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Posted by Dannielle Price on May 3rd, 2010 in └> New book arrivals

Contemporary Architecture: Bars and Restaurants

Jacobe Kraue (Links International March 2010)

The wide array of designs presented in this volume offers a varied vision of the latest trends in bar and restaurant interiors. The selection is an excellent cross-section of some of most exciting dining rooms at the forefront of design. With the creative impulse given free reign these designs have inevitably been excellent testing grounds for studying different developments in architectural language, use of materials and volume design. Each project is elegantly illustrated with full-colour photographs, floor plans, sketches and detailed commentary from the respective design studios.

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Posted by Lizzy Van Lysebeth on February 12th, 2010 in └> New book arrivals

BREAKOUT! Your Pathway to Success

Brit Hammer

BREAKOUT! Your Pathway to Success takes up where Brit Hammer’s best-selling book, Mosaic: Finding Your Own Voice, leaves off—the business aspect of visual art. This book demystifies business terminology, sheds light on legal and money matters, and guides you how to: build a personal brand, harness the power of the Internet and social networking, and build streams of revenue.

The book’s aim is to help you build up your self-confidence and to take back your personal power while creating the art business of your dreams. Full of images of beautiful art, BREAKOUT! Your Pathway to Success is a business book worthy of display on your coffee table!

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Posted by Dannielle Price on January 8th, 2010 in └> New book arrivals

Pinpoint: Key Facts + Figures for Sustainable Building

Bruno Keller Stephan Rutz (Birkhäuser January 2010)

-PINPOINT brings building physics clearly into focus and enables practitioners to make rational use of their expertise while keeping their focus on the essentials.

-May be used “on site” as a manual by architects, civil engineers, and construction planners.

-High-quality edition, handsomely designed

Today, sustainable building means planning and producing structures that offer their users a high degree of comfort while only requiring a small amount of energy to operate. This entails: a high degree of thermal comfort, a good supply of daylight, good sound insulation with respect to both external and internal sources of noise, good room acoustics, the avoidance of any problems whatsoever with condensation or mold, and such a low energy requirement that especially gentle and efficient methods can be used to meet the remaining demand.

At first glance, it might seem quite difficult to fulfill all these requirements. Taken together, the various textbooks on building physics and building automation and the large number of EN and SIA standards now in existence are more confusing than they are useful.

By contrast, this manual presents the most important information on all the key aspects of sustainable building in concise and clearly organized form; makes it easy to put it into practice with the help of graphics, tables, and step-by-step instructions; illustrates it with examples; and supplements it with practical tips.

That is not to say that PINPOINT is intended to replace a textbook or standards collection. On the contrary, it is meant to help practitioners who already have a grasp of the basics make rational use of their expertise while keeping their focus on the essentials.

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Posted by Lizzy Van Lysebeth on November 11th, 2009 in └> New book arrivals

MOSAIC: Finding your own voice

Brit Hammer

This publication is by one of ID-Sphere’s contributors Brit Hammer. This illustrated work is overflowing with inspiration and information. The book delves into design and composition to help you find your own style and includes technical information just for artists interested in mosaic. The inspiration section features chapters on the works of fine art mosaicists Elaine M. Goodwin, Sonia King, Dugald MacInnes, Mo Ringey, and Brit Hammer-Dijcks. 200 pages (full-color eBook 198 pages).

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Posted by Dannielle Price on September 10th, 2009 in └> New book arrivals

Compact Interiors: Architectural Design

Carles Broto (Links International September 2009)

This fully illustrated work features dozens of apartment and loft interiors from around the world-all created by internationally renown architects and designers. The book focuses on the technical aspects of each project and on the ingenious solutions employed in adapting fixtures and furniture to a range of uses for more efficient uses of space. Each of the projects is beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs, floor plans, and sketches. Including every step of the design process-from conception to execution-this guide is indispensable for anyone working in the fields of architecture, interior design, interior decorating and furniture design.

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Posted by Dannielle Price on September 3rd, 2009 in └> New book arrivals

Color Spaces

FrIederike Tebbe Christiane Fath (Jovis Verlag September 2009)

How consciously do we experience colour, light and space? How do colours influence our perception, change the effect of something built and thereby shift the relations of space and our judgement? Friederike Tebbe examines the manifestations of colour, its perception, and interpretation in relation to her own architecture and in other practical and theoretical contexts.

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Posted by Dannielle Price on July 26th, 2009 in └> New book arrivals

Smart Home Extensions

Carles Broto (Links International July 2009)

Smart Home Extensions gathers together 32 extensively detailed extensions from architects including Alison Brooks, 3RW Architects, Bob 361 Architects, Plasma Estudio and Herrman & Koch.
These projects have been carried out on both country houses and urban dwellings, temporary and permanent residences, and built in gardens, attics, patios, inner courtyards, backyards and even in the air. Extensions of a durable type and entirely temporary additions, containing anything from a single utility or service room, to a complete residence; all of these ventures are thoroughly documented at every step of the design process, both technically and graphically, from conception to completion.

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Posted by Dannielle Price on July 12th, 2009 in └> New book arrivals

Smart Surfaces – and their Application in Architecture and Design

Edited by: Thorsten Klooster (Birkhäuser July 2009)

Whether luminous wallpaper, curtains that produce electricity, or self-cleaning windowpanes, more than ever before innovations in surface technologies are influencing and will continue to revolutionise the use of materials in architecture, interior design, and design.

The new smart surfaces expand considerably design possibilities for architects and designers. Their use leads to new typologies and concepts that can also do justice to changes in expectations for buildings and design.

The impression we have of a building or an object is increasingly determined by its surface qualities. Designers are thus confronted anew with the question of “appropriate materials” when dealing with smart surfaces.

Smart Surfaces brings these design fields into the creative focus of planners and designers, and emphasises concrete possibilities for applications. Planning fundamentals, including cost-benefit analyses, and questions related to building, including details of constructions, are presented in a clear and intelligible way. The various materials are introduced and their potentials assessed. Smart Surfaces not only offers a good overview of the themes but also provides inspiration for making use of these new surfaces.

A book for everyone who wishes to be inspired by the possibilities for innovative surface technologies.

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Posted by Dannielle Price on July 6th, 2009 in └> New book arrivals

Handbook of Sustainable Refurbishment:
Non-Domestic Buildings

Nick C. Baker (Earthscan July 2009)

The Handbook of Sustainable Refurbishment: Non-Domestic Buildings offers architects, engineers and a wide range of building professionals practical advice, illustrated by real examples. It moves from principles of sustainable refurbishment to specific design and engineering guidance. It emphasises the need for an integrated approach by showing how refurbishment measures interact with one and other, and with the occupants, and how performance is ultimately influenced by this interaction.

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Posted by Dannielle Price on June 25th, 2009 in └> New book arrivals

Indoor Environment Handbook:
Making Buildings Healthy and Comfortable

Philomena Bluyssen (Earthscan June 2009)

Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers. This highly practical handbook will help make that process more efficient and effective.

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Posted by Dannielle Price on June 10th, 2009 in └> New book arrivals

Design Activism:
Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

Alastair Fuad-Luke (Earthscan June 2009)

Design activists, who comprise a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. They seek to fundamentally challenge how, where and when design can catalyse positive impacts to address sustainability. They are also challenging who can utilise the power of the design process. This book provides a rigorous exploration of design activism that will revitalise the design debate and provide a solid platform for students, teachers, design professionals and other practitioners interested in transformative (design) activism.

It provides a comprehensive study of contemporary and emergent design activism, collating, synthesising and analysing design activist approaches, processes, methods, tools and inspirational examples/outcomes from around the world. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped.

The nature of contemporary design activism is explored, from individual/collective action to the infrastructure that supports it generating powerful participatory design approaches, a diverse toolbox and inspirational outcomes. This is design as a political and social act, design to enable adaptive societal capacity for co-futuring. This title reveals the power of design and designers to effect positive social and environmental change.

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Posted by Dannielle Price on May 18th, 2009 in └> New book arrivals

Fine Fabric:
Delicate Materials for Architecture and Interior Design

Chris van Uffelen (Verlagshaus Braun May 2009)

Fabrics are frequently used for temporary architecture and interior design. As a result of research and technology various types of fabrics have been developed with special qualities in terms of load, elasticity and ductility. This title presents 60 international architecture and design projects that show the different ways how fabrics are used

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Posted by Dannielle Price on May 12th, 2009 in └> New book arrivals

A History of Interior Design,

John Pile (Laurence King February 2009)

Now in its third edition and fully updated with the most recent examples, A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space. John Pile acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, furniture, decoration, technology and product design all overlap. These topics are woven together in a fascinating narrative that runs from cave dwellings and temple architecture, through Gothic cathedrals and Renaissance palaces, to the grand civic spaces of the nineteenth century and the sleek interiors of modern skyscrapers. Embedded in a social and political context, detailed discussions of famous buildings, from the Parthenon to the Pompidou Centre, are interspersed with investigations of the domestic vernacular – the cottages, farmhouses, apartments and city terraces inhabited by ordinary people.

In this new edition, the evolution of interior design has been made even more accessible through the inclusion of a CD-ROM with an interactive timeline. Incorporating over 100 illustrations, this sets the great interior spaces of the world in the context of the social, political and technological developments of the time.

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Posted by Dannielle Price on May 6th, 2009 in └> New book arrivals

The Complete Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid (Thames & Hudson April 2009 )

This is a complete monograph of Hadid’s early, unbuilt and built works, from her student years to the latest projects under development, and includes her furniture, stage and exhibition designs. Projects constructed, in planning or under construction are located around the globe. An introduction by Aaron Betsky, 2008 Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, examines the architect’s career, both in the context of architectural history and as a manifestation of the current and future state of architecture.

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Posted by Dannielle Price on April 29th, 2009 in └> New book arrivals

Color Planning for Interiors,
An Integrated Approach to Color in Designated Spaces

Margaret Portillo (John Wiley April 2009)

Evidence-based approach to colour planning lets you discover the impact of colour on people and space. Color Planning for Interiors is based on the findings from a study that the author conducted across the USA. The author interviewed noted designers and colourists about the projects that best represented their approach to colour. As a result, you’ll discover how leaders in the field examine colour from compositional, symbolic, behavioral, preferential, and pragmatic perspectives in order to arrive at a carefully considered solution. Moreover, you’ll see how designers and architects apply this knowledge to a broad range of interior spaces, including workplaces, restaurants, retail settings, healthcare facilities, and private residences.

Complementing theory and research, real-life examples are presented from interior design projects that consider colour in relation to light, materiality, and interior architecture. In addition, full-colour diagrams, photographs, and design renderings illustrate concepts throughout the book to help you understand how to select and work with colour.

From the fundamental principles of colour theory to innovative applications, all aspects of designing interiors with colour are examined, making this book ideal for all professionals and students in interior design who want to develop the full potential of their colour palettes.

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