Structure As Design: 23 Projects That Wed Structure and Interior Design

Allen, Isabel

ISBN 10: 1564966046 / ISBN 13: 9781564966049

Published by Rockport, 1999

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tear and creasing to rear jacket panel, otherwise a clean, sound copy, quarto, 160 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Structure As Design: 23 Projects That Wed Structure and Interior Design
• Publisher: Rockport
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564966046
• ISBN 13: 9781564966049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Structure as Design is a unique exploration of the way designers use the necessary structural elements of a building as a part of its interior design. Edgy, intriguing, and modern, each of these interiors adopts industrial building materials or the physical structure of the building—support beams, heating and ventilation systems, partitions, fenestration—as interior design elements.

Includes 225 full-color photographs as well as plans and detailed drawings

Examples include the work of Finish architect Riema Pietola, who uses concrete to great effect in the Cavela Church, and Toy Ito’s use of punched metal on his Tower of Winds in Japan.

About the Author

Isabel Allen trained as an architect before going into architectural journalism. Based in London, she is an award-winning journalist, and editor of the Architects' Journal. Ms. Allen has been a visiting critic and lecturer at various schools of architecture in the U.K.