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The architecture of Shivdatt Sharma / Vikramāditya Prakāsh ; foreword by Balkrishna V. Doshi.
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175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Ahmedabad : Mapin Pub., 2012.
The architecture of Shivdatt Sharma / Vikramāditya Prakāsh ; foreword by Balkrishna V. Doshi.
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Ahmedabad : Mapin Pub., 2012.
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''The Right to Nature'' is a new chapter of reflection and work of the AG greenscape, centered on the current and renewed relationship between man and nature, and the consequent transformation of our cities through new ways of living, inhabiting, working with nature and the landscape as the protagonist, in every area, at all project scales, as a social balancer and(...)
Urban Landscapes
May 2025
The right to nature: For a new urban landscape
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''The Right to Nature'' is a new chapter of reflection and work of the AG greenscape, centered on the current and renewed relationship between man and nature, and the consequent transformation of our cities through new ways of living, inhabiting, working with nature and the landscape as the protagonist, in every area, at all project scales, as a social balancer and activator of a new urban sociality. The relationship between man and nature today is an urgent issue in the debate on the contemporary city, but it still has to be truly explored, defined, and built. Throughout seven main topics – Green and blue infrastructures, Regeneration, Public space, Dwelling, Green welfare, Heritage, and Care –, the book explores contemporary urban landscape issues at the different scales of the project, in the light of the relationship between human beings and nature.
Urban Landscapes
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While the largest parts of icebergs — or islands — remain beneath the sea surface, often unmapped and perilous, a myriad of creatures and non-organic matter connect them to other lands. Nowadays, in the era of the climate crisis, what is hidden in the depths of the sea exponentially manifests the impact of anthropogenic activity on the planet. Plastic waste and pollution,(...)
Mediterranean icebergs: Invisible connections underwater
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While the largest parts of icebergs — or islands — remain beneath the sea surface, often unmapped and perilous, a myriad of creatures and non-organic matter connect them to other lands. Nowadays, in the era of the climate crisis, what is hidden in the depths of the sea exponentially manifests the impact of anthropogenic activity on the planet. Plastic waste and pollution, deep sea mining, and undersea network infrastructures affect marine biodiversity and life on Earth at large. Mediterranean Icebergs sheds light on forms of agency, be it human, more-than-human, or machinic, that operate in marine environments, paying attention to their entanglements, encounters, and asymmetries. Addressing the interconnectedness of environmental, political, and legal issues, this book takes the Mediterranean as a starting point to discuss what is at stake for all lives depending on the planet’s seas and oceans.
Landscape Theory
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Aggressively rebounding after recessions and the pandemic, sprawling landscapes of tourism in the Mediterranean continue to build upon the iconic spatial typology of sea & sun vacationing: the beach. But behind the leisurely scattered bodies and the quiescent summer shores, beachfronts are assembled as intensely ordered infrastructures for the heavy machineries of(...)
Architectural Theory
October 2022
The beach machine: Making and operating the Mediterranean coastline
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Aggressively rebounding after recessions and the pandemic, sprawling landscapes of tourism in the Mediterranean continue to build upon the iconic spatial typology of sea & sun vacationing: the beach. But behind the leisurely scattered bodies and the quiescent summer shores, beachfronts are assembled as intensely ordered infrastructures for the heavy machineries of tourism. Approaching the beach as an operational socio-technical landscape, this book unpacks stories of construction, programming, and maintenance: from traces of moving sands in Lefkada island to mirror postwar developments in Delos and Mykonos islands, and from historic and bodily excursions to workings of the Athenian riviera to rituals of eco-certification under Blue Flags. The texts frame the beach as a machine, one with protocols of function and metabolic needs, studying how it directs the capture of land and bodies, while establishing forms of environmental control.
Architectural Theory
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Désormais omniprésent, l'étalement urbain combiné à la recomposition des villes remodèle la géographie fabriquant des territoires hybrides, ni urbains, ni ruraux. A partir de l'analyse du cas français, mais considérant aussi l'Amérique, l'Asie et l'Afrique, l'ouvrage étudie les effets conjoints des infrastructures routières, des lotissements pavillonnaires et des centres(...)
La ville franchisée : formes et structures de la ville contemporaine
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Désormais omniprésent, l'étalement urbain combiné à la recomposition des villes remodèle la géographie fabriquant des territoires hybrides, ni urbains, ni ruraux. A partir de l'analyse du cas français, mais considérant aussi l'Amérique, l'Asie et l'Afrique, l'ouvrage étudie les effets conjoints des infrastructures routières, des lotissements pavillonnaires et des centres commerciaux. Attentif aux conséquences morphologiques, économiques et sociales, l'auteur révèle les convergences planétaires autour d'un urbanisme de secteurs et d'une ville franchisée. Ce qualificatif doit s'entendre dans le sens commercial des villes saisies par les logiques du marketing mais aussi dans l'acceptation domaniale du terme, à savoir la privatisation progressive d'espaces toujours plus vastes. Dénonçant ces environnements sécurisés, de moins en moins publics et gratuits, David Mangin s'emploie à défendre le principe de la " ville passante " fondé sur l'idée d'une moindre dépendance automobile, d'une forte hétérogénéité des architectures et d'une véritable diversité d'usages.
Urban Theory
Rome new architecture
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Many of the architects responsible for modern-day Rome—such as Hadid, Fuksas, Baldeweg, and Meier—have reached international stature. Many contemporary Italian architects—such as King Roselli, Labics, and IaN+—use Rome as a lab for testing their ideas. While some might note the weakness of the residential sector in attracting architectural quality, it is hard to escape(...)
February 2009, Milano
Rome new architecture
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Many of the architects responsible for modern-day Rome—such as Hadid, Fuksas, Baldeweg, and Meier—have reached international stature. Many contemporary Italian architects—such as King Roselli, Labics, and IaN+—use Rome as a lab for testing their ideas. While some might note the weakness of the residential sector in attracting architectural quality, it is hard to escape the growing attention paid to public spaces and infrastructures. This volume surveys Rome’s varied architectural landscape and contains over forty projects and a map, demonstrating how the geography of the city is evolving, and how quality can be found both in the center and on the edge of town. Sebastiano Brandolini writes for many specialized journals and is particularly interested in the relationship between architecture and engineering. Over the years he taught at the Milan Polytechnic, IUAV in Venice, London School of Economics.
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'Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias' is the first part of an exploration that focuses on soil, excavations, incisions, mutations, transpositions and silence of Sulcis-Iglesiente, a territory marked by an industrial history. A wandering through time and space of a region «built», transformed, crossed by different types of works, infrastructures,(...)
November 2022
Voyages en Sardaigne : Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias
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'Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias' is the first part of an exploration that focuses on soil, excavations, incisions, mutations, transpositions and silence of Sulcis-Iglesiente, a territory marked by an industrial history. A wandering through time and space of a region «built», transformed, crossed by different types of works, infrastructures, relationships between things. These signs, these scars, are today the distinctive features of an extraordinary mining landscape. A space to discover through visual and textual narration. 'Voyages en Sardaigne' is a collection of unconventional thematic guides on this island in the middle of the Mediterranean. They offer to the reader different ways of observation and restitution of its territory, always characterized by an uncertain temporality: the present and the past merge to build a unique landscape, far from the convulsive setting of the contemporaneity. Photographs by Giaime Meloni.
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"Make City" collects contributions from architects, planners, landscape designers and municipal policymakers on the crises facing contemporary cities, presenting a variety of strategies to reconfigure and reimagine urban life. The intertwined problems of continuous development and rising real estate prices are rendering cities increasingly uninhabitable for many, a(...)
Make city: a compendium of urban alternatives
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"Make City" collects contributions from architects, planners, landscape designers and municipal policymakers on the crises facing contemporary cities, presenting a variety of strategies to reconfigure and reimagine urban life. The intertwined problems of continuous development and rising real estate prices are rendering cities increasingly uninhabitable for many, a situation that will continue to be exacerbated by the mounting pressure of climate change on metropolitan infrastructures. This volume proposes models of localized food production, community-centered planning and sustainable architecture design that renew and optimize existing structures in alternative models of urban economy. Developed in tandem with Berlin’s Make City festival, design proposals are displayed across over 350 colour illustrations and writings from contributors including AFF Architects, Anupama Kundoo, Michel Bouwens/P2P Foundation, Francesca Bria SESC, Tessy Britton, Bureau SLA, Marco Casagrande, Eva de Klerk, De Urbanisten, FAR frohn and Kraftwerk 1.
Urban Theory
Le supermarché des images
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Le visible semble littéralement déborder d’images (plus de trois milliards d’entre elles circulent chaque jour sur les réseaux sociaux). Ce trop-plein, cette surproduction, il faut les gérer. Il faut stocker les images, les transporter, les formater, organiser leurs échanges et leurs flux. Elles requièrent des infrastructures routières (les câbles Internet), des formes(...)
Le supermarché des images
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Le visible semble littéralement déborder d’images (plus de trois milliards d’entre elles circulent chaque jour sur les réseaux sociaux). Ce trop-plein, cette surproduction, il faut les gérer. Il faut stocker les images, les transporter, les formater, organiser leurs échanges et leurs flux. Elles requièrent des infrastructures routières (les câbles Internet), des formes inédites de travail (les modérateurs de contenu, les ouvriers du clic). Et elles transforment notre regard, elles le mobilisent comme il ne l’a jamais été. En observant les mutations parallèles de l’économie financiarisée à l’ère des cryptomonnaies, les œuvres et les textes ici réunis cherchent à saisir, à penser cette nouvelle iconomie de la visibilité. Textes d’Emmanuel Alloa, Hervé Aubron, Matthias Bruhn, Yves Citton, Elena Esposito, Jean-Joseph Goux, Maurizio Lazzarato, Catherine Malabou, Marie Rebecchi et Elena Vogman, Antonio Somaini, Peter Szendy, Leah Temper, Dork Zabunyan.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Basel : Birkhäuser ; Barcelona ; New York : Distribution, ActarBirkhäuserD, ©2012.
UrbanRESET : freilegen immanenter potenziale städtischer Räume = how to activate immanent potential of urban spaces / Angelus Eisinger, Jörg Seifert (Hrsg./eds.).
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Basel : Birkhäuser ; Barcelona ; New York : Distribution, ActarBirkhäuserD, ©2012.