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Must we continually look to the new as a way to resolve pressing issues in architecture and urbanism? The forms of sustainable architecture and buildings are not always simply utilitarian, but retain cultural meanings and associations dating back millennia that may transcend the mere necessities of material conditions. This edition explores modern, sustainable(...)
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Must we continually look to the new as a way to resolve pressing issues in architecture and urbanism? The forms of sustainable architecture and buildings are not always simply utilitarian, but retain cultural meanings and associations dating back millennia that may transcend the mere necessities of material conditions. This edition explores modern, sustainable(...)
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c3 387 : an ecology of living
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Must we continually look to the new as a way to resolve pressing issues in architecture and urbanism? The forms of sustainable architecture and buildings are not always simply utilitarian, but retain cultural meanings and associations dating back millennia that may transcend the mere necessities of material conditions. This edition explores modern, sustainable place-making in terms of “an ecology of living”. Featured among twelve recent projects are the Assen Environmental Education Centre by 24H Architecture, Naman Pure Spa in Vietnam by MIA Design Studio, Uppgrenna Nature House in Sweden, and an equestrian centre in Barcelona by Vicenç Sarrablo + Jaume Colom.
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Must we continually look to the new as a way to resolve pressing issues in architecture and urbanism? The forms of sustainable architecture and buildings are not always simply utilitarian, but retain cultural meanings and associations dating back millennia that may transcend the mere necessities of material conditions. This edition explores modern, sustainable place-making in terms of “an ecology of living”. Featured among twelve recent projects are the Assen Environmental Education Centre by 24H Architecture, Naman Pure Spa in Vietnam by MIA Design Studio, Uppgrenna Nature House in Sweden, and an equestrian centre in Barcelona by Vicenç Sarrablo + Jaume Colom.
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Part autobiography, part firm history and part a look at the future of urban design, « Designing Places for People and the Environment » addresses lessons learned from fifty five years of experience in urban design and planning from a personal perspective following the author’s formative education and work as an architect, Naval civil engineer and city planner before(...)
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Part autobiography, part firm history and part a look at the future of urban design, « Designing Places for People and the Environment » addresses lessons learned from fifty five years of experience in urban design and planning from a personal perspective following the author’s formative education and work as an architect, Naval civil engineer and city planner before(...)
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Designing places for people and the environment
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Part autobiography, part firm history and part a look at the future of urban design, « Designing Places for People and the Environment » addresses lessons learned from fifty five years of experience in urban design and planning from a personal perspective following the author’s formative education and work as an architect, Naval civil engineer and city planner before transitioning into landscape architecture where he grew into a leadership role as the first president of the SWA Group and shaped the firm as an employee owned group practice that over four decades has become a “world leader in landscape architecture, planning and urban design”.
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Part autobiography, part firm history and part a look at the future of urban design, « Designing Places for People and the Environment » addresses lessons learned from fifty five years of experience in urban design and planning from a personal perspective following the author’s formative education and work as an architect, Naval civil engineer and city planner before transitioning into landscape architecture where he grew into a leadership role as the first president of the SWA Group and shaped the firm as an employee owned group practice that over four decades has become a “world leader in landscape architecture, planning and urban design”.
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November 2014
November 2014
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Urban Theory
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Established in 2001 and based in London, the office of 6a architects is headed by its founding directors, Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson. This monographic issue takes a look at their work from 2009 until the present. Besides presenting nineteen exemplary projects, it reproduces two extensive conversations with the architects, through which readers can get a better(...)
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Established in 2001 and based in London, the office of 6a architects is headed by its founding directors, Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson. This monographic issue takes a look at their work from 2009 until the present. Besides presenting nineteen exemplary projects, it reproduces two extensive conversations with the architects, through which readers can get a better(...)
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El Croquis 192: 6a Architects (2009-2017)
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Established in 2001 and based in London, the office of 6a architects is headed by its founding directors, Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson. This monographic issue takes a look at their work from 2009 until the present. Besides presenting nineteen exemplary projects, it reproduces two extensive conversations with the architects, through which readers can get a better sense of their history, education, relationship, perspectives, design concepts and methods, and much more. Featured works include the Raven Row Contemporary Art and Exhibition Centre, V Fashion Galleries, HafenCity Residential Buildings, Hotel Therme Vals, South London Gallery, and more.
El Croquis 192: 6a Architects (2009-2017)
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Established in 2001 and based in London, the office of 6a architects is headed by its founding directors, Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson. This monographic issue takes a look at their work from 2009 until the present. Besides presenting nineteen exemplary projects, it reproduces two extensive conversations with the architects, through which readers can get a better sense of their history, education, relationship, perspectives, design concepts and methods, and much more. Featured works include the Raven Row Contemporary Art and Exhibition Centre, V Fashion Galleries, HafenCity Residential Buildings, Hotel Therme Vals, South London Gallery, and more.
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December 2017
December 2017
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El Croquis
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The Barcelona-based studio Harquitectes is a model in its ability to provide value to public or private clients, in its responsibility when intervening in heritage buildings or urban environments, and in its determination to pursue sustainability in terms of energy, waste, or the life cycle of materials, issues which they address with unique thermodynamic sophistication.(...)
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The Barcelona-based studio Harquitectes is a model in its ability to provide value to public or private clients, in its responsibility when intervening in heritage buildings or urban environments, and in its determination to pursue sustainability in terms of energy, waste, or the life cycle of materials, issues which they address with unique thermodynamic sophistication.(...)
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AV monographs 202 : Harquitectes
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The Barcelona-based studio Harquitectes is a model in its ability to provide value to public or private clients, in its responsibility when intervening in heritage buildings or urban environments, and in its determination to pursue sustainability in terms of energy, waste, or the life cycle of materials, issues which they address with unique thermodynamic sophistication. Besides exhibiting smart design and construction, their buildings are also aesthetically sophisticated in the use of basic materials and economical in their budgetary discipline. This special overview features twelve local Barcelona projects (“experiences”): designs for living, education, research, and civic functions.
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The Barcelona-based studio Harquitectes is a model in its ability to provide value to public or private clients, in its responsibility when intervening in heritage buildings or urban environments, and in its determination to pursue sustainability in terms of energy, waste, or the life cycle of materials, issues which they address with unique thermodynamic sophistication. Besides exhibiting smart design and construction, their buildings are also aesthetically sophisticated in the use of basic materials and economical in their budgetary discipline. This special overview features twelve local Barcelona projects (“experiences”): designs for living, education, research, and civic functions.
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February 2018
February 2018
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Organized alphabetically as a reference guide, this volume provides a biographical sketch of each architect's life, education, and professional career, and a list of known works and sources for further research. Many of these remarkable women have never before appeared in any other history, making The First American Women Architects a unique and invaluable reference for(...)
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Organized alphabetically as a reference guide, this volume provides a biographical sketch of each architect's life, education, and professional career, and a list of known works and sources for further research. Many of these remarkable women have never before appeared in any other history, making The First American Women Architects a unique and invaluable reference for(...)
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The first american women architects
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Organized alphabetically as a reference guide, this volume provides a biographical sketch of each architect's life, education, and professional career, and a list of known works and sources for further research. Many of these remarkable women have never before appeared in any other history, making The First American Women Architects a unique and invaluable reference for students and scholars interested in women's history and architecture. As an instructive record of the legacy of women in architectural history, this book will also serve as a stimulating indicator of the broadening potential for women and other minorities within the field of architecture.
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Organized alphabetically as a reference guide, this volume provides a biographical sketch of each architect's life, education, and professional career, and a list of known works and sources for further research. Many of these remarkable women have never before appeared in any other history, making The First American Women Architects a unique and invaluable reference for students and scholars interested in women's history and architecture. As an instructive record of the legacy of women in architectural history, this book will also serve as a stimulating indicator of the broadening potential for women and other minorities within the field of architecture.
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October 2008, Chicago
October 2008, Chicago
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Gender Theory in Architecture
Gender Theory in Architecture
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With texts by Peter Buchanan, Brian Carter, Thomas Fisher, Kenneth Frampton, Karl Habermann, Robert Ivy, Christine Macy, Robert McCarter, Juhani Pallasmaa. The Ghost International Architectural Laboratory, better known as 'Ghost Lab' or 'Ghost', is the research laboratory of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. The Ghost Lab began as a critique of architectural education(...)
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With texts by Peter Buchanan, Brian Carter, Thomas Fisher, Kenneth Frampton, Karl Habermann, Robert Ivy, Christine Macy, Robert McCarter, Juhani Pallasmaa. The Ghost International Architectural Laboratory, better known as 'Ghost Lab' or 'Ghost', is the research laboratory of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. The Ghost Lab began as a critique of architectural education(...)
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Ghost: building an architectural vision
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With texts by Peter Buchanan, Brian Carter, Thomas Fisher, Kenneth Frampton, Karl Habermann, Robert Ivy, Christine Macy, Robert McCarter, Juhani Pallasmaa. The Ghost International Architectural Laboratory, better known as 'Ghost Lab' or 'Ghost', is the research laboratory of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. The Ghost Lab began as a critique of architectural education in North America in the 1990s and represents an alternative to the current standard of practice. Ghost is rooted in the hands-on master-builder tradition, emphasizing an intimate interaction between master and apprentice in response to the increasingly virtual nature of architectural design.
Ghost: building an architectural vision
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With texts by Peter Buchanan, Brian Carter, Thomas Fisher, Kenneth Frampton, Karl Habermann, Robert Ivy, Christine Macy, Robert McCarter, Juhani Pallasmaa. The Ghost International Architectural Laboratory, better known as 'Ghost Lab' or 'Ghost', is the research laboratory of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. The Ghost Lab began as a critique of architectural education in North America in the 1990s and represents an alternative to the current standard of practice. Ghost is rooted in the hands-on master-builder tradition, emphasizing an intimate interaction between master and apprentice in response to the increasingly virtual nature of architectural design.
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July 2008, New York
July 2008, New York
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Canadian Architects
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In this lively and engaging informational picture book, award-winning author Susan Hughes provides a fictionalized story of the life of Jane Jacobs, one of the world's greatest urban thinkers and activists. This book makes a terrific resource for studying civic engagement, urban life, the history of New York and Toronto (where Jane moved later in life), and the role of(...)
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In this lively and engaging informational picture book, award-winning author Susan Hughes provides a fictionalized story of the life of Jane Jacobs, one of the world's greatest urban thinkers and activists. This book makes a terrific resource for studying civic engagement, urban life, the history of New York and Toronto (where Jane moved later in life), and the role of(...)
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Walking in the city with Jane: a story of Jane Jacobs
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In this lively and engaging informational picture book, award-winning author Susan Hughes provides a fictionalized story of the life of Jane Jacobs, one of the world's greatest urban thinkers and activists. This book makes a terrific resource for studying civic engagement, urban life, the history of New York and Toronto (where Jane moved later in life), and the role of city planning. Jane's inspirational story is also an excellent example for character education lessons on perseverance, citizenship and initiative. Stylized illustrations by Valérie Boivin perfectly evoke the story's time and place. End matter includes a brief biography of Jane Jacobs.
Walking in the city with Jane: a story of Jane Jacobs
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In this lively and engaging informational picture book, award-winning author Susan Hughes provides a fictionalized story of the life of Jane Jacobs, one of the world's greatest urban thinkers and activists. This book makes a terrific resource for studying civic engagement, urban life, the history of New York and Toronto (where Jane moved later in life), and the role of city planning. Jane's inspirational story is also an excellent example for character education lessons on perseverance, citizenship and initiative. Stylized illustrations by Valérie Boivin perfectly evoke the story's time and place. End matter includes a brief biography of Jane Jacobs.
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April 2018
April 2018
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Children's Books
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Jimenez: Spomeniks
Jimenez: Spomeniks
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Spomeniks literally meaning 'Monuments' in Serbo-Croatian, look like spaceships conspicuously parked up in the middle of nowhere, alien to their surroundings, their bizarre beauty deriving from both their location and imaginative symbolism. Follow in the footsteps of French photographer Jonathan 'Jonk' Jimenez as he tries to track down these super-sized public structures.(...)
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Spomeniks literally meaning 'Monuments' in Serbo-Croatian, look like spaceships conspicuously parked up in the middle of nowhere, alien to their surroundings, their bizarre beauty deriving from both their location and imaginative symbolism. Follow in the footsteps of French photographer Jonathan 'Jonk' Jimenez as he tries to track down these super-sized public structures.(...)
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Jimenez: Spomeniks
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Spomeniks literally meaning 'Monuments' in Serbo-Croatian, look like spaceships conspicuously parked up in the middle of nowhere, alien to their surroundings, their bizarre beauty deriving from both their location and imaginative symbolism. Follow in the footsteps of French photographer Jonathan 'Jonk' Jimenez as he tries to track down these super-sized public structures. Once numbering in their thousands and attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, in particular “young pioneers” for their communist and patriotic education. Pushing architecture to its limits, Spomeniks are what happens when brutalism, symbolism, space age aesthetics and abstraction meet.
Jimenez: Spomeniks
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Spomeniks literally meaning 'Monuments' in Serbo-Croatian, look like spaceships conspicuously parked up in the middle of nowhere, alien to their surroundings, their bizarre beauty deriving from both their location and imaginative symbolism. Follow in the footsteps of French photographer Jonathan 'Jonk' Jimenez as he tries to track down these super-sized public structures. Once numbering in their thousands and attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, in particular “young pioneers” for their communist and patriotic education. Pushing architecture to its limits, Spomeniks are what happens when brutalism, symbolism, space age aesthetics and abstraction meet.
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November 2018
November 2018
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Photography monographs
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Founded in 2007 by Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot, Bruther works in the fields of architecture, research, education, urbanism, and landscape. Its projects suggest a delicate balance between strategy and form, rigour and freedom, specific and generic, immediacy and evolutivity. The office is known for designs that represent open infrastructures matching an abundance(...)
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Founded in 2007 by Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot, Bruther works in the fields of architecture, research, education, urbanism, and landscape. Its projects suggest a delicate balance between strategy and form, rigour and freedom, specific and generic, immediacy and evolutivity. The office is known for designs that represent open infrastructures matching an abundance(...)
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El Croquis 197 : Bruther (2012-2018)
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Founded in 2007 by Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot, Bruther works in the fields of architecture, research, education, urbanism, and landscape. Its projects suggest a delicate balance between strategy and form, rigour and freedom, specific and generic, immediacy and evolutivity. The office is known for designs that represent open infrastructures matching an abundance of contextual possibilities and with a wide malleability of uses. This monographic instalment presents a selection of Bruther's work from 2012 to the present, featuring no less than 20 projects across a range of typologies, from the Helsinki Central Library to sports centres, residential solutions, and more.
El Croquis 197 : Bruther (2012-2018)
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Founded in 2007 by Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot, Bruther works in the fields of architecture, research, education, urbanism, and landscape. Its projects suggest a delicate balance between strategy and form, rigour and freedom, specific and generic, immediacy and evolutivity. The office is known for designs that represent open infrastructures matching an abundance of contextual possibilities and with a wide malleability of uses. This monographic instalment presents a selection of Bruther's work from 2012 to the present, featuring no less than 20 projects across a range of typologies, from the Helsinki Central Library to sports centres, residential solutions, and more.
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January 2019
January 2019
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El Croquis
El Croquis
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Why do design? What is design for? In a world of dwindling natural resources, exhausted social and political systems, and an overload of information there are many urgent reasons to reimagine the design discipline, and there is a growing need to look at design education. Learning and unlearning should become part of an ongoing educational practice. We need new proposals(...)
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Why do design? What is design for? In a world of dwindling natural resources, exhausted social and political systems, and an overload of information there are many urgent reasons to reimagine the design discipline, and there is a growing need to look at design education. Learning and unlearning should become part of an ongoing educational practice. We need new proposals(...)
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Design as learning: a school of schools reader
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Why do design? What is design for? In a world of dwindling natural resources, exhausted social and political systems, and an overload of information there are many urgent reasons to reimagine the design discipline, and there is a growing need to look at design education. Learning and unlearning should become part of an ongoing educational practice. We need new proposals for how to organize society, how to structure our governments, how to live with, not against, the planet, how to sift fact from fiction, how to relate to each other, and frankly, how to simply survive.
Design as learning: a school of schools reader
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Why do design? What is design for? In a world of dwindling natural resources, exhausted social and political systems, and an overload of information there are many urgent reasons to reimagine the design discipline, and there is a growing need to look at design education. Learning and unlearning should become part of an ongoing educational practice. We need new proposals for how to organize society, how to structure our governments, how to live with, not against, the planet, how to sift fact from fiction, how to relate to each other, and frankly, how to simply survive.
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February 2019
February 2019
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Museology
Museology
