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Lebbeus Woods: Exquisite Experiments, Early Years
Av Aleksandra Wagner, Neil Spiller
Häftad, 2024
452 kr
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American architect Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012) remains a quiet hero not only among his colleagues, but also for architectural students intrigued by the ideas and fluent beauty of his powerful graphic verve, as well as of his writing. His projects from the mid-1980s until the end of his life have been …
Architextiles
Av Garcia
Häftad, 2007
484 kr
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Focusing on the intersections between textiles and architectural design, this title communicates the full range of possibilities for a multidisciplinary design hybrid. It examines the generative concepts, forms, patterns, materials, processes, technologies and practices that are driving this …
Food and the City
Häftad, 2005
482 kr
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Food and the City makes the relationships between food and the city visible by exploring both the ways in which buying and eating food have become such a significant part of urban public life, and the ways in which design supports and enhances the place of food in the city. It is timely because the …
Versatility and Vicissitude
Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design
Häftad, 2008
326 kr
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This third AD by the guest-editors of the highly successful Emergence and techniques and technologies in Morphogenetic Design titles shifts the morpho-ecological design project into the realm of performance. Whereas the dictionary definition of performance -to 'carry out an action' or 'to fulfill a …
Protoarchitecture
Analogue and Digital Hybrids
Häftad, 2008
439 kr
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The illusive and uncertain world of translating ideas into matter is a negotiation between the ideal and the real and a central preoccupation of architectural production. By invading the toolbox of digital fabrication, design has transgressed into protocols of manufacturing previously the domain of …
Latin America at the Crossroads
Häftad, 2011
519 kr
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Guest-editor Mariana Leguía The announcement of Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympic host city has placed Latin America on the world's stage. Latin America has not been the centre of international architectural attention and pilgrimage since the mid 20th century when economic growth triggered the …
Radical Post-Modernism
Häftad, 2011
482 kr
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In this latest issue of Architectural Design the guest editors are drawn, like the content, from contrasting tastes and generations. Charles Jencks, the definer of Post-Modernism for thirty years, discusses some issues that have re-emerged today, while the young group of British architects, FAT, …
Patterns of Architecture
Häftad, 2009
439 kr
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Pattern-making is ubiquitous in both the natural and manmade world. The human propensity for pattern recognition and fabrication is innate. Encompassing the historical, vernacular and parametric, this title explores the creation, materialisation and theorisation of some of the world's most …
Territory
Architecture Beyond Environment
Häftad, 2010
439 kr
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Advancing a new relationship between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production of architectural objects and the environment surrounding them. Conceptualised within a framework that draws from physical and human geographical thought, this title of Architectural Design …
Post-Traumatic Urbanism
Häftad, 2010
439 kr
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POST-TRAUMATIC URBANISM Urban trauma describes a condition where conflict or catastrophe has disrupted and damaged not only the physical environment and infrastructure of a city, but also the social and cultural networks. Cities experiencing trauma dominate the daily news. Images of blasted …
New Pastoralism
Landscape into Architecture
Häftad, 2013
418 kr
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The New Pastoralism demonstrates how small-scale additions or conversions using planting and wildlife can bring about engaging, delightful and efficient structures and spaces. The book’s numerous contributors each showcase a particular Nature device that they used to enhance their built proposals. …
System City
Infrastructure and the Space of Flows
Häftad, 2013
403 kr
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A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinking about cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20th century to mathematical models of the processes of biological and natural systems. From this new perspective, cities are regarded not simply as spatially extended …
Architecture of Transgression
Häftad, 2014
410 kr
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Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. The current economic crisis and accompanying political/social unrest has exacerbated the difficulty into which …
High Definition
Zero Tolerance in Design and Production
Häftad, 2014
410 kr
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A pioneering title, High Definition explores the onslaught of new and highly accurate digital metrology tools in large- and small-scale 3-D scanning and 3-D modelling. Capable of measuring space to an accuracy of less than 1 mm, these tools offer unprecedented precision for the development and …
Designing for the Third Age
Architecture Redefined for a Generation of "Active Agers"
Häftad, 2014
403 kr
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Highlights how architecture needs to rise to the challenge of a demographic revolution As people sixty-five and older constitute an ever increasingly proportion of population in most industrialized nations, the design of housing and other built provisions needs to be rethought in order to …
Future Details of Architecture
Av Mark Garcia
Häftad, 2014
544 kr
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Despite the exaggerated news of the untimely 'death of the detail' by Greg Lynn, the architectural detail is now more lifelike and active than ever before. In this era of digital design and production technologies, new materials, parametrics, building information modeling (BIM), augmented realities …
Constructions
An Experimental Approach to Intensely Local Architectures
Av Michael Hensel, Christian Hermansen Cordua
Häftad, 2015
403 kr
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The current trend for constructing experimental structures is now an international phenomenon. It has been taken up worldwide by design professionals, researchers, educators and students alike. There exist, however, distinct and significant tendencies within this development that require further …
UAE and the Gulf
Architecture and Urbanism Now
Av George Katodrytis, Kevin Mitchell
Häftad, 2015
410 kr
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At the end of the 20th century, Dubai attracted international media attention as the world sought to make sense of the city’s extraordinary growth. Exuberant projects such as the Burj Arab, the Burj Khalifa and the Palm Islands attracted investment in dreams to transform the region. While the …
Pavilions, Pop Ups and Parasols
The Impact of Real and Virtual Meeting on Physical Space
Häftad, 2015
403 kr
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Around the world, a new architectural form is emerging. In public places a progressive architecture is being commissioned to promote open-ended, undetermined, lightly programmed or un-programmed interactions between people. This new phenomenon of architectural form – Pavilions, Pop-Ups and Parasols …
Architecture Timed
Designing with Time in Mind
Häftad, 2016
410 kr
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The traditional veneration of architecture for its monumental and enduring qualities seems to be changing. Architects and other designers are moving away from seeking permanence towards a more open, creative use of what time has to offer. This is revealed in new approaches to historic preservation, …
Mass-Customised Cities
Häftad, 2015
395 kr
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What happens when computational design and fabrication technologies ramp up to the urban scale? Though these innovative production processes are currently now largely limited to small-scale design projects, what will happen when they are applied to the vast scale of the 21st-century world city? …
Designing the Rural
A Global Countryside in Flux
Häftad, 2016
403 kr
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The rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban has become much more complex. Established categories such as rural /urban and village/city no longer hold true. Rural and urban conditions have become …
Evoking through Design
Contemporary Moods in Architecture
Häftad, 2017
410 kr
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Evoking Through Design: Contemporary Moods in Architecture is visually stunning, featuring built work and speculative projects, which highlight how contemporary practices are using devices such as spatial compositing, surface articulation and novel manipulations of materials in order to constitute …
Design for Health
Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture
Häftad, 2017
403 kr
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Design for Health: Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture Guest-Edited by Terri PetersThis issue of AD seeks out innovative and varied sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as: integrating sensory gardens and landscapes into the care environment;specifying …
Workflows
Expanding Architecture's Territory in the Design and Delivery of Buildings
Häftad, 2017
403 kr
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Workflows are being rethought and remodelled across the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) spectrum. The synthesis of building information modelling (BIM) platforms with digital simulation techniques and increasing access to data, charting building performance, is allowing architects …
New Modes
Redefining Practice
Häftad, 2018
412 kr
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New modes of practice are now emerging in architecture. Rural Studio, Exyzt, Muf, Assemble and many more have led the way by challenging conventional ideas of ‘The Architect' and reclaiming the notion of architecture as something public that should work ultimately towards the collective good. This …
Architecture and Freedom
Searching for Agency in a Changing World
Häftad, 2018
482 kr
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Architects are facing a crisis of agency. For decades, they have seen their traditional role diminish in scope as more and more of their responsibilities have been taken over by other disciplines within the building construction industry. Once upon a time, we might have seen the architect as the …
China Homegrown
Chinese Experimental Architecture Reborn
Häftad, 2018
477 kr
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Today, architecture in China is at a watershed. Over the last decade, rapid urbanisation and the burgeoning economy turned the country into a playground for the world’s signature architects, making it possible to realise extravagant forms and structures at a vast scale. The Chinese government has …
SU+RE
Sustainable + Resilient Design Systems
Häftad, 2018
482 kr
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In the 21st century, architects and engineers are being challenged to produce work that is concurrently sustainable and resilient. Buildings need to mitigate their impact on climate change by minimising their carbon footprint, while also countering the challenging new weather conditions. Globally, …
Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde
Revisiting the Architecture of the 1960s and 1970s
Häftad, 2019
468 kr
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The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an ‘architectural Big Bang’, such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by architectural projects that redefined the discipline, it remains just as influential today. References to the …
