Theory of architecture Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Building Time
Book SynopsisWhile most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architecture's temporal dimensions. Through a series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and classic, it demonstrates the centrality of time in modern architecture, and shows why an understanding of time is critical to understanding good architecture.All buildings exist in time. Even if designed for permanence, they change, slowly but inevitably. They change use, they accrue history and meaning, they decay all of these processes are inscribed in time. So too is the path traced by the sun through a building, and the movements of the human body from room to room. Time, this book argues, is the framework for our spatial experience of architecture, and a key dimension of a building's structure and significance. Building Time presents twelve close readings of buildings and artworks which explore this idea. Examining works by distinctive modern architects from Eileen Gray to Álvaro Trade ReviewBuilding Time is based on the author's own physical and mental experience of the objects examined, as well as an almost intimate knowledge of the architect's work, the processes of creation, the craft, the spaces and the details. One senses that this is an architecture that occupies Leatherbarrow, in which he is deeply committed. And perhaps this is precisely one of the explanations why his descriptions and interpretations manage to hit so precisely. * Arkitekten (Bloomsbury translation) *Leatherbarrow focuses his meditative attention on lasting works of architecture and art. Discussing projects and paintings with particular sensitivity to light and material, he works like a clockmaker, patiently disassembling architectural mechanisms into their component parts, and explaining how buildings operate in time. * John Tuomey, O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects, Ireland *When Leatherbarrow writes about time he is also writing about the slow and then ever faster passage of our own lives. Even as we visit the Pantheon to watch time literally move before our eyes and we are reminded that it also measures the span of our own existence. This is a dense, lyrical, and heartbreaking book about our lives and our buildings. * Billie Tsien, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, USA *Linger, return, and remember rhythm this meditation on the interactions of time, space and place for both author and reader. Not since the romantic writers of the early 19th century has the temporal dimension of architecture been viewed patiently from so many facets. * Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, Columbia University, USA *Building Time suggests that architecture matters partly because architecture weathers orienting and grounding us: by keeping its identity amidst contextual change, inevitable decay, and eventual renewal, as well as recording its own creation and survival. The world stage, the active body and the project script frame the close reading of chosen modern masterpieces in time and as time. Sound, serviceable, and delightful. * Carlos Eduardo Comas, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil *Building Time is a graceful, timely, and purposeful walk through a garden of architectural knowledge, offering an account—in all, a theory—not just of human spatial experience through time (first we go here, then we go there...), but of the world experiencing itself through the medium of buildings, especially buildings which, in having long-term ethical projects as well as complexities of their own, are works of architecture. With Proustian intimacy and often dizzying insight, Leatherbarrow enlarges the very language we use to understand architecture. Buildings are indifferent only apparently. In marking time, in accommodating the fleeting, in witnessing and in suffering, they bring up the future. * Michael Benedikt, The University of Texas at Austin, USA *The range of examples that Leatherbarrow brings together in Building Time is rich, stimulating, and rooted in the tangible ... He is a patient, knowledgeable, and observant guide to particular buildings and places, and their particular times. * arq: Architectural Research Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Making Space for Time Part One: The Time of the World 2: Day Time 3: Well-Timed Openings 4: Tempered Terrain 5: World Rhythms Part Two: The Time of the Body 6: Taking Steps 7: Pacing and Spacing 8: Wandering Sites 9: Pedestrian Rhythms Part Three: The Time of the Project 10: Past and Present Possibilities 11: Proposing Precedents 12: Recalling Future Projects 13: Project Rhythms Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Creating Interior Atmosphere
Book SynopsisThis book sets out to explore the creation of interior atmosphere as seen through the lens of mise-en-scène. You will learn how this film theory informs the concept of staged space' translated through the narrative and expressive qualities of a particular scene. Jean Whitehead quickly takes this concept beyond the screen and considers its application to the interior setting'. By learning to use the ingredients that inform an interior' mise-en-scène such as its backdrop, choice of props, use of special effects alongside the application of colour, pattern, graphics, light and shadow, an immersive atmospheric experience can be created. Packed with inspiring examples and case studies, ranging from cinematic interiors and art installations, to the work of notable interior designers, stylists and architects with an interior interest, this book broadens current thinking around the design of the decorated interior. It will help you to embrace the concepts that underpin an interior mise-en-Table of Contents1. Creating Interior Atmosphere: An Introduction Introduction What is Interior Design? Scope of this book - Interior Design and Mise-en-scène What is Atmosphere? Conclusion Further Reading – Exploring atmosphere 2. What’s in a Room? The Principles of ‘Mise-en-scène’ The Power of the Interior What is ‘Mise-en-scène?’ What is an ‘Interior’ Mise-en-scène? Conclusion Further Reading – Exploring Mise-en-scène 3. The Interior Setting: The Backdrop or ‘Skin’ of the Space What is an Interior Setting? What is the physical environment – the skin? Examples of Interior Mise-en-scène, creating an interior setting Case Study One: Surface Skin – ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’, Robert Wiene Case Study Two: Surface Skin - Rough Luxe Hotel, Rabih Hage Case Study Three: Manipulated Skin -Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole Case Study Four: Layered Skin – ‘Re-Set’, Petra Blaisse Case Study Five: Three Dimensional Skin - KU64 Kids Club, GRAFT Conclusion Further Reading – Exploring the ‘Interior Setting’ 4. What is an Interior ‘Prop’? Accessories, furniture, fixtures and equipment Introducing Interior Props Using Interior Props Examples of Interior Mise-en-scène, props and atmosphere Case Study One: Accessories, furniture and fixtures - The Ace Hotel, Roman and Williams Case Study Two: Furniture – ‘A Clockwork Orange’, Stanley Kubrick Case Study Three: Equipment – ‘Break Down’, Michael Landy Case Study Four: Fixtures- Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre, Frank Gehry Case Study Five: Props as fixtures - Kesselskramer, FAT Conclusion Further Reading – Exploring Interior Props 5. ‘Special Effects’: Interior Space and Experiences Introducing Interior Special Effects Special Effects - Perception and Atmosphere Examples of Interior Mise-en-scèneand their special effects Case Study One: Implied Space – ‘Dogville’, director Lars von Trier Case Study Two: Illusory Space - La Maison Champs Elysées, Maison Martin Margiela Case Study Three: Sensory Space - Fragrance Lab for Selfridges, Campaign, The Future Laboratory and Givauden Case Study Four: Use of Scale – ‘Citizen Kane’, director Orson Welles Case Study Five: Sensory Space - Alcoholic Architecture, Bompas & Parr Conclusion Further Reading – Considering Special Effects 6. Light and Shadow: Uncovering its Dramatic Role Introducing Light and Shadow Lighting and Atmosphere Examples of Interior Mise-en-scène – using light and shadow Case Study One: Shadow - ‘Nosferatu’ Case Study Two: Artificial Light – ‘The Weather Project’, Olafur Eliasson Case Study Three: Natural Light - D.E. Shaw Offices and Co., Steven Holl Case Study Four: Candle light - Sam Wannamaker Playhouse – Allies & Morrison and Jon Greenfield Case Study Five: Digital Light - The West Lobby in The Cosmopolitan, Rockwell Group’s LAB Conclusion Further Reading – Exploring Light and Shadow 7. Colour: A Technicolor© Inner World Introducing Colour Colour and Atmosphere Examples of Interior Mise-en-scène, using colour Case study One: Colour – ‘The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover’, director Peter Greenaway Case study Two: Colour – Spiegel Publishing Headquarters by Verner Panton Case study Three: Colour via pattern – ‘Dots Obsession’ by Yayoi Kusama Case study Four: Colour via graphics – The Hotel by Jean Nouvel Case study Five: Colour –Wards 23 & 29, Bradford Royal Infirmary Conclusion Further Reading – Exploring Colour
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Museum of Modern Art Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in
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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era
Book SynopsisThe history of modern architecture has been well covered in the classical surveys of Sigfried Giedion, Kenneth Frampton, William Curtis, Alan Colquhoun, and others who traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until the beginning of the 1970s, when a major contesting movement appeared on the scene, labelled as Post-Modernism. Taking a similar approach, this book explores the different tendencies that affected the developments of the past six decades, beginning around the 1960s, when a new wind started to blow from within Modernism, leading to different reactions and counter-reactions, the effects of which are still felt today. This book provides a survey of contemporary developments, starting with an introductory chapter on the transitional period of the 1960s and then examining the different movements that followed, charting a middle course between the ‘aesthetic’ histories that examine architecture solely in terms of its formal aspects, and the ‘ideological’ histories that subject it to a critique that often skirts the discussion of its formal aspects. Global in scope, each chapter begins with a theoretical overview of the ‘paradigm’ in question, leading to an examination of its main actors and projects. The survey concludes with a section on more recent trends, including environmental concerns that placed sustainability as one of the main objectives in architecture in parallel to an aesthetic direction that blurs the boundaries between architecture and art, relying on technological innovations to develop ever more complex forms.Table of ContentsForeword – Joan Ockman. Preface 1: Modernism and its Discontents 2: The Architecture of Beton Brut 3: Neo Rationalism 4: Post Modern Architecture 5: Regional Modernisms 6: The Technological Paradigm 7: The Continuing Legacy of Modernism 8: The Project of Deconstruction 9: Neo-Constructivism, Neo-Suprematism and the Return of the Avant Garde 10: Neo-Expressionism in Architecture 11: The Minimalist Aesthetic 12: New Directions in Contemporary Architecture
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Rudolf Steiner Press Architecture as a Synthesis of the Arts
Book SynopsisA collection of eight lectures by architect Rudolf Steiner, this text is aimed at students of architectu re, the arts, social sciences, and those whishing to find a deeper spiritual understanding. '
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Birkhauser Verlag AG Basics Schallschutz
Book SynopsisBereits in der Entwurfsphase eines Bauvorhabens kann der Schallschutz eine bedeutende Rolle für die Gebäudeausrichtung sowie die Grundrissgestaltung spielen. Zu berücksichtigen sind hierbei der Lärm, der von außen auf ein Gebäude einwirkt, sowie der Lärm, der durch den Menschen und technische Anlagen innerhalb des Gebäudes verursacht wird. Basics Schallschutz vermittelt dem Leser ein grundlegendes Verständnis der schalltechnischen Anforderungen für das Planen und Konstruieren. Zunächst werden die Grundlagen der Akustik erläutert, wobei auf die physikalischen Grundbegriffe, die Schallentstehung und -ausbreitung sowie die Schallempfindung eingegangen wird. Dann wird erklärt, wie Schallimmissionen beurteilt und welche lärmmindernden und gestalterischen Möglichkeiten für die Planung werden können.
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Braun Publishing AG all about CHALETS: Contemporary Mountain
Book SynopsisExclusive living retreats set against the backdrop of majestic peaks, steep slopes and picturesque valleysThe chalet is a building style that enjoys lasting popularity all over the world. Dating back to the herdsman?s hut in the Alpine region, it became a longed-for destination and the most preferred holiday domicile in the 19th century with the emerging fascination with the Alps. Today, architects and designers are primarily inspired by the constantly redefined interplay of sublime nature, traditional architecture, regional building typologies, individual design, and modern formal language that pushes them to reach magnificent creative peaks. The projects selected for this volume are diverse and remarkably multifaceted: From a traditional construction with a flat gable roof, wide roof overhang, and robust timber façade, to contemporary, thoroughly idiosyncratic interpretations with clear lines, creative choice of materials, and fine details. However, the artful staging of the imposing mountain world in the interior design plays a decisive role among all presented chalets.
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Taschen GmbH Architectural Theory. Pioneering Texts on
Book SynopsisHere are the most influential architectural essays written since the Renaissance, copiously illustrated, in a great book for anyone interested in what architects say about their craft. Discover the theories behind the structures in which we live, work, and play, from Alberti and Palladio to Le Corbusier and Koolhaas.
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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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Columbia Books on Architecture and the City Metropolisarchitecture
Book SynopsisIn the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885-1967) redefined architecture's relationship to the city. His proposal for a high-rise city, where leisure, labor, and circulation would be vertically integrated, both frightened his contemporaries and offered a trenchant critique of the dynamics of the capitalist metropolis. Hilberseimer's Grossstadtarchitektur is presented here for the first time in an English translation. Its propositions encourage us to reconsider mobility, concentration, and the scale of architectural intervention in our own era of urban expansion.
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Simon & Schuster Cities in the Sky
Book SynopsisFrom one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapers—a fascinating account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe.The world’s skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and yet they remain controversial—for their high costs, shadows, and overt grandiosity. But, decade by decade, they keep getting higher and higher. What is driving this global building spree of epic proportions? In Cities in the Sky, author Jason Barr explains all: why they appeal to cities and nations, how they get financed, why they succeed economically, and how they change a city’s skyline and enable the world’s greatest metropolises to thrive in the 21st century. From the Empire State Building (1,250 feet) to the Shanghai Tower (2,073 feet) and everywhere in between, Barr explains the unique architectural and engineering efforts that led to the creation of each. Along the way, Barr visits and unpack
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RIBA Publishing Reclaiming Colonial Architecture
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ArchiTangle GmbH Beyond Ruins
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University of California Press The Dynamics of Architectural Form 30th
Book SynopsisExplores the unexpected perceptual consequences of architecture.Trade Review"Arnheim was the best kind of romantic. His wisdom, his patient explanations and lyrical enthusiasm are those of a teacher." * New York Times *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Analysing Architecture
Book SynopsisNow in its fifth edition, Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at those studying architecture, it offers a clear and accessible insight into the workings of this rich and fascinating subject. With copious illustrations from his own notebooks, the author dissects examples from around the world and all periods of history to explain the underlying strategies in architectural design and show how drawing may be used as a medium for analysis.In this new edition, Analysing Architecture has been revised and expanded. Notably, the chapter on How Analysis Can Help Design' has been redeveloped to clearly explain this crucially important aspect of study to a beginner readership. Four new chapters have been added to the section dealing with Themes in Spatial Organisation, on Axis', Grid', Datum Place' and Hidden'. Material from the ''Case Studies'' in previous editions has been redistributed aTrade Review"Probably the best introductory book on architecture."Andrew Higgott, Lecturer in Architecture, University of East London, UK"A truly amazing book on how to analyze a building. A must read for all young architects."Fatema, Goodreads.comTable of ContentsPreface to this New Edition. Introduction. Architecture as Intellectual Structure and Identification of Place. Basic Elements of Architecture. Modifying Elements of Architecture. Elements Doing More Than One Thing. Using Things That Are There. Primitive Place Types. Architecture as Making Frames. Geometries of Being. Ideal Geometry. Themes in Spatial Organisation: 1. Space and Structure. 2. Parallel Walls. 3. Axis. 4. Grid. 5. Datum Place. 6. Stratification. 7. Transition, Hierarchy, Heart. 8. In-between. 9. Inhabited Wall. 10. Hidden. 11. Refuge and Prospect. Temples and Cottages. How Analysis Can Help Design. Postscript. Acknowledgements. Bibliography and References. Index.
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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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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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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.
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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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Museum of Modern Art Complexity and Contradiction at fifty: Studies
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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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MIT Press Ltd The Monster Leviathan
Book SynopsisVisionary proposals for a mythic and strange architecture—or anarchitecture—through which we can imagine other and better worlds.Lurking under the surface of our modern world lies an unseen architecture—or anarchitecture. It is a possible architecture, an analogous architecture, an architecture of anarchy, which haunts in the form of monsters that are humans and machines and cities all at once; or takes the form of explosions, veils, queer, playful spaces, or visions from artwork and video games. In The Monster Leviathan, Aaron Betsky traces anarchitecture through texts, design, and art of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, and suggests that these ephemeral evocations are concrete proposals in and of themselves. Neither working models nor suggestions for new forms, they are scenes just believable enough to convince us they exist, or just fantastical enough to open our eyes.The Monster Leviathan gives students and lovers
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Taylor & Francis Theorising Interior Architecture and Design
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Supports
Book SynopsisFirst translated in English ten years after its original Dutch publication in 1962, this book has inspired practitioners for generations. It's proposal to distinguish the infill from the support - what users can individually decide in a housing process from what users share - has turned out to be feasible in practice. The Natural Relation - the interaction of people with their immediate environment and the central concept of the book - is the result of that distinction. It is essential to the well-being of everyday environment regardless of function or available resources.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. People 2. Cities 3. The Technique 4. The Support Structure 5. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Spatial Agency Other Ways of Doing Architecture
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future. Particularly pertinent in the current economic climate, this book offers the reader new approaches to architectural practice in a changing world. It makes essential reading for any architect, aspiring or practicing. Trade Review"Spatial Agency is a timely and uplifting treatise on the successful ways that architects have addressed some of society’s most vexing global problems. With compelling analysis, richly illustrated by inspiring examples of transformative spatial solutions, the authors argue persuasively that the consequences of architecture are as important as the objects of architecture. This accessibly written book is a must read for anyone seeking an ethical understanding of the role of spatial production in the human struggle to create a democratic and sustainable existence." – Leslie Kanes Weisman, Emerita Professor of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and author of Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment (University of Illinois Press)"Spatial Agency’s lively entry into the discourse around spatial practice, subjectivity and alterity, inspired by the introduction of Henri Lefebvre and feminist theory into architecture in the mid 1990s, asserts the importance of the concept of agency for understanding architecture’s counter-culture over the past 30 years. This succinct and stylish handbook provides the reader with an essential resource for grasping the extraordinarily diverse range of ethical architectural practice. Here is a truly global map of inspiring ‘spatial agents’ who collectively define architecture – against the grain." – Jane Rendell, Vice Dean of Research at the Bartlett, UCL, and author of Art and Architecture (2006), Site-Writing (2010) and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007)"Ultimately this is a valuable book for those interested in pursuing alternatives to traditional architecture, those searching for ideas about how to make positive change when other means are not available, and for those gauging the state of architecture today." – Archidose“The book presents, from an easy and open approach, different ways of understanding the new ways of doing architecture. In all cases it is evident that the spatial production does not imply exclusively to architects and development possibilities are endless. An optimistic crisis for architecture.” – Arquilecturas"‘A timely study that raises vital issues for the future’. Such were the words recently used by the Royal Institute of British Architects in announcing its decision to award the 2011 RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding University-located Research to Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture, the book edited by Nishat Awan and Tatjana Schneider of the University of Sheffield, and Jeremy Till of the University of Westminster... Amid the rhetoric that often surrounds these events, the succinct description does indeed do justice to the work compiled by the three academics and the intellectual platform supporting it. A reflective analysis of the various ways of contributing to change in the built environment outside the canonical plots of professional practice, Spatial Agency tackles some of the central tenets of architecture as a discipline, asking whether these in fact maintain currency for both the profession and the built environment." - Paolo Tombesi, Construction Management and Economics, September 2012Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Motivations of Spatial Agency 3. The Sites of Spatial Agency 4. The Operations of Spatial Agency 5. Other Ways of Doing Architecture
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Cambridge University Press Vitruvius Ten Books on Architecture UK DE sales
Book SynopsisThe only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped humanist architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. This new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture is the first to be published for an English-language audience in more than half a century. Expressing the range of Vitruvius' style, the translation, along with the critical commentary and illustrations, aims to shape a new image of the Vitruvius who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.Trade Review' … this is an important publishing event in the study of architectural history. With Vitruvius now made less obscure, we can see with much greater clarity the inherent flexibility of the Classical system at the time when there was no such thing as Classical architecture - only architecture.' Architects Journal'As twentieth century translator of Vitruvius' treatise Ingrid D. Rowland has done a tremendous service to all those interested in classical architecture.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review'This book makes the Renaissance enthusiasm for Vitruvius understandable again, and it is an indispensable starting point for future work on him.' Preservation'Rowland and Howe have reconstructed Vitruvius's conception of architecture as a liberal art and an essential component of any civilized society, and made it accessible to us.' Archis'I would recommend anyone interested in ancient architecture to buy a copy of this volume for the commentary alone.' Ian Campbell, Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsPart I. Translator's Preface: List of manuscripts and printed editions; Illustrator's preface; Part II: The Translation: Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; Book 4; Book 5; Book 6; Book 7; Book 8; Book 9; Book 10; Part III. Commentary and Illustrations.
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Floris Books Chartres
Book SynopsisExplores the magnificent structure of Chartres Cathedral, suggesting its origins lie in Islamic architecture. Also explores how a particular building or space affects us spiritually.Trade Review'Read Gordon Strachan's book and then visit Chartres with an open mind and wide vision, to find personal insight. Illustrated with beautifully prepared drawings.'-- Clive Hicks, Caduceus, September 2004'It does not matter if you know nothing of sacred geometry; by the end of this book you will have effortlessly imbued a firm understanding of what it is, and how it is. [ ] It is a fascinating read. Strachan's clear explanations of measurements, together with excellent graphics, take the reader on a revelatory journey of mystical spirituality.'-- Logan Lewis-Proudlock, Light magazine, Winter 2003'An inspiring and informative resource for those interested in religious architecture.'-- The Beacon, July 2004'Will delight anybody who recognizes the influence of the built environment. Copious illustrations adorn the text, illuminate the discourse and delight the eye. Gordon Strachan has produced a labour of love, and it shows.'-- Clement Jewitt, Music and Psyche, 2004'Quite simply, we have here a magnificent building that was produced by a unique blend of masonic skills, religious ideas and earth energies. To walk through Chartres is indeed to walk through a sacred space.'-- Fortean Times, April 2004'Chartres cathedral in France is one of the most important and popular sacred sites in Western Europe. The Rev. Strachan's new study examines the spiritual geometry of the church and suggests its significance is connected to an ancient combination of pagan worship, earth energies and the mystical harmony of Christian and Islamic architecture. Highly recommended.'-- The Cauldron, August 2003'Surprisingly, there's no heresy in this book. It's beautifully produced. It opens our eyes to the story of our historic relations with Islam. The deeper theme of seeing God in the darkness as well as the light is important, and so is the link between the geometry of square roots and the mysteriousness of Gothic, and of God. God isn't in a box, and can't be contained.'The Very Revd Jim Mein, Christ Church Episcopal, Edinburgh'It is a beautifully illustrated book which explains both the beauty and the geometry of Gothic architecture as seen in Chartres.'The Rt Revd Brian Smith, Bishop of Edinburgh'A detailed yet reader-friendly exploration of the mathematics of Pythagorean, early-Christian and Sufi geometry, leading to applications in medieval Gothic architecture. The author ends by stating that people are drawn to explore cathedrals he feels there is something 'alchemical' in the very architecture of the buildings themselves. I have always felt this and now have a better idea of why. Five pentacles.'-- Cerridwen Connelly, Pentacle, Winter 2003Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Islamic Origin of the Pointed Arch2. Abbot Suger and the Historical Debate3. St Bernard and the Early Gothic Plan4. Of Cubes and Kaaba5. The Plan of Chartres6. Dionysius the Areopagite and the Unknown God7. St Denis, Chartres and the Darkness of GodEndnotes & Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Touching Architecture
Book SynopsisThis book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do and the ways in which our surroundings ?and bodies contribute to this. Our experience of architecture is an embodied one, with all our senses acting in concert as we move through time and space. The book picks up where much of the critique of architectural aestheticism at the end of the twentieth century left off: illustrating the limitations and potential consequences of attending to architecture as the visually biased practice which has steadily become the status quo within both industry and education. It draws upon interdisciplinary research to elucidate the reasons why this is counter-productive to the creation of meaningful places and ?to articulate the embodied richness of our touching encounters. A felt-phenomenology is introduced as a more?-than visual alternative capable of sustaining our physical, emotional, and psychological well-being.By recognising thTrade Review"Anthony Richard Brand presents his case delightfully well. We enact the built and natural worlds through our bodies, through our whole bodies. Armed with this new understanding of hapticity and mood, the next generation of designers will imagine lived environments quite different from what we uncritically accept today."Harry Francis Mallgrave, PhD Hon FRIBA, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA "This book participates in a current conversation questioning the assumptions of architecture as both a gratuitous aesthetic object, and as a mere optimized device for human shelter. Extending insights from new phenomenology and the neurosciences, and through a careful analysis of important contemporary design practices, Mr. Brand expounds on the concept of atmosphere for an architecture responsive to qualitative places and cultural values, introducing new insights about the centrality of touch at the basis of perception."Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Emeritus Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada"Focusing on the claim that touch is the most intimate human sense, architectural theorist Anthony Richard Brand delineates elements of a tactile phenomenology of buildings. His central question is ‘how we are touched, moved, or affected by our architectural encounters.’ To answer this question, Brand draws on a wide range of studies, including neurological research and phenomenological work on the lived body, synaesthetic encounter, and environmental atmospheres. He grounds his conceptual argument via perceptive case studies of buildings by eminent architects Steven Holl, Peter Zumthor, and Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Brand’s book is an important contribution to the growing literature on a phenomenology of architectural hapticity."David Seamon, Editor, Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology, Professor of Environment-Behavior and Place Studies, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University, USA"This is a timely and powerful manifesto for a multi-sensory architecture, for buildings that appeal to the user as a living, moving, embodied participant, immersed in a 3-dimensional space unfolding in time. As well as introducing the conceptual tools necessary for understanding architecture in this way, it also applies them to a series of well-researched case-studies. Essential reading for anyone interested in this vitally important area."Jonathan Hale, Professor of Architectural Theory, University of Nottingham, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Touching Architecture 1. Towards a More-than Visual Architecture 2. Embodied Encounters 3. Haptic Visuality and (Syn)Aesthetic Perception 4. Affective Architecture 5. A Matter of Making Atmospheres (case studies) Epilogue: Scenography, Architecture and Affect
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Taylor & Francis Architectures of Care
Book SynopsisDrawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary voices, this book explores how spaces of care shape our affective, material, and social forms, from the most intimate scale of the body to our planetary commons.Typical definitions of care center around the maintenance of a livable life, encompassing everything from shelter and welfare to health and safety. Architecture plays a fundamental role in these definitions, inscribed in institutional archetypes such as the home, the hospital, the school, and the nursery. However, these spaces often structure modes of care that prescribe gender roles, bodily norms, and labor practices. How can architecture instead engage with an expanded definition of care that questions such roles and norms, producing more hybrid entanglements between our bodies, our collective lives, and our environments? Chapters in this book explore issues ranging from disabled domesticities and nursing, unbuilding whiteness in the built environment, practices and Table of ContentsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Reclaiming the Standard of CareBrittany UttingPART I: Intimacy and Interdependence1. Disabled Domesticities and the Politics of Bathrooms: Architectural Enactments of InterdependenceIgnacio G. Galán 2. Domesticity and the Architecture Film: Caring-With ArchitectureLilian Chee, with a photo essay by Ian Mun3. Bedside Care: Nursing Practice in the Emergence of the Modern HospitalPiergianna Mazzocca4. Care as InfrastructureAni Liu in Conversation with Brittany UttingPART II: Collective Power and Conflict 5. Detroit Industry and “The Mural”: Representing Labor and Reappropriating Care in the Museum and in the Union HallJay Cephas 6. Aesthetics of Paradox: Hospitals for the United Mine Workers of America (1946–1958)Joy Knoblauch7. Commoning Practices as a Form of CareNeeraj Bhatia 8. Caring to Act, Acting to Care: Unbuilding Whiteness in the Built EnvironmentFabiola López-Durán and Adrienne RooneyPart III: Landscapes of Repair9. Care Manual: Caring Is What Caring DoesHélène Frichot10. Field Stations for a Future Climate: Architectures of Environmental CareDaniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting 11. Floating University Berlin: A Natureculture Learning SiteRosario Talevi and Gilly Karjevsky 12. Propping Up the CloudElsa MH MäkiIndex
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Taylor & Francis Decolonising the Built Environment
Book SynopsisDecolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product, and Pedagogy provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, in practice, and as a process/project today. The contributors provide an inclusive and trans-national conversation between a diverse set of academics, design practitioners and thinkers, and activists. This book is structured around three thematic and practical categories: Part 1 studies decolonisation conceptually; Part 2 studies decolonisation as a process; and Part 3 studies the products of decolonisation as materialised in the form of buildings, urban design, planning, policy, and social practices.Essential reading for students, teachers, and practitioners, this book presents the project of decolonisation as a pedagogy and an ongoing process.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Future Home
Book SynopsisGlobal pandemics, smart technologies, demographics and climate change are just some of the external disruptors that may impact the home's evolution over the next ten years. Future Home provides a comprehensive horizon scan' of what our homes may be like approximately ten years from now, by looking for early signs of potentially important developments through a systematic examination of trends, innovations and disruptors. The authors consider what aspects of the home are likely to remain constant and what aspects may change beyond all recognition and if changes are predicted, what form they may take and, most importantly, what this means for design professionals. Exploring areas of buildings and technology, people and delivery, each chapter addresses the catalysts, natures and responses to these changes. This book provides an overview of the future home that will be essential reading for designers, policy-makers and homeowners alike.Table of Contents1. Meeting Future Challenges; Flexible and Pre-fab Housing 2. Mass Production versus Individualisation 3. Net-zero Homes and Passivhaus 4. Comfort Redefined: The Future of Home Living 5. A Technologically Sustainable, Responsible and Smarter Home 6. Working from home: We don’t need more space, we need SPACE 7. The Future of Communal Living: Exploring the Architectural and Technological Possibilities of the Shared, Multi-Generational Urban Home in 2030 8. Health and Wellbeing 9. Homes to Age in Place 10. Towards a Participatory Architecture 11. Off the Wall: Manufacturing future homes based on a ‘throughput’ business model 12. Reshaping the Landscape: Retrofitting Homes for Sustainable Living
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Taylor & Francis Museum Configurations
Book SynopsisMuseum Configurations demonstrates how museum space functions cognitively and communicatively and questions whether it can be designed to provide a rich embodied experience, situating displays and their public in felicitous dialogue.Including contributions from authors working in the disciplines of architecture, psychology, museum studies, history and the visual arts, this volume addresses an interdisciplinary audience. The analysis of a wealth of examples shows how the voices of architects, curators and exhibition designers enter into dialogue and invite visitors to make their own connections between physical, cognitive and affective space. Considering how the layout of museums facilitates movement and orientation so that visitors may devote their attention to displays, the book questions what kinds of visual attention characterizes museum experiences and how the design of museum space can support them. In the context of an often dematerialized, atomized, and dissipatTable of Contents1. Museums as spatial configurations; 2. The dialectic of the enlightenment museum: Edifice, edification, and dissolution; 3. Movement, visibility, and the states of museum experience; 4. Intelligibility and the structures of freedom; 5. A stimulating museum space: ‘Glancing away’ and engaging working memory in-between exhibits; 6. Narrative, dramaturgy and spatial choreography: movement and subjectivity in museum configurations; 7. Spacing collections. Space syntax and a museum yet to come; 8. Navigating museum space: Mapping, syntax, and metaphor; 9. Designing the syntax of museum space in the studio; 10. Postscript: What more can museum architecture do?.
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Taylor & Francis Finishing in Architecture
Book SynopsisFinishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending explores the topic of finishing and the fascinating physical and metaphysical implications of its various conceptions in architecture. Finishing is essential to all human practices and concepts of time, yet simultaneously it is largely impossible to identify an entirely finished state of being. As mortals, we organize our worlds into beginnings and endings, starts and finishes. Architectureâs temporality, however, may contain something of both the mortal and immortal within it â a desire for permanence combined with lamentation over its impossibility.While many approaches to finishing construct two opposed ontological conditions (the finished and the unfinished), this dualistic ploy neglects the complexity of architectural practice, cultural reception, and historiographic shifts in semiotics during the lifetime of a building. More nuanced approaches are examined in this collection of 38 essays and creative works from a diverse group of scholars, architects, and artists who conceptualize finishing not simply as a final outcome, but as an extended action, a mood that presumes an end is near, all the while working continuously toward (but never achieving) completion. It is here that the concept of finishing is not a state of being but a state of becoming, as an active thickening of time when the end is thought to be imminent but not yet attained. Finishing, more than a final endpoint, is a void state that is extended through efforts framing its territory, while never quite containing it.From the material to the procedural and the conceptual, this volume explores the practices of finishing in architecture within three currents: surfaces, projects, and most broadly, architectural times. It will be of interest to students and instructors of architecture and design, architectural historians, and other scholars.
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Taylor & Francis Virtual Reality
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Taylor & Francis Architecture and Social Sustainability
Book SynopsisArchitecture and Social Sustainability shows how we can better design for stakeholder agency, serve historically marginalized populations, and further our theoretical thinking about sustainability writ large.With chapters exploring both the urban and the building scale, this volume examines the design of buildings and urban settings to illustrate how we can create more inclusive and equitable communities through broadening our design approach. Tracing how the professionalization of architecture and urban design have shut out stakeholder input, this book offers a range of methods and theoretical ideas to re-tool the design process for better social sustainability. The book illustrates these concepts through a series of case studies that have worked around systemic inequalities, recaptured stakeholder voices, and helped promote spatial and social justice. Case studies look at reparative urban and landscape design the United States, informal market structures in Nigeria, co-designed housing for low-income communities in India and Brazil, and participatory design for housing, schools, and healthcare facilities in Europe and the U.K. Essential reading for architects and urban designers seeking alternatives to conventional practice, as well as educators and students incorporating social sustainability as a foundational design concept, Architecture and Social Sustainability ties together design thinking and action to show architectureâs potential for social change.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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Taylor & Francis Building Sites
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Taylor & Francis On the Aesthetics of Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Gordon Cullens Townscape in USA
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Social ReProduction of Architecture
Book SynopsisThe Social (Re)Production of Architecture brings the debates of the right to the city' into today's context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s' discussions about the production of space', which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors question who has the right to make space, and explore the kinds of relations that are produced in the process. In the emerging post-capitalist era, this book addresses urgent social and ecological imperatives for change and opens up questions around architecture's engagement with new forms of organization and practice. The book asks what (new) kinds of social' can architecture (re)produce, and what kinds of politics, values and actions are needed. The book features 24 interdisciplinary essays written by leading theorists and practitioners including social thinkers, economic theorists, architects, educators, urban curators, feminists, artists and activists from different generaTable of Contents1. The Social (Re)Production of Architecture in 'crisis riddled' times Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal Part 1: Politics 2. Notes on Social Production. A Brief Commentary Tatjana Schneider 3. Making Places, Building Communities, Empowering Citizens: Participatory Slum Upgrading in Thailand Supreeya Wungpatcharapon 4. Outside in Prison: Taking the Case of Spatial Rights to a Prison Court(yard) Gabu Heindl 5. Tea or Coffee? Politics and Bingo on the Pavements Peter Mutschler and Ruth Morrow 6. Decolonizing Architectural Education: Towards an Affective Pedagogy Pelin Tan 7. Neighbourhood Claims for the Future. Feminist Solidarity Urbanism in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Elke Krasny 8. Is "Tactical Urbanism" an Alternative to Neoliberal Urbanism? Reflections on an Exhibition at the MOMA Neil Brenner 9. Software and Spatial Practice: The Social (Co)production of Software or Software for Social (Co)production? Phil Langley Part 2: Values 10. Diverse Economies, Space and Architecture: An Interview with Katherine Gibson 11. Caring: Making Commons, Making Connections Kim Trogal 12. Trade as Architecture: Public Realming Through Tangible Economies Kathrin Böhm 13. Metropolitan Commons: Spatial Commoning in Berlin’s Großer Tiergarten and Tempelhofer Feld Sandra Bartoli and Mathias Heyden 14. Social Property and the Need for a New Urban Practice Gabriela Rendón and Miguel Robles-Durán 15. Affordable Housing in Your Lifetime? Ana Džokić, Marc Neelen and Ana Vilenica□ 16. Popular Brazilian Architecture in the Making- Or the Power of Productive Consumption Rainer Hehl Part 3: Actions 17. Tent Cities, People’s Kitchens, Free Universities. The Global Villages of Occupation Movements Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer 18. Tactical Practices of Creative Dissent Ana Betancour 19. In Action: Searching for the In Between City Alex Axinte and Cristi Borcan (studioBASAR) 20. Ways to be Public Rory Hyde 21. Cultivating Spatial Possibilities in Palestine: Searching for Sub/urban Bridges in Beit Iksa, Jerusalem Nasser Golzari and Yara Sharif 22. Old News from a Contact Zone. Action Archive in Tensta Meike Schalk 23. Hustadt Story - So Far Apolonija Šušteršič 24. A Bakery as a Site of Resistance Jeanne van Heeswijk Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Atmospheric Architectures
Book SynopsisThere is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this ''atmospheric turn'' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme. Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces brings together Böhme''s most seminal writings on the subject, through chapters selected from his classic books and articles, many of which have hitherto only been available in German. This is the only translated version authorised by Böhme himself, and is the first coherent collection deploying a consistent terminology. It is a work which will provide rich references and a theoretical framework for ongoing discussions about atmospheres and their relations to architectural and urban spaces. Combining philosophy with architecture, design, landscape design, scenography, music, art criticism, and visual arts, the essays together provide a key to the concepts that motivate Trade ReviewA fascinating collection of essays by the German philosopher Gernot Böhme . . . the essays are thoughtfully translated, and usefully introduced, in a way that will make Bohme’s work accessible and engaging to a wide audience. The message of the book is inspirational in its shift from the study of objects toward experience, and it will sit nicely among similarly motivated titles in Bloomsbury Academic’s impressively burgeoning architecture library. * Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 18 *Table of ContentsForeword: ‘Ecstasies’ by Professor Mark Dorrian (University of Edinburgh) Towards the Inside of Atmospheres: Translator’s Introduction Atmosphere, a basic concept of a new aesthetic New Aesthetics Benjamin’s aura The concept of atmosphere in Hermann Schmitz’ philosophy The ecstasies of things Making atmospheres The critical potential of an aesthetics of atmospheres Conclusion The Ecstasies of Things: Ontology and aesthetics of thingness Subjectivism in aesthetics Terminological differentiations The prevalence of the thing in ontology Life within the world of things The closure of the thing within the main ontological models Alternative thing models The Thing Conclusion: Ontology and aesthetics Material Splendour: A Contribution to the Critique of Aesthetic Economy A golden ladle Material aesthetics Material beauty Particle board Internal design and invisible aesthetics Contribution to the critique of aesthetic economy Atmospheres in Architecture Weather and feelings Architecture and felt space Atmospheres as the subject matter of architecture The perception of architecture Architecture and space The atmosphere of a city Conclusion The Presence of Living Bodies in Space Developments in architecture and art history What is the space of bodily presence? Disposition Actuality and reality Atmospheres of Human Communication The utterly familiar Radiance Actualisation and disturbance of interpersonal atmospheres Contributions Learning to Live with Atmospheres: A new Aesthetic Humanist Education Objectives of aesthetic education Schiller’s On the aesthetic education of man in a series of letters Aesthetic humanist education under the conditions of technical civilisation and aesthetic economy Atmosphere as the object and medium of aesthetic education The Grand Concert of the World Introduction Modern art and the aesthetics of atmospheres The aesthetic conquest of acoustic space Music and soundscape, or the music of the soundscape Acoustic atmospheres Conclusion The Voice in Spaces of Bodily Presence Spatial sounds The rehabilitation of the voice The voice as an articulation of bodily presence Conclusion Light and Space The phenomenology of light Cleared space The space of light Lights in space Things appearing in light Light on things Lighting The Art of Staging as a Paradigm for an Aesthetics of Atmospheres Producing atmospheres Atmosphere – a well-known but extremely vague phenomenon Aesthetics of reception and production Fantastic art/unreliable fabrication Conclusion: the art of staging Church Atmospheres The numinous and the profanization of church spaces Sacred twilight – diaphanous light Silence and the Sublime Stone and space Genius Loci Afterword: ‘Atmospheres to Think About’ by Professor David Leatherbarrow (University of Pennsylvania) References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Architectural Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThe fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves. But this poses a problem for architecture: its works are designed to serve our purposes, and therefore it is classed as functional. Carving out a new space, Edward Winters argues why architecture is a fine art and finds a place for the fine art of architecture in the cultural environment in which we structure our lives.Winters reconciles intrinsic value, as a fine art, with extrinsic value, as shelter, security and comfort, without collapsing into the modernist conception of Functionalism. He draws on the Apollonian and the Dionysian to resolve the apparent conflict between the two values: the former requiring contemplative, detached reflection, the latter an engaged, embodied entanglement with the festive mood inspired by the immediate situation. Architecture, Winters claims, is to be regarded as functional; but this functionality is subsumed under the intrinsic aesthetic valTrade ReviewEdward Winters is not only an excellent scholar but also a gifted writer. This rich, lucid, and accessible book is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophy of architecture. * Hans Maes, Senior Lecturer of History and Philosophy of Art, University of Kent, UK *In Architectural Aesthetics, Edward Winters answers the question: what is the art of architecture by delving into the motivation for building, and the experience of occupying and appreciating architectural works. The result is a strikingly original approach to its subject. * Robert Stecker, Professor of Philosophy, Central Michigan University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Wide Conversation Surrounding Architecture 1. Hunting and Gathering 2. Home in the World Part II: The System of the (Fine) Arts 3. The Fine Art Members’ Club: Architecture’s Candidature 4. Imagination and Combobulation 5. Imagination Unhinged 6. Architecture: Beauty in Service Part III: The Medium of Architecture 7. The Medium of Architecture: From Philosophy to Criticism 8. The Scale of the Tasks 9. Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Academic Queering Architecture
Book SynopsisQueering Architecture explores what it means to queer architecture, challenging the methods and methodologies of architectural discourse and subverting disciplinary power structures.Architecture as a discipline, a profession and an applied practice, is always subordinate to its own conceptual framework of orderliness. How, then, can we look at queering architectural discourse when the very term queer' celebrated for its elusive, slippery nature resists and attacks such order?The essays in this book explore this paradox from a diverse range of perspectives from the questions of mapping queer theory in architecture; to the issues of queer architectural archives, or lack thereof; to the non-Western linguistic challenges to the very term queer alongside decolonial approaches to architecture via indigeneity and landscape. Queering Architecture not only provides a bold challenge to the normative methods employed in architectural discourse but addre
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Atlas of Informal Settlement
Book SynopsisWhile often seen as unplanned or spontaneous, informal settlement is better understood as a mode of production: a co-evolution of architecture, urban design and planning that embodies informal rules and shapes urban development. The Atlas of Informal Settlement is a comparative study of the spatial logic of informal settlement based on mapping and analysing the evolution of urban form (morphogenesis) in 51 contemporary settlements across the planet the first of its kind and a fundamental change in thinking for urban studies and built environment professionals. Each of the 51 case studies uses maps and aerial photographs to examine key stages of development, showing how informal settlement adapts to different contexts of political economy, topography, culture, climate and land tenure; revealing a complex range of actors from settlers and states to land mafias and pirate developers. It demonstrates the range of design processes and formal outcomes; how the infoTrade ReviewThe Atlas demonstrates the indispensable value that is generated by investigating the spatial logic of informal settlement, as this exposes factors often overlooked in broad-brush statistics and geospatial analysis based on artificial intelligence. Focusing on fifty-one sites, the Atlas offers a nuanced spatial analysis at different scale levels and reveals the processes and outcomes of self-organized urban design. In doing so, it offers learnings for context-sensitive policies for affordable housing and neighbourhood infrastructure in rapidly growing cities. * Raf Tuts, Director, Global Solutions Division, UN-Habitat *We know very little about most of the informal settlements that house over a billion urban dwellers. This book advances and deepens our understanding of these settlements‘ development and expansion over time in all their diversity and complexity. * David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development *This is a vital empirical consolidation of the heterogeneous ways urban settlements are being composed and governed. The "informal" is always extending itself across new terrain and vernaculars; something always being worked and worked on in incessant processes of becoming unsettled and resettled. * AbdouMaliq Simone, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield *Table of ContentsList of figures List of authors Acknowledgements Part A INTRODUCTION: Informal Settlement as a Verb Part B METHOD: Mapping Informal Assemblages Part C SETTLEMENT Part D MORPHOGENESIS: The Spatial Logic of Self-Organized Urban Design Part E REFERENCES Glossary Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Design History and Time
Book SynopsisDesign, History and Time reflects on the nature of time in relation to design, in both past and contemporary contexts. In contrast to a traditional design historical approach which emphasizes schools and movements, this volume addresses time as a continuum and considers the importance of temporality for design practice and history.Contributors address how designers, design historians and design thinkers might respond to the global challenges of time, the rhythms of work, and the increasing speed of life and communication between different communities. They consider how the past informs the present and the future in terms of design, the importance of time-based design practices such as rapid prototyping and slow design, time in relation to memory and forgetting, and artefacts such as the archive for which time is key, and they also ponder the design of time itself.Showcasing the work of 15 design scholars from a range of international contexts, this book proviTrade ReviewDesign, History & Time offers a challenge to design historians. It asks them to consider how assumptions about time as a measure of social value are ‘baked in’ to our thinking about design. It also offers ways to work through these assumptions and fixed representations, by putting a critical analysis of time at the forefront of design history. * Journal of Design History *Part history, part travelogue, part meditation on the meaning of time, Design, History and Time offers challenging thoughts on the nature of time and playful reflections on popular culture. * Elizabeth Guffey, Professor of Art and Design History at the State University of New York at Purchase, USA *From the permanence of cathedrals whose very construction spanned centuries to the inherent obsolescence of digital communication devices, this fascinating collection forces reconsideration of society’s changing relationship with time over time. * Paul Atkinson, Professor of Design History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Foreword, Barry Curtis (Royal College of Art, UK) Introduction, Zoë Hendon (Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Middlesex University London, UK) and Anne Massey (University for the Creative Arts, UK) Section One: Millennia, Centuries 1. Designing Stone: Temporal Representation of a Timeless Material, Seher Erdogan Ford (Temple University, USA) 2. ‘The Drama of the Soul’: Time, Eternity and Evolution in the Designs of Phoebe Anna Traquair, Sally Anne Huxtable (National Museums Scotland, UK) 3. Time Aboard the Ghan: Alice Springs to Adelaide, March 2016, Anne Burke (Middlesex University, UK) Section Two: Centuries, Decades, Years 4. As Good as Apple Pie? Post-unification Germany and the Reception of Public Art from the Former German Democratic Republic, Jessica Jenkins (Falmouth University, UK) 5. The Story of a Portuguese Cock and Other Knick-knacks: Heritage, Propaganda and Design in a Far-right Dictatorship, Carlos Bártolo (Universidade Lusíada, Portugal) 6. An Experiment with Time: Modern and Classical Influences in the Planning of 'High and Over' ,Michael Findlay (Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand) 7. Making ‘Atomic’ History: Consuming Historical Narratives in the ‘Unofficial’ Digital Archive, Emily Candela (Royal College of Art, UK) 8. A Queer Feeling and its Future in/for Design History, John Potvin (Concordia University, Canada) Section Three: Days, Hours, Seconds 9. Tube Time: How the Subterranean City Got Faster by Design, David Lawrence (Kingston University and London Transport Museum, UK) 10. Dreams of The Fun Palace and Plug-In City: Architectural Modularism and Cybernetics in the 1960s, Claire McAndrew (University College London, UK) 11. Sign of the Times: Slow Design in the Age of Social Acceleration, Niels Peter Skou (University of Southern Denmark) 12. Fast and Slow: Design and the Experience of Time, Stephen Hayward (Central Saint Martins, UK) 13. Delivered in Less than Sixty Seconds: Temporal References in the Design and Discourse of Digital Reading Devices, Toke Riis Ebbesen (University of Southern Denmark) Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theory for Theatre Studies Light
Book SynopsisWhat properties of light can be manipulated for aesthetic effect? What role does the perception of the audience play in how stage information is received and processed? How do changes in technology affect methods or approaches to design and practice? This book is designed to introduce key ideas about light and to generate questions and perspectives that will encourage readers to explore light in the theatre more fully in their own critical and creative practices.Examining the theories behind stage lighting practice to help students learn to analyse the aesthetic and critical impacts of light in performance, this book traces the development of lighting practice by focusing on important shifts in technology and aesthetics from the classical period to the modern era.Central to this study are ideas developed by New Stagecraft' theorists and designers Adolphe Appia, Edward Gordon Craig and Robert Edmond Jones. Case studies include semiotic approaches to Loï
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