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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.
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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
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Technology
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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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Cambridge University Press Sir John Soane The Royal Academy Lectures
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Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. Creation in Space A Course in the Fundamentals of Architecture Volume 1 Architectronics
Book SynopsisCreation in Space: Fundamentals of Architecture, Volumes 1 and 2, by Jonathan Friedman, provide all basic projects, guided instruction, commentaries, and selected readings for a full year course in the fundamentals of architecture. It is designed to cover not only the normal technical requirements - drawing skills and techniques such as planimetrics, axonometrics and perspective projection, freehand drawing, and abrication skills for model making - but also fundamental design issues such as figure-ground ambiguity, proportion, scale, light and shade, and circulation. The two volumes of Creation in Space together provide a basic introduction to understanding architecture. The works assume no previous knowledge of the subject, only that all of us were architects as young children playing with blocks.Table of Contents Preface, ix Foreword by Robert Slutzky, xii Introduction: Foundation, 1 Study 1 UNITYThinking: The Parthenon, 23 Projecting: Parti, geometry and proportion, 25 Doing: Sticks and stones; torn paper, 27 Reflecting: On the Plastic, 29 Study 2 DIALOGPreview: Ise Shrine, dialog of place and time, 35 2A Dialog "rough"Thinking: Leaf Retreat, 37 Projecting: Making plans, 38 Doing: Sticks and stones; square field, 41 Reflecting: Rose Windows: geometrical schemes, 43 2B Dialog "dressed"Thinking: Facade of Notre Dame, 49 Projecting: Axonometric, Diamond Thesis, 51 Doing: Rods and cubes; squares in and on squares, 53 Reflecting: Leaf Retreat and Wall House, a debate, 55 Study 3 VOLUMEThinking: Rock Cut Church of Lalibala, 61 Projecting: Figure-ground, solid-void, shade and shadows, 63 Doing: Solid-void ambiguity; figure-ground tiles, 65 Reflecting: The Representation of Space, 67 Study 4 TRANSFORMATIONThinking: Falling Water, 75 Projecting: The evolution of form, 77 Doing: Explosion: extension in space; hierarchy, 79 Reflecting: The Destruction of the Box, Fractals, 81 Study 5 EXPRESSIONThinking: Ronchamp, 87 Projecting: Perspective, 89 Doing: Euclidean forms; graphic character, 91 Reflecting: The Poetics of Music, 93 Study 6 TIMEPIECEThinking: Stonehenge, 103 Projecting: Sun angles and the motion of the earth, 107 Doing: A place that measures time; layering, 109 Reflecting: Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal, 113 Study 7 FREE EXERCISEThinking: The studio as possibility, 123 Projecting: What comes next?, 125 Doing: Temple, labyrinth, tower, wall, 129 Reflecting: Nothing is transmissible but thought, 134 APPENDIXThe Kit of Parts, 142 Tools and Equipment, 144 Documentation, 146 Visual Glossary, 148 Bibliography, 181 Credits, 184 Index, 188
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Conceptnine The Architecture of Light
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Atara Press Die Augen der Haut
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Cambridge Architectural Press Philosophy of Architecture
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Aesthetics of Ugliness
Book SynopsisKarl Rosenkranz (1805 1879) was a German philosopher. He followed Kant and Herbart as professor of philosophy in Königsberg; in 1848-49 he took part in the reform government in Berlin.Andrei Pop is Associate Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.Mechtild Widrich is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.Trade ReviewRosenkranz’s prose, given new life in this fine translation, sparkles with enlivening incident and wry asides … Rosenkranz’s essay is a text to linger over. * Times Literary Supplement *The great value of the concept of ugliness is dialectical. The contrast with the beautiful can be a distinct way of illuminating that notion, and with it the ideal of art as such. Karl Rosenkranz’s Aesthetics of Ugliness, here carefully edited, lucidly introduced, and elegantly translated by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich, shows us in detail how one might understand this contrast, illuminating fundamental issues in aesthetics and in the self-understanding of modernity along the way – a very valuable contribution to any discussion. * Robert Pippin, Professor, the Committee on Social Thought, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, USA *Table of ContentsTable of Contents: 1. Introductory essay by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich 2. Karl Rosenkranz, Aesthetics of Ugliness, 1853 3. The Text: Introduction Section 1: Formlessness Section 2: Incorrectness Section 3: Deformation or Disfiguration Conclusion Rosenkranz's and editors' notes 4. Texts crucial to the understanding of the Aesthetics of Ugliness: i) Rosenkranz’s review of Hegel's Aesthetics, 1836 and 1839 ii) Rosenkranz's entry on "Aesthetics in its Development" in the Brockhaus Conversation-Lexikon, 1838 iii) Rosenkranz, “Beauty and Art” section of his System of Science, 1850 Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Boredom Architecture and Spatial Experience
Book SynopsisBoredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is both cause and effect of modernity, and of situations, spaces and surroundings. As such, this book argues, boredom shares an intimate relationship with architectureone that has been seldom explored in architectural history and theory. Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience investigates that relationship, showing how an understanding of boredom affords us a new way of looking at and understanding the modern experience. It reconstructs a series of episodes in architectural history, from the 19th century to the present, to survey how boredom became a normalized component of the everyday, how it infiltrated into the production and reception of architecture, and how it serves to diagnose moments of crisis in the continuous transformations of the built environment. Erudite and innovative, the work moves deftly from architectural theory and philosophy to literature and psychology to make its case. CTrade ReviewWhat if architectural creativity is not only grounded in knowledge and skill but equally in a state of mind, a mood? Improbable though the suggestion may be, this original and marvelously well-studied book shows that from the 19th century onward boredom became a force that focused concentration and compelled experimentation. * David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, USA *A fascinating exploration of boredom that builds on 19th-century literary narratives to understand its contemporary spatial manifestations. Parreno meanders through a multitude of boredoms, from the domestic to the monumentally bureaucratic, and from the modern generic to endlessly varied imagery—revealing unexpectedly reassuring aspects of boredom in the process. * Lara Schrijver, University of Antwerp, Belgium *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Foreword by Iain Borden Acknowledgements Introduction: Boredom as Architecture 1. A Component of Modernity Differential Distances 2. Fascination and Aversion 3. Søren Kierkegaard’s Babylonian Tower 4. Catherine Gore and Charles Dickens: Idle Restlessness/Restless Idleness 5. Blunting and Jading 6. Coney Island, Misleading Structures Circular Trajectories 7. A Unity of Disarray 8. Martin Heidegger’s Urge to Be at Home 9. Oran, the Capital of Boredom 10. International Style Confusions: Sigfried Giedion 11. Los Angeles, Flat Enough Extended Thresholds 12. Potential Architectures 13. Andrew Benjamin’s Antithesis to Boredom 14. Boredom in Domus 15. Servitude and Liberalism: Russell Kirk 16. Charles Jencks, Rem Koolhaas, and the Generic 17. Jorge Silvetti and Sylvia Lavin: Unamused Muses and Lying Fallow Epilogue: Architectures of Boredom Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Building Materials
Book SynopsisAt a time of unprecedented levels of change in the production of building materials and their deployment in construction, better theoretical and historical tools are needed to understand these new developments and how they are altering the practices and concepts of architecture. Building Materials offers a radical rethink of how materials, as they are constituted in architectural practice, are themselves constructed and, in turn, uncovers a vast and neglected resource of architectural writing about materials as they are mobilized in architecture.The book is unique in conceiving architectural specification as a starting point for architectural theory, arguing that how materials are prescribed - through a range of practices from the literal processes of procurement and manufacture to epistemological, contractual, social and economic frameworks - radically alters their potential in architecture. Drawing on the work of French philosopher Gilbert Simondon, as well as close readings oTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Simondon and the Specification Building Materials: an ontogenetic approach ‘Veritable Relations’: building materials as systems On the Transductive Method 2. Specifying Building Materials From Object to Process: 18th and 19th century specifications and the shift to division by trade From Means to Ends: 20th and 21st century specifications and the variety of forms of clause 3. Naming Materials From Species to Brand-names: Changing practices of naming timber Effects of Changes in Naming: The emergence of proprietary specification Naming and Table 2/3: Materials as varieties of matter 4. Process The Process-Based Clause ‘Nothing but a Transit’: Hylomorphism and the forgetting of process Dynamic Operations in Process-Based Description ‘Rendered Plastic by Preparation’: Preliminary operations 5. Performance Performance Specification ‘Grounded in Such Usefulness’: Material as Equipment ‘For a Given Service’: ‘New Glass Performances’ 6. Systems of Material Simondon’s ‘Complete System’ ‘That Constitutive Seam’ 7. Going Into the Mould Preliminary Operations The Technical Object Inventive Relations Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC How does Architecture Distribute the Sensible
Book SynopsisLeading architectural theorists exchange ideas with the contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière in order to debate what architecture's fundamental relationship is with aesthetics.
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Author Solutions Inc Light Structures Structures of Light
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University of Tennessee Press Company Suburbs: Architecture, Power, and the Transformation of Michigan's Mining Frontier
Book SynopsisMichigan's Keweenaw Peninsula juts into Lake Superior, pointing from the western Upper Peninsula toward Canada. Native peoples mined copper there for at least five thousand years, but the industrial heyday of the "Copper Country" began in the late nineteenth century, as immigrants from Cornwall, Italy, Finland, and elsewhere came to work in mines largely run from faraway cities such as New York and Boston. In those cities, suburbs had developed to allow wealthier classes to escape the dirt and grime of the industrial center. In the Copper Country, however, the suburbs sprang up nearly adjacent to mines, mills, and coal docks.Sarah Fayen Scarlett contrasts two types of neighborhoods that transformed Michigan's mining frontier between 1875 and 1920: paternalistic company towns built for the workers and elite suburbs created by the region's network of business leaders. Richly illustrated with drawings, maps, and photographs, Company Suburbs details the development of these understudied cultural landscapes that arose when elites began to build housing that was architecturally distinct from that of the multiethnic workers within the old company towns. They followed national trends and created social hierarchies in the process, but also, uniquely, incorporated pre-existing mining features and adapted company housing practices. This idiosyncratic form of suburbanization belies the assumption that suburbs and industry were independent developments.Built environments evince interrelationships among landscapes, people, and power. Scarlett's work offers new perspectives on emerging national attitudes linking domestic architecture with class and gender identity. Company Suburbs complements scholarship on both industrial communities and early suburban growth, increasing our understanding of the ways hierarchies associated with industrial capitalism have been built into the shared environments of urban areas as well as seemingly peripheral American towns.
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Actar Publishers Reimagining Modern Architecture
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Writing Design: Words and Objects
Book SynopsisHow do we learn about the objects that surround us? As well as gathering sensory information by viewing and using objects, we also learn about objects through the written and spoken word - from shop labels to friends' recommendations and from magazines to patents. But, even as design commentators have become increasingly preoccupied with issues of mediation, the intersection of design and language remains under-explored.Writing Design provides a unique examination of what is at stake when we convert the material properties of designed goods into verbal or textual description. Issues discussed include the role of text in informing design consumption, designing with and through language, and the challenges and opportunities raised by design without language. Bringing together a wide range of scholars and practitioners, Writing Design reveals the difficulties, ethics and politics of writing about design.Trade ReviewWriting Design is long overdue. For well over a century, critics, historians, theorists and designers themselves have used a multitude of words to describe, suggest, denote, evoke and critique that evasive concept of 'design'. Now, for the first time, a group of scholars have set out to reflect on that long-standing practice and to make us think more deeply about the complex relationship that exists between words and things. * Professor Penny Sparke, Kingston University, London, UK *This volume promises to become essential reading for anyone interested in the historical and contemporary circumstances by which words describe design, and design defines language. From a range of international perspectives, the book's contributors show how the interrelationship between language and design is never passive, but always subject to mediation, negotiation, and at times contestation. * Jeremy Aynsley, Professor of History of Design, Royal College of Art, UK *Writing Design will be a pivotal book on the fast-filling Design Criticism bookshelf. Design Criticism manifests variously as a journalistic practice, a mode of political resistance, a literary genre, an interpretive tool - and now as an academic discipline. The growing number of pedagogical initiatives in Design Criticism demands a literature that supports and challenges these academic endeavours with new research, provocative thinking and thoughtful analysis. Writing Design collects important scholarship - representing a spectrum of approaches, viewpoints, and geographical origins - that explores the rich relationship between design and language and draws attention to the written word as an artefact, worthy of as much scrutiny as the designed entity it describes. As such, this carefully selected compendium of essays helps to stake out the territory, and provides students with a broad view of the field, its key debates, themes and issues, as well as with inspiration for their own research, and case studies for close analysis. I look forward to the Design Criticism bookshelf soon groaning under the weight of many more anthologies, theoretical treatises, narrative histories and polemical tracts of the same calibre as this pioneering volume. * Alice Twemlow, Chair, MFA Design Criticism Department School of Visual Arts, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsGeneral Introduction, Grace Lees-MaffeiPART 1: RIGHTING DESIGN - ON THE REFORMING ROLE OF DESIGN CRITICISMIntroduction1. ‘Writing about Stuff': The Peril and Promise of Design History and Criticism, Jeffrey L. Meikle, University of Texas at Austin, USA2. Design Criticism and Social Responsibility: The Flemish Design Critic K.-N. Elno (1920-1993), Fredie Floré, Ghent University, Belgium3. The Metamorphosis of a Norwegian Design Magazine: Nye Bonytt, 1968-1971, Kjetil Fallan, University of Oslo, Norway4. Writing Contemporary Design into History, Stephen Hayward, University of the Arts London, UKPART 2: MEDIATIONS - BETWEEN DESIGN AND CONSUMPTIONIntroduction5. Thinking in Metaphor: Figurative Conceptualising in John Evelyn's Diary and John Ruskin's Stones of Venice, Anne Hultzsch, University College London, UK6. Regulating the Body in Army Manuals and Trade Guides: The Design of the First World War Khaki Service Dress, Jane Tynan, University of the Arts London, UK7. Vitaglass and the Discourse of Modern Culture, John Stanislav Sadar, Monash University, Australia8. Lewis Mumford's Lever House: Writing a House of Glass, Ann Sobiech Munson, Iowa State University, USA PART 3: DESIGNING WITH AND THROUGH LANGUAGEIntroduction9. Judging a Book by its Cover: or Does Modernist Form Follow Function?, Polly Cantlon and Alice Lo, both University of Waikato, New Zealand 10. Reading Details: Caruso St John and the Poetic Intent of Construction Documents, Mhairi McVicar, Welsh School of Architecture, UK11. Applying Oral Sources: Design Historian, Practitioner and Participant:, Chae Ho Lee, University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa, USA12. Fluid Typography: Construction, Metamorphosis and Revelation, Barbara Brownie, University of Hertfordshire, UK PART 4: SHOWING AS TELLING - ON DESIGN BEYOND TEXTIntroduction13. Showing Architecture Through Exhibitions: A Taxonomical Analysis Applied to the Case of the First Venice Architecture Biennale (1980), Léa-Catherine Szacka, University College London, UK14. Design as Language without Words: AG Fronzoni, Gabriele Oropallo, University College London, UK 15. On the Legal Protection of Design: Things and Words about Them, Stina Teilmann-Lock, Danish Design School, Denmark 16. Text-led and Object-led Research Paradigms: Doing Without Words, Michael Biggs and Daniela Büchler, both University of Hertfordshire, UKContributorsList of IllustrationsSelect BibliographyIndex
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Springer Brückenbau beginnt im Kopf: Ingenieursein - mehr
Book SynopsisDas Besondere an diesem Buch: Es enthält in jedem Kapitel auch eine Audioversion des Textes.Bauingenieur zu sein ist ein erfüllender Beruf. Bauingenieure gestalten nachhaltige Infrastruktur. Wir errichten Häuser, Straßen, Brücken, Tunnel, Kulturstätten, Türme und vieles mehr. Dafür bringen wir häufig die ganze Ingenieurskunst auf, um solide Lösungen zu erreichen. Und häufig noch mehr, was jenseits der technischen Ingenieurskunst liegt. Das Buch schaut über die technischen Lösungen hinaus in das weitere Umfeld des Bauingenieurs und reflektiert seinen Beruf und die eigene Einstellung aus unterschiedlichsten Perspektiven. „Brückenbau beginnt im Kopf“ bedeutet, sich darauf einzulassen, Verbindungen zu suchen – zu einem ganzheitlichen Berufsbild und seinem Standort als Ingenieur. Wenn der sichere Brückenschlag zum Umfeld des Ingenieurs gelingt, heißt Ingenieursein mehr als perfekte Technik anzuwenden.Table of ContentsIngenieursein mit Gelassenheit,- Ingenieure und ihre Verantwortung.- Ingenieure und ihre Schublade.- Ingenieure im Wandel der Digitalisierung.- Beruflicher Alltag – Ingenieure in Bau- und Planungsprojekten.- Ingenieur als Führungskraft.- Ingenieure und ihr Fehlermanagement.- Statik verträgt sich nicht mit Hektik.- „Psyche“ der Statik.- Bauingenieure zu klein beim Klimawandel?.- Ingenieure und Politiker.- Ingenieure und Juristen im Bau- und Planungsprozess.- Ingenieure und Verkauf.- Ingenieure und (ihre) Kinder.
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ActarD Inc GSD Platform: v. 2
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Brill Risāle-i Mi‘māriyye: An Early-Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Treatise on Architecture. Facsimile with Translation and Notes
Book SynopsisThe Risāle-i Mi‘māriyye by Ca'fer Efendi is the most extensive and detailed Ottoman literary source devoted to a particular architect. In addition to being an account of the life and works of the imperial architect Mehmed Ağa, builder of the Sultan Ahmed Complex in Istanbul, it serves to suggest something of the general character and career evolution of the entire class of Ottoman imperial architects of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and includes as well a trilingual glossary of terms related to architecture. With the exception of the more abridged teẕkeres of Mustafa Sa'i Çelebi dealing with Sinan, the Risāle-i Mi‘māriyye is the only systematic Ottoman account of the life an imperial architect known to exist.Trade Review'Thanks to the scholarly apparatus provided by Professor Crane, scholars can extract from this highly intense compilation of compilations an incredible wealth of useful information, not only on the Ottomans in particular, but on broader seventeenth-century Islamic architectural theory and practice in general.', Walter B. Denny, Mesa Bulletin, 1988. 'This is a welcome contribution not only to the specialized field of Islamic architecture, but also to that of architectural history in general.' Gülru Necipoglu, JSAH, 1990.Table of ContentsPreface Note on Transliteration Introduction Risāle-i Mi‘māriyye Appendix Bibliography Index to Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Technical Terms General Index Facsimile of Text
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Brill Phenomenology, Architecture and the Built World: Exercises in Philosophical Anthropology
Book SynopsisPhenomenology, Architecture and the Built World is an introduction to the methods and basic concepts of phenomenological philosophy through an analysis of the phenomenon of the built world. The conception of the built world that emerges is of space and time fashioned in accordance with a living understanding of what it is for human beings to exist in the world. Human building and making is thus no mere supplementary instrument in the pursuit of the ends of life, but a fundamental embodiment of the self-understanding of human beings. Phenomenological description is uniquely capable of bringing into view the physiognomy of this understanding, its texture and complexity, thereby providing an important basis for a critique of what constitutes its essence and its conditions of possibility.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction Chapter One. Knowledge and building Chapter Two. Building and phenomenon Chapter Three. Phenomenon and world Chapter Four. At the edge of the world Chapter Five. World and thing Chapter Six. Thing and built space Chapter Seven: Built space and expression Chapter Eight. Expression and presence Conclusion. Towards a phenomenological-anthropological vocabulary of the built world Bibliography of Works Cited Subject Index Name Index
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Brill Time and Transformation in Architecture
Book SynopsisTime and Transformation in Architecture, edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, approaches architecture and the built environment from an interdisciplinary point of view by emphasizing in its theoretical discussions and empirical analysis the dimensions of time, temporality, and transformation—and their relation to human experiences, behavior, and practices. The volume consists of seven chapters that explore the following questions: How do architectural ideas, ideals, and meanings emerge, develop, and transform? How is architecture manifested in relation to time, time-space, and the social dimensions it entails and produces? The volume provides both multifaceted theoretical discussions on time and temporality in architecture and empirical case studies around the globe in which these theories and conceptualizations are tested and explored. Contributors are Eiman Ahmed Elwidaa, André van Graan, June Jordaan, Joongsub Kim, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Assumpta Nnaggenda-Musana, Sanja Rodeš and Smaranda Spânu.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Time and Spatial and Social Turns in Architectural Research Tuuli Lähdesmäki Part 1: Temporality and Changing Meanings of Urban Space 2 Temporary Architecture as a Means in Urban Regeneration Tuuli Lähdesmäki 3 After the Event: Considering Media Images and Skyscraper Architecture at the Turn of the 21st Century Sanja Rodeš Part 2: Architectural Imaginings and Colonial and Post-Colonial Realities 4 Modernism as a Mechanism of Power and Control in Colonial Contexts: The Project of Modernity in Cape Town, South Africa André van Graan 5 Architectural Agency and ‘Place-Making’ in a Transformative Post-Apartheid South African Landscape June Jordaan 6 Women as Retrofits in Modernist Low-Income Housing Assumpta Nnaggenda-Musana and Eiman Ahmed Elwidaa Part 3: Spirituality and Decay in Architecture 7 The Heterotopic Nature of the Built Heritage. The Sacred Wooden Architecture of Transylvania and Its Practices Smaranda Spânu 8 Understanding Spirituality in Disabled Places: Focusing on Urban Ruins and Decay Joongsub Kim
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Brill Architecture and Civilization
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface. ONE T.J. DIFFEY: Architecture. Art and Works of Art. TWO Tom LEDDY: Architecture as At. THREE David FENNER: Pure Architecture. FOUR Michael H. MITIAS: Is Architecture an Art of Representation? FIVE Robert STECKER: Reflections on Architecture: Buildings as Environments, as Aesthetic Objects and as Artworks. SIX J. BAJLON: As Architecture. SEVEN Allen CARLSON: The Aesthetic Appreciation of Everyday Architecture. EIGHT Rachel McCANN: Receptivity to the Sensuous: Architecture as Wild Being. NINE David LEWIS: The Aesthetic Experience of Ambiguity: Athenian Acropolis. TEN Crispin SARTWELL: Written in Stone: Architectural Communication and Disintegration. Illustrations. About the Contributors. Index.
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Canopus Editorial Digital LLC Manual de dise o b sico para el taller de arquitectura
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Kodansha Europe Head Office Architecture And Its Models In Southeast Asia
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Springer-Verlag GmbH Conservation of Uncertain Archaeological Sites
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Architectural Heritage Management via Digital Code of Practice
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Penguin Putnam Inc Frank Lloyd Wright
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Architecture of Industry Changing Paradigms in Industrial Building and Planning Ashgate Studies in Architecture
Book SynopsisFrom the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture. In a historical context, industrial architecture evokes the smoking factories of the nineteenth century or Fordist production complexes of the twentieth century. This book documents the changing nature of industrial building and planning from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Drawing on research from the United States, Europe and Australia, this collection of essays highlights key moments in industrial architecture and planning representative of the wider paradigms in the field. Areas of analysis include industrial production, factories, hydroelectricity, aerospace, logistics, finance, scientific research and mining. The selected case studies serve to highlight architectural and planning innovations in industry and their contributions to wider cultural and societal currents. This richly illustrated collection will be of interest for a wide range of built environment studies, incorporating findings from both historical and theoretical scholarship and design research.Table of ContentsThe Architecture of Industry
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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.
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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.
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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 Emergent Technologies and Design Towards a
Book SynopsisEmergence - the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties emerge' from within complex systemsTraditional architecture starts from the premise that architectural structures are singular and fixed, and however well integrated are separate from their environment and context. Emergence requires that the opposite is true that those structures are complex energy and material systems that have a lifespan, exist as part of an environment of other active systems, and develop in an evolutionary way.This book, based on the authors' internationally renowned Emergent Technologies and Design course at the Architectural Association in London, introduces a new approach to the practice of architecture. The authors use essays and projects to demonstrate the interrelationship of concepts such as emergence and self-organisation with the latest technologies in design, manufacturing and construction.With projects from their course, Table of ContentsPart 1: Theoretical Framework 1. Evolution and Computation 2. Material Systems, Computational Morphogenesis and Performative Capacity 3. Material Systems and Environmental Dynamics Feedback Part 2: Research 4. Fibres 5. Textiles 6. Nets 7. Lattices 8. Branches 9. Cells 10. Mass Components 11. Casts 12. Aggregates
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Return of Nature
Book SynopsisThe Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design. What do the terms mean? Are they de facto design requirements? Or are they unintended design replacements? The book is divided into five parts giving you multiple viewpoints on the role of the relations between architecture, nature, technology, and culture. A detailed case study of a built project concludes each part to help you translate theory into practice. This holistic approach will allow you to formulate your own theory and to adjust your practice based on your findings. Will you provoke change, design architecture that responds to change, or both?Coedited by an architect and a historian, the book features new essays by Robert Levit, Catherine Ingraham, Sylvia Lavin, Barry Bergdoll, K. Michael Hays, Diane Lewis, Andrew Payne, Mark Jarzombek, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Elizabeth Diller, Antoine Picon, and Jorge Silvetti. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: Organic Conceits; 1. Design’s New Catechism, Robert Levit; 2. Faculty of Omnipotence, Catherine Ingraham; 3. The Raw and the Cooked, Sylvia Lavin; Case Study: MOS Architects, afterparty, Winner, MoMA/P.S. 1 Young Architects Program (2009); Part 2: The Sublime Past; 4. The Nature Parallel, Barry Bergdoll; 5. Next to Nothing, K. Michael Hays; 6. Nature After Mies, Diane Lewis; Case Study: Michael Bell Design, Gefter-Press House, Ghent, NY (2007); Part 3: Sustaining Nature; 7. On Limits, Andrew Payne; 8. Eco-Pop, Mark Jarzombek; 9. Nature, Model of Complexity, Jean-François Chevrier; Case Study: Steven Holl Architects, Sliced Porosity Block/Chengdu project; Part 4: The Nature of Infrastructure; 10. Agri-tecture, Elizabeth Diller; 11. Nature, Infrastructure and Cities, Antoine Picon; Case Study: George L. Legendre, Henderson Waves, Singapore (2008); Part 5: Nature, Unnaturally; 12. Block That Metaphor, Jorge Silvetti; Case Study: Prescott Scott Cohen, Inc., Chevron House, Los Gatos CA (2011); Index.
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld
Book SynopsisA well-illustrated volume of essays by prominent historians, scholars and practitioners in honour of Kenneth Frampton's seminal contributions to architectural practice and its history.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Karla Cavarra Britton and Robert McCarter PART I: The Social, Cultural, and Ecological Nature of Architecture • Kenneth Frampton’s Idea of the “Critical”, Mary McLeod • World Architecture and Critical Practice, Wang Shu • Site-Specificity, Skilled Labor, and Culture: Architectural Principles in the Age of Climate Change, Wilfried Wang • That Pesky Paradisiacal Instinct …, Harry Francis Mallgrave • Paradoxes of Progress, Joan Ockman • Engaging the Lifeworld in Architectural Design: Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Alberto Pérez-Gómez PART II: Histories and Pedagogies of Architecture • Kenneth Frampton’s Elusive Constructivism, Jean-Louis Cohen • Editing History: the Bauhaus at MoMA, 1938, Barry Bergdoll • Frampton and Japan, Ken Tadashi Oshima • Dialectics of Utopia/Utopian Dialectics, Anthony Vidler • Frampton: Apropos Housing and Cities, Richard Plunz • Proportion and Harmony: Mathematics and Music in Architecture, Juhani Pallasmaa • Mannerism Matters, Robert Maxwell • The Birth of Architecture from the Spirit of Conversation, Kurt W. Forster • On Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Rafael Moneo • A Time of Heroics: Paul Rudolph and Yale, 1958–1965, Robert A.M. Stern with Leopoldo Villardi PART III: Operational Criticism, Landform, and Tectonic Presence • On Kenneth Frampton, Steven Holl • An Englishman in New York, Wiel Arets • From the Field: Critical Regionalism and Tectonic Culture Applied, Brad Cloepfil • Architectural Osmosis, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara • Public Natures: A Roundtable Discussion, Kenneth Frampton, Marion Weiss, Michael A. Manfredi with Justin Fowler • Architecture and Nature: A Recurring State of Mind, Emilio Ambasz • Value and the Metaphor of Phenomenology in the “Visual Schemes” of Kenneth Frampton, Ashley Simone • From the Archives of Kenneth Frampton, Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe • Biography of Kenneth Frampton • Biographies of Contributors • Index
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Architecture
Book SynopsisLooks at how Deleuze challenges architecture as a discipline, how architecture contributes to philosophy and how we can come to understand the politics of space of our increasingly networked world. This title shows Deleuze's influence on the emerging biotechnological paradigm and new practices of participatory design.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Exhaustion and the Exhausted: Deleuze AND Architecture, Helene Frichot and Stephen Loo; PART ONE: SITING; 1. Becomings: Architecture, Feminism, Deleuze, before and after the Fold, Karen Burns; 2. Northern Line, Deborah Hauptmann and Andrej Radman; 3. Why Deleuze, Why Architecture, Marko Jobst; PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING; 4. Deleuze and the Story of the Superfold, Helene Frichot; 5. Objectile: The Pursuit of Philosophy by Other Means? Bernard Cache; 6. The Architect as Metallurgist: Using Concrete to Trace Bio-Digital Lines, Mike Hale; 7. Assembling Architecture, Kim Dovey; PART THREE: GATHERING; 8. Toward a Theory of the Architectural Subject, Simone Brott; 9. The Holey City: Walking along Istanbul's Theodosian Landwalls, Catharina Gabrielsson; 10. Deleuze, Architecture and Social Fabrication, Andrew Ballantyne; 11. Politics + Deleuze + Guattari + Architecture, Adrian Parr; PART FOUR: CARING; 12. The Ethological City, Cameron Duff; 13. Architectures, Critical and Clinical, Chris L. Smith; 14. Abstract Care, Stephen Loo; 15. Making a Rhizome or Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari, Doina Petrescu, Anne Querrien, Constantin Petcou;.
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Saqi Books Mohamed Makiya
Book SynopsisFascinating biography of one of the Middle East's greatest architects whose life story is intrinsically connected to that of Iraq.
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Museum of Modern Art Latin America in Construction
Book SynopsisIn 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture, since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. This book offers a complex overview of the positions, debates, and architectural creativity from Mexico and Cuba to the Southern Cone between 1955 and the early 1980s.
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University of Regina Press Concrete From Ancient Origins to a Problematic
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Right Angle Publishing Ltd Terry Farrell and Partners Sketchbook 120598
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Half Letter Press Leftover Rightunder Finding Architectural
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Strelka Press Make it Real Architecture as Enactment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture in Development
Book SynopsisThis extensive text investigates how architects, planners, and other related experts responded to the contexts and discourses of development after World War II. Development theory did not manifest itself in tracts of economic and political theory alone. It manifested itself in every sphere of expression where economic predicaments might be seen to impinge on cultural factors. Architecture appears in development discourse as a terrain between culture and economics, in that practitioners took on the mantle of modernist expression while also acquiring government contracts and immersing themselves in bureaucratic processes. This book considers how, for a brief period, architects, planners, structural engineers, and various practitioners of the built environment employed themselves in designing all the intimate spheres of life, but from a consolidated space of expertise. Seen in these terms, development was, to cite Arturo Escobar, an immense design project itself, one that requiresTrade Review"Brilliantly questioning the figure of 'development' that haunts modernism, Aggregate gets down to the dirt of the Bretton-Woods world: the entanglement of architectural discourse in food insecurity and mining infrastructures, debt servicing and dictators, supply chains of materials and expertise. A must-read for architectural thinkers."Swati Chattopadhyay, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA"This timely book addresses a major blind spot in contemporary architectural scholarship: the central role of the design disciplines in the processes of modern, postcolonial development in creating the exclusions and inequalities of our time."Fernando Lara, Potter Rose Professorship, University of Texas at Austin, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Developmental time 1. Incompletion: on more than a certain tendency in postwar architecture and planning 2. God’s gamble: self-help architecture and the housing of risk Part II: Expertise 3. Planning for an uncertain present: action planning in Singapore, India, Israel, and Sierra Leone 4. To which revolution? The National School of Agriculture and the center for the improvement of corn and wheat in Texcoco and El Batán, Mexico, 1924–1968 5. From rice research to coconut capital 6. "The city as a housing project": training for human settlements at the Leuven PGCHS in the 1970s–1980s Part III: Bureaucratic organization 7. Folders, patterns, and villages: pastoral technics and the Center for Environmental Structure 8. The technical state: programs, positioning, and the integration of architects in political society in Mexico, 1945–1955 9. "Foreigners in filmmaking" Part IV: Technological transfer 10. The making of architectural design as Sŏlgye: integrating science, industry, and expertise in postwar Korea 11. Infrastructures of dependency: US Steel’s architectural assemblages on Indigenous lands 12. Reinventing earth architecture in the age of development Part V: Designing the rural 13. Globalizing the village: development media, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, and the United Nations in India 14. "Ruralizing" Zambia: Doxiadis Associates’ systems-based planning and developmentalism in the nonindustrialized South 15. Food capital: fantasies of abundance and Nelson Rockefeller’s architectures of development in Venezuela, 1940s—1960s 16. The Jewish Agency’s open cowsheds: Israeli third way rural design, 1956–1968 17. Floors and ceilings: the architectonics of accumulation in the Green Revolution Part VI: Land 18. Policy regionalism and the limits of translation in land economics 19. Leisure and geo-economics: the Hilton and other development regimes in the Mediterranean south 20. Antiparochì and (its) architects: Greek architectures in failure
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architectural Education Through Materiality
Book SynopsisWhat kind of architectural knowledge was cultivated through drawings, models, design-build experimental houses and learning environments in the 20th century? And, did new teaching techniques and tools foster pedagogical, institutional and even cultural renewal? Architectural Education Through Materiality: Pedagogies of 20th Century Design brings together a collection of illustrated essays dedicated to exploring the complex processes that transformed architecture's pedagogies in the 20th century.The last decade has seen a substantial increase in interest in the history of architectural education. This book widens the geographical scope beyond local school histories and sets out to discover the very distinct materialities and technologies of schooling as active agents in the making of architectural schools. Architectural Education Through Materiality argues that knowledge transmission cannot be reduced to software', the relatively easily detectable ideas inTrade Review"This is a remarkable collection of essays that demonstrate for both teachers and students that pedagogy is a dynamic process—one that must constantly evolve its methods, aims and media." Ines Weizman, Head of PhD Programme, School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, UK"Methodologically speaking, Architectural Education Through Materiality has emerged as any powerful pedagogic prototype is inclined to do: through discussion, exchange, collaboration, transposition, provocation, iteration, reflection, and proposition. This deeply reflective endeavour offers the epistemological archaeology work needed to ensure architectural pedagogies can evolve equitably and inclusively." Harriet Harriss, Dean of the School of Architecture, Pratt Institute, New York, USA"Now, as we find ourselves in a world that begs for reconsidering the way we build, we may want to review the way we educate architects too. Hence, a book that looks back at 20th-century architectural education in a fresh and insightful manner—shifting attention from the ends to the means—seems to be timely indeed. By presenting many episodes worth studying and re-evaluating, this book not only shows how architecture was taught—it also offers a plethora of new insights and ideas for how it could be taught. In short: there is much to be learned from this book." Jasper Cepl, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany"This welcome addition to the library on architectural education elevates the stuff of the studio, the lecture hall, the seminar, and the site visit. The question of what one could see, hear, or touch is in these pages traded for that of how students and teachers encountered and activated images, ideas, models and experiences. More than a meditation on pedagogy, this book captures a series of views on what architecture is, at precise moments, as something to impress upon its students." Andrew Leach, University of Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction: a passage to material hermeneutics Elke Couchez & Rajesh Heynickx Section 1: Objects on Display: Learning Through Looking 1. From wooden blocks to Scottish tartans. Dom Hans van der Laan’s reconciliation of rational patterns and spatial experience. Caroline Voet 2. A Walking exhibit. Alfons Hoppenbrouwers’s visual pedagogy Elke Couchez 3. Clashing perspectives: Joseph Rykwert’s object lesson at Ulm School of Design. Paul James 4. Pancho’s passages: framing transitional objects for decolonial education in 1980s South Africa Hannah le Roux Section 2: Hands-on: Learning Through Manual Work 5. Planning problems: data graphics in the education of architects and planners at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the 1940s. Anna Vallye 6. The Cambridge collage: Dalibor Vesely, phenomenology, and architectural design method Joseph Bedford 7. Little living labs: 1970s student design-build projects and the objects of experimental lifestyles Lee Stickells Section 3: Bodies in Space: Synesthetic Learning 8. The body as an ultimate form of architecture. Global Tools Body Workshops Silvia Franceschini 9. Parallel narratives of disciplinary disruption. The bush campus as design and pedagogical concept. Susan Holden 10. Environmental learning revisited: cities, issues, bodies. Isabelle Doucet Section 4: Learning by Technologies: Audio-Visual Transmissions 11. In the eye of the projector. Wölfflin, slides and architecture in postwar America Rajesh Heynickx 12. Wireless architecture: Robert Cummings’ early radio broadcasts John Macarthur and Deborah van der Plaat 13. The captive lecturer James Benedict Brown Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Antiquity Origins Classicism and the New Rome
Book SynopsisThis is the first in a series of seven books that describe and illustrate the seminal architectural traditions of the world. It describes the origins of the Classical tradition in the mountain temples of Sumer, the pyramids of Egypt and the ziggurats of Mesopotamia. The story continues with the temples, theatres, palaces and council chambers of ancient Greece and Rome, and finishes with the adoption of Classical models to house the new institutions of Christian Europe. Excursions along the way take in Mesoamerica and the Andean littoral, and Africa.Not simply a profusely illustrated catalogue of buildings, the book also provides their political, technological, social and cultural contexts. It functions equally well as a detailed and comprehensive narrative, as a collection of the great buildings of the world, and as an archive of themes across time and place.Trade Review'[The first in] a grand survey of the whole of world architecture.' - The Times'[The first in] a grand survey of the whole of world architecture.' - The Times‘This book is an absolute tour de force. Architecture is only the beginning; we are told about the civilizations that created it, with examples of their artefacts as well as their buildings.’ - John Julius Norwich‘Astonishing in its scope, clarity and insight, Tadgell’s survey of the built environment from the beginnings to the twilight of Byzantium works at every level: it will guide the student and stimulate the scholar.’ - David StarkeyTable of ContentsPrologue: Origins Part 1: West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean 1.1. The Fertile Crescent and the Nile Valley 1.2. The Aegean, Anatolia and the Aryans 1.3. Issues From a Dark Age Part 2: Trans-Atlantica 2.1. Mesoamerica 2.2. The Andean Littoral Part 3: The Classical World 3.1. Hellenic Order 3.2. Macedonians and the East 3.3. Republican Rome and its Mentors 3.4. Augustan Rome and its Empire Part 4: Christianity and Empire 4.1. Rome and New Romes 4.2. Justinian and the Apotheosis of Byzantium Epilogue: The Last Half Millennium of Byzantium Glossary Further Reading Index
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