Small Spaces: Stylish Ideas for Making More of Less in the Home

Azby Brown (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2012 | 2nd edition
Kodansha America, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-56836-454-4 (ISBN)

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Small Spaces is about living comfortably and using space wisely, and where better to find ideas on that subject than Japan, one of the world's most urban and densely populated countries? Tokyo resident Azby Brown, a distinguished architect and designer, has assembled dozens of creative solutions to space and storage problems, illustrating them with photographs and plans of actual living environments in contemporary homes.
The key to his approach is what might be called The Three Cs '-compact, comfortable, and convenient. Use of space is reconsidered, with'

AZBY BROWN is an architect who has lived in Japan since 1985. A native of New Orleans, he received a bachelor's degree in f ine art from Yale College in 1980, and a master's degree in architecture from the University of Tokyo, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate, in 1988. He is also the author of The Genius of Japanese Carpentry and The Japanese Dream House: How Technology and Tradition Are Shaping New Home Design. His visual and verbal ideas have reached a wide international audience through frequent lectures, publications, and exhibitions. YOSHIO SHIRATORI has photographed interiors and exteriors since 1962. He was the recipient of the Interior Designers' Association prize in 1987. Shiratori's work appears in major Japanese design and architecture magazines throughout Japan.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.12.2012
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	228 x 278 mm
Gewicht	539 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-56836-454-7 / 1568364547
ISBN-13	978-1-56836-454-4 / 9781568364544
Zustand	Neuware