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Book SynopsisBeloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, this book examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself.Trade ReviewPraise for Gaston Bachelard:"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of the second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature which often seems most inimical to science: the poetic imagination ..."– J.G. Weightman, The New York Times Review of Books"[Bachelard] reminds me of skilled chess players who take the biggest pieces with pawns."-Michel Foucault (trans.)Praise for Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves:"Any hope or fear that the experimental novel was an aberration of the twentieth century is dashed by the appearance of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, the first major experimental novel of the new millennium. And it's a monster. Dazzling."-Washington Post Book World"An intricate, erudite, and deeply frightening book." - The Wall Street Journal

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Book SynopsisToday, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with aesthetics make powerful use of it. Journalists and legal professionals pore over open source videos and satellite imagery to undertake visual investigations. This combination of diverse fields is what the authors call "investigative aesthetics": mobilising sensibilities often associated with art, architecture and other such practices to find new ways of speaking truth to power.This book draws on theories of knowledge, ecology and technology, evaluates the methods of citizen counter-forensics, micro-history and art, and examines radical practices such as those of Wikileaks, Bellingcat, and Forensic Architecture. Investigative Aesthetics takes place in the studio and the laboratory, the courtroom and the gallery, online and in the streets, as it strives towards the construction of a new 'common sensing'.The book is an inspiring introduction to a new field that brings together investigation and aesthetics to change how we understand and confront power today.To Nour Abuzaid for your brilliance, perseverance, and unshaken belief in the liberation of Palestine.Trade ReviewThe most astonishing book on architecture that I have read in years. -- Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times * [for Hollow Land] *A masterpiece of political analysis. -- James Ron, The Nation * [for Hollow Land] *Weizman boldly attempts to create an entirely new method to conceptualize the relationship between surfaces, movement, and the tools of war -- Achille Mbembe * [for Hollow Land] *Eyal Weizman's work has become an indispensable source of both insight and guidance in these difficult times -- Paul GilroyWeizman continues to offer daring social and political commentary, questioning taken-for-granted structures and processes that perpetuate oppression and violence -- Legacy Russell, BOMB Magazine * [For The Least of All Possible Evils] *A fascinating treatise on how our political world functions today and how we might seek to interrupt it. -- Jack Smurthwaite * Art Monthly *Expansive ... [Fuller and Weizman] explore sense and sense-making in its fullest political terms: understanding the systemic forces of capitalism as well as an individual's sense of morality. -- Chris Hayes * Tribune *Sharp ... [Investigative Aesthetics] is invaluable as a hyper-aesthetic object itself. -- Michael Eby * Los Angeles Review of Books *Aesthetics is a battleground, a contested space; Investigative Aesthetics is part battle-plan or tactical guide and, more fundamentally, part user's manual for surviving this beautiful and terrifying world. -- Mark Rappolt * ArtReview *An undeviating announcement of the subversive potential of contemporary aesthetic practices. -- Lawrence Abu Hamdan * The White Review, Books of the Year 2021 *

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Book SynopsisBlack Architect is a provocative and deeply personal investigation into the intersection of race, identity, and the built environment. Written by architect and educator Sekou Cooke, and author of Hip-Hop Architecture, this book blends memoir, cultural critique, and a series of candid conversations with leading Black practitioners to explore what it truly means to be a Black architect in America.Cooke's traces his journey from a childhood in Jamaica and an early fascination with architecture to Ivy League institutions and into a professional field shaped by Eurocentric ideals, confronting readers with an uncomfortable reality: architecture in the United States continues to be constructedboth literally and conceptuallythrough a predominantly white lens. But what happens when Blackness enters that space, not just as identity but as a mode of thinking, designing, and living?Through a compelling mix of personal narrative and interviews with some of today's most influential Black designers and thinkers, Black Architect charts the historical marginalisation of Black architects, the structural and cultural obstacles they face, and the alternative visions they bring to the discipline. The book offers both a critical reckoning with architecture's exclusionary past and a hopeful blueprint for a more inclusive future.

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Book SynopsisBeautifully designed and featuring breathtaking photography, this book from the creator of The Modern House makes the perfect coffee table book and is the ultimate gift for home design enthusiasts ''A source of fascination, inspiration and fantasy'' GuardianIn 2005, childhood friends Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill set out to convince people of the power of good design and its ability to influence our wellbeing. They founded The Modern House - in equal parts an estate agency, a publisher and a lifestyle brand - and went on to inspire a generation to live more thoughtfully and beautifully at home.As The Modern House grew, Matt and Albert came to realise that the most successful homes they encountered - from cleverly conceived studio flats to listed architectural masterpieces - had been designed with attention to the same timeless principles: Space, Light, Materials, Nature and Decoration.In this lavishly illustrated bookTrade Review'A source of fascination, inspiration and fantasy' * Guardian *'A handsome new book (...) splits the pair's accumulated learnings about life enhancing design across five central tenets: space, light, materials, nature and decoration ... a culture destination for interiors obsessives' * Sunday Times *'This is a book filled with such insight and detail that you'll be rearranging and rethinking your space in the most useful of ways' * Stylist *'The Modern House transformed our search for the perfect home' * Financial Times *'If you are a frequent consumer of house porn, chances are The Modern House will feature heavily in your browser history. A sumptuously packaged estate agency for some of the UK's most remarkable homes' * Vogue *'A Modern Way to Live reads so beautifully. It's a lyrical love letter to the home and architecture, and the places and conditions that create the best of both worlds ... generously informative and inspirational' * Waitrose Weekend *'The Modern House sells the most incredible design-led homes in urban and rural locations in the UK' * Evening Standard *'Gibberd is co-founder of The Modern House, a design-led London estate agency whose website attracts 15 million page views a year. In handling the sale of thousands of homes, from small flats to listed architectural masterpieces, he noticed the same five principles for living emerging again and again: Space, Light, Materials, Nature and Curation. His delectable first book aims to expand on these transformative principles, from the effective positioning of doors and windows, to the anchor provided by possessions. Property porn with a point' * Bookseller *'An elegant, tasteful book as covetable as the houses it explores' * Sunday Express *

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Book SynopsisA collection of writings that sets out Kengo Kuma's theories of architecture, but also a left field critique of where the architecture world finds itself today. Kengo Kuma is one of Japan's leading architects and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo. Widely known as a prolific writer and philosopher, he proposes architecture that opens up new relationships between nature, technology and human beings. Through a series of thought-provoking essays, he unveils his vision of architecture as a dynamic interplay between tradition and innovation, critiquing the megastructures and capitalist influences of the 20th century and challenging readers to reconsider the role of architecture in shaping our world. Drawing from diverse disciplines including art history, philosophy and literature, Kuma crafts a narrative that transcends the boundaries of traditional architectural theory, presenting a compelling manifesto for a new era of design one that dismantles hard concrete volumes into points, lines and planes that celebrate the simplicity and sustainability of human connection.

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Book SynopsisNo longer does it suffice to judge a building solely by its appearance; it must be measured and certified. When architects talk about ‘Excellence’, ‘Sustainability’, ‘Well-being’, ‘Liveability’, ‘Placemaking’, ‘Creativity’, ‘Beauty’ and ‘Innovation’, what do they actually mean? And what does this jargon tell us about the future of our homes, cities and planet?‘With dry wit, humor, and honesty, sets out to debunk the myths of contemporary architecture.’ Jaxson Stone, Metropolis‘feels like a stealth mission - an effort to slip something explosive into the carry-on luggage of the TED Talks class.’ Will Wiles, Literary Review‘Reflects on the current state of his field, arguing that constraints on creative autonomy, overcommercialization and a poor understanding of good design have transformed 'spaces of sponta

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Book SynopsisIn his new book Absolute Beginners, acclaimed Spanish architect Iñaki Ábalos explores forms of innovation in architecture. Drawing on diverse materials elaborated during the 20 years since the publication of his best-known book, The Good Life, Ábalos examines questions centred on how and why architectural creation — at least the kind that arouses the greatest cultural interest — is strongly linked to philosophical thought, especially to the essay and the aphorism. He guides us to an understanding why innovation — as happens in philosophy — is inextricably linked to a reflection on the past and to the emergence of new ways of appropriating old problems. Absolute Beginners is a single essay written with effort and passion, made for the pure pleasure of composing a new and complex work and understanding the source materials as necessary fragments, while remaining open to adjustments, changes, and bridges between them. Ábalos organises his materials like a piece of music into a cohesive composition, to the delight and insight of his readers.

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Book SynopsisWith his book The Good Life, Inaki Abalos takes the reader on a tour of seven iconic 20th-century houses. Some of them were actually built, others merely imagined or film sets: Mies van der Rohe's House with Three Patios, Martin Heidegger's cabin in the Black Forest, the houses from Jacques Tati's movie Mon Oncle, Picasso's house in Cannes, the New York loft of Andy Warhol and the Factory, the self-build house from Buster Keaton's movie One Week, the house in David Hockney's painting A Bigger Splash. Abalos's selection represents a variety of concepts for living. It is based on a clear archetypal assignment of a place to a particular modern way of living. He analyses each house from key philosophical points of view. He demonstrates relations between architectural concepts, philosophical schools, and various approaches to planning and designing, constructing, and inhabiting a space. Abalos offers an intellectual introduction to these icons, rather than a manual for the design of residential architecture. He focuses on the 20th-century's radical pluralism, rather than celebrating modernism as a triumph of positivism. This new and revised edition of this book, first published in 2001 by Gustavo Gili and out of print for many years now, makes the significant contribution to the perennial discourse on concepts of living available again.

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Book SynopsisSomewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it''s hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and medieval pasts into strikingly plain reflections of novel materials, functions, and technologies. Modern architecture promised the transformation of cities from overcrowded conurbations characterised by packed slums and dirty industries to spacious realms of generous housing and clean mechanised production set in parkland. At certain times and in certain cultures, it stood for the liberation of the future from the past.This Very Short Introduction explores the technical innovations that opened-up the cultural and intellectual opportunities for modern architecture to happen. Adam Sharr shows how the invention of steel and reinforced concrete radically altered possibilities for shaping buildings, transforming what architects were able to imagine, as did new systems for air conditioning and lighting. While architects weren''t responsible for these innovations, they were among the first to appreciate how they could make the world look and feel different, in connection with imagery from other spheres like modern art and industrial design. Focusing on a selection of modern buildings that also symbolize bigger cultural ideas, Sharr discusses what modern architecture was like, why it was like that, and how it was imagined. Considering the work of some of the historians and critics who helped to shape modern architecture, he demonstrates how the field owes as much to its storytellers as to its buildings.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewAdam Sharr has succeeded in making modern architecture modern again, with this refreshing and original account of the technological revolutions and individual designers that shaped our world from the 1850s to the 1970s. Rather than concentrate on questions and debates over style and ideology, or follow the self-promotional versions of the architects themselves, he has preferred to go to the root of the revolution: the technologies and their innovative utilization. This little book will have an effect far beyond its size, providing more than an introduction for students and the public, and for architects themselves a salutary set of careful worked case studies, from Miess IIT Campus to Rogers and Pianos Centre Pompidou. * Anthony Vidler, Professor of Architecture, The Cooper Union *The great strength of Adam Sharr's book is that it relates modern architecture to wider cultural, philosophical, and technological trends. It is also written in a very accessible style and, despite its brevity, covers a wide territory. * Jeremy Till, Head of Central Saint Martins, Pro Vice-Chancellor University of the Arts London *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Iron and steel 3: Reinforced concrete 4: Brick 5: Light and air 6: Conclusion Further reading Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSet against a social and political urban landscape of segregation and forced removals, Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid unpacks postmodernism in the 1970s and 1980s as it unfolds in South Africa during the final brutal decade of apartheid. Architecture and apartheid are central subjects of the book â the ways they came to interact simultaneously to both buttress and undermine a country rapidly disintegrating. With battles waged in defence of white minority rule, architectsâ turn to postmodernism reflected their disintegrating consciences and commitments in operating in uncertain times.They shared with architects globally a postmodernism steeped in anxiety and despondency, summoning forth classical forms and colonial symbols detached from their surroundings. For some of these architects having studied abroad at the University of Pennsylvania, the route to postmodernism was through their mentor Louis Kahnâs bid to begin architecture anew in transforming ancient ruins as a modern concrete and brick order. For others, influenced by compatriot Denise Scott Brown who had moved to the United States, it was learning by way of her African view of Las Vegas.Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid expands on contemporary discourse in postmodernism and architectural theory, public culture, and urban spatial politics. It examines critical voices of the period â Robert Venturi, Paolo Portoghesi, Colin Rowe, Manfredo Tafuri, Fredric Jameson, and Kenneth Frampton â as well as questions of resistance in different forms and mediums, from the literature of Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee to grassroots struggle and community participation. Connections between postmodernism and apartheid are uncovered along with the contributions brought by architects in South Africa to a global postmodernism of newly transformed landscapes of neon strips, corporate temples, and white suburban sprawl amidst townships and growing informal settlements.

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Book SynopsisThe renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (19202017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture. This intellectual biography of Scully's life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, mapping his relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the past one hundred years. Scully charted an unlikely course from postwar modernism to postmodernism and New Urbanism, overturning outdated beliefs and changing the face of the built environment as he went. A teacher for more than 60 years and a figure of immense importance in the field, he was central to an expansive network of associations, from Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, and Robert Venturi to Robert Stern, Harold Bloom, and Norman Mailer. Scully's extensive body of work, with its range spanning centuries and civilizations, coalesced around the core beliefs that archit

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Book SynopsisWhat can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture. The focus is on architecture as a design practice. Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the book foregrounds the activities and aims of architects themselves. It looks at the choices that designers have to make whether engaging with a site context, drawing, modelling, constructing, or making a post-occupancy analysis and explores how an anthropological view can help inform design decisions. Each chapter is arranged around a familiar building type (including the studio, the home, markets, museums, and sacred spaces), in each case showing how anthropology can help designers to think about the social life of buildings at an appropriate scale: that of the individual life-worlds whichTrade ReviewAt home, visiting shops and markets, travelling on foot or by public transport, taking part in festive events or eating a meal, we are all the architects of our daily lives. The spaces we create are the typical haunts of anthropologists. But it takes the talent of an architect to reveal their organisations, geometries and sensory variations. Here, bringing his own eye and pencil to the task, Ray Lucas spells out with clarity and conviction the scope of a truly architectural anthropology. * Tim Ingold, FBA, FRSE, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, UK *[Lucas] is exceptionally well placed to address this complex field, producing an informed, erudite, useful and refined text without falling into the traps of reductionism. He is an expert anthropologist, architect, ethnographer and urbanist, a trained observant with fine artistic sensibility and skills... This is an eloquent book to learn from, with hidden depths to explore, and to get inspired by. A pleasure to read. * Darko Radovic, Keio University, Japan *Lucas is a personable and patient guide to the different ‘attentions’ and ‘slow engagement’ that architects can learn from anthropology. An impressive encapsulation and range of key anthropological frameworks for understanding the socially constructed aspects of architecture percolate the text. Lucas takes us from homes to museums, marketplaces, sacred spaces, festivals and food events, immersing the reader through clear writing and his own graphic anthropology techniques. Drawing from his fieldwork in Japan and Korea, intertwined with explanations of theories of practice, the book demonstrates architecture and anthropology’s shared focus on specificity. It draws attention to the temporal aspects of sites, to their nuances and variations, their building and unbuilding of events, that may not usually be in an architectural designer or researcher’s orbit. This book significantly extends work on the everyday and architecture that has much potency for cultures of making the built environment today through research, education and design. * Suzanne Ewing, Professor of Architectural criticism, The University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsIllustration List Acknowledgements Preface: Rationale & Context 1. Introduction. 2. Inscriptive Practices and Anthropology 3. Home and What it Means to Dwell 4. Museums and Architectures of Collection 5. Marketplaces and Sites of Exchange 6. Routes, Walking, and Way-finding 7. Theatre & Festival: Performance and Liminal Space 8. Restaurants, Food Events, and Sensory Architectures 9. Conclusion: Towards an Anthropological Architecture Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEvery building starts with an idea. But how do you get from a concept to a piece of architecture? Why do some ideas work better than others? What is a ''good'' design?This approachable guidebook will help students find their own answers to these questions. It covers every aspect of the design process with examples drawn from all types of architecture, giving students the tools to develop their own unique ways of working. With accessible text and hundreds of images, this is an indispensable and illuminating guide for beginning architecture students as well as anyone who is curious about how design works.

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Book SynopsisA refreshed edition of the plain-speaking yet inspirational architecture primer that encourages the reader to take a broader look at the world around us and how we might shape it. Architecture is a discipline that requires constant collaboration with the wider world, but too often architectural teaching and indeed building designs don't reflect this important fact. The Architecture Concept Book encourages the reader to look and think again, to draw inspiration widely and to consider the context in which the building will sit before putting pen to paper, or cursor to screen. Building on the success of the first edition, James Tait has updated his original text with introductions to each section that inspire further creative thinking and understanding. With 18 new pages and 5,000 extra words of text, this revised edition is the perfect way in to the ideas and fundamentals that govern an often impenetrable industry for anyone interested in our built environment.

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Book SynopsisBased on the recent discovery of his fully-preserved private archivemodels, photos, letters, business files, and drawingsthis book tells the story of Theodore Conrad (1910-1994), the most prominent and prolific architectural model-maker of the 20th century. Conrad's innovative models were instrumental in the design and realization of many icons of American Modernismfrom the Rockefeller Center to Lever House and the Seagram Building. He revolutionized the production of architectural models and became a model-making entrepreneur in his own right. Yet, despite his success and the well-known buildings he helped to create, until now little has been known about Conrad's work and his impact on 20th century architectural history. With exclusive access to Conrad's archive, as well as that of model photographer Louis Checkmanboth of which have lain undiscovered in private storage for decadesthis book examines Conrad's work and legacy, accompanied by case studies of his major commissions anTrade Review[The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad] accentuate[s] the importance of model makers in the process of making a architecture ... and is recommended for people interested in the practice of architecture in the middle of last century. * A Daily Dose of Architecture Books *Taking the "miniature boom" and the life’s work of the model maker Theodore Conrad as a cue, this book lucidly illuminates how the ascent of the architectural model to the dominant representational media went hand in hand with the establishment of the International Style as the new lingua franca at mid-century. Teresa Fankhänel makes a compelling argument for how fundamentally material and technological innovation on the scale of the miniature would shape the image of New York City the in the postwar period. * Martino Stierli, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, New York *Fankhänel pulls back the curtain in the theater of American modernist architecture to reveal the behind the scenes contributions of the star performer of a novel career path: the professional model maker. Theodore Conrad not only made models he helped make careers with miniatures that could win over clients, dazzle exhibition goers, and sit for camera portraits that would travel the world in newspaper and magazine illustrations. A glimpse behind the scenes offers a whole new vantage point on the culture of mid-20th century architecture at nearly every scale. * Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, Columbia University *This seminal study presents so much more than a man and his models. It captures a unique system of design methods, which produced a strong argument for the use of models based on the re-invention of their tactile and photogenic qualities. Theodore Conrad was a midwife for the architect’s ideas, not merely a craftsman. Teresa Fankhänel unlocked his Wunderkammer in a Jersey City basement. Its discovery and preservation for future research alone is a momentous accomplishment. * Oliver Elser, Curator, Deutsches Architekturmuseum *A rare look at model-makers and their photographers who translated signature elements of modern design into models and became an integral and powerful part of the architect’s arsenal to win clients and gain exposure through publications and exhibitions. Engaging, well-illustrated, a must-read for architecture fans. * Janet Parks, retired, Curator of Drawings and Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction The Dean of Models Objects in their Own Right The Postwar Modeling Boom Editing out 1. Architectural Model Making as a Profession From Ghostwriters to Co-Authors A New Generation of Model Makers The Introduction of Large-Scale Modeling Operations Model Makers for the War Effort Industrialization and the Division of Labor Competition, Collaboration, and Co-Authors Model Making and the Architect 2. Modeling Materials Model and Building Material Diversity in the 1920s Imitating Modern Architecture The Postwar Modeling Boom From Miniature Buildings to the Idea as Model 3. Model Drawings The Three-Dimensional Shift Translations and Gaps Drawing Models 4. Model Photography Realism Camera and Model Models, Photos, and Drawings Faking versus Honesty Photo Models The Magazine Era Model Photos in Architectural Practices 5. Model Displays Selling an Idea The Modeling Craze Architectural Exhibitions Interactive Displays List of References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation, and reception of modern architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that the architecture of the early twentieth century was shaped by the dominant medical obsession of its time: tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray.If architectural discourse has from its beginning associated building and body, the body that it describes is the medical body, reconstructed by each new theory of health. Modern architects pre- sented their architecture as a kind of medical instrument for protecting and enhancing the body. X-ray technology and modern architecture were born around the same time and evolved in parallel. While the X-ray exposed the inside of the body to the public eye, the modern building unveiled its interior, inverting the relationship between private and public.Colomina suggests that if we want to talk about the state of the art in buildings, we should look to the dominant obsessions about illness and the latest techniques of imaging the body-and ask what effects they may have on the way we conceive architecture.

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Book SynopsisWhat “really constitutes an architectural atmosphere”? Peter Zumthor says, is “this singular density and mood, this feeling of presence, well-being, harmony, beauty ... under whose spell I experience what I otherwise would not experience in precisely this way.” Zumthor’s passion is the creation of buildings that produce this kind of effect, but how can one actually set out to achieve it? In nine short, illustrated chapters framed as a process of self-observation, Peter Zumthor describes what he has on his mind as he sets about creating the atmosphere of his houses. Images of spaces and buildings that affect him are every bit as important as particular pieces of music or books that inspire him. From the composition and “presence”‎ of the materials to the handling of proportions and the effect of light, this poetics of architecture enables the reader to recapitulate what really matters in the process of house design.

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Book SynopsisTHE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of Happiness explores the fascinating hidden links between the buildings we live in and our long-term wellbeing.''Engaging and intelligent . . . Full of splendid ideas, happily and beautifully expressed'' IndependentWhat makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever be satisfactorily resolved?To answer these questions and many more, de Botton looks at buildings across the world, from medieval wooden huts to modern skyscrapers; he examines sofas and cathedrals, tea sets and office complexes, and teases out a host of often surprising philosophical insights. The Architecture of Happiness will takTrade ReviewClever, provocative and fresh as a daisy * Literary Review *Full of splendid ideas, often happily and beautifully expressed . . . an engaging and intelligent book * Independent *Genuinely thought-provoking * Time Out *

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Book SynopsisIn the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885-1967) redefined architecture's relationship to the city. His proposal for a high-rise city, where leisure, labor, and circulation would be vertically integrated, both frightened his contemporaries and offered a trenchant critique of the dynamics of the capitalist metropolis. Hilberseimer's Grossstadtarchitektur is presented here for the first time in an English translation. Its propositions encourage us to reconsider mobility, concentration, and the scale of architectural intervention in our own era of urban expansion.

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Book SynopsisEveryone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are mistakes and ideologies are unreliable markers. Instead, Medium Design speaks to anyone looking for alternative approaches to the world's unresponsive or intractable dilemmas-from climate cataclysm to inequality to concentrations of authoritarian power. Such an approach joins many disciplines in considering not only separate objects, ideas and events but also the space between them.In case studies dealing with everything from automation and migration to explosive urban growth and atmospheric changes, Medium Design looks not to new innovations but rather to sophisticated relationships between emergent and incumbent technologies. It does not try to eliminate problems but put them together into productive combinations. And it offers forms of activism for modulating power and temperament in organization of all kindsTrade ReviewEstablishes Keller Easterling's growing reputation as the savviest student of post-national spatial and infrastructural forms. -- Arjun Appadurai, author of The Future as Cultural Fact * [for Extrastatecraft] *An essential text for anyone with a stake in the built environment, architect and citizen alike, in articulating the forces that shape our nation-states, and cataloguing-in a precise and readable style-the strategies of an otherwise unaccountable global order. -- Architectural Review * [for Extrastatecraft] *I have long admired Keller Easterling's talent for extracting a space, a shape, a marking, from mixes of elements rarely brought together-whether materially or conceptually. In Extrastatecraft she does it at a grand scale, cutting across fields of meaning and of practice. A must read. -- Saskia Sassen, author of Expulsions * [for Extrastatecraft] *This is a remarkable work. Keller Easterling has written one of the most original works about the American environment I've ever read. -- Michael Sorkin * [on Enduring Innocence] *Easterling is one of our most provocative theorists of infrastructures and the critical actions that might make them better. Here she gives us ways to remix, radically, their ingredients. Who else could parse the "canine mind" of the canny designer and city-dweller to show that we already know how to break the deadlock formed by binaries and manipulative media loops? Read this immensely engaging book to find a new toolkit for infiltrating, occupying, and recasting the mediated and material world. -- Caroline A. Jones, Professor in the Department of Architecture, MITEasterling wants designers and architects and urbanists to think less about designing discrete things and more about "parameters for how things interact with each other. -- Hari Kunzru * Harper's Magazine *Medium Design actively works against popular culture's hunger for simple solutions. While embracing a diversity of tactics for a diversity of crises, Easterling puts forward an expansive definition of "design" that includes examples of systemic hacks like community land trusts and tactical refusals of market norms like social capital credits. -- Ingrid Burrington * OneZero *An insurgent energy and imagination crackle beneath the surface ... this a hopeful and thrilling text. -- David Terrien * ArtReview *Keller Easterling is a thinker intent on peering behind the veil to inquire into the forces and conditions that give rise to forms and spatial formations: the infrastructural, political, and financial milieux that softly but surely govern the production of architectural objects. -- Kearon Roy Taylor * Archinect *Easterling's work turns reason's cunning - and therefore the indirect acts of history - into a vibrant political theater for our age. -- Michael Osman * Los Angeles Review of Books *At its best, Medium Design reads a bit like Sun Tzu. It is calm and distant from the fray of disasters and conflicts that define our collective action or inaction in the midst of climate crises and failed globalization. Easterling's voice tends toward the wise and poetic. -- V. Mitch Mcewen * The Avery Review *

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of essays at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Neither a collective lament nor an inventory of architectural responses, the essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate reflects our conception of what architecture is and does. Which materials and conceptual infrastructures render climate legible, knowable, and actionable, and what are their spatial implications? How do these interrelated questions offer new vantage points on the architectural ramifications of climate change at the interface of resiliency, sustain- ability, and ecotechnology? Climates also contains a dossier of precedents for thinking about architecture and climate change drawn from a number of leading practitioners. New approaches to understanding climate in architecture make this book invaluable.This publication is a project by The Avery Review, a journal produced by the Office of Publications at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

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Book SynopsisVisionary proposals for a mythic and strange architecture—or anarchitecture—through which we can imagine other and better worlds.Lurking under the surface of our modern world lies an unseen architecture—or anarchitecture. It is a possible architecture, an analogous architecture, an architecture of anarchy, which haunts in the form of monsters that are humans and machines and cities all at once; or takes the form of explosions, veils, queer, playful spaces, or visions from artwork and video games. In The Monster Leviathan, Aaron Betsky traces anarchitecture through texts, design, and art of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, and suggests that these ephemeral evocations are concrete proposals in and of themselves. Neither working models nor suggestions for new forms, they are scenes just believable enough to convince us they exist, or just fantastical enough to open our eyes.The Monster Leviathan gives students and lovers

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Book SynopsisExplores the magnificent structure of Chartres Cathedral, suggesting its origins lie in Islamic architecture. Also explores how a particular building or space affects us spiritually.Trade Review'Read Gordon Strachan's book and then visit Chartres with an open mind and wide vision, to find personal insight. Illustrated with beautifully prepared drawings.'-- Clive Hicks, Caduceus, September 2004'It does not matter if you know nothing of sacred geometry; by the end of this book you will have effortlessly imbued a firm understanding of what it is, and how it is. […] It is a fascinating read. Strachan's clear explanations of measurements, together with excellent graphics, take the reader on a revelatory journey of mystical spirituality.'-- Logan Lewis-Proudlock, Light magazine, Winter 2003'An inspiring and informative resource for those interested in religious architecture.'-- The Beacon, July 2004'Will delight anybody who recognizes the influence of the built environment. Copious illustrations adorn the text, illuminate the discourse and delight the eye. Gordon Strachan has produced a labour of love, and it shows.'-- Clement Jewitt, Music and Psyche, 2004'Quite simply, we have here a magnificent building that was produced by a unique blend of masonic skills, religious ideas and earth energies. To walk through Chartres is indeed to walk through a sacred space.'-- Fortean Times, April 2004'Chartres cathedral in France is one of the most important and popular sacred sites in Western Europe. The Rev. Strachan's new study examines the spiritual geometry of the church and suggests its significance is connected to an ancient combination of pagan worship, earth energies and the mystical harmony of Christian and Islamic architecture. Highly recommended.'-- The Cauldron, August 2003'Surprisingly, there's no heresy in this book. It's beautifully produced. It opens our eyes to the story of our historic relations with Islam. The deeper theme of seeing God in the darkness as well as the light is important, and so is the link between the geometry of square roots and the mysteriousness of Gothic, and of God. God isn't in a box, and can't be contained.'The Very Revd Jim Mein, Christ Church Episcopal, Edinburgh'It is a beautifully illustrated book which explains both the beauty and the geometry of Gothic architecture as seen in Chartres.'The Rt Revd Brian Smith, Bishop of Edinburgh'A detailed yet reader-friendly exploration of the mathematics of Pythagorean, early-Christian and Sufi geometry, leading to applications in medieval Gothic architecture. The author ends by stating that people are drawn to explore cathedrals … he feels there is something 'alchemical' in the very architecture of the buildings themselves. I have always felt this and now have a better idea of why. Five pentacles.'-- Cerridwen Connelly, Pentacle, Winter 2003Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Islamic Origin of the Pointed Arch2. Abbot Suger and the Historical Debate3. St Bernard and the Early Gothic Plan4. Of Cubes and Ka’aba5. The Plan of Chartres6. Dionysius the Areopagite and the Unknown God7. St Denis, Chartres and the Darkness of GodEndnotes & Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this thought-provoking book, Deborah Wright examines the role of both space and objects as they become manifest in the psychoanalytic process and looks at how the role of the consulting room in the therapeutic process is both primitive and transferential. Wright explores spatialisation as simultaneously being a psychological projection of meaning and as physically acting upon the environment, utilised to master the undifferentiated, relentless, internal pressure of instinct. Throughout The Physical and Virtual Space of the Consulting Room, she considers the spatial aspects of work with patients by foregrounding the importance of the consulting room and its contents, including the impact of changes of consulting room, travelling, and in working virtually. Illustrated with clinical material and hand-drawn artwork, Wright orients the reader in the new territory by going beyond the existing literature that considers the objects and space of the consulting room solely asTrade Review'Dr Wright has written a remarkable book. She shows that spatial organization is fundamental to structuring experience: outside and inside the consulting room, outside and inside the transference. She bases her profound theory on diverse sources, including Freud’s many drawings, and extensive clinical experience. Her ideas on spatialization will generate new areas of investigation and practice and will evoke a eureka recognition of the unconscious ordering of everyday life.'Karl Figlio, Clinical Associate, British Psychoanalytical Society; Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UK'Deborah Wright shows us an interesting and somewhat hidden tradition from Freud onwards. The consulting room and indeed all living spaces are given individual meanings by each of us, depending on our individual and cultural experiences. Our Unconscious ‘space’ offers a necessary dimension in addition to the transference to the person of the therapist who inhabits the space. The author provides clinical evidence, as well as cultural, to show how it can be exposed and used.'Dr. R.D. Hinshelwood, Psychoanalyst, and Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UK'It is a truth universally acknowledged in psychoanalytic/psychodynamic discourse that the consulting room or 'setting', in which clinical work takes place, is of particular importance. Why that should be, beyond what seems 'obvious', however is under-theorised in the literature. Dr Wright rectifies this in her scholarly and accessible book in which she presents clinical observation which advances current theory and practice. She formulates a clear language and terminology to articulate her theory of spatial dynamics, and her own uncanny illustrations add depth to her discourse. The book is a delight to read and essential for teaching and training purposes.'Meg Errington, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist; British Psychoanalytic Council, UK"This book is ground-breaking and contains an abundance of ideas to seed thinking. What Wright so generously offers here, others will no doubt build upon in their own imaginations, theorizing and clinical practices. It earns a place on our bookshelves." - Catriona Wrottesley, Society of Analytical Psychology and Tavistock RelationshipsTable of Contents1. Introduction and Background: Spatialisation in Spaces and Rooms 2. Sigmund Freud, Spatialisation, and Rooms 3. Spatial Concepts and Formulation of the Room-object Spatial Matrix 4. The Room-object Spatial Matrix in the Physical Space of the Consulting Room Clinical Study 5. Discussion of Findings of the Original Study of the Room-object Spatial Matrix in the Physical Space of the Consulting Room and Implications for Practice 6. The Room-object Spatial Matrix in the Virtual Consulting Room Space 7. Beyond the Consulting Room; Psychosocial Applications of the Room-object Spatial Matrix to E. M. Forster's Post-colonial, Capitalist, Pre-neo-liberal, Queer, and Virtual Rooms and Spaces of his Novels 8. The End Chapter, the End Room-object and Post Room-object Spaces; Conclusions of Clinical and Psychosocial Considerations of the Room-object Spatial Matrix

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Book SynopsisThis book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do and the ways in which our surroundings ?and bodies contribute to this. Our experience of architecture is an embodied one, with all our senses acting in concert as we move through time and space. The book picks up where much of the critique of architectural aestheticism at the end of the twentieth century left off: illustrating the limitations and potential consequences of attending to architecture as the visually biased practice which has steadily become the status quo within both industry and education. It draws upon interdisciplinary research to elucidate the reasons why this is counter-productive to the creation of meaningful places and ?to articulate the embodied richness of our touching encounters. A felt-phenomenology is introduced as a more?-than visual alternative capable of sustaining our physical, emotional, and psychological well-being.By recognising thTrade Review"Anthony Richard Brand presents his case delightfully well. We enact the built and natural worlds through our bodies, through our whole bodies. Armed with this new understanding of hapticity and mood, the next generation of designers will imagine lived environments quite different from what we uncritically accept today."Harry Francis Mallgrave, PhD Hon FRIBA, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA "This book participates in a current conversation questioning the assumptions of architecture as both a gratuitous aesthetic object, and as a mere optimized device for human shelter. Extending insights from new phenomenology and the neurosciences, and through a careful analysis of important contemporary design practices, Mr. Brand expounds on the concept of atmosphere for an architecture responsive to qualitative places and cultural values, introducing new insights about the centrality of touch at the basis of perception."Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Emeritus Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada"Focusing on the claim that touch is the most intimate human sense, architectural theorist Anthony Richard Brand delineates elements of a tactile phenomenology of buildings. His central question is ‘how we are touched, moved, or affected by our architectural encounters.’ To answer this question, Brand draws on a wide range of studies, including neurological research and phenomenological work on the lived body, synaesthetic encounter, and environmental atmospheres. He grounds his conceptual argument via perceptive case studies of buildings by eminent architects Steven Holl, Peter Zumthor, and Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Brand’s book is an important contribution to the growing literature on a phenomenology of architectural hapticity."David Seamon, Editor, Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology, Professor of Environment-Behavior and Place Studies, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University, USA"This is a timely and powerful manifesto for a multi-sensory architecture, for buildings that appeal to the user as a living, moving, embodied participant, immersed in a 3-dimensional space unfolding in time. As well as introducing the conceptual tools necessary for understanding architecture in this way, it also applies them to a series of well-researched case-studies. Essential reading for anyone interested in this vitally important area."Jonathan Hale, Professor of Architectural Theory, University of Nottingham, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Touching Architecture 1. Towards a More-than Visual Architecture 2. Embodied Encounters 3. Haptic Visuality and (Syn)Aesthetic Perception 4. Affective Architecture 5. A Matter of Making Atmospheres (case studies) Epilogue: Scenography, Architecture and Affect

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between each phase of the architectural design process with relevant parametric approaches.Readers will find applications of parametric methods with straightforward explanations of concepts, commands as well as applicable examples for each phase of the architectural design process. In addition to learning about the historical and conceptual background of parametric design, readers can use this book as a go-to source during their day-to-day design practice. Chapters are organized according to different phases of the architectural design process, such as site analysis, spatial organization, skin systems, and environmental performance analyses. Together, they deliver concepts, applications, and examples utilizing in-depth visual guides that explain commands, their outcomes, and their interrelationships. With over 350 images, this book includes examples from the author's owTable of Contents1. Introduction to Parametric Design: Basics in Relation to Architectural Design Process Phases 2. History and Conceptual Framework of Parametric Design in Architecture 3. Site Analysis: Understanding the Site and Its Context Using Parametric Methods 4. Conceptual and Preliminary Development: Formal Explorations and Iterations with Parametric Methods 5. Spatial Organization: Spatial Configuration and Visibility Analysis Using Parametric Methods 6. Skin Systems: Repetition, Subdividing Geometries and Paneling Approaches 7. Evolutionary Applications: Using Parametric Applications to Generate, Analyze and Select Design Iterations 8. Parametric Methods for Introductory Environmental Performance Analyses 9. Practical Matters: Parametric Methods and Digital Fabrication for Architectural Model Making 10. Recontextualizing Parametric Methods in Architecture: Routes for Further Development

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Book SynopsisWhile often seen as unplanned or spontaneous, informal settlement is better understood as a mode of production: a co-evolution of architecture, urban design and planning that embodies informal rules and shapes urban development. The Atlas of Informal Settlement is a comparative study of the spatial logic of informal settlement based on mapping and analysing the evolution of urban form (morphogenesis) in 51 contemporary settlements across the planet the first of its kind and a fundamental change in thinking for urban studies and built environment professionals. Each of the 51 case studies uses maps and aerial photographs to examine key stages of development, showing how informal settlement adapts to different contexts of political economy, topography, culture, climate and land tenure; revealing a complex range of actors from settlers and states to land mafias and pirate developers. It demonstrates the range of design processes and formal outcomes; how the infoTrade ReviewThe Atlas demonstrates the indispensable value that is generated by investigating the spatial logic of informal settlement, as this exposes factors often overlooked in broad-brush statistics and geospatial analysis based on artificial intelligence. Focusing on fifty-one sites, the Atlas offers a nuanced spatial analysis at different scale levels and reveals the processes and outcomes of self-organized urban design. In doing so, it offers learnings for context-sensitive policies for affordable housing and neighbourhood infrastructure in rapidly growing cities. * Raf Tuts, Director, Global Solutions Division, UN-Habitat *We know very little about most of the informal settlements that house over a billion urban dwellers. This book advances and deepens our understanding of these settlements‘ development and expansion over time in all their diversity and complexity. * David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development *This is a vital empirical consolidation of the heterogeneous ways urban settlements are being composed and governed. The "informal" is always extending itself across new terrain and vernaculars; something always being worked and worked on in incessant processes of becoming unsettled and resettled. * AbdouMaliq Simone, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield *Table of ContentsList of figures List of authors Acknowledgements Part A INTRODUCTION: Informal Settlement as a Verb Part B METHOD: Mapping Informal Assemblages Part C SETTLEMENT Part D MORPHOGENESIS: The Spatial Logic of Self-Organized Urban Design Part E REFERENCES Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThis book sets out to explore the creation of interior atmosphere as seen through the lens of mise-en-scène. You will learn how this film theory informs the concept of staged space' translated through the narrative and expressive qualities of a particular scene. Jean Whitehead quickly takes this concept beyond the screen and considers its application to the interior setting'. By learning to use the ingredients that inform an interior' mise-en-scène such as its backdrop, choice of props, use of special effects alongside the application of colour, pattern, graphics, light and shadow, an immersive atmospheric experience can be created. Packed with inspiring examples and case studies, ranging from cinematic interiors and art installations, to the work of notable interior designers, stylists and architects with an interior interest, this book broadens current thinking around the design of the decorated interior. It will help you to embrace the concepts that underpin an interior mise-en-Table of Contents1. Creating Interior Atmosphere: An Introduction Introduction What is Interior Design? Scope of this book - Interior Design and Mise-en-scène What is Atmosphere? Conclusion Further Reading – Exploring atmosphere 2. What’s in a Room? The Principles of ‘Mise-en-scène’ The Power of the Interior What is ‘Mise-en-scène?’ What is an ‘Interior’ Mise-en-scène? Conclusion Further Reading – Exploring Mise-en-scène 3. The Interior Setting: The Backdrop or ‘Skin’ of the Space What is an Interior Setting? What is the physical environment – the skin? Examples of Interior Mise-en-scène, creating an interior setting Case Study One: Surface Skin – ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’, Robert Wiene Case Study Two: Surface Skin - Rough Luxe Hotel, Rabih Hage Case Study Three: Manipulated Skin -Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole Case Study Four: Layered Skin – ‘Re-Set’, Petra Blaisse Case Study Five: Three Dimensional Skin - KU64 Kids Club, GRAFT Conclusion Further Reading – Exploring the ‘Interior Setting’ 4. What is an Interior ‘Prop’? Accessories, furniture, fixtures and equipment Introducing Interior Props Using Interior Props Examples of Interior Mise-en-scène, props and atmosphere Case Study One: Accessories, furniture and fixtures - The Ace Hotel, Roman and Williams Case Study Two: Furniture – ‘A Clockwork Orange’, Stanley Kubrick Case Study Three: Equipment – ‘Break Down’, Michael Landy Case Study Four: Fixtures- Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre, Frank Gehry Case Study Five: Props as fixtures - Kesselskramer, FAT Conclusion Further Reading – Exploring Interior Props 5. ‘Special Effects’: Interior Space and Experiences Introducing Interior Special Effects Special Effects - Perception and Atmosphere Examples of Interior Mise-en-scèneand their special effects Case Study One: Implied Space – ‘Dogville’, director Lars von Trier Case Study Two: Illusory Space - La Maison Champs Elysées, Maison Martin Margiela Case Study Three: Sensory Space - Fragrance Lab for Selfridges, Campaign, The Future Laboratory and Givauden Case Study Four: Use of Scale – ‘Citizen Kane’, director Orson Welles Case Study Five: Sensory Space - Alcoholic Architecture, Bompas & Parr Conclusion Further Reading – Considering Special Effects 6. Light and Shadow: Uncovering its Dramatic Role Introducing Light and Shadow Lighting and Atmosphere Examples of Interior Mise-en-scène – using light and shadow Case Study One: Shadow - ‘Nosferatu’ Case Study Two: Artificial Light – ‘The Weather Project’, Olafur Eliasson Case Study Three: Natural Light - D.E. Shaw Offices and Co., Steven Holl Case Study Four: Candle light - Sam Wannamaker Playhouse – Allies & Morrison and Jon Greenfield Case Study Five: Digital Light - The West Lobby in The Cosmopolitan, Rockwell Group’s LAB Conclusion Further Reading – Exploring Light and Shadow 7. Colour: A Technicolor© Inner World Introducing Colour Colour and Atmosphere Examples of Interior Mise-en-scène, using colour Case study One: Colour – ‘The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover’, director Peter Greenaway Case study Two: Colour – Spiegel Publishing Headquarters by Verner Panton Case study Three: Colour via pattern – ‘Dots Obsession’ by Yayoi Kusama Case study Four: Colour via graphics – The Hotel by Jean Nouvel Case study Five: Colour –Wards 23 & 29, Bradford Royal Infirmary Conclusion Further Reading – Exploring Colour

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Book SynopsisThe Revenge of the Real envisions a new positive biopolitics that recognises that how populations govern themselves is literally a matter of life and death. We are grappling with multiple interconnected dilemmas - climate change, pandemics, the tensions between the individual and society - all of which have to be addressed on a planetary scale. Even when separated, we are still enmeshed. Can the world govern itself differently? If so, what models and philosophies are needed? Bratton argues that, instead of thinking of technology as something that happens to society, we must see how it can form the basis of a politics of infrastructure, knowledge, and direct intervention. He urges us to reconsider questions of "surveillance" in the face of necessary testing and care. He asks what did the "mask wars" reveal about the destructive nature of individualism as the basis of sovereignty? The book proposes that it is time to transform how we live, work and thrive. Rethinking governance means rethinking how we interact with each other as a global population, and how we ensure our obligations to each other. For this, we should build a society based in a new rationality of inclusion, care and foresight.Trade ReviewEndlessly thought-provoking -- Kim Stanley RobinsonBreaks more new ground than a carpet bombing. -- Bruce SterlingCuts through many received ideas about technology, globalization, and so forth and presents a fresh vision of the architecture of the world. -- McKenzie Wark

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Book SynopsisIn Housing Atlas, beautifully drawn plans, sections and elevations illustrate nearly a hundred of the most important European housing schemes of the 20th century, a period when architects addressed the multiple challenges of modern urban living and responded with an array of innovative solutions. Today, architects are revisiting these designs as they seek answers to the current housing crisis. Chronologically ordered, this is an essential survey of these key housing projects, produced by a pan-European team of leading scholars. Complete with contextual essays, the studies each include a history and analysis of the projects and the drawings are presented in a way that makes them readily comparable.Table of ContentsForeword. Forays and Crossings in the European City: The Long History of the 'Short' Century:Tools for the Design of Contemporary Housing, by Orsina Simona Pierini. Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century European Housing Design, by Dick van Gameren. Liminal Spaces in Twentieth-Century Residential Architecture: A Place In Which to Learn How to be a Citizen, by Carmen Espegel. The Fall and Rise of the Street in Twentieth-Century Housing, by Mark Swenarton. 87 Case Studies. Acknowledgements.

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Book SynopsisA collection of eight lectures by architect Rudolf Steiner, this text is aimed at students of architectu re, the arts, social sciences, and those whishing to find a deeper spiritual understanding. '

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Book SynopsisAlthough Hong Kong has produced many internationally renowned architects and designers who have contributed significantly to its cityscape, there are many talented local architects who have played the role of an unsung hero in shaping this beautiful city. This book aims to capture the stories of theses talents whose unique work should be more widely known and appreciated. This lavishly illustrated book is the first to provide this essential showcase.

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Book SynopsisBereits in der Entwurfsphase eines Bauvorhabens kann der Schallschutz eine bedeutende Rolle für die Gebäudeausrichtung sowie die Grundrissgestaltung spielen. Zu berücksichtigen sind hierbei der Lärm, der von außen auf ein Gebäude einwirkt, sowie der Lärm, der durch den Menschen und technische Anlagen innerhalb des Gebäudes verursacht wird. Basics Schallschutz vermittelt dem Leser ein grundlegendes Verständnis der schalltechnischen Anforderungen für das Planen und Konstruieren. Zunächst werden die Grundlagen der Akustik erläutert, wobei auf die physikalischen Grundbegriffe, die Schallentstehung und -ausbreitung sowie die Schallempfindung eingegangen wird. Dann wird erklärt, wie Schallimmissionen beurteilt und welche lärmmindernden und gestalterischen Möglichkeiten für die Planung werden können.

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Book SynopsisExclusive living retreats set against the backdrop of majestic peaks, steep slopes and picturesque valleysThe chalet is a building style that enjoys lasting popularity all over the world. Dating back to the herdsman?s hut in the Alpine region, it became a longed-for destination and the most preferred holiday domicile in the 19th century with the emerging fascination with the Alps. Today, architects and designers are primarily inspired by the constantly redefined interplay of sublime nature, traditional architecture, regional building typologies, individual design, and modern formal language that pushes them to reach magnificent creative peaks. The projects selected for this volume are diverse and remarkably multifaceted: From a traditional construction with a flat gable roof, wide roof overhang, and robust timber façade, to contemporary, thoroughly idiosyncratic interpretations with clear lines, creative choice of materials, and fine details. However, the artful staging of the imposing mountain world in the interior design plays a decisive role among all presented chalets.

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Book SynopsisThe Olympiapark in Munich is one of the most famous projects of the landscape architect Günther Grzimek (1915–1996), yet his entire oeuvre has proved to be pioneering and timeless. He advocated for a new form of urban green space in Germany, a “demokratisches Grün” (democratic green space), while also campaigning for practice-oriented training in landscape architecture. Grzimek’s biography offers a wellspring of new discoveries. It traverses the history of modern Germany and encompasses his collaborations with famous architects, town planners, and designers – including Otl Aicher, who developed the basic outline of this volume together with Grzimek in the 1980s. Featuring plans, images, texts, and excerpts from Grzimek’s own writings, this comprehensive new book offers a vivid and in-depth encounter with this major innovator and illustrates the lively history of landscape architecture in Germany from the 1930s in Berlin to the 1990s in Munich.

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