This latest volume from the 1001 Ideas series (...for Windows, ...for Color and Paint, etc.) gives practical, imaginative help on how to create a dream kitchen or cure a dysfunctional one, whether you're designing from scratch, remodeling or just frustrated with your cooking space.

Four fantastic DIY guides for the home packed full of ideas to renovate, remodel or redecorate rooms. They guide you through essential decision making processes and elements of designing or rejuvenating. Over 100 colour photos in each.

Architects working in Indonesia - and elsewhere in Southeast Asia - face the challenge not only of creating spaces to suit the lifestyles of their users but also of addressing the environmental and climatic problems associated with living in the tropics.

25 Tropical Houses of the Philippines features top Filipino architects and designers with ideas that are stylish, contemporary, and show twenty-first century savvy. These distinctive homes showcase the best residential work by Filipino architects-outstanding works by 20 designers stepping beyond traditional conventions toward Asian fusion trends and international modernist architecture.

25 Tropical Houses in Singapore and Malaysia features the best houses and condominiums by a dynamic new generation of architects. Singapore's houses create pleasure from the tropical climate. A new wave of highly distinctive architecture has seen Singapore recognized,

On the occasion of TASCHEN's 25th anniversary, this special edition is published to reflect a wave: architecture's future stars.
Who are the Norman Fosters, Richard Meiers, and Tadao Andos of tomorrow? Discover the next generation of designers who are already starting to shape the future of architecture for the new millennium, redefining the relationships between culture, environment, structure, and space.

Color is one of the most effective tools in architecture and interior design. One of its most important aspects is the effect it has on a person’s mood: color has the power to contribute to the mental well-being of the occupants of a house. Harmonious and welcoming surroundings can be obtained with one or two colors, or combinations of color.

More than 40 years after its first appearance as an artistic movement, minimalism is one of the most enduring trends of our times and a firmly established esthetic aspect of architecture and design. In interior, minimalism can be defined by the following characteristics: Simple forms, pure lines, unobstructed spaces and neutral colors.

Showcases the variety of innovative ways that small spaces can be transformed into spacious living areas. The open concept of living 'small' can be customized to suit most any taste, and this book guides us through a lot of small spaces.

The house have always been evolving. And the lifestyle has also been changing. It is to enhance the quality of life and to lead a comfortable life in a eco-friendly environment. This book exemplifies developments of excellence and features 99 houses mainly focused upon latest trend and stream,

The house have always been evolving. And the lifestyle has also been changing. It is to enhance the quality of life and to lead a comfortable life in a eco-friendly environment. This book exemplifies developments of excellence and features 99 houses mainly focused upon latest trend and stream, accompanied by brief drawings and great photographs.

Philippe Starck describes him as a "mystic in a country which is no longer mystic." Drew Philip calls his buildings "land art" that "struggle to emerge from the earth." He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize.

Stunning flower gardens that bloom through the seasons depend on the artful combination of annuals, perennials, and bulbs. This book shows you how to grow these plants and gives foolproof design techniques for any garden.
Practical techniques are emphasized too. Learn how to care for the soil, start plants from seeds, grow and care for plants in containers, and maintain your plants and gardens.

IAC International Architecture Competition is issued to provide more substantial information to people by means of a database of various designs made public recently in prestigious contests held in and out of Korea. The IAC will be followed by collections of design works segmented into various thems such as apartments, dormitories, museums, arts exhibition facilities, office buildings, hospitals and public facility buildings.

It is not that we pursue technology itself as our aim. Basically, technology is a mean to express the concept of a project. In addition, it is a vehicle showing the capabilities of human beings who lived in a certain age. Therefore, it is safe to say that technology within architecture is an element that represents artistic background of the times.

Together, vectors, envelopes, programs, and contexts are the basic terms of the architectural equation - a simple proposition that centuries of art and architectural history somehow have obscured. Materials, of course, are another important factor: architecture is the materialization of ideas or concepts.

I focus on, that is, the process. To rephrase it, it signifies transforming one place into another with a number of elements and whether one has reached the level of intending to create a place that brings up emotions through specific means. This kind of work is conceptual and is an act to transform and create a place as well as to search for the operation of transformation.

Finding suitable and acceptable answers and solutions to the problems of designing the environment requires being ready for dialogue and adapting ones standpoint to changing conditions. The decision as to what will be built and how, affects society with its complex political and economic mechanisms.

It is Seok Chul Kim's vocation to look at the world from above and invent the shapes of his cities from above.
His vision is as big as that of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, with the same desire to structure the territory with large urban signs that are extremely recognizable.

Published on the occasion of TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition. Abridged version for new low price, this book introduces the most influential architects and architectural firms and the definitive reference guide to contemporary architectural design.