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De nombreux architectes construisent de par le monde avec des moyens extrêmement limités, transformant cette contrainte financière en source de créativité. Les difficultés économiques constatées à l'échelle mondiale, associées à la prise de conscience croissante de la nécessité d'aller vers des constructions plus écologiques, ont permis le développement d'une nouvelle(...)
Architecture low cost, low tech: Inventions et stratégies
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De nombreux architectes construisent de par le monde avec des moyens extrêmement limités, transformant cette contrainte financière en source de créativité. Les difficultés économiques constatées à l'échelle mondiale, associées à la prise de conscience croissante de la nécessité d'aller vers des constructions plus écologiques, ont permis le développement d'une nouvelle vision de l'architecture, où la sobriété devient séduisante et où les techniques et la créativité des jeunes architectes produisent de nouvelles formes d'habitat moins opulentes mais plus intelligentes, moins luxueuses mais plus confortables et fonctionnelles.
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Updated edition of Arch-Manual, the substantial and generous resource that provides an incisive analysis of works by 45 established and upcoming architectural practices. Contemporary, future and experimental projects from around the world are afforded between four and ten pages each, and examined in detail with colour photography, models, plans, diagrams and an(...)
Arch manual: design, concept, script, process
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Updated edition of Arch-Manual, the substantial and generous resource that provides an incisive analysis of works by 45 established and upcoming architectural practices. Contemporary, future and experimental projects from around the world are afforded between four and ten pages each, and examined in detail with colour photography, models, plans, diagrams and an introductory text. Architects featured include Atelier Bow-Wow, Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT), Francisco Mangado, MOS, Plasma Studio, UNStudio, VMX Architects, Wiel Arets Architects, and Emre Arolat Architects. Edited by Bruce Q. Lan.
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Des tours place de l’opéra Bastille, des intrus installés sur l’avenue de France, un autre paysage pour l'île Seguin ou encore le périphérique envahi par une végétation luxuriante ... cet ouvrage rassemble l’ensemble des folles projections urbaines imaginées par les membres du Wild Club* qui depuis plus de deux ans revisitent, transforment, caricaturent ou détournent sur(...)
Wild club
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Des tours place de l’opéra Bastille, des intrus installés sur l’avenue de France, un autre paysage pour l'île Seguin ou encore le périphérique envahi par une végétation luxuriante ... cet ouvrage rassemble l’ensemble des folles projections urbaines imaginées par les membres du Wild Club* qui depuis plus de deux ans revisitent, transforment, caricaturent ou détournent sur internet des lieux emblématiques de la métropole parisienne.
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As living conditions among the world's poor continue to decline, with more and more people occupying slums and shantytowns, architects and artists are attempting to apply new models of collaboration and sustainability to social crisis. Moderators of Change: Architecture That Helps showcases 20 international projects by architects, designers and artists that provide(...)
Moderators of change: architecture that helps
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As living conditions among the world's poor continue to decline, with more and more people occupying slums and shantytowns, architects and artists are attempting to apply new models of collaboration and sustainability to social crisis. Moderators of Change: Architecture That Helps showcases 20 international projects by architects, designers and artists that provide socially responsible models of urban design. By inviting users to collaborate in the design and building process, and by working with new economic models, these practitioners have realized projects that have had profound, positive effects with just a minimum investment of money and materials. This book includes schools, libraries, gardens, conversions and art projects, as well as essays by Regina Bittner, Carson Chan, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, Ronald Rael, Anne Schmedding and Christian Welzbacher.
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AA Book projects review 2011
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The work of the AA's 600+ full-time students ranges from small-scale studies and drawings to large 1:1 working prototypes, interactive media and built installations, including the annual AA summer pavilion in Bedford Square. The book also includes selected projects originating from the AA's Hooke Park campus in Dorset and our Research Cluster initiatives as well as from(...)
AA Book projects review 2011
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The work of the AA's 600+ full-time students ranges from small-scale studies and drawings to large 1:1 working prototypes, interactive media and built installations, including the annual AA summer pavilion in Bedford Square. The book also includes selected projects originating from the AA's Hooke Park campus in Dorset and our Research Cluster initiatives as well as from the immensely diverse design workshops and public events associated with the AA's global Visiting School, undertaken in more than a dozen cities since its launch in early 2008. Complementing these projects, this book also offers a snapshot of the AA's vibrant public programme of lectures and exhibitions and its equally pioneering catalogue of publications and other printed media.
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GSD platform 3
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Whether exploring the potential of a new technology, redefining a typology, or engaging a community on the other side of the globe, the lines of inquiry beginning at the GSD consistently indicate relevance to larger social, cultural, and spatial questions. To understand the scope of this potential impact, the work was framed with one simple question: “What can design(...)
GSD platform 3
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Whether exploring the potential of a new technology, redefining a typology, or engaging a community on the other side of the globe, the lines of inquiry beginning at the GSD consistently indicate relevance to larger social, cultural, and spatial questions. To understand the scope of this potential impact, the work was framed with one simple question: “What can design do?”. We have identified five actions that describe the ability of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design at the GSD to reach beyond their immediate contexts and out into the world: Instigate Evolution, Describe Identity, Construct Equality, Negotiate Growth, Imagine New Futures. The range and definition of these actions is tested through the work of a representative collection of studios, lectures, seminars, symposia, colloquia, thesis projects, and student research. The core studios are presented here in sequence.
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Of Cats and Microwaves presents urban and artistic practices devoted to developing new relationships with our environment through participatory intervention. Featuring projects by architecture studios umschichten and Bellastock, the book represents a call to reshaping our living environment.
Of cats and microwaves: refelections on architectural interventions
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Of Cats and Microwaves presents urban and artistic practices devoted to developing new relationships with our environment through participatory intervention. Featuring projects by architecture studios umschichten and Bellastock, the book represents a call to reshaping our living environment.
Contemporary Architecture
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This book presents a series of contemporary, diverse and innovative design strategies that vary in form, function and design intent. The common denominator of all projects is the alternative and/or experimental approach of combining both private and public spaces. Diverse, innovative design approaches with complex programme are combined with socially and financially(...)
Innovative architecture strategies
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This book presents a series of contemporary, diverse and innovative design strategies that vary in form, function and design intent. The common denominator of all projects is the alternative and/or experimental approach of combining both private and public spaces. Diverse, innovative design approaches with complex programme are combined with socially and financially sustainable strategies. It shows design approaches with complex programmes, innovative and socially and financially sustainable approach.Innovative Architecture Strategies aims to help understand the different design approaches that can be followed when called to propose a concept and design an innovative mixed-use building. It's also a guide, point of reference, and inspiration book. The book demonstrates an analytical and clear way to conceptualize, explain and present a mixed-use design project. Each project in the book is selected for its different form, function, technique and design intent. They all offer a clear example of a design project. The diverse design approaches are presented in ten chapters. Each chapter begins with explaining the main concept behind the specific design approach and with a reference to a built precedent.
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And now: Architecture against a developer presidency. Essays on the occasion of Trump's inauguration
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The election and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the president of the United States of America have provoked an unprecedented intensity of reflection in virtually all academic disciplines. The professions of architecture and planning, faced with the phenomenon of a self-proclaimed "builder-in-chief," have found themselves facing a series of fundamental questions, both(...)
And now: Architecture against a developer presidency. Essays on the occasion of Trump's inauguration
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The election and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the president of the United States of America have provoked an unprecedented intensity of reflection in virtually all academic disciplines. The professions of architecture and planning, faced with the phenomenon of a self-proclaimed "builder-in-chief," have found themselves facing a series of fundamental questions, both old and new. How should we think, teach, and practice under a developer presidency? What sort of walls will we and won't we choose to build? What are our commitments of critical thought, and what obligations should we turn our energies toward? The essays gathered in And Now explore the nature of architecture's many long-standing complicities. Architecture coordinates colossal expenditures (of material, of energy); it scripts forms of labor (in its construction, in its operation, and in the programs it houses); and it is both a repository and generator of capital. Architecture participates, centrally, in defining modes of life, whether for the privileged or the dispossessed-designing and building the boundaries between the "haves" and the "have-nots." This fundamental reality of architectural practice need not inspire either nihilism or defensiveness but should rather be understood, quite simply, as the terrain we navigate. Naming these complicities and the injustices they perpetuate is a first step toward addressing them.
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"Black: architecture in monochrome" casts a new eye on the beauty - and the drama - of black in the built world. Spotlighting more than 150 structures from the last 1,000 years, Black pairs engaging text with fascinating photographs of houses, churches, libraries, skyscrapers, and other buildings from some of the world's leading architects, including Mies van der Rohe,(...)
Black: architecture in monochrome
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"Black: architecture in monochrome" casts a new eye on the beauty - and the drama - of black in the built world. Spotlighting more than 150 structures from the last 1,000 years, Black pairs engaging text with fascinating photographs of houses, churches, libraries, skyscrapers, and other buildings from some of the world's leading architects, including Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, and Eero Saarinen, David Adjaye, Jean Nouvel, Peter Marino, and Steven Holl.
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