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In today’s context, concepts such as component hunting, urban mining, and biosourced materials do not merely denote technical strategies. Rather, they articulate ways of reconfiguring the relationship between architecture, materiality, and productive processes. A critical response to the demands of the environmental agenda, this issue explores how these three approaches(...)
A+T 62: Frugality: Hunting, Mining and bio-sourcing
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In today’s context, concepts such as component hunting, urban mining, and biosourced materials do not merely denote technical strategies. Rather, they articulate ways of reconfiguring the relationship between architecture, materiality, and productive processes. A critical response to the demands of the environmental agenda, this issue explores how these three approaches can shift architectural focus towards an active engagement with resources, their cycles, and material trajectories. It challenges the notion of architecture as a finite object, advancing instead a material ethic in which design becomes an act of negotiation, translation, and ecological and economic commitment.
Green Architecture
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For its main feature, this edition showcases three European examples of the small church typology. In their diversity, these churches – sited in the Czech Republic, Sicily, and Tenerife – illustrate the breadth of interpretations that contemporary architecture can apply to identical liturgical criteria. In addition, the magazine examines urban context, morphological(...)
C3 438 : The walls are new but the air is the same
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For its main feature, this edition showcases three European examples of the small church typology. In their diversity, these churches – sited in the Czech Republic, Sicily, and Tenerife – illustrate the breadth of interpretations that contemporary architecture can apply to identical liturgical criteria. In addition, the magazine examines urban context, morphological rhythm, and material imagination through the theme “Continuity vs. Intermittence”, with three projects in ''South Korea: Seoul Theater Creation Center'', ''Photography Seoul Museum of Art'', and ''Elystay Boryeong''. The issue also presents new projects by Benedetta Tagliabue and EMBT Architects, Colectivo C733, and more.
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The moment of cubism
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''The Moment of Cubism'' is one of John Berger’s most important collections of art criticism. Whether considering Vermeer in his studio, Poussin’s poignant meditation on death, or the complexities of Rodin’s sculpture, Berger draws together the threads that bind individual artists to their social and political context. Here Berger argues that Cubism was a moment rather(...)
The moment of cubism
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''The Moment of Cubism'' is one of John Berger’s most important collections of art criticism. Whether considering Vermeer in his studio, Poussin’s poignant meditation on death, or the complexities of Rodin’s sculpture, Berger draws together the threads that bind individual artists to their social and political context. Here Berger argues that Cubism was a moment rather than a movement, one that came and went without the consent of its key figures – Picasso and Braque above all. He makes a case for Cubism’s revolutionary influence. As always, Berger helps us see the world in new ways.
Art Theory
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"The fundamentals of architecture" is reference for anyone who is interested in an introduction to the basic ideas that affect and inform architecture or interior design and the graphic techniques and language associated with presenting ideas concerned with spatial realisation and experimentation. This book will introduce methods to consider and explain the process of(...)
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The fundamentals of architecture
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"The fundamentals of architecture" is reference for anyone who is interested in an introduction to the basic ideas that affect and inform architecture or interior design and the graphic techniques and language associated with presenting ideas concerned with spatial realisation and experimentation. This book will introduce methods to consider and explain the process of architecture from initial ideas and concepts, how these ideas are informed by understanding site, context and historical precedent. The development of the structure, the materials and the relationship of these deign ideas to the building process.
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The city reader
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This collection brings together the very best on the city. Classic writings by such as Robert Park, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Unwin, Jane Jacobs, Le Corbusier and Kevin Lynch meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Peter Hall, Mike Davis, Saskia Sasson, Dolores Hayden and Manuel Castells. 50 generous selections(...)
The city reader
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This collection brings together the very best on the city. Classic writings by such as Robert Park, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Unwin, Jane Jacobs, Le Corbusier and Kevin Lynch meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Peter Hall, Mike Davis, Saskia Sasson, Dolores Hayden and Manuel Castells. 50 generous selections are included. Each piece is separately introduced with a brief intellectual biography, a review of the author's writings and related literature, and an explanation of how the piece fits into the broader context of urban theory and practice.
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January 1900, New York
Urban Theory
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Throughout history, China has maintained one of the world’s richest built civilizations. The nation’s architectural achievements range from its earliest walled cities and the First Emperor’s vision of city and empire, to bridges, pagodas, and the twentieth-century constructions of the Socialist state. In this book, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt presents a fully comprehensive(...)
Chinese architecture: a history
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Throughout history, China has maintained one of the world’s richest built civilizations. The nation’s architectural achievements range from its earliest walled cities and the First Emperor’s vision of city and empire, to bridges, pagodas, and the twentieth-century constructions of the Socialist state. In this book, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt presents a fully comprehensive survey of Chinese architecture in any language. With rich political and historical context, Steinhardt covers forty centuries of architecture, from the genesis of Chinese building through to the twenty-first century and the challenges of urban expansion and globalism.
History until 1900, Asia
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In order to understand and improve cities today, personal observation remains as important as ever. While big data, digital mapping, and simulated cityscapes are valuable tools for understanding urban space, using them without on-the-ground, human impressions risks creating places that do not reflect authentic local context. "Seeing the Better City" brings our attention(...)
Seeing the better city: how to explore, observe, and improve urban space
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In order to understand and improve cities today, personal observation remains as important as ever. While big data, digital mapping, and simulated cityscapes are valuable tools for understanding urban space, using them without on-the-ground, human impressions risks creating places that do not reflect authentic local context. "Seeing the Better City" brings our attention back to the real world right in front of us, focusing it once more on the sights, sounds, and experiences of place in order to craft policies, plans, and regulations to shape better urban environments.
Urban Theory
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In this highly illustrated monograph, Gurjit Matharoo, a proponent of free thinking, of openness, and inventiveness, touches on the reasons for which his work in India is important in the context of contemporary architecture, underlining how he knows far fewer boundaries than almost any accepted norm. Stretching across nearly three decades of practice, the projects are(...)
matharoo asociates: architectural practice in India
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In this highly illustrated monograph, Gurjit Matharoo, a proponent of free thinking, of openness, and inventiveness, touches on the reasons for which his work in India is important in the context of contemporary architecture, underlining how he knows far fewer boundaries than almost any accepted norm. Stretching across nearly three decades of practice, the projects are beautifully presented, with incisive commentary, illustrations, watercolors, plans, and full-colour photography throughout. Significant projects include public and educational institutions, hospitals, commercial and retail buildings, single- and joint-family residences, apartments, religious and spiritual centers, and biennale installations.
Architecture Monographs
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This is the first substantial new book in English on this exceptional artist since the 1930s, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in fall 2021. The large-format volume features some one hundred of Aenne Biermann’s photographs in immaculately produced color and quadrotone reproductions, including several from the archive of the(...)
Aenne Biermann: Up close and personal
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This is the first substantial new book in English on this exceptional artist since the 1930s, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in fall 2021. The large-format volume features some one hundred of Aenne Biermann’s photographs in immaculately produced color and quadrotone reproductions, including several from the archive of the artist’s family that are published here for the first time ever. This selection is complemented by essays on Biermann’s photography in an art-historical context and on selected aspects of her oeuvre.
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Urban agricultural heritage
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Urban gardening and agriculture have become important elements of sustainable urban planning in the context of persistent urbanization amid limited resources. However, a consideration of the cultural-historical dimension has been lacking up to now. The editors present the first comprehensive outline of traditional forms of food production in cities to help preserve this(...)
Urban Landscapes
June 2022
Urban agricultural heritage
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Urban gardening and agriculture have become important elements of sustainable urban planning in the context of persistent urbanization amid limited resources. However, a consideration of the cultural-historical dimension has been lacking up to now. The editors present the first comprehensive outline of traditional forms of food production in cities to help preserve this valuable knowledge. On the basis of current research findings, they develop new perspectives and guidelines for recognizing traditional food production systems as an aspect of cultural heritage and for dealing with urban agriculture worldwide.
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