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Modern shoestring: contemporary architecture on a budget

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Residential design provides a rich testing ground for architectural innovation. Intimate scales and specific programs inspire distinctive homes, and comparatively small budgets are catalysts for exploring nontraditional materials. Modern Shoestring proves that building a contemporary house can be affordable and shows how constraints actually stimulate the most creative design solutions. Eighteen residential projects are presented, with emphasis on the goals of the owners, the site, and the cost in the design process. Collections determine floor plans, observatories are built for starry rural nights, and found and industrial materials such as highway construction remnants, laboratory counters, plastic water bottles, and discarded chalkboards keep costs low while imbuing structures with character. These ingenious designs range in cost from $50 to $220 per square foot and represent geographical settings from Los Angeles to Anchorage to East Hampton.

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Chicago : a guide to recent architecture

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A survey of approximately 100 examples of contemporary architecture in Chicago. Other titles in this series of tiny format guidebooks include London, Los Angeles, Vienna, Prague, Tokyo, and England.

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The contemporary guestouse : building in the garden

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'The contemporary guesthouse : building in the garden' illustrates and critically describes contemporary private guesthouses from around the globe. Included projects-chosen from an international roster of contemporary architects-are presented within the context of the architect/client design process, so that the role the existing house, the guestouse program, and the site play in the creation of the work are clear.

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New York : a guide to recent architecture

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Covering a range of projects, this book is an urban study rather than simply a building-by-building guide. Cafés and office interiors are described alongside more massive projects.