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The book provides a privileged insight into how this groundbreaking
architectural studio works, especially their innovative approach in
which their primary inspiration is derived from the constraints of
a given project, hence the subtitle, Inspired by constraints. It
shows how XRANGE’s unconventional architecture places an emphasis
on systemization and tactility, resulting in audacious but grounded
and utterly unique buildings. To do so, it features texts by the
principal architects, leading architecture critics, lavish
documentation and photography, and in-depth examinations of such
significant projects as The Wandering Walls, Ant Farm House, Stone
Cloud, and many more.
Exploring design works ranging from furniture and temporary art
installations to interior design and architecture by CL3, founded
by William Lim, and related studios Lim + Lu and Open UU, this book
presents a fresh consideration of the essence of contemporary Asian
design and how it has evolved over the past few decades. The
projects selected share a sensitivity to Asian qualities: a deep
appreciation of site and context, craft and design details, with
imaginative architectural responses delivering a reinterpretation
of cultural heritage and traditions. The book includes a contextual
essay by Hong Kong-based architecture critic and author Catherine
Shaw, a foreword by architecture and design curator Aric Chen, and
a chapter dedicated to conversations on the modern interpretation
of eastern aesthetics and the unique experience of designing for a
new Asia between William Lim, Swedish museum director, art critic
and writer Lars Nittve, and Shanghai-based architect Lyndon Neri.
The projects are presented in a clear, vibrant graphic style
designed by William Lim and artist and graphic designer Stanley
Wong, aka anothermountainman, to evoke an Asian quality. Each
chapter includes a text by William Lim and features original
conceptual sketches, photographs, floor plans, and drawings.
This is an overview of the top 100 leading young designers working
across Asia, selected by the co-founders of one of Asia's foremost
interior-design magazines, Design Anthology, based in Hong Kong.
Featuring first-hand accounts from each designer, the book reveals
their inspirations, collaborations and the challenges and
opportunities presented as a young designer working in the region.
The book includes photography of each designer's work and will be a
key resource for design professionals and enthusiasts, as well as
all those interested in the contemporary Asian design scene.
A major new overview of 100 of the world's best contemporary
interior design projects, chosen by 10 of the world's leaders in
the design world.
This rare personal insight into the influences and inspirations
behind acclaimed Hong Kong designer and collector Alan Chan gives
an intimate view of the collection of objects he has fastidiously
assembled throughout his life, and the creative process they have
informed. The pioneering, award-winning, and self-taught designer
is known for his inventive and innovative designs. Effectively
organised by theme, from tea to dragons, and with an emphasis on
objects produced for China Trade, many of the elegant pieces
photographed for this book showcase Chan s insatiably inquiring
mind. They offer insights into how his passion for collecting
drives his characteristically whimsical signature take on East and
West, tradition and innovation, where there is always a twist of
the unexpected. Part autobiography, part reflection on creativity,
it is full of insights into Chan s remarkable design process,
making it a treat for the eyes and a valuable resource for new and
established designers alike.
Now in its eleventh year, the Design Museum's Beazley Designs of
the Year award and exhibition showcase the most innovative,
relevant and thought-provoking projects in contemporary design.
From the first iPhone to Zaha Hadid's final building, the
nominations for the award have spanned the fields of architecture,
digital, fashion, graphics, product and transport. Introduced by
Deyan Sudjic and guest curator Aric Chen of M+ in Hong Kong, this
illustrated book brings together all the nominated designs for
2018, along with the reasons for their selection by an
international group of design experts, practitioners and critics,
including Iwan Baan and Hans Ulrich Obrist. It is a snapshot of the
most exciting things happening in design today. At the beginning of
the second decade of its life, the essence of the concept remains
the same. A wide and international group of expert nominators have
been invited to put forward up to three projects each that for them
reflect significant new directions in six fields, from architecture
to transport. The results are put together by a guest curator to
form an exhibition at the Design Museum. A jury selects winners in
each category, as well as one overall design of the year. The
Design Museum has published an accompanying catalogue for the award
and exhibition over the past ten years, which was marked by the
publication of the ten-year anniversary book Designs of our Time:
10 Years of Designs of the Year.
Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Louisiana Museum
of Modern Art, this publication examines the recent work of the
Chinese architect Wang Shu, Pritzker Prize winner in 2012. At a
time when China's explosive urbanization is making inroads into
rural areas and leaving the marks of cheap concrete construction
everywhere, Wang Shu and Amateur Architecture Studio are keen to
work against this tendency by reusing materials from the buildings
that Chinese authorities are systematically tearing down and
rebuilding after western models. Wang Shu's architecture reveals a
thoughtful attitude toward both design and implementation, as well
as the ability to react flexibly to the surroundings and history of
a particular site.
Dror Benshetrit's massively successful design for brands like Tumi,
Rosenthal, and Cappellini and his next phase of visionary
large-scale projects are now assembled in this debut monograph.
Since 2002, Dror Benshetrit has developed an interdisciplinary
practice specializing in truly innovative design projects. His
multifaceted approach to design at wildly varying scales and
concepts encompass product design, interior design, graphic design,
and architecture. In this survey of Dror Benshetrit's first fifteen
years of practice, readers are introduced to an ingenious design
practice that started with household objects and furniture, to a
collaborator with top brands such as Tumi, Rosenthal, Cappellini,
and Bentley, and has since evolved into a visionary architecture
office. Dror Dreams showcases the evolution of the designer's work,
reflecting the diversification of his practice over time and the
profound results that stem from its holistic approach. Told in his
own approachable voice, charting his path from impassioned novice
to ambitious ideator, Dror shares the conceptual origins and
process behind his projects, as well as marking successes,
failures, and conclusions. Dror seeks to communicate the value of
creativity without limitation, promote the importance of
collaboration, and through example inspire tomorrow's designers to
dream big.
Drawing on a series of conversations and site visits to six recent
groundbreaking projects, architecture writer Catherine Shaw
describes how Beijing-based OPEN Architecture is reinventing and
responding to China s complex and fast-changing cultural landscape
with projects that mark a new era for contemporary Chinese cultural
architecture. OPEN Architecture was founded in New York in 2003 by
Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, while their Beijing office opened in 2008.
From a contemporary art gallery buried beneath a sand dune to a
sculptural open-air theatre in a remote mountain valley near the
Great Wall, co-founders Li Hu and Huang Wenjing re-evaluate
conventional Western assumptions about culture and design as they
base each pioneering project on the needs and plea-sures of
humanity within the context of diverse terrains and climates. In
doing so, they not only consider how cultural architecture looks,
but how it works. Projects are presented with commentary and
contextual information as well as new analyses and archival
material, including outstanding colour photography, plans and
drawings, and exploratory sketches. This book provides a fresh
perspective on contemporary cultural architecture and place making,
hig-lighting the architects sources of inspiration, their
challenges, and their construction methods, showing how each
impactful project responds to China s distinctive context.
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