Apartments represent a robust and highly creative sector of the American construction industry today. Responding to increasing client and designer interest in urban dwellings, this volume features a well-documented selection of thirty of the best apartment designs in the United States completed over the past decade. The examples cover a broad spectrum of building types, styles, budgets, and scales, including prewar and postwar units, brown-stones, lofts, and adaptive-use conversions. All the projects meet the New American Architecture Series"s standards of design excellence, innovation, and quality workmanship.
Each ease study includes context-setting exterior photos, lavish photographs of interiors, and clearly annotated drawings ranging from design sketches to construction drawings and details of special features. The generous illustrations are accompanied by concise, lucid texts that highlight the ideas, as well as the technical and malerial decisions underpinning each design. Included are works by some of the best-known and most inventive design practitioners in the country, such as Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Hariri & Hariri, George Raualli, Krucck & Sexton, and Machado and Silvetti, among others.
A practical reference for architects and designers, the book is also indispensable to design-conscious city dwellers seeking inspirations for urban lifestyles.
Over 200 color and 350 black and whiteillustrations. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The New American Apartment: Innovations in Residential Design and Construction: 30 Case Studies (Edited by Oscar Ojeda)