Responding to increasing client and designer interest in urban dwellings, this volume features a well-documented selection of thirty of the best apartment designs in the United States completed over the past decade. The examples cover a broad spectrum of building types, styles, budgets, and scales, including prewar and postwar units, brownstones, lofts, and adaptive-use conversions. Each case study includes context-setting exterior photos, lavish photographs of interiors, and clearly annotated drawings ranging from design sketches to construction drawings and details of special features. The illustrations are accompanied by concise, lucid texts that highlight the ideas, as well as the technical and material decisions underpinning each design. Included are works by some of the best-known and most inventive design practitioners in the country, such as Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Hariri & Hariri, George Ranalli, Krueck & Sexton, and Machado and Silvetti, among others.
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After purchasing The New American House (Vol 1-3), The New American Cottage, and The New American Swimming Pool which are all excellant books, I ordered The New American Apartment and was severely disappointed.I SENT THE BOOK BACK! (if that gives you any idea of my satisfaction.)
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This is a very good looking lexicon from cover to cover, yet it is more of a starting point in the design mode than a technical manual. I usually don't spend much for books, but this is one exception I can make with little after thought.
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its a visual feast!!,
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A must have book for a library collection of inspirational modern design. The Book outlines each architect's space with dramatic and all encompassing views along with drawings to further explain the concepts. It left me wanting more!
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To approach a definition of the contemporary apartment one has to look at some of the challenges particular to urban life in the nineties. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Square Footage, Structural System, General Contractor, Major Interior Materials, Mechanical System, David Guthrie, San Francisco, Interim Office of Architecture, Paul Warchol Site, Sexton Architects, Ace Architects, American Standard, Bay Region Style, George Suyama Architects, Olson Sundberg Architects, Parallel Design Partnership, Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, Wesley Wei Architects, Wolf Architects, Associates Architects, Central Park West, Darrell Place, Joseph Giovannini, Major Exterior Materials New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
To approach a definition of the contemporary apartment one has to look at some of the challenges particular to urban life in the nineties. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
level floor plan, master bathroom Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Square Footage, Structural System, General Contractor, Major Interior Materials, Mechanical System, David Guthrie, San Francisco, Interim Office of Architecture, Paul Warchol Site, Sexton Architects, Ace Architects, American Standard, Bay Region Style, George Suyama Architects, Olson Sundberg Architects, Parallel Design Partnership, Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, Wesley Wei Architects, Wolf Architects, Associates Architects, Central Park West, Darrell Place, Joseph Giovannini, Major Exterior Materials New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- New York, New York! (Baby-Sitters Club Super Special, No. 6) by Ann M. Martin on page 148
- Treasure Island (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson on page 24
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