Nick Aitken travels the world researching the history of the craft
concise survey on the influential modernist designer's interiors
plainly spoken and richly illustrated with a great number of archival photographs and drawings (color and black and white) that document the building and give the reader a true architectural promenade through the work of a master American architect
the chair has presented designers the world over with infinite opportunities to experiment with new methods and materials within the set parameters of an object that is primarily there to serve a practical purpose
Architecture as Art: The Work of Stephen M
How Much House Travel Nick Aitken travels the worldThoreau, Le Corbusier and the Sustainable Cabin by Urs Peter Flckiger Pub Birkhauser How much house does a man need? The space we live in, reduced to a minimum, has been fascinating us for generations the writer Thoreau lived in a self built hut in the forest from 1845 1847. In 1952, Le Corbusier built a hut at the Cte d'Azur for himself and his wife. Inspired by this, Urs Peter Flckiger, together with his students, built an ecologically and