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Book Together by Design

Download or read book Together by Design written by William Richards and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing area in the sharing economy, intentional communities (co-living, communal living, and cohousing projects) are explored in this timely survey via architecture, public policy, sociology, and sustainability. In recent years, the Atlantic, Forbes, Time, and Curbed have reported on the growth of intentional communities--collective housing alternatives that initially gained popularity in the United States in the early 1990s and originated in Denmark in the 1960s. Featuring fifteen to twenty contemporary projects that address the challenges and benefits of shared resources and spaces, Intentional Communities addresses a growing population: according to the Pew Research Center, nearly one in three adults in the United States lives in a shared household. From Copenhagen to Washington, DC, this survey covers architecture, public policy, design, lifestyle, culture, and environmental sustainability.

Book School Design Together

Download or read book School Design Together written by Pamela Woolner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is ripe for interdisciplinary, collaborative approaches to school design. Whatever the current funding limitations, we still need to think about how we design, organise and use space in schools for learning and teaching. This edited book ensures that we don’t start from ground zero in terms of good design. Including chapters from researchers and practitioners in architecture and education, it assesses, describes and illustrates how education and environment can be mutually supportive. The centrality of participation and collaboration between architects, educators and school users holds these diverse contributions together. The book embodies the practice as well as the principle of interdisciplinary working. Organised in two parts, this volume considers how schools are designed and used with chapters looks at current and past school environments in the UK, US and Europe. It then questions how the learning environment can be improved through participatory design processes with contributors from design and education backgrounds offering both theoretical understanding and practical ideas. Written without subject-specific jargon or assumptions, it can be used by readers from either an architectural or educational background, bridging the on-going communication gap between education and design professionals. Design and education professionals alike will appreciate the: • practical information which shows how to change or improve a learning environment • focus on evidence-based research • case studies and chapter topics including schools from across the primary and secondary sectors.

Book Come Together

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francesco Spampinato
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2014-12-02
  • ISBN : 1616893931
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Come Together written by Francesco Spampinato and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past twenty years have seen a new generation of artists working together in small groups and large collectives to explore new avenues of art, design, performance, and commerce. In Come Together, author and visual artist Francesco Spampinato assembles an international roster of forty of today's most exciting and influential collectives, from design studios like Project Projects and political performance artists The Yes Men to flash mob provocateurs Improv Everywhere and the multimedia artists Assume Vivid Astro Focus. Alongside visual portfolios of their best work are in-depth interviews addressing each group's unique motivations, processes, and objectives. What emerges is a shared desire to turn viewers into producers and to use commercial mass-media strategies to challenge prevailing social, political, and cultural power structures. Come Together is an essential resource and inspiration for students, art lovers, and anyone interested in the cutting edge of visual culture.

Book Design for People

Download or read book Design for People written by Karrie Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most design books focus on outcome rather than on process. Scott Stowell's Design for People is groundbreaking in its approach to design literature. Focusing on 12 design projects by Stowell's design firm, Open, the volume offers a sort of oral history as told by those involved with each project--designers, clients, interns, collaborators and those who interact with the finished product on a daily basis. In addition to the case studies, the book features texts from influential figures in the design world, including writer Karrie Jacobs, founding editor-in-chief of Dwell magazine; plus contributions from Pierre Bernard, revolutionary French graphic artist and designer; Charles Harrison, pioneering industrial designer; Maira Kalman, artist and writer; Wynton Marsalis, composer and musician; Emily Pilloton, design activist and author of Design Revolution; Michael Van Valkenburgh, landscape architect and professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Design; and Alissa Walker, design writer and urban advocate.

Book Get It Together  Ditch the Chaos  Do the Work  and Design your Success

Download or read book Get It Together Ditch the Chaos Do the Work and Design your Success written by Lauren Berger and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This super-practical guide to personal success is packed with no-nonsense tips that will get anyone where they want to be in business and in lifeWhy do you always feel so BUSY? You are constantly adding to your to-do list, drowning in tasks at the office, and still can’t get on top of your workload. You work so hard and yet you’re not where you want to be in your career and in your life. How can that be? Get It Together gets to the bottom of this question and provides you with the tools and insights you need to transform your career—and finally live the life you always dreamed of. Career-management expert, bestselling author, and in-demand speaker, Lauren Berger is here to help you break your current habits, get out of your own way, and not only set, but master your very own personalized goals. Get It Together provides 17 guiding principles for achieving ultimate success, including: •Always self-evaluate •Cope with failure—it’s inevitable •Determine your goals •Stop getting ready to get ready •Know your priorities Embrace and apply these principles and you’ll have the foundation you need to create real and lasting success—both professionally and personally. Before you know it, you’ll be thinking more clearly, approaching tasks with a greater sense of purpose, and generating unthinkable results . It’s time to stop spinning your wheels and make the most of your time by aligning your actions with your priorities. It’s time, once and for all, to GET IT TOGETHER.

Book Living Together

    Book Details:
  • Author : Denis Colomb
  • Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
  • Release : 2002-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781584792239
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Living Together written by Denis Colomb and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of fifteen artistic couples explore how two individuals with differing tastes achieve design harmony in a shared living space.

Book All Together Now

    Book Details:
  • Author : Naomi Cleaver
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-04-30
  • ISBN : 1000375315
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book All Together Now written by Naomi Cleaver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pandemic imposed a major shift on how we live and work. National lockdowns eradicated the lines between home, office and school, making conversations around live/work spaces more urgent than ever before. Instead of driving people apart, social distancing, remote working and the reliance on digital communication have led to a huge demand for physical togetherness. How can we design a future that enables greater collaboration, connectivity and social interaction? The trend for shared living spaces is showing no signs of slowing down; collaborative spaces have been hailed as the solution to the 21st century’s culture of overwork, a broken housing market and chronic loneliness, particularly among the elderly. When implemented carefully, considering different degrees and models of sharing, they tackle the question of independence (and its complex relationship with solidarity) and the longevity and power of intergenerational living. A practical and inspirational design guide, this book draws on Naomi Cleaver’s own experience as a designer alongside the work of other experts including Rockwell Group, Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, Squire and Partners and DH Liberty. Featuring detailed and highly illustrated case studies across co-living and co-working typologies, it takes in new builds and conversions of various sizes that have been implemented internationally. It concludes with a best practice toolkit that provides valuable advice and lessons for designers working at any scale. Case studies include: Humanitas Deventer, The Netherlands K9 Coliving, Sweden Mokrin House, Serbia NeueHouse Hollywood, Los Angeles Outpost Ubud Penestanan, Bali The Project at Hoxton, London. Foreword by Professor Sadie Morgan OBE, Director of dRMM and Chair of the Quality of Life Foundation.

Book Design with Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mitchell Joachim
  • Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
  • Release : 2021-06-21
  • ISBN : 1638409617
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Design with Life written by Mitchell Joachim and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design with Life chronicles the breakthroughs and projects of a nonprofit that is defining resolute new directions in socio-ecological design and other deep-seated intersections of synthetic biology, architecture, and urban systems. In the challenging context of accelerating climate dynamics, the core discipline of architectural design is evolving and embracing new forms of action. New York-based nonprofit Terreform ONE has established a distinctive design tactic that investigates projects through the regenerative use of natural materials, science, and the emergent field of socio-ecological design. This kind of design approach uses actual living matter (not abstracted imitations of nature) to create new functional elements and spaces. These future-based actions are not only grounded in social justice, but are also far-reaching in their application of digital manufacturing and maker culture. Terreform ONE tackles urgent environmental and urban social concerns through the integrated use of living materials and organisms.

Book Interaction by Design

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
  • Release : 2002-10-07
  • ISBN : 9780813803234
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book Interaction by Design written by and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2002-10-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings contain the presentations from a landmark joint conference between AHTA and PPC, the two leading organizations promoting research, teaching, and practice in horticultural therapy. In this contributed volume, the top names in horticultural therapy address universal design of outdoor spaces and their therapeutic applications, the theme of the conference. The most outstanding feature of this volume is the combination of information from designers of therapeutic and healing gardens and the practitioners that use the gardens.

Book The Interior Design Style Lookbook

Download or read book The Interior Design Style Lookbook written by Aseel Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Interior Design Styles Lookbook (c) is an awesome tool & reference for interior designers, homeowners, and anyone who is interested in the design field. It contains 24 of the most popular interior design styles. The styles in this book are the following: Arabian, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Bohemian, Coastal, Contemporary, Eclectic, Farmhouse, Hollywood Regency, Industrial, Japanese, Mediterranean, Mid-Century Modern, Minimal, Modern, Moroccan, Parisian, Rustic, Scandinavian, Shabby Chic, Traditional, Transitional, Tribal, and Tropical. For each style, you will find the definition, bullet points of the characteristics, as well as illustrations to represent the style, with tips to apply it on your projects, and keywords to use with your clients, paired with a tool that helps you mix and match interior design styles!

Book Expressive Design Systems

Download or read book Expressive Design Systems written by Yesenia Perez-Cruz and published by A Book Apart. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good design systems can help you create digital products with efficiency and consistency. But great design systems will support and strengthen your team’s creativity at the same time. In Expressive Design Systems, Yesenia Perez-Cruz shows you how to build useful, dependable systems that not only maintain harmony across your products, but also flex to accommodate inspiration and experimentation. Learn to communicate your brand, collaborate across teams—and do so much more than standardize components.

Book Rebuild by Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebuild by Design
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-06-30
  • ISBN : 9780996253512
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Rebuild by Design written by Rebuild by Design and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Urban Decor Studio
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2019-05-13
  • ISBN : 9781098525996
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Love written by Urban Decor Studio and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEWEST TREND IN HOME DECORATING - DECORATING WITH BOOKS This modern decorative book is specifically designed to be used as part of a book stack for decorating a room, a coffee table or a bookshelf. Combine 3-4 decorative books from our selection to make a bold statement. Combine your favorite cities, destinations or phrases for a unique and personalized display. Clean classic design. "Love" printed on spine. Use front cover for font reference. Stack decorative books to create your unique message. See back cover for suggested design and display ideas. White cover with black lettering. Blank pages on inside. Printed professionally on a soft matte stock for a glare-free display. Each book is 7.5" wide and 9.25" high with a 1.125" spine for a uniform and impactful stacked display. Fonts may vary. See cover for font reference. Each book sold separately. These deco books are available for numerous cities, place names, destinations, as well as with inspirational and spiritual messages. Visit our Amazon Author page for the full selection of available deco book and design inspirations.

Book Design for Good

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Cary
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 1610917936
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Design for Good written by John Cary and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reveals a new understanding of the ways that design shapes our lives and gives professionals and interested citizens the tools to seek out and demand designs that dignify.

Book Daddy Wouldn t Buy Me a Bauhaus

Download or read book Daddy Wouldn t Buy Me a Bauhaus written by Janet Abrams and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus collects the unparalleled writings of legendary British wordsmith Janet Abrams for the first time. From pivotal figures in international modernism to the pioneers of digital medium, Abrams explored the ideas, theories, and emotions that fueled their work. The book's twenty-six profiles, written in Abrams's signature, personal, often hilarious style, include Reyner Banham, Berthold Lubetkin, Philip Johnson, Paul Rand, Phyllis Lambert, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Muriel Cooper, April Greiman, and Michael Bloomberg. Many of the profiles are back in print for the first time, having originally appeared in Blueprint, I.D. magazine, the Independent, and in books and catalogs from the 1980s through the early 2000s. A foreword by Blueprint's founding editor, Deyan Sudjic, and new reflections by Abrams set the stage.

Book Superhumanity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Axel
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2018-01-01
  • ISBN : 1452957886
  • Pages : 692 pages

Download or read book Superhumanity written by Nick Axel and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material objects but rather extends from carefully crafted individual styles and online identities to the surrounding galaxies of personal devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems, infrastructures, data, chemicals, organisms, and genetic codes. Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of “design” by engaging with and departing from the concept of the “self.” This volume brings together more than fifty essays by leading scientists, artists, architects, designers, philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, originally disseminated online via e-flux Architecture between September 2016 and February 2017 on the invitation of the Third Istanbul Design Biennial. Probing the idea that we are and always have been continuously reshaped by the artifacts we shape, this book asks: Who designed the lives we live today? What are the forms of life we inhabit, and what new forms are currently being designed? Where are the sites, and what are the techniques, to design others? This vital and far-reaching collection of essays and images seeks to explore and reflect on the ways in which both the concept and practice of design are operative well beyond tangible objects, expanding into the depths of self and forms of life. Contributors: Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Lucia Allais, Shumon Basar, Ruha Benjamin, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Daniel Birnbaum, Ina Blom, Benjamin H. Bratton, Giuliana Bruno, Tony Chakar, Mark Cousins, Simon Denny, Keller Easterling, Hu Fang, Rubén Gallo, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Rupali Gupte, Andrew Herscher, Tom Holert, Brooke Holmes, Francesca Hughes, Andrés Jaque, Lydia Kallipoliti, Thomas Keenan, Sylvia Lavin, Yongwoo Lee, Lesley Lokko, MAP Office, Chus Martínez, Ingo Niermann, Ahmet Ögüt, Trevor Paglen, Spyros Papapetros, Raqs Media Collective, Juliane Rebentisch, Sophia Roosth, Felicity D. Scott, Jack Self, Prasad Shetty, Hito Steyerl, Kali Stull, Pelin Tan, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Paulo Tavares, Stephan Trüby, Etienne Turpin, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Eyal Weizman, Mabel O. Wilson, Brian Kuan Wood, Liam Young, and Arseny Zhilyaev.

Book Presenting Design Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donna Spencer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-10-20
  • ISBN : 9781937557997
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Presenting Design Work written by Donna Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love doing design work, but dread the inevitable design reviews that follow? Dread no more! Donna Spencer has the blueprint for a winning design presentation-one that conveys confidence, communicates your vision, and nets you frustration-free feedback you can actually use. Brimming with real-world expertise, Presenting Design Work will reshape how you share your work with clients, colleagues, and stakeholders, consistently leading you to better project results.