Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Buildings - Residential

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges these predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently, house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles, and have been assiduously represented in scripture, literature, art, and philosophy. This book presents how the search for home in an unpredictable world led people to create myths about the origins of architecture, houses for their gods, and house tombs for...

-Home is an idea, - Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, -a story we tell ourselves about who we are and who and what we want closest in our midst.- In The American Idea of Home, documentary filmmaker Bernard Friedman interviews more than thirty leaders in the field of architecture about a constellation of ideas relating to housing and home. The interviewees include Pritzker Prize winners Thom Mayne, Richard Meier, and Robert Venturi; Pulitzer Prize winners Paul Goldberger and Tracy Kidder; American Institute of Architects head Robert Ivy; and legendary architects such as Denise...

Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the fourth pillar alongside the other three: environmental, economic, and social sustainability. However, the concept is neither fully explored, nor widely accepted or recognized. This book elicits the interplay of nature-culture-architecture and theorizes the concept of cultural sustainability and culturally sustainable architecture. It identifies four key themes in Chinese philosophy: Harmony with Heaven, Harmony with Earth, Harmony with Humans, and Harmony with Self, along with...

The architectural design process often starts with a practical interpretation of a theme; the object becomes the associative raw material for the architectural design. Werkstucke considers this stage of the process, compiling sketches of the objects that will eventually become homes.

When Dessau was bombed in early 1945, the Bauhaus Masters' Houses, the epitome of the 20th-century artists' colony, were reduced to rubble as well.

After the main Masters' Houses were restored to their original state in the 1990s, Walter Gropius's Director's House and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Master's House were still in ruins, and a debate began over their reconstruction. What was the relevance of these structures at the turn of a new century? In 2010, after consultation with the British architect David Chipperfield, the decision was made to reinterpret the House...

Experience 15 of the West's finest rustic modern homes in this beautifully written and photographed book.

An intimate peek into rustic modern private homes and other properties across the Mountain West and California: traditional log cabins, sustainable projects, artist studios, and places for play--inspired interior decor and exteriors, all beautifully photographed and discussed in elegant prose.

In this gorgeous follow up to American Rustic (Gibbs Smith, 2015), detailed perspectives from the homeowners, architects, and designers who brought these diverse...