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Название: The Art of Creative Pruning: Inventive Ideas for Training and Shaping Trees and Shrubs
Автор: Jake Hobson
Издательство: Timber Press
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 31 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Nothing brings a touch of artistry to the garden like ornamental pruning, and a series of deliberate cuts can create landscapes and evoke faraway places. All that's needed to recreate the effect in the garden are a sharp pair of pruners, some imagination, and the instruction found in The Art of Creative Pruning. Drawing on both eastern and western styles, author Jake Hobson moves beyond the traditional lollipops and animals and teaches a wholly new approach to ornamental pruning that appeals to modern sensibilities.

Название: Современная архитектура Японии. Традиции восприятия пространства
Автор: Нина Коновалова
Язык: русский
Издательство: Нестор-История
Год: 2017
Страниц: 360 стр. 85 иллюстраций
Формат: pdf
Размер: 29,7 Мб

Япония отличается особым отношением к традиционным ценностям своей культуры. Понимание механизмов актуализации и развития традиций, которыми пользуется Япония, может открыть новые способы сохранения устойчивости культуры, что становится в настоящее время все более актуальной проблемой для многих стран мира…

Название: The Japanese Bath
Автор: Bruce Smith and Yoshiko Yamamoto
Издательство: Gibbs Smith Publisher
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Размер: 53 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In the West, a bath is a place one goes to cleanse the body. In Japan, one goes there to cleanse the soul. Bathing in Japan is about much more than cleanliness: it is about family and community. It is about being alone and contemplative, time to watch the moon rise above the garden. Along with sixty full-color illustrations of the light and airy baths themselves, The Japanese Bath, delves into the aesthetic of bathing Japanese style and the innate beauty of the steps surrounding the process. The authors explain how to create a Japanese bath in your own home. A Zen meditation, the Japanese bath, indeed, cleanses the soul, and one emerges refreshed, renewed, and serene.

Название: Emotional Rooms
Автор: Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz
Издательство: Atria Books
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Named by House Beautiful as one of "America's Most Brilliant Decorators" for ten consecutive years, Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz is recognized as one of the most stylish and influential of today's interior designers. His sensuous, glamorous, and ethereal work captures an unusual sense of openness and light through the use of color, materials, architecture, and the unexpected integration of fashion. Noriega-Ortiz has traveled the world to design spaces for such clients as rock superstar Lenny Kravitz, bestselling author Laura Esquivel, and celebrity photographer Mark Seliger. Now, with Emotional Rooms, he shares his process with anyone who may not have access to a high-end designer but wants a home or workspace that is at once beautiful and true to themselves.

Название: Bernard Maybeck: Architect of Elegance
Автор: Mark Wilson and Joel Puliatti
Издательство: Gibbs Smith
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 17 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The work of Bernard Maybeck has influenced generations of architects. His landmark buildings include the Palace of Fine Arts and First Church of Christ, Scientist. His emphasis on an open use of natural materials marks him as a pioneer in sustainable architecture, or “green design.” Maybeck's work achieves that delicate balance between historicism and modernism, and his buildings are still in use throughout several states on the West Coast and the Midwest. This book includes more than two dozen Maybeck buildings that have never been photographed in color in any other book, as well as several of his buildings that were never documented before.

Название: Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies
Автор: Mark DeKay, G. Z. Brown
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2014
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 433
Размер: 61.4 Mb
Язык: English

An updated guide to designing buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, and light with the sky.
This fully updated Third Edition covers principles of designing buildings that use the sun for heating, wind for cooling, and daylight for natural lighting. With 432 printed pages and a 450-page electronic book, supplemented with Digital Extras, this package supplies the preliminary design tools and strategies for achieving Architecture 2030® carbon-neutral performance targets. Using hundreds of illustrations, this book offers practical strategies that give the designer the tools they need to make energy efficient buildings.

Название: The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture
Автор: Vincent Scully
Издательство: Trinity University Press
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 50 Мб
Язык: английский / English

When The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods first appeared in 1962, it was hailed by the critics for it erudition, historical imagination and boldness. Subsequently, this comprehensive study of Greek temples and site-planning has been widely accepted as a landmark of architectural history, for it offers an inspired and arresting insight into nature and function of Greek sacred architecture. Vincent Scully, one of America's most brilliant and articulate scholars, understands the temples as physical embodiment of the gods in landscapes that had for the Greeks divine attributes and sacred connotations.

Название: The Splendor of English Gothic Architecture (Temporis)
Автор: John Shannon Hendrix
Издательство: Parkstone International
Год: 2013
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 103 Mb
Язык: English

This book explains and celebrates the richness of English churches and cathedrals, which have a major place in medieval architecture. The English Gothic style developed somewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed its own architectural and ornamental codes. The author, John Shannon Hendrix, classifies English Gothic architecture in four principal stages: the early English Gothic, the decorated, the curvilinear, and the perpendicular Gothic. Several photographs of these architectural testimonies allow us to understand the whole originality of Britain during the Gothic era: in Canterbury, Wells, Lincoln, York, and Salisbury. The English Gothic architecture is a poetic one, speaking both to the senses and spirit.

Название: 101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School
Автор: Matthew Frederick and Vikas Mehta
Издательство: Three Rivers Press
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 37 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Providing unique, accessible lessons on urban design, this title in the bestselling 101 Things I Learned® series is a perfect resource for students, recent graduates, general readers, and even seasoned professionals.

Название: The Bee Cottage Story
Автор: Frances Schultz and Trevor Tondro
Издательство: Skyhorse Publishing
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 31 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Inspired by Frances Schultz’s popular House Beautiful magazine series on the makeover of her East Hampton house, Bee Cottage, what began as a decorating book evolved into a memoir combining the best elements of both: beautiful photos and a compelling personal story. Schultz taps into what she learned during her renovations of Bee Cottage—determining how each area in the house and garden would be used and furnished—to unravel the question of how a mature, intelligent, successful woman could have made such a mess of her personal life.