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Architecture in detail : colors

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"Architecture in detail : colors" examines how color plays a role in even the most upscale architectural designs. The series itself examines the role of details in contemporary architecture through the work of many emerging and established practitioners.

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Arc of interaction: Moore Ruble Yudell with Glaserworks

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Over the last two decades, the University of Cincinnati has created a campus internationally recognized for its architecture and planning. It now boasts one of the most extensive collections of contemporary architecture anywhere in the country, and one of its most compelling recent additions is Moore Ruble Yudell's Joseph A. Steger Center for Student Life and associated Main Street project. Conceived in collaboration with internationally recognized architects including Morphosis, Gwathmey Siegel and landscape architect George Hargreaves, the Main Street project forms a new spine of campus activity organized along major pedestrian and topographic paths.

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Peter L. Gluck and partners: the modern impulse

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Located in New York City since 1972, Peter L. Gluck and Partners is known for its integrity of design and sensitivity to the relationship between architectural form and context. Rather than specializing in a particular building type or specific architectural style, the firm provides appropriate responses to often difficult and conflicting requirements, and has designed buildings throughout the United States, ranging from houses, schools, religious buildings, and community centers to hotels, corporate interiors, university buildings, and historic restorations. This extensive overview of the firm's practice includes architectural drawings, digital and physical models, and photographs of finished projects.

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Arcadian architecture : Bohlin Cywinski Jackson - 12 houses

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The architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson believes that "the sensuality of place, the emotive qualities of materials, and the ability to give pleasure and insight, to comfort and to transport can produce humane and spirited architecture." Whether designing corporate headquarters for Pixar Animation Studios, the Software Engineering Institute for Carnegie Mellon University, the new Apple Stores in New York, Chicago, and Tokyo, or the twelve wooded retreats shown in this book, the firm’s architecture is alive to the subtleties of place, man-made or natural, and to the rich possibilities of materials and the means of construction. The houses in "Arcadian Architecture" are exquisitely crafted of wood and stone and other natural materials, and are all sited within beautiful wooded, mountainous, or lakeside locales, from New York State to Washington State, and from the woods of Connecticut to the mountains of Montana. One of the highlights of this book is that it publishes, for the first time, the extraordinary, huge, extremely private and secluded, residential complex in Washington State that was built for Bill and Melinda Gates. Each house is presented on at least thirty pages, and is depicted by sumptuous new colour photography, richly detailed conceptual sketches, presentation drawings, and construction documents.

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40 : houses

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Featuring majestic homes from New England to California, this collection of breathtaking homes includes full-color photos and detailed architectural drawings and sketches. At once eye-popping and inviting, this book provides valuable insights into the unquestionable originality and splendor of every dwelling

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Richter and Dahl Rocha architects : a modern move - transforming Nestlé headquarters in Vevey

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The building which houses the international headquarters of Nestle SA in Vevey, Switzerland succeeds in conveying the fascination of Swiss post-war modernization like no other. Located on Lake Geneva, set in a landscaped park, this masterpiece from the architect Jean Tschumi combines the essential features of modern architecture with spaciousness and elegance. Jacques Richter and Ignacio Dahl Rocha have spent many years renovating, modernizing and extending this building. Their transformation has become a manifesto for an intuitive and creative approach to working with historical monuments.

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Modèles virtuels d'architecture

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Elements in architectures: details

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Ce livre est conçu sous forme de catalogue d'éléments constructif: escaliers, colonnes, fenêtres, rampes ou lucarnes, qui ne se laissent pas toujours ranger dans une catégorie bien précise sans que ne subsiste un doute. Même si nombre des détails exposés ici ne sont, au premier abord, que de petites parties d'un bâtiment, ils peuvent aussi avoir une grande importance au niveau de la décoration. Ils sont enrichissants aux rares moments où nous découvrons l'art dans les composantes de l'architecture quotidienne. Les projets sont répartis en dix catégories qui servent de référence à l'innovation, la créativité et complexité des détails présentés. Leur compréhension est facilitée grâce aux photos, plans et coupes contenus dans cet ouvrage.

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Elements in architecture: couleurs

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Les couleurs ont toujours fasciné les hommes. Cependant, les préférences en la matière sont très personnelles d'autant plus que les couleurs ont des impacts différents dont il faut tenir compte pour la façade d'une habitation et dans la décoration intérieure: en effet, le noir structure et définit l'espace, le marron donne une sensation d'intimité et de naturel, le rouge et l'orange forment des contrastes vivants et le blanc, tout en évoquand la pureté, peut aussi bien se montrer discret qu'éblouissant. S'appuyant sur de nombreuses photos, plans et coupes, ce livre montre comment les grands architectes et cabinets d'architectes utilisent la couleur pour souligner le caractère d'un bâtiment.

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Olsen Sundberg Kunding Allen : connecting architecture, art, and craft in twelve residential projects

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"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. This architecture is marked by a sense of a self-assured and sensual presence, shaped by light, texture, materiality and scale. It should almost go without saying at this point that in an age in which most architects actively seek to achieve the identity of a "look," Olson Sundberg's work eschews simple similarities. Certain principles are evident from one building to another, as is the absence of direct historical replication, but consistency is not the same as a packageable style. Indeed, a single, easily identifiable style is something that these architects not only do not have but seem actively to discourage, as if its presence could be taken as a sign that their firm was not sufficiently cognizant of the widely varying demands that are inherent in different clients' programs, sites and esthetic preferences. They seem determined to prove that consistency of belief need not yield similarity of visual appearance – and that it is possible to produce a coherent body of work that does not look precisely the same." Excerpted from the introduction written by Paul Goldberger.