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Context: Architecture and the Genius of Place is a highly engaging, informative discussion of context in architectural theory and practice. Eric Parry, one of the UK's most highly regarded architects whose work has been widely lauded for its innovative response to its setting addresses the contemporary definition of context and its importance for sustainable everyday(...)
Context: architecture and the genius of place
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Context: Architecture and the Genius of Place is a highly engaging, informative discussion of context in architectural theory and practice. Eric Parry, one of the UK's most highly regarded architects whose work has been widely lauded for its innovative response to its setting addresses the contemporary definition of context and its importance for sustainable everyday living and urban design. Looking beyond the formal agenda to explore the fundamentals that give new social and cultural perspective to this vital point of departure for designers, this book turns the urban statistician's telescopic focus on global trends inside out for a better understanding of the cultural and physical conditions that make archetypes like the Parisian Cafe, the London High Street, the Baltic City Square, and the Mumbai Market part of the architect's lexicon. From pavement to landscape, readers will examine how context must be taken into account at every stage in the design process.
Architectural Theory
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The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks, and many others. These architectural episodes express specific power relations, exacerbate issues of labor, and generate dramatic processes of subjectivity. Most importantly, these architectures,(...)
Exteriorless architecture: Form, space, and urbanities of neoliberalism
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The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks, and many others. These architectural episodes express specific power relations, exacerbate issues of labor, and generate dramatic processes of subjectivity. Most importantly, these architectures, despite their formal and typological heterogeneity, belong to a common paradigm: the exteriorless. How can an architecture of the exteriorless be defined? How does it differentiate from examples and manifestations of the past? How do notions of legibility, form versus function, typological articulation come into play? In situating the spatialities of contemporary capitalism within the larger debate on Anthropocene, Post-Anthropocene, and Capitalocene, the book attempts to answer those questions by delineating three main characteristics for an architecture of the exteriorless: its physical and symbolic role as interface; its ambiguous condition of being at the same time local and global, isolated and connected, compressed and expanded; and, lastly, its contribution to new forms of urbanity in absence of the traditional city.
Architectural Theory
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Offrant un large panorama des manières dont l'homme habite le monde, cet Atlas de l'architecture mondiale convie le lecteur à repenser son rapport à l'architecture. Elément essentiel de notre quotidien, elle est omniprésente tout au long de notre vie : de notre habitation aux infrastructures et bâtiments publics (écoles, hôpitaux etc.), de nos bureaux et espaces de(...)
L'atlas de l'architecture contemporaine
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Offrant un large panorama des manières dont l'homme habite le monde, cet Atlas de l'architecture mondiale convie le lecteur à repenser son rapport à l'architecture. Elément essentiel de notre quotidien, elle est omniprésente tout au long de notre vie : de notre habitation aux infrastructures et bâtiments publics (écoles, hôpitaux etc.), de nos bureaux et espaces de travail ou encore aux lieux de loisirs, de culture ou aux édifices religieux. Couvrant les cinq continents à travers 250 projets, cet ouvrage met en valeur le talent de ces architectes contemporains qui façonnent notre monde, se jouant de la modernité et des traditions, travaillant les matériaux locaux durables à l'aide d'outils innovants. Doté d'une riche iconographie permettant de saisir le processus de réalisation de ces ensembles architecturaux (plans, dessins et photographies), chaque projet fait l'objet d'une notice explicative.
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Berlin bodies : anatomizing the streets of the city / Stephen Barber.
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In 2005, the first architectural festival in Paris. 26 architectural installations encouraged for few days people to experiment the new territories of contemporary architecture.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2005, Paris
Des architectures vives : 26 installations architecturales
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In 2005, the first architectural festival in Paris. 26 architectural installations encouraged for few days people to experiment the new territories of contemporary architecture.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Baudrillard has become incredibly popular in architecture in recent years and this is the first time that the work of one of the world’s greatest philosophers has been pulled together to present a complete assessment and understanding of it. In Baudrillard's terms, architecture could be seen as the supreme medium of contemporary visual culture, especially in its(...)
December 2005, Chichester
Mass identity architecture : architectural writings of Jean Beaudrillard
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Baudrillard has become incredibly popular in architecture in recent years and this is the first time that the work of one of the world’s greatest philosophers has been pulled together to present a complete assessment and understanding of it. In Baudrillard's terms, architecture could be seen as the supreme medium of contemporary visual culture, especially in its potential to influence the individual's perception of reality as a component of the massmedia system. This type of cultural analysis of the built environment is a relatively new idea in architectural criticism and this book provides the first invaluable directory for the reader. Proto uses extracts from Baudrillard's very own work, including previously unpublished material. Proto's style makes Baudrillard's work easy to read and easily accessible to readers in cultural studies, geography and art, as well as sociology and social theory.
Towards an articulated phenomenological interpretation of architecture: phenomenal phenomenology
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This book sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position. Starting with a concise introduction to the philosophical grounds of phenomenology from the points of view of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, it presents a critical reading of the works of some leading(...)
Towards an articulated phenomenological interpretation of architecture: phenomenal phenomenology
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This book sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position. Starting with a concise introduction to the philosophical grounds of phenomenology from the points of view of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, it presents a critical reading of the works of some leading figures of architectural phenomenology in both theory and practice, such as Christian Norberg-Schultz, Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Steven Holl. Highlighting the main challenges of the current phenomenological discourse in architecture, this book formulates a more articulated method of 'phenomenological interpretation' – dubbed 'phenomenal phenomenology' - as a new and innovative method of interpreting the built environment. Finally, using Tadao Ando's Langen Foundation Museum as a case study, it investigates the architect's contribution to phenomenological discourse, interprets and analyzes the Museum building using the new heuristic method, and thus provides a clear example of its applicability.
Architectural Theory
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Les plus grands cabinets d'architectes internationaux imaginent actuellement la conception de notre mode de vie pour les décennies à venir. Il résulte de leurs travaux un ensemble de choix qui forme le coeur de cet ouvrage. L'inévitable montée des bâtiments urbains due à la surpopulation ou encore l'émergence de villes nouvelles écologiques et autonomes constituent les(...)
Architectures de demain : projets futuristes
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Les plus grands cabinets d'architectes internationaux imaginent actuellement la conception de notre mode de vie pour les décennies à venir. Il résulte de leurs travaux un ensemble de choix qui forme le coeur de cet ouvrage. L'inévitable montée des bâtiments urbains due à la surpopulation ou encore l'émergence de villes nouvelles écologiques et autonomes constituent les principales tendances qui ressortent des quelque 70 projets présentés.
Contemporary Architecture
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An architecture book in a radical new format, ‘'MANGARCHITECTURE'’ comprises seven short manga stories by seven artists, each based on a different project by Tokyo-based architect Yasutaka Yoshimura. The manga creators use Yoshimura’s work as a springboard for wildly imaginative interpretations that simultaneously hint at new possibilities for architecture. In addition to(...)
Mangarchitecture: Absence of an architect
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An architecture book in a radical new format, ‘'MANGARCHITECTURE'’ comprises seven short manga stories by seven artists, each based on a different project by Tokyo-based architect Yasutaka Yoshimura. The manga creators use Yoshimura’s work as a springboard for wildly imaginative interpretations that simultaneously hint at new possibilities for architecture. In addition to the manga stories, the book presents building drawings, designs, and data, as well as commentary on each project by Yoshimura. Completing the volume is an essay by the architect and a thought-provoking dual chronology of the history of manga and architecture in Japan.
Contemporary Architecture
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Together the authors of this edition, Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim, have over 20 years of experience teaching architecture. Based on the premise that architecture is a critical practice framed by the conditions of history, material production, representation, and space-making. Creative imagination is seen as a fundamental component to research, evaluation, and(...)
3 stages of architectural education
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Together the authors of this edition, Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim, have over 20 years of experience teaching architecture. Based on the premise that architecture is a critical practice framed by the conditions of history, material production, representation, and space-making. Creative imagination is seen as a fundamental component to research, evaluation, and documental production. They address a set of basic ideas that build critical questions in architecture, including those emergent from professional practice, or that focus on personal directions and expressions, and cover technique, design flexibility, problem solving, methods of representation, and much more.
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