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Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture by Virginia McLeod
Category: Architecture | Series: Detail
Architectural detailing makes a building unique, and an architect outstanding. "Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture" provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in the development of contemporary residential architecture. Featuring many of the world's most ...Show more
Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture 2 by David Phillips
Category: Architecture | Series: Detail
Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture 2 follows on from the success of the first book in the series, and contains entirely new projects. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 50 of the most recently completed and influential house designs. It also ...Show more
Detail in Contemporary Staircase Design by Paul Barton
Category: Architecture | Series: Detail
Detail in Contemporary Staircase Design provides a revealing insight into this most sculptural of architectural elements. Featuring many of the world's most highly acclaimed architects, as well as emerging practitioners, the book presents 40 recently completed staircase designs, found in homes, gallerie ...Show more
Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture by Virginia McLeod
Category: Architecture | Series: Detail
"Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture" provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern timber architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 50 of the most recently completed and influential timber designs ...Show more
European Architecture in Details by Braun Publishing Ag
Category: Architecture | Series: Architectural Details
European metropolises like Berlin, Rome, Barcelona, Istanbul or London are fascinating because of their history, the people, and the feeling for life but especially because of the buildings. Architectural details of all epochs and styles are the focus of this book: the window as the eye of the house, ba ...Show more
Green Facades by Nicole Pfoser (Editor)
Category: Architecture | Series: DETAIL Practice Ser.
Climate change, extreme weather conditions, the degradation of biodiversity, CO2 and fine-dust pollution in cities demand action. How can architecture make a contribution to achieving a paradigm shift? Can architecture not only be designed to be removable and recyclable, but to be additionally green as ...Show more
Heinkel He 100 : Record Breaker by Erwin Hood
Category: Military | Series: Military Aircraft in Detail Ser.
Erwin Hood covers all aspects of the aircraft's development, the various sub-series produced, its high-speed accomplishments, and use that was made of it for propaganda and intelligence purposes. The aircraft which were supplied to Russia and Japan are examined as well as later projects based on it.
Herzog & de Meuron - Architecture and Construction Details by Sandra Hofmeister
Category: Architecture | Series: DETAIL Special
Since its founding in 1978, the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has become internationally renowned for its creativity. This title investigates how the firm's architects consistently develop innovative and individual designs using classic materials in new and inventive ways. Collected her ...Show more
Housing in Japan - Typologies for Small Spaces by Christian Schittich ed.
Category: Architecture | Series: Detail Special
This volume presents the latest developments in residential projects from recent years. In addition to lavish photospreads and layout depictions, a selection of detailed solutions are presented that can be adapted to western standards.
IN DETAIL WORK ENVIRONMENT by SCHITTICH
Category: Architecture | Series: In Detail (Englisch)
The requirements confronting our workplaces have recently undergone a dramatic transformation. Constantly shifting workspace populations and varying uses of workspace call for flexible spatial structures, and so do new professions and innovative working methods. The plannung of workspaces is influenced ...Show more
Japanese Dress in Detail by Josephine Rout; Anna Jackson (As told to)
Category: Fashion | Series: V&a Fashion in Detail Ser.
A unique insight into the history and key themes of Japanese dress from the eighteenth century to the present, Japanese Dress in Detail reveals the elaborate embroidery, precise folds, and sophisticated dyes that form some of the most beautiful garments in the Victoria and Albert Museum's unparalleled J ...Show more
Landmark Buildings - A Review of Three Decades of Architecture by Christian Schittich
Category: Architecture | Series: DETAIL Special
The architecture of the last three decades will be illuminated in general as well as in detail. A very personal architectural journey through time with around 30 buildings and their history offers insights and a look behind the scenes of a generation's architecture. What ideas, methods, techniques, as w ...Show more