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2050 - Designing Our Tomorrow AD by Chris Luebkeman
Category: Fiction | Series: Architectural Design Ser.
Envisioning a positive future through design 2050: Designing Our Tomorrow describes the ways in which architecture and design can engage with the key drivers of change and provide affirmative aspirations for a not-so distant future. With a focal date of 2050, this issue of AD asks when and how the desig ...Show more
ICONIC DESIGN HOTELS by BROTO CARLES
Category: Architecture | Series: Architectural Design
Never before has it been more important for hotel operators and designers to understand the concept of what makes for a comfortable stay. Hotels of today have to cater to ever-increasing numbers of travel-savvy customers that emanate from all corners of the globe. These are customers with a wide range o ...Show more
NEW SHOP DESIGN by Links
Category: Interior Design | Series: Architectural Design
Shopping as an experience has taken the place as shopping as a necessity; and the design of the spaces to meet that end has had to adapt accordingly. This is a dynamic and colourful collection of some of the most forward-looking and inspiring shop designs in the world, from the studios of some of modern ...Show more
Pavilions, Pop Ups and Parasols: The Impact of Real and Virtual Meeting on Physical Space by Leon Van Schaik
Category: Business | Series: Architectural Design
Around the world, a new architectural form is emerging. In public places a progressive architecture is being commissioned to promote open-ended, undetermined, lightly programmed or un-programmed interactions between people. This new phenomenon of architectural form Pavilions, Pop-Ups and Parasols is pre ...Show more
Radical Architectural Drawing by Neil Spiller (Editor)
Category: Drawing | Series: Architectural Design Ser.
There is a newfound interest in architectural drawing. Some of the most forward-looking architects worldwide are reinventing it to discover the radical possibilities of contemporary architecture as a rich mix of the virtual and the actual. Architectural drawing is adapting to compensate for these new ch ...Show more
Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde - Revisiting the Architecture of the 1960s And 1970s by Matthew Butcher (Guest Editor); Luke C. Pearson (Guest Editor)
Category: Architecture | Series: Architectural Design Ser.
The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an 'architectural Big Bang', such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by architectural projects that redefined the discipline, it remains just as influential today. References to the likes of ...Show more
SHOPPING MALLS by Links
Category: Architecture | Series: Architectural Design
Creating an overall look while guaranteeing autonomy for each shop, integrating communal areas and handling parking and public facilities are just some of the challenges of designing shopping malls. Outstanding examples of how these challenges were met are included on these pages Floor plans, textual in ...Show more
Scarcity: Architecture in an Age of Depleting Resources Architectural Design by Jeremy Till
Category: No Category | Series: Architectural Design
Leading analysts of all the major resource domains - water, food, material, energy and finance - are all telling us that our global industrial growth models are taking the planet to the brink of chronic scarcity. In architecture, concerns about depleting material and energy sources have largely been cen ...Show more
Space Architecture: The New Frontier for Design Research by Neil Leach
Category: Art and Design | Series: Architectural Design
Forty years on from the first moon landing, architecture in Space is entering a new era. Over the last decade, there has been a fundamental shift in the Space industry from short-term pioneering expeditions to long-term planning for colonisation, and new ventures such as Space tourism. Architects are no ...Show more
TODAY'S CITY HOUSES: AD by CHUECA PILAR
Category: No Category | Series: Architectural Design
Through recent examples by renowned international architects such as Norisada Maeda, MVRDV, Atelier Tekuto, Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects and Sugiura Office, among others, this book analyses the difficulty of integrating new residential builds on difficult sites - which due to their situation and environm ...Show more
The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality by Pia Ednie-Brown
Category: Architecture | Series: Architectural Design
Suggesting a process that is fundamentally emergent, collective and environmentally situated, this book explores architectural innovation in terms of the production of vitality. Emphasizing attention to ways of doing as key to innovation, this book brings together historical perspectives with a range of ...Show more
The Thinking Hand by Juhani Pallasmaa
Category: Architecture | Series: Architectural Design Primer Ser.
In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. 'The Thinking Hand' is ...Show more
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