Architectural structure and design Books

Book SynopsisIn this book, Geoffrey Baker develops a methodology for design analysis that reveals the underlying organisation of buildings.Table of ContentsForeword. Prologue. Part One: Principles of analysis. The role of architecture. Aspects of form. The analysis of architecture. Part Two: Analytical studies. The village and city in history. Analytical studies of buildings. Science philosophy art and architecture.

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Book SynopsisA survey of the world's most innovative retail architecture and design.

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Book SynopsisA guide to 100 iconic American houses, from the ancient to the new.Trade Review"What a wonderful idea: take 100 notable American dwellings, arrange them chronologically, and explain who dreamt them up. The familiar [...] rub shoulders with the totally unexpected."—The Sunday TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction - 100 Houses - Glossary - Directory of Houses Open to the Public - Index & Credits

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth and multidisciplinary examination of our rapidly urbanizing world.Trade Review"Fascinating... A wonderful book for everyone interested in urban development and environmental limits."—The Environmentalist "There is urgent need for exactly the kind of discussion and research into 21st-century demographics and living conditions undertaken by the Urban Age project, a series of conferences part-hosted by the London School of Economics. Living in The Endless City which details and analyses the conferences' findings, is also thoroughly illustrated with striking, evocative, sometimes shocking images of Mumbai, Istanbul and São Paulo."—The Independent "Delivers the shock and awe of imposing statistics... Striking insights and facts."—Rowan Moore, The Observer "...Essential reading... Few books do as good a job at articulating the scope of challenges today's cities face."—The Wall Street Journal

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Book SynopsisInternational survey of 100 of the world’s best contemporary interior design projects, chosen by 10 design world leaders.Trade Review"An exquisite collection of spaces."—Make It Better "A seven-star, boutique hotel of a book with model looks... An impressive piece of work."—Irish Examiner "Dip into 100 projects from around the world in this comprehensive overview of interior design today."—Hong Kong Tatler Homes

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Book SynopsisThe perfect introduction to a style of architecture that has transformed the look of the modern age in America and the rest of the world, this book reveals Chicago''s architecture as constantly pushing boundaries over a century and a half through design innovation and a wholly new and creative use of materials through engineering. Each section of Chicago''s history, starting with the 1870s and ending in the 2010s is illustrated with selected examples of buildings that define the style and achievements.TOC: I: The Great Fire /II: World Fair /III: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Chicago School /IV: Mies and the Second Chicago School /V: Weese and Goldberg - Mies'' legacy /Further reading /IndexTable of ContentsIntroduction / After the Great Fire-Fireproofing / Foundations Set in Wet Sand / Tall Buildings / There's a Limit to How High the Sky / Places to Visit / Further Reading / Index

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Book SynopsisDIY enthusiasts, tiny house-lovers, and van-lifers will find inspiration and step-by-step instructions in Tin Can Homestead, the ultimate resource for living small in your own Airstream paradise. The Airstream trailer is the ultimate symbol of vintage wanderlust-and the classic touring vehicle''s resurgent popularity has dovetailed with the tiny house movement, resonating with design-minded individuals looking to live small. Tin Can Homestead, based on the popular Instagram of the same name, is the ultimate resource for these would-be DIY-ers, and the perfect coffee-table addition for anyone looking for streamlined, modern lifestyle inspiration. Part practical how-to, part lushly illustrated design inspiration, Tin Can Homestead follows the story of one couple as they build themselves a new life in an old Airstream. Through personal stories and down-and-dirty checklists, this book guides readers through all stages of creating their own Airstream homes-from buying a trailer to plumbing and electrical work. With a hip, bohemian aesthetic and a fresh authorial voice, the authors pair their DIY knowledge with lifestyle advice-including dÃr, design, and entertaining-and abundant illustrations, from in-process photographs to hand-drawn illustrations.

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Book SynopsisAn accessible primer to the most important architectural touchstones of our time by today’s leading architects and teachers of architecture.   For this volume, over forty internationally renowned architects and educators—from Peter Eisenman and the late Zaha Hadid to Rafael Moneo and Cesar Pelli—were asked to list the top 100 twentieth-century architectural projects they would teach to students. The contributors were encouraged to select built projects where formal, spatial, technological, and organizational concepts responded to dynamic historical, cultural, social, and political circumstances. The capacity of these buildings to resist, adapt, and invent new typologies solidifies their timeless relevance to future challenges.   The result is presented here in this unique volume: a master list of the top 100 “must-know” built works of architecture designed and completed between 1900 and 2000. Ranging from houses and apTrade Review"If given the chance to pick the brains of numerous starchitects about the most important buildings of the 20th century, you’d doubtlessly get a broad—and contentious—spectrum of answers. Pritzker Prize–winner Thom Mayne took on this task after noticing, in the architect’s words, “a declining awareness of historical precedent among my students.” Together with UCLA’s Now Institute, Mayne polled 40 architects—including Tadao Ando, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, and others—to list the most influential buildings of the previous century. The results, to be released this fall, have been distilled in 100 Buildings, an essential guidebook for architecture students and design buffs alike, detailing the enduring influence of projects ranging from Villa Savoye to the Vanna Venturi House."—Metropolis Magazine "To create this primer on iconic modern buildings, more than 50 internationally renowned architects and educators—including the late Zaha Hadid—were asked to list their top 100 20th-century architectural projects. The results—from the Gehry House in Santa Monica to the Museu de Arte de São Paulo in Brazil—do not disappoint."—PureWow.com

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Book SynopsisA sumptuous presentation of the extraordinary hotel casino design of AD100 interior designer Roger Thomas, who has conceived some of the most spectacular interiors in the gaming world.Thomas has transformed Las Vegas casinos from low-ceilinged, claustrophobic mazes into luxury interiors adorned with antiques, fine fabrics, and custom fittings for Wynn Resorts. His maximalist interiors summon drama, joy, mystery, surprise, and more.This dazzling book’s essays discuss these emotional design themes and the alluring configurations of Thomas’s resort spaces. The profiled hotel and casino interiors (the properties of Wynn Las Vegas, Encore Las Vegas, Wynn Macau, Encore Macau, Wynn Palace Cotai, and Encore Boston Harbor) include grand lobbies, gaming rooms, restaurants and bars, and hotel guestrooms and suites. Outrageous accents abound, among them giant lampshades festooned with lacquer tassels and shimmering gold drapery that frames a garden view. For Thom

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Book SynopsisFar more than being about a single artwork, this book participates in the myriad conversations and debates on the meaning of public art.

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Book SynopsisFacility performance evaluations inform the long-term life of a building and do not end with design or construction. To this aim, Patricia Andrasik created LEED Lab, in collaboration with the US Green Building Council, an increasingly popular international interdisciplinary collegiate laboratory course, which utilizes campus buildings as demonstration sites to facilitate the green assessment of existing buildings. LEED Lab: A Model for Sustainable Design Education uses the LEED O+M building rating system to measure and achieve performance-driven campus facilities in which the readers work and operate.The book explains in simple terms the theory, tasks, tools and techniques necessary for credit implementation and achievement, and includes case studies and exercises for practical application in each chapter. Readers will learn the conceptual scientific framework used to understand existing operational performance and how to quantify sustainable synergies, create green caTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Methodology 3. Platform 4. PHASE 1: Feasibility 5. PHASE 2: Implementation 6. Site 7. Water 8. Energy 9. Materials 10. Air Quality 11. PHASE 3: Documentation

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Book SynopsisIn 2020, the COVID pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world. As the invisible killer marched across continents, causing unprecedented disruption worldwide, architects and designers began rethinking how to design cities and adapt their practice so that we might continue to live together in the future. Architecture after COVID is the first book to explore the pandemic's transformative impacts upon the architectural profession. It raises new questions about the intertwined natures of architectural production, science, society, and spatial practice questions which had lain latent in the profession for years, but which the COVID pandemic brought to the fore. The book explores how the pandemic modified the spatial conventions of everyday life in the city, and looks in detail at how it has transformed building typologies. It also shows how the continuing risk of pandemics leads us to rethink the social dimension of architecture and urban design; andTrade ReviewYaneva’s book is an ethnography of architectural innovation, an investigation of how spatial designers and designs respond and work in a moment of crisis. For this important field – an architectural design of disasters – Yaneva’s new book contributes with a great and interesting case, as well as with important theoretical and methodological insights. I hope it will inspire others both in spirit, approach and in choice of subject, because this is a field that is in urgent need of further explorations. * Journal of Urban Design *With piercing attention to the swirling “now” of architects, the things they make, and how they make them, Albena Yaneva creatively takes the pandemic as a lens that reveals new dimensions of space, global cities, and architectural practices from around the world. Starting with the moment Covid-19 became part of daily life, the book is both a mirror into our recent transformations, and a cultural touchstone for future readers who wonder how we humans together with our virus redefine our shared lives. * Dana Cuff, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles, USA *A fascinating account of professional and collective life during the pandemic, reminding us of the extraordinary spatial and working conditions that we all experienced in those strange times. The book shows the lessons learnt by practitioners, and asks important questions as to how architectural practice can and should develop and adapt post-pandemic. * Jeremy Till, Professor of Architecture, University of the Arts London, UK *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction The return of Dr Rieux Responses to the pandemic ‘Distant’ as a new form of knowledge Architecture after Covid Chapter 1: A ‘parasite’ in the city Occupying space Architecture and illness Virus, lab, city The laboratorization of space Chapter 2: The laboratorization of urban space Deserted cities, empty buildings Counting bodies Spacing, distancing Contactless lives Sanitizing, face covering The new ‘modulor’ Pandemic pictograms De-centring the disease The power of entrapment Urban metamorphosis: the new technologies of containment and visibility Chapter 3: Pandemic variations of design practice Routines: the ‘magic’ of the office space Slowing down: the return to the verbal, the written and the sketch Stepping aside and speeding up: technological developments New compositions: re-connecting with the ‘others’ New variants of practice Conclusion: Architectural research extended to things Historicity and virus New reflexivity, new methods Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLorraine Farrelly co-ordinates architecture and interior design courses at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has lectured and taught at universities around the world, and presented her research on architecture and the European city at conferences internationally. She has written several books and articles about contemporary architecture and interior design.Trade ReviewThis book is awesome. Wonderfully designed, easy to understand, great images, great writing. What a wonderful overview of so many aspects of the design and practice of Architecture. * Eric Stark, University of Maine at Augusta, US (first edition) *A must for first year students of Architecture. * Jay Potts, Southampton University, UK (first edition) *An attractive introduction to the world of architecture and what is required of an architect... very good for those at school considering a career choice in architecture. It is also a good general overview of thinking across the whole field of architecture. The graphic design is attractive and the images well chosen. * John Napier, University of Lincoln, UK (first edition) *I think you have pitched these books just right: clear layout; accessible language; good photography; contemporary precedent that the student will relate to and the communication of the design process from inception to final communication. * Russell Gagg, Arts University College Bournemouth, UK (first edition) *Very good value. This book is exactly what is needed as a first year Architectural and Interior Design students' course book. We have already put it on the year book list. * Mary Weguelin, University of Portsmouth, UK (first edition) *An excellent book which clearly takes you through the fundamentals of architecture; pointing out elements of architectural interest, key precedent studies and names worth researching further. The book is laid out in a pleasing manner and shows interesting drawings, sketches and quotes. A great book to recommend for any student looking to learn the basics of architectural design as a supplement to their lectures. * Sonia Nicolson, The Arts University College at Bournemouth, UK (second edition) *The book is very useful as a guide to the discipline in introductory lectures and for general awareness. Good examples of graphics and clear text which are used very well within the book. * Fidel Meraz, University Campus Suffolk, UK *The book is great, really relevant for undergraduate students in Interiors as well as Architecture programmes, it is beautifully produced and the images and drawings are particularly good. * Lucy O'Reilly, Writtle College, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction Placing Architecture: Site; Place and space; City context; Landscape context Case study: Redesigning a university campus Exercise: Site analysis History and Precedent: A timeline of architectural influences; The ancient world; The classical world; The medieval world; The Renaissance; Baroque; Modernism Case study: Reconstructing a museum Exercise: Skylines Construction: Materials; Elements; Prefabrication; Structure; Innovation; Innovative materials Case study: Designing a pavilion Exercise: Axonometric drawing Representation: CAD drawing; Sketching; Scale; Orthographic projection; Perspective; Three-dimensional images; Physical modelling; CAD modelling; Layout and presentation; Storyboarding; Portfolios Case study: Renovation Exercise: Photomontage Contemporary Ideas: Universal ideas and principles; Functionalism; Form-driven architecture; Monumentalism; Zeitgeist Case study: Integrating with an urban landscape Exercise: Analytical diagrams Realization: Project timeline; The project; Contributors and their roles; The brief; The concept; Site analysis; The design process; Detail development; The finished building Conclusion Bibliography and webography Glossary Picture credits Index Acknowledgements Working with ethics

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 21st century, design thinking has permeated many fields outside of the design disciplines. It is expected to succeed whenever disciplinary boundaries need to be transcended in order to think outside the box. This book argues that these qualities have long been supported by analogical thinkingan agile way of reasoning in which think the unknown through the familiar. The book is organized into four case studies: the first reviews analogical models that have been at the heart of design thinking representations from the 1960s to the present day; the second investigates the staying power of biological analogies; the third explores the paradoxical imaginary of analogous cities as a means of integrating contemporary architecture with heritage contexts; while the fourth unpacks the critical and theoretical potential of linguistic metaphors and visTrade ReviewAnalogical Thinking in Architecture is careful and timely study of analogy as a powerful tool for connecting design and theory in the built environment. Covering large grounds of theory and practice, Jean-Pierre Chupin makes a compelling argument about the potential of analogical thinking to renew the epistemological horizons of architectural theory and to contribute to a better understanding of contemporary design practice. Eloquently written and filled with insightful examples, it is a must-read for every architecture student, design educator and practitioner. * Albena Yaneva, University of Manchester, UK *One of the foremost specialists of analogy, this fundamental dimension of architectural thinking, gives us an expanded English version of his seminal contribution to the study of a topic of interest both to theorists and practitioners. Indeed, analogy is key to the understanding of architectural creativity. * Antoine Picon, Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA *In four chapters, Jean-Pierre Chupin takes us on an intellectual and sensory journey, reviewing key moments in Western architectural theory and history and illuminating modes of thought that remain little explored in the discipline. Chupin argues persuasively that analogical thinking, in all its intellectual and poetic manifestations, needs to be further explored given the powerful capabilities it has always brought to the field. Building on the disciplinary and transdisciplinary strengths of architecture itself and across disciplines, Chupin foregrounds the specific modes of knowledge production in creative fields and offers this book as a first milestone on the road to "opening up a field of research that favors the creation of an architectural theory of projects understood as analog worlds.” Analogical Thinking in Architecture is a must-read for scholars and practitioners alike. * Dieter Dietz, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland *Table of ContentsList of Analogical Plates List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Analogy Beyond Resemblance A Spectrum of Definitions A Canonical Example A Paucity of Theories for a Plethora of Facts Design Process, Repertories, Cities and Theories 1 Reflecting on Design Thinking The Design Process as an Object of Research Cybernetic and Methodological Analogues Analogy as Creative Technique Toward a Cognitive Approach to Design The Rise of Design Thinking 2 The Cyclical Case of Biological Analogies The Intertwined Fates of Architecture and Biology Peter Collins and the Biological Analogy Philip Steadman and the Evolutionary Design of Artefacts George Hersey and the Biological Roots of Architecture Analogical Reasoning and the Burden of Proof Life Cycles of Biological Analogies 3 In the Labyrinth of Analogous Cities The Città Analoga as a Visual Enigma The Critical Misfortune of a Hypothesis Climbing the Analogical Mountain Back to Square One with Aldo Rossi 4 From Linguistic Metaphors to Critical Analogies Classical Regimes of Resemblance Post-modern Metaphors of the Column Critiques of Linguistic Analogy Colin Rowe’s Method of Analogical Pairing Conclusion: Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment The Analogical World of the Project Analogy as Inclusive Device Snakes and Ladders Digital Analogues and Artificial Imagination Cognitive Leaps are the Order of Things Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow can performance create and transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this study of the relationship of performance to urban space. Marrying theory with a series of international case studies of performance practice and interviews with practitioners, this interdisciplinary study examines how space is performatively produced to create a sense of placeness'. Offering multiple perspectives on space and place, this book investigates the connections between space and the construction of social and cultural narratives. It focuses on the multiple ways performative actions produce space, including theatre, installations, site-specific work, visual arts and digital performance. Combining interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary performance, architecture and digital media studies, this study builds on a clear theoretical framework that dra

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Book SynopsisLaurene Vaughan is Professor of Design and Communication at RMIT University, Australia, where she is also Dean, School of Design. She is the editor of Practice-Based Design Research (Bloomsbury, 2017), Designing Cultures of Care (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Using PhDs for Design Practice (forthcoming with Bloomsbury, 2023).Trade ReviewDesigners owe a duty of care to clients and society. This book challenges accepted, defensive understandings in this deeply selfish world, to encourage designers to conceive of all design as being a practice of care, with numerous examples of proactive ways of doing so. * Katharine Heron MBE, Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction, Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University, Australia) 2. Design as a Practice of Care, Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University, Australia) 3. Out(fit)ting the City: Care and Contribution in Post-industrial Newcastle, Australia, Cathy Smith (University of New South Wales, Australia) and SueAnne Ware (University of Newcastle, Australia) 4. Picture Education Today: Data Visualization as a Practice of Critique and Care, Brad Haylock (RMIT University, USA) 5. What Do We Want?: Designing Cultures of Care in Conditions of Precarity, Shana Agid (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA) 6. Patient-centered Care and the Design of a Psychiatric Care Facility, Sarah Pink and Shanti Sumartojo (Monash University, Australia) and Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University, Australia) 7. Tinkering in Cities: Aging and Careful Technology Design for Participation in Urban Infrastructures, Rachel Clarke (Northumbria University, UK) 8. Magic and Dementia: Designing Culture to Empathize with Dementia, Niels Hendriks (LUCA School of Arts, Belgium), Yanki Lee (Design School Kolding, Denmark) and Albert Tsang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) 9. Cities of Homefullness: A Proposition, Neal Haslem, Keely Macarow and Guy Johnson (RMIT University, Australia) and Marcus Knutagård (Lund University, Sweden) 10. Learning from Parramatta Girls Home: Tactics and Practices for Strategic Design in the Margins, Lily Hibberd (University of New South Wales, Australia) 11. Nurturing Forth: Designing Careful Futures in a Small Arctic City, Angeliki Dimaki-Adolfsen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Janike Kampevold Larsen and Andrew Morrison (Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway) and Maria Bertheussen Skrydstrup (Våranger Museum., Norway) 12. The Artwork that Remembers: Designing a Methodology for Community-based Urban Design, Charles Anderson, Chuan Khoo, Jordan Lacey and Ross McLeod (RMIT University, Australia) 13. Seeking Empathy in Conscious Cities, Claire McAndrew (UCL, UK) and Itai Palti (Hume, Israel) 14. Concerning Relations in the City: Designing Relational Services in Sharing Economies, Cameron Tonkinwise (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 15. Layers of Care: Co-Designing a City Laboratory of Intercultural Dialogue, Noel Waite (RMIT University, Australia) 16. Performing a Practice of Care: A Dialogue, Mick Douglas and Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University, Australia)

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Book SynopsisThe inflexibility of modern urban planning, which seeks to determine the activities of urban inhabitants and standardise everyday city life, is challenged by the unstoppable organic growth of illegal settlements. In rapidly expanding cities, issues of continuity with local traditions, local conditions and local ways of working are juxtaposed with those of abrupt change due to emergency, reaction to modernity, environmental degradation, global market forces and global technological imperatives to make efforts to control by physical planning redundant as soon as they are enacted. In most third world cities there is little social welfare and almost no attempt at social housing.Trade ReviewPrize: Winner of the UDG Publisher's Award 2012 'This book is a powerful wake-up call to all architects. It speaks about the meaning of architecture in circumstances that appear very different to those with which we are familiar in the West. The line of enquiry always revolves around the question of "how might architecture improve the way we live?"... It is a manifesto for an alternative form of architectural practice,... a testament to the value of an education - not a training - and undoubtedly equips students with strategies that are increasingly relevant. The reader is offered beautiful and mind blowingly complicated plans of existing settlements that have been surveyed, not copied and pasted. Evocatively shady interior views are set into landscapes strewn with debris; all the drawings inhabited by people. This is the landscape of humanity, where architecture serves as a backdrop, not a monument.' The Architectural Review 'Useful and beneficial for student, practitioner and academic alike, Learning from Delhi not only brings together notions of the spatio-physical and socio-economic, but also spatio-temporal and socio-environmental. An engaging book, joyful to go through...' Urban DesignTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Forewords; Introduction; Part I Setting the Scene: Field research; Methods (and modernity). Part II Essays: Delhi 'slums': red lines and high walls; The waste pickers of Panchseel Vihar; Havelis and the conglomerate matrix; Urban nomads; Climate, density and construction; Place, space and services; The relevance for architectural education in the UK. Part III Catalogue of Selected Students' Schemes: Slums, sanitation, amenity and housing; Waste picking; Havelis; Urban nomads; Leisure and livelihoods; Live projects; Students and projects 2002-2010; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisShowcases the best recent research on epigraphy across the medieval Islamic worldTrade Review"Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World explores the importance of epigraphic languages stretching from Spain to the Crimea between the 7th and 16th century CE. This landmark volume offers fresh interdisciplinary insights on the significance of the written word, prompting renewed attention on one the Islamic world's most pivotal art forms." -Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan

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Book SynopsisCities are where solutions to the twenty-first century’s key challenges - addressing inequality, fostering political participation, responding to climate change - will be tested. And as cities adapt to new developments in technology, infrastructure, public space, transportation, and housing, so too must urban practices and our understanding of how to effect positive change evolve. In Citymakers, Cassim Shepard - 2019 Guggenheim Fellow for Architecture, Planning, and Design - offers a vivid survey of how urbanism today is no longer the domain of just planners, politicians, and power brokers removed from the effects of their decisions, but an array of citizens working at the vanguard of increasingly diverse practices, from community gardeners to architects to housing advocates. Drawing on six years as the editor of Urban Omnibus, one of the leading publications charting innovations in urban practice (launched in 2009 by The Architectural League of New York), Shepard explores a broad variety of projects in New York, a city at the forefront of experimental and practical research: a constructed wetland in Staten Island, a workforce development and technology program in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a public art installation in a Bronx housing project, a housing advocacy initiative in Jackson Heights, Queens. These and a wide variety of other examples in Citymakers comprise a cross-disciplinary, from-the-ground-up approach that encourage better choices for cities of the future. By blending intimate portraits of individuals and projects with incisive social analysis, Citymakers reports from the front lines of urban practice with up-to-the-minute examples and arguments that reframe our understanding of urbanism. With original photography by Alex Fradkin, the book fuses the rich visual and graphic sensibility of architectural publishing with the informative readability of sophisticated, long-format journalism. Revising traditional notions of urban intervention and providing new directions for the next generation of citizen-practitioners, Citymakers is a lasting document of the perspectives driving cities today, and tomorrow.Trade Review"Shepard, founding editor of the online publication Urban Omnibus, presents readers with a rich view of the challenges of and opportunities for sustainable "citymaking" in an era of increasing economic inequality and destabilizing climate change.... The book offers a passionate and informed plea for citizens at the local level to recognize and invest in both daily and long-range projects that support the urban environment." - Publishers Weekly "There are many hundreds of books being written about cities today but very few that make the leap beyond the academy. Citymakers is that rare wonder: a solidly researched, compelling argument for a reinvention of urbanism, told in beautiful prose that is accessible to anyone who is interested in how cities work. Cassim Shepard has brought his keen eye, his nimble brain, and his generous heart to this exploration of cities, and produced a landmark that I will be turning to again and again." - Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found "To respond to a contemporary urban condition challenged by growing inequality and rising seas, designers must engage the creative coalitions emerging among citizen-activists, ecologists, artists, and public servants. In Citymakers, Cassim Shepard suggests new methods of engagement, offering a vital account of how - and by whom - cities are made today." - Sir David Adjaye, architect, lead designer of the National Museum of African American History and Culture "The right to the city resides in the diffusion of planning power, capacity, and creativity as the hallmarks of democratic urbanity. The dedicated “citymakers” described in this wise and generous book work at many scales - and via many practices - to ameliorate the city both physically and socially. Cassim Shepard situates their inspiring stories in an ethical and conceptual context that probes how we might harmonize a shared political economy and a sustainable built environment." - Michael Sorkin, author of Twenty Minutes in Manhatta "As the ownership of urban land is increasingly consolidated in fewer and fewer hands, we must highlight small acts of citizenship and design that reaffirm the values of public life and the public goods we hold in common. In Citymakers, Cassim Shepard does just this by combining narrative field reports of contemporary local practitioners with a broad reading of the intellectual history of the city." - Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy

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Book SynopsisThe Dublin Architecture Guide is a companion guide to the modernTrade ReviewThe Dublin Architecture Guide demonstrates beautifully that good architecture can be found in the least obvious places: a vocational school in Inchicore, for instance, a pastoral centre in Rathfarnham or a library in Baldoyle. In fact, there are 53 educational buildings included in the guide, 13 churches and 12 community buildings. One of the most important takeaways from this book is that interesting and inspiring architecture is more often than not on our own doorsteps. Indeed, I’ll never look at Donnybrook Bus Centre in the same way again. -- Marie Kelly * The Irish Times *A compact and beautifully organised curation of the city’s rich and diverse array of modern architecture. -- Luke Byrne * Totally Dublin *At 432 pages long, it’s a weighty, substantial book that’s both functional and aesthetically pleasing. * PLAN Magazine *On the whole, this is an eminently accessible guide and a well-timed Christmas stocking filler for the architecturally curious in your life. -- Louise Dredge * Architecture Ireland *It captures a variety of buildings across Dublin, not just the greatest hits but some surprises by some well-known practices who weren’t so well known when they designed these... It’s really nice... I’ve been recommending it to lots of students I teach and it will be really interesting to architects and non-architects alike... I’m a big fan of it. -- David Capener

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Book SynopsisThis is a broadly chronological account of the decorative and innovative use of Portland cement-based concrete. Contrary to the oft-held belief that concrete is a dull material that is used unimaginatively, this book demonstrates that it can be used in an exciting and inspiring way while benefiting from being a highly durable building material. After tracing the decorative use of concrete back several thousand years, its development is followed into the 20th century with the invention of Portland cement and its subsequent use in vast volumes. As concrete was used more widely, it also was used more creatively and accounts are included of some of the early exponents of the material such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Nervi, Lubetkin and Arup. The brilliance of these and other designers and engineers has provided a legacy of economy and form that is akin to today's current vogue of minimalism. The variety of scale and form is remarkable and after considering decorative processes and techniques, the book moves into the sphere of art, demonstrating the flexibility of the material. The book contains a wealth of illustrations, and in the later chapters the author considers the work of selected designers and then presents a large number of examples from around the world. The final chapter looks ahead, taking in current developments in high strength concrete that allow thin, slender applications, also novel self-cleaning concrete and even transparent concrete! Of one thing we can be certain - concrete is not dull!Table of ContentsIntroduction; Defining decorative concrete; A brief history of decorative concrete; Decorative processes and techniques; Examples of concrete applications around the world - Recent work in concrete by some notable individuals, An international selection of works in concrete; Predictions for the future; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisBuildings of London is a bright, fun way to tour the capital through the eyes of an architect. Taking in the well-known with the less familiar, architect of 30 years Roger FitzGerald leads the reader on a journey around the city through his evocative paintings, combining his keen eye for detail and construction with a fascination for discovery.

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Book SynopsisCherished Plan celebrates RBGE at Benmore and the Desire to commemorate Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour.

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Book SynopsisA photographic investigation into how ordinary reality is disguised and hidden as our public spaces are changed through the intervention and use of imagery.

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Book SynopsisAldo Rossi verfolgte in seiner 1966 erschienen Publikation L’Architecttura della Città die städtebauliche Entstehung und Entwicklung der großen europäischen Metropolen und legte damit seine Theorie zum Umgang mit den historisch gewachsenen Strukturen dar. Die 1973 in der Reihe der Bauwelt Fundamente erstmals erschienene deutsche Ausgabe gehört bis heute zur Pflichtlektüre für Studierende, Architekten und an der Architektur Interessierte.

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Book SynopsisIn formulating a design concept into a viable plan, architects oscillate constantly between two planes of observation: the actual design task in the context of planning typologies such as residential buildings, office buildings, museum, or airport, and the individual room, meaning the kitchen, office, classroom, sanitary rooms, storage rooms, and so on. Planning Architecture offers architects and students a thought-out planning tool, in which two main sections reciprocally complement one another: the “spaces” and the “typologies” between which the planner can flexibly oscillate depending on his or her plane of observation. All relevant planning information is presented in a detailed clear fashion, and in context. These two sections are flanked by an introductory chapter explaining the basis and framework for typological design, as well as a “reference section” at the end of the book that clearly lists general dimensions and units, regulations and standards.

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Book Synopsis A growing, living house, a building made of a plant seems to be a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, the Khasi in eastern India already knew how to connect the branches of rubber trees to form footbridges, and in southern Germany dance lime trees formed the centre of villages for centuries. Following on from this, the new discipline of Baubotanik is dedicated to designing with trees. Built projects, prototypes and visionary concepts point the way to a new green architecture. This introduction shows the possibilities of such living constructions and goes into the botanical growth laws that guide the design. The basics of constructing with trees are presented. The book encourages a whole new look at architecture that becomes part of urban nature.

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Book SynopsisTimber: the old raw material and building material returns.There are many reasons today for building with wood and there are great advantages over conventional designs. Wood is not only a renewable building material that helps reduce the levels of CO2 and is hence good for climate change, but, due to modern computing and manufacturing processes, it can also be used for a variety of construction tasks. Wood possesses excellent qualities for both construction and indoor climate control, and can easily be combined with other common building materials. Based on 24 international projects, the book provides an overview of the range of possibilities in wood construction today. Texts, images, and plans document the architectural and constructive qualities of contemporary timber structures from the conceptual design to the structure in detail. The various uses are based on current research in modern timber engineering but also on timber construction expertise that has been developing over many centuries. This special discipline has evolved significantly in recent decades, particularly in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and is a world leader today.

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Book SynopsisDer Grundrissatlas Wohnungsbau gehört seit Jahrzehnten zu den Grundlagenwerken der Architektur. In seiner 5., überarbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage dokumentiert und analysiert er rund 160 internationale Wohnungsbauten seit 1945. Im Zentrum stehen Beispiele, die vorbildlich und übertragbar, und Konzepte, die innovativ und wegweisend sind. Die systematische Darstellung aller Projekte ermöglicht es dem Leser, die Grundrisse zu vergleichen und zu bewerten – um sich so durch die Ideen und Strategien bei der eigenen Arbeit am Grundriss anregen zu lassen. Die einleitenden theoretischen und historischen Essays sind neu verfasst beziehungsweise aktualisiert worden und bieten ein übersichtlich strukturiertes Bild der Wohnungsbautypologie und ihrer Entwicklung.

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Book SynopsisEs ist unbestritten, dass Mies van der Rohe als einer der bedeutendsten Architekten der Moderne gilt. Aber wie verhalten sich seine Überlegungen und Ideale zur Architektur in seinem gebauten – und teils auch ungebauten – Werk? Dieser Frage geht das Buch anhand von 14 Projekten Mies‘ nach. Dabei stehen Detaillierung und Materialwahl im Vordergrund. Die Bauten umfassen, beim Haus Esters und Haus Lange (1927-30) beginnend, über das Haus Tugendhat (1928-30), den Barcelona-Pavillion (1928-29), das Farnsworth House (1946-51), den Lake Shore Drive (1948-51) bis hin zur Neuen Nationalgalerie (1962-68), mehrere Jahrzehnte Mies‘ Wirkens und sowohl seine deutsche, als auch seine amerikanische Schaffensphase.Sämtliche Zeichnungen sind durch den Autor einheitlich neugezeichnet.

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Book SynopsisThe dimensions of the core elements of office workplaces – desk and chair – together with the necessary circulation areas determine the design of office buildings. Starting with the module of the individual workplace, larger space configurations result from adding these workplaces in a variety of arrangements, resulting in different office layout typologies. In addition to the space required for desk and chair, it is necessary to provide the required distances as well as floor area for cupboards, movement, and circulation routes within the office rooms. Basics Office Design explains the parameters of this common design task in a clear and easy-to-understand way, placing as much emphasis on ergonomics, comfort, and orientation as on the space requirements, functional relationships, and the different types of offices.

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Book SynopsisArchitecture is energy. Lines drawn on paper to represent architectural intentions also imply decades and sometimes centuries of associated energy and material flows. Form Follows Energy is about the relationship between energy and the form of our built environment. It examines the optimisation of energy flows in building and urban design and the implications for form and configuration. It speaks to both architectural and engineering audiences and offers for the first time a truly interdisciplinary overview on the subject, explaining the complex relationships between energy and architecture in an easy to follow manner and using simple diagrams to show how energy design strategies can be used to maximize the energy performance of our built environment, while at the same time leading to new aesthetic qualities and radically new forms in architecture and urban design. Case studies are used to illustrate the theory. The books philosophy is based on the guiding principles underlying nearly 30 years work in practice, research and teaching. It is relatively easy to make something simple seem complicated. To make a complex topic seem simple and easily understandable is far more of a challenge and this is the aim of this book. 　

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Book SynopsisThe interaction between color and architecture determines our perception of space, and defines the tectonic relationships. The fascinating spatial potential of color, and the multi-layered dimensions of interpretation in the experience of color are design and communication means which, however, are often not fully used – color oscillates between autonomy and functional purpose, and should be understood as a distinct "material" that can be used as part of the design. The book focuses both on the tangible aspects and design criteria of color, and on its indeterminate nature and its experience value. Using examples in art and architecture, the spatial interdependency of color is illustrated, as is its interaction with structure, light, and geometry.

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