LOT-EK
LOT-EK

Author: Ada Tolla

Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC

Published: 2017-08-29

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1580934838

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LOT-EK is a design practice that believes in being unoriginal, ugly, and cheap. Also in being revolutionary, gorgeous, and completely luxurious. LOT-EK’s work reveals extraordinary transformations of ordinary things—from their famous shipping container projects onward—combining maker culture and hacker culture into beautiful and radical visions for sustainable and meaningful living. LOT-EK: Objects + Operations surveys dozens of projects—built, unbuilt and in-progress; polemical, practical, and in-between—complemented by photographs from LOT-EK’s multi-year URBAN SCAN project, a vast photographic document of infrastructure and incident, as well as essays by Thomas de Monchaux and interviews with founding partners Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano.

LOT/EK
LOT/EK

Author: Ada Tolla

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 156898300X

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The New York-based architectural firm LOT/EK (pronounced "low-tech") has made a distinctive mark on the architectural landscape through a series of seemingly whimsical projects that make a point of using prefabricated industrial materials in unexpected ways. In their hands, a shipping container can be transformed into a mobile working unit, a museum, or a restaurant. In the process, they question our relation to the industrial environment and the artificiality of the urban landscape. LOT/EK: Urban Scan, the first and only monograph on the firm, is organized categorically and alphabetically. Twenty-three projects are presented in detail, including American Diner (a restaurant in a container), the InspiroTrainer (created for the Museum of Modern Art), Mixer (a cement mixer-cum-video immersion unit), the Meltzer Gallery, the Boon boutique, the MDU (Mobule Dwelling Unit), and the Goree Memorial and Museum. It also includes more than 1,000 photographs of infrastructural objects--everything from air conditioners to water tanks--that serve as the raw material and inspiration for this creative practice.

Lofts
Lofts

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781610592635

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Lofts, by definition, are former commercial spaces that have been converted for residential use and living/work environments. But lofts, by design, are vast silent expanses, soaring arches, stalwart steel girders, massive beams, and all the powerful drama of a curtain-time stage set. Lofts are a designer's dream. The importance of urban loft design for the architectural and design world is highlighted in this collection of the finest, most dramatic of these transformed spaces. Lofts: New Designs for Urban Living takes you on an intimate tour of residential lofts in the major cities of the world including New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, London, Toronto, Paris, and Tokyo. Projects include work from cutting-edge designers: Roto, Fred Fisher, Peter Anders, Neil Frankel, Briggs/Iacucci, Peter Tow, Kar Ho, Moneo/Brock, Belmont Freeman, Lotek, Brayton & Hughes and more. Complete with informative text, Lofts features full-color photographs, plans, and a valuable resource guide for anyone who has every dreamed of converting a commercial building into a residential loft.

Portable Architecture
Portable Architecture

Author: Robert Kronenburg

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-05-16

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 3764383240

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This book discusses the forerunners, present context, and technology of portable architecture. It documents numerous international examples, organized by areas of application, and offers a broad array of suggestions for practical design.

Conversions
Conversions

Author: Emma O'Kelly

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1856694860

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Addresses the growing trend in converting existing structures into a series of ingenious living spaces as it looks at varied projects from around the world in rural, urban, and civic buildings, as well as lofts, industrial spaces, and other unique buildings, examining such topics as what elements of the structure are left intact, what are demolished, how each building was converted into a dwelling, budgets, materials, and impact on the surrounding environment.

Lo-TEK
Lo-TEK

Author: Julia Watson

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9783836578189

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In an era of high-tech and climate extremes, we are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. Enter Lo--TEK, a design movement building on indigenous philosophy and vernacular infrastructure to generate sustainable, resilient, nature-based technology. With a foreword by anthropologist Wade Davis and spanning 18 countries from Peru to...

Design Culture Now
Design Culture Now

Author: Donald Albrecht

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2000-03

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781568982182

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Written and assembled by three leading critics and curators, Donald Albrecht, Ellen Lupton, and Steven Skov Holt, the book explores the design artifacts and practices that will define the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.

Dwell
Dwell

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2003-11

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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At Dwell, we're staging a minor revolution. We think that it's possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.

Mobile
Mobile

Author: Jennifer Siegal

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781568983349

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This text explores the ever-growing range of possibilities of portable, demountable, and mobile structures. The volume includes work by Office of Mobile Design, LOT/EK and Mark Fisher. Using colour images, text and detailed drawings, the contributors reveal their working methods.

Transportable Environments 3
Transportable Environments 3

Author: Robert Kronenburg

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2006-03-10

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1134288786

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The latest volume in this popular series of books which explores the theoretical basis for temporary and transportable structures where permanence is either not possible or desirable. The book provides insight into the wide range of uses of these structures, the varied forms they take and the concerns and ideas for future development, focusing on portability, adaptability, sustainability of the built environment, and technical innovations. A wide range of designed solutions identify and define contemporary directions in design theory and practice. With international examples throughout, this book will be of interest and value to all those involved in the areas of building design, building component manufacture and urban design.