Bøger af Stuart Cohen

Like many small residential practices Cohen & Hacker Architects have made a career of doing house additions.In a practice spanning almost forty years they have evolved strategies for making additions that represent both a theoretical and philosophical position about altering older buildings. They believe that recycling existing houses, retrofitting them to meet new energy standards, preserving their embodied energy as well as their cultural significance is the most sustainable way to practice architecture.The projects included in this book seamlessly and often invisibly extend the fabric of an existing house. Cohen & Hacker's remodeled architectural interiors while respectful of the character and scale of the existing house, transform these spaces with ideas taken from modern design, creating spatially open floor plans with traditional details based on the existing architecture.To help illustrate what Cohen & Hacker describe as transformation, this book contains before and after floor plans and often exterior elevation drawings for every project. Almost every residential addition project and remodeling includes photos of new kitchens and bathrooms, a staple typical of small residential practices. From the largest to the smallest project the same care and attention to detail characterizes their work.

The Seventh System introduces the human emotional system that regulates how people feel moment to moment and day to day. It presents a comprehensive view of each of the primary emotions people feel and describes how the various emotional states are interrelated. Over 60 personal stories illustrate how we come to feel happy, sad, angry or other feelings, and how we move from one kind of feeling to another. With straightforward writing and many examples, The Seventh System empowers readers to come to grips with painful and uncomfortable emotions and move beyond them. It guides readers to return more easily to the balanced feeling of inner satisfaction that is the natural resting point of our emotional system.

A collection of the best ideas from Positive Psychology, the study of personal well-being. Concise and easy to read, this book provides 24 specific actions, called keys, that a reader can do to enhance life satisfaction. The first twelve are oriented to lift one's mood in the short term, the second 12 to build greater lifelong happiness. Scientific validation of each one indicates that they are effective strategies for anyone seeking to enhance overall life satisfaction. An extensive bibliography of Positive Psychology literature is included.

While Frank Lloyd Wright's life and work have been extensively chronicled, this book reexamines the period between Wright's arrival in Chicago in 1887 and his move into the loft office in Steinway Hall in 1897.