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In this easy-to-use new size, 'Black: Architecture in Monochrome' highlights the elegance of black in the built world through more than 150 structures. From ancient churches to contemporary skyscrapers, Black demonstrates how hues from ebony to onyx have been beloved by architects for centuries. Insightful texts paired with striking photography bring to life these(...)
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In this easy-to-use new size, 'Black: Architecture in Monochrome' highlights the elegance of black in the built world through more than 150 structures. From ancient churches to contemporary skyscrapers, Black demonstrates how hues from ebony to onyx have been beloved by architects for centuries. Insightful texts paired with striking photography bring to life these captivating buildings including works by Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, David Adjaye, Jean Nouvel, Peter Marino, and Steven Holl.
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Dans ce nouveau format pratique, « Noir : Architecture monochrome » présente l’élégance du noir dans le monde construit à travers plus de 170 réalisations. Des anciennes églises aux gratte-ciels contemporains, Noir atteste de la passion que les architectes nourrissent depuis des siècles pour les nuances de noir allant de l’ébène à l’onyx. De remarquables photographies(...)
Noir : architecture monochrone (mini format)
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Dans ce nouveau format pratique, « Noir : Architecture monochrome » présente l’élégance du noir dans le monde construit à travers plus de 170 réalisations. Des anciennes églises aux gratte-ciels contemporains, Noir atteste de la passion que les architectes nourrissent depuis des siècles pour les nuances de noir allant de l’ébène à l’onyx. De remarquables photographies accompagnées de textes précis donnent vie à ces édifices étonnants, avec des réalisations de Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, David Adjaye, Jean Nouvel, Peter Marino ou Steven Holl.
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Over five days, some 60 residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area. Most housing and civic buildings in the communities emerge from and stand like physical markers of Euro-Canadian values. The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada has begun a(...)
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October 2020
Blueprint for a hack: leveraging informal building practices
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Over five days, some 60 residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area. Most housing and civic buildings in the communities emerge from and stand like physical markers of Euro-Canadian values. The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada has begun a discourse on design in northern Canadian communities, but discussions continue to dwell on housing and civic buildings. A strong need exists to open conversations about design and the public realm in northern villages, which this project tries to address, creating a unique experience in which northern and southern groups could apply a 'hacking mindset' to reimagine community spaces.
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Dig deep into the origins of building. The ground, now often used as a passive foundation for going higher, is rife with possibilities. Bjarne Mastenbroek investigates the relationship architecture has, had, and will have, with site and nature. Through the photography of Iwan Baan and more than 500 analytical drawings by SeARCH, Dig it! dissects structures from the past(...)
SeARCH Dig it! Building bound to the ground
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Dig deep into the origins of building. The ground, now often used as a passive foundation for going higher, is rife with possibilities. Bjarne Mastenbroek investigates the relationship architecture has, had, and will have, with site and nature. Through the photography of Iwan Baan and more than 500 analytical drawings by SeARCH, Dig it! dissects structures from the past millennia—some well-known, some previously overlooked.
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This volume considers existing contexts as an opportunity to use the potential of place, as well as the creativity of inhabitants and users and the power of the social and urban fabric, to respond to needs and urgent topics. It outlines eleven actions, compelling examples from different places and design practices worldwide, which in turn are related to an array of(...)
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February 2021
Rewriting architecture: 10 + 1 actions for an adaptive architecture
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This volume considers existing contexts as an opportunity to use the potential of place, as well as the creativity of inhabitants and users and the power of the social and urban fabric, to respond to needs and urgent topics. It outlines eleven actions, compelling examples from different places and design practices worldwide, which in turn are related to an array of architects, design professionals, and other specialists working in art, biology, ecology, fashion, pop culture, and philosophy. As such, it generates a broader framework of thought in order to demonstrate how makers with diverse design attitudes are responding to today’s spatial, social, environmental, and aesthetic challenges.
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Black Spaces thematises the phenomenon of a space without light. How can such a seemingly limitless space be grasped? How can space be conceived and designed if the parameters actually contradict the spatial dimensions? A project group at the Technical University of Munich has examined the topic from different perspectives. Conversations with the architects Donatella(...)
Black spaces: an architectural phenomenon
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Black Spaces thematises the phenomenon of a space without light. How can such a seemingly limitless space be grasped? How can space be conceived and designed if the parameters actually contradict the spatial dimensions? A project group at the Technical University of Munich has examined the topic from different perspectives. Conversations with the architects Donatella Fioretti, Astrid Staufer and Francesca Torzo explore this architectural phenomenon. Additional brief bon mots and quotations come from architects, artists and filmmakers, who illuminate the subject very differently. This book shows the results of the design work using selected examples that accompany the textual content of the book as a separate storyline.
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Architectural practice today goes far beyond the design and construction of buildings — the most exciting, forward-thinking architecture is also found in digital landscapes, art, apps, films, installations, and virtual reality. This remarkable book features projects — surprising, beautiful, outrageous, and sometimes even frightening — that break rules and shatter boundaries.
Radical architecture of the future
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Architectural practice today goes far beyond the design and construction of buildings — the most exciting, forward-thinking architecture is also found in digital landscapes, art, apps, films, installations, and virtual reality. This remarkable book features projects — surprising, beautiful, outrageous, and sometimes even frightening — that break rules and shatter boundaries.
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Antarctic resolution
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Accounting for approximately 10% of the land mass of Planet Earth, the Antarctic is a global commons we collectively neglect. Far from being a pristine natural landscape, the continent is a contested territory which conceals resources that might prove irresistible in a world with ever-increasing population growth. The 26 quadrillion tons of ice accumulated on its bedrock,(...)
Antarctic resolution
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Accounting for approximately 10% of the land mass of Planet Earth, the Antarctic is a global commons we collectively neglect. Far from being a pristine natural landscape, the continent is a contested territory which conceals resources that might prove irresistible in a world with ever-increasing population growth. The 26 quadrillion tons of ice accumulated on its bedrock, equivalent to around 70% of the fresh water on our planet, represent at once the most significant repository of scientific data available, providing crucial information for future environmental policies, and the greatest menace to global coastal settlements threatened by the rise in sea levels induced by anthropogenic global warming. ''Antarctic Resolution'' advocates the rejection of the pixelated view of Antarctica offered to us by big data companies and urges the construction of a high-resolution image focusing on the continent’s unique geography, unparalleled scientific potential, contemporary geopolitical significance, experimental governance system and its extreme inhabitation model. Only the concerted determination of a transnational network of multidisciplinary polar experts—represented here in the form of authored texts, photographic essays and data-based visual portfolios—could construct such an image and reveal the intricate web of growing economic and strategic interests, tensions and international rivalries, which are enveloped in darkness, as is the continent for six months of the year. Learning from Antarctica’s spirit of cooperation, ''Antarctic Resolution'' aspires to launch a platform, an agency for change, where citizens can undertake a true Antarctic resolution and engage in a unanimous effort—independent of nation—to shape the future of the Antarctic and, in turn, of our planet.
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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.
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Young Architects 17: Authenticity features work by winners of the 2015 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. The competition theme, “Authenticity,” asked how recent advances in computation, visualization, material intelligence, and fabrication technologies have begun to alter design principles and also architects’ roles and their approaches to(...)
Young architects 17: Authenticity
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Young Architects 17: Authenticity features work by winners of the 2015 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. The competition theme, “Authenticity,” asked how recent advances in computation, visualization, material intelligence, and fabrication technologies have begun to alter design principles and also architects’ roles and their approaches to architecture and research. The book includes projects by the six winners of the 2015 League Prize: Dan Adams and Marie Adams, Landing Studio. Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood, First Office. Erin Besler, Besler & Sons. Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa, mcdowellespinosa. Thom Moran. Clark Thenhaus, Endemic.
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