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Book SynopsisWhile the concept of type has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role in the development of architectural projects has not been comprehensively analyzed. This book proposes a reassessment of architectural type throughout history and its impact on the development of architectural theory and practice. Beginning with Laugier's 1753 Essay on Architecture, Unexpected Affinities: The History of Type in the Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp traces type through nineteenth- and twentiethth-century architectural movements and thoeries, culminating in a discussion of the affinities between architectural type and Duchamp's concept of the readymade. Includes over sixty black and white images.Trade Review"For Meninato, types are tools for “generating the architectural project.” For the rest of us, the book generates a richer appreciation of what surrounds and surprises us every day."AJ Sabatini, thebroadstreetreview.com, What's your "type"?Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSLIST OF FIGURESACKNOWLEDGEMENTSPREFACEINTRODUCTION PART 1: NINETEENTH CENTURY—ORIGINS, IMITATION, TYPEChapter 1. Towards an Inaugural Definition of TypeChapter 2. Semper’s Knot PART 2: TWENTIETH CENTURY—SHIFTING CONSIDERATIONS Chapter 3. Modern Architecture’s Uncertain Consideration of TypeChapter 4. Typology Reconsidered PART 3: TYPE AND PROJECT—ALTERATION TACTICSChapter 5. Typological Alterations Chapter 6. Affinities: Typological Displacement and Readymade AFTERWORDBIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisLife Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of specific places and place experiences to understand place more broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he calls synergistic relationality, Seamon defines places as spatial fields that gather, activate, sustain, identify, and interconnect things, human beings, experiences, meanings, and events.Throughout his phenomenological explication, Seamon recognizes that places are multivalent in their constitution and sophisticated in their dynamics. Drawing on British philosopher J. G. Bennettâs method of progressive approximation, he considers place and place experience in terms of their holistic, dialectical, and processual dimensions. Recognizing that places always change over time, Seamon examines their processual dimension by identifying six generative processes that he labels interaction, identity, release, realization, intensification, and creation.Drawing on practical examples from architecture, planning, and urban design, he argues that an understanding of these six place processes might contribute to a more rigorous place making that produces robust places and propels vibrant environmental experiences. This book is a significant contribution to the growing research literature in place and place making studies.Trade ReviewSeamon’s incorporation of J. G. Bennett’s progressive approximation into a phenomenology of place provides a provocative framework for a more comprehensive approach to complex aspects of place. Seamon deftly argues for the need to focus our attention on the relationality between parts and wholes brought to light through a combination of these two diverse philosophies. The work is an important contribution to place studies furthering our understanding of the significance of place in our lives while encouraging us to see place anew. Janet Donohoe, University of West GeorgiaDavid Seamon – place theorist par excellence – presents us with a rich, in-depth, insightful exploration into the complex dimensions of the experience of place as "synergistic relationality." If you read only one book on the phenomenology of place, let this be the one.Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Dean, Faculty of Environment, Simon Fraser UniversityDavid Seamon’s Life Takes Place respects and celebrates the complexity of place experience, while providing a sophisticated conceptual framework as well as pragmatic tools for ‘reading’ places. It flows out of the tradition of synergistic, holistic, qualitative models for approaching place, and appreciates the wholeness of place -- while also suggesting ways to conceptualize difference, relationality, and change processes in synergistic place studies. Life Takes Place gives architects, geographers, urban planners, psychologists, and ecologist pragmatic tools for understanding places as lived engagements and processes whereby human beings both shape and are shaped by the world of places in which they find themselves. In his unique interdisciplinary style Seamon has given us an engaging, thought-provoking, practical, and inspiring book that will speak to readers from many disciplines.Eva-Maria Simms, Ph.D., Adrian van Kaam Professor, Psychology Department, Duquesne UniversitySeamon’s years of substantial engagement with phenomenology of place bear fruit in this books’s clear presentation of difficult theory. Additionally, his numerically based pedagogy of relationality and deft use of telling cases bring to manageable order the bewildering variety of place qualities and processes, as well as the meanings of the diverse experiences they engender.Robert Mugerauer, Professor and Dean Emeritus, College of Built Environments, University of WashingtonSeamon's book is an important addition to the libraries of people who are versed in space syntax and who, more importantly, care deeply about how places are shaped and lived in.John Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture BooksTable of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Life Takes Place: An IntroductionChapter 2. Preliminaries for a Phenomenology of Place: Principles, Concepts, and MethodChapter 3. Understanding Place Holistically: Analytic vs. Synergistic RelationalityChapter 4. Explicating Wholeness: Belonging, Progressive Approximation, and SystematicsChapter 5. The Monad of PlaceChapter 6. The Dyad of PlaceChapter 7. Understanding the Triad: Relationships, Resolutions, and ProcessesChapter 8. Three Place Impulses and Six Place TriadsChapter 9. The Triad of Place InteractionChapter 10. The Triad of Place IdentityChapter 11. The Triad of Place ReleaseChapter 12. The Triad of Place RealizationChapter 13. The Triad of Place IntensificationChapter 14. The Triad of Place CreationChapter 15. Integrating the Six Place ProcessesChapter 16. Life Takes Place: Criticisms, Concerns, and the Future of PlacesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the manifestations of architecture, cities, and design processes within digital culture.Adopting a comparative and critical method, the author looks at past and present encounters of the digital with architectural discourse and practice. Along three central themes machines, networks, and computation the book begins by discussing transformations of the analogy between architecture and the machine since the early twentieth century, foregrounding questions about the relations between architecture, humans, machines, and the environment. It moves on to the city, to observe how big data and smart city sustainable management systems have transformed historical visions of global networked cities. Lastly, it explores computational design thinking historically and in the context of complex systems, as well as the latest technical, social, and economic developments. Exposing possible drawbacks while still focusing on what is radically innovative, this book proposes Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Machines 2. Networks 3. Computation Concluding Thoughts

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Book SynopsisThis book is an approachable guide for students and professionals to learn parametric modeling through the lens of architectonics, allowing readers to pair fundamental ideas about architecture with parametric thinking.Architectonics and Parametric Thinking begins by clearly positioning the potentials of parametric design through a series of chapters written by leaders in their respective industries. This helps to situate the vast potential of parametric softwares, allowing the reader to understand the full range of what is made possible by working computationally. Following this theoretical introduction, the book presents a manual that walks readers through the step-by-step construction of parametric modeling scripts built through an architectonic lens using clear, compelling diagrams. Each of these diagrams provide textual accompaniment that describes how each new portion of the script is transforming the algorithm as a whole, as well as diagrams that show the physiTable of Contents1. Logics Introduction The Power of Parametric Thinking Invisible Parametrics Architectonics and Parametric Thinking Customization’s Parametric Play Classical Architecture as Parametric Construct Parametric Thinking and Sustainable Design Fabricating Parametric Thinking Spatial Computing, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Parametric Design 2. Elements 3 Constructions 3.1 Frame Objects 3.2 Plane Objects 3.3 Solid Objects 3.4 Hybrid Objects 4. Morphologies

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Book SynopsisThis book is an approachable guide for students and professionals to learn parametric modeling through the lens of architectonics, allowing readers to pair fundamental ideas about architecture with parametric thinking.Architectonics and Parametric Thinking begins by clearly positioning the potentials of parametric design through a series of chapters written by leaders in their respective industries. This helps to situate the vast potential of parametric softwares, allowing the reader to understand the full range of what is made possible by working computationally. Following this theoretical introduction, the book presents a manual that walks readers through the step-by-step construction of parametric modeling scripts built through an architectonic lens using clear, compelling diagrams. Each of these diagrams provide textual accompaniment that describes how each new portion of the script is transforming the algorithm as a whole, as well as diagrams that show the physiTable of Contents1. Logics Introduction The Power of Parametric Thinking Invisible Parametrics Architectonics and Parametric Thinking Customization’s Parametric Play Classical Architecture as Parametric Construct Parametric Thinking and Sustainable Design Fabricating Parametric Thinking Spatial Computing, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Parametric Design 2. Elements 3 Constructions 3.1 Frame Objects 3.2 Plane Objects 3.3 Solid Objects 3.4 Hybrid Objects 4. Morphologies

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Book SynopsisHistories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring pedagogical approaches, and leading institutions of American architecture education. Beginning with the emergence of architecture as a profession in Philadelphia and ending with the early work, but unfinished international effort, of making room for women and people of color in positions of leadership in the field, this collection offers an important history of architecture education relevant to audiences both within and outside of the United States. Other themes include the relationship of professional organizations to educational institutions; the legacy of late nineteenth-century design concepts; the role of architectural history; educational changes and trans-Atlantic intellectual exchanges after WWII and the Cold War; the rise of the city and urban design in the architectâs consciousness; student protests and challenges to tradTable of ContentsPart 1: Institutions 1. The Philadelphia Way of Making Architects: The Birth and Birthplace of American Architecture Education 2. The Architect at Mid-Century: The AIA and Architecture Education, 1857 and 1957 3. Redefining Rome’s Lessons: Architects at the American Academy 4. French Connections: Learning from Penn Part 2: Counter-Institutions 5. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: Their Legacies in Architecture Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities 6. Between Colonial Nostalgia and Modern Aspirations: The University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture as a Pedagogical Experiment 7. Radical Empathy in the Teaching of Bruce Goff and the “American School” of Architects 8. A Postmodern School of Architecture: Education at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 9. Signs and Wonders: John Hejduk and the Re-Enchantment of Architecture at The Cooper Union 10. Feminism and Architecture: The Women’s School of Planning and Architecture Part 3: Constituting the Discipline, Pushing Its Boundaries 11. Cultivating the Sense of Beauty: Denman Waldo Ross and the Teaching of Pure Design 12. From Constancy to Change: Sigfried Giedion and the Shifting Role of History in Architecture Education 13. The Question of Humanism: Architecture “in Service of Life” at North Carolina State College, 1948-1952 14. The Politics of the Creative Mind: Educating Architects at M.I.T. after 1945 15. The Oregon Conspiracy: John Reynolds and the Politics of Environmental Control Part 4: Architecture Goes Beyond Itself 16. The “Social Planning Movement”: Architecture and Planning at the University of Pennsylvania 17. The School and the City: Urban Design at Cornell in the 1960s and ’70s 18. Architecture Education as a Social Art: Social Science at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design 19. Toppling the “Cinderblock in the Sky”: “Negative” Architecture Education at Columbia University in the 1960s 20. From Student to Educator: The Personal Letters and Critical Discourse of Denise Scott Brown

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a diverse group of theoreticians to explore architectural theory as a discipline, assessing its condition and relevance to contemporary practice.Offering critical assessment in the face of major social and environmental issues of today, 17 original contributions address the relevance of architectural theory in the contemporary world from various perspectives, including but not limited to: politics, gender, representation, race, environmental crisis, and history. The chapters are grouped into two distinct sections: the first section explores various historical perspectives on architectural theory, mapping theory's historiographical turn and its emergence and decline from the 1960s to the present; the second offers alternative visions and new directions for architectural theory, incorporating feminist and human rights perspectives, and addressing contemporary issues such as Artificial Intelligence and the Age of Acceleration. This edited collectTable of ContentsForeword PART I. Historical Perspectives on Architectural Theory 1. What ever Became of Architectural Theory? 2. Architecture’s Historiographical Turn 3. Erase the Traces! History and Destruction in Brecht, Benjamin, and Tafuri 4. The End of Theory and the Division between History and Design 5. Rehabilitating Operative Criticism: The Return of Theory against Entrepreneurialism 6. Building Without End: The Travails of Archè and Téchne 7. The Theory Nobody Knows 8. Theorizing a Modern Tradition 9. Postmodernist Revivalism and Architectural Gimmicks PART II. Alternative Visions and New Directions 10. The Form of Utopia: Architectural Theory in the age of Hyperobjects 11. Senses of Reality, or: Realism and Aesthetics, Today? 12. On the Use and Abuse of Biological Functionalism for Architecture 13. Architecture Theory in the Age of Acceleration 14. Architecture, Justice, and Theories of Rights 15. Colonialism as Style: On the Beaux-Arts Tradition 16. Feminist Architectural Figurations: Relating Theory to Practice through Writing in Time 17. From Deconstruction to Artificial Intelligence: The New Theoretical Paradigm

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Book SynopsisMies at Home is a radical rereading of one of the most significant periods in Mies van der Rohe's career, from the mid- to late 1920s when he was developing his seminal spatial ideas ideas that would culminate in his celebrated design of the Tugendhat House. The book examines how Mies's experience of residing in his apartment, doubling as a studio, in central Berlin had an impact on his spatial concepts. It uncovers one of the most profound but virtually untold aspects of Mies's development: how his visions of an ideal lifestyle came out of his own living experience and how they, in turn, informed his domestic architecture. Mies's quest featured two breakthroughs. In the Weissenhof apartment building, he conveyed a flexible and manifold lifestyle that many of the avant-garde artists, including himself, were practicing. Later, in the Tugendhat House, he put forward an alternative way of living that centered on contemplation.Beautifully illustrated throughout, <Trade Review"Xiangnan Xiong has produced a groundbreaking study of the pivotal moment in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's career, when he began the exploration of new ideas of space and living that eventually reached their apotheosis in two of his masterworks: the Barcelona Pavilion and the Tugendhat House. Her radical assertion, that Mies's own patterns of living and working in his Berlin apartment were fundamental to his spatial breakthrough of the late 1920s, will doubtless reshuffle long-held assumptions and offer us a new and more interesting Mies. This is a splendid and important work of scholarship. "- Christopher Long, Martin S. Kermacy Centennial Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, USA."In her original, imaginative study of the houses and the apartments Mies van der Rohe has conceived in Europe, Xiangnan Xiong operates a Copernican revolution: she identifies as the source for the emergence of his main ideas about domestic architecture his own home in the center of Berlin. Thanks to this new genealogy, unseen patterns appear in his designs, and the often repetitive Miesian scholarship is challenged."- Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Domesticating Mies. PART I: THE WORLD MIES INHABITED. Chapter 1. Mies’s Writing in the 1920s: A Transitional Moment. Chapter 2. Mies’s Life at Am Karlsbad 24: An Inspiration. PART II: THE WORLD MIES CREATED. Chapter 3. The Weissenhof Apartment Building: Affirming Flexible Living. Chapter 4. Devising a Way of Living, Planning a Dwelling: A New Consensus. Chapter 5. Economic or Aesthetic: Directions in Solving the Housing Problem. Chapter 6. Revisiting the Tugendhat House: An Elevated Living. Epilogue. Whose Home and Whose Vision of Living? Selected Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisMetaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume sets out to explore, how they can be engaged to critically interrogate architecture's social, cultural and political dimensions past and present and to challenge and intervene with established perspectives.

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Book SynopsisContemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructure, and other urban components that over time accumulate into mismatched configurations. However, despite the ubiquity of these oddities and their impact on the city, we rarely give them much consideration. In Misfits & Hybrids, Ferda Kolatan explores the untapped potential in these unexpected conditions for a new kind of architecture. A diverse array of projects, developed in Kolatan's design studios at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, illustrates how hybrid artifacts can reveal the often overlooked cultural, socio-political, and material histories of a site, fostering design tactics invested in reinventing the existing. Set within the cosmopolitan megacities of Istanbul, Cairo, and New York, the projects are conceived as real fictions, conjuring novel narrative, aesthetic, and representational forms to re

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Book SynopsisLandscape history is changing in content and style to address the issues of today. Experienced teachers and authors on the history of gardens and landscapes come together in this new volume to share ideas on the future of teaching history in departments of landscape architecture, archaeology, geography and allied subjects. Design history remains important, but this volume brings to the fore the increasing importance of environmental history, economic history, landscape history, cultural landscapes, environmental justice and decolonisation, ideas of sustainability and climate change amelioration, which may all be useful in serving the needs of a widening range of students in an increasingly complex world. The main themes include: what history should we narrate in the education of landscape architects? how can we recognise counter-narratives and our own bias? how should we engage the students in the history of their chosen profession? how can designers and researchers be persuaded of the relevance of history teaching to theory and practice? and what resources do we need to develop teaching of landscape histories? This book will be of interest to anyone teaching courses on landscape architecture, urban design, horticulture, garden design, architectural history, cultural geography and more.Trade ReviewThis publication is an important contribution to a global movement of scholarly reflection on how reframing landscape history could unlock new possibilities in teaching and learning about our shared global environmental legacy.Kofi Boone, Distinguished Professor and University Faculty Scholar, NC State University, USAProfound knowledge of landscape history is indispensable for landscape architects. It provides valuable insights into the historical layering and narrative of a place which will inspire users, enlarge societal acceptance and prevents a design which denies the genius loci. This book is an excellent aid for this.Theo Spek, Professor of Landscape History, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsKnowing landscape history is fundamental in understanding how the environment has been used, designed and transformed by human society. By bringing together a range of interdisciplinary and transnational understandings in teaching landscape history, this volume challenges historical and shifting perspectives of landscape in relation to race, class, gender, and politics.Catharina Nolin, Professor of Art History, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, SwedenTable of ContentsAuthorsAbbreviations ForewordPreface: landscape history in crisis Introduction1. The necessity for landscape history2. The shifting meanings of ‘landscape’3. The branches of landscape history4. A cluster of subjects5. Identity and dispossession6. Whose history?7. Present pedagogy8. The possibilities from new technology9. Reviewing the curriculum10. Towards a manifesto

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Book SynopsisArchitecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and alêtheia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are both hidden and revealed. With an urgency to amplify narratives that are overlooked, silenced and unacknowledged in and by architectural spaces, histories and theories, this book contends the need for a critical study of hiding in the context of architectural processes. It urges the understanding of inherent opportunities, power structures and covert strategies, whether socio-cultural, geo-political, environmental or economic, as they are related to their hidescapes the constructed landscapes of our built environments participating in the architectures of hiding.Looking at and beyond the intentions and agency that architects possess, architectural spaces lend themselves as apparatuses for various forms of hiding and un(hiding). The examples explored in this book and the creative works presented inTrade Review"This volume performs a masterful reveal of architecture’s masked motives and methods. Its elegant structure presents remarkably rich and diverse insights into architecture’s invisible agencies."Leslie Van Duzer, Professor of Architecture, University of British Columbia "The editors have assembled a wide-ranging cast of scholars to account for the unaccounted. Aggregating terms with a family resemblance to the gerund 'hiding' – from camouflage to clutter, violence to veils – the authors discuss how buildings and builders actively occlude their own political, physical, and cultural orders. Interested in post-truth history and criticism of the built world? Then this is a book for you."David Theodore, Associate Professor, McGill University“At a time of greater enforcement of data protection principles for the personal information of individuals, this invaluable book delves into an essential topic: understanding the dynamics, the imaginative possibilities, the moral dilemmas and ethical responsibilities of concealment and revealment in architecture, its histories, theories, power structures and overlooked narratives.”Sophia Psarra, Professor of Architecture and Spatial Design, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCLTable of ContentsPart 1: Modes of Hiding: Veiled Devices Beyond the Gaze Interlude 1: Verdures: Mimicry and Camouflage 1. Camouflage After the Bauhaus: Oskar Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes 2. Walls and Hidden Forms of Walling: The Production of Spatial Violence in Beirut 3. Hiding, Veiling and Transversing: Nubian Madyafa Post-Displacement 4. From Concealed Caves to Dis(Cover)ed Bunkers: Gaetano Pesce’s Pre-/Post-Historical Atomic Shelter 5. Concealed Behind Transparencies: A Closer Look at Architecture’s Hidden Performativity Through the Barcelona Pavilion 6. Happy Schools: The Visible and Invisible in the Sven Lokrantz School and the Architecture of Special Education Interlude 2: Deformative, Yet Silent Part 2: Motives of Hiding: Disguised Narratives Interlude 3: Avert 7. Hiding in Plain Sight: The White House Solarium and the Projection of History 8. Urban Alibi and Its Terms of Concealment: Cases From Shanghai 9. Hiding Behind Colonial Roots: Investigating the Reconstruction of the Palestinian Presidential Headquarters (the Muqata’a) in Ramallah 10. [Hidden Architecture]: The Paracontextual in Superstudio’s Project of Instrumentalizable Muteness 11. Architects’ Hidden Building Signatures 12. Clutter, Tidying and Architectural Desires Interlude 4: Hidden Relics Part 3: Concealed Apparatus: Latencies and Potentialities in Material Realities Interlude 5: Yellow + Blue: An Apparatus for Fabricating Illusionary Architecture 13. Hiding in the Wings: A Culture of the Onlooker in Eighteenth-Century France 14. Principles of Masking: Wall Paintings by Thomas Schütte and Ludger Gerdes, Circa 1977 15. Concealment, Costume and Modern Architecture 16. Architecture, Infrastructure and Occlusion in Miami: The Network Access Point of the Americas 17. Drawn Lines Conceal Multitudes: The Hidden Traces of Time in Carlo Scarpa’s Drawn Factures for the Brion Memorial 18. Impossible Gag: Clues to a Hidden Reality in Winsor McCay’s and Buster Keaton’s Representations of Dreams Interlude 6: A New Approach to Hidden History: The Reconstruction of History Through Nodal Spaces in the Ghost City of Lifta Coda: The Architecture of Hiddenness: Latency and Virtuality in the Topology of Concealment

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how the concept of region' has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice. It questions what the words region' and regional' mean for architecture, cities and landscapes past and present, and speculates on the forms they might take in the future. Region is explored in many thematic guises: as a real geographical site of evolving socio-economic activity; as a mythical locus of enduring value; as a gatekeeper of indigenous crafts and vernacular techniques; as a site of architectural and artistic imagination; as a repository of contested, conflicted and mobile identities. The contributing chapters take these themes from the theoretical and literary page through to architectural and urban practice, and from the scale of the domestic hearth through to the ocean archipelago and international law, enriching the long-standing trope of viewing architectural regionalism purely as a matter of style. Curated into four key thematic areas Theorised RegiTable of ContentsPart 1: THEORISED REGIONS 1. A ‘true organ of Humanity’: on the Anti-feminist Architectural Regionalism of Comtean Positivism in Victorian Britain 2. The Question Concerning Types: A Review 3. Four decades on three fronts: the unfinished projects of Critical Regionalism 4. On the Unique Intertwining of Region, Nature, and Architecture in Norway Part 2: CONTESTED REGIONS 5. On ‘Region’: Alterity and Regional Encounters in a Postcolonial Archipelago 6. The Azorean archipelago: the invention of a political region 7. Dismantling the Territorial Exclusions 8. Holding the Street: An Assemblage of Nicosia’s Borders 9. The implications of power on the status of women in society and its reciprocal relationship with the home space in Azerbaijan, Iran Part 3: HERITAGE REGIONS 10. How Wealth Kills Craft 11. Material Culture and Decolonisation: Post-Partition Lahore 12. Southwestern Fantasy: Pueblo Revival and regional authenticity in New Mexico 13. The Mediterranean: Between Vernacular and Contemporary. Tradition, Modernity and Tourism in the Architecture of Germán Rodríguez Arias Part 4: FUTURE REGIONS 14. The Case of Capri: Landscape, Regional Culture and Modern Architecture 15. Oscillating between cosmos and roots: the case of Geoffrey Bawa and his architecture 16. Designing for adaptability and sustainability in regional architecture: lessons from residences in North East Brazil 17. Infrastructural Peripheries in the City-Region: Airport Spatial Influences Part 5: REIMAGINING THE ARTEFACT The Infinity Porch. Mythical-ities: Spatial transcriptions of votive offerings dedicated to the Nymphs. A Wild Plant of Life. Forget-me-Not. Mis-reading. Wound-up. Waxed. Rotted. Yuanlin Region and Piranesi Region. Panam: The Lost City of Muslin. New Babylon. Resurrecting Architectural Ghosts [An Anticipation of Collective Memory]

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Book SynopsisIn the late 1970âs Bernard Stiegler was arrested for armed robbery and imprisoned. Whilst on hunger strike he was given his own cell where, in solitude, he began to study philosophy until his release in 1983. By 1993, under the supervision of Jacques Derrida, he completed his PhD, which was published a year later as Volume One of the Technics and Time series. Stiegler went on to become one of the most influential philosophers of the 21st century.Stiegler for Architects is the first introduction to the key concepts and ideas of Bernard Stiegler that are relevant to architects. The book asks to what extent it might be possible to have a right to the city in our age of contemporary algorithmic technology. The book begins with a hypothesis: The philosophy of Bernard Stiegler provides an adequate methodology by which we might understand the effects of contemporary digital technology. Second, the fundamental basis of Stieglerâs philosophy is introduced â human evoluti

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Book SynopsisDesign education and practice are inherently social from process to implementation. This book explores the transformation in design education, as educators prepare their students to address complex social design problems for all people in society.This seven-chapter volume provides the reader with a range of viewpoints on the role of design education in shaping the world. The book begins with the overarching potential of design to address the needs of an increasingly complex society and the importance of worldview that underpins education methodology. Each chapter addresses a context that varies by discipline architecture, graphic, packaging and interior design and location  Nigeria, Canada, Lebanon, UK and USA. The authors pull back the curtain on their educational methods and provide the reader with a candid view of their teaching outcomes. The needs of the marginalized victims of Asian hate, students with dyslexia, tomato farmers and even design students themselves

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Book SynopsisThis volume tells the story of European architecture in the middle ages' from the destruction by northern barbarians of Rome and the urban society it had fostered to the rediscovery of Classical values and the rebirth of humanism in 15th-century Italy.This period saw the evolution of feudalism, with its patterns of dependency and obligation, the establishment of monasticism in its varied forms, and the rise of the Holy Roman Empire. The art and architecture that emerged alongside this profound social reordering is known as Romanesque. Based on the legacy of ancient Rome, it included elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and northern European traditions. This synthesis produced some of its most powerful monuments in the glorious abbey churches that a period of prosperity and political stability fostered in unprecedented numbers.Romanesque architecture was succeeded by the Gothic, a movement that originated at the abbey of S. Denis in France in the 12th centuryTable of ContentsPart 1: Renovation of Gravitas Prologue 1.1. Empire Regained and Relapsed 1.2. The Centre: Holy Roman Empire 1.3. The East: Towards the Third Rome 1.4. The West: Post Carolingian Diversity Part 2: Refraction of Light Introductions to the Gothic Age 2.1. Light Into Stone: The Gothic Cathedral 2.2. Secular Building in the Gothic Age Part 3: Revival of Classicism Introduction 3.1. Cataclysm and Classicism at Large Epilogue: From Medieval Towards Neo-Classical Abroad Conclusion Glossary Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘From Cortona’s exciting innovations in Italy, to the last gasp of the Baroque in Havana, Christopher Tadgell has produced an exhilarating survey of this most dynamic of styles, in the Old World and the New, that has no rival in scope or authority.’ - Alastair Laing (formerly Curator of Pictures & Sculpture, The National Trust)Table of ContentsDynastic Conflict in the Age of Absolutism Cross Currents of Painting in a Modernist Era Part 1: Seminal Italians 1.1. Inception of the High Baroque in Rome 1.2. The Style of the Church Triumphant 1.3. Roman Baroque at its Apogee 1.4. Venice 1.5. Piedmont Part 2: Seminal French 2.1. From Richelieu to Mazarin 2.2. Louis XIV and French Ascendancy 2.3. Régence and the Early Years of Louis XV Part 3: Northern Protestants 3.1. The Dutch and Scandinavians 3.2. Britain Part 4: Divided Centre and Orthodox East 4.1. Advance of Baroque between Two Wars 4.2. Imperial Baroque and its Austrian Monastic Derivative 4.3. Advanced Baroque and the advent of Rococo 4.4. Exceptional Talent in Bohemia and Bavaria 4.5. From Augustan Dresden to Warsaw 4.6. From Berlin to Bayreuth 4.7. Russia: From Moscow to Saint Petersburg Part 5: The Catholic South and its New Worlds 5.1. Habsburg to Bourbon in Naples and Sicily 5.2. Habsburg to Bourbon in Spain 5.3. Palaces of the Southern Bourbons 5.4. The Golden Age of Portugal at Home and Abroad 5.5. Bourbon America Glossary Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisThis previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari's scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Frascari does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to enact his theories of drawing and imagination; instead, he teaches how to build one's own through individual practice. An illuminating introduction places the text in a wider context, providing the reader with a fascinating and important context and understanding to this posthumous work. Frascari''s sketchbooks are reproduced faithfully in full colour to provide the reader with a remarkable insight into the design process of this influential mind.Trade Review'This book presents the architect, scholar and teacher, Marco Frascari’s offering to architecture. It achieves a rare unity of theory with design exploration and project design in both text and image. Beginning students will receive a comprehensive view of what design entails and advanced architects will enjoy following the paths traced out by his winged compass, the golden instrument of Frascari’s mobile and erudite imagination.' - Paul Emmons, Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, Virginia TechTable of ContentsPreface. Panta Rhei: in the Drawn and Written Lines of the "Dream House". Reading Drawings: A "Science Without a Name". 1. A Congenial Inauguration. The Magic Meal. The Ingredients. 2. Telling and Casting. The Requirements of the Play. The Incubation 3. The Importance of Dreaming in Architecture. The Magic Threshold. A Mantic View. The Magic of Translation. The Trade. 4. The Origin and Beginning of the Dream House. The Practice of Dreaming. Description of the Design of the House-Tower. 5. The Present Architecture Smells Bad. Vita Beata. The Happiness of Bathroom Imagination. 6. The Analogical Monster. The Drawings of the House-Tower. The Recto and the Verso. Conclusions. Dream Long and Hard Enough. Drawings, Model and Sketchbooks for the House-Tower. Bibliography. Postscript. Federica Goffi Interviews Claudio Sgarbi: Oneiric Recollections of a Design. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and a source of inspiration for Western designers. The book traces three recurring themes in Western accounts of Japanese architecture from the reopening of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: a wish to see Western architectural theories reflected in Japanese buildings; efforts to integrate elements of Japanese architecture into Western buildings; and a desire to connect contemporary Japanese architecture with Japanese tradition. It is suggested that, together, these narratives have had the effect of creating what amounts to a mythical version of Japanese architecture, often at odds with historical fact, but which has exercised a powerful influence on the development of building design internationally. Trade ReviewEver since Japan opened to the world in the mid-19th century, the West has held a strong fascination with Japanese architecture and, in doing so, successfully turned it into an exotic phenomenon or, indeed, myth. Western narratives became obsessed with isolated images of temples, gardens, Ise Shrine, Katsura Villa, and not least the proverbial Japanese house and, as a result, all of which have been turned into stereotypes in our perceptions. With little real knowledge about the cultural context and a way of life that gave birth to them, and thus deprived of their native ground, they were subject to systematic misunderstandings. Scores of even noted Western architects, while routinely applying their own criteria or value systems, have failed to decipher the meaning of this highly complex and profoundly rich Asian architectural culture. We in the West have too often been blinded by our own prejudices and, when looking at Japanese architecture, saw only what we wanted to or could see. Kevin Nute’s excellent book, The Constructed Other, is the first and long overdue publication to highlight and debunk this still prevailing misguided Western view of Japanese architecture. It is a must reading for all who intend to approach and learn about the centuries-long fertile Japanese architecture.Botond Bognar, Professor and Edgar A. Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture, University of Illinois Urban-Champaign, USAThe allure of the architecture of Japan has long captured the imagination of designers in the West since its opening to the world in the mid-19th century up to the present. Kevin Nute’s The Constructed Other analyzes the multiple narratives of “Japanese Architecture” ranging from Gothic revival architect Ralph Adams Cram to Postmodernism theorist Charles Jencks. The vicissitudes of these accounts including observations of canonical landmarks from the seemingly ornate Nikko Shrine to minimal Ise Shrine and both modern and complex Katsura Imperial Villa collectively dispel the illusion of a singular, essential architectural tradition. Nute’s own nuanced interpretations build on his previous books Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan (2000) and Place, Time and Being in Japanese Architecture (2004) and underscore the continuing role of the “Constructed Other” as architects’ look to Japan for, as Nute elucidates, “self-evaluation, validation, and inspiration.”Ken Tadashi Oshima, Professor of Architecture, University of Washington, USAJapanese architecture is different, it has specificities that made it “avant-garde” even before modern architecture was created. Since the opening of Japan to the West, this other mythical kind of architecture has fascinated Western visitors. Today, it keeps on offering multiple interpretations for developing contemporary creations. Kevin Nute’s book offers a meaningful reflection on traditional and new Japanese architectures as seen in Western eyes, and their desires to reveal and construct spatial mysteries.Benoit Jacquet, Associate Professor, Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, Director EFEO Research Centre, Kyoto, JapanThe West has long been fascinated with Japan as a place both “enigmatic” and “exotic.” Simultaneously, Japan has been aware of and responded to outside influences. The Constructed Other confronts the Western gaze on Japan and Japanese architecture in particular and turns it back on itself. The book explores the role of influential Western architects in defining “Japan-ness” and its varied forms of value to both the West and Japan. The Constructed Other challenges superficial readings of Japanese architecture and advocates for deep reflection into our intentions as observers – and sometimes connoisseurs, collectors, and exploiters – of the “other.” Mira Locher, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba, CanadaTable of ContentsForeword by Kengo Kuma Preface A built chimera 1. Three types of otherness 2. The self in the other 3. The other in the self 4. The other in the other 5. The lens of myth Image credits Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking book, the first to provide an overview of the theory and practice of experimental architecture, Rachel Armstrong explores how interdisciplinary, design-led research practices are beginning to redefine the possibilities of architecture as a profession. Drawing on experts from disciplines as varied as information technology, mathematics, poetry, graphic design, scenography, bacteriology, marine applied science and robotics, Professor Armstrong delineates original, cutting-edge architectural experiments through essays, quotes, poetry, equations and stories.Written by an acknowledged pioneer of architectural experiment, this visionary book is ideal for students and researchers wishing to engage in experimental, practice-based architectural and artistic research. It introduces radical new ideas about architecture and provides ideas and inspiration which students and researchers can apply in their own work and proposals, while practitioners can draw on it toTable of Contents1. Architecture and Research Rachel Armstrong 1.1 Experimental Architecture Reader 1.2 Architecture as Discipline 1.3 Neoliberalism as Worldview 1.4 Ways of Knowing 1.5 Research 1.6 Nature of Architectural Research 1.7 Evaluation 1.8 Impact 1.9 Outreach 1.10 Research Environment 1.11 Research Context 1.12 Economic Importance of Architectural Research 1.13 Principles of Architectural Research: A "wicked" discipline 1.13.1 Personal Exploration 1.13.2 Academic Environment 1.13.3 Research and Education 1.13.4 Professional Practice 2. Experimental Architecture Rachel Armstrong 2.1 Designing Change 2.2 Experiments versus "Wicked" Experiments 2.3 Introducing Experimental Architecture 2.4 Ethics 2.5 Research Principles of Experimental Architecture 2.5.1 The Role of Apparatuses 2.5.2 Sorting, Ordering and Valuing 2.5.3 Laboratory Environments 2.5.4 Monstering 2.5.5 Question-making 2.6 Towards an Ecological Architecture 2.6.1 The Houme 3. Architectural Experiments 3.1 Short Experiments 3.1.1 Harvested Sunlight: An experiment with a novel photoautotrophic biomaterial Simon Park and Victoria Geaney 3.1.2 SuperTree Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto 3.1.3 Co-Occupancy Joyce Hwang 3.1.4 PolyBrick 3.0: DNA glaze and digital ceramics Jenny Sabin 3.1.5 Graphene Architecture: Integrated intelligence in soft responsive skins Areti Markopoulou 3.1.6 High-Resolution Architecture Designed/Built by Humans/AI/Robots Alisa Andrasek 3.1.7 Tempietto on Mylar T+E+A+M 3.018 Nightly Catie Newell 3.2 Long Experiments 3.2.1 Evolving, Growing, and Gardening Cyber-physical Systems Susan Stepney and colleagues 3.2.2 About the Architecture of the Human Mind: A mathematical experiment Françoise Chatelin 3.2.3 Nomadic Hamlet 2.0: Testing place and video space for audiences Esther M. Armstrong and Dick Straker 3.2.4 Exaptive Design: Radical co-authorship as method Simone Ferracina 3.2.5 The Cloud Chamber Andrew Ballantyne 3.2.6 The Third Thing Rolf Hughes 4. Afterword Rachel Armstrong

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Book SynopsisIt's widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities the places where most of us live. As this powerful new book elucidates, global sustainability is therefore directly dependent on urban design. In Living Architecture, Living Cities Christopher Day and Julie Gwilliam move beyond the current emphasis on technological change. They argue that eco-technology allows us to continue broadly as before and only defers the impending disaster. In reality, most negative environmental impacts are due to how we live and the things we buy. Such personal choices often result from dissatisfaction with our surroundings. As perceived environment has a direct effect on attitudes and motivations, improving this can achieve more sustainable lifestyles more effectively than drastic building change with its notorious performance-gap limitations. As it's in places that our inner feelings and matTrade Review"The book contains fascinating studies and considerations about complex problems of mutual relations between human habitats and natural environment. The reader is encouraged to rethink and redefine the basic priorities faced by architects in the design processes of settlements and cities in order to reduce the negative environmental impact. The author's drawings and illustrations add great value to the book." - Janusz Rebielak, Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology, Poland, Chairman of the Committee for Architecture and Town Planning of the Wroclaw Branch of the Polish Academy of Science, Poland"Those constructing homes for the future may be well versed in best sustainability practice and technological solutions to the carbon footprint, but Christopher Day and Julie Gwilliam see little quarter being given to vital and life-sustaining matters of soul and spirit. In this challenging, radical book they argue that without spiritual thinking in the mix we can never have spiritual comfort in our homes." - Angela Neustatter, journalist and author"Christopher Day and Julie Gwilliam write from a profound holistic point of view, with intuitive understanding of the subtle messages of architecture and based on Day's deep all-embracing philosophy. With extensive research and a large number of photos and exquisite drawings they provide small and big solutions to our environmental problems, including that of the need to be close to nature within cities, and creating beautiful surroundings and quiet spaces." - Petra Jebens-Zirkel, holistic-organic architect"Based on scores of illustrations from the literature on architecture and urban design, the authors enter a plea for an architecture of the city grounded in the spirit of place. Their call is for humanity and sensitivity in design; sustainability is not a science but a conscience." - Lino Bianco, Faculty for the Built Environment, University of Malta"As a social and political activist Christopher Day’s science-based insight is my tool to persuade planners and politicians to change the direction of development. This book is a full toolbox of vision backed by solid science. The illustrations offer instant grasp of the principles that turn a hard shell into a breathing skin for social, economic, familial and cultural life to flourish through exceptionally challenging times." - Vicky Moller, charity director, political activist and chair of West Wales town and community forumsTable of ContentsPART 1: LIFE-SUPPORTING ENVIRONMENT: METHOD OR APPROACH? 1. The environmental crisis: ecological or experiential? 2. Anticipating coming unknowns 3. Environmental impacts PART 2: EXPERIENTIAL ENVIRONMENT 4. Perceived reality: sensory experience 5. Soul and spirit nourishment PART 3: PLACE: THE SETTING FOR EVERYDAY LIFE 6. Placemaking for people 7. Place: identity, continuity and integrity 8. Design for community 9. Getting around cities 10. Connectivity 11. Use, space and life 12. Design for security PART 4: PROCESSES, DRIVERS AND OUTCOMES 13. Settlement form, space and life 14. Design processes: how, by whom, how fast? 15. Economic vigour as process-driver and shaper 16. The primary change-driver: money 17. Sustainability and economics PART 5: LIVING WITH A CHANGING WORLD 18. Future climate: future issues 19. Design with the elements 20. Ecological design: energy aspects 21. Cyclic systems 22. Habitat 23. Bio-climatic placemaking 24. Design for demanding climates 25. Everything change: future-proofing 26. Material applications: eco-towns, eco-projects and eco-regeneration 27. New situation: new approaches 28. Sustainability or sustenance? Illustration credits Index

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Book SynopsisThe Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance as a critical component of the civic realm and arguing for the restoration of the art of the facade as both a subject of study within academia and an aspiration within the profession at large.As the principal surface of mediation, contextualization, and representation, the facade carries the lion's share of responsibility for containing the internal environment and confronting the outer world. And yet, in recent decades, the very question of what exactly a facade is has been raised by the dramatic changes in building technology, advances of parametric design, and the ubiquity of autonomous buildings. The Architecture of the Facade addresses these and other related issues. The book is organized into 12 chapters, with each chapter focusing on a particular aspect of the phenomenon of the facade such as those Table of Contents1. A History of the Facade in Twelve Buildings 2. Notes Towards a Difficult Definition 3. Phenomenology and the Facade 4. The Phenomenon of the Wall 5. The Phenomenon of the Frame 6. The Outside, the Inside and the In-between 7. The Repetitive Bay 8. Representation, Abstraction, and Meaning 9. Transparency, Translucency and Opacity 10. Proportion and the Search for a Cosmic Connection 11. Precedent and Invention 12. The City and the Facade

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Book SynopsisA Primer on Theory in Architecture discusses how theory is defined in architecture, how it is identified, its location in larger perspectives or worldviews, its relationships to other areas in architecture, and how it can be constructed. The book explores the definition, elements and characteristics of theory along with subjects associated with theory and how these associations are recognized. In addition, case studies tackle both individual theorists and common approaches to the topic. Aimed at the new student of architectural theory, if you are just beginning to tackle this subject, begin with this book.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Exploring the Subject of Theory in Architecture Why Theory in Architecture Needs Exploration How Theory in Architecture Has Escaped Investigation The Approach for this Work An Overview of the Discussions in the Book 1. Defining Theory Introduction The History of the Term Theorizing and Theorems The Elements of TheorizingCharacteristics of Theorizing 2. The Paradigms that Ground Theorizing Introduction Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology Four Worldviews The Cacophony of Worldviews Worldviews in the Discipline The Importance of Coherency Recognizing a Network of Theory in Architecture 3. The Place of Theory in the Discipline Introduction Theory and History Theory and Design Theory and Criticism Theory and Manifestoes The Relationship of Theorizing to Other Writings 4.Engaging in Theorizing and the Construction of Theorems Introduction A Checklist for Theorizing Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest, the workings of appropriation as a vital and progressive aspect of architectural discourse. Written by a group of rising scholars in the field of architectural history and criticism, the chapters cover a range of architectural subjects that are linked in their investigations of how architects engage with their predecessors.Table of ContentsIntroduction Amanda Reeser Lawrence and Ana Miljački Part 1: Authorship 1. Signed, Anonymous: The Persona of the Architect in the Mansion House Debate Timothy Hyde 2. The Anxiety of Anonymity: On the Historiographic Problem of Walter Gropius and The Architects Collaborative Michael Kubo 3. The Power of Association: Le Corbusier in the Banlieue Kenny Cupers Part 2: Transfer 4. Edvard Ravnikar's Eclecticism of Taste and the Politics of Appropriation Vladimir Kulić 5. Cold War Adaptations: SIAL Školka's Real and Imaginary Architectural Dialogues with the West Ana Miljački 6. Translation Theory and the Intertwined Histories of Building for Self-Governance Esra Akcan Part 3: Rights 7. Architecture and Copyright: Rights of Authors and Things in the Age of Reproduction Ines Weizman 8. Sufficient Originality: The Legal Contours of Creativity in Architecture Sarah Hirschman 9. Architectural Patents Beyond Bucky Fuller’s Quadrant Kevin Emerson Collins Part 4: Reenactments 10. By the Book: Philip Johnson's Ledoux Redoux at the University of Houston Amanda Reeser Lawrence 11. A Careful Misreading of Precedent: the Politics of Transparency in the work of Lina Bo Bardi David Rifkind 12. Not Exactly the Same: On the Fantasy of "Chinese Architectural Copies" Winnie Wong 13. Città Analoga: Aldo Rossi's Visual Theory on Display Szacka, Léa-Catherine Index

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low draws on over twenty years of research to examine social production, social construction, embodied, discursive, emotive and affective, as well as translocal approaches. A global range of fieldwork examples are employed throughout the text to highlight not just the theoretical development of the idea of spatializing culture, but how it can be used in undertaking ethnographies of space and place. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars from a number of disciplines who are interested in the study of culture through the lens of space and place.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Importance of and Approaches to the Ethnography of Space and Place2. Genealogies: The Concepts of Space and Place3. The Social Production of Space4. The Social Construction of Space5. Embodied Space6. Language, Discourse and Space7. Emotion, Affect and Space8 Translocal Space. 9. Conclusion BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAt a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture's relationship to industry. Contributors turn to historical and theoretical questions, as well as to key contemporary developments, taking a humanities approach to the Industries of Architecture that will be of interest to practitioners and industry professionals, as much as to academic researchers, teachers and students. How has modern architecture responded to mass production? How do we understand the necessarily social nature of production in the architectural office and on the building site? And how is architecture entwined within wider fields of production and reproductionfinance capital, the spaces of regulation, and management techniques? What are the particular effects of techniques and technologies (and above all their inter-relations) on those who labour in architecture, the buildings they produce, and the discurTrade Review'Industries of Architecture invites us to rethink what constitutes the ‘work’ of architecture – in the past, the present, and in the future. In a reversal of the usual emphasis in the humanities on design as the exclusive field of architects’ creative endeavours, Industries of Architecture offers an alternative view – one in which architects’ engagement with labour, with legal systems, with manufacturing practices, and with business organisation are no longer treated as contingent, but as central to what architects do.' - Adrian Forty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL'Industries of Architecture offers intriguing new evidence of the breadth and depth of architecture’s cultural diffusion. Its exploration of myriad aspects of architectural production supplies valuable historical documentation and useful theoretical strategies to shift the focus of architectural history away from the singular presence of architectural objects and toward the conditions and connections that make those objects possible.' - Aggregate Architectural History CollaborativeTable of Contents1. Industries of Architecture Tilo Amhoff, Nick Beech and Katie Lloyd Thomas Part 1: Architecture and the Representation of Industry 2. Allan Sekula’s Architectures of Industry and Industries of Architecture Gail Day 3. Walter Gropius’ Silos and Reyner Banham’s Grain Elevators as Art-objects Catalina Mejía Moreno Part 2: Architecture Responds to Industry 4. The Collaborations of Jean Prouvé and Marcel Lods: An open or closed case? Kevin Donovan 5. The Production of the Commons: Mies van der Rohe and the art of industrial standardisation Mhairi McVicar 6. Modular Men: Architects, labour and standardisation in mid-twentieth century Britain Christine Wall 7. Post 1965 Italy: The ‘Metaprogetto sì e no’ Alicia Imperiale Part 3: The Construction Site 8. Introduction to Sérgio Ferro Felipe Contier 9. Dessin/Chantier: An Introduction Sérgio Ferro 10. Architecture as Ensemble: A matter of method João Marcos Almeida de Lopes 11. Factory Processes and Relations in Indian Temple Production Megha Chand Inglis 12. Construction Sites of Utopia Silke Kapp Part 4: The Work of Architects 13. Architectural Work :: Immaterial Labour Peggy Deamer 14. Form as/and Utopia of Collective Labour: Typification and collaboration in East German industrialised construction Torsten Lange 15. Tools for Conviviality: Architects and the limits of flexibility for housing design in New Belgrade Tijana Stevanović 16. Counting Women in Architecture Karen Burns and Justine Clark Part 5: Economy 17. Building Design: A component of the building labour process Jörn Janssen 18. The Place of Architecture in the New Economy Andrew Rabeneck 19. Financial Formations Matthew Soules Part 6: Law and Regulation 20. French Architects’ Use of the Law Robert Carvais 21. The Architectural Discourse of Building Bureaucracy: Architects’ project statements in Portugal in the 1950s Ricardo Agarez 22. Regulatory Spaces, Physical and Metaphorical: On the legal and spatial occupation of fire-safety legislation Liam Ross 23. Common Projects and Privatized Potential: Projection and representation in the Rotterdam Kunsthal Stefan White Part 7: Technologies of Management 24. The Electrification of the Factory, or the Flexible Layout of Work(s) Tilo Amhoff 25. An ‘Architecture of Bureaucracy’: Technocratic planning of government architecture in Belgium in the 1930s Jens van de Maele 26. Laboratory Architecture and the Deep Membrane of Science Sandra Kaji-O’Grady and Chris L. Smith 27. Performativity and Paranoia (Or how to do the ‘Internet of Things’ with words) Claudia Dutson Part 8: Contemporary Questions 28. On Site Nick Beech, Linda Clarke, Christine Wall with Ian Fitzgerald 29. BIM: The Pain and the Gain John Gelder 30. The Sustainable Retrofit Challenge: What does it mean for architecture? Sofie Pelsmakers and David Kroll 31. Risk and Reflexivity: Architecture and the industries of risk-distribution Liam Ross 32. Unapproved Document Part O: Designing for ageing Sarah Wigglesworth

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Book SynopsisPeter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture. While much has been written about his built works and his philosophies, most books focus on one or the other aspect. By structuring this volume around the concept of form, Stefano Corbo links together Eisenman's architecture with his theory. From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman argues that form is the sphere of mediation between our body, our inner world and the exterior world and, as such, it enables connections to be made between philosophy and architecture. From the start of his career on, Eisenman has been deeply interested in the problem of form in architecture and has constantly challenged the classical concept of it. For him, form is not simply a cognitive tool that determines a physical structure, which discriminates all that is active from what is passive, what is insidTrade Review'Despite his significant impact on architecture through both built and theoretical works, most studies of Peter Eisenman's career focus on either one aspect or the other. In From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman, Stefano Corbo attempts to redress this balance, connecting themes in the design and the theory of the influential architect across the many stages of his 50-year career.' arch dailyTable of ContentsFrom Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman

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Book SynopsisForeword by Adrian Forty.The Algarve is not only Portugal's foremost tourism region. Uniquely Mediterranean in an Atlantic country, its building customs have long been markers of historical and cultural specificity, attracting both picturesque driven conservatives and modernists seeking their lineage. Modernism, regionalism and the vernacular' three essential tropes of twentieth-century architecture culture converged in the region's building identity construct and, often the subject of strictly metropolitan elaborations, they are examined here from a peripheral standpoint instead.Drawing on work that won the Royal Institute of British Architects President's Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in 2013, Algarve Building challenges the conventional inclusion of Portuguese modern architecture in Critical Regionalism' narratives. A fine-grain reconstruction of the debates and cultures at play locally exposes the extra-architectural and widely participated antecedents Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1 From the Centre; Chapter 1 Regional Formulae on Vernacular Material; Chapter 2 Architects on the Algarvian Identity; Part 2 From the Region; Chapter 3 Modernism and Vernacular in a Negotiated Identity; Chapter 4 ‘Miracle’ in Faro; Chapter 5 Modernist Regionalism; Chapter 6 The Stock and the Graft;

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This book explores how psychoanalysis and architecture can enhance and increase the chances of mental 'containment', while also fostering exchange between inside and outside.The way in which psychoanalysts take care of mental suffering, and the way in which architects and city planners assess the environment, are grounded in a shared concern with the notion of 'dwelling'. It is a matter of fact that dwelling exists in a complex context comprised of both biological need and symbolic function. Psychoanalysis and architecture can work together in both thinking about and designing not only our homes but also the analyst's consulting rooms and, more generally, our therapy places. However, this is possible only if they renounce the current limited and restrictive model of this interaction, and propose one more that is more in harmony with the questions and situations that clients themselves pose. Creating sustainable and integrative relationships with the buildings in which we inhabit everyday - whether they are our houses, public buildings (such as schools and prisons), or therapeutic spaces (hospitals, clinics, and consulting rooms) - can be a measure both of the degree of the advancement of a society and of the quality of its institutions.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the theoretical work of one of the most important architects of early modern Europe. Wren posited a new version of the origins and development of the Classical style, thereby becoming one of the first to challenge theoretical principles of architecture that had been upheld since the Renaissance.Trade Review'… for everyone interested in the debate, a close reading of Soo's book will be essential.' Kerry Downes, Burlington Magazine'Soo's handsome edition is in every way a … usable and useful book to work with.' Journal of the Society of Architectural HistoriansTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Editorial note; Introduction; 1. Notes on the antiquities of London; 2. Notes and reports on Gothic churches; 3. Letter from Paris; 4. Letter on building churches; 5. Tracts on architecture; Conclusion: Wren's method of design; Appendix; List of abbreviations; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisDomestic Architecture and the Use of Space investigates the relationship between the built environment and the organisation of space. The contributors are classical and prehistoric archaeologists, anthropologists and architects, who from their different backgrounds are able to provide some important and original insights into this relationship.Trade Review'Kent and her collaborators offer a stimlating array of perspectives on the form and use of domestic space. The diversity of approaches taken is valuable both for developing research design and for provoking exciting classroom discussion.' Wendy Ashmore, University of Pennsylvania'This corpus of papers is certainly a valuable contribution to research on the creation, use and meaning of the built environment.' Michael Adler, Journal of Anthropological Research'… this collection brings together studies and theoretical papers on functional and symbolic spatial relationships in buildings and settlements. Drawing upon examples from a wide range of cultures it is invaluable to researchers in both ethnoarchaeology and vernacular architecture.' Paul Oliver, The Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World'The theoretical scope of this volume holds great import not only for prehistorians and ethnoarchaeologists but for historical and urban archaeologists as well.' Belinda Blomberg, American Antiquity'This corpus of papers is certainly a valuable contribution to research on the creation, use and meaning of the built environment.' Michael Adler, Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of Contents1. Activity areas and architecture: an interdisciplinary view of the relationship between use of space and domestic built environments Susan Kent; 2. Systems of activities and systems of settings Amos Rapoport; 3. Domestic space and the tenacity of tradition among some Betsileo of Madagascar Susan Kus and Victor Raharijaona; 4. The built environment and consumer decisions Richard R. Wilk; 5. Behavioural conventions and archaeology: methods for the analysis of ancient architecture Donald Sanders; 6. Public collective and private space: a study of urban housing in Switzerland Roderick J. Lawrence; 7. Domestic space in the Greek city-state Michael H. Jameson; 8. A structuring structure: the Swahili house Linda W. Donley-Reid; 9. A cross-cultural study of segmentation, architecture and the use of space Susan Kent; 10. Domestic space and social structure in pre-Columbian northern Peru Garth Bawden.

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Book SynopsisDecoding Homes and Houses uses a computer-based method of analysis to explore the relation between the design and layout of traditional, vernacular, speculative and architect-designed houses and people's evolving tastes, lifestyles, habits and domestic routines.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. An introduction to the study of houses; 2. Tradition and change in the English house; 3. Ideas are in things, with Hillier and Graham; 4. Two domestic 'space codes' compared, with Hillier; 5. Shaping the taste of middle England; 6. Configuration and society in the English country house; 7. Visibility and permeability in the Rietveld Schroder house, with Rosenberg; 8. The anatomy of privacy in architects' London houses; 9. 'Deconstructing' architects' houses; 10. Decoding dwellings: the way ahead.

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Book SynopsisOechslin considers the origins of 'tectonics', the term used to articulate the relationship between construction structure, and architectural expression, through the work of early modernist architects Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos. The 2002 volume includes an anthology of primary texts by several theoreticians published in English.Trade Review"In this collction of essays, as concise as they are broad- ranging and erudite, oechslin explored the multiple implications for modernity of two key, and co-dependent terms of 19-th century art theory, and offered an adroitly selected anthology of excerpts from architectural theories." Harvard Design Magazine"Those interested in a narrative review of writings on architecture, presented with intensity and in detail, will be pleased with, informed by, and interested in Oechslin's offering." CentropaTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The opposite of the issue of style: necessity, unity, immanent coherence, the naked, simple and true; 2. 'Tectonics' and the 'theory of raiment'; 3. Disenchantment with 'Bötticher's overly intellectual work' and the postulation of a way to overcome the 'Semperian mechanistic conception of the essence of art'; 4. 'Stilhülse und Kern': from theory to metaphor - and its deployment by Otto Wagner; 5. Adolf Loos - against the Zeitgeist; 6. '… ad usum Delphini' - the 'element event' of the Raiment Dissolved, and the ineluctable return - or recognized tenacity - of the Hull; Anthology of primary sources.

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Book SynopsisThis study peers behind the veil of architectural styles to the underlying social microcosm of the 'building world' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to examine how the fragile authority of the architect took root there.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… the scholarship is impressive …' Architecture TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Section 1. 'The Shadow of their Wings': The Architect among Builders: 1. John Gwynn; 2. William Chambers; 3. The example of Chambers; Section 2. 'The Poetry of Architecture': The Architect above Builders: 4. Joseph Gwilt; 5. John Soane; 6. The example of Soane; Part II: Section 3. 'Mystery and Craft Are Gone By': The Poet's Descent: 7. A language of men; 8. The pictorial art; Section 4. 'He Never Condescended': Coming to Terms with New Disciplines: 9. Charles Barry; 10. Pugin; 11. A. J. Beresford Hope and the Ecclesiologists; Part III: Section 5. 'Conjunctive All': The Sharing of Knowledge in Building: 12. John Britton; 13. The Artizan; Section 6. 'Orthodoxy of Practice': The Builder and a New Freemasonry: 14. Josiah Hansom and The Builder; 15. Alfred Bartholemew, The Builder and the freemasons of the Church; 16. Bartholemew's College; 17. Godwin's Builder; Part IV: Section 7. Ruskin's Changing Prospect: 18. Ruskin, Leeds, Lamb, and Loudon; 19. The poetry of architecture; 20. Modern Painters I and II; 21. The Seven Lamps of Architecture; Part V: Section 8. Ruskin's Descent: 22. Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle; 23. The Stones of Venice: James Fergusson and E. L. Garbett; 24. Ruskin in 1854 and 1855; 25. Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites; Part VI: Section 9. Incarnation: 26. Ruskin, G. G. Scott and the architectural museum; 27. Ruskin, Acland, and the Oxford Museum; 28. Deane and Woodward; 29. Pre-Raphaelite painters and sculptors and the Oxford Museum; Part VII: Section 10. Ruskin's Reception: The 1850s and 1860s: 30. John Pollard Seddon and the 'puginisation' of Ruskin; 31. G. E. Street: father of the Arts and Crafts; 32. E. W. Godwin - the 'art-architect'; 33. The architectural museum in the late 1850s; 34. The failure of the Oxford Museum; 35. Ruskin's lectures to architects; Part VIII. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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