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A comprehensive global survey of interior architecture and design of the past 25 years.

Susan Yelavich

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Price: USD$79.95

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Specifications

Hardback
English
296 x 257 mm, 11 5/8 x 10 1/8 in
512 pp
1000 colour illustrations, 75 black and white illustrations
ISBN-13: 9780714843360
ISBN-10: 0714843369

Overview

The most comprehensive global survey available of interior architecture and design projects of the last 25 years
Vast in scope, featuring more than 450 projects and the work of more than 400 designers and architects, including such world-renowned figures as John Pawson, Philippe Starck, Marcel Wanders and Zaha Hadid and rising stars such as UdA, Atelier Bow-Wow and LOT-EK
Documents a wide range of styles and tendencies, from the clean white modernism of Richard Meier's houses and museums to the organicism of the Soft and Hairy House in Japan, by Ushida/Findlay, to a new sense of transparency in projects such as Foster & Partners' New German Parliament in Berlin

About the author(s)

Susan Yelavich is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, and a freelance writer and curator specializing in architecture and design. From 1994 to 2002, she was the Assistant Director for Public Programs at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, where she produced 50 exhibitions and 16 publications. Yelavich is the author of numerous articles and books, including Design for Life, Pentagram/Profile (Phaidon, 2004), and The Edge of the Millennium: An International Critique of Architecture, for which she was awarded a 1997 Federal Design Achievement award.