Street Furniture

"Street Furniture" offers the reader a close-up look at all of the elements that go into the design of urban space. Every item shown in the full colour photographs that illustrate the project was custom-designed for a specific purpose. The creation of each piece is explained right from the initial stages to its eventful construction and installation through original sketches and detailed lists of materials. This is surely the most thorough and complete volume of its kind, and constitutes a streetwise resource that no urban design professional should do without. AUTHOR: Carles Broto, an architect scholar and one of the founders of the IAC (institute For Alternative Culture). Following a successful period at the Atrium Group (Barcelona), he has now joined Grupo Links ? Structure as the publishing director of various contemporary architecture collections. He is currently investigating the evolution of new American housing, as part of multi-country project. He lives in Barcelona. ILLUSTRATIONS: 740 colour 296 b/w plans and drawings