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This book brings together a provocative series of essays, conversations, and design proposals that attempt to intensify the potential of the multidisciplinary discourse developing in response to the Anthropocene thesis for contemporary architecture scholarship and practice. Research regarding the significance and consequence of anthropogenic transformations of the earth's(...)
Architecture in the anthropocene: encounters among design, deep time, science and philosophy
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This book brings together a provocative series of essays, conversations, and design proposals that attempt to intensify the potential of the multidisciplinary discourse developing in response to the Anthropocene thesis for contemporary architecture scholarship and practice. Research regarding the significance and consequence of anthropogenic transformations of the earth's land, oceans, biosphere and climate have demonstrated that, from a wide variety of perspectives, it is almost certain that humans have initiated a new geological epoch, their own. First labeled the Anthropocene by the chemist Paul Crutzen, the consideration of the merits of the Anthropocene thesis by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences has also garnered the attention of philosophers, historians, and legal scholars, as well as an increasing number of researchers from a range of scientific backgrounds.
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Composition, non-composition: architecture and theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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In Composition, Non-Composition, Jacques Lucan invites his readers to consider this novel historical perspective of architectural theory. The author describes the interaction of ideas that often clash with one another, with some that fade away as others emerge, thus offering invaluable keys to understanding contemporary architecture.
Composition, non-composition: architecture and theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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In Composition, Non-Composition, Jacques Lucan invites his readers to consider this novel historical perspective of architectural theory. The author describes the interaction of ideas that often clash with one another, with some that fade away as others emerge, thus offering invaluable keys to understanding contemporary architecture.
Architectural Theory
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A presentation of the mid-century modern California style, offering a new perspective on the work of Edward h. Fickett. The mid-century houses of this architect are coveted today, were ubiquitous during their time, and have always demonstrated a presciently deep understanding of the use of indigenous, cost-efficient materials and the integration of interior space with(...)
California moderne and the mid-century dream: the architecture of edward h.fickett
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A presentation of the mid-century modern California style, offering a new perspective on the work of Edward h. Fickett. The mid-century houses of this architect are coveted today, were ubiquitous during their time, and have always demonstrated a presciently deep understanding of the use of indigenous, cost-efficient materials and the integration of interior space with Southern California's Mediterranean climate.
Residential Architecture
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This book aims to encourage an awareness of sustainability as it is implemented across all areas of planning and design, and the ability to think and act on this knowledge. It will explore in genuine depth the sustainable strategies that could be applied, along with the practical work of key figures in the built environment, setting these against historical experiences(...)
World atlas of sustainable architecture : building for a changing culture and climate
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This book aims to encourage an awareness of sustainability as it is implemented across all areas of planning and design, and the ability to think and act on this knowledge. It will explore in genuine depth the sustainable strategies that could be applied, along with the practical work of key figures in the built environment, setting these against historical experiences and traditional cultures. It also aimes to revive the discourse around these subjects. Achieving this will require the involvement of architects and structural, energy and environmental engineers, construction businesses and specialists, research institutes and universities. The five chapters and 333 show-cased projects reflect important stages in the architectural and engineering-based design process, stages which need to be addressed when dealing with sustainable strategies in the built environment.
Green Architecture
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The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory and consists of two extended essays. The first surveys the historical development of the ocular-centric paradigm in western culture since the Greeks, and its impact on the experience of the world and the nature of architecture. The second examines the role of the other senses in authentic architectural(...)
Pallasmaa : the eyes of the skin, architecture and the senses (3rd edition)
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The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory and consists of two extended essays. The first surveys the historical development of the ocular-centric paradigm in western culture since the Greeks, and its impact on the experience of the world and the nature of architecture. The second examines the role of the other senses in authentic architectural experiences, and points the way towards a multi-sensory architecture which facilitates a sense of belonging and integration.
Architectural Theory
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By structuring this volume around the concept of form, Stefano Corbo links together Eisenman’s architecture with his theory. The book argues that form is the sphere of mediation between our body, our inner world and the exterior world and, as such, it enables connections to be made between philosophy and architecture. From the start of his career on, Eisenman has been(...)
From formalism to weak form: The architecture and philosophy of Peter Eisenman
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By structuring this volume around the concept of form, Stefano Corbo links together Eisenman’s architecture with his theory. The book argues that form is the sphere of mediation between our body, our inner world and the exterior world and, as such, it enables connections to be made between philosophy and architecture. From the start of his career on, Eisenman has been deeply interested in the problem of form in architecture and has constantly challenged the classical concept of it. For him, form is not simply a cognitive tool that determines a physical structure, which discriminates all that is active from what is passive, what is inside from what is outside. He has always tried to connect his own work with the cultural manifestations of the time. These different moments underline different phases, different projects, different programmatic manifestos; and above all, an evolving notion of form. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach based on the intersections between architecture and philosophy, this book investigates all these definitions and, in doing so, provides new insights into and a deeper understanding of the complexity of Eisenman’s work.
Architecture Monographs
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In ''The City in the City'', Amy Thomas offers the first in-depth architectural and urban history of London's financial district, the City of London, from the period of rebuilding after World War II to the explosive climax of financial deregulation in the 1980s and its long aftermath. Thomas examines abstract financial ideas, political ideology, and invisible markets as(...)
The city in the city: Architecture and change in London's Financial District
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In ''The City in the City'', Amy Thomas offers the first in-depth architectural and urban history of London's financial district, the City of London, from the period of rebuilding after World War II to the explosive climax of financial deregulation in the 1980s and its long aftermath. Thomas examines abstract financial ideas, political ideology, and invisible markets as concrete realities; working on four spatial scales—city, street, facade, and interior—the book explores the grand plans, hidden alleys, neo-Georgian elevations, and sweaty dealing floors that have made the financial center work.
Architectural Theory
Architecture and retrenchment : aesthetics, spatial practices and the neoliberalisation of the 1980s
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"Architecture and retrenchment" explores the "neoliberal turn" in architecture, through the rise and fall of the Swedish welfare state. There are few better case studies of architecture's role in the retrenchment and dismantling of the welfare state than Sweden, the birthplace of the world-famous "Swedish Model" and now home to Europe's fastest-growing inequality. Through(...)
Architecture and retrenchment : aesthetics, spatial practices and the neoliberalisation of the 1980s
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"Architecture and retrenchment" explores the "neoliberal turn" in architecture, through the rise and fall of the Swedish welfare state. There are few better case studies of architecture's role in the retrenchment and dismantling of the welfare state than Sweden, the birthplace of the world-famous "Swedish Model" and now home to Europe's fastest-growing inequality. Through eight in-depth architectural case studies, Helena Mattsson analyzes how neoliberalism has created conditions for a new built environment which was once closely integral to the welfare system, examining how new architectural strategies and techniques were developed in order to protect the agency of architecture in a newly re-organised society, and revealing the role of architecture in creating new types of segregation, discrimination, and social stratification.
Architectural Theory
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Updated to cover all the latest developments, "Architecture in the age of artificial intelligence" introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on the future of architecture and design. From ChatGPT and smart assistants to groundbreaking diffusion models for video and 3D modelling, this updated new edition investigates the profound effects of AI(...)
Architecture in the age of artficial intelligence: An introduction to AI for architects
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Updated to cover all the latest developments, "Architecture in the age of artificial intelligence" introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on the future of architecture and design. From ChatGPT and smart assistants to groundbreaking diffusion models for video and 3D modelling, this updated new edition investigates the profound effects of AI technologies on architectural practice. It explores how AI transforms every part of the process-from the inspiration and brief, to regulations and copyright, to performance-driven design- and looks beyond discussions of software and functionality to ask more fundamental questions too: How did AI evolve? How does it work? What does it tell us about creativity? And what does it mean for the very future of the profession itself?
Digital Architecture
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Après avoir connu ses heures de gloire, l’art d’église dans les paroisses catholiques du Québec est en mutation, et il n’est pas facile d’en cerner la dynamique. Une approche méthodique s’avère nécessaire pour situer le problème dans sa juste perspective. Nous avons eu recours, pour nous faire une idée assez juste de la situation actuelle, à trois sources principales :(...)
Le devenir de l'at d'église dans les paraoisses catholiques du Québec : architecture, arts, pratiques, patrimoine 1965-2002
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Après avoir connu ses heures de gloire, l’art d’église dans les paroisses catholiques du Québec est en mutation, et il n’est pas facile d’en cerner la dynamique. Une approche méthodique s’avère nécessaire pour situer le problème dans sa juste perspective. Nous avons eu recours, pour nous faire une idée assez juste de la situation actuelle, à trois sources principales : l’histoire des comités d’art sacré des diocèses catholiques de Québec et de Montréal, témoins privilégiés de l’évolution des conceptions de l’art d’église dans leurs paroisses depuis le concile Vatican II ; la recension de pratiques nouvelles dans quelques églises ; et l’inventaire des constructions et des réaménagements partiels d’églises paroissiales dans quatre diocèses, dont les trois plus populeux de la province soit Montréal, Québec, Saint-Jean-Longueuil, et Sherbrooke. Lorsque l’on connaît la capacité d’acculturation de l’art d’église à travers les âges, ses mutations actuelles au Québec apparaissent moins dramatiques. Malgré la baisse marquée des commandes ecclésiastiques dans les années qui ont suivi le concile, l’art d’église dans les paroisses catholiques du Québec est appelé à évoluer de manière inédite.
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