#books #architecture | Robert L. Thompson : TVA Architects

Robert L. Thompson : TVA Architects / Robert L Thompson ; introduction by Randy Grass ; foreword by Michael J.Crosbie.
Mulgrave, Victoria : Images Publishing, 2022.
462 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Estados Unidos / TVA Architects

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781864709131
Cita APA-7: Thompson, Robert L. (2022). Robert L. Thompson : tva architects. Images Publishing.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72TVA ROB
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1335111044

[.en] Robert L. Thompson, FAIA, is the founder and lead design principal of the Portland-based firm TVA Architects, a firm that has built a foundation of collaboration, innovation, and conservation through beautiful design. He is responsible for the design of many of the most prominent buildings throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. TVA creatively transforms their clients needs and aspirations into elegantly understated works of meaningful architecture, meticulously detailed and impeccably crafted. The projects documented in this book coincide with the fortieth anniversary of this celebrated architect and his body of work as a designer and innovator.

He founded TVA Architects in 1984 and built an internationally recognised practice, starting in the Pacific Northwest. In 1993, at the age of thirty-nine, Thompson was the youngest architect in America to be inducted into the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows for his contribution to the profession. Thompson and TVA Architects have been honored with scores of local, national, and international awards for excellence in design. His projects have ranged from major corporate campuses, high-rise office towers and condominium towers, sports and recreational facilities, retail and cultural projects as well as multi- and single-family residences. This lavishly illustrated monograph, filled with full-colour photography and detailed plans, forms a compilation of select work that celebrates Thompson’s influence across architecture over several decades.

#books #architecture | Architecture China : fall 2020 Architecture China Award

Architecture China : fall 2020 Architecture China Award / editor-in-chief, Li Xiangning.
New York, NY : The Images Publishing Group, ACC Art Books, 2021.
175 p. : il.
Serie: Architecture China ; 3.
/ EN / Libros / Catálogos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – China / Arquitectura - Concursos

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781864709056
Cita APA-7: Xiangning, Li (ed.) (2021). Architecture China : fall 2020 Architecture China Award. Images Publishing Group, ACC Art Books.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.092 ARC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1322189735

[.en] This issue, ‘Fall 2020, Building with Nature: Architecture China Award’, is a catalogue of the award, one of the most prestigious architectural awards in China. Organised by Architecture China, it embraces the concept of building with nature proposed by the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Wang Shu. There are four categories: Excellence Award in Practice, Exploration Award in Techniques, Prospect Award for Youth, and Jury Special Award. The evaluation committee members of the award include Wang Shu, Cui Kai, Yung Ho Chang, Li Xiangning, Ge Ming, Wang Lu, Aric Chen, Ching-Yueh Roan, Benedetta Tagliabue, Iwan Baan and Philip Ursprung.

#books #architecture | Living in the 21st century

Living in the 21st century / editor in chief, Jiang Wu.
New York, NY : The Images Publishing Group/ACC Art Books, 2021.
112 p. : il.
Serie: Architecture Asia.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Asia / Arquitectura doméstica / Edificios públicos

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781864709162
Cita APA-7: Wu, Jiang (ed.) (2022). Living in the 21st century. Images Publishing Group/ACC Art Books.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.038(5) LIV
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1322439386 

[.en] Architecture Asia, as the official journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia, aims to provide a forum not only for presenting Asian phenomena and their characteristics to the world but also for understanding diversity and multiculturalism within Asia from a global perspective. In the 21st century, Asia has been developed fast in the wave of globalization, and the living and urban environment are changing rapidly along with the economic development. In this process, many Asian cities are carrying out large-scale urban infrastructure construction in the process of rapid urbanization, and building a large number of iconic buildings that represent the characteristics of the country or city. This issue focuses on Living in the 21st Century, through three perspectives: the transformation of spatial functions, the contradiction between urban development and individual dwelling, and architecture in the age of self-media.

#books #architecture | An American renaissance : beaux-arts architecture in New York City

An American renaissance : beaux-arts architecture in New York City / Phillip James Dodd ; photography by Jonathan Wallen ; foreword by Julian Fellowes ; essay by Richard Guy Wilson.
Melbourne [etc.] : Images Publishing Group, 2021.
412 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XIX – Estados Unidos / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Nueva York (N.Y.)

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781864706819
Cita APA-7: Dodd, Phillip James (2021). An american renaissance : beaux-arts architecture in New York City. Images Publishing Group.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.036(73) ANA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1310410204

[.en] The Gilded Age, also referred to as the American Renaissance, is an era associated with unparalleled growth, technological advancement, prosperity, and cultural change. Spanning from the 1870s to the 1930s, it marks the first time that the titans of American finance and industry had more wealth than their European counterparts. As the centre of this dynamic economy, New York City attracted immigrant workers and millionaires alike. It was not enough for the self-appointed elite to just build their own grand châteaux and palazzos along Fifth Avenue―collectively they dreamed of creating a new metropolis to rival the great cultural capitals of London, Paris, and Rome. To flaunt their newly acquired wealth they needed an architecture dripping in embellishment and historical reference. Enter the Beaux-Arts.

This book, which has been painstakingly researched and beautifully photographed over many years, takes a close look at 20 of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City. While showing public exteriors, its focus is on the lavish interiors that are associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age―often providing a glimpse inside buildings not otherwise viewable to the public. While some of the buildings and monuments featured are world-renowned landmarks recognisable and accessible to all, others are obscure buildings that history has forgotten.

Set amid the magnificent achievements of an American Renaissance, this book recounts not only the fascinating stories of some of New York’s most famous and significant Beaux-Arts landmarks, it also recalls the lives of those who commissioned, designed, and built them. These are some of the most acclaimed architects, artists, and artisans of the day―Daniel Chester French, Cass Gilbert, Charles McKim, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Stanford White―and some of the most prominent millionaires in American history―Henry Clay Frick, Jay Gould, Otto Kahn, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and the ubiquitous Astor and Vanderbilt families. Names that―as Julian Fellowes (the acclaimed director of Downton Abbey) notes in the Foreword―“still reek of money.”

#books #architecture | David Hovey

David Hovey / Cheryl Kent (Ed.) ; contributions by Helmut Jahn and Alex Marshall.
Mulgrave, Victoria : Images Publishing Group, 2007.
503 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Estados Unidos / Arquitectura doméstica – Estados Unidos

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781864709025
Cita APA-7: Kent, Cheryl (ed.) (2021). David Hovey. Images Publishing Group.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72HOVEY DAV

[.en] This beautifully illustrated monograph chronicles the architecture of David C. Hovey, FAIA, and his influence on the discipline, as well as the story of his life and career. David Hovey founded Optima in 1978, with the goal of reinventing multifamily housing by combining development and design in a single company. Over the forty-plus years the company has existed, Hovey has built nearly 6,000 residential units. In the process, he has elevated the design of a building type that has, with a few exceptions, been left to developers to produce indifferent work. He challenges the market with something better, something worthy of enfolding families and individuals. Hovey is a modernist, steadfast in his belief in the future, in technology, in material honesty, in structural expression, and in architecture’s ability to improve the lives of people. His work has captured attention, winning critical acclaim as well as many national and regional awards for architecture. The dozen representative projects in this book range from single-family homes to towers and from the company’s early years to the present. Also showcased is Hovey’s work as an abstract sculptor, whose monumental work is installed at some of the multifamily projects examined here. A serious art collector of mostly twentieth-century art, Hovey’s acquisitions are detailed in an illustrated catalog at the end of the book.

#books #architecture | Kengo Kuma : topography

Kengo Kuma : topography.
Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia [etc.] : The Images Publishing Group, 2020.
296 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Japón / Kengo Kuma 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781864708455
Cita APA-7: Kuma, Kengo (2020). Kengo Kuma : topography. Images Publishing Group.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72KUMA KEN
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1252202637

[.en] Kengo Kuma is a globally acclaimed Japanese architect whose prodigious output possesses an inherent respect and value of materials and environment, often creating a harmonious balance between building and landscape. He masterfully engages both architectural experimentation and traditional Japanese design with twenty-first-century technology, resulting in highly advanced yet beautifully simple, gentle, human-scaled buildings. He's renowned for the drive to search for new materials to replace concrete and steel, seeking a new approach for architecture in a post-industrial society, and fusing interior and exterior realms to make spaces that both create a calming and tranquil atmosphere and which "transform" topography. In the pages of this exquisitely illustrated volume, Kuma presents close to forty of his most recognized and award-winning works, including FRAC Marseille, V&A Dundee, Mont-Blanc Base Camp, and Japan National Stadium. Kuma continues to forge a new design language: in this book he offers the reader deep insight into how he has engaged with different aspects of the architectural discipline by transforming topography, construction, and representation in order to give further progress to his ideas.

#books #architecture | Brick stone metal wood : building on tradition

Brick stone metal wood : building on tradition / introduction, Carlos García Fernández, Begoña de Abajo Castrillo.
Mulgrave [etc.] : Images Publishing Group Pty, 2019.
256 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Construcción – Materiales / Construcción de ladrillo / Construcción de madera / Piedra de construcción

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781864708370
Cita APA-7: García Fernández, Carlos, & Abajo Castrillo, Begoña de (2019). Brick stone metal wood : building on tradition. Images Publishing Group Pty.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-691 BRI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1160192291

[.en] The buildings of the past were constructed with readily available and local materials, such as stone, wood, or handmade bricks. Architects in the modern era, however, can choose from an ever increasing number of new materials, each one allowing for different advances in design. And yet the traditional materials have never been entirely supplanted; they still form an important part of the architectural range and are still used by architects the world over. The humble brick, for example, has remained a constant throughout the history of architecture, as has timber with its flexibility and warm tones. But today such elements can be used in conjunction with newer materials to highlight their natural beauty in many different ways: creating a stunning metal facade, wrapping a building with a cool, sleek stone finish, designing a wall with an eye-catching interesting texture, or adding depth or warmth to an internal design. Traditional metals are also finding new use, being employed to coat a structure in a light metal skin that reflects the sunlight, or embedded onto a building to add interest and texture. This book journeys through a curated selection of stunning examples from across the world, showcasing how each material is creatively used over a diverse range of building types and styles, and illustrating the myriad possibilities and forms available to the modern architect who chooses to rework these age-old materials into a brand-new decorative yet functional form.

#books #architecture | Solace in nature : homes that blend with the landscape

Solace in nature : homes that blend with the landscape / [Robert Swatt].
Australia: Images publishing Group P., 2020.
239 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura doméstica / Casas individuales

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781864708448
Cita APA-7: Swatt, Robert (2020). Solace in nature : homes that blend with the landscape. Images publishing Group P.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.3 SOL
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1159680990

[.en] This book is a treatise on how to reconnect people with nature through contemporary architecture and design. Solace in Nature is about finding solace within the landscape in the bluffs, mountains, hills, woodlands, forests, bushland reserves or hinterlands without eschewing the mode of luxury living associated with sophisticated design elegance and innovative architectural features. Showcasing dozens of new, innovative architectural styles and interiors, these captivating and beautifully designed homes have taken indoor/outdoor living to a whole new level, blending architecture seamlessly into the surrounding vistas without resorting to architectural cliché. Each design documents the importance of place, engages context with climate, and offers residents with spaces that cater to different modes of family living, all the while being integrated organically within spectacularly dramatic yet serene settings.

#books #architecture | New Houses in Asia : inspired architecture and interiors for the modern world

New Houses in Asia : inspired architecture and interiors for the modern world / [introduction, Terence Tan].
Mulgrave, Victoria : Images Publishing, 2020.
256 p. : principalmente il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Asia / Arquitectura doméstica / Casas individuales

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781864708639
Cita APA-7: Tan, Terence (2020). New houses in Asia : inspired architecture and interiors for the modern world. Images Publishing.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.3 NEW
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1199055263

[.en] Designing modern homes across the Asia region comes with many different and varied challenges, from extreme heat and humidity, to cyclonic rain and winds, and even snow and earthquakes. This stunning edition showcases recent award-winning designs for houses in Asia, with details of how each architect met the various challenges faced, and how they responded to the various requirements imposed by the site's environment or local culture. Beautifully presented with full-colour images of award-winning architecture, the selection of houses provides a wealth of information: from how to design a multi-generation home to best practice for keeping the interior cool during the heat. This curated list of the best new and contemporary examples of modern designer houses in Asia charts important trends in modernity while providing an important guide to how architects meet the challenges, and forming an important reference guide.

#books #architecture | Details in design

Details in design / edited by Joseph Boschetti.
Mulgrave, Victoria : Images, 2006.
216 p. : il.
ISBN 9781920744281
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Detalles / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Decoración y ornamentación arquitectónica
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.04 DET
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/928512434

Extensive research by Images over several years revealed the need for comprehensive easy-to-follow guide to architectural details. Details in Design is the latest edition in Images' Details series. Featuring the work of many of the world's most influential and dynamic architectural practices, the sixth volume in this series continues the trusted format of the earlier editions. Projects are presented with superb full-colour photography and drawings that place details within the context of the overall design. This latest edition features Foster and Partners, Renzo Piano, Claudio Silvestrin, Gregotti Associati International, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, LS3P, EEA Erick Van Egeraat, Fox & Fowle, Studio Downie and Rafael Vinoly, among other influential firms. Commercial, residential, institutional and retail projects are all included.

#books #architecture | Krueck - Sexton : from there to here

Krueck - Sexton : from there to here / Krueck & Sexton Architects ; with an introduction by John Morris Dixon.
Mulgrave, Victoria : Images Publishing, 2017.
271 p. : il.
ISBN 9781864707403
Arquitectura Siglo XX Estados Unidos.
Arquitectura Siglo XXI Estados Unidos.
Krueck-Sexton.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72KRUECK-SEXTON KRU
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1055601991

Chicago firm Krueck + Sexton Architects has made its mark with designs that draw from classic modernism as well as from current architectural discourse. Partners Ron Krueck and Mark Sexton both studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where they were steeped in the pure modernism of Mies van der Rohe. From this foundation, they developed a distinctive visual language influenced by art as much as by architecture, as evidenced in their impeccably designed and constructed buildings. As Krueck and Sexton write in the introduction: "The path of our work was advanced by the making of our work. It established the understanding of the connections the space that was required between the parts and delineated the proportion and scale." This oversize volume covers the full 40 years of the firm's work. It includes 22 projects, from the seminal Steel and Glass House to the enormously popular Crown Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park, to a 375,000-square-foot federal office building in Florida.

#books #architecture | Cheng Taining Architecture

Cheng Taining Architecture.
Images, Mulgrave, Victoria : 2017.
644 p. : il.
Colección: The Master Architect Series.
ISBN 9781864707083
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- China.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- China.
Cheng, Taining, 1935-
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72CHENG CHE
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1880423~S1*spi

This stunning monograph showcases 57 specially selected works from Cheng Taining's illustrious career, which spans nearly 60 years. His portfolio extends to more than 150 projects, many of which have won prizes and significant acclaim, such as the Beijing Great Hall of People and the Bridge Tower of Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. Richly illustrated throughout, the works are grouped under three key themes: "Boundaries", "Artistic Conception", and "Language", and provide a vivid articulation of Cheng Taining's creativity and leadership. 

Recently Cheng Taining headed the research for 'The Present and Future of Architectural Design in Contemporary China and Research of Policy Measures to Improve Architectural Design,' which are highly regarded as significant contributions to the development of Chinese architectural design and policy strategy. Cheng has published five collections of ‘Cheng Taining's Architectural Works’; his work has also featured in documentaries, essays, and anthologies. This book adds to that incredible canon. Cheng Taining Architecture is a magnificent addition to Images' successful ‘Master Architect Series’ and provides a comprehensive overview of one of China's most celebrated architects.

#books #architecture | Swatt-Miers : 30 projects

Swatt-Miers : 30 projects / introduction by Russell Abraham.
Images, Mulgrave, Victoria : 2017.
255 p. : il. / Bibliogr.: p. 245-251
ISBN 9781864706871
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Estados Unidos
Movimiento Moderno (Arquitectura)
Swatt-Miers Architects
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72SWATT-MIERS SWA
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1877213~S1*spi

This new monograph of the work of Bay Area based, internationally acclaimed Swatt | Miers Architects features 30 exciting new projects, including 20 new homes, covering the prolific decade between 2006 and 2016. This 10-year period has seen the work of Swatt | Miers expand into different regions of California, including the Central Valley, the Northern California wine country, and Los Angeles; different states, including Hawaii and Colorado; and other regions of the world, including Canada, India and Spain. Designed from the inside out, the constant threads that pervade the work include strong relationships of architecture to land, open planning for informal living, and dissolving the boundary between inside and outside... all designed to be as beautiful to live in as to behold. This volume showcases this firm's award-winning projects and recent accomplishments in glorious full colour, and is replete with insightful and engaging commentary across the monograph's extraordinary collection of international works.

#books #architecture | Centerbrook. 4, Jefferson B. Riley, Mark Simon, Chad Floyd, Jim Childress

Centerbrook. 4, Jefferson B. Riley, Mark Simon, Chad Floyd, Jim Childress / edited by John Morris Dixon.
Images, Mulgrave, Victoria : 2017.
XI, 424 p. : il.
ISBN 9781864706949
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Estados Unidos.
Centerbrook Architects
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72CENTERBROOK CEN
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1871801~S1*spi

Centerbrook was conceived in 1975 as a community of architects working together to advance American place-making and the craft of building. Recipients of the AIA Firm Award, they are entering their fifth decade of designing buildings across the country. This stunning new monograph, edited by John Dixon, FAIA, illustrates in full-color the wide range of projects completed throughout the last decade. In typical fashion of their sophisticated style and exercise in clarity, the in-depth texts and richly illustrated images communicate an indomitable focus on the architectural context of their ideas that are accessible to all. There is visual poetry in the work to be sure, but the book provides critical, concise and insightful descriptions of where the design ideas germinate. The reader will be engaged and informed by the way the shapes, materials, and details of these buildings are configured, and have a clear understanding of the works. 

The book's title, ‘Centerbrook 4’, represents their fourth book on architecture, four decades of practice, and the four current partners - Jeff Riley, Chad Floyd, Mark Simon, Jim Childress - who are each recognized as AIA Fellows, in design. This wonderful new volume also showcases a range of projects currently in development by the firm's next generation of designers.

#books #architecture | Enrique Browne : bringing nature back to architecture = devolviendo la naturaleza a la arquitectura

Enrique Browne : bringing nature back to architecture = devolviendo la naturaleza a la arquitectura / [Enrique Browne].
Images, Mulgrave, Victoria : 2016.
287 p. : il.
Texto en inglés y español.
ISBN 9781864705713
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Chile.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Chile.
Browne, Enrique, 1942-
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72BROWNE ENR 
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1849955~S1*spi

This highly anticipated monograph focuses on the architectural output of Enrique Browne, a talented and prolific Chilean architect and co-founder of Browne & Swett Arquitectos, based in Santiago. Over the last 40 years, this South American architect has been trying to reconcile natural and artificial worlds through architecture. They are one indissoluble unity. This book showcases in rich photographic detail how his innovative projects incorporate multiple environmental aspects that result in a complex, layered response to the challenges of place, form and identity in Chile. Browne's practice has developed architectural designs in a diverse range of scales, with emphasis on sustainability and energy efficiency. This volume delves into Browne's processes, such as developing variations of the grapevinestructure typology to create a double green skin as a green wall (or roof), to protect dwellings from the region's strong westerly sun; or combining vegetation and its oxygenation benefits with building to counter pollution; or using both artificial and natural light as a material for illuminating spaces or volume. This book also includes commentary on the new zeitgeist surrounding modernity and the impacts of the digital and globalized world on architecture today. Highly regarded, and a prolific writer and designer, Enrique Browne has a unique way of looking at the world. Showcasing the wide range of his design, this title is sure to impress.

#books #lansscape | Modern urban landscapes : creating energy-efficient designs

Modern urban landscapes : creating energy-efficient designs / edited by Martin Coyle.
Images, Mulgrave, Victoria : 2017.
247 p. : il.
ISBN 9781864706574
Arquitectura del paisaje.
Jardines -- Arquitectura.
Urbanismo -- Aspecto del medio ambiente.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-712.3 MOD
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1871898~S1*spi

SMART Landscape is a significant contribution to the conversation on sustainable landscape design, providing energy efficient models and water saving landscape ideas. There are many factors that would help realize energy efficient landscapes, including (but not limited to) the use of energy saving lamps, such as LED; the integration and adoption of renewable energy, including solar-powered and wind-powered landscape lighting; energy-efficient landscape design, particularly through the correct placement and selection of shade trees, and the creation of wind breaks. This book shows techniques for creating landscapes that also save water, for example by choosing correct planting materials; reducing stormwater run-off through the use of bio-swales, rain gardens and green roofs and walls; reducing water usage in landscapes through best-practice water-wise garden techniques, including irrigation using gray water. Permeable paving materials can also help to reduce stormwater runoff and allow rainwater to infiltrate into the ground and replenish groundwater rather than run into surface water systems.