The follow-up volume of 'Contemporary Living in the Mountains: ten new mountain chalets in a timeless and contemporary style'. This volume includes projects commissoned by designers including: Alexandra de Pfyffer, Tamara Sessa and AM Projects Locations include: Gstaad, Rougemont and Megeve. Text in English, French and Dutch.
This book is a sumptuously produced journey around twelve privately owned country houses, asking what it is like to live in such places today. What role do they play in the twenty-first century? For many years after the Second World War, the country house was struggling. Now a new generation of young owners, often with children, has taken over. They're finding innovative ways to live in these ancient, fragile and poetic places. While they treasure the history and beauty of the houses, they're al...
Energy Efficient Passive Building (Foundations and Trends (R) in Renewable Energy)
by G. N. Tiwari, Arjun Deo, Vikram Singh, and Arvind Tiwari
This monograph focuses on a case study of a newly constructed passive cooled four-story building in a composite (monsoon) climate. The total initial embodied energy, CO2 emissions, annual energy saving and CO2 credit of the building were evaluated as part of the case study.
Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself.Houses and rooms; cellars and attics; drawers, chests and wardrobes; nests and shells; nooks and corners: no space is too vast or too small to be filled by our thoughts and our reveri...
Chevening stands in a magnifi cent park below the wooded escarpment of the North Downs in Kent. It has a history dating back around 800 years, but the house we see today is almost entirely the creation of seven generations of the Stanhope family, building on the original Inigo Jones house of 1630. For 250 years the Stanhopes served their country as soldiers and statesmen, and at Chevening as patrons of architecture and art. This new guide highlights the contributions of the Earls and Countesses...
Casas 20 Houses
by Omar Fuentes, Fernando de Haro, Alex Carranza, and Gerardo Ruiz
New Habitats in Converted Buildings (Architectural Design S.)
by Arian Mostaedi
Exquisite photographs evoke the tranquil mood of this mysterious garden.
A guide for those involved with traditional Scottish tenements: how to manage and repair the property, how to organize the owner, find funding, deal with builders and architects and what the law is for common ownership.
Stepping away from conventional analyses of materials or style and into the previously unexplored world of the house owner, this book takes a fresh look at both the social, as well as the architectural, importance of the 18th-century London town house. Drawing on rich and entertaining evidence-both documentary and anecdotal-Rachel Stewart explores why, and how, so many people pursued life in the city. She not only discusses some of the major architects of the day and their most famous buildings...
The Relocation of Century of Progress Exhibit Buildings to Beverly Shores, Indiana
by Daniel Craig Grandfield
This book offers 20 perfect solutions for maximum utilization of minimum space. It is a special challenge to every architect or designer to figure out maximum utilization of minimum space. Trying to make apartments seem brighter and bigger demands a high creativity and great imagination. This compilation of 20 new small apartments from all over the world will be of interest not only to architects and designers but also to residents of modern cities. It thereby presents a basic tool for understan...