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This publication illustrates how structures can process information, make observations, and utilize tools to translate natural systems and create seamlessly integrated environments, from data-driven light installations, responsive sculptures, and performative materials, to smart highways, dynamic spaces, kinetic facades, and adaptive buildings. Ambitious projects from(...)
Interactive architecture: adaptive world
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This publication illustrates how structures can process information, make observations, and utilize tools to translate natural systems and create seamlessly integrated environments, from data-driven light installations, responsive sculptures, and performative materials, to smart highways, dynamic spaces, kinetic facades, and adaptive buildings. Ambitious projects from around the world, including Abu Dhabi, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Sochi, and Zurich, are illuminated by photographs, diagrams, and renderings.
Contemporary Architecture
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De nombreuses disciplines ont contribué au développement d'une nouvelle forme de pensée apparue récemment qui conteste, critique, cherche à dépasser un rationalisme hérité du XVIIe siècle et jugé par trop simplificateur, inapte à rendre compte de la complexité du réel sur lequel on doit travailler aujourd'hui. Qu'en est-il de l'architecture?. Peut-elle rester à l'écart de(...)
Architecture et complexité : le troisième labyrinthe
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De nombreuses disciplines ont contribué au développement d'une nouvelle forme de pensée apparue récemment qui conteste, critique, cherche à dépasser un rationalisme hérité du XVIIe siècle et jugé par trop simplificateur, inapte à rendre compte de la complexité du réel sur lequel on doit travailler aujourd'hui. Qu'en est-il de l'architecture?. Peut-elle rester à l'écart de ce mouvement des idées? La mythique cabane des origines, le temple, le palais, la villa, l'immeuble de rapport, le grand ensemble marquent une évolution, parallèle à celle des sociétés, caractérisée par l'accroissement de la complexité des facteurs intervenant dans la conception. La critique du rationalisme en architecture développée dans la première partie du livre contribue à dépasser toutes les pensées simplificatrices à propos de l'architecture et de la ville. L'architecture ne peut pas se penser aujourd'hui sans la ville, ni la ville sans ses habitants. L'architecture doit donc convoquer à son chevet non seulement la technique et le design, mais également l'urbanisme, la sociologie, la psychologie, l'histoire voire la mythologie, la culture, la démographie, l'économie, l'écologie. La seconde partie (parcourant l'œuvre de Louis Kahn, Luis Barragàn, Henri Gaudin, Vittorio Gregotti, John Hejduk, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Christian de Portzamparc, Renzo Piano) vise à faire prendre conscience de la pertinence et de la puissance des outils conceptuels qui ont été forgés par des penseurs issus de domaines très divers, aussi bien en sciences exactes qu'en sciences humaines, et que l'on peut regrouper sous le label "pensée de la complexité"
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Architectural Theory
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In this short, intentionally polemical book, Neil Leach draws on the ideas of philosophers and cultural theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard to develop a novel and highly incisive critique of the consequences of the growing (...)
The anaesthetics of architecture
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In this short, intentionally polemical book, Neil Leach draws on the ideas of philosophers and cultural theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard to develop a novel and highly incisive critique of the consequences of the growing preoccupation with images and image-making in contemporary architectural culture. The problem with this preoccupation, Leach argues, is that it can induce a sort of numbness, as the saturation of images floods the senses and obscures deeper concerns. This problem is particularly acute for a discipline such as architecture, which relies heavily on visual representation. As a result, architects can become anaesthetized from the social and political realities of everyday life. In the intoxicating world of the image, the aesthetics of architecture threaten to become the anaesthetics of architecture. In this culture of aesthetic consumption, this "culture of the cocktail," meaningful discourse gives way to strategies of seduction, and architectural design is reduced to the superficial play of empty, seductive forms.
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Architectural Theory
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Une exploration de la relation sensible à l'environnement thermique et à toute la gamme des ambiances que permet le maintien de la température des bâtiments, dans le but de montrer comment prodiguer à ceux qui les habitent le confort que demandent des corps moins résistants aux variations climatiques.
Architecture et volupté thermique, n.é.
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Une exploration de la relation sensible à l'environnement thermique et à toute la gamme des ambiances que permet le maintien de la température des bâtiments, dans le but de montrer comment prodiguer à ceux qui les habitent le confort que demandent des corps moins résistants aux variations climatiques.
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The ethics of architecture
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A discussion of how architecture functions in a complex world of obligation and responsibility, with a preface offering specific discussion of architecture during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the special ethical obligations assumed by architects? Because their work creates the basic material conditions that make all other human activity possible, architects(...)
The ethics of architecture
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A discussion of how architecture functions in a complex world of obligation and responsibility, with a preface offering specific discussion of architecture during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the special ethical obligations assumed by architects? Because their work creates the basic material conditions that make all other human activity possible, architects and their associates in building enjoy vast influence on how we all live, work, play, worship, and think. With this influence comes tremendous, and not always examined, responsibility. This book addresses the range of ethical issues that architects face, with a broad understanding of ethics. Beyond strictly professional duties - transparency, technical competence, fair trading - lie more profound issues that move into aesthetic, political, and existential realms. Does an architect have a duty to create art, if not always beautiful art? Should an architect feel obliged to serve a community and not just a client? Is justice a possible orientation for architectural practice? Is there such a thing as feeling compelled to "shelter being" in architectural work? By taking these usually abstract questions into the region of physical creation, the book attempts a reformulation of "architectural ethics" as a matter of deep reflection on the architect's role as both citizen and caretaker.
Architectural Theory
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Alexander Pilis’ latest presentation as Architecture Parallax is a visual construct realized with a series of colour photographs of an upside-down metropolis, São Paulo, Brazil. The collection of images displaces the viewer’s position from a familiar environmental experience, to a world in perceptual conflict. A book object viewed from an inverted position articulated(...)
Sao Paulo: Architecture Parallax
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Alexander Pilis’ latest presentation as Architecture Parallax is a visual construct realized with a series of colour photographs of an upside-down metropolis, São Paulo, Brazil. The collection of images displaces the viewer’s position from a familiar environmental experience, to a world in perceptual conflict. A book object viewed from an inverted position articulated through an architectural paradigm: The Tower of Babel as a Utopian model that influenced the grand map of built urban forms.
Architecture Monographs
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Ces 10 clefs abordent l'architecture non par une approche spectaculaire, mais par une voie plus subjective. Elles tentent d'éviter l'écueil consistant à présenter ce domaine aux yeux du grand public comme une valeur culturelle fondée soit sur la dimension patrimoniale, soit sur les prouesses techniques des grands ouvrages d'art, ou encore sur la dimension événementielle(...)
Dix clefs pour s'ouvrir à l'architecture
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Ces 10 clefs abordent l'architecture non par une approche spectaculaire, mais par une voie plus subjective. Elles tentent d'éviter l'écueil consistant à présenter ce domaine aux yeux du grand public comme une valeur culturelle fondée soit sur la dimension patrimoniale, soit sur les prouesses techniques des grands ouvrages d'art, ou encore sur la dimension événementielle de certaines réalisations qui se prêtent aux jeux des caméra et deviennent de parfaits décors pour le fond d'écran des journaux télévisés.
Architectural Theory
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With the increasing sophistication of CAD and other design software, there is now a wide array of means for both designing and fabricating architecture and its components. The proliferation of advanced modeling software and hardware has enabled architects and students to conceive and create designs that would be very difficult to do using more traditional methods. This(...)
Digital fabrication in architecture
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With the increasing sophistication of CAD and other design software, there is now a wide array of means for both designing and fabricating architecture and its components. The proliferation of advanced modeling software and hardware has enabled architects and students to conceive and create designs that would be very difficult to do using more traditional methods. This book focuses on the inspiring possibilities for architecture that can be achieved with all the different technologies and techniques available for making complete designs or their components.
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The art-architecture complex
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Hal Foster argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. While architects such as Zaha Hadid and Herzog and de Meuron draw on art to reanimate design, architecture has inspired fundamental transformations in painting, sculpture and film, which are also explored here. The book includes an extensive conversation with Richard(...)
The art-architecture complex
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Hal Foster argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. While architects such as Zaha Hadid and Herzog and de Meuron draw on art to reanimate design, architecture has inspired fundamental transformations in painting, sculpture and film, which are also explored here. The book includes an extensive conversation with Richard Serra. At the same time Foster points to a “global style” of architecture, as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, that is analogous to the “international style” of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies—a global style that, more than any art, conveys the look of modernity today, both its dreams and its delusions. In these ways Foster demonstrates that “the art-architecture complex” is a key indicator of broader social and economic trajectories and in urgent need of analysis and debate.
Architectural Theory
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What changes in teaching and practice, if any, are created by the increasing number of women entering the profession? Do the similar numbers of men and women students attending architectural schools in the west signal a gender-specific architecture? Well-known women architects from Europe and the USA discuss these matters and report their academic and professional(...)
Architecture: A woman's profession
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What changes in teaching and practice, if any, are created by the increasing number of women entering the profession? Do the similar numbers of men and women students attending architectural schools in the west signal a gender-specific architecture? Well-known women architects from Europe and the USA discuss these matters and report their academic and professional experiences, how they see the way ahead and argue - from individual points of view - for a debate on educational structures and how the practice of architecture is composed.
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