House with a Pool

An architect's guide to swimming pools, garden pools and other flat surface water features. This book offers ideas, inspiration and advice based on the most recent projects of 30 leading architects and landscape designers around the world. Over 500 inviting colour photos illustrate the many options from spectacular "infinity-edge" pools to attractive garden pools. Valuable advice is included on site selection, materials, financing and more. This gorgeous compilation is beautifully printed, and exquisitely designed. Ann essential volume not only for architects and landscapers but also for designers, design and architecture practices, students, university libraries, real estate companies & developers, manufacturers and furniture designers, product designers, public and private institutions, large and local retailers, architecture & design bookstores, museum bookstores and individual non-professional readers with an interest in architecture, pools and home gardens. AUTHOR: Oriol Magrinyà studied for a degree in linguistics & literature in Barcelona in 1996 and later took a postgraduate degree in publishing in 1998. He has worked as an editor and writer since then. Among his latest publications for Loft Publications there are Rehabilitated Spaces.