Books
Educational Spaces - Volume III: A Pictorial Review
Educational Spaces of the World, is a highly illustrated publication, providing an overview of what is, possibly, the most important, socially responsive design that an architect may pursue. Education can shape lives so the ambience of the learning environment is fundamental. Educational spaces are the focus of all the buildings featured in this volume, ranging from day care facilities to secondary, tertiary institutions, and much more. The projects profiled in this book are by architects who are practiced in educational design and their work is testament to their...
Educational Environments No. 3
The best in education--schools, colleges, libraries, daycare center, more! The design and architecture of educational spaces is moving in a new direction: more appealing, more functional, more energy-efficient, more economical to build and maintain. Educational Environments No.3 showcases more than 80 projects featuring the most creative and innovative work in education. Public and private primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, corporate training facilities, convention centers, and daycare centers are featured. This volume...
Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities
Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities is a one-stop source for the essential information architects, engineers, and facility planners need to fast-start the design process. In this book, award-winning architect and planner David Neuman, along with an impressive list of industry-leading contributors, addresses a broad scope of essential issues concerning campus architecture, including such sweeping advancements as distance learning facilities, technology-driven research laboratories, and electronically enhanced dormitories...
Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification
This excellent hands-on guide to designing environmentally friendly buildings -- those made from materials that preserve the earth's natural legacy for future generations -- is written by two nationally known experts on the subject. You'll find practical information on green product selection, product specification, and construction processes. You'll also learn just what green building materials are, where you can find them, and how you can use them effectively. This edition includes updated information on LEED requirements and how to integrate them into the...
Rafael Viñoly
Rafael Viñoly is arguably our most consummate practitioner of architecture; Herbert Muschamp of the New York Times calls him "the most elegant architect now practicing in the United States," one whose powerful buildings "quicken your awareness of the present and its untapped possibilities." In a breathtaking list of major commissions, Viñoly has taken projects of an often conventional nature-conference centers, recital halls, exhibition halls, sports facilities-and transformed them into unconvential works of beauty, notable for their lucidity, and often breathtaking technical prowess...
Steven Holl
A collection of El Croquis's previous publications on Holl includes over 550 pages with new essays by Kenneth Frampton and Jeffrey Kipnis, as well as interviews with and essays by Holl himself. No less than 45 of Holl's previous projects form the bulk of this comprehensive retrospective. 79 Steven Holl 1984-: 93 Steven Holl 1996-1999: Projects such as the Knut Hamsun Museum in Denmark, the Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art are documented in this issue. Introducing the volume is an interview held by Jeffrey Kipnis with Steven Holl and a text by Alberto...
Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Knowlton Hall: Source Books in Architecture
Some buildings are famous. Others deserve to be, but in their modesty remain satisfied to stand simply as excellent works of architecture. Such is the case with Ohio State University School or Architecture's recently completed Knowlton School of Architecture. Designed by the internationally respected firm Mack Scogin Merrill Elam, Knowlton manages to project both a monumental physicality and a sense of subdued elegance. Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects/Knowlton Hall provides acomprehensive look at this impressive new work using sketches, models, renderings...
