Regent's University London Library
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Some assembly required (Fort Thunder : 75, Eagle Street, Providence, Rhode Island -- IKEA : furniture and accessories -- Northozamile Zana : Zama house -- Sod houses : Minnesota and Nebraska -- Ken Draizen : gas station house -- Lot/EK : Miller/Jones studio -- Rural studio : the Lucy house -- Charles Stagg : AV Stagg Art and Wildlife Preserve -- Workhouse : workhouse -- Tsui Design and Research, Inc. : ecological house of the future) -- Go with the flow (Stefan Wishnewski : Vereinsecke MTSV sofa -- Urs Hartmann & Marcus Wetzel : Wildbrook -- snowcrash : cloud soundware -- Do-Ho Suh : 348 West 22nd Street, Apt. A, New York, NY 10011 -- R & Sie -- : Barak House -- NASA : Transhab -- Preston Scott Cohen : Torus House -- Aleksandra Konopek : Pneo: a foldable habitation module -- Berkline, Inc. : home theater seating: the cinema collection -- Matali Crasset : Energizer Room, Phytolab) -- Moving pictures (Hans Hemmert : Nachmittag Zuhause in NeuKolln, im Atelier, Unterwegs -- Marion Eichmann : 16.324.800 Maschen -- Florian Wallnofer, Pool Architektur : T.O.'s space -- Natick Labs (U.S. Army) : force provider -- Softroom : Maison Canif -- Kruunenberg Van der Erve : Laminata House -- Ennemlaghi, Ltd. : white apartment -- Reno Dakota : apartment -- Seoungwon Won : Wunschzimmer -- Jorg/Michalis/Zushun/Fabian and Eliane -- Maruice Agis : dreamspace) -- Contents under pressure (Fat (Fashion, Architecture, Taste) : Camo House -- Atelier Van Lieshout : sleep/study skull, Tampa skull -- DLR Group : jail cell -- Ammar Eloueini, Digit-All Studios, in collaboration with Archeworks : entropias -- Francisco Torres : isolation room, Psychiatric Hospital of Cery -- Lucas Maassen : forever young: proportion conflict -- Endemol : Big Brother house -- Masaki Endoh & Masahiro Ikeda : natural ellipse -- Chris Burden : small skyscraper -- Absalon : Cellule no. 1 (Realisation habitable) -- Gregor Schneider (Totes Haus ur -- A.V. Corbi, the designer (safe homes).

Includes bibliographical references.

This book steps inside today's coolest dwelling spaces to see how advances in technology and architectural creativity are transforming not just where we live but how we live. It shows how architects, artists, collectives and individuals push the envelope of what's innovative, eco-friendly and economical for today's residences. Houses that bring the outdoors in. Walls that roll up, zip and bend, ""Smart"" wallpaper, portable kitchen and bathroom combinations, calming closets and programmable safe rooms. The authors study the impact of computers and sensor technologies, investigate accessories borrowed from industrial and public spaces, rethink assumptions about a house's footprint and trace design shifts from rational to radical, square to open, box to blob."