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Sanctuary: Homes and Resorts by de Reus Architects is the latest book on the work of de Reus Architects published by ORO Editions. The Monograph features sixteen recent projects, exploring the interplay between nature and craft as the basis of timeless architecture.
Title
Sanctuary: Homes and Resorts by de Reus Architects
Author
Mark de Reus, Edited by Pablo Mandel. Introduction by Joseph Giovannini
Category
Architecture, Interior design
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https://dereusarchitects.com/sanctuary/
Practice with Purpose: A Guide to Mission-Driven Design is about designing buildings beyond their property lines to address some of society’s most urgent challenges: the climate emergency, racial and ethnic injustice, chronic homelessness, educational crises, and the preservation of the embodied carbon and culture of existing buildings.
Title
Practice with Purpose: A Guide to Mission-Driven Design
Author
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
Category
Architecture, Interior design
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https://oroeditions.com/product/practice-with-purpose
In architecture, the term "refractive surfaces" can refer to architectural elements that use the refraction of light to achieve aesthetic and functional effects in a design. Refraction is the phenomenon by which light changes direction when passing from one medium to another with a different refractive index.
Title
Motion Design & Refractive Surfaces
Author
Resour.Integral Projects-Jacke Huayta
Category
Architecture, Design
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From highly crafted residences to impactful cultural projects, this uniquely designed book— conceived as a double vinyl album—offers a detailed look at Skylab's innovative work. Skylab: The Nature of Buildings is the first monograph of the Portland, Oregon-based architecture and design studio.
Title
Skylab The Nature of Buildings
Author
Jeff Kovel, Introduction by Mimi Zeiger With contributions by John Hoke, Mauricio Villarreal, and Randy Gragg
Category
Architecture, Interior Design
The work of Pritzker Prize–winning architect Thom Mayne and that of the firm Morphosis at its most pure is best seen in the models that preceded the buildings, masterworks made at scale, for the first time comprehensively gathered and shown here.
Title
M³: modeled works [archive] 1972-2022
Author
Thom Mayne
Category
Architecture - Individual Architects & Firms - Monographs
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https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847872756/
Today, traditional dwellings, adapted to climate, culture, and context, are gradually replaced by dwellings informed by imported fashions and by an abstract knowledge, insensitive to the subtle knowledge achieved through a deep experience of nature and local climate, and its potential in terms of adaptation and manipulation.
Title
THE FUTURE IS A JOURNEY TO THE PAST Ten Stories About Architecture
Author
Mario Cucinella
Category
Architecture, Environment, Culture, Vernacular, Sustainability
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Inspired by Place showcases eleven homes designed by the architects of CLB from their studios in Wyoming and Montana. A portion of the homes also highlight the group’s interior design work, which strikes a balance between sophisticated and comfortable and is conceived as a natural extension of the architecture.
Title
Inspired by Place
Author
CLB Architects
Category
Architecture, interior design
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https://oroeditions.com/product/inspired-by-place
Over 512 pages the Amsterdam-based studio, Studio Modijefsky, takes the reader on a visual voyage that immerses you in every step of their design process. Every step from concept to construction is brought to life in stunning detail as the studio reveals how it creates multi-layered spatial experiences.
Title
Making Space
Author
Studio Modijefsky, Will Georgi, Jeroen Junte
Category
Interior design
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www.studiomodijefsky.nl/shopbook/making-space