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Taylor & Francis Ltd Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture
Book SynopsisIn the contemporary practice of architecture, digital design and fabrication are emergent technologies in transforming how architects present a design and form a material strategy that is responsible, equitable, sustainable, resilient, and forward-looking. This book exposes dialogue between history, theory, design, construction, technology, and sensory experience by means of digital simulations that enhance the assessment and values of our material choices. It offers a critical look to the past to inspire the future. This new edition looks to Alvar Aalto as the primary protagonist for channeling discussions related to these topics. Architects like ALA, Shigeru Ban, 3XN, Peter Zumthor, and others also play the role of contemporary guides in this review. The work of Aalto and selected contemporary architects, along with computer modeling software, showcase the importance of comprehensive design. Organized by the five Ts of contemporary architectural discourseTypology, TopoTable of ContentsIntroduction—Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture 1. Topology–Design in Light of Place 2. Typology—Envelopment(s) of Space 3. Tectonics—Elements and Atmospheres 4. Technic—Flexibility and the New Standard 5. Thermodynamic—Health and Instruments of Sensation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture Philosophy and the Pedagogy of Cinema From Benjamin to Badiou
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture Philosophy and the Pedagogy of Cinema From Benjamin to Badiou
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture and Leadership
Book SynopsisFrom cathedrals to cubicles, people go to great lengths and expense to design their living and working environments. They want their spaces to be places where they enjoy being, reflecting who they are and what they care about. The resultant environments in turn become loud, albeit unvocal, leaders for people occupying those corresponding spaces. The design and use of work and living spaces typifies and thematizes expectations for the group. Essentially, the architecture of rooms, buildings and cities creates cultures by conveying explicit and implicit messages. This is evident when people approach and walk into St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, or the Rothko Chapel in Houston, to name some examples. While leaders oftentimes lack the resources to have their spaces mirror the greatest architectural achievements of the world, they are in a position to use the art and science oTable of ContentsChapter 1 Architecture and Leadership Connections Chapter 2 Built Environment as a Place of Identity, Meaning, and Purpose Chapter 3 Defining Architecture as “Good” Chapter 4 Critical Components of Architecture: Building Elements and Design Principles Chapter 5 Three Categories of Specific Design Principles Chapter 6 Leadership and Use Strategies Chapter 7 Architecture and Leadership in Action
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Taylor & Francis The Interiors Theory Primer
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Inventing the Built Environment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modernism in LateMao China
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Taylor & Francis Ecologies of Inception
Book SynopsisResponding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentialityan object's ability to changein architecture and design. The book problematizes the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical tabula rasa, a tendency to begin from scratch and use raw, amorphous, and obedient materials that can be easily and effectively manipulated, facilitating a seamless and faithful embodiment of intentions. Instead, the philosophy of design developed in the text promptsthrough a variety of case studies, thinkers, and disciplinesa collective reconsideration of value, dissociating it from the projects and signatures of any one author or generation. Whereas the merits of up-cycling and circular design are canonically defined vis-à-vis status-quo economic and socio-cultural orthodoxies, this project unpacks the theoretical assumptions that underpin these practTable of ContentsI. Introduction: Tampering with Design Potentials on a Warming Planet PART I: TABULA RASA 1. Ecologies of Inception: Orientation of Designed Objects 2. Hylomorphism Reconsidered: Matter, Form, and the Ability to Change PART II: HYPERMATERIALS 3. Purity beyond Nature and Culture: Wildfires, Hypermaterials, and Co-option 4. Circularities: Technical Nutrients, Hyperobjects, and Rooms PART III: AUTHORSHIP 5. Rasura Tabulae: From Formats to Media 6. Ecologies of Suspension: Potentiality without Intentions/Relations 7. Exaptive Design: Radical Coauthorship as Method 8. Authorship vs. Withdrawal: OOO and Architecture 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Phantasmagorias
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Taylor & Francis Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland Transformation Symbolic Form and National Identity Architext
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Taylor & Francis Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Buildings and Power
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Taylor & Francis Buildings and Power
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture and Revolution Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture and Revolution Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisArchitecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned architects, philosophers and cultural theorists from both the East and the West. They explore the questions over the built environment that now face architects, planners and politicians in the region. They examine the problems of buildings inherited from the communist era: some are environmentally inadequate, many were designed to serve a now redundant social programme and others carry the stigma of association with previous regimes. Contributors include: Daniel Libeskind, Bernard Tschumi, Laura Mulvey, Helene Cixous, Andrew Benjamin and Frederic Jameson.Table of ContentsbPart I. Historical Perspectives. 1. Sources of a Radical Mission in the Early Soviet Profession: Alexei Gan and the Moscow Anarchists. 2. The Vesnin's Palace of Labour: the Role of Practice in Materialising the Revolutionary. 3. Notes for a Manifesto. A Postmodern Critic's Kit for Interpreting Socialist. Part II. Architecture and Change. 5. History Lessons - Policing the Body: Descartes and the Architecture of Change. 7. The State as a Work of Art: the Trauma of Ceausescu's Disneyland - 8. Architecture or Revolution? Part III. Strategies for a New Europe. 9. Traces of the Unborn. Resisting the Erasure of History: Daniel Libeskind Interviewed by Anne Wagner. 11. The Humanity of Architecture. 12. Disjunctions. 13. The Dark Side of the Domus: The Redomestication of Central and Eastern Europe. 14. Architecture in a Post-Totalitarian Society: Round-Table Discussion Conducted by Bart Goldhoorn. Part IV. The Romanian Question. 15. Totalitarian city: Bucharest 1980-9, Semio-Clinical Files. 16. The People's House, or the Voluptuous Violence of an Architectural Paradox.17. Utopia 1988, Romania; Post-Utopia 1995, Romania. 18. Rediscovering Romania. Part V. Tombs and Monuments. 19. Berlin 1961-89: The Bridal Chamber. Reflections on Disgraced Monuments. 21. Attacks on the Castle. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Words Between the Spaces Buildings and Language Architext
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Taylor & Francis The Words Between the Spaces Buildings and Language Architext
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Frontiers of Space Bodies and Gender
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Occupying Architecture Between the Architect and the User
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Occupying Architecture Between the Architect and the User
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Spaces of Global Cultures
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Spaces of Global Cultures
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Taylor & Francis The Hieroglyphics of Space
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Taylor & Francis The Hieroglyphics of Space
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fashioning Vienna
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fashioning Vienna
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Lifeworld Formation Perception Representation
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Taylor & Francis Intersections Architectural Histories and Critical Theories
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Taylor & Francis Ltd This is Not Architecture Media Constructions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Urban Lifeworld Formation Perception Representation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Walls Have Feelings Architecture Film and the City
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Walls Have Feelings Architecture Film and the City
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecturally Speaking Practices of Art Architecture and the Everyday
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecturally Speaking Practices of Art Architecture and the Everyday
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Taylor & Francis Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Behind the Postcolonial Architecture Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia Architext
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Taylor & Francis German Architecture for a Mass Audience
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Consuming Tradition Manufacturing Heritage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Culture after Humanism History Culture Subjectivity Comedia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Modern Airport Terminal
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Embodied Utopias Gender Social Change and the Modern Metropolis Architext
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Embodied Utopias Architext Series Gender Social Change and the Modern Metropolis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reading Architectural History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The New EcoArchitecture Alternatives from the Modern Movement
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