Container & Prefab Guide by Instituto Monsa de Ediciones (Editor); Anna Minguet
Category: Architecture
The latest trend in architecture is to try to find a balance between construction and well-being, applying renewable energies and seeking low costs, without renouncing comfort. The construction of houses from containers or prefabricated modules is the basis of creative reuse architecture, which is an in ...Show more
The Home Office Reimagined: Spaces to Think, Reflect, Work, Dream, and Wonder by Oscar Riera Ojeda, James Moore McCown
Category: Architecture
Featuring innovative home offices that are inventive, accessible, and often wonderfully serene, this book is a rich source of ideas and inspirations embracing the call to work from home! Pavilions, sheds, studios, extensions--call them what you will, architects around the globe are experimenting with at ...Show more
Through the Cellar Door: Australia's Beautiful Wineries and Vineyards, their Design and Architecture by ALISON WEAVERS
Category: Architecture | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Wineries across the globe now regularly engage leading architects to create extraordinary, original constructions that complement the winemaking and tasting experiences. In Europe, world-renowned studios have rejuvenated winery and cellar-door architecture for some of the biggest names in the wine indus ...Show more
Eco Materials: Decorating with Ecological Materials by CLAIRE BINGHAM
Category: Architecture
It is no longer a secret that a trip to nature can work wonders. As a lightning-like mood enhancer, we instantly feel more relaxed and alive; after all, nature has served us as a retreat to gather strength since time immemorial. The new coffee table book Eco Materials shows how we can bring this calming ...Show more
Midcentury Houses Today by Michael Biondo, Jeffrey R. Matz, Lorenzo Ottaviani, Cristina A. Ross
Category: Architecture
This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservati ...Show more
Renzo Piano by Lorenzo Ciccarelli
Category: Architecture
Renzo Piano is one of the world's greatest living architects and creator of a host of iconic modern buildings, including the Pompidou in Paris, the Menil Collection in Texas, Kansai Airport in Japan, the Shard in London and the new Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Written and created in c ...Show more
Station - A Whistlestop Tour of 20th- and 21st-Century Railway Architecture by Christopher Beanland
Category: Architecture
A glorious celebration of modern railway architecture in the 20th century and beyond, travelling all over the world. Many railway books are about nostalgia for the steam age, but this one is different: a global study of railway architecture from the 1950s onwards and into the future. In 50 fascinatin ...Show more
Frank Lloyd Wright - The Architecture of Defiance by Jonathan Adams
Category: Architecture | Series: Architecture of Wales Ser.
The historic Welsh origins of the architect's creative defiance. The father of modern architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright learned his defiant creativity from the radical politics and work ethic of his Welsh family. Throughout his career, Wright strongly resisted the idea that his accomplishments owed a ...Show more
Windows in Architecture by CHRISTOPHER MASTERS
Category: Architecture
This new study explores the development of the window, showing how it both transformed human experience by increasing access to light and air and changed our perception of architectural space Christopher Masters celebrates the multiple roles of the window in architecture by providing engaging commentari ...Show more
The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have To Be Perfect To Be Beautiful by Myquillyn Smith
Category: Architecture
Popular blogger and author of Cozy Minimalist Home Myquillyn Smith (The Nester) helps readers find beauty in imperfection and freedom to take risks to create the home-and life-they've always wanted. This beautiful four-color book is full of photos and creative, easy ideas for arranging, decorating, and ...Show more
Glass Houses by Phaidon Editors
Category: Architecture
An inspiring collection of 50 spectacular houses built almost entirely from glass Glass Houses presents 50 stunning architect designed homes that utilize glass to maximum effect. The international selection includes early modernist houses from the 1930s, such as Philip Johnson's Glass House and Mies va ...Show more
Inside Yucatán - Hidden Mérida and Beyond by Susana Ordovás; Martina Mondadori (Foreword by); Guido Taroni (Photographer)
Category: Architecture
Exploring forgotten regions of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, Susana Ordovás and photographer Guido Taroni uncover the faded splendor of both neglected and restored homes. Susana Ordovás's Inside Yucatán is an ode to the merging of the ancient with the contemporary. At the turn of the 20th century, more m ...Show more