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This award-winning home is located on an eight acre, ex-urban property at the base of the Oakland Hills near San Francisco Bay.
All the details of the stunning redesign of Hayward Field, the home of the University of Oregon track and field and hopeful US Olympians over the decades, outfitting it for the 21st Century. Hayward Field has hosted more Olympic trials than any other venue in history, becoming a beacon of human potential and an unparalleled symbol for the sport of track and field--both its past and its future. This architectural monograph provides a comprehensive overview and in-depth analysis of the redesign by SRG Partnership that created a state-of-the-art stadium and training facility, from initial conception to the completed building, showing how the architects adapted and enhanced their program to take into account the project's different goals, history and importance to the university and local community. Featuring detailed plans, diagrams, analysis and appreciation from renowned architects and architectural critics as well as texts that place the building in its true context, this volume also includes dozens of high-quality photographs of the construction process and completed building to convey a full understanding of this extraordinary architectural and sporting achievement.
A striking addition to the Birdseye Masterpiece series celebrating sustainable and innovative rural modernism. Field House showcases a distinctive Rhode Island residence designed by the award-winning Vermont architecture and building firm Birdseye. Fronted by an open meadow and otherwise surrounded by a deciduous forested hillside, the minimalistic design of the home engages the landscape and is an exercise of contrasts. Featuring an introduction by the renowned architecture critic Aaron Betsky as well as in-depth analysis, sumptuous photographic documentation and detailed plans and diagrams, this volume explores every stage of the design and building process, from its conception to the stunning end result. It thus offers valuable insight into how an award-winning residence like Field House came into being, showing how brilliant design, thoughtful landscaping and a harmonious philosophy can come together to create a subtle architectural masterpiece. The residence is composed of two separate gable volumes: a two-story main house and a one-story garage, knitted together with a perpendicular exterior walkway buttressed with an intermittent full-height site wall.
¿ 20 original drawings¿ The beauty of Taos and Santa Fe captured with exquisite mastery¿ Exhibition quality production¿ An homage to a great painter¿ A remarkable artistic feat by a leading architect
- 20 original drawings - The beauty of Venice and Sicily captured with exquisite mastery - Exhibition quality production - An homage to one of the world's richest artistic traditions - A remarkable artistic feat by a leading architect Between 1915 and 1917 the Russian composer, Sergei Prokofiev wrote a series of twenty piano pieces. While playing them for a gathering of friends, the poet Konstantin Balmont wrote a sonnet which entitled Mimolyotnosti which Kira Nikolayevna would translate as Visions fugitives. Inspired by these dazzling miniatures, I have assembled a jewel box containing twenty individual felt-tip drawings on watercolor paper capturing fugitive visions of Italy. I have always been eager to capture the faded beauty of cities and buildings. This obsession would inevitably draw me to Venice and Sicily. Wandering amidst the shadows of the Venetian light I have tried to portray the beauty of this luminous city. No part of Italy has as many layers of history or been inhabited by so many different peoples as Sicily. From the Greeks who colonized Siracusa and Selinunte, to the Romans in Agrigento, to the Normans in Palermo. "In every fugitive vision I see worlds filled with the changing play of rainbows." Konstantin Balmont
- 20 original drawings - The beauty of regional China captured with exquisite mastery - Exhibition quality production - An homage to one of the world's richest artistic traditions - A remarkable artistic feat by a leading architect Between 1915 and 1917 the Russian composer, Sergei Prokofiev wrote a series of twenty piano pieces. While playing them for a gathering of friends, the poet Konstantin Balmont wrote a sonnet which entitled Mimolyotnosti which Kira Nikolayevna would translate as Visions fugitives. Inspired by these dazzling miniatures, I have assembled a jewel box containing twenty individual felt-tip drawings on watercolor paper capturing fugitive visions of China. For a country that has of late been focused on the future, I have been fascinated by the search for a true contemporary regional language in traditional Chinese architecture and painting. The intricate and careful composition in relation to landscape and light has been a continual revelation, as evidenced by the Summer Palace on the outskirts of Beijing and vanishing water towns such as Zhujiajiao, known as the "Venice of Shanghai." "In every fugitive vision I see worlds filled with the changing play of rainbows." Konstantin Balmont
The rectilinear pavilions seem to float over the tropical landscape, offering an uninterrupted stream of views of the Big Sarasota Pass and/or Bayou Louise throughout the property.
A building that is not just a brilliant work of architecture in its own right but that also provides an inspiring, tailor-made environment in which to educate the architects of the future
It is the architectural responsesto site and climate that infuse the specific designs with character and identity, resulting in a uniquely Floridian version of modernism.
As a realist artist who specialized in depicting the vernacular architecture and landscapes of the West Indies, Sanchez was attracted to Cuban folklore and to architectural scenes of everyday life rather than the great historical narratives of Western civilization.
Rejecting the idea that 'green architecture' is merely planting trees on buildings, our architecture provides an eco-system for people to connect with nature.
"I think bamboo is the right material for creating a new architectural language unique to Vietnam." Vo Trong Nghia. With the climate crisis raging and awareness of humanity's detrimental impact on the environment now patently apparent, the need for architects to come up with sustainable new solutions has never been more pressing.
"JONES STUDIO HOUSES Sensual Modernism" is a self-imposed limited look at the 40-year-plus career of Eddie Jones.
Artron is the foremost printing enterprise in China. As the core project of Artron's printing culture industry, the Artron art website is actively setting up to create archives for artists.
Jen Alkema's minimalism goes beyond an economy of language and material; it is a way of perceiving the world, a personal attitude rather than an application of style or method.
Tis books studies the nature of the relationship between the legendary architect Foyez Ullah, and Bangladesh' capital city, Dhaka.
This book explores the numerous counterpoints between the two projects, their relevance as part of Houston's distinctive architectural landscape, and the architect's commitment to creating space to view and celebrate art.
The work of [STRANG] is beautifully explored in this robust monograph which highlights the firm's site-specific and climate-driven designs.
Founded in 1995 by Dan Rockhill, Studio 804 is a non-profit organization and a full-year design studio for graduates that finds its momentum at the intersection of contemporary architecture's most topical concerns: sustainability, affordability and education.
Not all masterpieces scream for attention. Some wait with patience, with composure, for their genius to be felt. Joseph Biondo's Equanimity House is just such a work of art; the exceptional, hiding in plain sight.
The essays consider the contemporary architectural scene from a variety of perspectives in theory and practice. They include seminal pieces that framed important debates in the field, such as observations on buildings and practices from around the world, from Santiago, to Beirut and Beijing.
SHANGHAI TEN FOLIO is the culmination of AAVS SH10 SHOW | EVENT | FOLIO, a series of events which celebrate the tenth consecutive year of the AA Shanghai Summer School.
This two volume slipcased monograph presents a comprehensive portrait of the works of Singaporean firm Bedmar & Shi. Established in 1986, Bedmar & Shi is known today as one of the most successful high end residential architecture firms in the South East Asia / Pacific region.
We wanted the house to lie amid the woods | Landscape, esthetics, and common sense are the three axes that direct the work of Argentine architect Luciano Kruk. This book illustrates in great detail one of his most representative works: his own summer house.
Infinite plane facing the infinite sea. We have built the most radical house we have ever made, an infinite plane facing the infinite sea. A house facing the Atlantic Ocean, at the water's edge on a beach of Cadiz, like a piece of earthly paradise, where the Romans once lived in nearby Bolonia.
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