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Texas Modern

Hannah Jenkins
Texas Modern Book PDF

Author : Hannah Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1864708107

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- Showcases contemporary residential architecture and design across the state of Texas, by renowned America-based architects and designers - Augments Images Publishing's particularly large range of successful books on contemporary residential architecture and design - Features stunning full-color photography throughout, informative descriptions and detailed floor plans - Contextualizes with an introduction by an acclaimed expert on the profound influences of key architecture and design practitioners and the topic of building in variable environments throughout Texas Forget the Texas you thought you once knew, put aside those cattle ropin' preconceptions and make way for Texas Modern, a close look into the Lone Star State's innovative contemporary architecture and design scenes. Showcasing a stunning range of modern homes, this book will inspire best-design practice and spur on lifestyle dreams. Set out with beautiful full-color photography and laden with intricate plans and drawings, Texas Modern delves into the finer details of trending architectural styles. The exquisite kitchens, glorious living spaces, sumptuous bedrooms, luxurious bathrooms, spectacular outdoor entertaining areas, and other delightful spaces, including a private yoga studio, will have you seriously reconsidering any notion of architectural convention across this larger-than-life and totally unique American state.

Spectacular Modern Homes of Texas

Jolie Carpenter Berry
Spectacular Modern Homes of Texas Book PDF

Author : Jolie Carpenter Berry
Publisher : Spectacular Book
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0996424075

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Spectacular Modern Homes of Texas by Jolie Carpenter Berry Pdf

Spectacular Modern Homes of Texas is the newest installment in Signature's spectacular book series. Brimming with beautiful photography and dreamy design, this book has something for everyone's taste and style. Showcasing a wide variety of approaches to modern design, readers will get a tour inside private homes designed by Texas' top interior designers and architects. Get a first class tour inside Texas most unique and stunning homes such as a posh Austin penthouse, a vertical glass house in Dallas, and a sprawling Hill Country estate with a historic farmhouse exterior and cutting edge modern interiors. Totally unique, just like the state of Texas, this book will stir the designer in you and be a beautiful decor piece on your coffee table. You've never seen Texas look so good.

Geometry in Architecture

Clovis Heimsath,Maryann Heimsath,Lisa Hardaway
Geometry in Architecture Book PDF

Author : Clovis Heimsath,Maryann Heimsath,Lisa Hardaway
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0292731450

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Geometry in Architecture by Clovis Heimsath,Maryann Heimsath,Lisa Hardaway Pdf

"Geometry in Architecture, a revised edition of Pioneer Texas Buildings, juxtaposes the historic structures with works by twenty contemporary architects who are inspired by the pioneer tradition to show how seamlessly the basic geometries translate from one era to another. As in the earlier book, sketches and brief commentary by Clovis Heimsath explain how squares, triangles, and circles take shape in the cylindrical forms that comprise houses and other buildings. Then black and white photographs, the heart of the book, illustrate these geometric forms in historic and modern buildings."--BOOK JACKET.

Contemporary Texas Architecture

E. Ashley Rooney,Joseph Adams,Kevin Alter
Contemporary Texas Architecture Book PDF

Author : E. Ashley Rooney,Joseph Adams,Kevin Alter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0764352385

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A long-overdue book documenting a state with a growing population, this richly illustrated collection of homes displays the work of 34 Texas architects whose buildings embrace their region and place. These award-winning residences vary in style, scale, budget, and site, but they are all positioned to incorporate the Texas light, landscape, and local materials. More important, they are designed and constructed to deal with the prospect of climate change, including Texas-size hurricanes, tornadoes, heat, and drought. Readers will appreciate the regional rigor of these buildings sited on the Hill Country's arid escarpments, deep in the piney woods of East Texas, and in the insufferable heat of the southern coastal plain. Being Texas proud means being place proud, yet all of the projects showcase principles that are surprisingly universal.

Texas Made/Texas Modern

Helen Thompson
Texas Made Texas Modern Book PDF

Author : Helen Thompson
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580935081

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Texas Made/Texas Modern by Helen Thompson Pdf

A compelling survey of Texas houses that draw both on the heritage of pioneer ranches and on the twentieth-century design principles of modernism. Helen Thompson and Casey Dunn, the writer/photographer team that produced the exceptionally successful Marfa Modern, join forces again to investigate Texas modernism. The juxtaposition of the sleek European forms with a gritty Texas spirit generated a unique brand of modernism that is very basic to the culture of the state today. Its roots are in the early Texas pioneer houses, whose long, low profiles express an efficiency that is basic to the modern idiom. This Texas-centric style is focused on the relationship of the house to the site, the materials it is made of--most often local stone and wood--and the way the building functions in the harsh Texas climate. Dallas architect David R. Williams was the first to combine modernism with Texas regionalism in the 1930s, and his legacy was sustained by his protégé O'Neil Ford, who practiced in San Antonio from the late 1930s until his death in the mid 1970s. Their approach is seen today in the work of Lake/Flato Architects and a new generation of designers who have emerged from that distinguished firm and continue to elegantly merge modernism with the vocabulary of the Texas ranching heritage. Twenty houses are included from across the state, with examples in major urban centers like Dallas and Austin and in suburban and rural areas, including a number in the evocative Hill Country.

Transcending Architecture

Julio Cesar Bermúdez
Transcending Architecture Book PDF

Author : Julio Cesar Bermúdez
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813226798

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Marfa Modern

Helen Thompson
Marfa Modern Book PDF

Author : Helen Thompson
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580934732

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Marfa Modern by Helen Thompson Pdf

Twenty-one houses in and around Marfa, Texas, provide a glimpse at creative life and design in one of the art world’s most intriguing destinations. When Donald Judd began his Marfa project in the early 1970s, it was regarded as an idiosyncratic quest. Today, Judd is revered for his minimalist art and the stringent standards he applied to everything around him, including interiors, architecture, and furniture. The former water stop has become a mecca for artists, art pilgrims, and design aficionados drawn to the creative enclave, the permanent installations called “among the largest and most beautiful in the world,” and the austerely beautiful high-desert landscape. In keeping with Judd’s site-specific intentions, those who call Marfa home have made a choice to live in concert with their untamed, open surroundings. Marfa Modern features houses that represent unique responses to this setting—the sky, its light and sense of isolation—some that even predate Judd’s arrival. Here, conceptual artist Michael Phelan lives in a former Texaco service station with battery acid stains on the concrete floor and a twenty-foot dining table lining one wall. A chef’s modest house comes with the satisfaction of being handmade down to its side tables and bath, which expands into a private courtyard with an outdoor tub. Another artist uses the many rooms of her house, a former jail, to shift between different mediums—with Judd’s Fort D. A. Russell works always visible from her second-story sun porch. Extraordinary building costs mean that Marfa dwellers embrace a culture of frontier ingenuity and freedom from excess—salvaged metal signs become sliding doors and lengths of pipe become lighting fixtures, industrial warehouses are redesigned after the area’s white-cube galleries to create space for private or personally created art collections, and other materials are suggested by the land itself: walls are made of adobe bricks or rammed earth to form sculptural courtyards, or, in one remarkable instance, a mix of mud and brick plastered with local soils, cactus mucilage, horse manure, and straw.

Plain Modern

Malcolm Quantrill,Glenn Murcutt,Kenneth Frampton,Brian MacKay-Lyons
Plain Modern Book PDF

Author : Malcolm Quantrill,Glenn Murcutt,Kenneth Frampton,Brian MacKay-Lyons
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568984774

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Plain Modern by Malcolm Quantrill,Glenn Murcutt,Kenneth Frampton,Brian MacKay-Lyons Pdf

It's been our distinct pleasure over the past few years to publish monographs on a select group of young architects and firms whose work represents the best of contemporary design thinking while retaining a distinctive regional sensibility. The Nova-Scotian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons fits neatly into this distinguished list, which includes Marlon Blackwell in the Ozarks, Rick Joy in the Southwest, andMiller/Hull in the Northwest. Those familiar with Nova Scotia understand the austere beauty of this Canadian landscape, with its wide open skies and rugged terrain pushing up against the Atlantic. MacKay-Lyons's work responds to this unique topography and to the vernacular building traditions that define its communities. His houses, commercial buildings, and public projects combine regional forms with local materials, technologies, and building practices to create works that are linked to their environments right down to their DNA.Peaked gables, shed roofs, and sliding doors are inspired by local barn types; corrugated metal cladding comes from the buildings used by the areas fishing industry; structural wooden frames are based on local ship-building traditions. These elements communicate a sense of place that is sophisticated, accessible, and free of sentimentality. Novelist and historian Malcolm Quantrill weaves together an intimate portrait of MacKay-Lyons and his work, elucidating the "peculiar regionality" of his subject's architecture. A New Voices monograph published with The Graham Foundation.

Contemporary Mexican Design and Architecture

Khristaan Villela,Ellen Bradbury,Logan Wagner
Contemporary Mexican Design and Architecture Book PDF

Author : Khristaan Villela,Ellen Bradbury,Logan Wagner
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : UCSD:31822031977028

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Contemporary Mexican Design and Architecture by Khristaan Villela,Ellen Bradbury,Logan Wagner Pdf

Representative homes built by 12 architects working in Mexico are profiled with text and numerous color photographs. Modernism as well as the natural and human environment of Mexico influences all the architects profiled. Categorized under the headings colorists, personal visions, and functionalists, the profilees include Jorge Robles, Agustin, Hernandez, Abraham Zambludovksy. Isaac Broid, Carlos Santos Maldonado, and J.B. Johnson. Also included is an introductory chapter that discusses the history of Mexican design from the Aztecs to the Modernists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Seamless

Jesús Vassallo
Seamless Book PDF

Author : Jesús Vassallo
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture and photography
ISBN : 3038600199

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Seamless by Jesús Vassallo Pdf

During the past fifty years, documentary photography and architecture have become increasingly interdependent, blurring the disciplinary boundary between the two. Seamless looks at the work of a new generation of European photographers and architects working together to produce images of architecture made from fragments of reality. At the same time, it investigates how shared digital technologies influence the creation of architecture and its photographic representation through images. Based on a series of interviews, Seamless discusses the collaborations between Filip Dujardin and Jan De Vylder, Philipp Schaerer and Roger Boltshauser, and Bas Princen and OFFICE Kersten Geers David van Severen. Each of the three sections is illustrated with a series in images that form parallel narratives within the book. In the concluding essay, architect Jes s Vassallo pulls together the treads of the conversations to investigate questions about the impact of digital technology on the value assigned to images, how shared technological platforms enhance the influence photographers and architects have on each other, and why they have often chosen to focus on the dirty realism of the urban spaces.

Santa Fe Modern

Helen Thompson
Santa Fe Modern Book PDF

Author : Helen Thompson
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580935616

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Santa Fe Modern by Helen Thompson Pdf

First survey of modernist and contemporary architecture and interiors in the richly layered architectural history of Santa Fe Santa Fe Modern reveals the high desert landscape as an ideal setting for bold, abstracted forms of modernist houses. Wide swaths of glass, deep-set portals, long porches, and courtyards allow vistas, color, and light to become integral parts of the very being of a house, emboldening a way to experience a personal connection to the desert landscape. The architects featured draw from the New Mexican architectural heritage--they use ancient materials such as adobe in combination with steel and glass, and they apply this language to the proportions and demands exacted by today's world. The houses they have designed are confident examples of architecture that is particular to the New Mexico landscape and climate, and yet simultaneously evoke the rigorous expressions of modernism. The vigor and the allure of modern art and architecture hearten each other in a way that is visible and exciting, and this book demonstrates the synergistic relationship between art, architecture, and the land.

New Museums

Mimi Zeiger
New Museums Book PDF

Author : Mimi Zeiger
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015058747992

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New Museums by Mimi Zeiger Pdf

Since the opening in 1997 of the Guggenheim Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry, museum architecture has enjoyed worldwide attention on an unprecedented scale. That single watershed project demonstrated to municipalities that architecture has the power to transform the image of an entire city, thus making the turn of the twenty-first century the unofficial age of the museum building. New Museums examines the boom in high-design museum projects in detail, beginning with the Guggenheim Bilbao’s groundbreaking role in the development of contemporary museum architecture. It continues with a beautifully illustrated tour of 30 examples of the most innovative and exciting museum architecture around the world, including Tadao Ando’s Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Zaha Hadid’s Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Renzo Piano’s Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and many others.

The Open-Ended City

Kathryn Holliday
The Open Ended City Book PDF

Author : Kathryn Holliday
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781477317617

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The Open-Ended City by Kathryn Holliday Pdf

In 1980, David Dillon launched his career as an architectural critic with a provocative article that asked “Why Is Dallas Architecture So Bad?” Over the next quarter century, he offered readers of the Dallas Morning News a vision of how good architecture and planning could improve quality of life, combatting the negative effects of urban sprawl, civic fragmentation, and rapacious real estate development typical in Texas cities. The Open-Ended City gathers more than sixty key articles that helped establish Dillon’s national reputation as a witty and acerbic critic, showing readers why architecture matters and how it can enrich their lives. Kathryn E. Holliday discusses how Dillon connected culture, commerce, history, and public life in ways that few columnists and reporters ever get the opportunity to do. The articles she includes touch on major themes that animated Dillon’s writing: downtown redevelopment, suburban sprawl, arts and culture, historic preservation, and the necessity of aesthetic quality in architecture as a baseline for thriving communities. While the specifics of these articles will resonate with those who care about Dallas, Fort Worth, and other Texas cities, they are also deeply relevant to all architects, urbanists, and citizens who engage in the public life and planning of cities. As a collection, The Open-Ended City persuasively demonstrates how a discerning critic helped to shape a landmark city by shaping the conversation about its architecture.

Contemporary Classical

Andrew Skurman
Contemporary Classical Book PDF

Author : Andrew Skurman
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1616890886

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Contemporary Classical by Andrew Skurman Pdf

Architect Andrew Skurman is an unabashed classicist. His award-winning San Francisco-based firm, Andrew Skurman Architects, specializes in designing superbly crafted custom residences inspired by the building traditions of French châteaux, Mediterranean villas, and Georgian country houses. Skurman draws on an extensive architectural library of European and American design with the precision of an eminent art historian, skillfully adapting timeless design elements to suit today's lifestyles. Collaborating with well-respected contractors, interior and landscape designers, lighting and audiovisual experts, and other consultants, Skurman blends modern comfort and conveniences into traditional settings. Featuring gorgeous photography and exquisite watercolor studies, Contemporary Classical showcases an exceptional range of residential work, including the new Pelican Hill Resort on the Newport Coast of California.

The Greening of Architecture

Dr A Senem Deviren,Dr Phillip James Tabb
The Greening of Architecture Book PDF

Author : Dr A Senem Deviren,Dr Phillip James Tabb
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781472403896

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The Greening of Architecture by Dr A Senem Deviren,Dr Phillip James Tabb Pdf

This accessible and engaging text is the first to offer a comprehensive critical history and analysis of the greening of architecture through accumulative reduction of negative environmental effects caused by buildings, urban designs and settlements. Describing the progressive development of green architecture from 1960 to 2010, it illustrates how it is ever evolving and ameliorated through alterations in form, technology, materials and use and it examines different places worldwide that represent a diversity of cultural and climatic contexts.