Paradise Preserved
For over a century, Fraser Island's majestic forests provided the timber that helped build Queensland - and shaped the lives of those who lived and worked beneath its towering satinays and blackbutts trees.Paradise Preserved uncovers the untold story of forestry on the world's largest sand island. From Aboriginal timber workers and pioneering foresters to tramways, sawmills, and silviculture trials, Robert Onfray reveals how 120 years of forest management created a legacy still etched in the landscape today.Drawing on archival records, personal experience, and eyewitness accounts, Onfray challenges the long-held myth that forestry destroyed Fraser Island. Instead, he shows how careful stewardship sustained its forests, so much so that the island achieved World Heritage status just months after logging ceased.Blending history, politics, and human stories, Paradise Preserved is essential reading for anyone who cares about Fraser Island, forestry, and the future of Australia's natural heritage.
Dallas & the New Tradition
Dallas & the New Tradition explores Dallas's unique architectural history and celebrates Larry E. Boerder's vision of restoring the city's great revival past in a manner fit for the 21st century. Dallas & the New Tradition explores Dallas's unique architectural history and celebrates Larry E. Boerder's vision of restoring the city's great revival past in a manner fit for the twenty-first century. Larry E. Boerder Architects specializes in designing and building homes in the prestigious suburbs of Highland Park, University Park, and Preston Hollow, nestled in Dallas. With a modern revivalist approach, their work honors the architectural traditions established in these communities in the early twentieth century. Delve into the origins of some of America's most beautiful and idyllic suburbs and how this setting inspired Boerder to create homes that are elegant, refined, and above all, harmonious to their surroundings. Come behind the scenes to tour some of his greatest properties located in Texas and farther afield, which stand as an enduring testament to the talent of Boerder and his team, as well as their dedication to preserving and taking forward the New Tradition.
Architectural Digest at 100: The Collector's Edition
A luxe collector's edition of the international bestseller Architectural Digest at 100--now with gold foil case lettering, gilded edges, and a beautiful ribbon marker. Celebrate 100 years of style, celebrity, and iconic interiors with this dazzling collector's edition of the international bestseller, Architectural Digest at 100. Reimagined with gold foil details, gilded page edges, and a beautiful ribbon marker, this luxe volume is as timeless as the talent it showcases. From the Obamas to David Bowie, from Frank Lloyd Wright to India Mahdavi, Architectural Digest at 100 opens the doors to the world's most extraordinary spaces. Inside, you'll find legendary rooms, rare photographs, and a century of unforgettable tastemakers. Whether you're a longtime design lover or new to the world of decor, this golden edition is the ultimate statement piece for your collection.
Restoring America
Exploring how the New Deal shaped history through politically driven commemoration During the Great Depression, Americans employed historic preservation as a tool to address the political, economic, and social upheavals of the era. Inspired by the Roosevelt administration's unprecedented support of federal arts projects, US politicians, architects, laborers, artisans, and local boosters skillfully used New Deal funds to restore, mythologize, and politicize the "historic shrines" in their communities. Restoring America illustrates how and why Americans turned to historic preservation as a strategy for managing both political realities and ambitions. Stephanie Gray presents four thoroughly researched and diverse case studies: a colonial theater in the Deep South, a Puritan minister's home in New England, aviator Charles Lindbergh's modest farmhouse and parklands of the Upper Midwest, and a multi-layered Spanish-German-Mexican arts village in the Central South. Collectively, these examples show how the restoration of old places emerged as a popular form of cultural production, an instrument of economic reconstruction, and a striking expression of political theater during the Depression. Moreover, these New Deal preservation projects make evident that any exercise in physically preserving the past is both conservative and progressive, reactive and proactive. Restoring America contends that the federally funded and locally driven preservation initiatives of the 1930s and 1940s can help inform contemporary public history debates over the politics of commemoration and imagine possibilities for future preservation practice.
Common Sensing
Exploring how different forms of environmental perception instigate communal support, from everyday "common sense" to X-ray imaging, radar and moreThe third issue from the Center for Research Architecture, Common Sensing brings together practitioners whose work engages with different senses of environmental conditions and their translation to collective claims and forms of resistance, including case studies in Italy, Palestine, Chile and Turkey.
Shelter Cookbook
An inspiring guide to the history and legacy of Lloyd Kahn's 1970s countercultural self-build manualsDIY architect, publisher and pioneer of the self-build movement, Lloyd Kahn (born 1935) is a legend of the American counterculture. Influenced by Buckminster Fuller, in 1968 Kahn started building geodesic domes, and was an editor for Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog. In 1970 Kahn published his first book, Domebook One, followed the next year by the bestselling Domebook 2. In 1971, he bought land in Bolinas and built a geodesic dome (later to be featured in Life magazine), but he soon pursued other ways to build, resulting in the classic 1973 book Shelter. Kahn published numerous self-build books over the ensuing decades, most recently Tiny Homes on the Move (2014).Shelter Cookbook is an exploration of Kahn's now iconic publications by the Swiss architect Leopold Banchini (born 1981) --whose practice makes emphatic use of DIY architecture culture--and the German author and curator Lukas Feireiss (born 1977). It relates Kahn's building philosophy to contemporary practices, recording Banchini and Feireiss' personal search for unexpected relationships between historical documents and contemporary architectural projects. The large-format volume includes interviews, photospreads and archival material on self-building, and also includes a mycological investigation. Shelter Cookbook will inspire architects, designers, artists and counterculture cognoscenti alike with its positive vision of the possibilities and legacy of the self-build movement.
Tailored Interiors
Interior designer Patrick Sutton's highly anticipated second book, Tailored Interiors, explores his distinctive storytelling approach to crafting bespoke homes specially for his clients and their lives. In this follow up to Storied Interiors (2018), interior designer Patrick Sutton presents seven beautiful and unique residences. Taking a deep dive into Sutton's distinctive approach, acclaimed author Vicky Lowry tells the story of each home and how listening to his clients has inherently shaped the design. The seven homes, located in Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Wyoming, run the gamut from a crisply furnished, minimalist countryside retreat and a classic yet contemporary seaside estate, to a historic house given new life with striking furnishings and seductive colors, and a property in Jackson Hole with a pared-down aesthetic rather than the typical trappings of the American West. While Sutton's objectives for every project might be similar--discovering the 'story' to help him craft a design that is influenced by the location, history, and his clients--he is adept at working in a variety of styles, with an approach that remains fluid and open-minded. Each project in Tailored Interiors is illustrated with gorgeous photography and accompanied by a narrative about the client, their aspirations, and Sutton's compassionate approach to the design. It is through vision and empathy that Sutton creates such rich, meaningful, and liveable interiors and helps his clients achieve their dreams.
The Defying Gentrification Playbook
A Black, Queer, FeminIst, Disabled, Urbanist Guide, Toolkit, and Companion for modern life on Earth from one of the world's most notable contemporary urbanists and the creator of The Black Urbanist multimedia platform.We all know the rent is too damn high, and everything, from getting our hair done to eating our soul foods from across the African Diaspora, is increasingly out of reach and touch, despite being practices our ancestors perfected. And let's not even get started with being surveilled, policed, incarcerated, denied, and killed just for who we are as Black folks.But Kristen Jeffers doesn't believe gentrification is inevitable, and they're done with taking gentrification on the nose.After years of trying to convince their urbanist colleagues to reform their publications, organizations, local governments, community groups, and even their own attitudes around cultural diversity, equity, inclusion, and the ills of gentrification, they stepped away from the global urbanism scene for awhille, wrote a maniefesto and started to test out how to live as much of their lives as they could, while preserving energy to clapback just in time.Or maybe never, because as a Black autistic nonbinary person who has been socialized and perceived as a woman their entire lives, rest is resistance (Thanks Nap Bishop and Nap Ministry).This workbook is the result of that necessary pause. It's here for you as a fellow sista-sibling to learn how to embody rest as resistance, even if the rent is coming due. It's built around their Defying Gentrification Manifesto mantra: "I can have faith, I can engage in cultivation and creativity and self-care, but I need community care, access, infrastructure, and convenience to defy gentrification."Interactive, with workbook pages and stories from their years in urbanism, there's something for everyone, but this one is especially for their sistas and siblings, because intersectionality is real and so is misogynoir, and if that was stopped, the entire world would stop being trash."I love that it's informative AND actionable, but digestible because I feel like these topics (rightfully) can get a little heavy/academic at times, but as a non-academic, I appreciate how easy to read it is"L'Oreal Thompson Payton, author of Stop Waiting for Perfect and owner/operator of Zora's Place Bookstore in Evanston, IL.
The Line
Take a journey along The Line, East London's innovative outdoor art trail featuring world-renowned contemporary artistsThe Line has transformed East London's urban landscape into a dynamic cultural corridor. Spanning nearly 8 kilometres (4.8 miles), the outdoor public art trail features monumental sculptures, intimate installations, and an evolving programme, offering a world-class contemporary art experience on a free and daily basis. Celebrating The Line's 10th anniversary, The Line: Public Art in East London replicates the unique experience of exploring its groundbreaking public art programme. Across more than 200 pages, readers will journey through the iconic neighbourhoods of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, The O2 arena, and the waterways that connect three London boroughs. This beautifully illustrated book presents work by 35 international artists, including Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin, Thomas J Price, Rasheed Araeen, Rana Begum, and Helen Cammock. More than 150 colour photographs - from eye-level images of the installations to spectacular aerial drone shots - contextualize The Line's natural and industrial environs, creating an immersive homage to this inspiring public art walk.
Storied Homes
A design book featuring homes that blend traditional interiors with modern living and that celebrate playful design balanced with a minimal aesthetic. Clara Jung's design is known for its signature balance of playful patterns and a minimal aesthetic. Her work balances traditional interiors with signature color, pattern, and whimsy. With the underlying belief that home environments should both spark joy and reflect the personal style of those who live there, Clara creates spaces that that evoke a sense of happiness and wellness, creatively incorporating her clients' sensibilities and personal style. The work of her design firm, Banner Day Interiors, has been featured in Architectural Digest, Domino, Design Sponge, Apartment Therapy, and many more.
Graphic Design & Visual Communication
This practical handbook is designed for students specializing in graphic design, visual communication, and global design. It provides essential knowledge andguidance from the first year of studies through to the final thesis, structuredaround key course modules from the Design Department at the School ofArchitecture, Design, and Urbanism (EMADU), Euromed University in Fez, covering: _ Observation and Perception: Developing a design mindset. 2D Graphic Programs: Hands-on exercises to master essential software. Graphic Design Fundamentals: Understanding principles and solvingreal-world tasks.Multimedia Communication: Exploring web design, motion graphics, audiovisual media, and advertisingPortfolio and Print Design: Structuring portfolios and learning bookdesign basics.Final Project Development: Branding, visual communication, and UXconsiderations for digital projects.In an era increasingly influenced by Al tools, this book emphasizes theimportance of fundamental design principles, critical thinking, and thedesigner's creative awareness alongside manual skills. It serves as both astructured learning path and a quick reference guide, ensuring that students canconfidently navigate the evolving field of graphic design with both technicalproficiency and a deep understanding of design's broader implications.
California Crazy. American Pop Architecture. 45th Ed.
At the dawn of the automobile age, Americans' predilection for wanderlust prompted a new wave of inventive entrepreneurs to cater to this new mode of transportation. Starting in the 1920s, attention-grabbing buildings began to appear that would draw in passing drivers for snacks, provisions, souvenirs, or a quick meal. The architectural establishment of the day dismissed these roadside buildings as "monstrosities". Yet, they flourished, especially along America's Sunbelt, and in particular, in Southern California, as proprietors indulged their creative impulses in the form of giant, eccentric constructions -- from owls, dolls, pigs, and ships, to coffee pots and fruit. Their symbolic intent was guileless, yet they were marginalized by history. But, over the past 40 years, California's architectural anomalies have regained their integrity, and are now being celebrated in this freshly revised compendium of buildings, California Crazy. Brimming with the best examples of this architectural genre, California Crazy includes essays exploring the influences that fostered the nascent architectural movement, as well as identifying the unconventional landscapes and attitudes found on Los Angeles and Hollywood roadsides which allowed these buildings to flourish in profusion. In addition, California Crazy features David Gebhard's definitive essay, which defined this vernacular movement almost forty years ago. The California Crazy concept is expanded to include domestic architecture, eccentric signage, and the automobile as a fanciful object.
A Literary Letter for Every Day of the Year
This fascinating anthology is a dive into the personal letters of some of the brightest literary minds in history. This collection is a look into the personal lives of some of the world's most beloved poets, novelists, and playwrights. The letters contain wisdom and life lessons from the likes of John Keats and Oscar Wilde, as well as shared feelings of loneliness from Charlotte Bront禱, loss from Ovid, and love from George Eliot. With one letter for every day of the year, you can start or end your day with words from some of the brightest minds that ever put pen to paper. This is a collection with emotional, historical, and literary significance, helping us understand some of our favorites even further. This anthology spans the centuries from the classic to the contemporary, and includes Ignatius Sancho, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, the Bront禱s, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Maya Angelou, and many more.
The Black Family Who Built America
A Scientific American Favorite Book of 2025 The riveting story of the McKissack family--the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today--in a moving celebration of resilience and innovation. Captured in his native West Africa and enslaved on American shores by a North Carolina plantation owner, Moses McKissack I began to build his way to emancipation right from the start. Becoming an enslaved craftsman, he picked up the trade his family would become famous for in the earliest years of the 19th century, passing his learnings down to his children and seeing them off to freedom after the Civil War. The family would settle in Tennessee, getting its bearings in the building trades despite rampant discrimination, establishing a foothold that now sees its latest generations working at the absolute peak of its industry. The family's fingerprints have been left all across the United States, spanning from Reconstruction to contemporary times, through projects like the Morris Memorial Building, Capers C.M.E. Church, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field. Here, Cheryl McKissack Daniel, CEO and president of McKissack & McKissack, reveals the full fascinating story of her family. So much more than an exploration of architectural achievements, The Black Family Who Built America is also a compelling illustration of how history rhymes and reverberates, and a celebration of the human spirit's ability to overcome adversity and drive change. From Moses's humble beginnings to Cheryl's current role as a trailblazer and champion of diversity, the family's journey underscores the importance of perseverance, innovation, and strategic vision in shaping a legacy that continues to inspire and impact the construction industry.
Coastal Villas
Coastal Villas: Luxury Living on the Gulf Coast celebrates the relationship between architecture and nature in a remarkable landscape defined by shifting dunes, expansive horizons, and salt-laden breezes. This beautiful publication presents a collection of luxurious villas designed by Geoff Chick & Associates in the tradition of timber-framed vernacular style of Florida's nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture. From minimalist retreats poised on the edge of the surf to sprawling family homes nestled among pine forests, these residences are a poetic reinterpretation of the Gulf Coast's vernacular through a contemporary architectural lens. Presented as a large-format casebound book, Coastal Villas: Luxury Living on the Gulf Coast is a celebration of architecture tailored to the Gulf Coast's complex interplay of delicate ecosystems, relentless sun, and occasional hurricanes. Large windows invite coastal breezes and abundant natural light, while shaded courtyards and covered terraces create comfortable outdoor living areas. Porches, tall ceilings, bracketed overhangs, and raised pier footings draw inspiration from vernacular architecture, and timeless interiors fuse artistry and function. Exploring the harmony of form, function, and nature on the Gulf Coast, this aspirational publication will inspire a deep appreciation for architecture that celebrates the spirit of a place. Project Locations: LIBERTY, FL VERMILLION, FL CAMP CREEK, FL LOTUS, FL SANDCASTLE, FL CYPRESS, FL PISCES, FL ARCHER, FL SANDHILL, FL AQUARIUS, FL PARK ROW, FL BACK BAY, MS MADEIRA, FL
The Cobblestone & The Common
The Cobblestone & The Common is a pocket field guide and practical analysis of the enduring cultural identity rooted in the English town and village. In an age of global transit, this volume invites readers to step off the highway and wander through the centuries-old heart of "Merry Olde England," treating the built environment-from timber-framed houses to market squares-as a vital, living archive of human resilience.Using the lens of the Applied Vernacular-the language of hands-on, everyday wisdom-the book decodes the structures and traditions that define the English spirit of place. It analyzes how architecture, local geology, literature, and communal custom weave together to form a unique cultural tapestry. Readers will learn to read the architecture, understanding how indigenous materials and structural solutions, such as the stone in the Cotswolds or the jettying in medieval timber-frames, reflect enduring economic and social history.The volume explores the mechanisms that foster community cohesion, analyzing the roles of the Parish Church, the Pub, and the Village Green in defining the Heartbeat of the Common. It celebrates the Quiet Craft tradition that ensured local self-sufficiency and provided enduring structures of defiant permanence. Case studies are provided for the Pastoral Ideal of the Cotswolds, the Romanticism of the Lake District, and the Mythic Ground of Sherwood Forest.This guide affirms that the structural ingenuity and moral coherence perfected in these spaces hold an irreplaceable code for human endurance. It serves as a tool for the curious traveler and the rooted local to cultivate a deeper connection to place and history.
Design Punctuations
No matter how much of a buzz there might be nowadays about the tremendous strides being taken in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in the context of design and architecture, inspirations derived from Nature can never be overshadowed by technology. The basics here would always be propelled by the hidden derivatives and creativity in Nature. And that's where lies the central focus of the writings in this book. Assisted by supplementing photos and illustrations, the contents bring forth to the reader, an exposure to evolutions in architecture that have their foundations embedded in culture, tradition, beliefs and context. For students and young professionals, the comprehensive dialogues of the author with distinguished and iconic architects/designers in the profession, would certainly be a source of inspiration and confidence to pursue their path with honest convictions and belief in themselves. To maintain a constant healthy curiosity in our pursuits is one significant 'Thought for the Day' that the author brings to the forefront. This book, should provide exciting insights and pointers to a professional/non-professional, to delve further in the endless ingenuity lying unacknowledged in our traditions and heritage to shape a healthier future lifestyle. For enthused writers and journalists, it should be an engaging read to feel the power of simple communicative diction, in bringing a closer and intimate rapport with the reader.
Can PMMs in IDAs be of Interest to Local Interventionist Agencies in Sub-Saharan Africa
The book explores the application of project management methodology to planning, monitoring, evaluation, and tracking of construction projects. Its goal is to reduce waste, enhance stakeholder satisfaction, and improve overall project performance. It emphasizes the importance of a tailored approach in project execution, as demonstrated by project managers in International Development Agencies (IDAs). Project Managers executing projects within Local Interventionist Agencies (LIAs) in Sub-Saharan Africa can adopt a customized project management framework to improve project outcomes and mitigate the issue of project abandonment.
Monument to Instrument
Architects must play an important role if American society is to survive climate change and immigration. Defining ourselves as artists limits that role. This book argues for a redefinition of architects as the experts on the relationships between humans and built environments. Architects must come to the public rather than asking the public to come to them. Consequently, the book attempts through "straight talk" to avoid the poetic language prevalent among architects writing about architecture. The book has six sections: A prologue describes the author's path to the book; A collection of the author's experiences illustrate the chasm between architects and the public; A brief iconoclastic history of western architecture describes the profession's focus transitioning from monuments to instruments; Proposed changes to the practice of architecture designed to enable the architects to become, and convince the public they are, THE experts at the relationships between humans and built environments; Proposed changes to architectural education designed to develop those experts and produce more confident young architects; and An appendix includes a short professional biography of the author and an annotated list of the author's favorite books. The author's position arises from principles developed during 50 years of practice, including: "Radical Functionalism," practicing towards tight fit based on comprehensive programming; "Extreme Programming," inspired by the writings of Ian McHarg and Louis Kahn's conversations with bricks, a belief that there are many right answers and definitively wrong answers; "Legitimate Individuation," searching for right answers based on a wide-ranging discovery of specifics of the project, including site characteristics, client wishes, current architect enthusiasms, community concerns and locally available skills and materials; and "Everything for a Reason, Artfully Done," a goal that we and the client understand every move's purpose and that every move contributes to the art of the project.
The Royal Dragon Court Inbred Britain
THE ROYAL DRAGON COURT TRILOGY, BOOK THREE: INBRED BRITAINBy Abbe de Vere Dragon Publishing The Sovereign Grand Duchy of DrakenbergA Legacy Rooted in AntiquityFrom the mythic kings of Albion to the medieval nobility who sealed the Magna Carta, Britain's ruling families were never truly isolated tribes, but the living continuation of an older, pan-European caste whose origins stretch back to the Bronze Age. De Vere follows these threads to their roots in ancient priest-kingship, revealing how the sacred and the sovereign once existed as one office. The divine right of kings was not an abstract doctrine; it was an article of lineage, sustained through selective intermarriage and guarded by secrecy.The author demonstrates that the so-called "inbreeding" of royal and noble houses was not a flaw but a deliberate mechanism of preservation-an attempt to maintain what was believed to be a hereditary current of power: psychic acuity, visionary insight, and the memory of a forgotten wisdom tradition stretching from Sumer to Stonehenge. This inheritance, often symbolised as the Dragon Bloodline, finds continuity in heraldic emblems, alchemical treatises, and the folklore of the Grail families.Where Myth Meets RecordAbbe de Vere's analysis bridges the gap between the mythic and the documentable. Drawing upon peerage archives, genealogical rolls, heraldic visitations, Domesday Book entries, and ecclesiastical registers, she reconstructs a panorama of descent that reveals just how narrow the stream of noble blood truly is. Yet this narrowness does not imply weakness. Rather, it illustrates how the same ancestral lines recur again and again in positions of influence-from the Plantagenets and Tudors to the families who quietly populate the Privy Council, the Inns of Court, and the universities that mould opinion today.The book does not rest upon conjecture or conspiracy, but upon verifiable inheritance. Each name is cross-referenced, each connection mapped, so that what emerges is a portrait of a nation whose sense of democracy has always been shadowed by an unspoken oligarchy of blood.The Psychological InheritanceBut Inbred Britain is not content with heraldry alone. It turns also to anthropology and psychology, asking what such concentrated inheritance does to a people-not only physically but spiritually. Through careful comparison of mythic archetypes and modern behavioural studies, de Vere suggests that the insularity of British elites produced a culture of heightened imagination and introversion, manifesting as mysticism, melancholy, and genius alike.The same current that yielded poets and prophets also yielded paranoia and decline. In the pendulum swing between inspiration and isolation lies the key to Britain's historical temperament: visionary yet cautious, expansive yet inward-looking, brilliant yet self-consuming.A Continuation of The Dragon LegacyFollowing the groundbreaking revelations of Nicholas de Vere's The Dragon Legacy and The Dragon Cede, this volume stands as both sequel and synthesis. Where Nicholas laid the mythic foundation, Abbe de Vere provides the historical scaffolding-the documentary evidence that situates dragon-lore within the verifiable continuum of European aristocracy.She approaches the work not as a disciple but as an heir: preserving her father's vision while subjecting it to the rigour of legal reasoning and archival verification. Through this union of passion and proof, Inbred Britain bridges the long-standing divide between alternative history and recognised scholarship.
Envisioning Landscapes
Visionary landscape architecture firm OJB reveals the guiding principles behind its award-winning work in this new, expanded edition of its debut monographOJB Landscape Architecture challenges the conventional boundaries of its field, emphasizing placemaking as a mechanism for healing, community-building, and celebration. At its core, the award-winning firm believes that landscape is a social and collective tool for integration, reclamation, and healing. This principle guides all of the firm's projects across sectors, from its designs deepening our relationship to nature, such as public parks, and sites promoting restorative healthcare, such as campuses for hospitals and wellness centers, to large-scale urban landscapes conceived to reconnect and revitalize communities, such as the acclaimed RiverFront in Omaha and the other multi-project narratives in which landscapes connect and build on each other over several years to create thoughtfully realized and impactful environments.In this new, expanded edition of OJB's debut monograph, the pioneering firm shares its remarkable and meaningful work- and the philosophy that drives it - through fifteen projects of varied typologies across the United States. Beautifully illustrated with more than 200 color photographs, Envisioning Landscapes also includes a new foreword by The Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster.
Media Matters in Landscape Architecture
Media Matters in Landscape Architecture makes a unique contribution to landscape architectural praxis for its explicit framing of "environmental media" in terms of its dual meaning within our discipline. In the sciences, environmental media are the materials of the natural world--soils, air, water, plants, microbes. Within STS and media studies, "environmental media" refers broadly to the relationship between environmental issues--such as pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change--and the creation and application of the tools, interfaces, and images, through which information about these issues is conveyed. This book focuses on how these two distinct understandings of environmental media coalesce within the discipline of landscape architecture and other spatial design fields. Authors from a wide-range of disciplines--landscape architecture, media studies, history of science, civil engineering, ecology, planning, and architecture--examine how the creation and use of data, images, and models acts as intermediaries--the mediums through which a particular understanding of "environment" or "landscape" arises. This framing of environmental media emphasizes the relationships among various design media and the specific material and social environments within which they operate.
Court & Garden
The French H繫tel, an aristocratic Paris townhouse, is to the art of the plan as the Venetian Palace is to the art of the facade--the quintessential level of architectural achievement. The development of the h繫tel between approximately 1550 and 1800 chronicles the formal transformation from an embedded urban building type to a free-standing suburban building type; it also illuminates the social transformation from total emphasis on the public realm under Louis XIV, to the dominance of private life in our time. In contrast to the principles of continuity and regularity of classical buildings, the design principles of the h繫tels were based on discontinuity and irregularity, allowing freer, more adaptable architectural compositions. The French H繫tel is a direct ancestor of the modern "free-plan," thus enabling a rich contemporary architectural vocabulary.
Cottagecore
Explore the timeless charm of rural homes reimagined for modern living.In an age where cities swell and hum with endless demands, a quiet exodus is unfolding. Fueled by a yearning to escape the pressures of modern life, a new generation trades urban density for open skies, slower rhythms, and homes shaped by something more intentional.Though rooted in rural settings, these spaces carry the imprint of their inhabitants' cultivated sensibilities -- expressions of a design language shaped by urban influences. Tethered to their historic bones and quirks, they demand a reconsideration of what it means to live and occupy space -- revealing themselves far more beguiling than ideal.Cottagecore ventures into the heart of the Cottagecore lifestyle, assembling a portrait of interiors crafted by urban exiles with a knack for making even the most die-hard city dwellers dream of staking their claim to a quiet patch of land.
Alpine Refuges
From sleek havens to rustic shelters, Alpine Refuges reveals the stories and designs behind the sanctuaries that connect humanity with the spirit of exploration, redefining how we experience the mountains.In the rugged embrace of the mountains, alpine refuges stand as symbols of human ingenuity and resilience. These sleek and modern sanctuaries, others rustic and timeless, bridge the divide between nature's majesty and humanity's need for shelter, offering a place to rest and a gateway to adventure.Alpine Refuges invites readers to explore these extraordinary spaces, uncovering the stories, designs, and landscapes that define them. Featuring 30 carefully curated projects, this book delves into the heart of mountain culture, highlighting refuges that have become pivotal to hiking, skiing, mountaineering, and biking communities worldwide. From the pristine peaks of the Alps to remote havens in North America and beyond, these shelters shape the experiences of those who seek solace and challenge in the wilderness.Through breathtaking photography and engaging narratives, Alpine Refuges captures the essence of these remarkable places, revealing how these refuges connect people to the untamed beauty of their environments. For mountain lovers, design enthusiasts, and armchair travelers alike, Alpine Refuges offers a breathtaking look at the places where nature and humanity meet, inspiring journeys to both the peaks of the earth and the depths of the soul.
The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I.
The study of the history of the Negroes of Cincinnati is unusually important for the reason that from no other annals do we get such striking evidence that the colored people generally thrive when encouraged by their white neighbors. This story is otherwise significant when we consider the fact that about a fourth of the persons of color settling in the State of Ohio during the first half of the last century made their homes in this city. Situated on a north bend of the Ohio where commerce breaks bulk, Cincinnati rapidly developed, attracting both foreigners and Americans, among whom were not a few Negroes. Exactly how many persons of color were in this city during the first decade of the nineteenth century is not yet known. It has been said that there were no Negroes in Hamilton County in 1800.1 It is evident, too, that the real exodus of free Negroes and fugitives from the South to the Northwest Territory did not begin prior to 1815, although their attention had been earlier directed to this section as a more desirable place for colonization than the shores of Africa. As the reaction following the era of good feeling toward the Negroes during the revolutionary period had not reached its climax free persons of color had been content to remain in the South. The unexpected immigration of these Negroes into this section and the last bold effort made to drive them out marked epochs in their history in this city. The history of these people prior to the Civil War, therefore, falls into three periods, one of toleration from 1800 to 1826, one of persecution from 1826 to 1841, and one of amelioration from 1841 to 1861.
The Art & Science of Building Documentation
For over 20 years, Existing Conditions have helped professionals in the building industry implement solutions to some of the hardest problems they face, providing building documentation of superior quality - on-time and on-budget. Their experienced team upholds the highest standards for project planning and execution. The firm has scanned and modeled everything from Massachusetts General Hospital to Harvard Medical School, from the US Capitol to Carnegie Hall. Time and time again, their services have proven to save their clients time and money. Existing Conditions' core business is the creation of existing conditions surveys, drawings, and building information models. A veteran-owned firm, they document over 50 million square feet of space per year. By using the latest laser scanning technologies, proprietary workflows, and a highly trained staff, they have built an expansive portfolio of more than 10,000 buildings over the past 25 years. This book looks back over a quarter of a century of architectural expertise, documenting the firm's work on iconic and eye-catching buildings and demonstrating how valuable its staff's expertise in the field can be for architects, developers and individual clients.
Bookverse
Bookverse: X+Living Architecture and Interior Design tells the story of how the groundbreaking architect, designer and founder of X+Living, Li Xiang, revolutionized bookstores across China. Beginning with the now legendary Zhongshuge Bookstore in Shanghai, this bilingual edition in English and Chinese takes readers on a thrilling journey through dozens of stunning bookstores built over the past couple of decades all across China, showing how Xiang helped to breathe new life into an industry; brick and mortar bookstores, that was in crisis. Reimagining the bookstore experience, Xiang celebrates the traditional virtues of physical books while also accommodating the modern world, creating spaces that delight and enchant avid and casual readers alike. Each featured case study, lavishly illustrated with diagrams, plans and photography, shows how Li Xiang developed the bookstores from a core concept inspired by the project's location, implementing original and stunning designs, layouts, and furniture that lead browsers into a magical world. The texts also provide a revealing insight into the architect's underlying philosophy and the thinking that went into every work.
Fougeron Architecture
Throughout her distinguished, award-winning practice, Anne Fougeron has remained clear: architecture can change lives, and everyone deserves access to design's transformative potential. Since founding her eponymous firm in 1986, Fougeron has continuously expanded the reach of design excellence. Working with her small team, she crafts a diverse body of work united by her vision of humane modernism, architecture that engages the full range of people's lives and society's fundamental responsibilities in the language of today. Whether transforming a historic building into a vibrant nonprofit hub or weaving much needed affordable housing into a burgeoning downtown district, her designs reflect her deep embrace of architecture's larger social and environmental promise. This book explores Fougeron's practice and architectural career, featuring critical texts, in-depth examinations of the firm's most acclaimed projects, and stunning photography, diagrams, and graphic design.
Material Wonder
Fiona Lynch transforms the unyielding into the poetic. In her hands, the hardest materials--stone, metal, wood--become fluid, expressive, and alive. She sees worlds of possibility within them: the deep greens of forests and the shifting blues of the ocean within granite tiles, or the softness of liquid movement honed into creamy marble. What first appears as clean-lined minimalism reveals itself to be rich with layers of technique, texture and quiet complexity--spaces that evolve the longer you look, the longer you live within them.Named Design Anthology's Female Designer of the Year in 2021 and recognized by Architectural Digest Germany as one of the world's true design influencers, Fiona Lynch is renowned for her mastery of materiality and mood. Offering an intimate look at her process, where every project begins with deep research, sketching and an intuitive connection to materials, this monograph offers a rare glimpse into the visionary designer's world, where stone, metal, wood, and textiles are shaped into interiors of quiet complexity and lasting beauty.
Renato Maurizio Architekten
Founded in Maloja in 1981, the Renato Maurizio Architekten practice in the Val Bregaglia region designs buildings that are highly usable, with a strong connection to the location and great artisanal precision. Text in English and German. Founded in Maloja in 1981, the Renato Maurizio Architekten practice in the Val Bregaglia region designs buildings that are highly usable, with a strong connection to the location and great artisanal precision. The exterior and interior spaces combine with existing and new structures to form an unpretentious, harmonious unity. A prime example of the practice's work is a solid stone building from 1719 in Montaccio, Bregaglia, that interprets the Alpine building tradition in a respectful, contemporary way. Text in English and German.
The Last of the Old West
This is the story of the part played by the author in the utter transformation of a remote, beautiful and largely unspoiled Rocky Mountain ranching valley into a high-voltage, world-renowned mega-resort named 2014's Richest County in America.For thirty-four years, pretty much the middle half of his life, the author designed houses for other people. He was a "small-town architect." That's in quotes because, for openers, there's really no such thing as a small-town architect. Nobody in a small town thinks they need an architect, or if they do, they can't afford one. If their builder wants plans at all, he's either got a kid in the back room who did OK in high school drafting class or he'll hire the guy down at the lumber yard with the same credentials.Then, too, the place where he worked, although certainly small by almost any standard, was anything but your garden-variety small-town. His tenure there spanned the exact time during which it underwent a total transformation from the "Last of the Old West" to the "Best of the New." It was and still is quite a place.This is the story of the rise, and some would say fall, of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Grotesque Architecture; Or, Rural Amusement; Consisting Of Plans, Elevations, And Sections, For Huts, Retreats, Summer And Winter Hermitages, Terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, And Natural Grottos, Cascade
A forgotten manual of wonder resurrected Grotesque Architecture returns to print after decades of absence, lovingly restored by Alpha Editions for designers, collectors, and dreamers. Part pattern book, part Romantic imagination, this volume by William Wrighte presents 28 inventive architectural plans, elevations, and sections for rural amusement: summer and winter hermitages, Chinese and Gothic grottos, natural grottos design, cascades, baths, moresque pavilions, rustic seats and green houses. Each plate is paired with practical instruction on executing architectural designs using humble materials flint and stone structures, irregular stones, branches, and roots making it a rare handbook of both aesthetic daring and vernacular technique. Historically significant and delightfully eccentric, Grotesque Architecture captures an 18th 19th-century impulse to create theatrical, intimate landscapes that blur artifice and nature. This edition restores original engravings and explanatory text, adding careful preservation work so the visionary William Wrighte designs speak clearly to today s readers. Perfect for architects, landscape designers, classic literature collectors, and anyone curious about unique architectural retreats, this is more than a reprint it s a cultural treasure and collector s item. Whether you seek inspiration for rustic seats and green houses or study architectural elevations and sections as historical craft, this revived masterpiece offers practical guidance and poetic provocation in equal measure. Rediscover an eccentric classic of grotesque architecture and rural amusement, now reborn for future generations.
Disappearing Cities
A collection of over fifty short stories imagining cities destroyed by climate change and disasters, exploring adaptation, loss and the need for new ways of envisioning future responses to environmental challenges. Disappearing Cities is a collection of over fifty short stories of invented cities, set in the not too distant future, destroyed by varied climate change impacts and linked natural disasters. The stories bring into question the relation between the natural and unnatural forces of change and expose responses to, and lessons learnt, from different disaster crises situations. Stories also focus on how means to adapt are sought. The projected fictions are created from projected current climate facts; trends; and the author's experience of population displacement, relocation and design-based climate change responsive action. Central to the book is the recognition that to be able to respond and adapt to the scale of coming changes in the climate requires going beyond existing practical action and embracing a new way of imagining futures. Disappearing Cities aims to stimulate ways of meeting this need. The book opens with a Prologue that establishes the contextual frame of empirical foundation out of which the fictions are created. It recognises that we all live in a world in which the conditions that will result in huge numbers of cities disappearing are underway. From the human perspective, the process appears to be very slow, whereas in historico-geological time, it is happening exceptionally quickly. The number of the loss of cities is going to be huge, yet the recognition that this will occur is not arriving, In part, this is because of a lack of knowledge, but equally, it reflects a lack of imagination. Transposing what is known about climate change by a significant percentage of the societies of many nations to actual environments in which they live is just not arriving. What appears so solid and established fails to be seen and imagined as a risk and vulnerable. From establishing this opening perspective, the first part of the book presents stories of cities already disappearing as a result of the forces of nature changed by anthropogenically created global warming. Part two discusses the impacts of natural disasters being made unnaturally. For example, by the way industrial societies are damaging and changing natural systems, including the climatic. The final part goes to cities destroyed by completely un-natural means, including war. Disappearing Cities aims to contribute to meeting the need for a better understanding of, and ability to imagine, the risks to which vast numbers of cities are, and will be, exposed to forces of disappearance. To do this, the narratives are a hybrid of fact and fiction. The work was inspired by Italo Calvino's book Invisible Cities and is intended to be a salient contemporary companion to this text. It mirrors its form but differs in style and content. Invisible Cities attained diverse readership, Disappearing Cities aspires to do likewise.
Disappearing Cities
A collection of over fifty short stories imagining cities destroyed by climate change and disasters, exploring adaptation, loss and the need for new ways of envisioning future responses to environmental challenges. Disappearing Cities is a collection of over fifty short stories of invented cities, set in the not too distant future, destroyed by varied climate change impacts and linked natural disasters. The stories bring into question the relation between the natural and unnatural forces of change and expose responses to, and lessons learnt, from different disaster crises situations. Stories also focus on how means to adapt are sought. The projected fictions are created from projected current climate facts; trends; and the author's experience of population displacement, relocation and design-based climate change responsive action. Central to the book is the recognition that to be able to respond and adapt to the scale of coming changes in the climate requires going beyond existing practical action and embracing a new way of imagining futures. Disappearing Cities aims to stimulate ways of meeting this need. The book opens with a Prologue that establishes the contextual frame of empirical foundation out of which the fictions are created. It recognises that we all live in a world in which the conditions that will result in huge numbers of cities disappearing are underway. From the human perspective, the process appears to be very slow, whereas in historico-geological time, it is happening exceptionally quickly. The number of the loss of cities is going to be huge, yet the recognition that this will occur is not arriving, In part, this is because of a lack of knowledge, but equally, it reflects a lack of imagination. Transposing what is known about climate change by a significant percentage of the societies of many nations to actual environments in which they live is just not arriving. What appears so solid and established fails to be seen and imagined as a risk and vulnerable. From establishing this opening perspective, the first part of the book presents stories of cities already disappearing as a result of the forces of nature changed by anthropogenically created global warming. Part two discusses the impacts of natural disasters being made unnaturally. For example, by the way industrial societies are damaging and changing natural systems, including the climatic. The final part goes to cities destroyed by completely un-natural means, including war. Disappearing Cities aims to contribute to meeting the need for a better understanding of, and ability to imagine, the risks to which vast numbers of cities are, and will be, exposed to forces of disappearance. To do this, the narratives are a hybrid of fact and fiction. The work was inspired by Italo Calvino's book Invisible Cities and is intended to be a salient contemporary companion to this text. It mirrors its form but differs in style and content. Invisible Cities attained diverse readership, Disappearing Cities aspires to do likewise.
Br Design
BR Design was launched in 1985 to be a different type of design firm; their goals were different from many other firms by listening very carefully to their clients' desires and expectations. While some clients may complain that their "Designers don't listen," BR Design has always practiced design as a cooperative activity involving dialogue between designer and client, and especially intensive collaboration among the firm's designers. Michael Rait, ASID, founder and principal of BR Design, resembles many fellow designers in embracing aesthetics. He counts on artistic ability and sheer determination to pursue his passion.
Art Nouveau Architecture
Distinguished by their lavish sculpture, metalwork or tile facades, Art Nouveau buildings certainly stand out. Art Nouveau buildings are unique, audacious and inspirational. Rejecting historic styles, considered inappropriate for an era driven by progress, architects and designers sought a new vocabulary of architectural forms. Their vision was shaped by modern materials and innovative technologies, including iron, glass and ceramics. A truly democratic style, Art Nouveau transformed life on the eve of the twentieth century and still captivates our imaginations today. Beautifully illustrated, this book explains how the new style came into being, its rationale and why it is known by so many different names: French Art Nouveau, German Jugendstil, Viennese Secession, Catalan Modernisme, Italian Liberty and Portuguese Arte Nova. It covers the key architects and designers associated with the style; Victor Horta in Brussels, Hector Guimard in Paris, Antoni Gaudi on Barcelona, Otto Wagner in Vienna, Odon Lechner in Budapest and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow. There are detailed descriptions and stunning photographs of buildings to be found in Brussels, Paris, Nancy, Darmstadt, Vienna, Budapest, Barcelona, Milan, Turin and Aveiro. Finally, it covers the decorative arts, stained glass, tiles and metalwork that make Art Nouveau buildings so distinctive.
Scott Brownrigg: Architecture + Progression
For over a century, Scott Brownrigg has been at the forefront of architectural innovation, designing the spaces where we live, work, and learn. With studios across the UK and in the US as well as worldwide, the award-winning practice is renowned for its creative, client-focused, and environmentally responsible approach to architecture. This new book offers an in-depth look at the company's evolution, its design ethos, and the landmark projects that continue to push boundaries across sectors and continents. From large-scale masterplans and advanced science parks to cutting-edge workplaces and inspiring schools, the work of Scott Brownrigg reflects a unique blend of technical rigor, aesthetic sensitivity, and visionary thinking. Illustrated with high-quality photography, concept sketches, and detailed plans, this volume showcases the breadth and depth of the practice's portfolio. Chief Executive Darren Comber's introduction presents an insider's view of the collaborative processes and multidisciplinary thinking that drive Scott Brownrigg's work, from initial concept to completion. Essays and concise project texts explore notable buildings across a wide range of sectors: aviation, offices, interior design, business and science parks, rail, defense, education, residential, and mixed use. Each thematic chapter concludes with a 'Future Thinking' text that considers ways to address the complex challenges and opportunities ahead. Whether seeking to deliver urban regeneration, net-zero ambitions or future-ready infrastructure, the practice demonstrates a commitment to shaping a better built environment. Scott Brownrigg: Architecture + Progression is both a celebration of the firm's achievements and a forward-looking vision for the future of architecture in a changing world. Celebrates over 100 years of history of the internationally acclaimed architecture practice Scott BrownriggCombines over 40 project texts and eight essays on the practice's key sectors, including aviation, offices, defense, and business and science parks'Future Thinking' texts explore the opportunities and challenges in the years aheadIncludes over 25 sketches and plans alongside more than 130 photographs
Working with Color
Farben kombinieren Farben geben R瓣umen eine unverwechselbare Atmosph瓣re, ein gelungenes Farbkonzept macht den Unterschied. Die richtige und individuell passende Farbkombination f羹r die vielf瓣ltigen Aufgaben im Innen- und Au?enbereich zu finden, ist eine gro?e Herausforderung. Das Buch bietet eine Entscheidungshilfe f羹r wohltuende Raumkonzepte, aber auch f羹r alle anderen Gestaltungsaufgaben, die gute Farbkonzepte erfordern. Es stellt Farbkombinationen vor, die ausgewogen sind und ein breites Spektrum von Kontrastwerten abdecken. Ein farblich neutrales Wei? ist die Hauptfarbe, zarthelle Graut繹ne bis Anthrazit-, Holz- und Betonfarben die dazu passenden Zweitfarben. Darauf aufbauend finden Gestalter: innen warme und k羹hle, helle, kaum bunte bis bunte Kombinationen, die zu jeder modernen Gestaltung passen. 400 Farbkombinationen zusammengestellt von der Farbexpertin Katrin Trautwein Ein wichtiges Tool im handlichen Format f羹r Architekt: innen, Studierende der Architektur, Raumplaner: innen, Innenarchitekt: innen, Gestalter: innen Aus gewohnten Mustern ausbrechen und neue Farbkombinationen entdecken.
Michael Rait
BR Design was launched in 1985 to be a different type of design firm; their goals were different from many other firms by listening very carefully to their clients' desires and expectations. While some clients may complain that their "Designers don't listen," BR Design has always practiced design as a cooperative activity involving dialogue between designer and client, and especially intensive collaboration among the firm's designers. Michael Rait, ASID, founder and principal of BR Design, resembles many fellow designers in embracing aesthetics. He counts on artistic ability and sheer determination to pursue his passion.
The Stonebuilder's Primer
Writer Charles Long has a well-earned reputation as one of North America's self-sufficiency experts. More than 20 years ago, he and his wife, Elizabeth, fled city life and conventional employment for the country, and have flourished there ever since. Now back by popular demand Long's The Stonebuilder's Primer is a highly readable account of the couple's successful effort to build "a house that will outlast anything made of wood." Developing a compromise method of stone construction that is both simpler and truer to the stonemason's art than the popular slipform method, the Longs built an aesthetically satisfying home of stone on a limited budget and no previous construction experience. In this classic how-to book, the author describes the complete building process in clear, easy-to-follow steps and, in so doing, dispels the myth of difficulty that surrounds stone construction.
Arbiters of Style
From the discerning editors of FREDERIC and the creative minds at Schumacher, a beautifully photographed and written exploration of an exciting new movement in French interior design and architecture, featuring visionary talentsSomething extraordinary is happening in French interior design. Like the cinematic sea change that gave us the New Wave, the next generation of designers and architects is breaking with the past to forge something entirely fresh - a movement that feels as significant as it is seductive, as trailblazing as it is sensually refined.From rising stars like Hugo Toro and Marine Bonnefoy to established names like Jacques Grange and Jean-Louis Deniot, the twenty-one French designers in Arbiters of Style are leading a bold new charge in the decorative arts: fluent in architecture, but fluent in feeling, too; refreshingly unafraid of color; obsessed with sculptural form; and confident enough to let a single perfect gesture speak volumes. They are proving that the most profound luxury isn't about having more - it's about knowing exactly what to leave out.Lushly illustrated with nearly 200color photographs, this stunning survey showcases inspiring interiors in private residences across France, from Paris and Ormesson-sur-Marne to far-flung holiday locales such as Cap Ferret, the Pyrenees, Biarritz, ?le de R矇, and Saint-Tropez.This is more than a snapshot of French style - it is elegance and sophistication reimagined by interior designers and architects who think like artists and artists who understand structure, it is a cadre of talent rewriting the rules. In an era when design feels caught between maximalist excess and beige-washed banality, these spaces represent an aesthetic reawakening, a burst of creativity that seems light-years ahead of everything else, reminding us that true style isn't about following rules - it's about having the vision to shatter them beautifully.
Bali: Sustainable Visions
With its tropical beauty, rich spirituality, and traditional arts, the island of Bali has drawn to its shores an international tribe of artists, designers, and creative entrepreneurs. Now, as Bali faces the ecological challenges arising from mass tourism and rapid economic development, this visionary tribe has led the way in creating a new kind of environmentally sustainable tropical style, based in natural materials--bamboo, thatch, wood, stone, even mud--and inspired by vernacular forms. In Bali: Sustainable Visions, Isabella Ginanneschi's gorgeous, light-filled photographs take us inside more than two dozen homes, resorts, and businesses on Bali as well as other islands of the Indonesian archipelago that have begun to attract Bali's design pioneers. In wide-ranging interviews, the creators of these unique spaces reveal how they have harmonized their visions with nature, even while maintaining the highest degree of elegance, luxury, and individuality. This new edition of Bali: Sustainable Visions is updated to include the latest creations of the island's design community. It will be an essential sourcebook and an inspiration for anyone with an interest in environmentally conscious design.
Big Atlas
The first comprehensive monograph focusing on the built work of BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, one of the most innovative and creative architecture practices working today For over two decades, the pioneering, multidisciplinary Danish firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group has created a wide range of projects that give form to the future, standing out for their bold-yet-practical forms, elements of surprise, and people-focused solutions. BIG Atlas offers an ambitious and all-encompassing survey of more than fifty completed projects from around the world, from an energy plant topped with a ski slope and a LEGO Museum that seems to be made out of the famous bricks to the firm's own recently completed Copenhagen headquarters. Spanning a rich variety of typologies, scales, and materials, the featured projects are brought to life through more than 600 photographs, plans, and drawings. Presented together for the first time, they trace BIG's transformation into fully integrated design, synthesizing the fields of architecture, interiors, landscape, engineering, planning, and product design to advance more sustainable ways of living within our environments while simultaneously raising the quality of our lives. Beautifully designed, oversized, and spanning more than 500 pages, this definitive monograph captures the groundbreaking work of a visionary firm.
The Unfinished Metropolis
Consider your surroundings. Maybe you're in a house or in an apartment building. Maybe you're at a desk in an office building, or in a caf矇 looking out on a lively main street. The urban landscape is not simply the backdrop to your life. It determines, to a remarkable degree, what kind of life you're able to live. Today, the horizons of American life are constrained by a built environment that has not significantly changed since the 1970s. American cities used to constantly evolve, experimenting with new urban designs and ambitious infrastructure projects, from railroads and subways to public housing and shopping malls. But now we keep pursuing the same 20th century urban development plans--freeways, downtown office towers, suburban housing developments. This pattern is why Americans are so dependent on their cars, why housing is so expensive and homelessness is at crisis levels, and why downtowns are struggling and communities are fraying. In The Unfinished Metropolis, Benjamin Schneider argues that city-building is a lost art. We need to embrace new transportation technologies, new types of housing, new ways to use streets other than for cars and parking. In this insightful and entertaining tour of the built environment, Schneider explores common urban designs that shape our lives and color our cultural imagination: office parks, apartments, single family homes, and transit systems. He explains how these forms came to be, why they no longer function as promised, and introduces readers to the advocates and professionals around the country who are working on transformative new solutions. Learning from past mistakes, we can remake our cities and create better lives for ourselves and future generations.
Creating a New Home in Mallorca
"Creating a New Home in Mallorca" takes the reader into the world of renovation and creative transformation of a historic house in Felanitx, Mallorca. This opulent illustrated book documents the creative process of the bestselling author and top designer, who took on the challenge of transforming a dilapidated 600 m簡 building that had been uninhabited for more than 40 years into a modern, functional home.The renovation began in 2022 and was completed in 2024. Malene Birger herself and renowned photographer Jean Marie Del Moral documented this fascinating process. The book combines aesthetically pleasing photographs with personal insights, giving the reader an intimate perspective on Birger's vision and creative approach. It highlights not only the challenges of the renovation, but also the innovative symbiosis of tradition and modernity that shapes the character of the house."Creating a New Home in Mallorca" is a source of inspiration for anyone who wants to redesign their own living spaces. At a time when sustainability and individual design are becoming increasingly important, this illustrated book offers valuable inspiration. The artistic fusion of cultural influences, contemporary design and the Mediterranean way of life is reflected in every detail of the house. The rooms, furniture and works of art tell stories and create a harmonious interplay between inside and outside.The book invites you to understand the creative process as a personal expression. The innovative combination of colors, textures and shapes creates an atmosphere that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing. Lovers of design, art and Mediterranean culture will find what they are looking for here - a must for anyone who appreciates the art of renovation and modern interior design.
Preserving with Purpose
While prominent buildings like Notre Dame in Paris rise from the ashes, historic buildings in disinvested communities are lost at an alarming rate. The resulting holes in the fabric of the community are not only a loss of structures, but of the stories and the embedded possibilities that the buildings represent. In Preserving with Purpose: Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit, architect Amy Hetletvedt unfolds a revolutionary-but-simple vision for re-thinking building conservation in vulnerable communities. It begins with the question: what can be done now--in circumstances or communities when restoration is not wholly fundable, not possible, or potentially not even desirable? Hetletvedt explores contextual approaches to existing buildings in disinvested communities as an alternative to demolition, explains why these buildings matter, and what communities and professionals can make of them, together. Preserving With Purpose features profiles and case studies from around the world. Four profiles focus on places facing the challenges of vacancy and abandonment which have, over time, reimagined buildings using the approaches described in the book. The profiles include Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas; The Dorchester Projects and Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago, Illinois; Menokin in Warsaw, Virginia and the Granby Four Streets in Liverpool, England. Fifteen case studies cover a broader geographic range and are organized into three purposeful interventions: priority, practical and poetic . Professionals and community members are encouraged to approach historic buildings creatively and collaboratively; to invest in strategic mending that not only addresses buildings but benefits communities. Preserving with Purpose is a compelling invitation into the beautiful and fruitful middle-ground between ruin and restoration.
