Sustainable Design
Books I Love:
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be
For those of you who have never heard of Paul Arden, he was an executive creative director for Saatchi & Satchi a powerhouse advertisement agency which handled many large accounts such as British Airways and Toyota. The image he developed for these companies is still a part of our popular . . . continue reading book review: It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be
Cheap Piano: Renzo Piano Building Workshop 1966-2008
Everybody loves the work of Renzo Piano, even his bad buildings. Until now, monographs and texts depicting the work of Piano were both expensive and outdated, highlighting popular older works of the RPBW. Piano: Renzo Piano Building Workshop 1966-2008 is 528 pages of Renzo Piano eye candy, complete with high . . . continue reading book review: Cheap Piano: Renzo Piano Building Workshop 1966-2008
Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style: A Life in Architecture
Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style: A Life in Architecture is not a monograph containing photos of Kahn’s masterpieces. Although it is technically a biography, Carter Wiseman offers readers something more. Wiseman manages to bring Kahn to life through his words. It is a book that is about more . . . continue reading book review: Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style: A Life in Architecture
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Sanders Pepper Smith features some nice projects that make use of traditional forms and materials in a sustainable and conservatively contemporary way. Although the firm’s site is not user friendly, their work is worth checking out. Office located in Redr - Imago Dei Blog
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Topotek1 is a contemporary landscape architecture firm that has become famouse of late for thier collaborative efforts with BIG, the most noteworthy project of their colalboration is their winning entry for the IBA Hamburg. Office located in Berlin. - Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Architect
Hugh Newell Jacobsen has practiced under his own name since 1958, although his flash website is a little clunky, his architecture is not. Jacobsen’s work consists of clean lines and primitive forms, which is complemented by his sensitivity to materiality. - Drawing Department
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Terry Boling’s designs are the result of investigations in materiality and creating an architecture that expresses the process of construction as much as it is about functionality and space. Office located in Cincinnati Ohio. - José García Design
José García is part of a rising community of design talent in Cincinnati that has gone relatively unnoticed. His designs are a balance of contemporary clean lines with a sensitivity to materials and the human spirit. Office located in Cincinnati Ohio. - logon
logon is a German-based international design office that specializes in integrating urban planning, architecture and landscape disciplines to provide solutions perfectly tailored to the given location and context. Offices located in Berlin Germany and Sha