Dimensions
205 x 286 x 21mm
Now more than ever, architects and designers are crossing aesthetic borders, and redefining craft to
suit their own creative needs, philosophies, and expectations—often by commenting upon or
challenging it. By transforming our notions of what might be considered “crafted,” today’s practitioners
have not only put a new spin on an ancient art; they have expanded our understanding of where and
how the personal touch is found in the sometimes bewildering or inhospitable terrain of the
contemporary aesthetic landscape.
Featuring 25 residential, commercial and institutional projects—by major international design figures
as well as the relatively unknown and up-and-coming—this volume looks at what constitutes the craft
influence in contemporary architecture and design. By turns luxurious and simple; time-honoured and
leading-edge; small-scale and monumental; unabashedly beautiful, surprisingly witty, socially adroit,
and sublimely poetic, these projects are sure to give us a new appreciation of the pleasures of
making—and enlarge and enrich our understanding of the presence, and importance, of craft in all
our lives.
