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Town houses: a housing typology

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To continue to develop existing building types and do so in an intelligent way is one of the crucial tasks in the field of residential building. For the success of the individual design as well as for ensuring that tried and tested structures can be utilized, repeated, and varied in a wide range of situations, a deeper understanding of the underlying types is indispensable. For this typology of residential buildings, the authors have developed systematic new presentations of the most innovative types. Each individual volume lays out the possibilities for using and transforming a particular form of residential structure. The third volume deals with the types of the townhouse. It will address the following topics among others: single- versus multistory construction, density, privacy versus publicity, and the connection of living and working. Within each type, variants are distinguished according to how they organize space, their number of floors, etc. The range of possible solutions is presented in uniform ground plans newly drawn to scale.

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Private retreats / casas refugio

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Survey of 20th century minimal private houses from Le Corbusier and Rietveld to Souto de Moura and Sverre Fehn.

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Nanotecture: édifices miniatures

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Un livre inédit et étonnant sur l’architecture version petit format. Une sélection passionnante, accessible et instructive des structures architecturales infiniment petites imaginées au cours des dernières décennies. L’ouvrage présente 300 projets réalisés dans le monde entier, notamment en Chine, en Corée, au Japon, en Amérique du Sud et du Nord et en Europe. Un ouvrage de référence visuel documenté et divertissant destiné aux architectes, aux designers et aux personnes qui s’intéressent à la construction contemporaine dans son environnement.

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Mobitecture: architecture mobile

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Mobitecture permet de découvrir l’architecture mobile sous toutes ses formes. Ingénieux ou poétiques, rustiques ou luxueux, les projets architecturaux présentés dans ce livre étonneront les amateurs d’architecture et de design tant par leur diversité que par leur versatilité. Péniches, cabanes portables, roulottes, abris pour sinistrés et prototypes mobiles futuristes se côtoient au fil de ce livre dense et riche de 300 photographies en couleurs.

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Houses in motion: the genesis, history and development of the portable building. Second edition

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In this revised edition of his definitive study, Robert Kronenbourg examines the development of the moveable building from prehistory to the present day, including a entirely new chapter on the influence that new technologies have on the subject. From familiar vernacular models such as the tent, mobile home and houseboat, to developments in military and construction engineering, all aspects of portable architecture are considered. Kronenbourg makes comparisons between current, commercially available products and the work of innovative designers. He explores the philosophical and technological issues raised by contemporary, experimental and futuristic prototypes, and examines the suitability to purpose of portable building solutions in shelter after disaster situations.

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Living in motion : design and architecture for flexible dwelling

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This interdisciplinary account of the different types of flexible living presents work by Modernist and contemporary architects and designers such as; Charles and Ray Eames, Buckminster Fuller, Jean Prouve, Joe Colombo and Shigeru Ban, contrasting them with the flexible houses and installations featured in non-European cultures. In view of the on-going globalisation of life, the traditional distinction between sedentary and nomad lifestyles has been undermined. Due to the growing significance of transport the sedentary populations are as mobile as the nomads, just as the latter now set up permanent camp - in fact, the two ways of life have mutually influenced each other over the course of time. This title also sheds light on the causes and effects of mobile living from a sociological and psychological viewpoint.

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Pet architecture guide book

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A guide to Tokyo's tiny in-fill buildings -- rice shops, bike shops, tobacconists, warehouses. A delight from beginning to end.

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Silver palaces : America's streamlined trailers

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Vintage and modern-day photographs and advertisements add depth to "Silver Palaces. It is historically significant for those who suffer from wanderlust, some fulfilled by owning and traveling with a "silver palace," or perhaps owning an older model that's been rebuilt and refurbished.

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The magic of tents : transforming space

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For years, architects have enjoyed the challenge of incorporating lightweight structures -- fabrics, tents, canopies, membranes, and so on -- into their designs. Such materials are a welcome boon to architectural creativity, allowing designers to envision spaces that take innovative shapes and interact with their surroundings in ways unattainable with conventional materials. Recent years have seen an increase in the use of such structures, in part because advances in computer technology have made it easier to render and model such projects, and in part because such structures are ideally suited to today's increasing concerns about environmentalism and sustainability. The Magic of Tents showcases innovative uses of lightweight, tented structures from across the United States and around the world -- from an Arizona school to an Istanbul bank, from a Miami nightclub on the beach to a private home in Germany, from corporate headquarters in Los Angeles to offices in Oslo, and many more! The book features both residential and commercial projects, projects with both exterior and interior usages, projects where the tented element is the driving component of the design, and projects that incorporate lightweight structures to accent or address a specific need. Endlessly flexible, nurturing of creativity, cost- and energy-conscious, tented structures are an ideal means to address many concerns of modern architecture -- a creative means to not only define space, but also to transform it into something to meet all sorts of design needs, for projects both grand and small.

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Petites maisons

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Dans son introduction, cet ouvrage explore en détail le contexte historique et social qui sous-tend le logement compact au XXe siècle. Puis sont étudiés 37 exemples illustrés choisis parmi les plus intéressants construits dans le monde au cours des cinq dernières années. La surface habitable y dépasse rarement 100 m2, et chaque projet incarne une approche architecturale particulière des aménagements compacts. Les exemples sont divisés en trois groupes: retraites rurales, unités urbaines et banlieusardes, petits regroupements et multiplex. On retrouve ici des noms prestigieux comme Toyo Ito, Lacaton et Vassal, Herzog et de Meuron, LOT/EK.