50 Hybrid buildings
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Hybrid buildings are urban artefacts which are often characterised by their mixed-use role in the city. The ones that manage to get built and endure are true survivors of a rare and vigorous category that flourishes in locations of opportunity. This volume presents 50 of these hybrid buildings, designed from the 19th century to the present, as a catalogue of types without(...)
50 Hybrid buildings
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Hybrid buildings are urban artefacts which are often characterised by their mixed-use role in the city. The ones that manage to get built and endure are true survivors of a rare and vigorous category that flourishes in locations of opportunity. This volume presents 50 of these hybrid buildings, designed from the 19th century to the present, as a catalogue of types without any specific typology. Each project is drawn in section, revealing both its functions and a fascinating narrative about how it came to be, as well as its place in the urban context. The publication demonstrates how buildings which insist on mixing uses and users can more naturally incorporate complexity and indeterminacy.
Collective Housing
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The third and final instalment in the “Is This Rural?” series focuses on the intermediate territory: the most indeterminate in terms of use, the setting where the most complex situations occur, and where the mix of uses is part of its identity. An analysis of this diffuse and increasingly expanded portion of the environment originates a series of explorations towards(...)
a+t 55: Is this rural? The intermediate
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The third and final instalment in the “Is This Rural?” series focuses on the intermediate territory: the most indeterminate in terms of use, the setting where the most complex situations occur, and where the mix of uses is part of its identity. An analysis of this diffuse and increasingly expanded portion of the environment originates a series of explorations towards possible futures in which architecture is obliged to enter into dialogue with the natural sciences. Besides essays by architect and urbanist Javier Mozas and Wroclaw-based PROLOG +1, it also features works by Colectivo C733, B-Architecten, Atelier Fanelsa, KOSMOS Architects, Rural Office for Architecture, and others.
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The new average family is merely a basic outline of the different possibilities that have appeared in recent years. Given the wide variety of living situations today, the dwelling aims to satisfy needs regarding use, lease, cohabitation, and temporality. By way of this inquiry into the collective now, we become increasingly distanced from the average dwelling and propose(...)
A+T 49 : complex buildings dwelling mixers
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The new average family is merely a basic outline of the different possibilities that have appeared in recent years. Given the wide variety of living situations today, the dwelling aims to satisfy needs regarding use, lease, cohabitation, and temporality. By way of this inquiry into the collective now, we become increasingly distanced from the average dwelling and propose new ways of living together – an option which embraces complexity. Here the magazine draws a timeline in the collective housing of the 21st century in which three generations of project types coexist, reflecting varying degrees of complexity: a diversity of types, the best of two worlds, and reducing individual space.
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It is commonly understood that school buildings house complex systems. From the kindergarten to the university faculty, the journey through the levels of learning consists of an accumulation of vital experiences arising from the interaction between these systems. The educational function now builds its environments with new paradigms that reflect and respond to an(...)
A+T 50 : complex buildings, learning systems
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It is commonly understood that school buildings house complex systems. From the kindergarten to the university faculty, the journey through the levels of learning consists of an accumulation of vital experiences arising from the interaction between these systems. The educational function now builds its environments with new paradigms that reflect and respond to an increasingly diverse and complex social agenda. Javier Mozas analyses these new educational models in this third instalment of the “Complex Buildings” series, which also includes recent projects by C.F. Møller, NL Architects, Aleph Zero, OMA, Gigon/Guyer, Studio Velocity, and COBE Architects.
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The magazine returns to examine the public realm through the ‘Strategy’ series, which began in 2010 with the aim of highlighting and naming the strategies underlying each project. This new cycle of the series begins with “Activators” – projects capable of adding new dynamics to the public space through the incorporation of facilities for leisure, sports, or recreational(...)
A+T 51 : Activators, public space strategies
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The magazine returns to examine the public realm through the ‘Strategy’ series, which began in 2010 with the aim of highlighting and naming the strategies underlying each project. This new cycle of the series begins with “Activators” – projects capable of adding new dynamics to the public space through the incorporation of facilities for leisure, sports, or recreational learning. Featured are works by MVRDV, Jaja, Adept, Nendo, Vaumm, Wowhaus, and Ola, among others.
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In the latest issue of the Strategy series, a+t extends its field of research to the system of tactics. Javier Mozas develops the system of tactics applied to public space offering his view of the actors involved, the modus operandi and the realms in which it takes place. Based on this view a+t has chosen 8 tactical actions which it considers to be action types, including(...)
a+t 38: strategy and tactics in public space
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In the latest issue of the Strategy series, a+t extends its field of research to the system of tactics. Javier Mozas develops the system of tactics applied to public space offering his view of the actors involved, the modus operandi and the realms in which it takes place. Based on this view a+t has chosen 8 tactical actions which it considers to be action types, including low-cost self-building, farming the city and aspiring to utopia. Included in this issue are projects by Atelier Bow-Wow, BIG, Superflex, and Topotek1 among many others.
Public Space
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This is the inaugural volume of a+t's new series on architectural strategy, dedicated to the study of design and project processes. 23 completed works of urban landscaping are analysed, and the project strategy assessed in each case. Contributors include Secchi Viganò, Alberto Campo Baeza, In Situ, Nieto Sobejano, SWA Group, and many more.
a+t 35-36 Strategy Public: Landscape urbanism strategies
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This is the inaugural volume of a+t's new series on architectural strategy, dedicated to the study of design and project processes. 23 completed works of urban landscaping are analysed, and the project strategy assessed in each case. Contributors include Secchi Viganò, Alberto Campo Baeza, In Situ, Nieto Sobejano, SWA Group, and many more.
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Following years of research, a+t publishers presents the first theoretical-practical book on hybrid buildings. Taking its inspiration from the four issues of a+t magazine's Hybrid series, the book takes a look at the theories and projects which have had the greatest historical importance. Steven Holl prefaces the book with an introduction where he foresees the path which(...)
This is hybrid: An analysis of mixed-use buildings
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Following years of research, a+t publishers presents the first theoretical-practical book on hybrid buildings. Taking its inspiration from the four issues of a+t magazine's Hybrid series, the book takes a look at the theories and projects which have had the greatest historical importance. Steven Holl prefaces the book with an introduction where he foresees the path which hybrid typologies should take towards the creation of new urban spaces.
Contemporary Architecture
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The contemporary workplace has derived from successive compression and decompression. First, there was the hierarchical Taylorist office. Then came the rational, well-lit and organised space with individual cubicles. A return to the open landscape office came later, with free layouts shrouded in vegetation – the forerunner of the dematerialisation of the workplace. Today,(...)
a + t 43 : workforce, a better place to work
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The contemporary workplace has derived from successive compression and decompression. First, there was the hierarchical Taylorist office. Then came the rational, well-lit and organised space with individual cubicles. A return to the open landscape office came later, with free layouts shrouded in vegetation – the forerunner of the dematerialisation of the workplace. Today, we are in a far more fluid state that envisages the specialisation of space and brand expression: diversity and identity. The workplace should not only encompass tasks like individual and group work, but also those involving learning and socialising.
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Reduce, retrieve and remove are the three new processes being added to those already expanded upon in the previous a+t issue. The recent additions refer to refusal and relinquishment options for the current living environment. After having undergone a series of material, formal, technical and economical adjustments, the role of inhabiting a space is viewed with a fresh(...)
A+T 41: reclaim domestic actions
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Reduce, retrieve and remove are the three new processes being added to those already expanded upon in the previous a+t issue. The recent additions refer to refusal and relinquishment options for the current living environment. After having undergone a series of material, formal, technical and economical adjustments, the role of inhabiting a space is viewed with a fresh perspective. This issue contains 53 domestic actions, all of which try to recapture the spirit of feeling at-home.
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