XS Green

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Architecture

ISBN: 9780500342305
English edition
Thames & Hudson
Hardcover without jacket, 224 pages
17 x 18 cm
colour
2007
€20,71 (excl. VAT)

XS Green

Big Ideas, Small Buildings

Phyllis Richardson

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling architecture title XS: Big Ideas, Small Buildings, XS Green devotes itself to a wide range of small-scale, idiosyncratic projects created by the biggest names in global architecture. A brief introduction explores the importance of the mini-building, and how the little structures are produced with increasingly green concerns in mind. Arranged into five themes, the core of the book presents over forty projects in terms of their innovation and uniqueness.

The book taps into the current trend and passion for eco-design, and will appeal to a broad readership as well as architectural practitioners.
Green design is a hot topic of great appeal to landscape architects, city planners, garden designers and materials experts.
The small format and special binding material make the book a collectible design object in its own right.
Includes a wide range of international projects from renowned designers, from a camera obscura on a Greek island to an outdoor quincho perched on a Chilean hillside, from Thomas Heatherwick’s weird and wonderful sitooterie in Essex to an award-winning pavilion in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Introduction • The View From the Outside • Material Concerns Flowering the Urban Jungle • Poetic Utility • Touching the Earth Lightly