Starchitects reveals the best practicing architects and architectural firms around the world: the stars of architecture, including designers such as Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry and firms such as Morphosis and Future Systems. With full-color photos, drawings, and floor plans, Starchitects is a perfect reference guide for architects, designers, decorators, homeowners, students—or anyone who is interested in the art and celebrity of architecture.

Starchitects: Visionary Architects of the Twenty-first Century

Arts & Photography

Fajardo, Julio

Architecture

Harper Paperbacks

A comprehensive guide to the most important trends in retail space design and corporate image development—perfect for designers, retailers, clients, and students. With echoes of Alex Sanchez Vidiella’s The Sourcebook of Contemporary Architecture, Barcelona-based visionaries Frances Zamora Mola, author of Affordable Exhibition Design and New Small Spaces, and Julio Fajardo, design editor for Loft Publications and author of Starchitects, present a vital compendium of dynamic design ideas for commercial spaces, suited to help you conceive and create tomorrow’s ideal corporate, sales, office, and storefront environments.

Star Commercial Spaces

Zamora, Francesc

History & Criticism

A study of detail in contemporary world architecture in photographs and drawings. 1000 Architectural Details is a reference catalog to buildings' structural features. In photography and drawings (floors, elevations, cross-sections, axonometrics and sketches), the authors discuss how function meets form to create outstanding architecture and design. The material has been selected for its capacity to inspire and propose innovative ideas on how to approach the design or construction of different parts of a project. Divided into 15 thematic chapters, the details are numbered from one to a thousand, and each is illustrated with a close-up photograph or drawing and explained in a concise caption. The authors begin with primary structural elements, such as columns and beams, and a section on materials and their properties covers the finishings commonly used, such as concrete and steel. The authors also discuss essential installed elements, such as facades, roofs and insulation, as well as the many interior and exterior features that, while functional, allow the most latitude in decoration. These can include floors, lighting, color, storage, doors and landscaping. "Green building" is covered in chapters on sustainable materials, recycling and prefabricated materials. This is a fascinating volume packed with comprehensive illustrations and the most current expert information. Professionals, do-it-yourselfers and anyone with an interest in design will find it eminently practical.

1000 Architectural Details: A Selection of the World's Most Interesting Building Elements

Vidiella, Alex

Duran, Sergi

Firefly Books

"This is a fascinating volume packed with comprehensive illustrations and the most current expert information. Professionals, do-it-yourselfers and anyone with an interest in design will find it eminently practical." --SciTech Book News 
 A study of detail in contemporary world architecture in photographs and drawings. 
 1000 Architectural Details is a reference catalog to buildings' structural features. In photography and drawings (floors, elevations, cross-sections, axonometrics and sketches), the authors discuss how function meets form to create outstanding architecture and design. The material has been selected for its capacity to inspire and propose innovative ideas on how to approach the design or construction of different parts of a project. 
 Divided into 15 thematic chapters, the details are numbered from one to a thousand, and each is illustrated with a close-up photograph or drawing and explained in a concise caption. The authors begin with primary structural elements, such as columns and beams, and a section on materials and their properties covers the finishings commonly used, such as concrete and steel. 
 The authors also discuss essential installed elements, such as facades, roofs and insulation, as well as the many interior and exterior features that, while functional, allow the most latitude in decoration. These can include floors, lighting, color, storage, doors and landscaping. "Green building" is covered in chapters on sustainable materials, recycling and prefabricated materials. 
 This is a fascinating volume packed with comprehensive illustrations and the most current expert information. Professionals, do-it-yourselfers and anyone with an interest in design will find it eminently practical.

Vidiella, Àlex Sánchez

Duran, Sergi Costa

"Living in a box--and what a box it is! Today, a tastefully designed and furnished apartment may offer just as much comfort as a whole house. Contemporary architecture and modern design have accepted the challenge, creating exciting living environments under restricted space conditions. From wide, airy lofts to cozy maisonettes: on 800 pages, this volume presents highlights of modern living culture, designed and furnished by renowned architects and designers. Plentiful high-quality illustrations portray both big and small apartments from all over the world, mirroring the culture and lifestyle of their occupants. Elegance meets diversity, pragmatic solutions seamlessly integrate with the overall aesthetic concept. The reader is presented with remarkable symbioses of urban living requirements and exclusive design. Informative text and detailed floor plans complement the illustrations. This book is a true source of inspiration for all fans of urban architecture and original design. "

Designer Apartments

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

h.f.ullmann

Designer Apartments presents the highlights of modern living culture, designed and furnished by renowned architects and designers. Plentiful color photographs, artful and intriguing in themselves, portray apartments from all over the world, mirroring the culture and lifestyle of their occupants.

H.F.Ullmann Publishing Gmbh

Preservation and conversion are two ways of dealing with the effects of time and entropy on buildings. Preservation implies few, if any, changes to the structure, but converting a building or space requires adapting it in order to meet the needs of different users over time. At some point most structures undergo alteration and changes, which can range from a minor extension of a working building to the complete renovation of a ruin. As such modifications accumulate over the years, so they record the superimposed cycles of change in uses, ideologies, technologies and economics, forming a palimpsest of the societies, people and lifestyles they have witnessed. This book illustrates this process by presenting a number of different conversion projects, including the regeneration of whole areas as well as the conversion of individual buildings. In addition to photographs of the new spaces, the volume includes sketches, floor plans, sections, interior elevations, axonometrics and all other relevant design and construction details.

Wow!: Converted Spaces

Loft

This book explores installations that are notable for their creative and sensitive design, planning, or management of the landscape. The small- to medium-scale featured projects aim to promote interaction between people and the environment by responding to a broad range of human habitats and natural ecosystems in diverse social, cultural and ecological contexts. In their response to their context these projects evolve into Land Art, which can be understood as a fusion between sculpture, architecture, and landscape architecture. The goal is to draw out the emotions of the observer who is confronted by these environments. The structure of this book is inspired by the poet's journey in Dante's "The Divine Comedy", from which we borrow the narrative structure and symbolic landscape imagery: the circles of Hell, the terraces of Mount Purgatory and the celestial spheres of Heaven.

Star Landscape Architecture: The Stars of Landscape and Art

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Starchitects: Visionary Architects of the Twenty-first Century

Star Commercial Spaces

1000 Architectural Details: A Selection of the World's Most Interesting Building Elements

1000 Architectural Details: A Selection of the World's Most Interesting Building Elements

Designer Apartments

Designer Apartments

Wow!: Converted Spaces

Star Landscape Architecture: The Stars of Landscape and Art