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Taylor & Francis Built from Below
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Taylor & Francis Agency Working With Uncertain Architectures Critiques Critical Studies in Architectural Humanities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Around and About Stock Orchard Street
Book Synopsis9/10 Stock Orchard Street, colloquially known as the Straw House, is a house and an office designed by two architects for their own use. Completed in 2000, the buildings were experimental in design, execution and inhabitation, and have resisted categorization, challenged received wisdom and provoked debate, especially among architectural critics.With access to all the material records of the project, this book responds to that debate by presenting multi-faceted narratives from a wide range of writers that have been invited to reflect both positively and negatively on what the buildings represent and how they have performed. Using the buildings as the central case study, it situates them in a broader cultural context, revealing the breadth of conversations and issues engaged by architecture.Highly illustrated with original material, including the authors' own drawings and with specially-commissioned photographs, this book discusses theory, practice, ethics, materiaTrade Review"A tale of architecture getting back to its roots, reminding us, as we plough through our latest client's crippling appointment document, of all the resons why we strove to become architects, and giving clues as to how we might once again stick our necks out and the benefits of doing so to architecture." – Sean Griffiths, Building Design"Stock Orchard Street is one of those wild and influential projects in architecture that, just occasionally, re-direct our thinking. This book, that delves into the messiness of building, Renaissance ethics, contextual design and feminist materiality, is as exploratory, incidental, argumentative, open, polemical and enjoyable as the building itself. It celebrates the magical tension between us, our built environment and our notions of how that environment should be." – Kevin McCloud, author, broadcaster and designer"Like the house it assesses and celebrates, Around and About Stock Orchard Street is a one-off, a sum that is greater than its eclectic, eccentric, inventive parts. Touring the views presented by the house's makers and admirers is, in its way, as enjoyable as touring the house itself, and reminds us of what we still lack in any abundance in British architecture: a poetics of the 'hairy'." – Susannah Hagan, Professor of Urban Studies, University of Brighton"A tale of architecture getting back to its roots, reminding us, as we plough through our latest client's crippling appointment document, of all the resons why we strove to become architects, and giving clues as to how we might once again stick our necks out and the benefits of doing so to architecture." – Sean Griffiths, Building Design“This is a significant and engaging type of book about architectural practice that captures well the complexity of issues that influence on the design and construction process of the building...As a whole I hope that the book will serve as a blueprint for a new kind of writing on architecture that helps to open up the profession to a much wider public audience.” – Dr. Jan Kattein, The Journal of Space SyntaxTable of ContentsForeword. Introduction Part 1 The Client's Tale. Photo Essay. Telling Tales. Ordinariness and Perfection. Design Drawings. Part 2 House with Associated Office? Getting it Built. From Innovation to Commonplace. The Model: Deconstructed. The Excessive Materiality of Stock Orchard Street: Towards a Feminist Material Practice. Innovative But Daft? Construction Drawings. Part 3 SOS: Ten Years On. 9.5 Stock Orchard Street. The Intimate Inner. Correspondence from the Architectural Review. What Do We Mean by Green? A House Among Houses: The Idea of 9/10 Stock Orchard Street. Photo Essay. Out of Time, Out of Frame, Into the Box. 'To Make Wonders Plain': The Ethics of Stock Orchard Street. Appendices Gazetteer. Selected Materials Specification. Areas: 9/10 Stock Orchard Street. Contributors to the Building.
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Taylor & Francis Architecture Crisis and Resuscitation The Reproduction of PostFordism in LateTwentiethCentury Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing the Modern City Literature Architecture Modernity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing the Modern City Literature Architecture Modernity
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Taylor & Francis Architectural Colour in the Professional Palette
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cinescapes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Rationalist Reader
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Rationalist Reader
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Public Space of Social Media
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Use Matters
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Taylor & Francis Cinematic Aided Design An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Goodman for Architects
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Taylor & Francis Peripheries Critiques Critical Studies in Architectural Humanities
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Taylor & Francis Peripheries Critiques Critical Studies in Architectural Humanities
Book SynopsisArchitects are now more than ever part of an interdisciplinary context. The emergence of creative art-based practices, film making, post-disaster designs and slum management, as part of the architecture discourse and curriculum, is an indication of how broad architecture has become, and the extent to which it has already merged peripheral practices into its core. This new volume in the AHRA Critiques Series is a statement about how broad, complex, influential, and, ironically central, architecture has become in the contemporary culture, economy and society, despite the marginal position the profession currently occupies. Peripheries questions and challenges the boundaries of architectural research by bringing together subjects and relevant streams of investigation, some of which rarely feature in architectural research and practice titles. Divided into four themes, Places of Formation and Insight, Practices at the Edge, People on the MargTable of Contents1. Introduction: Transcending the boundaries of architecture 2. Peripheries dialogue: a roundtable debate on architecture Part I: Peripheral Places of Formation and Insight 3. Shadows in the farthest corners: the pursuit of national identity in Japanese architectural aesthetics 4. Identity in peripheries: Barking and its others 5. Centre or periphery? The architecture of the travelling street fair 6. Designing bare essentials: ALDI and the architectures of cheapness Intervention A: Is this central? Part II: Practices at the Edge 7. The degree zero of space: Romanian urban periphery interpreted through Andrea Branzi's theory 8. Obsolete industrial space in the expanded field 9. Inhabiting the edge: architecture and transport Infrastructure Intertwined 10. Heritage at the periphery: the York Street Vaults, the Roman baths, Bath Intervention B: The Kevin Kieran Award Part III: People on the Margins 11. Re-imaging the periphery: the reproduction of space in Cairo 12. Homogenic love in the city: CR Ashbee’s new Dublin 13. Energising the building edge: Siegfried Ebeling, Bauhaus bioconstructivist Intervention C: ‘We want to make really good buildings and we just happen to be on the edge’ Part IV: Edge Readings 14. Metropolitan narratives on peripheral contexts: buildings and constructs in Algarve (South Portugal), c. 1950 15. Positions of periphery to centre: the Festival of Britain 16. The strange case of the speaking walls: the testimony of architecture in the contemporary crime novel murder scene 17. This is how stories of conflict circulate and resonate Epilogue: Lessons from the Peripheral
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Taylor & Francis The People Place and Space Reader
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Taylor & Francis The People Place and Space Reader
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Space
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Space
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Taylor & Francis Museum Making
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Taylor & Francis Architecture and the Mimetic Self
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Kant for Architects Thinkers for Architects
Book SynopsisThis book introduces architects to a philosopher, Immanuel Kant, whose work was constantly informed by a concern for the world as an evolving whole. According to Kant, in this interconnected and dynamic world, humans should act as mutually dependent and responsible subjects. Given his future-oriented and ethico-politically concerned thinking, Kant is a thinker who clearly speaks to architects. This introduction demonstrates how his ideas bear pertinently and creatively upon the world in which we live now and for which we should care thoughtfully. Kant grounded his enlightened vision of philosophyâs mission using an architectural metaphor: of the modest 'dwelling-house'. Far from constructing speculative 'castles in the sky' or vertiginous 'towers which reach to the heavens', he tells us that his humble aim is rather to build a 'secure home for ourselves', one which appropriately corresponds at once to the limited material resources available on our planet, and to our need for firm and solid principles to live by. This book also explores Kant's notions of cosmopolitics, which attempts to think politics from a global perspective by taking into account the geographical fact that the earth is a sphere with limited land mass and natural resources. Given the urgent topicality of sustainable development, these Kantian texts are of particular interest for architects of today.Students of architecture, who are necessarily trained in negotiating between theory and practice, gain much from considering Kant, whose critical project also consisted of testing and exploring the viability of ideas, so as to ascertain to what extent, and crucially, how ideas can have a constructive effect on the whole world, and on us as active agents therein.Trade Review'Diane Morgan's study on Immanuel Kant and his relevance to architectural thought and theory is a magnificent, thoughtful and provocative study of Kant's ideas about building and dwelling, but more importantly, of his notions of cosmopolitics which introduce a global perspective to the idea of building homes and worlds. Indeed, Kant's 'cosmic' and holistic understanding of the world is a necessary underpinning for any theory of sustainability, ecology and the cosmopolitan spirit.' - Prof Nicole Pohl, Editor of Utopian Studies, UK'In this brief and yet eloquent introduction to the evolving relationship between Kant's critical philosophy and the theory and practice of architecture Diane Morgan demonstrates with critical verve, lucid erudition and a wide range of vivid and luminous examples from both architecture and philosophy how the Vitruvian architectural virtues of integrity, utility and aesthetic delight can apply as much to an account of the dialogue between these two disciplines as to the problems or questions encountered within them.' - Dr. Charlie Blake, University of West London, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why Kant Now? 1. Placing Kant: The City of Königsberg/ Kaliningrad. 2. The Critical Project and Architecture. 3. The Precarious Situation of Architecture and its Relation to Beauty. 4. From the Sublime to the Cosmopolitical: Building for an Infinitely Better Future. 5. Building Cosmopolitically?: "Fluid Geography" and "Total Thinking". Conclusion: Architects of the Future Unite! Further Reading. Bibliography. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Utopias and Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Places of the Soul Architecture and environmental
Book SynopsisFor Christopher Day, architecture isnât just about the appearance of buildings but how theyâre experienced as places to be in. Occupantsâ experience can differ radically from designersâ intentions as their concerns and thinking differ. Additionally, multi-sensory ambience, spatial sequential experience and embodied spirit resonate in the human soul. Sustainable design means much more than energy-efficiency: if sustainable buildings donât also nourish the soul, occupant-building interaction will lack care and eco-technologies wonât be used efficiently. This major revision of his classic text builds on more than forty years of experience ecological design across a range of climates, cultures and budgets, and 25 years hands-on building.Treating buildings as environments intrinsic to their surroundings, the book explores consensus design, economic and social sustainability, and how a listening approach can grow architectural ideas organically from the interacting, sometimes conflicting, requirements of place, people and situation. This third edition, comprehensively revised to incorporate new knowledge and address new issues, continues Dayâs departure from orthodox contemporary architecture, offering eye-opening insights and practical design applications. These principles and guidelines will be of interest and value to architects, builders, planners, developers and homeowners alike. Reviews of the first edition ... one of the seminal architecture books of recent timesProfessor Tom Wooley, Architects JournalThe 'bible' of many architects and those interested in architecture.Centre for Alternative Technology... an inspiration to all those who care about the influence of the environment on Manâs health and well-being.Barrie May, The Scientific and Medical NetworkAt last an architect has written a sensitive and caring book on the effects of buildings on all our lives.Hereâs HealthThis gentle book offers a route out of the nightmare of so much callous modern construction. I was inspired.Colin Amery, The Financial TimesTable of ContentsForeword by HRH Prince Charles Preface 2002: New Millenium: New Issues Preface 2012: Soul in our eco-crisis age 1. Architecture: Does It Matter? 2. How environment affects us 3. Place: placemaking and place-generation 4. Space for Living In: shape, form, space and life 5. Lines: material realities or bearers of energy? 6. Qualities and Quantities 7. The senses: gateways to the world 8. Light: nourishment for body and soul 9. Spirit of place, of project, of buildings 10. Ensouling Buildings 11. Conversation or Conflict? 12. Architecture as Art 13. Architecture With Health-Giving Intent 14. Healing Silence: the Architecture of Peace 15. Soul or survival? 16. Building for Planetary Health 17. Building for Human Health 18. Design as a Listening Process: Co-creating Places 19. Building as a Health-Giving Process 20. Children and Environment 21. Accessibility for All: Compromise for Soul? 22. Urban life, Urban needs 23. Development: continuity-destruction or place-improvement? 24. Urban problems: urban opportunities 25. Eco-cities: achievable or utopian dream? 26. Building for Tomorrow Appendix 1. Lazure: inexpensive technique Appendix 2. Target pricing examples Appendix 3. Hand-finished Plastering List of photographs Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Architecture and Armed Conflict The Politics of Destruction
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Taylor & Francis Architecture and Armed Conflict
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Taylor & Francis Conversations With Form A Workbook for Students of Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Landscape Theory in Design
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Community Architecture Routledge Revivals How People Are Creating Their Own Environment
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Taylor & Francis Negotiating the Mediated City
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Taylor & Francis Architecture and Movement
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Taylor & Francis Architecture Against the PostPolitical
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Taylor & Francis Follow the Sun A Field Guide to Architectural Photography in the Digital Age
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Taylor & Francis Designing the Reclaimed Landscape
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