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Book SynopsisAn accessible, climate-diverse guide that transforms readers from sustainable design novices to whole-solution problem solvers. Sustainable Design Basics is a student-friendly introduction to a holistic and integral view of sustainable design. Comprehensive in scope, this textbook presents basic technical information, sustainability strategies, and a practical, step-by-step approach for sustainable building projects. Clear and relatable chapters illustrate how to identify the factors that reduce energy use, solve specific sustainable design problems, develop holistic design solutions, and address the social and cultural aspects of sustainable design. Requiring no prior knowledge of the subject, the text's easy-to-follow methodology leads readers through the fundamental sustainable design principles for the built environment. Sustainably-constructed and maintained buildings protect the health and improve the productivity of their occupants, as well as help to restore the global ecosystem. The authors, leading practitioners and educators in sustainable design, have created a resource that provides a solid introduction to broad level sustainability thinking that students can take forward into their professional practice. Topics include space planning for sustainable design, integrative and collaborative design, standards and rating systems, real-world strategies to conserve energy and resources through leveraging renewable natural resources and innovative construction techniques and their impact on our environment. Usable and useful both in and beyond the classroom, this book: Covers building location strategies, building envelopes and structures, integration of passive and active systems, green materials, and project presentationExamines cultural factors, social equity, ecological systems, and aestheticsProvides diverse student exercises that vary by climate, geography, setting, perspective, and typologyFeatures a companion website containing extensive instructor resources Sustainable Design Basics is an important resource aimed at undergraduate architecture and interior design students, or first-year graduate students, as well as design professionals wishing to integrate sustainable design knowledge and techniques into their practice.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii About the Authors xv About the Companion Website xvii Chapter 1 Why, How, Who, and What 1 Why Use This Book 1 How to Use This Book 2 Who Should Use This Book 2 What are the Parameters of This Book 2 Organization 3 Exercises 3 Companion Website 3 Chapter 2 Mindset 5 The Holocene and the Age of Agriculture 6 The Industrial Revolution and the Environment 6 Environmentalism and the Age of Information 7 Realizations of the Historic Sustainability Events Timeline 11 Thinking and Seeing from Multiple Perspectives 13 Integral Sustainable Design 13 The Four Perspectives of Integral Sustainable Design 14 Learning from the Past: General Rules 16 Space and Scale 17 The Integrative Design Process 18 Chapter 3 Step 1: Context 21 The Sustainable Design Basics Methodology: An Overview 21 Step 1: Context 23 Step 1A: Project Information 24 Step 1B: Guiding Principles 26 Step 1C: Macro Context and Micro Context 28 Step 1D: Site Inventory and Analysis 35 Chapter 4 Step 2 Pre-Planning 55 Research and Organization 55 Step 2A: Case Study 56 Step 2B: Project Goals 63 Step 2C: Criteria Matrix 67 Step 2D: Relationship Diagrams 73 Chapter 5 Step 3: Design 77 Whole Building Thinking, Systems Thinking 77 3A Preliminary Design 80 Chapter 6 Step 3B: Passive Design 117 What is Passive Design? 117 Key Elements of Passive Design 118 Passive Design Strategies 122 Passive Solar Heating 126 Passive Cooling and Natural Ventilation 134 Water Conservation and Rainwater Harvesting 152 Passive Design Validation 157 Chapter 7 Step 3B: Passive Design, Daylighting 159 Daylighting 159 Chapter 8 Step 3C: Building Envelope 187 What is the Building Envelope? 187 Functions 188 The Building Envelope in the SDB Methodology 189 Building Envelope and Macroclimate 190 Building Structure and the Building Envelope 192 Building Foundations 198 Exterior Wall Assembly 202 Windows 210 Roof Systems 217 Validation, Synergies, and Synthesis of Design 226 Chapter 9 Step 3D: Green Materials 229 Basics 229 Evaluation 236 Overarching Objectives 245 Material and Product Resources 248 A Warning about Greenwashing 248 Chapter 10 Step 4: Design Resolution 251 Step 4A: Final Design Synthesis 252 Step 4B: Final Design Validation 253 Step 4C: Presenting the Project 261 Chapter 11 Demonstration Project 265 Step 1: Context 266 Step 2: Pre-Planning 278 Step 3: Design 286 Chapter 12 Beyond the Basics 323 Active Systems 324 PV Array Sizing and Net-Zero Energy 326 Chapter 13 Design Resolution 335 Final Design Synthesis 335 Final Validation 341 Conclusion 349 Chapter 14 Demonstration Project: Final Presentation 351 Step 1: Project Introduction and Context 352 Step 2: Pre-Planning 354 Conclusion 361 Chapter 15 Exercises 363 Sustainable Building Design Exercises 363 Choice 1: Client Details 365 Choice 2: Site Selection and Macro Climate 370 Choice 3: Macro Context Details 371 Choice 4: New Building or Existing Building 372 Exercises 373 Appendix A: Demonstration Project Program, Climate, and Context Resources 375 Step 1A: Project Introduction 375 Step 1C Macro and Micro Context 378 Step 1D Site Inventory and Analysis 382 Appendix B: Forms and Matrices 387 Appendix C: Energy Modeling Software 419 Notes about Energy and Daylighting Simulation 419 SEFAIRA 421 Rhino Architectural Software 421 Open Studio 422 IES (Integrated Environmental Solutions) 423 Equest 424 Revit Green Building Studio by AutoDesk 425 Appendix D: Abbreviations and Acronyms 427 Appendix E: Green Building Standards, Codes and Rating Systems 431 The Role of Codes and Standards 431 The Role of Rating Systems 431 Green Building Standards, Codes and Rating Systems 431 Bibliography 441 Index 449

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Book SynopsisThe Avery Review, a digital journal about books, buildings, and other architectural media, makes its print debut with a thematic broadsheet edition about the city of Chicago. Coinciding with the inaugural Chicago Architectural Biennial, this issue addresses the historic imagination of the city (including figures of myth like Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and even John Dillinger) and possibilities for the contemporary urban landscape (including discussions of placemaking, contemporary cultural monuments, and infrastructural parks). Selected pieces from the Avery Review's first year are republished alongside these commissioned essays on Chicago. Together these texts claim the critical essay as a space in which to test one's own intellectual commitments, to enter into and advance a conversation about the pasts and futures of urban architectural thought.Table of ContentsTable of Contents: * American Space * Games of Public Benefit * Antipublic Urbanism * Park City * The Guggenheim Helsinki Competition * Please Respect the Homeowner's Privacy and Remain on the Public Sidewalks * Loitering in a Lesser-Known Imaginary: Ben Hecht's One Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago * Beyond Bigness * Chicago's Multi-scalar Alternatives to the Neighborgoodlies * Capture All * Displacemaking * The Critic as Producer

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Book SynopsisArchitecture Is All Over investigates architecture's simultaneous diminishment and ubiquity in the early twenty-first century. As a diagnostic and tactical guide, this collection features original texts and design proposals from emerging and established scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, art, the history of science, media studies, and philosophy. Together these pieces probe architecture's relationship to liminal zones and immaterial systems, reframing instability and mutability as enduring qualities that form architecture's motive core-a perspectival shift that carries with it new possibilities for architectural agency and resistance. The pieces in this book range from contrarian investigations of the opportunities inherent in scarcity, bureaucracy, and banality to projections of architecture as a mediatic practice or automated process. Case studies that propose new architectural strategies are placed alongside provocative historical examples to tease out the implications of architecture's indeterminacy in agonistic ways. In each contribution, a particular facet of the discipline's apparent obsolescence or endurance becomes a way to critically evaluate the ethical and entrepreneurial dimensions of architectural practice and theory. Taken together, the pieces in this volume reinterpret architecture's "all-over-ness" as an untapped disciplinary property rather than a temporary or terminal condition.

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Book SynopsisThe election and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the president of the United States of America have provoked an unprecedented intensity of reflection in virtually all academic disciplines. The professions of architecture and planning, faced with the phenomenon of a self-proclaimed "builder-in-chief," have found themselves facing a series of fundamental questions, both old and new. How should we think, teach, and practice under a developer presidency? What sort of walls will we and won't we choose to build? What are our commitments of critical thought, and what obligations should we turn our energies toward? The essays gathered in And Now explore the nature of architecture's many long-standing complicities. Architecture coordinates colossal expenditures (of material, of energy); it scripts forms of labor (in its construction, in its operation, and in the programs it houses); and it is both a repository and generator of capital. Architecture participates, centrally, in defining modes of life, whether for the privileged or the dispossessed-designing and building the boundaries between the "haves" and the "have-nots." This fundamental reality of architectural practice need not inspire either nihilism or defensiveness but should rather be understood, quite simply, as the terrain we navigate. Naming these complicities and the injustices they perpetuate is a first step toward addressing them.

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Book SynopsisOver the past fifty years, preservation policy has evolved very little, despite escalating accusations that landmarking and historic districting can inhibit affordable housing, economic development, and socioeconomic diversity. The potential to understand these dynamics and effect positive change is hindered by a lack of data and evidence-based research to better understand these impacts. One of the biggest barriers to preservation research has been the lack of data sets that can be used for geospatial, evidence-based, and longitudinal analyses.This first book in the series Issues in Preservation Policy explores the ways that enhancing the collection, accuracy, and management of data can serve a critical role in identifying vulnerable neighborhoods, understanding the role of older buildings in economic vitality and community resilience, planning sustainable growth, and more. For preservation to play a dynamic role in sustainable development and social inclusion, policy must evolve beyond designation and design regulation and use evidence-based research to confront new realities in the management of urban environments and their communities.

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Book SynopsisFrom producing sterile goldfish to choreographing the factory assembly line, Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen's work could be thought of as situated—that is to say, it is performed within particular networks. These networks—whether connecting raw materials, mythic conditions, animal genetics, constructions of uncertainty, or colonial inheritances—form a point of departure from which to think of friction, entanglement, porousness, reflection, and self-implication. Not What I Meant But Anyway reveals the methods and processes behind Cohen and Van Balen’s work and working, prioritizing long and multidimensional research and production over its eventual outcomes. Intermingling conversations between the artists on living and working together, their generated ephemera, and a series of external reflections, the book hints at the intimacies and estrangements inherent to their practice.With contributions from Daisy Hildyard, Andrés Jaque, Lucia Pietroiusti, and Xiaoyu Weng.

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Book SynopsisPromoting resilience in underserved populations. The fourth volume in the Interdisciplinary Community-Engaged Research for Health series departs from the traditional view of resilience driven by individuals and reconstructs it to hinge on the community of context. Editors Kelli E. Canada and Clark Peters identified six scholar-practitioner teams who worked to promote resilience in communities across the nation facing health crises and other structural barriers to health, such as low socioeconomic positions, structural racism, and discrimination. This research is part of a two-pronged approach to public health, intending to increase resilience and communities’ internal support while simultaneously reducing barriers to health care access. The efforts featured in Community-Engaged Research for Resilience and Health highlight community-based solutions, points of strength, and sources of resilience to help communities that are struggling to survive and thrive in the face of adversity. Whether these communities are facing opioid addiction or other substance abuse issues, domestic violence, armed conflict, trauma, or cultural discrimination, the editors and contributors in this volume share examples of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) practices where through a collaborative partnership, the community actively participates in every aspect of the alongside the interdisciplinary research team. What transpires demonstrates how researchers and communities come together to turn adversity into improved health through resilience-focused programs and interventions.

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Book SynopsisFor as long as there have been buildings, architecture has been a major subject of public discussion, considered and argued about not just by architects or residents, but also by critics, theoreticians, historians, and writers. This book offers an overview of these discussions in the Western world by means of four thematic trajectories, focused on housing, society, history, and art. Each of these four chronological paths starts in the nineteenth century, traverses the twentieth century, and ends as closely as possible to the contemporary moment. The stepping stones that Christophe Van Gerreway uses are historical documents—texts, books, essays, and articles—that are analyzed, interpreted, criticized, and compared. The aim of the book is to show that architecture remains a vital subject matter for anyone interested in our contemporary world and its recent history. Reading, inquiring, and thinking are essential for making substantiated choices, and, Van Gerreway shows, architecture can be a useful starting point. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Abandon Your Pencils / Part 1 Housing / Part 2 Society / Part 3 History / Part 4 Art

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of dormitories as an architectural type. Concepts of type and typology are not specific to architecture. Rather they represent an interdisciplinary approach to ordering knowledge and gaining insight. In the field of architecture, the study of types and typology offers a didactic perspective that allows us to see the complex network of interconnections between theory and practice as an inseparable material and social construct. This book is the result of a research project focused on dormitories as an architectural type, conducted at Laboratory EAST. Through a structured analysis, it unveils how architecture has offered solutions to the challenges of creating buildings designed for sleeping collectively.Table of Contents"PREFACE Studies on Types / An Inquiry into Form, Content and MeaningPART I TheoriesPART II Artefacts / A Visual SurveyAPPENDIX"

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Book SynopsisThis book directly links the notion of the commons with different design praxes, and explores their social, cultural, and ecological ramifications. It draws out material conditions in four areas of design interest: social design, commons and culture, ecology and transdisciplinary design. As a collection of positions, the diversity of arguments advances the understanding of the commons as both concepts and modes of thinking, and their material translation when contextualised in the domain of design questions. In other words, it moves abstract social science concepts towards concrete design debates. This text appeals to students, researchers and practitioners working on design in architecture, architecture theory, urbanism, and ecology. Table of Contents1. Introduction Gerhard Bruyns and Stavros Kousoulas Part I Design, the Commons and the Social 2. Commoning as a Material Engagement of Resistance: The Struggle to Save the Albanian National TheaterDorina Pllumbi 3. AutoCostruzione-SelbstBau: Design as a Practical Knowledge Translation Process Maria Reitano and Nikolaus Gartner 4. Scaling Out, Up and Deep: Understanding the Sustainment and Resilience of Urban Commons Chun Zheng 5. Alignments of Architecture and Commoning in Tai O Village: Architecture Critique and Fields of Adversity Daniel Elkin, Chi-Yuen Leung and Xiao Lu Wang Part II Design, the Commons and Culture 6. Persistent Modeling of the Built: A Collective Experiment Merging Structural Preservation and Digital Design Between Academia and Industry Frank Bauer and Lasse Sehested Skafte 7. The Commons in African Spatial Production: A Critical Review of Geographies of Power Gert van der Merwe 8. Expressing Urban Commons: Architectural Ambiguity in the Construction of an Improvisational Future Nicholas Frayne Part III Design, the Commons and Ecology 9. Intriguing Human-Waste Commons: Praxis of Anticipation in Urban Agroecological Transitions Markus Wernli 10. The Secondary Use Group: Unlocking Waste as a Common Pool of Resources in the 1970sPiero Medici 11. Reclaiming the Habitat: Food, Fire and Affordance in Designing and Living the Urban Liana Psarologaki and Stamatis ZografosPart IV Design, the Commons and Transdisciplinarity12. Design and Commons: A Lacanian Approach Dora Karadima 13. ‘Matters of Care’ in Spaces of Commoning: Designing In, Against and Beyond Capitalism Katharina Moebus 14. Design as Commoning: Drawing Together with Care Contingent Collective (Lőrinc Vass, Roy Cloutier and Nicole Sylvia) Biographical Notes

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Book SynopsisThrough a series of highly speculative contributions by both leading and highly acclaimed practitioners and theorists, this book gives a new comprehensive overview of architectures’ most recent practical and theoretical developments. While a few chapters are mostly dedicated to a historical analysis of how we got to experience a new technological reality in architecture and beyond, all chapters including the most forward looking, have in common their rigorous understanding of history as a pool of radical experiments, whether one speaks of the history of architecture, or of sociology, technology, and science. Disruptive Technologies: The Convergence of New Paradigms in Architecture is required reading for anybody student, practitioner, and educator who wants to do serious research in architecture and all disciplines dealing with the shaping of our environment, beyond the important but restricted domain of computational architectural design.Additional multimedia content via app: download the SN More Media app for free, scan a link with play button and access to the Additional Contents directly on your smartphone or tablet.Table of Contents1: Disruptive Technologies in Architecture (General Introduction).- 2.1: Robotics and AI in Architecture.- 2.2: Bioptemes and Mechy Max Systems: Topological Imaginations of Adaptive Architecture.- 2.3: How Do We Want to Interact with Robotic Environments? User Preferences for Embodied Interactions, from Pushbuttons to AI.- 2.4: Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation for Activating Bio-Cyber-Physical Environments.- 2.5: Conceptual and Methodological Constructs for People-Oriented Public Spaces.- 3.1: Architectural Intelligence, Machine and Human Learning.- 3.2: Architectural Knowledge and Learning Algorithms.- 3.3: On Legibility: Machine Readable Architecture.- 3.4: Where is reality? Can you show it to me? Constructing Artificial Agency.- 3.6: From Disruptions in Architectural Pedagogy to Disruptive Pedagogies for Architecture.- 4.1: Cyber-Urban Integration, Disruptive Construction Technologies, and Tectonics.- 4.2: Cyber-Urban Integration.- 4.3: Democratising Tectonism: High performance geometry for mass-customisation of virtual and physical spaces.- 4.4: Why Disruptive Business Models are Inseparable from Disruptive Technologies?.

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Book SynopsisThis is a history of the Centre William Rappard, the first building designed to house an international organization in Geneva, and its art treasures. For nearly a century, these works of art and decorations offered by governments and institutions encouraged smooth diplomacy and fluent international negotiations in the fields of labour, trade and human rights. On occasions hidden, removed and forgotten, and then recovered and restored, the history of the artworks in the Centre William Rappard represents the confrontation between art as diplomatic device and aesthetic experience, between representation and represented, between censorship and free expression. Even before its opening in 1926, the building started receiving works from the International Labour Organization member governments. Some pieces, such as the Geneva Window by Harry Clarke, never arrived in Geneva since it was censored by the Irish government. The Spanish Pygmalion by Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera was latter covered for its female nudity and remained hidden during decades. Later in the 1970s the secretariat of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade occupied the building and requested the removal of other major works. This was reversed in the 2010s by its successor the World Trade Organization, when many artworks were rediscovered, restored and placed in their original locations. However, new values in the world scene contributed to further changes in the building art, including the removal of Claude Namy’s caricature In GATT We Trust from public view in 2019. Art in the Centre William Rappard continues to speak to the viewer after waves of positive reception, censorship and recovery. Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Art Paradox: Between Love and Fear of the Image.Chapter 2: 1926 – Metaphors of Hope. Chapter 3: 1930 – “Sex and drunkenness and, yes, sin”: The Geneva Window that never arrived in Geneva.Chapter 4:1937 – “He wishes that it be removed”: Hiding Pygmalion.Chapter 5: 1977 – “Profane, almost sentimentalist, almost human”: The GATT Secretariat in the Centre William Rappard.Chapter 6: 2013 – Fresh Air: Rediscovering and Restoring Artworks.Chapter 7: 2020 – The end of humour.Chapter 8: Ars celare artem

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Book SynopsisDan Graham, one of America's most important contemporary artists, is best known today for his sculptural works and installations. His photographic works are generally not so well known, despite the fact that he first became famous for his photographic series, Homes for America, pictures of typical American suburbia. To this day the theme of architecture and its surfaces represents an extremely important facet of his work, as does the question of what role it plays in postmodern society and in the context of everyday culture. This publication presents new photographs by Dan Graham, taken in the context of a study trip with the architecture faculty of Columbia University, together with a selection of original photographs from the Homes for America series. The new images exhibit stark similarities to the old pictures, because they were taken in the same locations, in the same deserts of suburban streets and housing that Graham had photographed in the 1960s. This creates a fascinating reference system of repetitions and differences, in terms of both the temporal and the spatial, that asks questions of the viewer about architecture, public space, and their function in society.

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Book SynopsisThe OfficeUS Atlas collects the exhibition research in an archive of nearly 1000 architectural projects. Organized according to individual firm histories, the Atlas documents the development of U.S. architectural offices working abroad from 1914 to the present. Offices and their projects are illustrated by over 1200 photographs and architectural drawings. OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion for the 2014 International Architecture Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, reframes the history of U.S. architecture through the lens of export in two interrelated constructs: "The Office" and "The Repository." The Repository presents 1000 projects designed by 200 US offices working abroad in a chronological archive of the last 100 years. Collectively these projects tell multiple, imbricated stories of U.S. firms, typologies, and technologies, as well as a broader narrative of modernization and its global reach. The Office engages these projects, revisiting their premises and conclusions over the course of the Biennale. It functions as a laboratory staffed by a diverse group of resident design partners collaborating with outpost offices and a rotating cast of visiting experts. Together, these two halves of OfficeUS create both an historical record of the U.S. contribution to global architectural thought, and a petri dish in which that record is submitted to contemporary agents of disruption and critique.

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Book SynopsisUnder the direction of Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao, thirteen architecture studios and students across the United States and Mexico undertook the monumental task of attempting to capture the complex and dynamic region of the US/Mexican border. 'Two Sides of the Border' envisions the borderland through five themes: migration, housing and cities, creative industries, local production, tourism, and territorial economies. Building on a long shared history in the region, the projects covered in this volume use design and architecture to address social, political, and ecological concerns along the shared border. Featuring essays, student projects, interviews, special research, and a large photo project by Iwan Baan, 'Two Sides of the Border' highlights the distinct qualities of this place. Altogether the book uses the tools of architecture, research, and photography to articulate an alternate reality within a contested region.

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Book SynopsisAdolf Meyer was Walter Gropius’s right-hand man, his planner and close confidant. As early as 1910, they jointly created the Fagus Factory, one of the most important modernist buildings. The experimental single-family home “Haus am Horn” was built for the first Bauhaus exhibition, in the summer of 1923 in Weimar. The house was planned by Georg Muche (design) and the architectural department at the Bauhaus. Adolf Meyer and Walter March were responsible for construction management. The book about the project was compiled in the summer of 1924 and became the third volume of the Bauhausbücher. Following an essay by Walter Gropius that supplies information on the “Housing Industry,” Georg Muche presents the design of the model building. Adolf Meyer then describes its technical execution, giving details on the companies involved.

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Book SynopsisIf metropoles were the 20th century’s favorite playground, borders are the laboratory for globalized phenomena in the 21st century. Hot spots for migrants, barbed wire, Green borders, checkpoints, go slow for cross-border workers, crypto-currency mining farms, casinos, brothels, tax havens, condominiums, principalities, white elephants, and so on: such places, residues of nation states, are all to be found on borders. Border inhabitants are often left to their own device. To date, borders lack a political project. In order to realize this project, the editors have worked in-situ with those living in border regions in Switzerland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Liechtenstein, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Eritrea. They have started to imagine, describe and model the real territory and a potential project for it. A collective intelligence – a res publica – is taking form. Oræ, plural of the Latin noun ora, translates as “borders” in English. Figuratively speaking, it signifies “the beginning of something.” Oræ is a project of a territory, whose setting is its borders and whose authors are its inhabitants. Its political and poetic program consists of experiencing the world from its margins. This guide invites readers to an unplanned journey inside oræ. It is a non-hierarchical succession of fragmentary narratives coming from borders and the imaginations of those living in their vicinity. The project “oræ – Experiences on the Border” was conceived as Switzerland’s nominated National Participation in the 17th Venice architecture biennial, commissioned by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

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Book SynopsisMãe Luíza is a borough at the edge of the city of Natal in the northeast of Brazil with approximately 15,000 inhabitants – a favela with all the typical grievances. In the 1980s Padre Sabino Gentili came to Natal from Italy, and settled in Mãe Luíza. He built the fi rst Catholic church in the poor community and in 1984 founded the Centro Sócio with German, Swiss and Brazilian support. In a participatory process in which the community was able to voice its needs and priorities, the Centro initiated communal social infrastructure for education and medical care, and later for sports, culture and community life. After Padre Sabino’s death in 2006 the Ameropa Foundation strengthened its commitment with further investments in the infrastructure, expanding social and educative services and community-building measures. The efforts culminated in the construction of an arena for sporting and communal activities and also a music school, two outstanding buildings and focal points in the neighborhood, designed by Swiss architects: facilities usually absent in the Brazilian peripheries. This richly illustrated volume documents the transformation of Mãe Luíza as an example of how to build community, create citizenship and identity, and promote initiative and participation with timely and punctual investments. Alongside a novel written by the esteemed Brazilian author Paulo Lins, short articles and essays trace the history of Mãe Luíza from the point of view of local activists as well as invited authors from various fi elds.

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Book SynopsisThe way things flow: exploring the movement of bodies, data and goods. Mobility shapes society in countless ways. Looking at society from the perspective of mobility reveals that its key moments of development coincide with the removal of obstacles to human flow-in the physical movement of people, goods, ideas, and spoken and written language. This book explores mobility in various essayistic modes, from visual essays to scientific essay to broad cultural speculations. Mobility Society addresses, among other topics, energy politics and oil's grip on everyday life; urban transportation policy; the restrictions placed upon differently abled bodies; patterns of data flow; human mobility and Blackness; the politics of speed; concepts of "freedom" in relation to mobility; the appearance and experience of permanence in architectural and other objects; geological movement; and the politics of mobile phones. The design of the book encourages the reader to discover and explore unsuspected relations between mobilities and aspects of our evolving society. AUTHORS: . Adrian Bejan is a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University. . Peter Adey is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of London, UK, and the author of Mobility (Routledge, 2017). . Kader Abdolah left Iran as a political refugee and now lives in Holland. He leapt to literary fame with House of the Mosque (New Directions, 2005). . Caspar Chorus, Elmer van Grondelle and Matthijs van Dijk are professors in Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University. SELLING POINTS: . Collection of essays and visual graphics about mobility. Mobility here is NOT about physically getting around, nor is it about accessibility. Mobility here is about the movement of everything like digital information, sea freight, etc., and how that movement shapes culture at large. 101 illustrations

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Book SynopsisThis book acts as a bridge between the topics of energy and water. It is an artfully crafted visual ode which imagines and reflects upon the intricate bond between the people who count on dams for energy and water, and the source that fuels this bounty. It is a tribute to the engineering feat so grand that it made Switzerland an energy hub in demand, providing the life-sustaining flow that drives our modern world. Candid and curious, this publication focuses on two things: the appearance and significance of the dam and power plant, and the appreciation of the structure as an impressive manifestation of civilization and culture in harmony with the spectacular nature and surroundings. With interviews and breathtaking photographs, this book delves into the history of the valley region and includes memories and opinions of those involved. Expert insights broaden the context and consider Emosson as an example of an intact symbiosis of nature and culture, and provide a glimpse of what is to come.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsFrontmatter -- INHALT -- A. WARBURG -- DIE SPÄTEN HANDZEICHNUNGEN REMBRANDTS -- LITERATUR -- DIE LÜBECKISCHE BRONZEPRODUKTION DES 15. UND 16. JAHRHUNDERTS -- DIE SPÄTEN HANDZEICHNUNGEN REMBRANDTS -- LITERATUR -- STUDIEN ZU DEN WECHSELBEZIEHUNGEN ZWISCHEN LITERATUR UND BILDKUNST IM DEUTSCHEN MITTELALTER -- ALTFRANZÖSISCHE BARILIA -- LITERATUR -- ZUR GENESIS DES ROMANISCHEN STUFENPORTALS -- LITERATUR -- DIE AUSGESCHIEDENE VIERUNG -- DER RING DES MEERES -- ZU GEORG DEHIOS ACHTZIGSTEM GEBURTSTAG AM 22. NOVEMBER 1930 -- LITERATUR -- REGISTER ZU BAND LI

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Book SynopsisWien – medizinisch. Auch von dieser Seite kann Wien betra- tet werden. Spuren finden sich in dieser Stadt fast überall, war sie doch – medizinhistorisch betrachtet – noch vor gar nicht allzu langer Zeit das „Mekka der Medizin“. 15 Spaziergänge durch das alte medizinische Wien sind - schrieben. Natürlich konzentrieren sich die Touren um die - nere Stadt und den neunten Bezirk, denn hier war das mitt- alterliche Wien und am Alsergrund entstand das Allgemeine Krankenhaus. Einige Touren führen jedoch auch aus der Stadt hinaus und zeigen Wien von versteckteren Blickwinkeln. L- gen sie doch abseits der ausgetretenen touristischen Pfade und entwickeln so einen ganz eigenen Reiz. Die Orientierung im Buch – und hoffentlich auch in Wien – fällt leicht. Hat man sich für eine Tour entschieden, hält man sich an den Übersichtsplan. Da der Mensch nicht nur von - dizin allein lebt, gibt es zusätzlich noch kunsthistorische No- zen und eine Liste guter Gast- und Kaffeehäuser. So lassen sich die gewonnenen Eindrücke sogar „wiengerecht“ verdauen. Den Museen ohne fixe Öffnungszeiten, sie enthalten Spezi- sammlungen, die es so nur in Wien gibt, ist eine eigene Mu- umstour gewidmet. Viel Spaß beim touren durch ein anderes Wien, sowohl für jene, die die Stadt zum ersten Mal erkunden als auch für jene, die sie als „ihre Stadt“ bezeichnen.Table of ContentsINHALTSVERZEICHNIS Eine ganz kurze Geschichte der Wiener Medizin.- Tour 1: Von der alten Universität zum Stephansplatz Tour 2: Vom Stephansplatz durch die Innere Stadt Tour 3: Die Ringrunde. Entlang der Ringstraße, rund um die Innenstadt Tour 4: Durch das Alte Allgemeine Krankenhaus Tour 5: Das Neue AKH und die „Neuen Kliniken“ Tour 6: Die weiße Stadt und der Lemoniberg Tour 7: Billroth-Haus, Gesellschaft der Ärzte Tour 8: Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof Tour 9: Die blühende Apotheke. Der Botanische Garten der Universität Wien Tour 10: Kunstsammlungen – Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Tour 11: Schönbrunn Tour 12: Ein Denkmal für einen Traum Tour 13: Zum Muskelmann und der Venus aus Wachs Tour 14: Berggasse 19. Ein Besuch beim Archäologen der Seele Tour 15: Der Narrenturm. Ein medizinisches und architektonisches Unikat Museums-Touren

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1 Architektur und Tragwerk.- 2 Lastarten.- 3 Konstruktionsmaterialien.- 4 Einige Grundregeln.- 5 Spannungsarten.- 6 Tragwerke für Zug oder Druck.- 7 Balken.- 8 Rahmen und Bögen.- 9 Einzelheiten zum Tragverhalten.- 10 Roste, Platten, Faltwerke.- 11 Membranen.- 12 Schalen und räumliche Stabwerke.- 13 Zusammenfassung.- Sachwortverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisMit seinem Buch „City of Quartz“ hat Mike Davis im Jahr 1990 eine intensive Recherche zu aktuellen Themen der Stadtentwicklung anhand von Los Angeles vorgelegt. Dabei hat er nicht nur quasi die zwei Jahre später stattfindenden Unruhen vorhergesagt, sondern eine weitergehende Theorie der post-liberalen Stadt entwickelt, die die Stadtsoziologie im hohen Maß beunruhigt hat. Ist Los Angeles erst der Anfang? Davis ist ein kritischer Historiker, der sich aus der Arbeiterbewegung kommend mit Themen wie der amerikanischen Arbeiterbewegung, der Latino-Immigration und den Auswirkungen des Neo-Liberalismus beschäftigt hat. Seinen theoretischen Ansatz einer kritischen Stadtsoziologie hat er darüber hinaus mit Büchern über San Diego, den „Toten Städten“ und über die weltweiten Slums dargelegt.Table of ContentsIrgendwo in Amerika.- Wo alles zusammen kommt.- Die Ökologie der Stadt.- Das Ende der Stadt.- Städte der Slums.- Magischer Urbanismus.- Kritische Stadtforschung: mit oder nach Davis?.

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Book SynopsisAn important consideration for energy-efficient buildings is their primary energy requirements over the entire life cycle. How to determine this? What integrative factors influence the performance of a healthy and sustainable building? This, while it may be important for clients and architects to know, is frequently not very transparent.This book has been written to assist with clarifying target criteria and expanding horizons when it comes to ecological buildings. It is meant as a handbook and source of reference for clients, architects, planners and building operators, to provide them with pertinent information about their design, construction and operation: how to do this in the most energy-efficient and economical manner?Also, there is feedback and documentation about prominent buildings like the Hamburg Dockland or the Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart. They provide excellent architectural examples for detailed construction and design solutions. Further, there are insightful interviews with architects and clients about many important buildings, which help turn this book into an integrated source of reference for sustainable architecture. - A Guideline for Planning, Construction and Operation of sustainable Buildings- A source of reference for clients, architects, planners and building operators- Innovative architectural examples with sustainable concepts and designTrade ReviewAus den Rezensionen: "Die Publikation will anhand von zahlreichen Projekten aus der Praxis neue Wege für ein wirtschaftlich und ökologisch nachhaltiges Vorgehen bei Planung, Bau und Betrieb von Green Buildings aufzeigen. Die Autoren geben mit technischen Lösungen darauf Antworten und nehmen ökologische ausgerichtete Gebäude unter die Lupe. ... Ebenso enthält die Publikation Vorschläge für eine Bewertung von Green Buildings und dient damit als Diskussionsgrundlage für zukünftige Bewertungskriterien von Green Buildings ..." (in: RAS International, December/2009, Issue 12, S. 21)Table of ContentsThe Motivation behind the Green Building Idea.- Green Building Requirements.- Design, Construction, Commissioning and Monitoring for Green Buildings.- A closer Look – Green Buildings in Detail.

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Book SynopsisDas Handbuch macht das internationale und ausländische Bau- und Bauvertragsrechts verständlich. Erläutert wird, wie das jeweils anwendbare Recht ermittelt und vereinbart wird. Vertragstypen werden eingehend besprochen und international übliche Vertragsklauseln erläutert. Länderberichte erschließen das ausländische Baurecht. Die 2., vollständig überarbeitete Auflage wurde um Abschnitte zur Abwicklung von Bauablaufstörungen und Hinweise zum Claim Management sowie um weitere Länderberichte (Indien, Qatar, Rumänien und Südafrika) ergänzt.Table of ContentsEinführung.- Internationales Bau- und Architektenvertragsrecht.- Besondere Vertragstypen.- Internationale Standardverträge.- Vergaberecht der Weltbank.- Finanzierung und Sicherheiten im internationalen Baurecht.- Nebengebiete.- Internationales Verfahrensrecht.- Bewertungsrecht.- Ausländisches Recht.- Vertragsmuster und Rechtsvorschriften.

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Book SynopsisDie Techniken und Darstellungsarten des Freihandzeichnens und ihre Anwendung werden leicht verständlich und mit vielen Beispielen versehen angeboten: Strich- und Lockerungsübungen, Punkt-Linie-Fläche / Struktur-Raster-Ornament / Körper-Stilleben, Raum-Innenraum / Landschaften / Figur-Portrait-Tiere / Kompositionen und Ordnungssystemschriften. Das Buch ist unentbehrlich zur Erlernung anschaulichen visuellen Denkens als Grundlage der Architektenausbildung und bei jeglicher künstlerischen BetätigungTable of ContentsEinführung - Material und Verfahren - Optische Täuschung - Punkt-Linie-Fläche-Hell-Dunkel-Raster - Oberflächenstrukturen-Textur - Baum, Blätter, Pflanzen - Körper - Raum und Perspektive - Baukörper - Landschaften - Porträt und Figur - Tiere - Komposition - Schrift

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Book SynopsisDieser Band vermittelt Architekten und interessierten Bauherrn zunächst Grundlagenwissen zum Systembau mit Holz. Eine umfangreiche Übersicht stellt dann die heute verfügbaren Holzsysteme der verschiedenen Hersteller vor. Ein Beispielteil präsentiert schließlich ausgeführte Projekte in Holzbauweise aus den Bereichen Wohnungsbau, Öffentliche Bauten und Gewerbebauten. Table of Contents1. Grundlagen zum Systembau mit Holz.- 1.1 Der Stand der Dinge.- 1.2 Die bisherige Entwicklung.- 1.3 Wege der Rationalisierung am Bau.- 1.4 Bauen mit Systemen.- 1.5 Werkstoff Holz.- 2. Holzsysteme.- 2.1 Bauholz.- 2.2 Brettschichtholz.- 2.3 Holzverbundwerkstoffe.- 2.4 Profilträger.- 2.5 Verbindungsmittel.- 2.6 Systeme aus Stäben.- 2.7 Holzrahmenbauwände.- 2.8 Massivholzwände.- 2.9 Hohlkastenwände und -decken.- 2.10 Holzrahmenbau- und Rippendecken.- 2.11 Massivholzdecken.- 2.12 Raumzellen.- 3. Beispiele zur Verwendung von Holzsystemen.- 3.1 Wohnbauten.- 3.2 Öffentliche Bauten und Gewerbebauten.

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Book SynopsisArchitektur ist nicht allein Ergebnis von technischem und konstruktivem Wissen. Architektur ist Komposition von Volumen und Räumen. Architektur lernen heißt Sehen lernen und das, was man sieht, analysieren und wiedergeben zu können. Räumliche Vorstellungskraft entwickelt sich beim Freihandzeichnen. Flächen- und Farbkompositionen lassen sich auf dem Papier studieren. Licht- und Schattenwirkungen oder dreidimensional geschichtete und geformte Oberflächen lassen sich auch im Kleinen, im Modell erkunden. Das Buch behandelt neben den handwerklichen Darstellungstechniken und Darstellungsmitteln die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten durch Zeichnen, Malen und skulpturale Gestaltung die Beschaffenheit, Substanz und Struktur des Raumes zu erfassen und wiederzugeben.Table of ContentsSehen Lernen - Komposition - Freies Zeichnen - Malen - Grafisches Gestalten - Bildnerisches Gestalten - Gestaltbezogene Architekturtheorie - Zeichenmittel.

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Book SynopsisAsian activists, organizers, critics, teachers, artists, and entrepreneurs have become passionately involved in protecting Asia’s heritage. In this book, twelve principal authors from eleven of the region’s countries present their experience of what has been done in the past and their ideas on what should be done in the future. Chapters cover Siam’s temples, Korean religious murals, Beijing’s neighborhoods, Lao textiles, Javanese ruins, Cambodian dance, old Bangkok and George Town, Philippine creative arts, Calcutta’s architecture, China’s salt industry, and the Burmese cat. This book records the start of a conversation that promises to transform the protection of Asia’s heritage.

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