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      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        February 2018

        Ideal homes, 1918–39

        Domestic design and suburban Modernism

        by Deborah Sugg Ryan, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman

        This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic. It investigates the ways in which new suburban class and gender identities were forged in the architecture, design and decoration of the home, through choices such as ebony elephants placed on mantelpieces and modern Easiwork dressers in kitchens. Ultimately, it argues that a specifically suburban modernism emerged, which looked to both past and future for inspiration. Thus the interwar 'ideal' home was both a retreat from the outside world and a site of change and experimentation. The book also examines how the interwar home is lived in today. It will appeal to academics and students in design and social and cultural history, as well as a wider readership curious about interwar homes.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        February 2018

        Ideal homes, 1918–39

        Domestic design and suburban Modernism

        by Deborah Sugg Ryan, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman

        This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic. It investigates the ways in which new suburban class and gender identities were forged in the architecture, design and decoration of the home, through choices such as ebony elephants placed on mantelpieces and modern Easiwork dressers in kitchens. Ultimately, it argues that a specifically suburban modernism emerged, which looked to both past and future for inspiration. Thus the interwar 'ideal' home was both a retreat from the outside world and a site of change and experimentation. The book also examines how the interwar home is lived in today. It will appeal to academics and students in design and social and cultural history, as well as a wider readership curious about interwar homes.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        February 2018

        Ideal homes, 1918–39

        Domestic design and suburban Modernism

        by Deborah Sugg Ryan, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman

        This book focuses on the housebuilding boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners. It investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of interwar homes then and now. It argues that these 'ideal' homes combine nostalgia for the past and longing for the future resulting in a new specifically suburban modernism.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        February 2018

        Ideal homes, 1918–39

        Domestic design and suburban Modernism

        by Deborah Sugg Ryan, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman

        This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic. It investigates the ways in which new suburban class and gender identities were forged in the architecture, design and decoration of the home, through choices such as ebony elephants placed on mantelpieces and modern Easiwork dressers in kitchens. Ultimately, it argues that a specifically suburban modernism emerged, which looked to both past and future for inspiration. Thus the interwar 'ideal' home was both a retreat from the outside world and a site of change and experimentation. The book also examines how the interwar home is lived in today.

      • Trusted Partner
        Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
        February 2017

        The factory in a garden

        A history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age

        by Helena Chance. Series edited by Christopher Breward

        When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a Garden' which traces the history of a factory gardens movement from its late-eighteenth century beginnings in Britain to its twenty-first century equivalent in Google's vegetable gardens at their headquarters in California. The book is the first study of its kind examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure facilities for factories in Britain and America as a model for the reshaping of the corporate environment in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices.

      • Trusted Partner
        Architectural structure & design
        April 2018

        Movable Architecture

        A Design Guide to Container Reuse

        by Ross Gilbert

        After the book, Modern Container Architecturer, was published, the new book Movable Architecture, has come into the world giving impetus to make our national circumstances become a world of less carbon by reforming the structure containers , by reducing the cost and conducing the quality of environment  protection. This book displays over forty ideas of special container building. From the pictures and illustrations of the items, we know about the beauty of the senic spot, the literary works and the techniques of how to build all kinds of containers. Besides this book provides us with the guidance and the practical techniques to build containers. This is of higher economic value and spiritual value.

      • Trusted Partner
        Architectural structure & design
        September 2016

        Modern Container Architecture

        by Aidan Hart

        As one of the sustained buildings, containers are widely used in many countries. The reason why containers come into use in such a vast range is that the cost of container building is controllable and is good for environment protection, and especially the recircled containers should cost less money and be better for environment protection, so that container building is applied in construction industy. All kinds of franchised stores of containers, art galleries, dwellings and container art exhibitions appear everywhere. We attribute achievements to the architects and artists. In the recent years, the ideas, the work and the samples of containers spread all the places in China. There are many fine and beautiful pictures and illustrations of  container designs in the book showing how wonderful the containers are. Mainwhile the book delivers techniques to build and repair containers. This is a conference book with its full and accurate account of the matter.

      • Trusted Partner
        Architectural structure & design
        July 2016

        Escape

        Designing the Modern Guest House

        by Qi Shanshan

        Guest House are good places for people to spend their holidays. Forty-three folk hostels built by different architects and artists in places over the world includung the hostels transformed from the old, new hostels of art, collective hostels for peasants and the hostels in villa style. They are attractive and touching because they are full of temperament and taste in design and building, and spacious and visional effect. The structure of each hostel described in the book is unique and so as to the position, the environment, the moving lines, the materials and the culture of the erea.

      • Trusted Partner
        Architectural structure & design
        April 2017

        Another Escape

        Designing the Modern Guest House II

        by Stefan Camenzind, Yao Liang

        Guest House are the hotels which are attractive to travellers. The construction of folk hostels is developing rapidly in recent years. Staying in the folk hostels, travellers have chances to talk with the masters of the hostels, learn something about the social custom in the convesation. Folk hostels told in the book make the travellers enjoy themseves so much as to forget to go away from them because of nature, the geographical situation and the natural situation. There are many fine and beautiful pictures and blueprints for project, which are good for those who are employed in the service trade.

      • Trusted Partner
        Architectural structure & design
        September 2018

        Romantic Escape

        Designing the Modern Guest House III

        by Wendy Perring

        Guest House have become fashionable all over the world especially in China because they help people keep themselves away from the din and bustle of cities. Forty-two pieces of works of folk hostels, including hostels with water senses, city hostels and country hostels, are copied into the book. They explain the cordinal demmands when designing folk hostels. Readers will know more about the design of hostels through its pictures, blueprints and literary description as well as for architects and people who are employed in the service trade.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        June 2019

        Infinitely Close to Nature

        by Vo Trong Nghia

        The first book of Vo Trong Ngnia, “the architect who has changed Vietnam” commented by BBC and CNN.   He is a hot candidate for Pritzker Architecture Prize, winner of over 15 international prizes including International Architecture Award and ARCASIA award, recognized worldwide on bamboo architecture and green architecture.   “Sometimes we just ask the question: how many green areas, how many big trees, can we give back to our earth when we design the building?” ——Vo Trong Nghia Infinitely close to nature is the first book by Vo Trong Nghia, leading architect in bamboo architecture and green architecture, winner of more than 15 international awards including International Architecture Award, ARCASIA award, FuturArc Green leadership Award, etc. Through Vo’ s writings, interviews and cases, Infinitely Close to Nature records his classic practice in bamboo architecture, green architecture and low-cost houses. Vo believes that architecture should connect people with nature, instead of separating them off. He infuses highly “invasive” plants into the architecture space, creates “inner” space that is open or semi-open to nature, and builds green architecture with sustainable and local materials. By developing unique processing methods, he turns bamboo into “the steel of 21st century” and uses them to build strikingly grand bamboo architecture. In addition to commercial projects, Vo also pays attention to the residential condition of the low- er-income, designing low-cost houses which are inexpensive and easy to install, with their design also highly praised. The New York Times commented that he has brought Japanese simplicity to Southeastern Asia, CNN said he changed the skyline of Asia. With more than 60 high-res color pictures, Infinitely close to nature fully demonstrates the interior and exterior structure, details, inspirations and the aesthetical source of Vo’ s works.   BBC、CNN 眼中改变越南的建筑师,普里兹克奖热门人选   贝聿铭推崇的东方美学与自然建筑的先行者   “世界上最会使用竹子的建筑师”武重义的首本作品集   获国际建筑奖、亚洲建筑师协会金奖,上海世博会、米兰世博会的越南馆都是他的作品   “有时候我们只问一个问题:当我们设计建筑时,我们可以将多少绿色区域,多少棵大树,还给我们的地球?”——武重义   《无限接近自然》是自然建筑巨匠,世界上最会使用竹子的建筑师,国际建筑奖、亚洲建筑师协会金奖、FuturArc 绿色领袖大奖等超过15项国际大奖得主武重义的全球首本建筑设计作品集。从文字、访谈与案例三个维度,完整呈现其在竹造建筑、绿色建筑、低成本住宅三个领域的经典实践。   武重义认为建筑应该成为人与自然沟通的媒介而非障碍,用大量“侵入”建筑空间的植物、向自然敞开的开放空间、可持续和当地材料,构建“无限接近自然”的绿色建筑。通过改造材料结构与工艺,他将竹子变成“21世纪的钢材”,呈现令人惊叹的竹造建筑。除了商业项目,他对改善低收入者的居住环境有持续的关注,不断研发成本低廉、容易安装、在设计上获得赞誉的低成本住宅。   《纽约时报》说他把日式简约风格带到东南亚,CNN 说他改变了亚洲的天际线。透过超60张高清彩图,完整呈现武重义建筑的内外结构、局部细节、设计灵感与美学原点。

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        June 2021

        Dreams of disconnection

        From the autonomous house to self-sufficient territories

        by Fanny Lopez

        Why do we live in homes and communities built around the century-old industrial model of large service networks that use polluting resources? For more than a century, creative architects and planners have dreamed of decentralisation and self-sufficient living, not to cut themselves off from society, but to invent new modes of consumption and to rethink collective public services around common environmental values. In a time of climate crisis, changing society means changing energy infrastructures. Dreams of disconnection tells the story of this strand of design and planning, from its pioneers in the late nineteenth century to those applying similar ideas to tomorrow's technology two hundred years later. Lopez takes in many a utopian visionary in her tour of dreamers of disconnection, from theorists and architects to industrialists and engineers. Technology and design are the centrepieces for these projects, and their complexity, particularly around sustainable supplies of energy, food and water, so often find solutions in aesthetics. Whether these models were based around single homes or whole cities, Dreams of disconnection reveals that there is much to be learnt and marvelled at in the history of self-sufficient design.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        June 2021

        Dreams of disconnection

        From the autonomous house to self-sufficient territories

        by Fanny Lopez

        Why do we live in homes and communities built around the century-old industrial model of large service networks that use polluting resources? For more than a century, creative architects and planners have dreamed of decentralisation and self-sufficient living, not to cut themselves off from society, but to invent new modes of consumption and to rethink collective public services around common environmental values. In a time of climate crisis, changing society means changing energy infrastructures. Dreams of disconnection tells the story of this strand of design and planning, from its pioneers in the late nineteenth century to those applying similar ideas to tomorrow's technology two hundred years later. Lopez takes in many a utopian visionary in her tour of dreamers of disconnection, from theorists and architects to industrialists and engineers. Technology and design are the centrepieces for these projects, and their complexity, particularly around sustainable supplies of energy, food and water, so often find solutions in aesthetics. Whether these models were based around single homes or whole cities, Dreams of disconnection reveals that there is much to be learnt and marvelled at in the history of self-sufficient design.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        June 2021

        Dreams of disconnection

        From the autonomous house to self-sufficient territories

        by Fanny Lopez

        Why do we live in homes and communities built around the century-old industrial model of large service networks that use polluting resources? For more than a century, creative architects and planners have dreamed of decentralisation and self-sufficient living, not to cut themselves off from society, but to invent new modes of consumption and to rethink collective public services around common environmental values. In a time of climate crisis, changing society means changing energy infrastructures. Dreams of disconnection tells the story of this strand of design and planning, from its pioneers in the late nineteenth century to those applying similar ideas to tomorrow's technology two hundred years later. Lopez takes in many a utopian visionary in her tour of dreamers of disconnection, from theorists and architects to industrialists and engineers. Technology and design are the centrepieces for these projects, and their complexity, particularly around sustainable supplies of energy, food and water, so often find solutions in aesthetics. Whether these models were based around single homes or whole cities, Dreams of disconnection reveals that there is much to be learnt and marvelled at in the history of self-sufficient design.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2024

        Inner empire

        Architecture and Imperialism in the British Isles, 1550-1950

        by Daniel Maudlin, Alex Bremner

        Inner Empire explores the impact of imperial cultures on the landscapes and urban environments of the British Isles from the sixteenth century through to the twentieth century. It asserts that Britain's four-hundred year entanglement with global empire left its mark upon the British Isles as much as it did the wider world. Buildings stood as one of the most conspicuous manifestations of the myriad relationships that Britain maintained with the theory and practice of colonialism in its modern history. Divided into two main sections, the volume's content considers 'internal' colonisation and its infrastructures of control, order, and suppression, alongside wider relationships between architecture, the imperial economy, and cultural identity. Taken together, the essays in this volume present for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood through its buildings, spaces, and infrastructure.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        November 2024

        'The industrialized designer'

        Gender, identity and professionalization in Britain and the United States, 1930-80

        by Leah Armstrong

        What does it mean to be called an industrial designer? This book traces the remarkable rise of this professional identity in historical perspective from a position of anonymity in the early twentieth century, to mid-century professionalisation, to decline and disintegration by 1980. Drawing on new, extensive, original archival research, it uncovers the history of a profession in a state of re-invention, 1930-1980 in Britain and the United States. The book tests assumptions about the relationship between the professions in the two countries, bringing them into comparative historical perspective for the first time. The gendered dynamics of professionalisation and their interaction with the representation of the heroic male designer are interrogated and critically examined. Building on new gender perspectives to the history of the industrial design profession, the book calls for a re-examination of the limits and boundaries of what constitutes professional identity and work.

      • The Arts
        August 2020

        BRASIL ARQUITETURA - FRANCISCO FANUCCI AND MARCELO FERRAZ

        2005-2020 projects

        by Abilio Guerra (editor), Marcos Grinspum Ferraz (editor) & Silvana Romano Santos (editor)

        With critical essays and a large number of images and technical information, this book retrieves the expressive architectural production of the Brasil Arquitetura office, which greatly contributes to the appreciation and plurality of one of the most expressive Brazilian cultural manifestations – Architecture

      • The Arts
        January 2020

        Rough Work. Illustrated Architecture by Smiljan Radic

        by Smiljan Radic, Alan Chandler, Ricardo Serpell, Moisés Puente, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

        In the last years, Smiljan Radic has become in one of the most renowned architects in the world, mainly due to his work’s eccentricity, his “significative contribution to architecture as an art” as recognized by the Arnold W. Brunner of the American Institute of Architects in 2018. Rough Work, written mainly by Radic himself, is an essential compilation of his work. Smiljan shares his thoughts, inspirations, heroes, and a selection of 24 key works that allows us to understand the architect’s trajectory. "In it, you will find a stolen title and other tales, together with my writing, frustrated projects, drawings and scribbles, academic excercises, happy buildings in use, others that are gone now, and many engineering plans. It is all part of what I have been able to build through 2015—a past that today takes a natural and expectant position in my present work, as if it were REMEMBERING A FORGETTING."—Smiljan Radic.

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