Architecture in Practice – serie
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Is it all About Image?
How PR works in Architecture
Häftad, 2004
711 kr
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Publicity is essential for any practice to keep afloat and continue attracting commissions, as even modest jobs often come in through recommendation and reputation. This is the first comprehensive and accessible guide for any archite who wants to wise up on their PR. The book reveals varying forms …
Mereological City
A Reading of the Works of Ludwig Hilberseimer
Häftad, 2016
714 kr
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In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city itself: its mereological composition.The resonance of parts unfolds to an alternative of a purely contrasting equation of form and content. It reminds …
Architectonics of Game Spaces – The Spatial Logic of the Virtual and Its Meaning for the Real
Av Andri Gerber, Ulrich Götz m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
439 kr
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What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can the nature of architecture be used productively to turn game-worlds into sustainable places – over here, in »reality«?This pioneering collection gives an overview of contemporary developments in designing …
Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas
Recalibrating Architecture in the 1970s
Häftad, 2021
501 kr
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Lara Schrijver examines the work of Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas as intellectual legacy of the 1970s for architecture today. Particularly in the United States, this period focused on the autonomy of architecture as a correction to the social orientation of the 1960s. Yet, these two …
Architecture, Futurability and Untimely
On the Unpredictability of the Past
Häftad, 2022
991 kr
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The planetary instantaneity that digital technologies have enabled is leading to an effacement of the divisions that separate the past from the future, ensuring that the present is ubiquitous. While contemporary architecture seems to have lost the capacity to conceive of the past as a …
Vatican to Vegas
The History of Special Effects
Häftad, 2024
954 kr
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A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, The Vatican to Vegas takes the reader from lavish Baroque fantasies of the seventeenth century to the Electronic Baroque of today. The ›scripted spaces‹ described by Norman M. Klein are punctuated with devices widely used in …
Drawing and Experiencing Architecture
The Evolving Significance of City's Inhabitants in the 20th Century
Häftad, 2022
951 kr
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How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants. …
Building Institution
The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1976-1985
Av Kim Forster
Inbunden, 2024
907 kr
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»Building Institution« chronicles the expansion of architecture as a profession and discipline in the postmodern era. Kim Förster traces the compelling history of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, which was active in New York from 1967 to 1985. Drawing on extensive archival research …
São Paulo Heterotopia
Urban Spaces in Suspense / Urbane Rume in der Schwebe
Av Ulrike Bohm, Katja Benfer m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
509 kr
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Public and private, traffic and open space, planned and spontaneous – our idea of a city is characterised by opposites. However, the contributors to this bilingual book show that these poles can also be consciously connected. The urban building blocks from São Paolo present surprisingly …
Palladio Method
Draughtsman and Designer, Mason and Engineer. Learning from the Master
Av Thorsten Burklin, Martin Ebert
Häftad, 2024
951 kr
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The architect Andrea Palladio was a draughtsman and a designer, a mason and an engineer, an innovator and an image maker. His growing importance from the 16th century onwards was based on his profound expertise in architectural issues that went beyond singular tasks and situations, and beyond his …
Indian Architecture in Postcards
A New Perspective on a Modern Heritage
Häftad, 2023
793 kr
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Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards of modern architecture in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Agra, the contributors to this volume explore the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s and share their own perspective on these objects. Experts …
Architecture in Times of Multiple Crises
Everyday Utopianisms of Care and Radical Spatial Practices
Häftad, 2023
951 kr
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Under the premise that architecture makes life ›better‹, architecture is often presented as the ›solution‹ to social problems, made ›green‹ when promising sustainable futures, or fetishised as a cultural object for the creation of urban identities. Yet, what is it exactly that links architecture so …
Large Housing Estates under Socialism
Experiences and Perspectives on Sustainable Development of Mass Housing Districts
Av Barbara Engel, Nikolas Rogge
Häftad, 2024
992 kr
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Harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicable strategies and concepts. What are the challenges to be overcome? How can the often mono-structural estates be altered, and how can spatial and …
Salvaging Buildings
Reclaiming a Livelihood from the Excesses of Istanbul's Mass Urbanization
Häftad, 2023
1030 kr
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For at least two decades, major cities in Turkey have been subjected to endless waves of urban development that has left scores of building demolitions in its wake. The construction waste produced is immense but its removal or abatement is completely ignored by the state. Who will deal with all …
Architectural Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Av Andri Gerber, Oya Atalay Franck m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
428 kr
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How will AI transform architecture? How can we conceptualize AI in the context of architecture? The contributors to this volume discuss different positions to understand the fundamental shift provoked by AI and contextualize this shift in forms of operational theories and performative uses of the …
Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture
Techniques for Designing the Present Needs
Av Dietrich Erben, Carsten Ruhl
Häftad, 2026
519 kr
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Starting from the fundamental premise that references are essential for all cultural techniques, the contributors to this volume elaborate architecture’s ambivalent tension between reference and contemporaneity, its central role in both architectural production and discourse. The issues surrounding …
Light in Architecture
Tectonic Relations Between Light and Shadows
Häftad, 2026
446 kr
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Today, when darkness of all kinds, cast by humans, is trying to prevail and is endangering prosperous life on the planet, we need a reflection on how to reconcile the darkness with light of living. Tatjana Capuder Vidmar examines four perspectives on the topic through four masterpieces of art: …
Blurring the Lines
Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing in Contemporary Architecture
Häftad, 2006
403 kr
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In architecture, the interface between CAD (computer-aided drawing tools) and CAM (computer-aided manufacturing tools) is a hot topic. For architects, it offers the opportunity to work in a totally new way and regain full control of the construction and manufacture of their buildings.This book …
