Author: Raul A. Barreneche
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: modern, pacific
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-05-09
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0847827658
ISBN-13: 9780847827657

Southeast Asia and Oceania are global epicenters of economic growth, and Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines in particular have each enjoyed building booms that include modern houses designed by some of the world’s most talented architects. And though these countries feature rich variations in culture, language, and in some cases climate, their contemporary residential architectures share many similar characteristics. Sometimes these are crisp residential designs rendered in the most modern forms, while in other cases architects draw on local cultur

Authors:Gisue Hariri, Mojgan Hariri,  Richard Meier,
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: hariri, houses
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0847827798
ISBN-13: 9780847827794

Since starting their practice in 1986, Iranian-born, American-educated sisters Gisue and Mojgan Hariri have earned widespread praise for their ambitious body of work. Their up-to-the-minute recasting of classical modernist principles has made them a source of continuing inspiration to design students and professionals alike. Over the course of recent years, the Hariris’ portfolio has expanded from small-scale commissions to widely celebrated projects, including the much lauded "Digital House" and the first house to be completed at The Houses at Sagaponac, the ambitious Hamptons developme

Author: Raul A. Barreneche
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: modern, tropical
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-11-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0847825795
ISBN-13: 9780847825790

In many countries, modern houses have evolved from European-influenced International Style modernism to "regional modernist" variations on local materials and building techniques. This is a survey of new tropical houses that embrace open floor plans, exterior courtyards, sunny patios and cool stucco surfaces - all within a regionally inflected modern architectural vocabulary.

Author: Cheryl Kent
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: hovey, david, architecture, dwellings, nature
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-11-27
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0847826457
ISBN-13: 9780847826452

David Hovey is building some of the best modernist houses in the world, and the world is starting to notice. Hovey has made a name for himself as the torchbearer for modern residential design, a designation he shares with a growing number of architects who’ve returned to pure modernism. His houses merge into the landscapes in which they’re situated, and with names like Cloud Chaser and Rain Maker, their ties to the land and climate are made clear. Hovey picks up where Frank Lloyd Wright left off, forging ahead with explorations of simple materials, rectilinear geometries, and struc

Authors:Alan Hess,  Alan Weintrau,
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: houses, niemeyer, oscar
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-05-16
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0847827984
ISBN-13: 9780847827985

Oscar Niemeyer is one of the greatest architects of our time. Hugely influential, his work has added a new dimension to modern architecture in the twentieth century. The designer of Brasilia showed that the rhythmic, sensuous lines of Brazilian Modernism were as legitimately modern as the rectilinear lines of the Bauhaus. Oscar Niemeyer Houses showcases the houses built by this seminal modern master in a lavish format that finally does justice to his extraordinary work. Viewed as a collection, these houses serve to demonstrate the wide range of Niemeyer’s prodigious genius. The designs s

Author: Simonetta Greggio
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: towns, small, beautiful, one, france, hundred
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-09-05
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0847828417
ISBN-13: 9780847828418

A sequel to the highly successful One Hundred and One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy, this book expands the series to include the most enchanting hamlets of France. Gorgeously illustrated as well as informative, One Hundred and One Beautiful Small Towns of France is a journey through the French countryside, a place where the pace slows, locals engage strangers in conversation, and every town has a unique story to tell. Travel between the hilltop towns of the Central Massif and the Pyrenees to rockbound coastal fishing villages in Normandy and Brittany. Breathtaking full-color photographs creat

Author: John Wilmerding
Publisher: Rizzoli
Keywords: estes, richard
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-05-09
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0847828077
ISBN-13: 9780847828074

Richard Estes (b.1932) is one of America’s leading photorealist painters. This new large-format book will cover fifty-five years of Estes’s work, from 1950 to 2005, and will include paintings, watercolors, and preparatory sketches. Estes is regarded as one of the most important painters of the New York urban landscape. The crisp clarity of Estes’s paintings is reminiscent of photography, yet upon closer inspection his work reveals elements and perspectives that do not exist in reality and have more to do with minimalism and realism than with traditional landscape painting. Th