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Courtyards for Modern Living

Author : Stephen Crafti
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781864702828
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Courtyards for Modern Living written by Stephen Crafti and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens have changed significantly over the last couple of decades, and clever architects and designers know that incorporating an outdoor living space can improve a dwelling's aesthetic, not to mention its value. In the 1980s, manicured lawns framed with box hedges and annuals were a common site. It seemed that both space and water supply were unlimited. Courtyards for Modern Living presents beautiful gardens which have been designed for locations around the world that represent the changed reality of drier climates, and heralded in a preference for native species, drought-tolerant plants, and even a new popularity of the humble succulent. Contemporary houses also reflect a move towards enjoying larger houses built on smaller sites, so that available space is turned into a multifunctional courtyard that is usually accessed from the kitchen and living areas. Author Stephen Crafti ( Beach Houses Down Under, H2O and Ultimate Urban Makeover presents an inspired study of what makes outdoor rooms so appealing. Including many tips to guide the architect or the DIY enthusiast, Courtyards for Modern Living features courtyards, balconies and gardens that are extensions of the very house itself.

Courtyard Living

Author : Charmaine Chan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 050051920X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Courtyard Living written by Charmaine Chan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring architecture and interior design survey of the most stunning courtyard houses of the Asia-Pacific region. Courtyards have long played an important function in residential design, regulating light, shade, and the use of space. With thousands of years of tradition as inspiration, contemporary architects are now realizing courtyard living afresh. This lavish survey of twenty-five residences across the Asia-Pacific region features homes from Australia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, India, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka. Structured by courtyard function, the book’s five chapters—on privacy; multigenerational living; sightlines; light and ventilation; and living with nature—are richly illustrated with photography and architectural illustrations showing courtyard positions within floor plans. Showcasing the unique lifestyle opportunities afforded by contemporary courtyard design, this is an inspirational resource for anyone interested in indoor–outdoor living.

The Modern Courtyard House

Author : Duncan Macintosh
Publisher : London : Lund Humphries for the Architectural Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Courtyard House written by Duncan Macintosh and published by London : Lund Humphries for the Architectural Association. This book was released on 1973 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Courtyards

Author : Douglas Keister
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1586855409
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Courtyards written by Douglas Keister and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking full-color photography complements a study of the use of theourtyard in indoor and outdoor design, capturing a diverse array of exampleshat range from ancient Rome and medieval Europe to modern-day San Diego,racing the history of the design style, and explaining how a courtyard canet the mood and tone of any structure.

Courtyards

Author : John Reynolds
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471398844
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Courtyards written by John Reynolds and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Courtyards presents a survey of courtyards, contemporary design guidelines, and a diverse selection of examples. Readers will acquire a basic understanding of the balance that must exist between garden and building, including practical advice for planting."--BOOK JACKET.

The Courtyard House

Author : NasserO. Rabbat
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351545388
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Courtyard House written by NasserO. Rabbat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The courtyard house is one of the most enduring architectural forms, transcending regional, historical and cultural boundaries. Its balance of simple appropriate construction, environmental control and social and familial structures continues to engage architects and architectural historians. That the courtyard house is still relevant today is indicated through its ability to accommodate continual transformation without losing any of its formal integrity and cultural roots. This book presents a series of viewpoints on courtyard houses from different periods and in different regions around the world; from the Harem courtyards of the Topkapi Palace and the low-cost housing settlements of Protectorate Casablanca, to contemporary design strategies for courtyard houses in the arid Gulf region. Together, the essays illuminate issues of particular relevance in architectural, art historical, and conservation discourses today.

Courtyard Housing

Author : Brian Edwards
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415262729
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Courtyard Housing written by Brian Edwards and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, that the courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past.

COURTYARD LIVING

Author : CHARMAINE CHAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500296790
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book COURTYARD LIVING written by CHARMAINE CHAN and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles

Author : Stefanos Polyzoides
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9780910413534
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles written by Stefanos Polyzoides and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, drawings, plans, and over 200 black-and-white photographs document the courtyard housing in Los Angeles. The style, expressed in both grand and humble dwellings, was at its height in the 1920's and 1930's, but is still around to provide privacy and greenspace in the dense urban area. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Courtyard Architecture + Design

Author : Lisa Baker
Publisher : Braun Publish,Csi
ISBN 13 : 9783037681626
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Courtyard Architecture + Design written by Lisa Baker and published by Braun Publish,Csi. This book was released on 2014 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtyards are among the most versatile elements of architecture. They are non built-up but designed open spaces surrounded by a single structure, several elements, or even different buildings. In very different sizes and shapes, very private or publicly accessible, they assume central roles in every conceivable building task, capable of defining the character of the entire architectural composition. Masterpieces: Courtyard Architecture + Design shows a wide scope of creative ideas for handling this exciting but very much underrated aspect of architecture. What makes this task particular interesting is the interplay of architecture, landscape planning and interior design. The selection includes the projects of some of the most important firms as well as impressive works by upcoming stars.

Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability

Author : Dr Donia Zhang
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409471586
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability written by Dr Donia Zhang and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the ‘fourth pillar’ alongside the other three: environmental, economic, and social sustainability. However, the concept is neither fully explored, nor widely accepted or recognized. This book elicits the interplay of ‘nature-culture-architecture’ and theorizes the concept of ‘cultural sustainability’ and ‘culturally sustainable architecture.’ It identifies four key themes in Chinese philosophy: Harmony with Heaven, Harmony with Earth, Harmony with Humans, and Harmony with Self, along with Greek philosopher Aristotle’s physics: form, space, matter, and time, it sets them as criteria to evaluate the renewed and new courtyard housing projects constructed in China since the 1990s. Using an innovative architectural and social science approach, this book examines the political, economic, social, and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys, interviews with residents, architects, and planners, time diaries, drawings, photos, planning documents, observation notes, and real estate brochures, the book proposes new courtyard garden house design strategies that promote healthy communities and human care for one another, a concept that is universally applicable. The volume is a first opportunity to take a holistic view, to encompass eastern and western, tangible and intangible, cultures in the theorization of ‘cultural sustainability’ and ‘culturally sustainable architecture.’ It is a comprehensive contribution to architectural theory.

Japanese Courtyard

Author : Publishing Images
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781864708981
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Courtyard written by Publishing Images and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - This lavishly illustrated volume contains more than 30 case studies of recent Japanese residential courtyard designs - Provides a glimpse into the importance of the courtyard as a space in Japan - An inspirational guide to recent design and perfect for residential and landscape designers - Includes technical drawings that provide additional detail into the rigorous planning and design - Provides an important overview of acclaimed Japanese designers Residences occupy a pivotal position in Japanese architecture. As an extension of the residential space, the Japanese courtyard design is unique. This beautifully illustrated book is a collection of stunning residential courtyard designs, providing an inspiring insight into the importance of a courtyard in Japanese culture. Containing more than 30 cases studies and including technical drawings, the book reveals the creativity and beauty of Japanese courtyard design and shines a light on the acclaimed designers who produce these visually stunning works. Meticulously planned and rigorously designed, the courtyards in this book will serve to inspire both residential and landscape designers. By taking the Japanese courtyard as a concept into their own designs, designers will be able to create more personal and comfortable residential spaces.

Santa Fe Modern

Author : Helen Thompson
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580935613
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Santa Fe Modern written by Helen Thompson and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First survey of modernist and contemporary architecture and interiors in the richly layered architectural history of Santa Fe Santa Fe Modern reveals the high desert landscape as an ideal setting for bold, abstracted forms of modernist houses. Wide swaths of glass, deep-set portals, long porches, and courtyards allow vistas, color, and light to become integral parts of the very being of a house, emboldening a way to experience a personal connection to the desert landscape. The architects featured draw from the New Mexican architectural heritage--they use ancient materials such as adobe in combination with steel and glass, and they apply this language to the proportions and demands exacted by today's world. The houses they have designed are confident examples of architecture that is particular to the New Mexico landscape and climate, and yet simultaneously evoke the rigorous expressions of modernism. The vigor and the allure of modern art and architecture hearten each other in a way that is visible and exciting, and this book demonstrates the synergistic relationship between art, architecture, and the land.

Compact Courtyard Houses

Author : Jan Cremers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783038630524
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Compact Courtyard Houses written by Jan Cremers and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Affordable Architecture

Author : Stephen Crafti
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 186470392X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Affordable Architecture written by Stephen Crafti and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases architecture that's driven by a budget

The Australian Ugliness

Author : Robin Boyd
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921656220
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book The Australian Ugliness written by Robin Boyd and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In it Boyd rallied against Australia's promotion of ornament, decorative approach to design and slavish imitation of all things American. 'The basis of the Australian ugliness,' he wrote, 'is an unwillingness to be committed on the level of ideas. In all the arts of living, in the shaping of all her artefacts, as in politics, Australia shuffles about vigorously in the middle - as she estimates the middle - of the road, picking up disconnected ideas wherever she finds them.' Boyd was a fierce critic, and an advocate of good design. He understood the significance of the connection between people and their dwellings, and argued passionately for a national architecture forged from a genuine Australian identity. His concerns are as important now, in an era of suburban sprawl and inner-city redevelopment, as they were half a century ago. Caustic and brilliant, The Australian Ugliness is a masterpiece that enables us to see our surroundings with fresh eyes. This handsome anniversary edition is complemented by Robin Boyd's original sketches for the book and a new afterword by major contemporary architects.

John S. Chase–The Chase Residence

Author : David Heymann
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934951326
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book John S. Chase–The Chase Residence written by David Heymann and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The low-slung brick home that architect John Saunders Chase completed for his own family in 1959 was Houston’s first modernist house with a true interior courtyard, a form with which other progressive architects were only starting to experiment. It was equally radical that he built it at all. When Chase graduated from The University of Texas School of Architecture in 1952—the first African American to do so—no Houston architecture firm would hire him. Chase petitioned the state for special permission to take the licensing exam, becoming the first African American registered as an architect in Texas. By 1959, he ran his own thriving firm and had established a position of remarkable influence in Houston’s social, political, and economic life. The Chase Residence, in both its original version and after a fundamental alteration undertaken in 1968, is a testament to Chase’s accomplishments. Beautifully illustrated, John S. Chase—The Chase Residence examines how the architecture of this seminal but little-known house frames the life lived within it. It places the house in the larger context of Chase’s architectural career and his times. The book is also intended for readers broadly interested in the relationship between American architecture and society.