RE:CRAFTED THE CRAFT INFLUENCE IN CONTEM

Author(s): KRISTAL MARC

Architecture

Now more than ever, architects and designers are crossing aesthetic borders, and redefining craft to suit their own creative needs, philosophies, and expectations--often by commenting upon or challenging it. By transforming our notions of what might be considered "crafted," today's practitioners have not only put a new spin on an ancient art; they have expanded our understanding of where and how the personal touch is found in the sometimes bewildering or inhospitable terrain of the contemporary aesthetic landscape.
Featuring twenty-five residential, commercial, and institutional projects--by major international design figures as well as the relatively unknown and up-and-coming--this volume looks at what constitutes the craft influence in contemporary architecture and design. By turns luxurious and simple; time-honored and leading-edge; small-scale and monumental; unabashedly beautiful, surprisingly witty, socially adroit, and sublimely poetic, these projects are sure to give us a new appreciation of the pleasures of making--and enlarge and enrich our understanding of the presence, and importance, of craft in all our lives.

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"A lush volume . . . will keep design fans glued to "Re: Crafted." Don't bother trying to skim."
--UnBeige

"We were instantly drawn to the subject, the featured talent, the handsome photography as well as the smart writing . . . an excellent resource and certainly worth adding to your own design library."
--Design Therapy

General Fields

  • : 9781580932769
  • : Monacelli Press
  • : Monacelli Press
  • : 1.179
  • : 02 September 2010
  • : 279mm X 203mm X 20mm
  • : United States
  • : books

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  • : 208
  • : 1210
  • : BB
  • : KRISTAL MARC