Spaces VI: A Compemporary Vision (Spaces (Bilingual))

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It's the book version of HGTV meets ESPN: For the millions of men around the world who have ceded their bachelor pad décor to laundry rooms and playrooms, ManSpace provides inspiration for men to reclaim private spaces that offer more than big screen TVs and recliners.

ManSpace is a refreshing take on the spaces in and around the home that men claim as their own. The smoking room, the garage workshop, the basement pool room, the recording studio or the wine cellar are just a few examples of the spaces men carve out of their homes. Manspace will profile these spaces to offer inspiration and ideas to other men looking for a way to create personalized places dedicated to their work and play. ManSpace profiles around 50 different spaces from converted air streams trailers and attics to extra bedrooms and out buildings to entire houses dedicated to a man's possessions and activities.

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A call to action for men.......2007-06-04

ManSpace is a call to action for men: a call to build a 'personal space' outside of the usual woman-controlled home, where you can keep your stuff without fear of its being converted to a 'more useful' nursery or sewing room. MANSPACE: A PRIMAL GUIDE TO MARKING YOUR TERRITORY can be a recording studio, a workshop, or more. Men are invited to view sample houses and homes which reflect 'manspaces', from music rooms to campy man-oriented gadget-filled abodes. Samples from all types of 'manspaces' appear in full color and offer inspiration, insights and a range of options, making MANSPACE perfect for any general-interest lending collection.

Just what the Dr. ordered.......2007-04-05

An excellent book, long overdue. I highly recommend; you will enjoy.

Decorating Ideas for Men .......2007-04-04

This book makes a great gift for the man who has everything. Great ideas for men to carve out their own space in a home usually decorated by women.

good primer for thought!.......2007-02-01

A cool book to get ideas from. Fun to read. A lot of cats in the book obviously have much more disposable income than the average joe looking for a place to call their own but it has some cool ideas. Worth checking out!

ManSpace is a Winner.......2007-01-19

This book is filled with wonderful photographs of varios types of Man Spaces. It is well written and is easy reading. I purchased the book as a gift for my husband, but found it an appealing read for women, as well.

How to Live in Small Spaces: Design, Furnishing, Decoration and Detail for the Smaller Home

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How to live in small spaces
Great Basic Color Education
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How to Live in Small Spaces: Design, Furnishing, Decoration and Detail for the Smaller Home
Terence Conran
Manufacturer: Firefly Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1554072425

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A world-renowned design authority shows how to make the most of every square foot.

Whether motivated by soaring energy costs, smaller families or the desire to live more simply, homeowners are abandoning "McMansions" for smaller housing. In How to Live in Small Spaces, Terence Conran explains that what's paramount to livability is not square footage, but how the space is divided.

In this comprehensive, full color book, Conran tackles the many challenges posed by small spaces. Chapters cover storage, bedrooms, children's rooms, lighting, extension and much more. "Assessing your needs" checklists and "points to consider" sidebars add valuable ideas. The six case studies that conclude the book provide excellent examples of great designs.

The author offers practical advice on exploiting every inch of space through:

Using fold-down and pull-out features
Buying slimline appliances
Installing indoor portholes and windows
Lessening the impact of furniture
Using scale and proportion to advantage
Manipulating color, texture and pattern
Using screens, partitions and platforms
Improving circulation paths.

Terence Conran never forgets the challenges posed by small spaces or the ingenuity and compromises required. He shows how easy it is to create a home whose comfort is not dependent on size, but on efficiency and integrity.

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How to live in small spaces.......2007-08-12

This book has some very valuable information on getting your life ready to live in a smaller more efficent space. It also shows some very good examples to inspire you.

Great Basic Color Education.......2007-04-04

Though I am not color blind, one would be hard to believe that when it comes to color choices I have made in the past. I knew nothing about color and how colors work with one another.
The first part of this book outlines basic color theory - the primary colors, secondary and tertiary colors and how they work together. The book then goes into how to use color to set different moods or support different themes - for example, what colors to use for an Asian or Mediterreanan look.
I learned a lot - and finally got it through my head that paint is not permanent - if you don't like it - paint it over. With this book in hand, I won't be afraid to try different color combos. This is a great book with lots of ideas!

Like the book.......2007-04-03

Well organized,liked the pictures and ideas. A little light on actual hard core information, but a nice intro to the ideas that are useful to consider when contemplating a small space remodel.

In Detail: Interior Spaces: Space, Light, Material

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best volume in the best detail architecture books available
great source
Sometimes opaque, but great projects
a very informative architectural detail review on residential
Excelent...

In Detail: Interior Spaces: Space, Light, Material

Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3764366303

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Space, light and material: from the meditative ambiance of a chapel or synagogue to the colourful, organic forms of fashion boutiques, the design of an interior space - composed of lighting, the surfaces, textures and colours of materials, finishing and features - creates atmosphere and lends specific character. The growing willingness on the part of designers in recent years to experiment with colours, materials and spatial concepts is demonstrated in the range and diversity of international examples presented in this, the third volume in the series "In Detail". All plans and drawings of interiors and furnishings have been carefully researched and drawn by the staff of DETAIL. Three introductory essays by expert authors are followed by 28 exemplary case-studies by such names as Alvaro Siza, Future Systems, Dominique Perrault, and Herzog & de Meuron.

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best volume in the best detail architecture books available.......2007-08-25

This book is part of a deliriously excellent series of Birkhauser's In
Detail collection, a series of books emphasizing and celebrating the importance of architectural details and the susbsequent spatial magic that emerges from the vigilant attention to design craft. I must say its excellence SHAMES the building culture of The united States of Kitsch. The level of American work in the field of architecture, by comparison, is stunted, nostalgic to the point of senility, and plastic garbage overseen by power broker idiot clients. Sadly, it's painfully, pathetically true, and these books prove it as a matter of course. Why are we (American) practitioners, builders, teachers, students, clients, laypeople, basically everyone really SO ill informed about design????
Don't we care?? Is there so much discord and disagreement?? It's puzzling.
Get these books and feast on the International wisdom; let's get half a clue.

great source.......2007-08-21

The book was exactly as I expected, high quality, detailed explanations in the Caliber of detail magazine. I will defiantly be purchasing the other books in this series.

Sometimes opaque, but great projects.......2007-01-05

I found the essays on simple construction to be variable in quality...The chapters on wood and steel either suffered in translation or were student composition exercises to begin with. The projects illustrated, however, are of uniformly high quality, and are documented with Detail's typical precision. For an American architect, many of the projects using wood construction will be eye openers. The stone and clay construction projects are wonderful for daydreaming about a different building culture in this country. Well worth it for the photos and drawings.

a very informative architectural detail review on residential.......2006-07-10

The book describes simple and neat residential building design in detail , shape, and material. The book should be applicable to architects or designers who aspire to work in modernism or minimalism on housing and who desire to improve the residential detil design to be more insighfully clean and blight. As well, the analysis from the publication could be developed to function in other architecture types.

Excelent..........2006-03-08

Meets my expectations...
interesting book, nice pictures, good information, good examples, some detailed drawings, hard cover quality.

Architecture in Detail: Spaces (Architecture in Detail)

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Simply the best serie of books in architectur

Architecture in Detail: Spaces (Architecture in Detail)
Oscar Ojeda Riera , and James McCown
Manufacturer: Rockport Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1592531067

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Rockport's Architecture in Detail series examines the role of details in contemporary architecture through the work of many emerging and established practitioners whose projects speak sensitively and energetically on a small scale.

In this edition, Spaces, acclaimed photographer Paul Warchol shows off these details in his lavish, full-color photographs, which makes turning these pages a pleasure for even the casual browser.

The projects are often beautiful telltales of a designer's thoughts, scaled to our eyes, made physical to the touch of our hands. These crafted moments remind us that architecture can be a subtle and powerful force -- played out in some cases by evoking historical motifs, in others by radical experimentation. But more than a simple catalogue of ideas, this book ultimately shows these details as individual expressions of discovery, gestures of delight or severity, and of beauty and clarity. They are meaningful indications of the architect's presence -- more than all else, willful signs that the true craft of design is alive and well.

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Simply the best serie of books in architectur.......2007-03-13

This serie is absolut outstanding, You will love it if your are a hardcore fan of the simple expression of complex thoughts in good architectur.

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Spaces 8 (Spaces (Bilingual))
Fernando de Haro , and Omar Fuentes
Manufacturer: AM Editores
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Binding: Hardcover

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Spaces VI: A Compemporary Vision (Spaces (Bilingual))

ASIN: 9709726374
Release Date: 2006-09-15

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Great commercial spaces from top architectural firms

* More than 100 full-color photos of great buildings, offices, shops, restaurants
* Innovative designs to meet today's needs

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This book gives readers the full tour on mirror, from its origins over 6,000 years ago to today's uses in design. It also illustrates the remarkable ways in which mirror can be used to alter perspectives and change the way people react to a room. Color and black-and-white photographs demonstrate design achievements with mirror.

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Creative, Fascinating Use of the Mirror.......1999-12-06

To paraphrase 'Art Times', 'this is far more than an interior decorator's book, but a definitive analysis of the creative, and practical uses of the mirror.' 'Mirror By Design' won Honorable Mention for the Polsky Award from the American Society of Interior Designers.

Ms. Heyne, an architect herself, shows how architects and designers use mirrors to dematerialize heavy, bulky design elements, such as mirroring supporting columns; to create illusions, such as installing an 'infinity chamber' in a low restaurant ceiling to provide the feeling of height; or even to create views where there are none, such as through Ms. Heyne's own 'periscope window', which reflects a view from ground level into a basement area.

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Precious, brilliantly colored stones arranged by skilled artisans in intricate patterns that follow the designs of master architects have been an important aspect of Italian architecture for centuries. In this book, Kim Williams provides a detailed overview of these beautifully designed pavements. From the second-century Pantheon in Rome to the twentieth-century Santa Maria Novella train station in Florence, Williams traces the evolution of pavement design, points to characteristic design elements of each age, and explains the various techniques and materials used.

Analyzing the pavements in relationship to their particular architectural context, she shows how these designs heighten the architectural experience and provide a key to understanding architects' intentions. Williams also offers an in-depth analysis of individual pavements in order to shed light on the proportional systems, geometric constructions, symbolism and historical sources for the design. Through her accurately measured, exquisitely rendered drawings of the pavements, many of which have never before been documented, these pavements are given their full due as architecture and craft.

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Clearly inspiring!.......2007-05-24

I discovered this book searching for information on Cosmati designs and was delighted with it when it arrived. After looking at murky photos and trying to understand garbled descriptions of geometry in other books, I appreciated the fabulous painstaking in-plane illustrations. The "reader-friendly" (at least to an artist) explanations of mathematics and geometry were an enlightening bonus. This book will be particulary helpful to designers and others who want clarity, great presentation, and concise information.

Ms. Williams gives the stone lovers among us a gift........1999-10-23

This stunning look into pavement design of the past 2000 years is brilliantly executed--from the detailed drawings to the in-depth analysis of mathematical principles and design principles/patterns, this book is a treat for my eyes and my mind. In working on my PhD in the stone and paving methods of Rome (and beyond), I've found Ms. Williams book fills a hole in academia left vacant for far too long. You love architecture/history/church building/math/ or design? You must have this gorgeous gift.

A book which beautifully answers some fundamental questions.......1998-09-12

Wonderfully conceived, researched and illustrated, this is a book which beautifully answers some of the fundamental questions as to the why and how of paving. When I walk through the majestic spaces mentioned in Ms. Williams book I will do so with my curious eyes glued to the ground for a change. Truly a fantastic book; a good read be it for the layman or as a much needed point of reference for the learnèd. The illustrations are almost as good as being there.

Amazing reproduction of outstanding marble pavements........1998-02-08

This is a must book for history students of the Roman and Tuscan buildings. Contains 58 outstanding drawings of examples of Italian art pavemennt and the text explains them in detail. All architects and designers need a copy.

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Great Spaces: Home Interiors
Arian Mostaedi
Manufacturer: Links International
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 8496263533

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• Dozens of photographs plus plans for the best in home interiors

• Great spaces, great ideas from internationally acclaimed architects

Practical and beautiful, the homes featured in Great Spaces: Home Interiors represent the best in residences from around the world. Internationally renowned architects have created timeless works with style and originality, and their own commentary on their designs, plus full contextual information, floor plans, and construction details mean their work can become part of the evolving continuum of home design. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, Great Spaces: Home Interiors is an invaluable sourcebook for anyone working in the residential design field.

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Great Spaces: Home Extensions
Arian Mostaedi
Manufacturer: Links International
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 8496263525

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• Perfect for home owners as well as architects and design pros

• Ideas and inspiration plus construction details

Millions of Americans are choosing to add on to an existing home. Great Spaces: Home Extensions offers dozens of ideas for additions plus the practical information for making those dreams reality. Ingenious ways to add rooms, bring in light and the outdoors, make awkward spaces usable, and much more are showcased. Floor plans, architectural commentary form the originating studios, and sketches accompany each remarkable project, making this a book that will be embraced by professionals and home owners everywhere.

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