{"product_id":"9783035628166","title":"BLAF architecten Houses 2003–2023: How Did We Get Here?","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: BLAF architecten\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan a house simultaneously be a home, a prototype, and a critical response to reality? This title reveals how BLAF architecten’s residential projects navigate tensions between suburban sprawl, energy regulations, conventional construction systems, and clients’ housing aspirations. Focuses on the firm's engagement with the meaning of materiality, resources and production, energy-efficiency standards and principles, context, and construction systems from a design perspective.BLAF architecten have developed concepts that demonstrate how the practice seeks plausible paths forward, aspiring to reconcile positions on affordability, performance, adaptability, aesthetics, and circularity.BLAF architecten offers no ready-made answers, but a compass for those who believe in architecture as a practice of　and for transition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9783035628166. Birkhauser Verlag. hb. 240 pages. 28 x 22 cm.\u003cbr\u003ePublication date: December 2025.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Birkhauser Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47481786794141,"sku":"9783035628166","price":130.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/1439\/9645\/files\/9783035628166.jpg?v=1780619506","url":"https:\/\/wholesale.manic.com.au\/products\/9783035628166","provider":"Books at Manic Wholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}