and reuse represents more than half of all construction work - and is projected to increase to 80% by 2004. Structural Renovation of Buildings, by Alexander Newman, puts a single, convenient source of information about all aspects of structural renovation and strengthening of buildings at your fingertips. While its focus is largely on low and midrise buildings, you can apply the principles it clarifies to buildings of any size - steel-framed, masonry, or wood.
Structural Renovation of Buildings
Sun, Wind and Light
A text for architectural design studio courses, geared to inspire design ideas and to help students understand the energy consequence of design decisions. Concentrates on the analysis of sun, wind, and light resources of a particular site and climate. Also offers design strategies organized by building groups, buildings and building parts, and provides strategies for supplementing passive systems. Includes over 200 beautifully rendered architectural illustrations.
Sun, Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
This is an experiential architecture, not a theoretical one. It is grounded in reality, not in abstract dogma, yet it seeks the transcendent, every bit as earnestly - perhaps even more so - then architecture that is built on pure theory. It is the way space, texture, light, materials actually feel that motivates these architects, and it is their skill at manipulating these elements that gives their work the rigor and strength it possesses.
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects: Architecture, Art, and Craft
Swiss Parliament
The Swiss Parliament building was erected between 1894 and 1902 to plans by architect Hans W. Auer, and was inaugurated by the Federal Councils at a solemn ceremony on 1 April 1902.
Swiss Parliament
Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House is one of the best-known buildings of the late twentieth century and perhaps Australia’s most potent landmark. The sight of its white shell-like forms is inextricably linked with the image of Sydney itself. Philip Drew is an architectural writer and critic based in Australia. His previous books include Leaves of Iron, a monograph on the work of Glenn Murcutt.
Sydney Opera House
