Getting High Design From A Low-Tech Approach

摘要

While architecture magazines are saturated with images of soaring, wriggling towers and pristine, jewel-like structures, those buildings represent a small fraction of actual construction. Most of us live, work and play in very conventional buildings-traditional wood-frame houses, steel-and-brick high-rises and concrete-and-glass shopping malls. And for much of the world's population, the comforts of home work and recreational facilities are critically lacking.