Digital technology and the Internet may have changed our lifestyles over the last decade, but so far they have had very little impact on our dwellings. Looking to the most innovative talents from around the world, FutureHouse presents ninety private and community housing projects that challenge the accepted norms of our living spaces and offer a dazzling array of ingenious solutions to meet with the widely changing needs and desires of our global society. Against the background of globalisation and urbanization, these designers - most of whom were raised and educated at the dawn of the digital age - confront such issues as individualizing collective housing and spatial multigenerational flexibility, radically reimagining how we can - could - live. Essays by international critics such as Frederic Migayrou (France), Bart Lootsma (The Netherlands), Andreas Ruby (Germany), Manuel Gausa (Spain), Kyong Park (U.S.A), and Christian Girard (France) complement the work of avant-garde and experimental architects from every corner of the globe.

Archilab's Futurehouse: Radical Experiments in Living Space

Arts & Photography

Brayer, Marie-Ange

Archilab Conference (2001 Orleans, France)

Simonot, Beatrice

Architecture

Thames&Hudson

An indispensable and innovative resource for anyone involved in contemporary architecture and urban development. Cities are the ultimate and most complex manifestations of human civilization. For millennia, architects and builders have attempted to rationalize them into well-functioning and livable places for their inhabitants. While many aspects of a city evolve naturally, other facets result from masterful human interventions and radical imagination. Future City celebrates the visionary urban plans that have preoccupied architects trying to create a better world from the 1950s to the present. The book features hundreds of seminal and influential works by some sixty architects, ranging from the groundbreaking experiments of Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Peter Cook, and Daniel Libeskind to a new generation of rising stars, including Asymptote, NOX, UN Studio, and Greg Lynn. 500+ illustrations.

Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture

Politics & Social Sciences

Alison, Jane

Spiller, Neil

Migayrou, Frederic

Social Sciences

Since its inception in a provincial town outside Paris some eight years ago, ArchiLab has established itself as one of the world's most important showcases of young architecture talent. Published to coincide with the major exhibition at Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, ArchiLab's Urban Experiments presents the very latest projects of the rising avant-garde alongside the pioneers of radical architecture. Featuring hundreds of seminal and influential works by ninety architects, ranging from the groundbreaking experiments of Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Peter Cook, Daniel Libeskind and Co(op) Himmelblau alongside a new generation of rising geniuses, including Asymptote, NOX, UN Studios and Greg Lynn, this ambitious publication assembles several generations of visionary architecture in a single volume. With the city as the context and catalyst for the work, the book provides an indispensable resource for architectural and urban development and innovation for the third millennium. Packaged in a compact format that makes for useful student research and boundless inspiration for practitioners, ArchiLab's Urban Experiments continues the tradition of breaking conventions to explore new territories of design around the world.

Archilab's Urban Experiments : Radical Architecture, Art and the City

Engineering & Transportation

Fumio, Nanjo

Engineering

Gardners Books

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<li>This is the most recent publication from the celebrated designer, Ross Lovegrove</li>
<li>An inspiring monograph, which highlights how innovative vitality can be achieved sustainably</li>
</ul>Ross Lovegrove is an internationally renowned designer and visionary, whose works are celebrated as the new aesthetic expression of the twenty-first century. His industrial design is inspired by the logic and beauty of nature. It connects technology and innovative production methods with new materials and an intelligent, organic vocabulary of forms, in an inimitable way. By carefully selecting, combining, and composing these elements he succeeds in inventing a completely unique language of his own. A very human vision and a sustainable, inventive approach form the basis for all of his work. His philosophy is rooted in elegant functionalism. Despite all of the imaginativeness and pleasure in experimentation revealed in his body of work, he considers himself a thinker whose interest is not in the pretentious, but in the development of sensible, useful things. At the heart of this monograph, therefore, is a lasting combination of high standards and creativity, design and nature, and the latest technologies from the fields of physics, biology, anthropology, and ecology.

Ross Lovegrove: Convergence

Lovegrove, Ross

Individual Artists

Sieveking

Philippe Starck (born 1949) is one of the world’s most famous and prolific designers. From luxurious hotels and high-profile restaurants to his inspirational reworkings of everyday household items like the juicer, Starck’s elegant designs have consistently been guided by principles of functionality; every object is designed to be at the disposal of its users. Before Starck’s designs reach these users, however, they begin life as ideas on a page, and it is this side of Starck’s work that Philippe Starck: Secret Drawings addresses for the first time. This volume includes thousands of never-before-seen drawings and sketches, published to accompany an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou Málaga conceived as an extension of the 2003 Philippe Starck exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. This book offers “something intimate and secret,” as Starck himself writes―insight into the very core of the designer’s creative process.

Philippe Starck: Secret Drawings: 4,000 Sketches Unveiled

Decorative Arts & Design

Turner

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