Theory of architecture Books
MIT Press Ltd Noahs Ark Essays on Architecture Writing
Book SynopsisFrom Noah's Ark to Diller + Scofidio's “Blur” Building, a distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about architecture's origin and development.Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a “displaced philosopher,” Hubert Damisch in these essays offers a meticulous parsing of language and structure to “think architecture in a different key,” as Anthony Vidler puts it in his introduction. Drawn to architecture because it provides “an open series of structural models,” Damisch examines the origin of architecture and then its structural development from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. He leads the reader from Jean-François Blondel to Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to Mies van der Rohe to Diller + Scofidio, with stops along the way at the Temple of Jerusalem, Vitruvius's De Architectura, and the Louvre. In the title essay, Damisch moves easily from Diderot's Enc
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MIT Press Ltd Bleak Houses Disappointment and Failure in
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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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MIT Press Ltd The Projective Cast Architecture and Its Three
Book SynopsisRobin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form.Anyone reviewing the history of architectural theory, Robin Evans observes, would have to conclude that architects do not produce geometry, but rather consume it. In this long-awaited book, completed shortly before its author's death, Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. He shows that geometry does not always play a stolid and dormant role but, in fact, may be an active agent in the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and drawing, drawing and building. He suggests a theory of architecture that is based on the many transactions between architecture and geometry as
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MIT Press Studies in Tectonic Culture
Book SynopsisComposed of ten essays and an epilogue that trace the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure and construction, the book''s analytical framework rests on Frampton''s close readings of key French and German, and English sources from the eighteenth century to the present.Kenneth Frampton''s long-awaited follow-up to his classic A Critical History of Modern Architecture is certain to influence any future debate on the evolution of modern architecture. Studies in Tectonic Culture is nothing less than a rethinking of the entire modern architectural tradition. The notion of tectonics as employed by Frampton—the focus on architecture as a constructional craft—constitutes a direct challenge to current mainstream thinking on the artistic limits of postmodernism, and suggests a convincing alternative. Indeed, Frampton argues, modern architecture is invariably as much about structure and construction as it is about space and abstract form.Composed of ten essays and an epilogue that trace the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure and construction, the book''s analytical framework rests on Frampton''s close readings of key French and German, and English sources from the eighteenth century to the present. He clarifies the various turns that structural engineering and tectonic imagination have taken in the work of such architects as Perret, Wright, Kahn, Scarpa, and Mies, and shows how both constructional form and material character were integral to an evolving architectural expression of their work. Frampton also demonstrates that the way in which these elements are articulated from one work to the next provides a basis upon which to evaluate the works as a whole. This is especially evident in his consideration of the work of Perret, Mies, and Kahn and the continuities in their thought and attitudes that linked them to the past.Frampton considers the conscious cultivation of the tectonic tradition in architecture as an essential element in the future development of architectural form, casting a critical new light on the entire issue of modernity and on the place of much work that has passed as avant-garde.A copublication of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies and The MIT Press.
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MIT Press Ltd Architecture Theory since 1968
Book SynopsisAn anthology of the pivotal theoretical texts that have defined architecture culture in the late twentieth century.In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be understood to rise spontaneously, as a matter of social course, but must now be constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. The development of interpretive modes of various stripes—post-structuralist, Marxian, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, as well as others dissenting or eccentric—has given scholars a range of tools for rethinking architecture in relation to other fields and for reasserting architectures general importance in intellectual discourse.This anthology presents forty-seven of the primary texts of architecture theory, introducing each with an explication of the concepts and categories necessary for its understanding and evaluation. It also presents twelve docume
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MIT Press Ltd Camouflage
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the urge in human beings to feel at home in the world, and the role that architecture plays in this process.We human beings are governed by the urge to conform and blend in with our surroundings. We follow fashion. We become part of cultures of conformity—religious communities, military groups, sports teams; we take on corporate identities. Likewise, we seem to have the capacity to grow into our built environment, to familiarize ourselves with it, and eventually to find ourselves at home there. We have a chameleonlike urge to adapt, and, given the increasing mobility of contemporary life, we are constantly having to do so.The desire for camouflage is a desire to feel connected—to find our place in the world and to feel at home. In Camouflage Neil Leach analyzes this desire and its consequences for architectural concerns. Design, Leach argues, can aid the process of assimilation we go through when we adapt to our surroundings. Design can pr
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MIT Press On Weathering
Book SynopsisOn Weathering illustrates the complex nature of the architectural project by taking into account its temporality, linking technical problems of maintenance and decay with a focused consideration of their philosophical and ethical implications.In a clear and direct account supplemented by many photographs commissioned for this book, Mostafavi and Leatherbarrow examine buildings and other projects from Alberti to Le Corbusier to show that the continual refinishing of the building by natural forces adds to, rather than detracts from, architectural meaning. Their central discovery, that weathering makes the final state of the construction necessarily indefinite, challenges the conventional notion of a building''s completeness. By recognizing the inherent uncertainty and inevitability of weathering and by viewing the concept of weathering as a continuation of the building process rather than as a force antagonistic to it, the authors offer alternative readings of historical constructions and potential beginnings for new architectural projects.
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MIT Press Ltd Experiencing Architecture
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MIT Press Architecture Disjunction The MIT Press
Book SynopsisAvant-garde theorist and architect Bernard Tschumi is equally well known for his writing and his practice. Architecture and Disjunction, which brings together Tschumi's essays from 1975 to 1990, is a lucid and provocative analysis of many of the key issues that have engaged architectural discourse over the past two decades—from deconstructive theory to recent concerns with the notions of event and program. The essays develop different themes in contemporary theory as they relate to the actual making of architecture, attempting to realign the discipline with a new world culture characterized by both discontinuity and heterogeneity. Included are a number of seminal essays that incited broad attention when they first appeared in magazines and journals, as well as more recent and topical texts.Tschumi's discourse has always been considered radical and disturbing. He opposes modernist ideology and postmodern nostalgia since both impose restrictive criteria on what may be deemed
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Yale University Press Architecture and the Text
Book SynopsisAddresses philosophical questions concerning the relation between writing and architecture. This book draws together two cultural fantasies from different periods, and argues that architecture is a system of representation, with signifying possibilities that go beyond the symbolic.
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Yale University Press Tradition and Invention in Architecture
Book SynopsisBrings together essays and conversations that cover topics ranging from modern classicism, American housing, gardens, and New York City to the work of Norman Foster, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore, and Robert Moses.
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Yale University Press Rediscovering Architecture
Book SynopsisThe 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. In this book, the author analyzes extensive original source material, including letters, diaries, drawings, paintings, engravings and published texts, which are reproduced here.Trade Review “Coming with a splendid selection of drawings, the book is a rigorous presentation of that key moment in the history of European architecture”—Arquitectura Viva
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Pan Macmillan Why We Build
Book SynopsisRowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard. He is also a trained architect, and between 2002 and 2008 was the Director of the Architecture Foundation.Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard. He is also a trained architect, and between 2002 and 2008 was the Director of the Architecture Foundation.Trade Review‘A refreshingly humane and lucid book from one of our most intelligent architecture critics’ Daily Telegraph‘Vivid and witty . . . it’s a book about what happens when other non-architectural matter – capital, sex, family life, the caprices of function – barges into a discipline that sometimes likes to think of itself as pure’ Guardian‘Architecture critic for the Observer, Rowan Moore, has written a fantastic book which is well worth reading for anyone interested in architecture.’ Sir Paul Smith‘Moore has a lot to offer those who like verbal flexibility and thought-provoking aphorisms. There is also a sense of mischief . . . if famous architects were a coconut shy, Moore would go home with the giant teddy . . . Elegant and witty, with a sometimes 18th-century sensuality, this is a hard-hitting book with great panache.’ Sunday Telegraph'Moore has conjured a rare feat in producing a work that will be appreciated by professionals and punters alike.' Observer‘Moore writes with economy, clarity and wit’ Will Wiles, Building Design‘A paean to the way we inhabit, which explains why good architecture changes constantly’ Financial Times‘Intelligent and cultured . . . packed with passionately held ideas about the epiphanies, farces and humanity in architecture’ Independent‘Thoughtful and elegantly written, Why We Build will appeal to anyone with an interest in architecture . . . It benefits from a clear style and years of architectural criticism . . . the argument is forceful, but not prescriptive, the satisfying result of prolonged and sensitive observation of both buildings and human nature.’ Spectator‘Lively and engaging . . . Anyone with an interest in architecture will find good things here’ Evening Standard‘A subtle, often eccentric but always entertaining guide . . . A fascinating work of love, intellectual curiosity and endurance’ Literary Review‘Dazzling . . . there’s plenty to discover.’ Sunday TimesTable of ContentsChapter - 1: Desire shapes space, and space shapes desire Chapter - 2: The fixed and the wandering home Chapter - 3: The true fake Chapter - 4: The inconsistent horizon, or notes on the erotic in architecture Chapter - 5: Power and freedom Chapter - 6: Form follows finance Chapter - 7: The rapacity of 'hope' Chapter - 8: Eternity of overrated Chapter - 9: Life, and the look of life Chapter - 10: Indespensible as bread Section - 11: List of illustrations Section - 12: Selected bibliography Section - 13: Acknowledgements Section - 14: Index
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Taylor & Francis Spatial Violence
Book SynopsisThis book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of architecture and its epistemologies, as well as a method for theoretical and historical inquiry intrinsic to architecture; and thereby offers an alternative to predominant readings of spatial violence as a topic, event, fact, or other empirical form that may be illustrated by architecture. Exploring histories of and through architecture at sites across the globe, the chapters in the book blur the purportedly distinctive borders between war and peace, framing violence as a form of social, political, and economic order rather than its exceptional interruption. Regarding space and violence as co-constitutive, the book's collected essays critique modernization and capitalist accumulation as naturalized modes for the extraction of violence from everyday life. Focusing on the mediation of violence through architectural registers of construction, destruction, design, use, representation, theory, and history, the book suggests Table of Contents1. Spatial Violence 2. On "Revolutionary Vandalism" 3. Architecture During Wartime: The Mostra d’Oltremare and Esposizione Universale di Roma 4. Sentenced: Architecture of Solitary Confinement 5. The Economy of Fear: Oscar Newman Launches Crime Prevention through Urban Design (1969 – 197x) 6. New Belgrade After 1999: Spatial Violence as De-Socialisation, De-Romanisation, and De-Historisation 7. Mud, Dust, and Marouge´: Precarious Construction in a Congolese Refugee Camp 8. Encampments: Spatial Taxonomies of Sri Lanka’s Civil War
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture and Health
Book SynopsisArchitecture and Health recognizes the built environment and health as inextricable encouraging a new mind-set for the profession. Over 40 international award-winning projects are included to explore innovative design principles linked to health outcomes. The book is organized into three interdependent health domainsindividual, community, and globalin which each case study proposes context-specific architectural responses. Case studies include children's hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, elderly housing, mental health facilities, cancer support centers, clinics, healthy communities, healthcare campuses, wellness centers, healing gardens, commercial offices, infrastructure for developing countries, sustainable design, and more. Representing the United States, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia, each author brings a new perspective to health and its related architectural response. This book brings a timely focus to a subject matter commonly constrictedTrade Review“One of the traps experienced healthcare architects fall into is replicating the status quo. The primary strengths of this book are, firstly, the diversity of ideas and approaches from all over the world force the reader to explore new ideas and approaches. Secondly, the use of case studies takes ideas beyond the conceptual and demonstrates their execution, thereby, helping the reader to understand the applicability to his or her situation. I would highly recommend this book to those who want to step back and reflect on the greater issue of health and environment.”Joyce Durham RN, AIA, EDAC, Director of Facilities Strategic Planning; New York-Presbyterian"Architecture and Health reflects the broadened identity of both the architecture and health professions: architects now recognize that their responsibilities include the global built environment, while health professionals have begun to embrace global health and well-being as central to their work. The essays in this book also help us understand why that change has happened: both our built environment and our health system are unsustainable, inequitable, and unaffordable in their current form."Thomas Fisher Professor, School of Architecture; Director, Minnesota Design Center, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsKey Terms Introduction: Discovering an Architecture for Health Dina Battisto and Jacob J. Wilhelm Part 1: Individual Health Healthcare Facilities for Children: Designing for Distinct Age Groups Allen Buie Elderly Autonomy through Architecture: Building a Fifth-Generation Residential Care Home Dietger Wissounig and Birgit Prack Advancing Rehabilitation: Design that Considers Physical and Cognitive Disabilities Brenna Costello Design Attributes for Improved Mental and Behavioral Health Mardelle McCuskey Shepley and Naomi A. Sachs Renewing the Human Spirit Through Design: Celebrating Maggie’s Centres Jamie Mitchell Part 2: Community Health Creating Healthy Communities Through Wellness Districts and Health Campuses Shannon Kraus, Kate Renner, Dina Battisto, and Brett Jacobs Superhospitals: The Next Generation of Public Hospitals in Scandinavia Klavs Hyttel A Rebirth of the Consolidated Health Campus: The New Parkland Hospital Matthew Suarez and James J. Atkinson Defining a Project Method: Ensuring Project Success with Pre-Design Planning Harm Hollander The Efficacy of Healing Gardens: Integrating Landscape Architecture for Health Katharina Nieberler-Walker, Cheryl Desha, Omniya El Baghdadi, and Angela Reeve Lean Design: The Everett Clinic at Smokey Point Barbara Anderson, Melanie Yaris, and Julia Leitman Employee Wellness: The Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center at Mayo Clinic Peter G. Smith and Stephen N. Berg From Vice to Wellness: Defining a New Typology in Healthcare Retail Design Megan Stone Part 3: Global Health Outdoor Oncology: A Nature-Inclusive Approach to Healthcare Delivery Bart van der Salm Living Buildings: The Bullitt Center Steve Doub, Jim Hanford, Margaret Sprug, Chris Hellstern, and Katherine Misel Regenerative Architecture: Redefining Progress in the Built Environment Robin Guenther A Blueprint for Using Renewable Energies in Remote Locations Christopher W. Kiss and Keith Holloway Integrating LEED with Biophilic Design Attributes: Towards an Inclusive Rating System Stephen Verderber and Terri Peters Connecting to Context: Place-Based Approaches to Biophilic Healthcare Design Mara Baum The Anti-Prototype: Why Community Health Requires Local Solutions Michael Murphy, Amie Shao, and Jeffrey Mansfield Epilogue: The Future of an Architecture for Health David Allison, Eva Henrich, and Edzard SchultzAbout the EditorsList of ContributorsIndex
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Taylor & Francis Research Methods for Interior Design
Book SynopsisInterior design has shifted significantly in the past fifty years from a focus on home decoration within family and consumer sciences to a focus on the impact of health and safety within the interior environment. This shift has called for a deeper focus in evidence-based research for interior design education and practice. Research Methods for Interior Design provides a broad range of qualitative and quantitative examples, each highlighted as a case of interior design research. Each chapter is supplemented with an in-depth introduction, additional questions, suggested exercises, and additional research references. The bookâs subtitle, Applying Interiority, identifies one reason why the field of interior design is expanding, namely, all people wish to achieve a subjective sense of well-being within built environments, even when those environments are not defined by walls. The chapters of this book exemplify different ways to comprehend interiority through clearlyTable of ContentsIntroduction Dana E. Vaux and David Wang 1. Focus Groups: Interiority at the Scale of Neighborhoods: Exploring the health experiences of three cultural groups Tasoulla Hadjiyanni 2. Design ethnography: Understanding User Experience Within Flexible Workplaces: An Ethnographic Approach Isil Oygur, Ozgur Gocer and Ebru Ergoz Karahan 3. Narrative inquiry: Narratives of Healing: The Records of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in the Era of the Great Depression Erin Cunningham 4. Applied historic preservation: A Local Meeting Place: The Adaptive Reuse of the Huffman House Lisa Tucker 5. Oral histories: Living and Moving, Thingly (Interior) History Bryan D. Orthel 6. Philosophical method: Interior Design in the Common Sense David Wang 7. Logical argumentation: Understanding Place Meaning through Ethos Intensive Objects Dana E. Vaux 8. Mixed methods: Validating ‘feeling at home’: Developing a Psychological Construct Pattern to aid in the Design of Environments for the Homeless Jill Pable 9. Correlation: Correlating Interior Lighting with Teacher Productivity Levels in the Public preK-12 Classroom Alana Pulay 10. Scale Creation: Measuring the "Thirdplaceness" of Social Media Platform. Michael R. Langlais and Dana E. Vaux 11. Virtual simulation: Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing in a Classroom Design. Saleh Kalantari 12. Creative scholarship: Computational design: organic growth and research tactics. An interview with Andrew Kudless by David Wang and Dana E. Vaux Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Home
Book SynopsisHome articulates a critical geography of home' in which home is understood as an emotive place and spatial imaginary that encompasses lived experiences of everyday, domestic life alongside a wider, and often contested, sense of being and belonging in the world. Engaging with the burgeoning cross-disciplinary interest in home since the first edition was published, this significantly revised and updated second edition contains new research boxes, illustrations, and contemporary examples throughout. It also adds a new chapter on Home and the City' that extends the scalar understanding of home to the urban. The book develops the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of a critical geography of home, drawing on key feminist, postcolonial, and housing thinkers as well as contemporary methodological currents in non-representational thinking and performance. The book's chapters consider the making and unmaking of home across the domestic scale house-as-home; the urbTable of Contents1. Setting Up Home: An Introduction, 2. Researching Home, 3. Residence: House-As-Home, 4. Home and the City with Olivia Sheringham, 5. Home, Nation and Empire, 6. Home, Migration and Diaspora, 7. Leaving Home
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Latour for Architects
Book SynopsisBruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories flourished' in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and generated new concepts and methodologies for the understanding of the social. In the past decade, Latour and his Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have gained popularity among researchers in the field of architecture.Latour for Architects is the first introduction to the key concepts and ideas of Bruno Latour that are relevant to architects. First, the book discusses critically how specific methods and insights from his philosophy can inspire new thinking in architecture and design pedagogy. Second, it explores examples from architectural practice and urban design, and reviews recent attempts to extend the methods of ANT into the fields of architectural and urban studies. Third, the book advocates an ANT-inspired approach to architecture, and examines how its meTrade Review"Don’t get fooled by the title of Albena Yaneva’s book "Latour for Architects". It is a quick, lively and precise introduction of my work for lots of other professional bodies and academics. This is the best presentation of my entire work that I am aware of." Bruno Latour, Emeritus Professor at Science Po, Paris, France"At a moment when more and more designers conceive of form as interplay rather than shape and outline, Latour for Architects further extends research and practice beyond the limits of the profession and into new disciplinary coalitions that are increasingly giving authority to spatial variables."Keller Easterling, Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture, Yale University, School of Architecture, USA"Albena Yaneva does an outstanding job in presenting Latour’s most important ideas and deserves praise for organizing them in such an accessible manner. Regarding the task of explanation, the book is impressive."Robert A. Beauregard, Emeritus Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USAPodcasts‘Sunday Coffee: Arts Design Architecture Latour for Architects by Albena Yaneva’ (with Tricia Keffer)https://sundaycoffee.buzzsprout.com/1848499/10635123-latour-for-architects-by-albena-yaneva‘Albena Yaneva: Bruno Latour, ANT and Architects. A is for Architecture’ (with Ambrose Gillick)Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/w5kvr9e6Apple: https://tinyurl.com/vn4b5bfkGoogle: https://tinyurl.com/yc7tsu69Table of Contents1. Introduction: ‘In this world’ 2. Rethinking the Modern Constitution 3. Science in the making 4. How technology shapes everyday life 5. Actor-Network Theory 6. Space and spacing 7. Invisible cities 8. The parliament of things 9. A Gaia who cares
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Measuring the Impact of the Built Environment on
Book SynopsisThis book reveals how subjective and objective data gathered by innovative methods of measurement give us the ability to quantify stress, health, performance, and wellbeing outcomes in different built environments. Design interventions informed by these measures, along with innovative integrated building materials, can shape the character of built environments for better health, productivity, and performance. These measures can help employers and managers calculate the return on investment (ROI) of various design interventions.Areas of inquiry in health and the built environment are discussed in three parts: Part 1 Fundamentals: Human, Environment, and Material Measures for Health and Wellbeing; Part 2 Methods: Measurement Techniques, Tools, and Methods for Health and Wellbeing; and Part 3 Applications: Case Studies and Future Directions. The rapid pace of technical innovation and entrepreneurship by interdisciplinary research teams in health and the built environment has
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shadow
Book SynopsisEach of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy.Shadows may be insubstantial but they are, nevertheless, an important element in architecture. In prehistoric times we sought shade as a refuge from the hot sun and chilling rain. Through history architects have used shadows to draw, to mould form, to paint pictures, to orchestrate atmosphere, to indicate the passing of time as well as to identify place. Sometimes shadow can be the subsTable of ContentsPreface Introduction – Our World of Shadow Shadow Types Drawing Shadow – Sciagraphy Drawing with Shadow Practical Shadow Problematic Shadow Shadow Container Contained Shadow Shadow Threshold Narrative Shadow Regional Shadow Stage Set for Shadow Shadow and Time Japanese Shadow Islamic Shadow Le Corbusier – Architect of Shadow Endnote Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Architecture State Modernism and Cultural
Book SynopsisThis book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on an ideological role that was never remote from the increasingly dominant administrative, legislative and policing mechanisms of the regime. It considers how this process reflected the usurpation of a regional modernism and looks to contribute to wider discourses on international postwar modernism in architecture. Buildings in Pretoria that came to embody ambitions of the apartheid state for industrialisation and progress serve as case studies. These were widely acclaimed projects that embodied for apartheid officials the pursuit of modernisation but carried latent apprehensions of Afrikaners about their growing economic prospects and cultural estrangement in Africa. It is a less known and marginal story due to the dearth of material and documents buried in archives and untranslateTrade Review"In this new book, Hilton Judin tells the story of the unlikely marriage in postwar South Africa between the reactionary racism of the apartheid system and the technocratic, future-orientated utopianism of modernist architecture. In recent years, the distinctive forms of postwar modernism spawned by totalitarian communist regimes have been thoroughly investigated, but Judin’s book resoundingly fills in a glaring gap in knowledge at the other end of the ideological spectrum. It shows how modernist ideals and technologies, and grand, futuristic public building complexes – developed in alliance with an Afrikaner nationalism that also paradoxically concerned itself with researching ‘Bantu vernacular tradition’ - fuelled the mushrooming confidence and prosperity of the apartheid regime, and helped prolong its survival."Miles Glendinning, Professor of Architectural Conservation and Director, Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies, University of Edinburgh"In the increasingly precise cartography of the relationship between reactionary regimes and architecture, the policies of Apartheid South Africa had remained – appropriately, so to say, a white spot. Through a series of delicately carved case studies, Hilton Judin has brilliantly mapped the programs through which white supremacism has grounded its architectural expression – from the buildings for atomic research and science to the suburbs planned for the oppressed majority. Thanks to his rigorous investigation, this missing chapter of 20th century architecture is now open for further interpretation."Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University "Hilton Judin’s book gives a critical account of Pretoria’s architecture in the 20th century focusing specifically on the period from the 1950s to the 1980s, covering the early to the late apartheid era in South Africa. In this volume Judin is able to explore the ‘psyche’ of the Nationalist government who commissioned the architecture which ultimately became the most effective physical symbol of the apartheid state, its policies, hopes and ideals in its most influential era… A must read for students and historians of Pretoria who seek to understand how the city's planning and physical structures were central to the promotion of the apartheid project in South Africa."Ola Uduku, Liverpool School of Architecture, University of LiverpoolTable of ContentsIntroduction: "South Africa Builds …" 1. Apartheid Ideology and Architectural Form: State Building in Pretoria 2. Atomic Research Centre 3. Volkseie: Afrikaners and the University of Pretoria 4. Emerging Traditions: The Vernacular in "Separate Development" 5. Norman Eaton’s Glass Cabinet: Wachthuis 6. Hubris: Isolated Edifices, State Apparatuses and a Depleted Vision Conclusion: Architecture for Ourselves Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modernising Postwar France
Book SynopsisThis book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prosperity, a period when modernisation was a central priority of the state, promising a way forward from the shame of defeat in 1940 to a place at the centre of the new Europe.The first part of the book examines the scale of transformation, showing how architecture and urbanism both served the cause of modernisation and shaped the identity of the new France. Mainstream modernism was co-opted to the service of the state, from major public buildings to Gaullist plans for the transformation of Paris to establish the city as the âcapitalâ of Europe.By contrast, the second part of the book explores the critique of state-sponsored modernisation by radical architects from Le Corbusier to the young Turks of the 1960s such as Georges Candilis and the students who attacked the banality of mainstream modernism and its inability to address the growing problems of Franceâs cities. Following May 1968, the Beaux-Arts was closed, the Grand Prix de Rome, symbol of the old order, abolished â for a while the establishment might continue as before, but progressive architecture was set on a new course.Beautifully illustrated and written to be accessible to all, the book sets the discussion of architecture and urbanism in its social, political and economic contexts. As such, it will appeal both to students and scholars of the history of architecture and urbanism and to those with a wider interest in Franceâs post-war history.Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating story, very well told. It dives into great detail on some aspects, like the determined efforts to bring in modern construction methods, or the evolving shape of architects’ education, but not in a way that breaks up the narrative, and the treatment of housing and planning choices in Paris and its region is crystal-clear. It’s clearly based on a huge amount of reading and research…knocked into a compelling story of a state and a profession grappling with vital social issues, in ways that sometimes recall British struggles, and sometimes look culturally very different….this is a masterful review of a fascinating period in the development history of our endlessly-interesting neighbour, full of insights into the professions and culture that shaped an era.Martin Crookston, Built Environment Vol 49 No 2Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction: Architecture, Urbanism and the Trente Glorieuses Part 1: Modernisation Takes Command: From Austerity to Affluence 1. Reconstruction 1945–56: rebuilding or modernisation? 2. Industrialising the building industry 3. The grands ensembles and the modernisation of housing, 1953–62 4. Modern France at home: shaping the new domestic ideal, 1953–63 5. Public architecture of the 1950s: towards a new architecture for state and industry 6. ‘15,000 hectares to reconquer’: the struggle to modernise Paris, 1955–65 7. Modernising the Paris region: from the SDAU to the New Towns, 1965–75 Part 2: Opposing Modernisation: From Resistance to Revolt 8. Modernism versus modernisation: the Unité d’habitation at Marseille 9. Radicals and opposition to the modern city in the 1960s 10. Revolt and the search for new directions, 1968–73 Epilogue: 1975, France transformed Image Credits Index
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Taylor & Francis Architecture is a Verb
Book SynopsisArchitecture is a Verb outlines an approach that shifts the fundamental premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways. First, it acknowledges the centrality of the human organism as an active participant interdependent in its environment. Second, it understands human action in terms of radical embodimentgrounding the range of human activities traditionally attributed to mind and cognition: imagining, thinking, rememberingin the body. Third, it asks what a building doesthat is, extends the performative functional interpretation of design to interrogate how buildings move and in turn move us, how they shape thought and action. Finally, it is committed to articulating concrete situations by developing a taxonomy of human/building interactions.Written in engaging prose for students of architecture, interiors and urban design, as well as practicing professionals, Sarah Robinson offers richly illustrated practical examples for a new generatTrade ReviewA veritable encyclopedia of ideas, all pressing toward one sage insight: good design—far from being an act of technocratic rationality—resides in the poetic, festive, and cultural interplay between self and other, or better, the art of exploring the depth of our visceral engagement with the world. All else is inhumanity.—Harry Francis Mallgrave, Emeritus Director of Architectural and Theory program at Illinois Institute of Technology and the author of The Architect’s Brain, Architecture and Embodiment and From Object to Experience, among other books. Robinson’s clear prose brings hope—stitching together insights from philosophy, existential phenomenology, the cognitive sciences, ethology, psychology, anthropology, architectural and literary history, to shed light on possibilities that are open to designers and architects in our complex world. . . in an intellectual poetics meant to evoke, resonate and make you think.—Alberto Pérez Gómez, Director of the History and Architecture Program at McGill University and author of Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science, Built Upon Love and Attunement, among other books.Architecture has been incessantly theorized, taught and practiced merely as an art of aestheticised material structures and space. Sarah Robinson presents architecture convincingly and inspiringly as a network of relationships, actions and interactions; buildings reveal, structure and articulate our encounters and relations with the world. Through deftly weaving knowledge from diverse disciplines ranging from philosophy to psychology, anthropology to neuroscience and history to poetics—this book opens up comprehensive and balanced but truly radical views of the complex phenomenon of architecture. The reader will surely encounter and experience buildings differently after having read this significant book.—Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect, Professor emeritus (Aalto University), Writer, Member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury, 2008-2014 Table of Contents1. Situated Poetics 2. From Vitruvius to the Resonant Body 3. Extended Organisms—Surrogate Bodies 4. Questioning Perception 5. Constructing Consciousness 6. Taxonomy of Interactions 7. The Primacy of Breathing: Breathing - Resisting - Touching 8. Homo Faber: Resonating - Dancing - Making 9. Collective Dreaming: Imagining - Remembering - Storytelling 10. This Rebellious Field: Abstracting - Framing - Thinking 11. The Soil of the Sensible: Inhabiting - Playing - Healing 12. Fields of Care Appendix: Chart of the Taxonomy of Interactions
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Taylor & Francis Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture
Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New York's World Trade Center are internationally iconic, few who know the icon recognize its architect's name or know much about his portfolio of more than 200 buildings. One is tempted to call him America's most famous forgotten architect. He was classed in the top tier of his profession in the 1950s and '60s, as he carried modernism in novel directions, yet today he is best known not for buildings that stand but for two projects that were destroyed under tragic circumstances: the twin towers and the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. This book undertakes a reinterpretation of Yamasaki's significance that combines architectural history with the study of his intersection with defining moments of American history and culture. The story of the loss and vulnerability of Yamasaki's legacy illustrates the fragility of all architecture in the face of natural
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Taylor & Francis Rethinking Global Modernism
Book SynopsisThis anthology collects developing scholarship that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks. By both revisiting the canons of modernism and seeking to decolonize and globalize those canons, the volume explores what a genuinely global history of architectural modernism might begin to look like. Its chapters explore the historiography and weaknesses of modernism's normative interpretations and propose alternatives to them. The collection offers essays that interrogate transnationalism in new ways, reconsiders the agency of the subaltern and the roles played by infrastructures, materials, and global institutions in propagating a diversity of modernisms internationally. Issues such as colonial modernism, architectural pedagogy, cultural imperialism, and spirituality are engaged. With essays from both established scholars and up-and-coming researchers, this is an important reference forTrade Review"Taking seriously the challenge to think critically and deeply about what ‘global modernism’ and a reconsideration of postcoloniality might entail, this landmark volume brings together the foremost experts in the field to open up new directions for the study of ‘modern’ architecture and the built environment. Each essay conjures exciting potential avenues through the migrant, out-of-sync, and fragmented histories and futures of modern architecture, steadfastly refusing the call for a satisfying whole to instead embrace the much more interesting (and indeed accurate) dispersals of the global modern."Rebecca M. Brown, Professor and Chair of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University, USA"Long after ‘metanarratives’ have been considered as obsolete by Jean-François Lyotard, collective endeavors such as Vikramaditya Prakash’s, Maristella Casciato’s, and Daniel Coslett’s assemblage of essays take stock of the stunning metamorphosis of the historical interpretation of twentieth-century architecture. The essays contained in their dense, diverse tome not only widen our field of vision, including overlooked projects and buildings, but they also question without mercy the critical production which has been since the 1920s the doppelgänger of modernist practice. Without any doubt, Rethinking Global Modernism will inspire a new generation of investigations which will further reshape the worldwide history of architecture and urban form."Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts/New York University, USA"With its thematic approach, Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial is a well-organized, astute and thought-provoking analysis of the history of modern architecture. We needed this compendium with some of the best scholars of the field of global history."Caroline Maniaque, Professor of Architectural History and Cultures, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Normandie, France"A serendipitously timed and kaleidoscopic examination of modernism globally—its discontents, adaptations, evolutions, contestations, transformative effects and often impending erasure. The collective resonance of these essays challenge us to expand and nuance more critically the histories of modernism in the planetary context."Rahul Mehrotra, RMA Architects and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA"If the pandemic has been a moment of recalibrating methods and priorities towards a better understanding of architecture and its role in the interactive processes of modernization that shape the global environment, this book promises to be an extraordinarily productive response to that challenge. Edited by some of the most experienced scholars of the history of modern architecture in Asia and Latin America, it offers a wide array of topical issues in architectural theory and criticism regarding what used to be called the ‘Third World,’ thereby systematically updating the methods and the vocabulary in ways that will be indispensable for scholars working in the field."Stanislaus von Moos, Professor Emeritus of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Zurich, Switzerland"Instead of reading global modernism as subordination or resistance to modernist forms projected outward from western metropoles, this ambitious collection reconstructs as well as deconstructs modern architecture’s foundations, its historiographical processes. Here modernism’s past and future are decolonized and globalized, multidirectional and multinucleated in their narratives, theories, agencies, and materialities."Mary N. Woods, Professor Emerita of the History of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Global Modernism and the Postcolonial (Vikramaditya Prakash, Maristella Casciato, and Daniel E. Coslett); PART I: Critiques of Normative Modernist Narratives; 2. "Weak" Modernism: Managing the Threat of Brazil’s Modern Architecture at MoMA (Patricio del Real); 3. Enchanted Transfers: MoMA’s Japanese Exhibition House and the Secular Occlusion of Modernism (María González Pendás); 4. Competing Modernities: Socialist Architecture’s Challenge to the Global (Juliana Maxim); 5. Architecture in the 1990s, the Mies van der Rohe Prize, and the Creation of the Civilization Industrial Complex (Mark Jarzombek); PART II: New Theoretical Frameworks for Thinking Global Modernism 6. An Architecture Culture of "Contact Zones": Prospects for an Alternative Historiography of Modernism (Tom Avermaete and Cathelijne Nuijsink); 7. Intra-action: Barad’s "Agential Realism" and Modernism (Hannah Feniak); 8. Layered Networks: Beyond the Local and the Global in Postcolonial Modernism (Alona Nitzan-Shiftan); PART III: Modernism and (Trans)Nationalism 9. Uneven Modernities: Rabindranth Tagore and the Bauhaus (Martin Beattie); 10. Unbuilt Iran: Modernism’s Counterproposal in Alvar Aalto’s Museum of Modern Art in Shiraz (Shima Mohajeri and Parsa Khalili); 11. Representing Landscape, Mediating Wetness: Louis Kahn at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar (East Pakistan/Bangladesh) (Labib Hossain); PART IV: Rethinking Agency in Modernism 12. Domestic Funk: Favelados of the Global North (Greg Castillo); 13. CINVA to Siyabuswa: The Unruly Path of Global Self-help Housing (Hannah le Roux); 14. Subaltern-Diasporic Histories of Modernism: Working on Australia’s "Snowy Scheme" (Anoma Pieris); PART V: Infrastructures and Materials Cultures of Global Modernism); 15. The Politics of Concrete: Material Culture, Global Modernism, and the Project of Decolonization in India (Martino Stierli); 16. Jane Drew in Lagos: Carbonization and Colonization at BP House, 1960 (Daniel A. Barber); 17. Provincializing ENI’s Disegno Africano: Agip Tanzania and the Agip Motel in Dar es Salaam (Giulia Scotto); 18. The Politics of Circulation: Cinema Architecture in Colonial Morocco (Craig Buckley); Afterword; 19. Massive Urbanization and the Circulation of Eventualities (AbdouMaliq Simone); Index
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Taylor & Francis Rethinking Global Modernism
Book SynopsisThis anthology collects developing scholarship that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks. By both revisiting the canons of modernism and seeking to decolonize and globalize those canons, the volume explores what a genuinely global history of architectural modernism might begin to look like. Its chapters explore the historiography and weaknesses of modernism''s normative interpretations and propose alternatives to them. The collection offers essays that interrogate transnationalism in new ways, reconsiders the agency of the subaltern and the roles played by infrastructures, materials, and global institutions in propagating a diversity of modernisms internationally. Issues such as colonial modernism, architectural pedagogy, cultural imperialism, and spirituality are engaged. With essays from both established scholars and up-and-coming researchers, this is an important reference foTrade Review"Taking seriously the challenge to think critically and deeply about what ‘global modernism’ and a reconsideration of postcoloniality might entail, this landmark volume brings together the foremost experts in the field to open up new directions for the study of ‘modern’ architecture and the built environment. Each essay conjures exciting potential avenues through the migrant, out-of-sync, and fragmented histories and futures of modern architecture, steadfastly refusing the call for a satisfying whole to instead embrace the much more interesting (and indeed accurate) dispersals of the global modern."Rebecca M. Brown, Professor and Chair of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University, USA"Long after ‘metanarratives’ have been considered as obsolete by Jean-François Lyotard, collective endeavors such as Vikramaditya Prakash’s, Maristella Casciato’s, and Daniel Coslett’s assemblage of essays take stock of the stunning metamorphosis of the historical interpretation of twentieth-century architecture. The essays contained in their dense, diverse tome not only widen our field of vision, including overlooked projects and buildings, but they also question without mercy the critical production which has been since the 1920s the doppelgänger of modernist practice. Without any doubt, Rethinking Global Modernism will inspire a new generation of investigations which will further reshape the worldwide history of architecture and urban form."Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts/New York University, USA"With its thematic approach, Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial is a well-organized, astute and thought-provoking analysis of the history of modern architecture. We needed this compendium with some of the best scholars of the field of global history."Caroline Maniaque, Professor of Architectural History and Cultures, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Normandie, France"A serendipitously timed and kaleidoscopic examination of modernism globally—its discontents, adaptations, evolutions, contestations, transformative effects and often impending erasure. The collective resonance of these essays challenge us to expand and nuance more critically the histories of modernism in the planetary context."Rahul Mehrotra, RMA Architects and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA"If the pandemic has been a moment of recalibrating methods and priorities towards a better understanding of architecture and its role in the interactive processes of modernization that shape the global environment, this book promises to be an extraordinarily productive response to that challenge. Edited by some of the most experienced scholars of the history of modern architecture in Asia and Latin America, it offers a wide array of topical issues in architectural theory and criticism regarding what used to be called the ‘Third World,’ thereby systematically updating the methods and the vocabulary in ways that will be indispensable for scholars working in the field."Stanislaus von Moos, Professor Emeritus of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Zurich, Switzerland"Instead of reading global modernism as subordination or resistance to modernist forms projected outward from western metropoles, this ambitious collection reconstructs as well as deconstructs modern architecture’s foundations, its historiographical processes. Here modernism’s past and future are decolonized and globalized, multidirectional and multinucleated in their narratives, theories, agencies, and materialities."Mary N. Woods, Professor Emerita of the History of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Global Modernism and the Postcolonial (Vikramaditya Prakash, Maristella Casciato, and Daniel E. Coslett); PART I: Critiques of Normative Modernist Narratives; 2. "Weak" Modernism: Managing the Threat of Brazil’s Modern Architecture at MoMA (Patricio del Real); 3. Enchanted Transfers: MoMA’s Japanese Exhibition House and the Secular Occlusion of Modernism (María González Pendás); 4. Competing Modernities: Socialist Architecture’s Challenge to the Global (Juliana Maxim); 5. Architecture in the 1990s, the Mies van der Rohe Prize, and the Creation of the Civilization Industrial Complex (Mark Jarzombek); PART II: New Theoretical Frameworks for Thinking Global Modernism 6. An Architecture Culture of "Contact Zones": Prospects for an Alternative Historiography of Modernism (Tom Avermaete and Cathelijne Nuijsink); 7. Intra-action: Barad’s "Agential Realism" and Modernism (Hannah Feniak); 8. Layered Networks: Beyond the Local and the Global in Postcolonial Modernism (Alona Nitzan-Shiftan); PART III: Modernism and (Trans)Nationalism 9. Uneven Modernities: Rabindranth Tagore and the Bauhaus (Martin Beattie); 10. Unbuilt Iran: Modernism’s Counterproposal in Alvar Aalto’s Museum of Modern Art in Shiraz (Shima Mohajeri and Parsa Khalili); 11. Representing Landscape, Mediating Wetness: Louis Kahn at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar (East Pakistan/Bangladesh) (Labib Hossain); PART IV: Rethinking Agency in Modernism 12. Domestic Funk: Favelados of the Global North (Greg Castillo); 13. CINVA to Siyabuswa: The Unruly Path of Global Self-help Housing (Hannah le Roux); 14. Subaltern-Diasporic Histories of Modernism: Working on Australia’s "Snowy Scheme" (Anoma Pieris); PART V: Infrastructures and Materials Cultures of Global Modernism); 15. The Politics of Concrete: Material Culture, Global Modernism, and the Project of Decolonization in India (Martino Stierli); 16. Jane Drew in Lagos: Carbonization and Colonization at BP House, 1960 (Daniel A. Barber); 17. Provincializing ENI’s Disegno Africano: Agip Tanzania and the Agip Motel in Dar es Salaam (Giulia Scotto); 18. The Politics of Circulation: Cinema Architecture in Colonial Morocco (Craig Buckley); Afterword; 19. Massive Urbanization and the Circulation of Eventualities (AbdouMaliq Simone); Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Building Childrens Worlds
Book SynopsisChildren are the future architects, clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed to in picturebooks during their formative years may be assumed to influence how they regard such architecture as adults. Contemporary urban environments the world over represent the various stages of modernism in architecture. This book reads that history through picturebooks and considers the kinds of national identities and histories they construct.Twelve specialist essays from international scholars address questions such as: Is modern architecture used to construct specific narratives of childhood? Is it taken to support negative' narratives of alienation on the one hand and positive' narratives of happiness on the other? Do images of modern architecture support ideas of community'? Reinforce family values'? If so, what kinds of architecture, community and family? How is modern architecture placed vis-à-vis the promotion of diversity (ethnic, rTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Modernity 1.Building for the future - Children as future citizens in Swedish Picturebooks of the 1930s 2. A Modern Utopia: Architecture, Modernity and Ladybird Books in postwar Britain 3. Reading as Building: Modernist Architecture and Book Space in Picturebooks 4. Representations of modern architecture and urbanism in Colombian children's literature from the mid-20th century Part 2: Domestic Space 5. Domestic Architecture and Environmental Design in Australian Picture Books 6. The house, where everything begins 7. Architecture and Interior Design in Italian Picturebooks: A case study of Bruno Munari 8. Representations of architecture in children’s picture books in Australia, Singapore and China 9. Building Diversity in British and American Children’s Picturebooks (2000-present) Part 3: Urban Space 10. Highly Modern Ideal Homestead 11. Architecture and Magic: Mapping the London of Children’s Fantasy Fiction 12. Ordinary cityscapes and architecture in Jörg Müller’s picturebook oeuvre
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture
Book SynopsisIn the contemporary practice of architecture, digital design and fabrication are emergent technologies in transforming how architects present a design and form a material strategy that is responsible, equitable, sustainable, resilient, and forward-looking. This book exposes dialogue between history, theory, design, construction, technology, and sensory experience by means of digital simulations that enhance the assessment and values of our material choices. It offers a critical look to the past to inspire the future. This new edition looks to Alvar Aalto as the primary protagonist for channeling discussions related to these topics. Architects like ALA, Shigeru Ban, 3XN, Peter Zumthor, and others also play the role of contemporary guides in this review. The work of Aalto and selected contemporary architects, along with computer modeling software, showcase the importance of comprehensive design. Organized by the five Ts of contemporary architectural discourseTypology, TopoTable of ContentsIntroduction—Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture 1. Topology–Design in Light of Place 2. Typology—Envelopment(s) of Space 3. Tectonics—Elements and Atmospheres 4. Technic—Flexibility and the New Standard 5. Thermodynamic—Health and Instruments of Sensation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture and Leadership
Book SynopsisFrom cathedrals to cubicles, people go to great lengths and expense to design their living and working environments. They want their spaces to be places where they enjoy being, reflecting who they are and what they care about. The resultant environments in turn become loud, albeit unvocal, leaders for people occupying those corresponding spaces. The design and use of work and living spaces typifies and thematizes expectations for the group. Essentially, the architecture of rooms, buildings and cities creates cultures by conveying explicit and implicit messages. This is evident when people approach and walk into St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, or the Rothko Chapel in Houston, to name some examples. While leaders oftentimes lack the resources to have their spaces mirror the greatest architectural achievements of the world, they are in a position to use the art and science oTable of ContentsChapter 1 Architecture and Leadership Connections Chapter 2 Built Environment as a Place of Identity, Meaning, and Purpose Chapter 3 Defining Architecture as “Good” Chapter 4 Critical Components of Architecture: Building Elements and Design Principles Chapter 5 Three Categories of Specific Design Principles Chapter 6 Leadership and Use Strategies Chapter 7 Architecture and Leadership in Action
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Taylor & Francis 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 Ecologies of Inception
Book SynopsisResponding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentialityan object's ability to changein architecture and design. The book problematizes the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical tabula rasa, a tendency to begin from scratch and use raw, amorphous, and obedient materials that can be easily and effectively manipulated, facilitating a seamless and faithful embodiment of intentions. Instead, the philosophy of design developed in the text promptsthrough a variety of case studies, thinkers, and disciplinesa collective reconsideration of value, dissociating it from the projects and signatures of any one author or generation. Whereas the merits of up-cycling and circular design are canonically defined vis-à-vis status-quo economic and socio-cultural orthodoxies, this project unpacks the theoretical assumptions that underpin these practTable of ContentsI. Introduction: Tampering with Design Potentials on a Warming Planet PART I: TABULA RASA 1. Ecologies of Inception: Orientation of Designed Objects 2. Hylomorphism Reconsidered: Matter, Form, and the Ability to Change PART II: HYPERMATERIALS 3. Purity beyond Nature and Culture: Wildfires, Hypermaterials, and Co-option 4. Circularities: Technical Nutrients, Hyperobjects, and Rooms PART III: AUTHORSHIP 5. Rasura Tabulae: From Formats to Media 6. Ecologies of Suspension: Potentiality without Intentions/Relations 7. Exaptive Design: Radical Coauthorship as Method 8. Authorship vs. Withdrawal: OOO and Architecture 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ecologies of Inception
Book SynopsisResponding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentialityan object's ability to changein architecture and design. The book problematizes the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical tabula rasa, a tendency to begin from scratch and use raw, amorphous, and obedient materials that can be easily and effectively manipulated, facilitating a seamless and faithful embodiment of intentions. Instead, the philosophy of design developed in the text promptsthrough a variety of case studies, thinkers, and disciplinesa collective reconsideration of value, dissociating it from the projects and signatures of any one author or generation. Whereas the merits of up-cycling and circular design are canonically defined vis-à-vis status-quo economic and socio-cultural orthodoxies, this project unpacks the theoretical assumptions that underpin these practTable of ContentsI. Introduction: Tampering with Design Potentials on a Warming Planet PART I: TABULA RASA 1. Ecologies of Inception: Orientation of Designed Objects 2. Hylomorphism Reconsidered: Matter, Form, and the Ability to Change PART II: HYPERMATERIALS 3. Purity beyond Nature and Culture: Wildfires, Hypermaterials, and Co-option 4. Circularities: Technical Nutrients, Hyperobjects, and Rooms PART III: AUTHORSHIP 5. Rasura Tabulae: From Formats to Media 6. Ecologies of Suspension: Potentiality without Intentions/Relations 7. Exaptive Design: Radical Coauthorship as Method 8. Authorship vs. Withdrawal: OOO and Architecture 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index
£35.14
W. W. Norton & Company The International Style
Book SynopsisThe most influential work of architectural criticism and history of the twentieth century, now available in a handsomely designed new edition.
£18.05
W. W. Norton & Company The Nature of Ornament Rhythm and Metamorphosis
Book SynopsisA treasure trove of ideas and encouragement for architects looking for alternatives to the severity of modernism and graceless postmodernism.
£31.34
WW Norton & Co James Marston Fitch
Book SynopsisRevered as the father of historic preservation in the United States, architect James Marston Fitch was hailed by the New York Times at the time of his death in 2000 as an architect whose writings and teachings helped transform historic preservation from a dilettante's pastime into a vigorous, broadly based cultural movement.Trade Review"Preservationists (and others) should take a breather from their daily tasks and read this book. They’ll learn where they came from and might be heading." -- Architectural Record"[E]rudite, thoughtfully composed essays... . Recommended." -- L. M. Bliss, San Diego State University - Choice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture and Revolution Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisArchitecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned architects, philosophers and cultural theorists from both the East and the West. They explore the questions over the built environment that now face architects, planners and politicians in the region. They examine the problems of buildings inherited from the communist era: some are environmentally inadequate, many were designed to serve a now redundant social programme and others carry the stigma of association with previous regimes. Contributors include: Daniel Libeskind, Bernard Tschumi, Laura Mulvey, Helene Cixous, Andrew Benjamin and Frederic Jameson.Table of ContentsbPart I. Historical Perspectives. 1. Sources of a Radical Mission in the Early Soviet Profession: Alexei Gan and the Moscow Anarchists. 2. The Vesnin's Palace of Labour: the Role of Practice in Materialising the Revolutionary. 3. Notes for a Manifesto. A Postmodern Critic's Kit for Interpreting Socialist. Part II. Architecture and Change. 5. History Lessons - Policing the Body: Descartes and the Architecture of Change. 7. The State as a Work of Art: the Trauma of Ceausescu's Disneyland - 8. Architecture or Revolution? Part III. Strategies for a New Europe. 9. Traces of the Unborn. Resisting the Erasure of History: Daniel Libeskind Interviewed by Anne Wagner. 11. The Humanity of Architecture. 12. Disjunctions. 13. The Dark Side of the Domus: The Redomestication of Central and Eastern Europe. 14. Architecture in a Post-Totalitarian Society: Round-Table Discussion Conducted by Bart Goldhoorn. Part IV. The Romanian Question. 15. Totalitarian city: Bucharest 1980-9, Semio-Clinical Files. 16. The People's House, or the Voluptuous Violence of an Architectural Paradox.17. Utopia 1988, Romania; Post-Utopia 1995, Romania. 18. Rediscovering Romania. Part V. Tombs and Monuments. 19. Berlin 1961-89: The Bridal Chamber. Reflections on Disgraced Monuments. 21. Attacks on the Castle. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Dynamics of Delight Architecture and
Book SynopsisRounding off decades of exploration into the various ways in which buildings and urban sequences make an impact on the mind, The Dynamics of Delight emphasizes the qualitative aspects of form and space, providing designers with an analytical framework in which to evaluate projects on an aesthetic level. In laying the foundations for an appreciation of the aesthetic component in architecture, Smith considers the mechanisms which are involved in the aesthetic response and goes on to consider how human perception may be influenced by natural phenomena and draws on chaos theory and biomathematics to illustrate this original argument.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Amsterdam and the Tiger 1. Laying the Foundations 2. The Roots of Aesthetic Perception 3. The Protean Factor 4. Exploring Harmony 5. From Harmony to Chaos 6. From Nature to Artefacts 7. Intelligent Interventions 8. Unity Versus Diversity Part 2: The Parthenon and the Sunflower 9. The Deep Structure of Proportion 10. The Numerology of Beauty 11. Developing the Theme 12. Beyond the Portico and Dome 13. Contemporary Variations 14. Architectural Metaphor 15. Second Level Proportion 16. The Limbic Domain 17. Bioclimatic Opportunities Part 3: The Dynamics of the City 18. The City and Dimensions of Engagement 19. The Rewards of Chance 20. The Street 21. The Square 22. Encounters with Old Gods 23. The Ethical Dimension
£145.00
Taylor & Francis Archispeak An Illustrated Guide to Architectural
Book SynopsisWidely used in architectural circles in the heat of discussion, the recurrent use of particular words and terms has evolved into a language of design jargon. Commonly found in architectural literature and journalism, in critical design debate and especially in student project reviews, Archispeak can seem insular and perplexing to others and -- particularly to the new architectural student -- often incomprehensible.There is a need to translate architectural design concepts into spoken and written commentary -- each word in use embodying a precise and universally accepted architectural meaning. If we explore the vocabulary of this language we gain insight into good design practice and into collective understanding of what constitutes a refined architecture. This unique illustrated guide will help students understand the nuances of this specialized language and help them in communicating their own design ideas.Trade Review'This pocket-sized book is exactly what you need to at least bluff your way through, or even have the confidence to drop in some well-chosen jargon to impress an audience as required.' – Paul Harron, Perspective'This pocket-sized book is exactly what you need to at least bluff your way through, or even have the confidence to drop in some well-chosen jargon to impress an audience as required.''This is a great book - it will be essential crib material for students, but it will also help to demystify. It would be all the better if its very existence helped foster a culture of plainer speaking.' - both Paul Harron, Perspective, July 2005Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Archispeak. Further Reading.
£41.79
Taylor & Francis Ltd Constructing Place Mind and the Matter of
Book SynopsisThis book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part 1. Mind. Projecting a Relationship. Philosophy of Place. Part 2. Matter. Modern Metiation. Considerate Intervention. Index.
£137.75
Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Architecture
Book SynopsisA comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment. This new edition brings in the new emphasis on sustainability, urbanism, urban regeneration and cultural identity, in order to take a holistic approach to the subject of architecture. Highly illustrated, this book enables the reader to make sense of the experience of architecture and the built environment by understanding more about the form, construction, meaning and history of the subject.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Architecture and Building 3. Architectural History 4. Space and Function 5. Plans and Images 6. Materials and Construction 7. The Exterior 8. Styles and Periods 9. Site and Place 10. Sources
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Housing and Dwelling Perspectives on Modern
Book SynopsisHousing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture, taken from an innovative and informed combination of philosophy, history, social science, art, literature and architectural writings. Uniquely, the readings underline the point of view of the user of a dwelling and assess the impact of varying uses on the evolution of domestic architecture.This book is a valuable asset for students, scholars, and designers alike, exploring the extraordinary variety of methods, interpretations and source materials now available in this important field. For students, it opens windows on the many aspects of domestic architecture. For scholars, it introduces new, interdisciplinary points of view and suggests directions for further research. It acquaints practising architects in the field of housing design with history and methods and offers directions for future design possibilities. Table of ContentsPart 1: Methods and Interpretations 1. Who Interprets? The Historian, the Architect, the Anthropologist, the Archaeologist, the Users? 2. What is Home? 3. Domestic Spaces as Perceptual, Commemorative, and Performative Part 2: Themes in Modern Domestic Architecture 4. Living Downtown: Nineteenth Century Urban Dwelling 5. Victorian Domesticity: Ideal and Reality 6. Rural Memories and Desires: The Farm, the Suburb, the Wilderness Retreat 7. Modernism, Technology and Utopian Hopes for Mass Housing 8. Mass Housing as Single-Family Dwelling: The Post-War American Suburb 9. Participatory Planning and Design: Initiatives in Self-Help Housing, Renovation, and Interior Decoration 10. Twentieth Century Apartment Dwelling, Ideals and Realities 11. Some Possible Futures 12. Where is Home?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Architectural Historiography
Book SynopsisRather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about the current state of the discipline looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality. Divided into three sections, Rethinking Architectural Historiography begins by renegotiating foundational and contemporary boundaries of architectural history in relation to other fields, such as art history and archaeology. It then goes on to critically engage with past and present histories, disclosing assumptions, biases and absences in architectural historiography. It concludes by exploring the possibilities provided by new perspectives, reframing the discipline in the light of new parameters and problematics.This timely and illustrated title reflects upon the current changes in historiographical practice, exploring potential openings that may contribute further transformation of the disciplines and theories on architectural historiography andTable of Contents1. Mapping Architectural Historiography Part I: Boundaries 2. Art History and Architectual History 3. Buildings Archaeology: Context and Points of Convergence 4. Architecture as Evidence 5. Program and Programs 6. Hercules at the Roundabout: Multidisciplinary Choice in History of Architecture 7. Frontiers of Fear: Architectural History, the Anchor and the Sail Part II: Critical Engagements 8. Questions of Ottoman Identity and Architectural History 9. In Ordinary Time: Considerations on a Video Installation by ICigo Manglano Ovalle and the New National Gallery in Berlin by Mies van der Rohe 10. Reopening the Question of Document in Architectural Historiography: Reading (Writing) Filarete's Treatise on Architecture for (in) Piero De Medici's Study 11. From Architectural History to Spatial Writing 12. Presenting Ankara: Popular Conceptions of Architecture and History Part III: Reframings 13. Space, Time, and Architectural History 14. Visuality and Architectural History 15. Digital Disciplinary Divide: Reactions to Historical Virtual Reality Models 16. The Afterlife of Buildings: Architecture and Walter Benjamin's Theory of History 17. Beyond a Boundary: Towards an Architectural History of the Non-East
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture in Words
Book SynopsisWhat if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise Pelletier examines how architecture developed to express political and social intent. Applying this to the modern day, Pelletier considers how architects can learn from these eighteenth century attitudes in order to restore architecture''s communicative dimension.Through an in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of the beginning of modernity, Louise Pelletier encourages today''s architects to consider the political and linguistic implications of their tools. Combining theory, historical studies and research, Architecture in Words will provoke thought and enriTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Character and Expression: Staging Architecture 1. Architecture as an Expressive Language 2. Character Theory at the Theatre 3. Rules of Expression and the Paradox of Acting Part 2: Playacting and the Culture of Entertainment: Architecture as Theatre 4. Theatre as the Locus of Public and Social Expression 5. Theatre Architecture and the Role of the Proscenium Part 3: Language and Personal Imagination: An Architecture for the Senses 6. Taste, Talent and Genius in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics 7. Newtonian Empirical Sciences and the Order of Nature 8. Empirical Philosophy and the Nature of Sensations Part 4: Plotting an Architectural Program: The Space of Desire 9. Staging an Architecture in Words 10. The Narrative Space of Desire Conclusion: The Temporality of Human Experience Selected Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beyond Archigram The Structure of Circulation
Book SynopsisBeyond Archigram is the first study of the prehistory of digital representation to focus on the magazine Archigram, the magazine published in London irregularly between 1961 and 1970 and the name of the group that created it. Archigram is among the most significant phenomena to emerge in post-war architectural culture. The wired environments first advertised on its pages formulated an architectural vocabulary of metamorphosis and obsolescence that cross-pollinated industrial and digital technology at the same time as complex systems were becoming commercially available. Through archival, theoretical and visual analysis, Hadas Steiner explores the process through which this model was envisaged and disseminated within an international network of practitioners and shows how the assimilation of Archigram imagery set the course for the visual output of what are now commonplace tools in architectural practice. This book will provide a foundation for further inquiry into the integration of digital technology at every level of design.Table of ContentsPreface Part 1: The Archigram Network 1. The Image of Change 2. Modern Architecture in England 3. City Synthesis Part 2: Bathrooms, Bubbles and Systems 4. Bathrooms 5. Bubbles 6. Systems 7. The Technological Picturesque
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Digitalia Architecture and the Digital the
Book SynopsisSusannah Hagan boldly discusses the fraught relationship between key dominating areas of architectural discourse - digital design, environmental design, and avant-garde design.Digitalia firstly demonstrates that drawing such firm lines between architectural spheres is damaging and foolish, particularly as both environmental and avant-garde practices are experimenting with the digital, and secondly remonstrates with an avant-garde that has repudiated the social/ethical agenda of the modernist avant-garde because it failed the first time round. It is environmental architecture that has picked up the social/ethical ball and is running with it, using the digital to very different, and more far-reaching, ends.As the debates rage, this book is a key read for all who are involved or intrigued.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Deep Background Binary Opposites. Binary Dependencies. New Dependencies. Melds 2. The Avant-Garde: Autonomous or Engaged? The Avant-Garde's Dilemma. Manfredo Tafuri. Theodor Adorno. An Avant-Garde Now 3. The Autonomous Avant-Garde and the Digital: From Formalism to Nature. Procedural Innovation: Practice. Procedural Innovation: The Academy. The Parametric Past: Structuralism. Christopher Alexander and Generative Rules. The Dissenters. In Pursuit of Novelty. Nature Restored 4. The Engaged Avant-Garde and the Digital: From Nature to Environmental Design. Closing the Loop. Modelling Built Behaviours. Productive Form-Finding. Constructible Parametrics 5. The Avant-Garde: Meeting in the City. The Groningen Experiment. EnGen. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Green Braid
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the discipline's best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers and students alike, the selected essays address a broad range of issues. Combined with design projects that highlight issues holistically, they promote an understanding of the principles of sustainability and further the integration of sustainable methods into architectural projects.Using essays that alternately revise and clarify twentieth century architectural thinking, The Green Braid places sustainability at the centre of excellent architectural design. No other volume addresses sustainability within the context of architectural history, theory, pedagogy and design, making this book an ideal source for architects in framing their practices,Trade Review'With a broad definition of sustainability in mind, the book delves into how architectural designs can be situated at the crossroads of ecology, economy and equity ... The book is rich with examples and case studies that are informative and intriguing.' – CitiesTable of ContentsPart 1: The Green Braid: Networked Ways of Knowing 1. The Green Braid: Networked Ways of Knowing 2. Architecture, Ecology Design and Human Ecology 3. A New Social Contract: Equity and Sustainable Development 4. Economic Sustainability in the Post-Industrial Landscape 5. Models, Lists and the Evolution of Sustainable Architecture Part 2: Meta-Discourses in Pedagogy and Practice 6. Introduction 7. Cyborg Theories and Situated Knowledges: Some Speculations on a Cultural Approach to Technology 8. We Are No[w here]: A Social Critique of Contemporary Theory 9. The Hidden Influence of Historical Scholarship on Design 10. Culture and the Recalibration of First Ring Suburbs 11. Portable Construction Training Center 12. One Week, Eight Hours Part 3: Phenomena and Technology 13. Introduction 14. From l’Air Exact to l’Aérateur: Ventilation and its Evolution in the Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 15. Unhealthy Energy Conservation Practices 16. Good-Bye Willis Carrier 17. The Compass House 18. Scupper Houses or the Dogtrot House and the Shotgun House Reconsidered 19. An Affordable, Sustainable House 20. Phenomenal Surface: Fog House Part 4: Building Practices 21. Introduction 22. Poetic Engineering and Invention: Arthur Troutner, Architect, and the Development of Engineered Lumber 23. Terunobu Fujimori: Working with Japan’s Small Production Facilities 24. Making Smartwrap: From Parts to Pixels 25. Quilting with Glass, Cedar and Fir: A Workshop and Studio in Rossland, BC and Navy Demonstration Project 26. Modernism Redux: a Study in Light, Surface, and Volume 27. Solar Sails: An Installation Part 5: Settlement Patterns 28. Introduction 29. Economy=Ecology: A Scenario for Chicago’s Lake Calumet 30. Sarajevo: Ecological Reconstruction after the ‘Urbicide’ 31. The Suburban Critique at Mid-Century: A Case Study 32. I-10 The Gulf Coast States/Mall Housing 33. Community Redevelopment for a Small Town in Florida and Drifting Urbanism 34. The Role of Infrastructure in the Production of Public Spaces for the City of Miami Part 6: The Shared Realm 35. Introduction 36. Architectural Intervention and the Post-Colonial Era: The Tjibaou Cultural Center in New Caledonia by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop 37. History, Tradition, and Modernity: Urbanism and Cultural Change in Chanderi, India 38. Global Constructions, Or Why Guadalajara wants a Home Depot while Los Angeles Wants Construction Workers 39. A Raptor Enclosure for the Zuni Pueblo 40. Garden of Time; Landscape of Change: Women Suffrage Memorial St. Paul, Minnesota 41. Unmasking Urban Traces
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bhabha for Architects
Book SynopsisThe work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized contexts, particularly in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-East Asia and, Latin America. Bhabha''s use of the concept of space' has made his work highly appealing to architects and architectural theorists. This introductory book, specifically for architects, focuses on Bhabha's seminal book The Location of Culture and reveals how his work contributes to architectural theory and the study of contemporary architectures in general, not only in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Table of ContentsForeword By Homi Bhabha Introduction: Homi Bhabha, Postcolonial Discourse and Architecture 1. Translation 2. Ambivalence 3. Hybridity 4. The Third Space 5. The Pedagogical and the Performative
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