Theory of architecture Books
Lars Muller Publishers Kazuo Shinohara: Traversing the House and the
Book SynopsisOne of the greatest and most in uential architects of Japan's postwar generation, Shinohara Kazuo (1925-2006) has remained virtually unknown outside the small community of devoted followers. As one of the leaders of architectural movement Metabolism, Shinohara achieved cult- gure stature with sublimely beautiful, purist houses that break away from Japan's postwar suburban architecture.Perhaps the most iconic of Shinohara's works, House of White (1964-66), rearranges a familiar design palette-a square plan, a pointed roof, white walls, and a symbolic heart pillar-to give the almost oceanic spaciousness through abstraction. The underlying formalism in Shinohara's architecture-its basic explorations of geometry and color-lends his work a poetic quality that fuses simplicity and surprise, the ordered and the unexpected.This volume brings together new scholarship from the foremost specialists on Shinohara and Japan's modern architecture. New perspectives and historical frameworks range from the develop- ment of the small house as a building type in postwar Japan to Shinohara's engagement with French critical theory. Hitherto unpublished archival drawings and personal travel photographsby Shinohara complement the essays.
£32.00
Five Continents Editions Theatre: Art Brut - The Collection
Book SynopsisThe theatre is the central theme of this fourth volume in our series titled 'Art Brut - The Collection', published to coincide with the fourth Art Brut Biennale. After exploring architecture, vehicles, and bodies, attention turns to the theatre, a theme that is developed in its various aspects. The simplest example is the depiction of theatrical architecture, as in the work of Eugen Gabritschevsky or Victorien Sardou. Other artists create works that are intimately connected to the world of theatre, however without necessarily being a part of it. For example, for Giovanni Battista Podesta or Vahan Poladian, a public stage is a place where they put on a 'performance' that responds to a society that consigns them to its margins. Their intrinsically ephemeral approach uses clothing or accessories as a means of communication and to have their voices or protestations heard. Other artists conceive whole cosmogonies that take the form of a gigantic staging of a fanciful, phantasmagoric world, as in the case of Aloise Corbaz, whose work is to be viewed as a 'Theatre of the universe', or in that of Marguerite Burnat-Provins, with her graphic work titled 'Ma Ville'. The book includes over 100 illustrations, many of which are published for the first time, carefully chosen to enable the reader to explore the theme of the theatre in Outsider Art, or Art Brut. Also available in the series: Vehicles ISBN 9788874396580, Architecture ISBN 9788874397105, Body ISBN 9788874397884.
£20.00
Princeton University Press Lina Bo Bardi Drawings
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Bo Bardi's] drawings of buildings are freer and more colourful than is customary in architectural sketches, and are well reproduced here alongside street scenes, posters and magazine illustrations, and designs for furniture and theatrical costumes." * A Magazine *"This beautifully illustrated anthology is the . . . first publication to offer a glimpse of [Bo Bardi’s drawings] and it does so with thoughtful insight into the woman who created them." * Architectural Record *"This slim, beautifully produced selection of drawings by Bo Bardi (1914–1992), a modernist architect who emigrated from Italy to Brazil after World War II, suggests a playful, endlessly inventive intelligence (the drawing chosen for the cover is a perfect example). A delight!"---John Wilson, First Things
£35.70
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Architecture of Infinity: A Film by Christoph
Book SynopsisTemporality and age are inherent in every object and creature and, depending on one's outlook, may transcend to infinity. How can this be imagined? What goes beyond it? Swiss filmmaker Christoph Schaub sets out for a personal journey through time and space. He starts in his childhood, when his fascination with sacred buildings began, and also his wondering about beginnings and ends. In dialogue with architects Peter Zumthor, Peter Märkli, and Alvaro Siza, artists James Turell and Cristina Iglesias, and musician Jojo Mayer, Schaub explores the magic of sacred spaces, a term that for him represents much more than just churches. Architecture of Infinity traces spirituality in architecture and fine arts as well as in nature, and even over and above the limits of thought. The lightly floating camera immerses the viewer in somnambulistic images, taking him on a sensual and sensing journey through vast spaces, guiding his eye towards the star-spangled sky's infinity and the depths of the ocean. Past and present, primeval times and light years, it is all there. The running time of the film is 85 minutes, and the DVD is accompanied by a 32-page booklet with text in English and German.
£27.31
Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd MPavilion: Encounters With Design and
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RIBA Publishing Mobilising Housing Histories: Learning from
Book SynopsisThe problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one. This book, aimed at anyone with a professional or personal interest in improving housing provision everywhere, aims to inspire by offering in-depth studies of London's housing past and seeks to provide sustainable solutions for the future by linking to wider contemporary historical and social contexts.This book will influence today’s housing debates through showcasing lessons from the past and highlights examples that inform the present. The buildings assessed in these case studies will be measured in terms of their longevity, sustained popularity, livability, average densities and productivity.The research and case studies from the book provide an invaluable resource for academics of architecture, urban design, sociology, history and geography as well as professionals, policy makers and journalists.Table of ContentsForeword - Owen HatherleyPreface - Andrew SaintIntroduction - Peter Guillery and David KrollChapter 1: Urban Design in Victorian London: The Minet Estate in Lambeth 1870 to c. 1910 - David KrollChapter 2: Miles of Silly Little Dirty Houses: The Lessons of Victorian Battersea - Colin ThomChapter 3: Renewable Principles in H A Darbishire's Peabody Estates 1864-1885 - Irina DavidoviciChapter 4: Residential Flats: Densification in Victorian and Early 20th-Century London - Richard DennisChapter 5: South Acton Unsustained - Peter GuilleryChapter 6: High Social Housing in London c.1940-1970 - Simon PepperChapter 7: ‘We felt magnificent being up there’: Ernő Goldfinger's Balfron Tower and the campaign to keep it public - David RobertsChapter 8: Out-of-Sync Estates - Ben CampkinChapter 9: Gentrification: The Case of Canonbury - Tanis HinchcliffeChapter 10: Victorian Houses: Recent Approaches to Sustainable Retrofit - Sofie Pelsmakers and David Kroll
£39.60
Braun Publishing AG Contemporary Architecture: Masterpieces around
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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Towards Another Architecture
Book SynopsisPublished 100 years ago, Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture was conceived as a way of making sense architecturally of a moment of profound social and technological change. Today, we live at another pivotal moment for architecture and for the wider world. The climate emergency alone requires us to rethink everything we have previously taken for granted about how we conceive and construct buildings. One of the great ironies of Le Corbusier's messianic vision is that the very thing he so celebrated unbridled industry has led us to the climate emergency. Yet, moments of crisis and transformation are also opportunities for overturning conventions, facing uncomfortable truths and forcing disciplinary and societal reset'. What we need is not a new architecture, as Le Corbusier was popularly mistranslated as advocating, but another one: an architecture that is not bound to a single vision or future, but is diverse, pluralist and sustains multiple conversations about the active role that
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Freedom Press Talking to Architects
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introducing Architectural Theory
Book SynopsisBuilding on the success of the first edition, an engaging and reader-friendly work on complex ideas, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate, broadens the range of themes, voices, and geographies represented to provide a more comprehensive and contemporary theory book.This book presents major discourses in architectural theory and design in a debate-like format, integrating a series of edited texts across architectural history with context and newly written commentaries by the authors. This new edition has been fully revised, updated, and expanded to include long-standing debates, such as simplicity vs. complexity or the relationship between form and function, as well as newer discussions on innovation, globalization, and social equity. Authors Smith and Guitart provide a comprehensive means and conceptual framework for readers to compare multiple points of view. The chapter structure, discussion questions, and additional resources allow tTrade Review'More than yet another synoptic overview of architectural theory this is an exemplary pedagogical record of an on- going course in architectural theory & criticism as given to graduate students of architecture in a major university. As such it is without parallel.'Kenneth Frampton, Emeritus Professor of Architecture. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, New York'With their international experience as educators, Korydon Smith and Miguel Guitart offer an engaging text for both beginning architecture students and established architects. It is a useful tool for broadening our knowledge of architectural design and better understanding the decisions that architects make.'Rafael Moneo, Josep Lluis Sert Professor in Architecture, Emeritus, Harvard University Graduate School of Design'Advocating for the centrality and vitality of theory in design discourse, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate offers young architecture students a compendium of texts and strategies for developing a critical position for their work through thematically organized texts of historical and contemporary theory. Neither canon nor anthology, it asks its audience to reflect on and respond to the diversity and complexity of this moment in the discipline and practice of architecture. Smith’s and Guitart's book is a must-read for architecture students and educators alike pursuing an interest in architectural theory necessity for the discipline and profession today.'Sharon Haar, FAIA, NOMA, Professor. Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of MichiganTable of ContentsPart 1: Debate in Architecture Introduction: To Students: Why Architectural Theory is Vital to Your Education and Your Career Part 2: Dialectical Readings in Architecture 1. Space and Structure 2. Function and Form 3. Exterior and Interior 4. Simplicity and Complexity 5. Honesty and Illusion 6. Material and Immaterial 7. Body and Building 8. Cognition and Emotion 9. Natural and Constructed 10. Local and Global 11. Tradition and Innovation 12. Exclusivity and Inclusivity
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Architecture and the Public World
Book SynopsisThis book brings together Kenneth Frampton's essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historicaltheoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and the political question of the predicament of architecture in the new Millennium. The essays explore Frampton's contention that architecture's imperative is to assume a significant responsibility for the edification and stewardship of the Arendtian public world.' One of the most theoretically sophisticated and politically committed architectural thinkers, Frampton's work breaks emphatically with the limits and norms of much contemporary practice and restores a sense of richness and social consequence of architecture's unfinished project,' while offering abiding lessons not only for architecture but for social, cultural, and design criticism alike.
£23.74
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Vincent Scully
Book SynopsisThe renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (19202017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture. This intellectual biography of Scully's life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, mapping his relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the past one hundred years. Scully charted an unlikely course from postwar modernism to postmodernism and New Urbanism, overturning outdated beliefs and changing the face of the built environment as he went. A teacher for more than 60 years and a figure of immense importance in the field, he was central to an expansive network of associations, from Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, and Robert Venturi to Robert Stern, Harold Bloom, and Norman Mailer. Scully's extensive body of work, with its range spanning centuries and civilizations, coalesced around the core beliefs that archit
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Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd Architects at Home
Book Synopsis"These are just a few highlights amongst the 43 projects featured in Architects at Home, but each is certain to reveal both the pleasures and challenges of designing a home for oneself." — Canadian Interiors This stunning revised and updated edition takes you on a thrilling tour through the fascinating, eclectic and stylish abodes of some of the world’s best-known architects. Not only do these pages offer a rare glimpse into each architect’s personal, private environment, but each uniquely designed project provides insight into how each architect marries trends with their own personal philosophy, and how they inject interior design flair into their own contemporary domain. Combining rich photography and spectacular imagery with an incisive summary by a leading architecture specialist, Architects at Home provides a rich source for those keen to delve into the design aesthetics, concepts and innovations of prominent architects from around the globe.Trade Review"When architects design their own family getaways; two upstate homes - one modern, one cozy." - Curbed Magazine"It offers an enticing look through the keyholes of remarkable properties designed by the architects that live in them." - Daily Mail"These are just a few highlights amongst the 43 projects featured in Architects at Home, but each is certain to reveal both the pleasures and challenges of designing a home for oneself." - Canadian InteriorsTable of ContentsIntroduction Next Level Living Perfect Balance Over and Across Integrated with Site A Natural Affinity Razzle Dazzle Modern Resilience Hidden Among the Woods Ramble On Forest Lookout Building Family Connections Courting in Style Light and Bright Island Adventures Corten with Character Crystalline Form Bird's-Eye Views Countryside Charm Maker's Mark Growing Together Bound in a Grid For the Love of Art Changing the Mood Stacking Up Wooloowin Wonder Nestled in the Landscape Planting New Roots Romance in the Dunes Complete Contrast Box of Tricks Home Made Rustic Modernist Concrete Ambience Transparent Intentions Salvaged for the Future Solar Canopy Reflecting the Environment Abstracted Forms Connecting Environments Desert Reflections Clearly Connected Slipping into Place Harnessing the Views Credits
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RIBA Publishing Full Spectrum: Colour in Contemporary
Book SynopsisColour is architecture’s sharpest tool in the box. It has indexed everything from the feminine, cosmetic and vulgar to the pure, intrinsic and embodied. Attitudes to colour are constantly shifting. They have played a central role in the history of architecture: from the polychromy of the ancients to the great white interiors of high modernism; the figurative flourishes of postmodernism to the embodied sublime of contemporary building systems and facades. In contemporary architecture, colour has emerged as a powerful mode of working and an impactful political proposition. The second digital age has ushered paradigmatic shifts in how architects engage it. Employing the full spectrum of colour requires a projective mode of action – one that anticipates nascent futures. It aids in the democratisation of visual culture, opening the field to enable a multiplicity of identities by introducing new references and embracing new voices. This book explores the operative role of colour in current practice by proffering visions not of idealised other worlds, but rather radical reimaginings of our present one. Features: 100 Architects, Maya Alam, David Batchelor, Galo Canizares, Courtney Coffman, Fala Atelier, Marcelyn Gow, Louisa Hutton, Sam Jacob, Carolyn Kane, Guto Requena, Javier González Rivero, Paulette Singley, Amanda Williams and Mimi Zeiger.Table of ContentsArticles Arch-White by Carolyn Kane Collective Palettes: On Colour and Identity by Courtney Coffman Digital Colour: A Semi-Technical Reflection by Galo Canizares Clouds of Colour by Maya Alam Prismatic by Marcelyn Gow Colour is a Place as Well as a Thing by Sam Jacob When Grass is Not Green: Botanising the Asphalt by Paulette Singley Profiles Working with Colour by Louisa Hutton Colour is a Sufficient Material by fala Notes on the Velocity of Colours by David Batchelor Colour as Activism by Guto Requena Case studies Colouring the Public Realm by Javier González Rivero ‘What Black is This, You Say?’ A conversation between Amanda Williams and Jasmine Benyamin Final Word: Uncolour by Mimi Zeiger
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Armadillo House: A conversation between Marc
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Quart Publishers Towards a Resilient Architecture: Mæ
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the interconnected social, sustainable and spatial principles that underpin the design of more environmentally conscientious buildings and places, illustrated through models, drawings and images of selected key projects by the award-nominated London-based architecture practice Mæ. Each project outlines beneficial strategies for creating more sustainable designs, achieving social equity and working within our planet’s limits to elevate the human spirit in the long-term. This book posits strategies to design buildings and places that enrich culture and society, offering insight from researchers and practitioners, as well as richly illustrated documentation of key architectural schemes that put these principles into practice. It is a call to arms for ways to create more environmentally regenerative architecture, applying its ideas to architectural practice worldwide.
£37.35
Oro Editions Speaking of Architecture: Interviews About What
Book SynopsisWhat ideas are currently energising your architectural work and explorations? Why did these ideas become impactful while others did not? What role did mentors and peers play in the development of these ideas? What were your breakthrough insights or aha moments? What is next for you, and for the discipline and discourse of architecture? For this book, Mark Foster Gage has selected 11 of the most noteworthy and fascinating conversations from his year-long project of documenting the ideas of the next generation of designers who are revolutionising the nature of architectural practice and theory today. This remarkable collection of casual, informative, and personal interviews engages 15 architects as they reveal what made them who they are, what propels their architectural work forward, and what they anticipate comes next. A noted practitioner, tenured Yale professor, CNN design contributor, and respected insider of the international architectural scene, Mark Foster Gage has spent his professional life with many of the most important figures in architectural discourse and practice. With this book he focuses on an emerging generation of practitioners — approaching his subjects with a characteristic mix of insight, wit, and humour in a book that is consistently entertaining and informative as the architects open up in unexpected ways about their beliefs, work, lives and thoughts about where architecture, and they, are headed next.Table of Contents5 Acknowledgments by Mark Foster Gage 7 Foreword by Greg Lynn 10 Introduction by Mark Foster Gage 14 First Chapter Artificial Intelligence in Architecture — Karel Klein and David Ruy of Ruy Klein 36 Second Chapter New Forms of Social Engagement — Mitch McEwen and Amina Blacksher of Atelier Office and Atelier Amina 56 Third Chapter Oddkins, Hybrids, and Philosophies of Practice — Ferda Kolatan of SU11 Architecture + Design 78 Fourth Chapter Earth Protectors and Mega- Component Construction — Tom Wiscombe of Tom Wiscombe Architecture 102 Fifth Chapter Ruins, Rubble, Recycling, and Reuse — Ellie Abrons and Adam Fure of T+E+A+M 124 Sixth Chapter Strange Architecture vs. Estrangement — Michael Young of Young & Ayata 152 Seventh Chapter Post-Digital Play and other Possible Mediums — Jimenez Lai and Kristy Balliet of Bureau Spectacular and BairBalliet 180 Eighth Chapter Pop, Color, and Supergraphics — Elena Manferdini and Florencia Pita of Studio Manferdini and Florencia Pita & Co. 200 Ninth Chapter Aesthetics and Architecture in High Resolution — Mark Foster Gage and Claude Rains of Mark Foster Gage Architects 230 Afterword by Cynthia Davidson
£22.50
Oro Editions The Pocket Guide to Perspective: A Step-by-Step
Book SynopsisThis step-by-step Pocket Guide will teach you how to draw stunningly beautiful perspectives, complete with reflections and shadows. The Pocket Guide to Perspective uses a simple, step-by-step method to help readers understand the basic concepts of perspective construction. Readers will learn to build one-point, two-point, and multi-point perspectives as well as reflections and shadows in perspective. This small pocket guide is compact and focused. Whether you’re at your desk or out and about, it is useful reference to bring along for both students and professionals alike.Table of ContentsCopyright Notice 6 Attributions 7 Acknowledgments & Dedication 7 About the Author 7 Introduction 11 Chapter 1 15 How to Draw Perspectives: A Step-by-Step Guide Overview 16 Key Concepts 19 Step-by-Step Sequence 30 Drawing Tips 45 Construction Lines Explained: What Should I Draw First? 49 Chapter 2 How to Draw Shadows in Perspective; a Step-by-Step Guide 55 Chapter 3 How to Draw Reflections in Perspective; a Step-by-Step Guide 59 Chapter 4 Perspective Exercises and Solutions 67 Overview 68 Downloading the Exercises 68 Media Selection and Supplies 69 Perspective Exercise Instructions 71
£18.00
Manchester University Press Researching Urban Space and the Built Environment
Book SynopsisResearching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past. Written in a clear and lively style, it equips readers with the tools to effectively plan, research and write innovative spatial histories. By outlining and summarizing the theories and methodologies particularly pertinent to spatial research, and by providing hands-on advice on locating evidence and archives, the book supports researchers in the development of their own original projects. Through engagement with a rich array of primary evidence and useful historiographical case-studies, the guide opens up a huge variety of research possibilities. This book is the ideal research companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as independent researchers. It is especially tailored for students in history and related disciplines in the humanities encountering spatial themes and methodologies for the first time.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Researching urban space and the built environment 1: Theories and approaches to space and place 2: Planning a research project3: Developing a methodology4: Locating primary sources 5: Analysing primary sources 6: Writing up findings Select bibliographyIndex
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany 2G 83: Smiljan Radic: No. 83. International
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Leuven University Press The Tacit Dimension: Architecture Knowledge and
Book SynopsisWithin architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role both within the design process and its reception. This book explores the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, and reflexive understanding of what we build. Much of architecture's knowledge resides beneath the surface, in nonverbal instruments such as drawings and models that articulate the spatial imagination of the design process. Tacit knowledge, described in 1966 by Michael Polanyi as what we 'can know but cannot tell', often denotes knowledge that escapes quantifiable dimensions of research. Beginning in the studio, where students are guided into becoming architects, the book follows a path through the tacit knowledge present in models, materials, conceptual structures, and the design process, revealing how the tacit dimension leads to craftsmanship and the situated knowledge of architecture-in-the-world. Awareness of the tacit dimension helps to understand the many facets of the spaces we inhabit, from the ideas of the architect to the more hidden assumptions of our cultures. Contributors: Tom Avermaete (ETH Zurich), Margitta Buchert (Leibniz-Universitat Hannover), Christoph Grafe (Bergische Universitat Wuppertal), Mari Lending (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Angelika Schnell (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Eireen Schreurs (Delft University of Technology), Lara Schrijver (University of Antwerp) Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR and Project Muse.Trade Review“In my twenty years of peer-reviewing book manuscripts for potential publication, this one has been the most fascinating for me. In fact, I did not put it down. Thank you for inviting me to peer-review it.” Igea Troiani, University of Plymouth Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tacit Knowledge, Architecture and its UnderpinningsLara SchrijverPerformative Design Research: En-acting Knowledge in TeachingAngelika SchnellTeaching Architecture Full ScaleMari LendingTransformative Dialogues: On Material Knowing in ArchitectureEireen SchreursA Black Box? Architecture and its EpistemesTom AvermaeteDesign Knowledges on the MoveMargitta BuchertA Silent Master: Artistry and Craft in the Work of Peter CelsingChristoph GrafeMaterial Knowledge and Cultural ValuesLara Schrijver
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Fundamentals of Interior Architecture
Book SynopsisJohn Coles (Dip Arch) lectured at Middlesex University, UK, where he was programme leader for the Interior Architecture MA and Sustainable Design MA and Joint Programme Leader for the BA Honours Interior Architecture programmes.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Space/Form Space and Place Elements and Composition of Interior Space Case Study and Interview: The Way Out, Sonoma County, USA / Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects Project: Observing Space and Form Chapter 2: Site/Function Analyzing the Site Types of Interior Case Study and Interview: Cut and Fold House, London, UK / Ashton Porter Project: Observing Sight and Function Chapter 3: Materials/Texture Understanding the Interior Selecting Materials Perception of Quality Architectural Materials Case Study and Interview: Family House, Miyajima Island, Japan / Kazuya Nakomoto Project: Observing Materials and Texture Chapter 4: Light/Mood Understanding Light Using Light Calculating Light Case Study and Interview: One Kearny Lobby, San Francisco, USA / IwamotoScott Project: Observing Light and Mood Chapter 5: Presentation/Representation Key Stages in Design Representing Design Case Study and Interview: Pill Box, London, UK / Bluebottle Project: Observing Presentation and Representation Conclusion Sources of Information and Inspiration Index Acknowledgements and Picture Credits
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Oro Editions Pressing Matters 9
Book SynopsisThis year Pressing Matters 9 was completely rethought; the aim was to present an Open Source publication that shares the Department of Architecture’s concept of design research, an integral approach of critical thinking, rigorous research, and a deep understanding of the complex layers of architecture. Together with Jonathan Jackson of the renowned design Studio WSDIA in NYC, a more integral design was developed, allowing input from research [ARI labs], students, faculty and Penn’s special events. The content and layout focus on an indepth representation on how in recent years we have integrated expertise and content from our courses into our Design Studio’s. Pressing Matters is an annual design and research compilation from the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, showcasing student work, faculty research, and innovations in pedagogy. The Department launched the one year MSDRAS program this year, directed by Assistant Professor Robert Stuart Smith. The Master of Science in Design: Robotics and Autonomous Systems aims to critically develop novel approaches to the design, manufacturing, construction, use, and lifecycle of architecture through creative engagement with robotics, material systems, and design computation. Students will develop skills in advanced forms of robotic fabrication, simulation, and artificial intelligence, in order to develop methods for design that harness production or live adaptation as a creative opportunity. This is an excellent addition to the existing MSD programs: the MSDEBD directed by Professor Bill Braham and the MSDAAD directed by Professor Ali Rahim, all presented in Pressing Matters 9.
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Spector Books Making Futures
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Penguin Books Ltd Ornament and Crime
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Museum of Modern Art Complexity and Contradiction at fifty: Studies
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Architecture in the Age of Artificial
Book SynopsisUpdated to cover the latest cutting-edge developments in the field and now in full color, Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on the future of architecture and design.From smart assistants and ChatGPT to ground-breaking diffusion models for image generation and 3D modelling ? this fully-updated second edition examines all the latest new developments in the field, and examines their profound effects on architectural practice.Highlighting current case-studies as well as near-future applications, it explores the how AI transforms every part of the process from the inspiration and the brief to detailed performance- and data-driven design. This new edition also sheds light on key ethical and professional debates ? including regulations, copyright, and the very future of creativity and of the profession itself.Written by one of the world''s leading experts in the field, this book is a must-read for all architects and designers wishing to stay at the forefront of AI developments in architecture.
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Harvard University Press Four Walls and a Roof
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSomething of a revelation…[De Graaf] has produced an original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again…He deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it. * The Economist *[It] tells the stories that tend to get left out of official histories, but which actually shape our physical environment…De Graaf’s book is sharp, revealing, funny, drily passionate and not always encouraging. -- Rowan Moore * The Guardian *This is a book about power, money and influence, and architecture’s complete lack of any of them. It is a book not about architecture’s successes but about its failures. Witty, insightful and funny, it is a (sometimes painful) dissection of a profession that thinks it is still in control. -- Edwin Heathcote * Financial Times *De Graaf is an excellent, witty and perceptive essayist. The heart of the book is a series of astonishing accounts of the protracted—and as it turns out, all doomed—sagas to get big urban projects approved and built in London (just pre-crash), Moscow (just pre-Putin), the Emirates (just pre-oil slump), and Kurdistan (just pre-Isis). The way de Graaf builds up to each (in hindsight) inevitable disappointment is masterly…He emerges as an unlikely, deeply skeptical architectural Everyman. -- Hugh Pearman * The Spectator *This is the most stimulating book on architecture and its practice that I have read for years. Not only is de Graaf a good anecdotalist (his hilarious account of a long-winded and fruitless masterplanning competition in Russia should be turned into a film), but a perceptive analyst of how architecture represents, or connects with, wider political and economic movements and trends. -- Paul Finch * Architects’ Journal *Takes an idiosyncratic look at architectural history and dissects contemporary practice—from the quotidian (and sometimes comic) frustrations to the occasional triumphs and memorable failures. -- Josephine Minutillo * Architectural Record *Provocative…De Graaf has no fixed method. But the impressive extent and depth of his knowledge persistently inform his meditations, which take in many subjects. His mood is invariable. He is constantly and exhilaratingly cynical…Because he displays such candor—albeit polished candor, and such a perfectly gauged lack of tact—it is easy to forget that de Graaf is an architect, an insider, part of the system he dissects…De Graaf is likely to remain an architect for decades to come. In those circumstances, his enthusiasm for biting the hand that feeds him is admirably risky. -- Jonathan Meades * Literary Review *A refreshingly accessible, honest portrayal of a quixotic field from someone within the most successful architecture firm in the world today… One of the most intelligent, candid discussions on architecture I have read to date. Thus, Four Walls and a Roof offers an entertaining, penetrating, and much needed primer on the current state of the profession and the contemporary global forces influencing the built environment. A must-read list for architects, planners, and urban designers alike. -- Erick Villagomez * Spacing *Reinier de Graaf paints an honest picture of what it is like to work as an architect today…[He] provides engaging stories about the banal, everyday reality of working for an acclaimed firm. These vivid, uncompromising narratives are contextualized with shrewd essays about architecture’s lost ideals, its false pretentions, and utter dependence on forces far more powerful than design. -- Mark Minkjan * Failed Architecture *Ruthlessly honest about what it is like to work at architecture and wickedly cynical about how power works in our current economy, Reinier de Graaf’s vantage point from a top architectural firm doesn’t make him crow of success but, rather, pushes us architects, for better or worse, to keep fighting the good fight. Reading Four Walls and a Roof will make you laugh, cry, and so identify. -- Peggy Deamer, Yale School of ArchitectureThe title of this book, provided by an innocent enquirer, has provoked Reinier de Graaf into a shrewd, lucid, and engaging survey of the architecture and building scene. He seems to have been everywhere and listened to anyone who is—or has been—active and influential in building and planning, from Prince Charles to Buckminster Fuller. Yet he has also managed to direct attention to some neglected personalities, past and present—Ernst Neufert, Lucien Kroll. You will not find a better guide to planning, building, and architecture of the last half-century! -- Joseph Rykwert, Professor Emeritus, University of PennsylvaniaThis is a terrific book. It weaves together reflections on design, history, politics, and economics in a seamless and illuminating manner, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of the state of architecture and its recent history. The writing is delightful, always irreverent, and at times exceedingly funny. -- Bernardo Zacka, Research Fellow, Stanford University and University of Cambridge
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Taylor & Francis People and Spaces
Book SynopsisPeople and Spaces: Experience, Ethics, and Intent examines the dynamic relationship between built environments and human behavior in today's rapidly evolving world.Co-edited by a designer and a psychologist, this interdisciplinary collection reveals how the spaces we inhabit shape and reflect our self-expression, social structures and cultural values. Drawing on diverse perspectives, case studies and innovative research, People and Spaces equips readers from any discipline with practical human-centric knowledge to enhance environments in meaningful ways. This blend of essays and expert insights demonstrates the value of intentional approaches to design and research and offers actionable guidance for creating supportive and sustainable environments.This book is relevant to a broad audience, including scholars, professionals, and students in architecture, interior design, psychology, and related fields, as well as industry practitioners interested in th
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Welcome to Your World How the Built Environment
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Penguin Putnam Inc Frank Lloyd Wright
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OUP Oxford The Seduction of Place
Book SynopsisIn this vibrant cultural history of the city, Joseph Rykwert explores the great cities of the modern world, examining their fabric and assessing how successfully they have met the needs of their inhabitants. From the teeming city centres of the industrial revolution to the exclusive gated suburbs of the 21st century, from the Parisian boulevards of Haussmann to the 'green' architecture of Emilio Ambasz, Rykwert charts the complex story of the growth of the city,setting architectural development firmly within a political, economic, social, and cultural context.Trade Reviewrich in detail, entertaining to read and provocative in its conclusions * Christopher Hirst, Independent *a superb meditation...and a fascinating narrative * Steven Poole, The Guardian *Table of ContentsFinding Some Place in All the Space ; 1. How We Got There ; 2. First Aid ; 3. House and Home ; 4. Style, Type, and Urban Fabric ; 5. Flight from the City: Lived Space and Virtual Space ; 6. The Suburbs and the New Capitals ; 7. The Heart of the City and the Capital of a Globe ; 8. For the New Millennium? ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Modern Architecture
Book SynopsisSomewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it''s hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and medieval pasts into strikingly plain reflections of novel materials, functions, and technologies. Modern architecture promised the transformation of cities from overcrowded conurbations characterised by packed slums and dirty industries to spacious realms of generous housing and clean mechanised production set in parkland. At certain times and in certain cultures, it stood for the liberation of the future from the past.This Very Short Introduction explores the technical innovations that opened-up the cultural and intellectual opportunities for modern architecture to happen. Adam Sharr shows how the invention of steel and reinforced concrete radically altered possibilities for shaping buildings, transforming what architects were able to imagine, as did new systems for air conditioning and lighting. While architects weren''t responsible for these innovations, they were among the first to appreciate how they could make the world look and feel different, in connection with imagery from other spheres like modern art and industrial design. Focusing on a selection of modern buildings that also symbolize bigger cultural ideas, Sharr discusses what modern architecture was like, why it was like that, and how it was imagined. Considering the work of some of the historians and critics who helped to shape modern architecture, he demonstrates how the field owes as much to its storytellers as to its buildings.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewAdam Sharr has succeeded in making modern architecture modern again, with this refreshing and original account of the technological revolutions and individual designers that shaped our world from the 1850s to the 1970s. Rather than concentrate on questions and debates over style and ideology, or follow the self-promotional versions of the architects themselves, he has preferred to go to the root of the revolution: the technologies and their innovative utilization. This little book will have an effect far beyond its size, providing more than an introduction for students and the public, and for architects themselves a salutary set of careful worked case studies, from Miess IIT Campus to Rogers and Pianos Centre Pompidou. * Anthony Vidler, Professor of Architecture, The Cooper Union *The great strength of Adam Sharr's book is that it relates modern architecture to wider cultural, philosophical, and technological trends. It is also written in a very accessible style and, despite its brevity, covers a wide territory. * Jeremy Till, Head of Central Saint Martins, Pro Vice-Chancellor University of the Arts London *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Iron and steel 3: Reinforced concrete 4: Brick 5: Light and air 6: Conclusion Further reading Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture
Book SynopsisContaining over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch''eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The text is complemented by over 260 beautiful and meticulous line drawings, labelled cross-sections, and diagrams. These include precise drawings of typical building features, making it easy for readers to identify particular period styles.This third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture has been extensively revised and expanded, with over 900 new entries including hundreds of definitions of garden and landscape terms such as Baroque garden, floral clock, hortus conclusus, and Zen garden-design. Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading. With clear deTrade Review...definitions are not only elegantly concise, they often sparkle with sententious wit. Give me this pleasingly well written dictionary any day. * Christopher Catling, SALON: Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter *the quintessential reference work for professionals, scholars and interested laymen. * Karen Latimer, Perspective: The Journal of The Royal Society of Ulster Architects *simply the best dictionary of architecture on the market ... a delight. * Gwyn Headley, Follies *[a] magisterial Dictionary ... although outwardly formidable, is surprisingly accessible and written in an engaging and often highly opinionated style. Curl and Wilson give us much, much more than mere facts ... This is a work of vast scholarship where learning is presented with style and panache; it will remain the definitive dictionary of architecture until Curl produces his fourth edition. For the garden and landscape historian it is a remarkable resource and ... should be the primary volume of reference for amateurs and scholars alike. * Timothy Mowl, Garden History: Journal of the Garden History Society *Beautifully written in clipped, scholarly prose, assiduously referenced, with a comprehensive bibliography and seasoned with Curl's own dry wit, the dictionary is both informative and readable ... a substantial addition, in every sense, to the library of those with an interest in architecture and landscape design. * Hugh Petter, The Georgian: The Magazine of The Georgian Group *What gives the references the occasional sting and much in the way of individuality is the marked viewpoint of James Stevens Curl, feisty as ever. Not for him the banal tower block or the lusting after weird and wonderful shapes in the perpetual search for novelty * Matthew Saunders, Newsletter of the Ancient Monuments Society in association with The Friends of Friendless Churches *The dictionary is a great achievement * Ruairidh Moir, RIAS Quarterly: The Journal of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland *Written with considerable wit as well as great scholarship, this is an indispensable book of reference. * Graham Tite, Context: Journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation *The book is essential and it now has no real competitor ... a hugely impressive work of scholarship. * Gavin Stamp, Country Life *This updated reference work should be a standard work for all good libraries, both academic and public due to the Dictionarys pedigree and reputation. * Penny Dade, Reference Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition ; Preface to the Third Edition ; Contents ; Notes on Abbreviations ; The Dictionary
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The University of Chicago Press Architecture Means and Ends
Book SynopsisFocuses on the role of the technical aspects of architectural design, as part of the process of innovation and in relation to the mythic opposition between vision and construction. This title argues that by making symbolic expression a primary objective in the design of a project, designers produce a practical aesthetic and an ethical solution.Trade Review"The most important architect, critic, and intellectual writing today." - Kenneth Frampton"
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The University of Chicago Press Postmodern Sophistications Philosophy
Book SynopsisKolb discusses postmodern architectural styles and theories within the context of philosophical ideas about modernism and postmodernism. He focuses on what it means to dwell in a world and within a history and to act from or against a tradition.
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University of Chicago Press Postmodern Sophistications Paper Philosophy
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The University of Chicago Press The Porch
Book SynopsisSolidly grounded in ideas, ecology, and architecture, Charlie Hailey's The Porch takes us on a journey along the edges of nature where the outside comes in, hosts meet guests, and imagination runs wild.Trade Review"The weighty intimations of myth on these pages are leavened by the book's beautifully prosaic and practical accounts of porch architecture. There could hardly be a more timely book when breathing walls, like bodies, are places where experiences of necessity meet those of freedom."-- "David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania" "The Porch displays the best traits of university press books: an enormous body of research, backed by years of careful engagement with intellectual and cultural history, and a faith that the world is worth close consideration. Hailey's prose is patient and deliberate, the mood reverent and ready for wonder. He has written an extraordinary book--literary and philosophical, sensuous and wise--a book with which to confront our changing world." -- "Daegan Miller, author of 'This Radical Land'"Table of Contents1. PORCH 2. TILT 3. AIR 4. SCREEN 5. BLUE 6. ACCLIMATE Acknowledgments Notes Illustration Credits Index
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Penguin Books Ltd Humanise
Book SynopsisFrom one of the world''s most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.''This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn''t put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that'' GRAYSON PERRY*****Our world is losing its humanity.Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about power than the people who vote for them. And too many cities feel soulless and depressing, with buildings designed for business, not for us.So where do we find hope?Thomas Heatherwick has an alternative. By changing the world around us, we can improve our health, restore our happiness, and save our planet. The time has come to put human emotion back at the heart of the design process. Drawing on thirty years of making bold, beautiful buildings, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Heatherwick brings together vivid stories and hundreds of beautiful images into a visual masterpiece. Humanise will inspire us to do nothing less than remake our world.*****''Thomas Heatherwick brings a velvet sledgehammer to the way we think about buildings and how they change our lives . . . I want to live in the kind of city Heatherwick imagines!'' SIMON SINEK''Humanise is a masterwork. It''s quietly furious, impassioned, rigorous and forensic in all the right doses. It leaves me very hopeful indeed about how things could go from here'' ALAIN DE BOTTONTrade ReviewHumanise is a masterwork. It's quietly furious, impassioned, rigorous and forensic in all the right doses. It leaves me very hopeful indeed about how things could go from here. The Age of Boring might just have ended right now -- Alain de BottonThomas Heatherwick echoes many things I find myself saying as I travel round the country. How the hell did that monstrosity get built? Why is this place so depressing? Why is so much of the built environment so boring? This book will wind up quite a few architects, planners and developers who labour under the delusion that they are the adults in the room. Good. These people need to develop some compassion for the people who have to live with their joyless, bland, unlovable creations. This book is a super accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that -- Grayson PerryThomas Heatherwick brings a velvet sledgehammer to the way we think about buildings and how they change our lives. In simple, elegant words, he demands that we put people first. Not developers, politicians or architects. I want to live in the kind of city Heatherwick imagines! Vive la revolution! -- Simon Sinek, Optimist and New York Times-bestselling author of Start with Why and The Infinite GameThis book will help frustrated ordinary people and communities see what is possible -- David ByrneA revelation. Humanise offers an accessible, compelling and entirely unique perspective on the world in which we live. Heatherwick’s storytelling ability shines through on each and every page - pushing boundaries and challenging perspectives. At a time where thoughtful and constructive ideas and solutions, that put the public at the centre of decision-making, are sought more than ever - this book provides a spark to ignite conversations across our city, country and the globe on how to build a better world for everyone -- Sadiq Khan, Mayor of LondonHeatherwick makes the case for human buildings that nurture our health and happiness. Out with the 'blandemic' of boring buildings and let's get back to interestingness. He calls for us all to engage with our built environment and so we should -- Dame Sally DaviesArchitecture has the ability to uplift and inspire, support connection, and fuel invention - bringing life and vitality to our cities by making them better, more beautiful, more sustainable places to live and work. Thomas Heatherwick's new book offers us a powerful prescription for buildings that put the public first and help set the course for a brighter future for humanity -- Mike Bloomberg, entrepreneur, philanthropist, former Mayor of New York CityIn a social and economic tour de force, Thomas Heatherwick explodes the waste of bad design: the neighbourhoods destroyed, the wellbeing lost, the carbon burned. And then he pivots to the potential of bending the straight line into a curve, the building into the feeling, and the narrowly rational into the fully human -- Mark CarneyHumanise ignites the urgent public conversation I've been calling for for years -- Sir Terry Farrell CBE, architect and urban designerA book that will change how you see the world -- Simon JenkinsThe climate crisis, a post-pandemic era and war. All these issues that the world is facing require unprecedented approaches in art, architecture and design. Humanise transcends all borders, cultures and fields of expertise. This book maintains an exquisite balance between quantitative evidence, architectural history, ideals and reality. It urges all of us on this planet to celebrate life -- Mami Kataoka, Director of the Mori Art Museum, TokyoInspiring, enlightening and provocative, Humanise arms us with a new way of seeing our built environment, and makes explicit what's at stake if we blindly accept the status quo -- Noreena Hertz, author of The Lonely Century: A Call to ReconnectThomas Heatherwick's humanity centred imagination is brought to life through his buildings and designs. He challenges us all to see the world differently, in harmony with nature, for the better. Humanise is a look behind the scenes and into the mind of his creative genius -- Tony Fadell, NYT bestselling author of Build, iPod inventor, Nest founderHeatherwick's fascinating book argues we must bring public value and delight back to the world of architecture which has been lost in boringness that is bad for people and planet -- Marianna Mazzucato, author of Author of Misson Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing CapitalismA world-renowned designer * Wall Street Journal *The Leonardo da Vinci of our times -- Terence ConranProbably the most creative person in the world -- Stephen Ross
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Penguin Books Ltd A Modern Way to Live
Book SynopsisBeautifully designed and featuring breathtaking photography, this book from the creator of The Modern House makes the perfect coffee table book and is the ultimate gift for home design enthusiasts ''A source of fascination, inspiration and fantasy'' GuardianIn 2005, childhood friends Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill set out to convince people of the power of good design and its ability to influence our wellbeing. They founded The Modern House - in equal parts an estate agency, a publisher and a lifestyle brand - and went on to inspire a generation to live more thoughtfully and beautifully at home.As The Modern House grew, Matt and Albert came to realise that the most successful homes they encountered - from cleverly conceived studio flats to listed architectural masterpieces - had been designed with attention to the same timeless principles: Space, Light, Materials, Nature and Decoration.In this lavishly illustrated bookTrade Review'A source of fascination, inspiration and fantasy' * Guardian *'A handsome new book (...) splits the pair's accumulated learnings about life enhancing design across five central tenets: space, light, materials, nature and decoration ... a culture destination for interiors obsessives' * Sunday Times *'This is a book filled with such insight and detail that you'll be rearranging and rethinking your space in the most useful of ways' * Stylist *'The Modern House transformed our search for the perfect home' * Financial Times *'If you are a frequent consumer of house porn, chances are The Modern House will feature heavily in your browser history. A sumptuously packaged estate agency for some of the UK's most remarkable homes' * Vogue *'A Modern Way to Live reads so beautifully. It's a lyrical love letter to the home and architecture, and the places and conditions that create the best of both worlds ... generously informative and inspirational' * Waitrose Weekend *'The Modern House sells the most incredible design-led homes in urban and rural locations in the UK' * Evening Standard *'Gibberd is co-founder of The Modern House, a design-led London estate agency whose website attracts 15 million page views a year. In handling the sale of thousands of homes, from small flats to listed architectural masterpieces, he noticed the same five principles for living emerging again and again: Space, Light, Materials, Nature and Curation. His delectable first book aims to expand on these transformative principles, from the effective positioning of doors and windows, to the anchor provided by possessions. Property porn with a point' * Bookseller *'An elegant, tasteful book as covetable as the houses it explores' * Sunday Express *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Architecture Of Happiness
Book SynopsisTHE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of Happiness explores the fascinating hidden links between the buildings we live in and our long-term wellbeing.''Engaging and intelligent . . . Full of splendid ideas, happily and beautifully expressed'' IndependentWhat makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever be satisfactorily resolved?To answer these questions and many more, de Botton looks at buildings across the world, from medieval wooden huts to modern skyscrapers; he examines sofas and cathedrals, tea sets and office complexes, and teases out a host of often surprising philosophical insights. The Architecture of Happiness will takTrade ReviewClever, provocative and fresh as a daisy * Literary Review *Full of splendid ideas, often happily and beautifully expressed . . . an engaging and intelligent book * Independent *Genuinely thought-provoking * Time Out *
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University of Illinois Press Designing for Diversity
Book SynopsisA powerful statement about the repercussions of discrimination and the benefits of diversity in architectureTrade Review"Ground-breaking. . . . Deserves a place on the bookshelves, bedsides and desks of all educators, managers, [and] design principals. . . . Anthony is an unrepentant idealist, calling for nothing short of a 'transformation' of the culture of architecture; what she offers her readers are the tools by which . . . to begin the process."--Alice T. Friedman, Women's Review of Books "Anthony offers a comprehensive, hard-hitting study of problems that women and minorities face as architects in the US. She surveyed and interviewed some 400 architects and outlines various problems and discrimination against women and minorities, including lower salaries and more responsibility without a rise in position; being kept from contact with clients, field experiences, or construction supervision; and being confined to certain aspects of architecture."--Choice "This book is more than a . . . wake-up call. In a mundane, nuts-and-bolts sense, it provides a solid bibliography for further research on the contributions made by women and people of color to twentieth-century architecture. . . . The author's work articulates the human cost of professional discrimination."--Ludmilla Pavlova, Multicultural Review
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University of Illinois Press SynergiCity
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHistoric Preservation Book Prize, University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation, 2013. A Choice Outstanding Title, 2013. "Instead of handing over neighborhoods to city hall or private developers, this book shows that the solution to many cities' plights lies within them. Empowering residents to take control of and build on community assets, engaging them in community-based organizations that can spearhead revitalization and build real quality of place, yields real results. To the extent that they adopt a holistic approach to planning and build on a city's intrinsic strengths, they can accomplish miracles."--from the foreword by Richard Florida"This timely and approachable collection provides meaningful case studies and a wealth of topics for discussion in urban studies and redevelopment. Professionals and students in urban planning, government, and urban development will find this volume greatly interesting."--Robert M. Lau, associate editor of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Journal "Contains valuable insight."--Shepherd Express "The book oozes with optimism for a bucolic yet historically gritty future for these postindustrial, medium-sized Midwestern cities. The book is a neat and clear attempt to pull some wildly popular ideas together under one roof and apply them to a rather understudies subject: medium-sized postindustrial Midwestern cities. Along with scores of beautiful images, the book succeeds in that mission and is a pleasure to recommend."--The Geographical Review
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MIT Press Ltd Retracing the Expanded Field Encounters Between
Book SynopsisScholars and artists revisit a hugely influential essay by Rosalind Krauss and map the interactions between art and architecture over the last thirty-five years.Expansion, convergence, adjacency, projection, rapport, and intersection are a few of the terms used to redraw the boundaries between art and architecture during the last thirty-five years. If modernists invented the model of an ostensible “synthesis of the arts,” their postmodern progeny promoted the semblance of pluralist fusion. In 1979, reacting against contemporary art's transformation of modernist medium-specificity into postmodernist medium multiplicity, the art historian Rosalind Krauss published an essay, “Sculpture in the Expanded Field,” that laid out in a precise diagram the structural parameters of sculpture, architecture, and landscape art. Krauss tried to clarify what these art practices were, what they were not, and what they could become if logically combined. The essay soon as
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MIT Press Ltd Japanness in Architecture
Book SynopsisOne of Japan''s leading architects examines notions of Japan-ness as exemplified by key events in Japanese architectural history from the seventh to the twentieth century; essays on buildings and their cultural context.Japanese architect Arata Isozaki sees buildings not as dead objects but as events that encompass the social and historical context—not to be defined forever by their everlasting materiality but as texts to be interpreted and reread continually. In Japan-ness in Architecture, he identifies what is essentially Japanese in architecture from the seventh to the twentieth century. In the opening essay, Isozaki analyzes the struggles of modern Japanese architects, including himself, to create something uniquely Japanese out of modernity. He then circles back in history to find what he calls Japan-ness in the seventh-century Ise shrine, reconstruction of the twelfth-century Todai-ji Temple, and the seventeenth-century Katsura Imperial Villa. He finds the periodic ritual relocation of Ise''s precincts a counter to the West''s concept of architectural permanence, and the repetition of the ritual an alternative to modernity''s anxious quest for origins. He traces the constructive power of the Todai-ji Temple to the vision of the director of its reconstruction, the monk Chogen, whose imaginative power he sees as corresponding to the revolutionary turmoil of the times. The Katsura Imperial Villa, with its chimerical spaces, achieved its own Japan-ness as it reinvented the traditional shoin style. And yet, writes Isozaki, what others consider to be the Japanese aesthetic is often the opposite of that essential Japan-ness born in moments of historic self-definition; the purified stylization—what Isozaki calls Japanesquization—lacks the energy of cultural transformation and reflects an island retrenchment in response to the pressure of other cultures.Combining historical survey, critical analysis, theoretical reflection, and autobiographical account, these essays, written over a period of twenty years, demonstrate Isozaki''s standing as one of the world''s leading architects and preeminent architectural thinkers.
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MIT Press Architecture Depends
Book SynopsisPolemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.Architecture depends?on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect''s best-laid plans?at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till''s writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.
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MIT Press Ltd A Question of Qualities
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MIT Press Ltd Why Architects Still Draw The MIT Press Two
Book SynopsisAn architect's defense of drawing as a way of thinking, even in an age of electronic media.Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; he doesn't urge architects to give up digital devices for watercolors and a measuring tape. Rather, he makes a case for drawing as the interface between the idea and the work itself.A drawing, Belardi argues, holds within it the entire final design. It is the paradox of the acorn: a project emerges from a drawing—even from a sketch, rough and inchoate—just as an oak tree emerges from an acorn. Citing examples not just from architecture but also from literature, chemistry, music, archaeology, and art, Belardi shows how drawing is not a passive recording but a momen
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