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Studio 804 is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation that operates as a nine-month academic-year studio at the University of Kansas. It is a fully synthesized educational experience that focuses on the research and development of inventive building solutions to address the pressing issues that face the built environment. Over the last two decades, the emphasis has been on the future of sustainable design and how new and emerging technologies can be combined with passive strategies to create the type of zero energy, resource neutral buildings that are increasingly necessary. This book provides in depth, detailed studies of the drawn and constructed methods developed by the Studio to help inform the industry as to how Studio 804 has produced sixteen consecutive LEED Platinum buildings to date.

Peter Braithwaite Studio pursues novel and unique approaches to otherwise ordinary vernacular assemblies and humble material palettes.

An in-depth investigation of architectural technologies by leading contemporary architects.

The book provides a detailed insight into the entire design and construction process.

This monograph presents a comprehensive overview of a Landscape Architecture career spanning more than four decades: the life's work of John L. Wong. The featured works were created in collaboration across diverse cultures and countries, employing a vast range of concepts and exploring the whole spectrum of possibilities, from crafting small gardens to planning large-scale neighborhoods, towns and new communities. John L. Wong's prolific body of work is global with focal points in North America, the Middle East, and Asia, especially Japan, Korea and China. In addition to the wide array of project types and locations, a notable portfolio highlight is his long-term design collaboration with Stanford University, which continues to evolve and have a number of far-ranging impacts. More than 150 campus improvement projects at Stanford University (which include campus connections, open space systems, and public realm and site-specific uses) make up this large-scale design work which both reclaims Leland Stanford and Frederick Law Olmsted's 100-year-old vision while also building on that legacy to create a beautiful, resilient campus environment that facilitates learning in the 21st century. Another groundbreaking, in every sense of the word, keystone of this body of work are the groundscape designs for a number of high rises which include 12 of the 100 tallest buildings in the world. With the continual emergence of climate change issues and increasing resilience and social equity requirements asked of environmental design, the remaining works explore Wong's new and myriad responses to the challenges of our time. A solid grasp of the four foundational elements that make up a project--Client, Program, Site and Budget--is key to a successful design. Combining all four, as well as asking the right questions and listening attentively, is the path to forging the "Big Idea" through which Design can truly begin.

If youâEUR(TM)re going to design a big house, make it gorgeously grand, fantastically executed, and in perfect, reciprocal balance with the landscape.

Twenty evocative depictions of Miami Beach¿s Art Deco Historic District

Twenty evocative depictions of Coral Gables¿ distinctive twentieth-century architecture

Shows how XRANGE's unconventional architecture places an emphasis on systemization and tactility.

This book contains a compilation of the work of Perkins & Will Miami since it's inception in 1996. Drawing from a legacy of nearly a century of the fabled Chicago architectural Firm, the story of the Miami Studio is one of a search for a regional and critical modernist language unique to its time and place. Starting as a five person office, the studio has grown to a team of 70 architects, interior designers, and landscape professionals who have come together with a single vision of meaning and purpose. The work ranges from one of the most visionary Corporate Headquarters in the country, to a Hospital in Ghana; from the most important new Public Park in Florida to the largest Women's University in the Middle East; from an Innovation Center in Rio de Janeiro, to an Office Building in Wynwood. The book contains a series of interviews with the founding members and partners carrying the Studio into the future.

The building of STRATA outside of Phoenix, Arizona, was an act of audacity, perseverance, and grit, as is any undertaking in the deserts of the American Southwest.The three responsible entities--Drewett Works Architecture, Desert Star Construction, and David Michael Miller, Ltd. Interiors, drew on the long, great tradition of 20th-century modernism in Arizona, whose very name means "dry" (Arrida Zona) in Spanish. Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra are just two modern masters who have attempted to tame the Arizona desert, make it habitable, and add to its natural beauty. STRATA celebrates modernist design in multiple ways. Its vast use of glass blurs the inside with the outside. Its deep overhanging eaves intersecting with each other at various angles recalls the best work of Wright. Its expansive glass calls to mind Neutra's work and his insistence on architectural transparency. The house's imaginative interiors bespeak comfort and solace needed for days spent in the unforgiving Arizona sun. Its construction required extensive work on the site before the first slab was poured, a testament to the talent of the construction team. Whenever and wherever possible, native stone and wood were used to give the house a sense of authenticity. The sliding glass doors located at multiple points allow the owners to have delightful dinner parties just as the sun is setting and the dry air is cooling - neither indoors nor outdoors, but a vivid combination of the two. This book is about the process of building STRATA and also puts the house in historical perspective with an essay, "Building in the Sonoran Desert," by James Moore McCown, a prominent architectural journalist based in Boston. This work is careful to chronicle the work of all three collaborators - without one of them, the results would not have been possible. The Architect. The Interior Designer. The Builder. All get their due in STRATA, a celebration of audacity and the beauty of the American Southwest.

STRIVE explores Jones Studio's four decades of work bringing inventive design to our built environment.

These seventy-five works are the harvest of seventeen years of exploration from our office in San Francisco.

The first book by father-and-son team Stan and Jess Field reveals an inspirational collection of projects that balances the beauty of human creation and the purity of natural systems. The Fields bring a vision of architecture that is deeply connected to the land such that each of the buildings in this volume forms a symbiotic relationship with the distinctive landscape that inspired it. The living environments unfold as a series of closely choreographed spatial and sensory experiences. Each reflects the alchemy that occurs when buildings and their natural settings are intimately intertwined, as these buildings are. They not only capture--but also elevate--the ineffable feeling of living with the land.Conversations with the Land follows the architects' journey of exploration across the places and events that influenced their creative process. From their native country of South Africa to their adopted home in Northern California, Stan and Jess learned how to pair architecture with natural terrain by examining its range and diversity. This book captures the insights and moments of discovery gained from their encounters with the land. The Fields' responsive approach and meticulous execution extends to every element of their architectural practice, from considering the way that a tree casts a shadow on a wall to carefully orchestrating a project to minimize the impact of construction on a site. The book includes a Q&A with Stan Field; an essay by Jess Field on his sources of inspiration; sketches and models that they use as design tools; and a portfolio of 10 exquisitely crafted houses shaped by the imprint of the natural world and beautifully documented by acclaimed photographers Joe Fletcher and Matthew Millman.