Theory of architecture Books
Birkhauser Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground: On
Book Synopsis Building with earthquakes is a familiar yet persistent design problem for resilient construction on all continents. This book elaborates on various factors for earthquake-resilient architecture in six thematic chapters that explore the design strategies of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity and consistency. These factors allow designers to develop contextual solutions that marry technical know-how with social and cultural understanding, ranging in scale from buildings to furniture and urban master plans. 120 case studies from roughly 30 countries, including some highly prestigious buildings, provide a comprehensive overview of the different design strategies.
£50.15
Braun Publishing AG Container Architecture: Modular Construction
Book SynopsisIn this book the reader will find the full range ofcurrent container architecture projects ? one container for a temporary exhibition Hall, or thousand containers for a football stadium.In an ever-changing world with its hybrid forms of living and working, this book presents a collection of remarkable and carefully selected container buildings. Invented in the 1950s by Malcom McLean, these plain steel boxes with corrugated profiles revolutionized the worldwide trade sector. Furthermore, these huge receptacles for storing and transporting cargo have found their way into architecture to become an essential part of global building culture.Ever more astonishing architectural applications and design experiments are based on these standardized, strictly geometrically conceived units. Their imaginatively designed shells are just as versatile as their use: sometimes with original, rough surfaces with traces of use that tell a story, sometimes with a curtain facade made of wood and large-scale glazing, or even as a purist composition with a sophisticated light installation.
£31.96
Lars Muller Publishers Place and Displacement Exhibiting Architecture
Book SynopsisSeemingly immobile and durable, architecture remains a challenge in the modern world of collecting and exhibiting. From the late eighteenth century onward, divergent conventions of display have been conflated with urgent discussions of how material culture is handed down, distributed, appropriated, and evaluated. Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture investigates historical and con temporary practices of displaying architecture, whether in full scale or as fragments, models, or two-dimensional representations. Exploring questions of circulation and temporality, issues of institution and canon, and the discourse and politics of architectural spaces on exhibit, the book's essays discuss the ambiguous status of architecture as an object of display. Contributions from leading scholars in the new research field of architectural exhibitions reveal the centrality of the exhibition in defining and redefining the notion of architecture and its history.
£29.75
Hatje Cantz Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge: No.
Book SynopsisCandide 13 results of a joint effort of scholars, researchers and students who address the theme of “Experimental Architecture and Material Culture” from different perspectives. The issue reports on the outcomes of a transnational cooperation between the RWTH Aachen University (Department of Architecture) and the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (Department of Architecture and Planning). It gives voice to students and researchers who, traveling in Germany and India, have stored up intercultural experiences of intellectual and human growth. The issue features also scholarly contributions on experimental architecture, design-build procedures, and sustainable construction.
£20.40
Taschen GmbH Modern Architecture A–Z
Book SynopsisWith almost 300 entries, this architectural A to Z offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. Covering modern architecture from the 19th into the 21st century, pioneering architects are each featured with a portrait and a concise biography, as well as a description of his or her important work. Like a bespoke global architecture tour, this book will allow you to travel from Manhattan skyscrapers to a Japanese concert hall, from Antoni Gaudí’s Palau Güell in Barcelona to Lina Bo Bardi’s sports and leisure center on a former factory site in São Paulo. You’ll take in Gio Ponti’s colored geometries, Zaha Hadid’s free-flowing futurism, the luminous interiors of SANAA, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s unique blend of Scottish tradition and elegant japonisme. The book’s A to Z entries also cover groups, movements, and styles to position these leading individual architects within broader building trends across time and geography, including International Style, Bauhaus, De Stijl, and much more. With illustrations including some of the best architectural photography of the modern era, this is a comprehensive resource for any architecture professional, student, or devotee.Trade Review“An inspiring book and a timely wake-up call for anyone who thinks modern architecture is confined to the ugly and the brutal.” * Financial Times *
£57.00
Sternberg Press Is It My Body? – Selected Texts
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£15.84
Ondrej Slunecko Living in Paradise: 97 Tips for Architects
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£27.00
Skira Fragments and Coherence
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£28.00
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers) Herman Hertzberger - Lessons for Students in
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£38.95
Vajra Books A Theory of Architecture
Book SynopsisA comprehensive architecture textbook suitable for all levels, emphasizing design techniques based on human needs and sensibilities rather than specific styles. Offers clear and concise architectural knowledge, making it accessible even to beginners.
£18.50
Princeton University Press Ugliness and Judgment
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As Hyde eloquently demonstrates in a compelling trajectory that arcs from Stonehenge to modern London, ugliness is more than a physical trait or quality assigned to an object. It has acted as a site and catalyst for debate on broader social circumstances."---Catherine Slessor, The Guardian"This book is a welcome break from good taste. . . . If you have ever wondered why a certain building seems ugly, this book will help you understand why you feel that way."---Lucy Watson, Financial Times"Hyde’s book confronts ugliness head on, using it as a way to interrogate British architectural discourse. . . . [His] research on the individual case studies is impeccable."---Richard J. Williams, Times Higher Education"The great achievement of this book is to show that, even if the language and opinions about taste change, debates about architecture have always had some common features. They are never just about buildings."---William Whyte, Church Times"Discussions such as those effectively summarised in Ugliness and Judgement are so instructive when we evaluate how to apply concepts of beauty and ugliness in architectural debates."---Alexander Adams, Salisbury Review"A fascinating book. In taking as a point of departure the limitations of aesthetics, Hyde invites readers to understand the assessment of aesthetic failure as a wedge that pries open conversations about inadequate, unresolved, or unsatisfying social and legal arrangements. Ugliness, in his telling, points to gaps in social, regulatory, urban, and institutional fabrics. The author implies that the value of listening to complaints about buildings lies in discerning the issues that encounters with 'ugly' buildings bring to the fore."---Kathryn O’Rourke, Rice Design Alliance"To call out ugliness, then, is a call to arms. While beauty basks lazily and uselessly in its own perfection, ugliness spurs us into action."---Igor Toronyi-Lalic, The Spectator
£25.20
Hatje Cantz Tragsysteme
Book SynopsisThe standard work on Heino Engel’s structure systems is now available at an attractive price. On the basis of excellent drawings and model photographs, the book examines the various forms of structure systems and explores the relationship between structure system and architectural form in clear and concise prose. In the presentation and explanation of this highly complex discipline, this volume differs fundamentally from other publications on the subject, as the author focuses entirely upon structure systems without regard for the usual technical details. Featured here are typical structure systems and models in lieu of the more commonly treated special designs and completed buildings. As a reference work, the book provides an indispensable repertoire of forms for modern architectural models, summarizing traditional approaches and offering a source of new ideas at the same time.
£32.00
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd The Language of Architectural Classicism
Book SynopsisClassicism is ubiquitous, from the facade of Selfridges to the letterhead of The Times, to the pedimented porches of neo-Georgian housing estates. This book invites readers to discover in their surroundings a rich language of form which is there to be revealed. It discusses the pleasures and problems of post-medieval architectural classicism, both its rigour and flexibility, its perfections and incompleteness, its continuities and innovations, and its expressiveness - from the camp to the sublime, and from originality to plagiarism. Abandoning conventional chronological, biographical or stylistic arrangements, the book makes connections between familiar art historical periods, focusing on looking closely at the buildings and their details, from which useful generalisations emerge. The book discusses how Renaissance architects, when faced with the bewildering variety of classical antiquity, produced canonical versions of the orders and thus a systematic method of designing in the antique manner. It asks how the highly regulated language of classicism can sustain the originality of a Michelangelo, a Soane or a John Simpson and looks at the human body in relation to classical architecture. It examines the various treatments of the wall and of lettering on classical buildings, before concluding with a chapter on architectural backgrounds in Quattrocento art, revealing how this can lead to a different kind of looking at painting and sculpture.
£43.95
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Sympathy of Things
Book SynopsisLars Spuybroek is Professor of Architectural Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA. He is the author of NOX: Machining Architecture (2004), The Architecture of Continuity (2008), Research & Design: The Architecture of Variation (2009) and Research & Design: Textile Tectonics (2011). He is an award-winning architect with his practice NOX.Trade Review... exhilarating to watch elements of Ruskin's thought being taken on ... The Sympathy of Things is energetic, well written and full of examples. -- Matthew Reynolds * Times Literary Supplement *This is a dazzling, provocative, baffling, and sometimes vexing manifesto. The Sympathy of Things is an unforgettable book. * Carlyle Studies Annual *The term 'brilliant' is often misused in reviews, but the opening chapter on 'the digital nature of gothic' is truly scintillating. * Architectural Research Quarterly *Hundreds of threads that make an astonishingly rich tapestry ... Ruskin has at last found an interpreter with the breadth of learning and a poetic imagination to make his perceptions relevant to our own day. * Architectural Review *The author envisions a radical future for design and technology ... This book is undoubtedly a rich and original source of ideas for anyone across the many disciplines that increasingly care about materiality in the past, present or future. * Theory, Culture & Society *In this remarkable study, Spuybroek treats us to an astonishingly fresh upgrade of John Ruskin, who ends up no longer inhabiting an antique past but talks to us directly. Spuybroeck shows how Ruskin's aesthetic actually works, cutting through clouds of vagueness to get at a wonderfully algorithmic, procedural tactics with limpid clarity. But there's much more: something like a distinctive ontology emerges when we study Ruskin this way. This ontology radically decenters the human from its meaning-making position in the cosmos, allowing all kinds of other entities to show up without the usual visas and interrogations. What results is truly an ecology of things, making Ruskin sharply relevant for our age. * Professor Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Chair in English, Rice University, USA *The Sympathy of Things is a stirring call to action; an amazing reconstruction of the ideas of the Victorian sage John Ruskin; and, above all, a visionary look at the inner life of things. Lars Spuybroek makes the case that aesthetics is first philosophy, and proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital age. -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University, USAIf Spuybroek, like Ruskin, does not shake your design and aesthetic concepts, you haven’t understood him. -- Charles JencksThe Sympathy of Things is an astonishing and visionary work. I have never before come across a book so brimming with insight, written with such feeling, and so keenly in touch with life. Ostensibly a meditation on the oeuvre of John Ruskin, what Lars Spuybroek offers us is an intoxicating meditation on art, architecture and design that soars above the ponderous deadweight of thing-theory to luxuriate in the unruly and exuberant proliferation of the things themselves. * Professor Tim Ingold, Chair of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen *Table of ContentsForeword Preface 1. The Digital Nature of Gothic 2. The Matter of Ornament 3. Abstraction and Sympathy 4. The Radical Picturesque 5. The Ecology of Design Notes Bibliography Index
£28.99
Monacelli Press Toward an Urban Ecology: SCAPE / Landscape
Book SynopsisA manual, monograph, and call to action, Toward an Urban Ecology points to the future of landscape architecture's role in making resilient, sustainable, and community-oriented spaces. Kate Orff, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has an optimistic and transformative message about our world: we can bring together social and ecological systems to sustainably remake our cities and landscapes. Part monograph, part manual, part manifesto, Toward an Urban Ecology reconceives urban landscape design as a form of activism, demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental, urban, and social issues as separate domains; and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create a truly urban ecology. In purely practical terms, SCAPE has already generated numerous tools and techniques that designers, policy makers, and communities can use to address some of the most pressing issues of our time, including the loss of biodiversity, the loss of social cohesion, and ecological degradation. Toward an Urban Ecology features numerous projects and select research from SCAPE, and conveys a range of strategies to engender a more resilient and inclusive built environment.Trade Review"Those familiar with landscape architecture and urban design today are no doubt already aware of the originality of this practice and would likely expect this book - part manual, part manifesto, and part monograph - to follow suit. The book’s ambition is nothing short of reconceiving urban landscape design as a form of activism.... SCAPE’s Manufestograph begins to address how we as a discipline can actually effect change. Of all the things this requires—design vision, enabling policies, strategic funding streams, creative partnerships, innovative maintenance strategies, feedback loops, new representation strategies—the most important message this book imparts is the tireless advocacy that change requires, and which SCAPE is able to model. I want to be doing this. We all should be doing this. SCAPE has got something important going. And we have to believe it will make a difference." - Journal of Architectural Education "A beautiful book with engaging full-page color photography that delves into Breakwaters, their Rebuild by Design project in Staten Island, and others." - The Dirt "Kate Orff is an optimistic and creative force in the world of climate adaptive design. Her book is part monograph and part a clarion call for the need of meshing the social and environmental to deal with the future problems of our planet." - Land8 "Cities have multiple connections to the biosphere. Today they are all negative, destructive. This book shows us in great detail and with splendid clarity how we can turn them positive. It goes well beyond standard solutions as it brilliantly explores the biosphere and makes discoveries." - Saskia Sassen, Professor, Columbia University and author of Expulsions "[This book is] a call to action on urban ecology and climate change, with landscape as the principal medium. Kate Orff's Toward an Urban Ecology is a presentation of ground-breaking projects by SCAPE, and the principles and strategies that underlie their success. Human societies cannot successfully mitigate and adapt to the stresses of climate change without a new state of mind, and landscape architects and artists have an essential role to play....required reading for landscape architects." - Anne Whiston Spirn, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of The Granite Garden
£29.71
MIT Press Ltd Buildings Must Die A Perverse View of
Book SynopsisPart memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have “life.” And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver and creator. But what of the “death” of buildings? What of the decay, deterioration, and destruction to which they are inevitably subject? And what might such endings mean for architecture''s sense of itself? In Buildings Must Die, Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look awry at core architectural concerns. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered churches, imploded housing projects, and demolished Brutalist office buildings. Their investigation of the death of buildings reorders architectural notions of creativity, reshapes architecture''s preoccupation with good form, loosens its vanit
£36.12
Valiz We Own the City
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£26.60
Skira London Dialogues: Serpentine Gallery 24-Hour
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£17.95
De Gruyter Designing Spaces for Children: A Child’s Eye View
Book SynopsisMeeting children as equals is not only a question of pedagogical attitude. Designing Spaces for Children shows how architecture and interior design can promote childhood development. Based on historical and current concepts of progressive education, the book sketches design principles for building daycare centers and schools that can also be transferred to other spaces, such as pediatric clinics. Rooms can invite discovery; they can promote communication and social interaction, strengthen self-confidence, and be places of retreat or landscapes for play. For years, the Berlin architectural firm baukind has been creatively balancing the strict legal requirements and architectural possibilities of architecture suitable for children—always with a view to children’s needs. The book presents realized projects, such as the Kita Weltenbummler in Berlin, and aims to foster the equal involvement of children in the design of our environment.
£27.45
The University of Chicago Press Symbolic Space
Book SynopsisThis work explores the social and cultural hierarchies established in 18th-century France to illustrate how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French architects of the 18th-century.Table of ContentsIllustrations Illustration Credits Preface Acknowledgments 1: Paris: The Image of the City 2: Revolutionary Space 3: Character and Design Method 4: The Neoclassical Interlude 5: The System of the Home 6: Landscapes of Eternity 7: The Space of Absence Notes Index
£76.00
Taylor & Francis Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture
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£128.25
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City Dark Space – Architecture, Representation, Black
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture. These five texts move between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping of the African Diaspora. African American cultural institutions designed and constructed in recent years often rely on cultural stereotypes, metaphors, and cliches to communicate significance, demonstrating "Africanisms" through form and symbolism-but there is a far richer and more complex heritage to be explored. Presented here is a series of questions that interrogate and illuminate other narratives of "African American architecture," and reveal compelling ways of translating the philosophical idea of the African Diaspora's experience into space.
£15.29
Taylor & Francis Architecture
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£56.04
Taylor & Francis Culture Architecture and Nature
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£39.99
Spurbuchverlag Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice:
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£37.80
Edition Axel Menges Reformarchitektur: 1900-1918
Book SynopsisTEXT IN GERMAN. Architecture started to move towards Modernism around 1900 with a reform movement involving architects, art critics, humanities scholars, philanthropic circles and universities. The author pursues this in exemplary studies, interrogating the interplay between theory and practice.
£43.20
Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd MPavilion: Encounters With Design and
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£32.00
RIBA Publishing Mobilising Housing Histories: Learning from
Book SynopsisThe problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one. This book, aimed at anyone with a professional or personal interest in improving housing provision everywhere, aims to inspire by offering in-depth studies of London's housing past and seeks to provide sustainable solutions for the future by linking to wider contemporary historical and social contexts.This book will influence today’s housing debates through showcasing lessons from the past and highlights examples that inform the present. The buildings assessed in these case studies will be measured in terms of their longevity, sustained popularity, livability, average densities and productivity.The research and case studies from the book provide an invaluable resource for academics of architecture, urban design, sociology, history and geography as well as professionals, policy makers and journalists.Table of ContentsForeword - Owen HatherleyPreface - Andrew SaintIntroduction - Peter Guillery and David KrollChapter 1: Urban Design in Victorian London: The Minet Estate in Lambeth 1870 to c. 1910 - David KrollChapter 2: Miles of Silly Little Dirty Houses: The Lessons of Victorian Battersea - Colin ThomChapter 3: Renewable Principles in H A Darbishire's Peabody Estates 1864-1885 - Irina DavidoviciChapter 4: Residential Flats: Densification in Victorian and Early 20th-Century London - Richard DennisChapter 5: South Acton Unsustained - Peter GuilleryChapter 6: High Social Housing in London c.1940-1970 - Simon PepperChapter 7: ‘We felt magnificent being up there’: Ernő Goldfinger's Balfron Tower and the campaign to keep it public - David RobertsChapter 8: Out-of-Sync Estates - Ben CampkinChapter 9: Gentrification: The Case of Canonbury - Tanis HinchcliffeChapter 10: Victorian Houses: Recent Approaches to Sustainable Retrofit - Sofie Pelsmakers and David Kroll
£41.80
Freedom Press Talking to Architects
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£9.77
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Architecture and the Public World
Book SynopsisThis book brings together Kenneth Frampton's essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historicaltheoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and the political question of the predicament of architecture in the new Millennium. The essays explore Frampton's contention that architecture's imperative is to assume a significant responsibility for the edification and stewardship of the Arendtian public world.' One of the most theoretically sophisticated and politically committed architectural thinkers, Frampton's work breaks emphatically with the limits and norms of much contemporary practice and restores a sense of richness and social consequence of architecture's unfinished project,' while offering abiding lessons not only for architecture but for social, cultural, and design criticism alike.
£23.74
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Fundamentals of Interior Architecture
Book SynopsisJohn Coles (Dip Arch) lectured at Middlesex University, UK, where he was programme leader for the Interior Architecture MA and Sustainable Design MA and Joint Programme Leader for the BA Honours Interior Architecture programmes.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Space/Form Space and Place Elements and Composition of Interior Space Case Study and Interview: The Way Out, Sonoma County, USA / Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects Project: Observing Space and Form Chapter 2: Site/Function Analyzing the Site Types of Interior Case Study and Interview: Cut and Fold House, London, UK / Ashton Porter Project: Observing Sight and Function Chapter 3: Materials/Texture Understanding the Interior Selecting Materials Perception of Quality Architectural Materials Case Study and Interview: Family House, Miyajima Island, Japan / Kazuya Nakomoto Project: Observing Materials and Texture Chapter 4: Light/Mood Understanding Light Using Light Calculating Light Case Study and Interview: One Kearny Lobby, San Francisco, USA / IwamotoScott Project: Observing Light and Mood Chapter 5: Presentation/Representation Key Stages in Design Representing Design Case Study and Interview: Pill Box, London, UK / Bluebottle Project: Observing Presentation and Representation Conclusion Sources of Information and Inspiration Index Acknowledgements and Picture Credits
£31.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Architecture in the Age of Artificial
Book SynopsisUpdated to cover the latest cutting-edge developments in the field and now in full color, Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on the future of architecture and design.From smart assistants and ChatGPT to ground-breaking diffusion models for image generation and 3D modelling ? this fully-updated second edition examines all the latest new developments in the field, and examines their profound effects on architectural practice.Highlighting current case-studies as well as near-future applications, it explores the how AI transforms every part of the process from the inspiration and the brief to detailed performance- and data-driven design. This new edition also sheds light on key ethical and professional debates ? including regulations, copyright, and the very future of creativity and of the profession itself.Written by one of the world''s leading experts in the field, this book is a must-read for all architects and designers wishing to stay at the forefront of AI developments in architecture.
£61.75
Taylor & Francis Elements of Architecture Assembling archaeology atmosphere and the performance of building spaces Archaeological Orientations
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£45.99
Park Books Absolute Beginners
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.
£28.80
Park Books SHIFT
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£28.80
MIT Press Ltd Retracing the Expanded Field Encounters Between
Book SynopsisScholars and artists revisit a hugely influential essay by Rosalind Krauss and map the interactions between art and architecture over the last thirty-five years.Expansion, convergence, adjacency, projection, rapport, and intersection are a few of the terms used to redraw the boundaries between art and architecture during the last thirty-five years. If modernists invented the model of an ostensible “synthesis of the arts,” their postmodern progeny promoted the semblance of pluralist fusion. In 1979, reacting against contemporary art's transformation of modernist medium-specificity into postmodernist medium multiplicity, the art historian Rosalind Krauss published an essay, “Sculpture in the Expanded Field,” that laid out in a precise diagram the structural parameters of sculpture, architecture, and landscape art. Krauss tried to clarify what these art practices were, what they were not, and what they could become if logically combined. The essay soon as
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MIT Press Ltd Why Architects Still Draw The MIT Press Two
Book SynopsisAn architect's defense of drawing as a way of thinking, even in an age of electronic media.Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; he doesn't urge architects to give up digital devices for watercolors and a measuring tape. Rather, he makes a case for drawing as the interface between the idea and the work itself.A drawing, Belardi argues, holds within it the entire final design. It is the paradox of the acorn: a project emerges from a drawing—even from a sketch, rough and inchoate—just as an oak tree emerges from an acorn. Citing examples not just from architecture but also from literature, chemistry, music, archaeology, and art, Belardi shows how drawing is not a passive recording but a momen
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Thames and Hudson Ltd Skyscraper
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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Building Bad
Book SynopsisIn this book, the author argues that architectural functionality is often constrained by political and economic forces, while it is also effectively undermined by modes of expression. Utilitarian building elements-for example, windows or skylights intended to bring daylight into offices or factories-may be subject to excessive heat gain, thereby coming into conflict with an evolving politics of energy conservation and global warming mitigation. Yet at the other extreme they may be deployed as part of expressive systems whose value, understood in terms of symbol and metaphor, can overwhelm these utilitarian considerations. Politics and economics, in other words, establish lower and upper bounds for all utilitarian functions, whose costs and benefits are continually assessed on the basis of the profitable accumulation of wealth within a competitive global economy. Simultaneously, an artistic sensibility, also driven by competition, often contorts buildings into increasingly untenable forms. With utility both constrained by politics and attacked by expression, buildings-especially those that aim to be fashionable and avant-garde-often experience various degrees of utilitarianfailure. The political constraints and expressive tendencies affecting architectural utility are separately examined in the two parts of this book, while an epilogue looks at the implications for architectural education.
£42.50
RIBA Publishing Rethinking Modernity: Between the local and the
Book SynopsisThis book proposes alternative interpretations of broadly-debated concepts within architectural modernity. Bringing into view the work of lesser-known architects from across the globe, alongside previously unexplored aspects of mainstream masters of the Modern, Rethinking Modernity puts forward a compelling case for the range and diversity of architectural projects encompassed by this term. Exploring themes such as the use of colour, materials, ornament, local traditions and identities, Rethinking Modernity challenges readers to build a better understanding of a crucial moment in architectural history, and of design trends shaping the present-day production of the built environment. Complementing the RIBA Publishing titles Redefining Brutalism and Revisiting Postmodernism, this book sits within a series of books aiming to explore new interpretations of well-loved architectural movements, richly illustrated with rarely-seen archive photography and lesser-known projects. Offers a comprehensive review of modernity, discussing its various strands through less typical case studies, rich and original visual material (photographs, redrawn plans, and spatial diagrams), as well as descriptions Illustrates the range of possibilities the umbrella term of Modernity encompasses, questioning stereotypical definitions and proposing alternative descriptions Offers a window onto lesser-known architectural figures of the modern alongside mainstream masters of the Modern Explores both historical modernity globally and its connection with present-day trends Table of Contents Introduction: Modernity: a small word for such a big world Chapter 1: Tradition and Identity Chapter 2: Modernity and context Chapter 3: Materials and Colours Chapter 4: The forbidden wor(l)d: ornament and decoration in the alternative modern Chapter 5: Geometry and spatial experience Chapter 6: The modern diaspora – Latin America Chapter 7: Modern diaspora and the British interwar Conclusion
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RIBA Publishing Mediated Space: The architecture of news,
Book SynopsisAs screens and the content they deliver increasingly dominate our lives, and those who once consumed also create, broadcast media are seeing trust in their authority diminish. Mediated Space critiques contemporary intersections of architecture and broadcast media that exploit spaces and places that are real, imagined or hybrids of the two in order to re-establish and strengthen the mechanisms of production and consumption. In three thematic parts that focus on the automotive space of the city, the journalistic space of the news room and the mediated skyline of the city, Mediated Space makes an architectural critique of spaces that are rarely designed by architects but that are experienced every day by millions of people.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The mediated space of journalistic production Chapter 1 W1A Chapter 2 The Global Local Chapter 3 Live From Doha Part 2: The mediated space of automotive consumption Chapter 4 Imported from Detroit Chapter 5 Inject Some Positive Emotion Chapter 6 The Open Road Part 3 The mediated cityscape of entertainment Chapter 7 I’ll See You In The Boardroom Chapter 8 Lund Point Conclusion
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RIBA Publishing A Gendered Profession: The Question of
Book SynopsisThe issue of gender inequality in architecture has been part of the profession’s discourse for many years, yet the continuing gender imbalance in architectural education and practice remains a difficult subject. This book seeks to change that. It provides the first ever attempt to move the debate about gender in architecture beyond the tradition of gender-segregated diagnostic or critical discourse on the debate towards something more propositional, actionable and transformative.To do this, A Gendered Profession brings together a comprehensive array of essays from a wide variety of experts in architectural education and practice, touching on issues such as LGBT, age, family status, and gender-biased awards.Table of ContentsEditorial Section 1: Practice, politics, economics Chapter 1 Six Myths About Women in Architecture – Justine Clark Chapter 2 Architecture: A Suitable Career for a Woman? – Sandra Manley and Ann De Graft-Johnson Chapter 3 On Age and Architecture – Sophie Hamer Chapter 4 Why Men Leave Architecture – Doric Chapter 5 G.F. Bodley and the Gravy: Describing Architecture on the Tangent – Hugh Pearman Chapter 6 Women in Architecture: Stand up and be Counted – Virginia Newman Chapter 7 The Hero's Journey – Karen Burns Chapter 8 Lost and Found – John Fitzgerald and Ruth Morrow Chapter 9 Site Parade – Julian Williams Section 2: Histories, theories & pioneers Chapter 10 The Queer Architect In Germany – Wolfgang Voigt and Uwe Bresan Chapter 11 Sister Practices – Ruth Morrow Chapter 12 Architecture: A Villainous Profession? – David Gloster Chapter 13 The “Transition” As A Turning Point For Female Agency In Spanish Architecture – Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno Chapter 14 Redesigning the Profession – Julie Humphreys Chapter 15 Remembering Queer Space – Anthony Graham Chapter 16 Women in Architecture Awards – Laura Mark Chapter 17 Designers of the World Unite – Joe Kerr Section 3: Place, participation and identity Chapter 18 Woods and Treasure – Cany Ash and Robert Sakula Chapter 19 Down To Earth – James Soane Chapter 20 Vauxhall is Burning – Alexis Kalli Chapter 21 On Looking And Learning – Paul Davies Chapter 22 Scenes of Emancipatory Alliances – Brian McGrath Chapter 23 The Eradication of London's Queer Pubs – Sam Douek Chapter 24 Architecture 2.0 – Gem Barton Section 4: Education Chapter 25 Surveys, seminars, and starchitects: Gender studies and architectural history pedagogy in American architectural education – Catherine Zipf Chapter 26 Interiority Complex – House and Harriss Chapter 27 Gender, Architectural Education and the Accruing of Capital – Igea Troiani Chapter 28 Hit Me Baby, One More Time – Lesley Lokko Chapter 29 And Then We Were The 99%: Reflections on Gender and the Changing Contours of German Architectural Practice – Mary Pepchinski Chapter 30 A Gendered Pedagogy – Harriet Harriss Chapter 31 Look Who's Talking: Numbers Matter – Lori Brown Chapter 32 Symbolic Violence – Flora Samuel
£35.15
MACK Grundkurs: What is Architecture About?
Book SynopsisIn this collection of idiosyncratic lessons, architect and teacher Pier Paolo Tamburelli engages with the very foundations of arch-itecture, proposing a series of new and open-ended perspectives on how we build the world. Developed for the 'Grundkurs', or 'basic course', at Vienna Technical University, Tamburelli's lessons are presented through the annotated sketches that form the basis of his lectures - variously rough and precise, sarcastic and sincere, and always uniquely expressive. This volume is a rich visual sourcebook of architectural ideas that form an accessible and discursive introduction to the discipline - one which pauses on the road to grand theories to learn from the intuitive processes of notetaking, drawing, and association. Tamburelli's lessons are based around a series of dialectic couples, including Roof/Wall, Shelter/Memory, and Language/Action. The pairs are experimental and often provocative, offering a framework to be used to climb in the direction of architecture. Tamburelli trusts in the capacity of images to suspend the restraints of more rigorous theoretical approaches, embraces the flexible wisdom of the note, and relishes the intrigue of the cryptic messages we leave for ourselves. Reproduced here in their entirety, these eight lessons offer countless routes towards, through, and around architecture, providing newcomers and experts alike with an intimate and refreshing encounter with a millennia-old discipline. With an introduction by the author and a text by Mark Lee, Chair of the Department of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design
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RIBA Publishing Design Studio Vol. 4: Working at the
Book SynopsisWithout environmental justice, there can be no social justice. The critical symptoms of human suffering, climate collapse and animal maltreatment are now global and far-reaching. Despite their interdependence, the treatment of these afflictions remains disconnected. What follows is policy and design decisions that fail to tackle the problems collectively. Exposing the narrow perspectives that dominate architectural discourse and practice, this volume sets the table for inclusive architectural engagement during a time circumscribed by pandemic, climate change and inequality. An respected group of international voices amplifies interactions relating to sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia and environmental catastrophe, exploring how they are inextricably linked. Without acknowledging the interconnectedness of these injustices, we will not find effective ways to halt the deepening crisis. Or be able to experience an architecture that addresses the effects of the human-centred Anthropocene age. Readers are invited to imagine, rage, rail, protest, contest, channel, dream and envision from a position of humility, equity, and in some instances, experiential fury. The future of architecture is contingent on working at the intersection. Features: Marcos Cruz, Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Antón García-Abril, Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg, Ariane Lourie Harrison, Kerry Holden, Walter Hood, Joyce Hwang, Kabage Karanja, V. Mitch McEwen, Débora Mesa, Timothy Morton, Stella Mutegi, Brenda Parker, Carolyn Steel, McKenzie Wark, Kathryn Yusoff and Joanna Zylinska.Table of ContentsEditor’s Introduction: Beyond the Spaces of Speciesism An Architectural History of Intersectionality by V. Mitch McEwen Architecture is Dysphoric and Wants to Transition by McKenzie Wark Non-Binary Ecologies by Harriet Harriss & Naomi House Loser Images: A Feminist Proposal for Post-Anthropocene Visuality by Joanna Zylinska Planetary Portals in the Upside-Down World by Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Kerry Holden, Kathryn Yusoff From Anthropocene to Biocene: Novel Bio-integrated Designs as a Means to Respond to the Current Biodiversity and Climate Crisis by Marcos Cruz and Brenda Parker Sitopia: A Landscape for Human and Non-Human Flourishing by Carolyn Steel The Anthropocene Museum: A Troublesome Trail of Improvision Towards the Chthulucene by Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi Ca’n Terra: For Landscapes of the Post-Anthropocene by Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa Pollinators Pavilion: The Architecture of Analogous Habitats by Ariane Lourie Harrison The Wilding of Mars by Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg Bat Cloud by Joyce Hwang In Between Landscape – Nvidia Headquarters by Walter Hood Final Word by Timothy Morton
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RIBA Publishing Changing the Game
Book SynopsisArchitecture has hit something of a sticking point when it comes to adapting to contemporary life and its various concerns - the finite resources of the planet, the lack of diversity in the profession, the punishing lifestyle afforded by traditional practice models.Changing the Game explores how to create and run a future-proofed small practice through value-driven decision-making and profitability. It considers 'sustainability' in every sense of the word, looking beyond materials and projects to the socio-economic repercussions and responsibilities the modern practice must engage with.This practical and accessible book walks readers through the journey of building a culture that reflects a sustainability/entrepreneurial led-mindset - whether you're starting your own practice or trying to effect change from within an existing practice.It examines efficient practice models and structures, including lean practice models that are sustainable, profitable and innovat
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Theatrum Mundi Infrastructuring: Four Conversations on Cultural
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Birkhauser Bauphysik: Wärme – Feuchte – Schall – Brand
Book SynopsisEin klassischer Kurs über die Gegenstände der Bauphysik: Wärmeschutz – Schallschutz – Brandschutz, ergänzt durch zahlreiche Beispiele, Bilder und Tabellen. Das Buch bietet einen Überblick zum derzeitigen Stand der Bauphysik, gestützt auf die verbindlichen Grundlagen der europäischen Normung. Dabei werden die relevanten Inhalte der Bauproduktenrichtlinie und nachfolgender Richtlinien der EU ebenso berücksichtigt wie nationale Regelungen. Die im Band angeführten Beispiele sind mehrheitlich zugleich die Grundlage für weiterführende Bauteilbeschreibungen in den Folgebänden der Reihe Baukonstruktionen und ermöglichen somit eine besonders umfassende Betrachtungsweise. Die zweite Auflage wurde insbesondere mit Blick auf Energiekennzahlen überarbeitet. Table of ContentsAllgemeines.- Winterlicher Wärmeschutz.- Tauwasserschutz.- Sommerlicher Wärmeschutz.- Schallschutz.- Brandschutz.- Tabellen
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Transcript Verlag Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism: An
Book SynopsisArchitecture and urbanism seem to be "weak" disciplines, constantly struggling for a better understanding of their nature and disciplinary borders. The huge amount of metaphors appearing in the discourse of both not only reference to their creative nature but also indicate their weakness and the missing piece strengthening their own understanding: a definition of space for architecture and of city for urbanism. But using metaphors in this field implies a problem - though metaphors achieve to bring opposites together, there remains the question how literal they can actually become in order to relate to these subjects properly. In this volume, several authors from various fields using different approaches discuss this question.
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