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The work of Eric Owen Moss Architects is about "making it new," and the aspiration to uncover new ways to think, to feel, to see, and to understand architecture and this essential concept is the departure point for Eric Owen Moss Architects. This firm's oeuvre is underscored by its unique approach to design, which is that it's convinced the world renews itself, and that architecture has the capacity to offer alternative venues as human affairs continue to be re-imagined. Showcasing highly illustrated and richly photographed works, this volume illuminates how Eric Owen Architects avoids traditional organisation strategies, standardised design solutions, and any notion of architecture as simply a repetitive style. This book delves into how the firm is fascinated both by individual buildings, and that evolving inter-relationship between building and city, and the interrogation of that urban/building exchange in a search/research of alternative design tactics, methods, and techniques that will obligate and modify both building and city. Spanning four decades, Eric Owen Moss Architects has designed a variety of award-winning buildings that continue to re-shape the discourse of international architecture. The Eric Owen Moss office works across a range of typologies and continues to educate through prolific engagement, including master planning, building designs, exhibits, lectures, publications, and teaching around the world.

The importance of outdoor living spaces, such as courtyards and patios, in our daily lives is highlighted in this new book from IMAGES. Courtyards and patios have been an important architectural feature for thousands of years, and through time, their popularity has not waned. Today these outdoor living spaces play both a decorative and functional role where water, walls, lighting, plants and sky all combine to convey security, calm and quiet. This beautiful volume presents residential outdoor living spaces from South America, Europe, Asia and the US.

Spa: The Sensuous Experience provides a timely exploration of 50 of the very best spas, from more recent examples to traditional destinations that have become icons in the spa world. It also takes an authoritative look at the three basic elements of each property: site, design and treatments. New York-based architect and professor, Robert D. Henry, a recognised authority in the field of spa design both in the United States and internationally, provides a comprehensive foreword. Author, spa aficionado and public relations professional, Julie D. Taylor, writes incisively on each of the selected projects, drawing on her extensive hirst-hand experience of spas and treatments throughout the United States. New York Times reporter, Julie V Iovine, writes the introduction. This stunning book is divided into comprehensive chapters dedicated to individual spa categories, each preceded by text written by a spa specialist or prominent personality.