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This publication brings together the manifold, international and multidisciplinary contributions of the GameSetandMatch II conference - the architecture co-laboratory, directed by Kas Oosterhuis, professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of technology, the Netherlands. It adresses contemporary and future changes within and across the boundaries of(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 1900, Delft
The architecture co-laboratory : game set and match II - on computer games, advanced geometries, and digital technologies
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This publication brings together the manifold, international and multidisciplinary contributions of the GameSetandMatch II conference - the architecture co-laboratory, directed by Kas Oosterhuis, professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of technology, the Netherlands. It adresses contemporary and future changes within and across the boundaries of digitally driven architectural and design practices. The notion of architecture as a co-laboratory accentuates this strong devotion to experimentation and collaboration. In so doing it offers a kaleidoscopic view of, rather than a defines perspective on current developments in the digital design domain. The authors of the essays and papers included in this book come from very diverse backgrounds ranging from architecture and design to technology and engineering as well as computer sciences and humanities. An interlaced series of three thematic areas - 'Play', 'Geometry ++' and 'Open Source' - will relate diverse sources of knowledge and enable the reader to cross reference, question, recontextualize, and even create new connections among the content presented. "GameSetandMatch II" includes contributions from Robert Aish, Ole Bouman, Raoul Bunschoten, Bernard Cache, Jan Edler and Tim Edler, Georg Flachbart, John Frazer, Mark Goulthorpe, Branko Kolarevic, Anne Nigten, Marcos Novak, Kas Oosterhuis, Antonino Saggio, Katie Salen, Norbert Streitz, Tom Verebes, Peter Weibel and many more.
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What is co-dividuality?: post-individual architecture, shared houses and other stories of openness
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This book explores the concept of co-dividuality, an architecture that expresses a new response to joint living in the age of postindividualism, social media, and the sharing economy. The focus lies on current experimentation in Japanese architecture and presents thematic homes with shared spaces designed as a result of warm, simple, fun and contemporary design(...)
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What is co-dividuality?: post-individual architecture, shared houses and other stories of openness
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This book explores the concept of co-dividuality, an architecture that expresses a new response to joint living in the age of postindividualism, social media, and the sharing economy. The focus lies on current experimentation in Japanese architecture and presents thematic homes with shared spaces designed as a result of warm, simple, fun and contemporary design reflections. In addition to their private room, the co-tenants have large common areas where they can practice urban farming, create a start-up, cook together, or experience new spatial ergonomics. The book offers an overview not only on domestic space but also on projects characterized by a multifarious mix between public and private spheres. 'What Is Co-dividuality?' reflects on how we might want to live tomorrow. The book includes projects by Kengo Kuma, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto, Satoko Shinohara, Ayano Uchimura, Taichi Kuma, Junya Ishigami, Suppose Design, Naruse Inokuma, and Masuda + Otsubo, among others.
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At no time in recent history have architecture, urban planning, rehabilitation and reconstruction been as important to the Islamic World as they are today. Since 1977, the triennial Aga Khan Award has celebrated outstanding contributions to architectural design, logical construction and the revivification of hisoric cities. In this, the ninth Award cycle, the jury(...)
History until 1900, Asia
April 2005, London
Architecture and polyphony : building in the Islamic world today - the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the ninth award cycle
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At no time in recent history have architecture, urban planning, rehabilitation and reconstruction been as important to the Islamic World as they are today. Since 1977, the triennial Aga Khan Award has celebrated outstanding contributions to architectural design, logical construction and the revivification of hisoric cities. In this, the ninth Award cycle, the jury has selected seven projects to reflect the rich diversity of Muslim architecture today : Biblioteca Alexandrina - Alexandria, Egypt; Gando Primary School - Gando, Burkina Faso; Sandbag Shelter Prototypes - Various locations; Restoration of Al-Abbas Mosque - Asnaf, Yemen; Old City of Jerusalem Revitalization Program - Old City, Jerusalem; B2 House - Ayvacik, Turkey; Petronus Towers - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
History until 1900, Asia
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We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house without furniture. Our experience of music in a concert hall depends on whether we sit in the front row or under the balcony. The unique acoustics of religious spaces acquire symbolic meaning. Social relationships are strongly influenced(...)
Acoustics
December 2006, Cambridge / London
Spaces speak, are you listening ? Experiencing aural architecture
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We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house without furniture. Our experience of music in a concert hall depends on whether we sit in the front row or under the balcony. The unique acoustics of religious spaces acquire symbolic meaning. Social relationships are strongly influenced by the way that space changes sound. In Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?, Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter examine auditory spatial awareness: experiencing space by attentive listening. Every environment has an aural architecture. The audible attributes of physical space have always contributed to the fabric of human culture, as demonstrated by prehistoric multimedia cave paintings, classical Greek open-air theaters, Gothic cathedrals, acoustic geography of French villages, modern music reproduction, and virtual spaces in home theaters. Auditory spatial awareness is a prism that reveals a culture's attitudes toward hearing and space. Some listeners can learn to "see" objects with their ears, but even without training, we can all hear spatial geometry such as an open door or low ceiling. Integrating contributions from a wide range of disciplines--including architecture, music, acoustics, evolution, anthropology, cognitive psychology, audio engineering, and many others--Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? establishes the concepts and language of aural architecture. These concepts provide an interdisciplinary guide for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of how space enhances our well-being. Aural architecture is not the exclusive domain of specialists. Accidentally or intentionally, we all function as aural architects.
Acoustics
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Berlin’s Aedes Architecture Forum is one of the most eminent spaces for architecture and architectural culture in the world. Founded in 1980 by Kristin Feireiss and Helga Retzer, Aedes has since put on five hundred important exhibitions on current themes, featuring many of the world’s most eminent architects. After Retzer’s unexpected death in 1994, Aedes has been run by(...)
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January 2021
Faces and spaces: 40 years Aedes Architecture Forum
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Berlin’s Aedes Architecture Forum is one of the most eminent spaces for architecture and architectural culture in the world. Founded in 1980 by Kristin Feireiss and Helga Retzer, Aedes has since put on five hundred important exhibitions on current themes, featuring many of the world’s most eminent architects. After Retzer’s unexpected death in 1994, Aedes has been run by Feireiss, together with Hans-Jürgen Commerell and a large, committed team of collaborators. Faces and Spaces looks back at four decades of the gallery’s lively and multifaceted history.
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This publication is a comprehensive reader analysing the role of modern architecture, city planning and consumption in the construction of the Swedish welfare state. The book draws mainly from the formative phase of the Swedish model, but also on European and American examples, and attempts to highlight the contradictions and complexities of the process of modernisation.(...)
Swedish modernism : architecture, consumption and the welfare state
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This publication is a comprehensive reader analysing the role of modern architecture, city planning and consumption in the construction of the Swedish welfare state. The book draws mainly from the formative phase of the Swedish model, but also on European and American examples, and attempts to highlight the contradictions and complexities of the process of modernisation. The book provides an in-depth, multilayered account of the process of modernisation; whilst also highlighting the difficulties found. The debate is enriched from a diverse range of contributors including architects, researchers and leading academics from across the globe. It includes an introduction from Helena Mattsson and Sven-Olov Wallenstein and contributions from academics from New York’s Columbia University and London’s UCL; alongside architects in the field. The essays explore the construction of the welfare state, contextualising this in relation to the political and social factors of the time, consumers and spectacles — from housing to national marketing programmes. Specific case studies are featured and the reader ends with a section dealing with the more general problem of historiography.
Urban Theory
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The essays in this volume were written on the occasion of the symposium on 'Landscape Architecture in Mutation' held at the ETH Zurich in October 2004. The contributors consider the changed aesthetic, functional and natural characteristics of urban landscapes, and present suitable approaches and procedures for their design and development. This book provides the(...)
Landscape Theory
January 2005,
Landscape architecture in mutation - essays on urban landscape
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The essays in this volume were written on the occasion of the symposium on 'Landscape Architecture in Mutation' held at the ETH Zurich in October 2004. The contributors consider the changed aesthetic, functional and natural characteristics of urban landscapes, and present suitable approaches and procedures for their design and development. This book provides the theoretical background for the "mutation" of landscape architecture, illustrating theory with exemplary planning projects - ranging from individual to geographical scales - in Switzerland, Europe and the USA. The contributors represent various disciplines : landscape architecture, architecture, urban design, engineering, art history and cultural studies. In English with summaries in German.
Landscape Theory
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La ville du Havre, présente une histoire faite de ruptures. Leure, le port d’origine, se trouva comme effacé par la guerre de Cent Ans. Le Havre proprement dit a été fondé par François Ier, qui voulait un port pour faciliter les échanges rouennais, notamment avec l’Amérique. A la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe, le Havre connaît un développement des plus rapides.(...)
Le Havre : un port, des villes neuves
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La ville du Havre, présente une histoire faite de ruptures. Leure, le port d’origine, se trouva comme effacé par la guerre de Cent Ans. Le Havre proprement dit a été fondé par François Ier, qui voulait un port pour faciliter les échanges rouennais, notamment avec l’Amérique. A la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe, le Havre connaît un développement des plus rapides. Les bombardements de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en feront une des villes d’Europe les plus sinistrées. Sa reconstruction selon les plans de l’équipe Perret se posera en exemple et chef-d’œuvre d’architecture rationaliste. Dès l’après-guerre, l’expansion urbaine reprendra à une rythme effréné jusqu'à la fin du XXe siècle. Le livre aborde la ville par sa réalité physique et met en évidence les rapports du port et de la ville. Il restitue toute la richesse de cette ville au passé détruit, mais dont la qualité architecturale contemporaine lui vaut d’être proposée par la France pour une inscription sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l’humanité.
History until 1900
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Matière vivante, la ville en mouvement ne doit se laisser enfermer ni par les carcans juridiques, réglementaires ou financiers ni par les pensées dominantes d’une époque contemporaine exposée à moult turbulences. Accompagner plutôt qu’imposer l’évolution d’un lieu, s’inspirer de la vitalité de ses habitants et aborder l’architecture par l’observation minutieuse des usages(...)
La ville, matière vivante : L'AUC, Grand Prix de l'urbanisme 2021
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Matière vivante, la ville en mouvement ne doit se laisser enfermer ni par les carcans juridiques, réglementaires ou financiers ni par les pensées dominantes d’une époque contemporaine exposée à moult turbulences. Accompagner plutôt qu’imposer l’évolution d’un lieu, s’inspirer de la vitalité de ses habitants et aborder l’architecture par l’observation minutieuse des usages jusqu’à l’échelle de la métropole : autant de constantes pour l’AUC, équipe lauréate du Grand Prix de l’urbanisme 2021. Ceux qui, pour avoir été la plus jeune équipe de la consultation du Grand Paris, pourraient passer pour les « enfants terribles » de l’urbanisme, ont choisi un nom révélateur : Ab urbe condita (« Depuis la fondation de la ville »). Une formule qui affiche l’ambition que partagent François Decoster, Djamel Klouche et Caroline Poulin de s’emparer de la question urbaine de manière exigeante, précise et libre de tout dogme ou héritage pesant. Une locution valant aussi programme, leur action se déploie des projets d’architecture aux projets urbains, voire métropolitains, qu’ils mettent en parole et en dessin d’une façon souvent peu orthodoxe.
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ECAL chez Le Corbusier
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L’une des plus prestigieuses écoles d’art au monde définit un nouveau paradigme pédagogique en décloisonnant les disciplines architecture et design industriel. ECAL chez Le Corbusier est un hommage au grand architecte pour marquer les 125 ans de sa naissance. C’est aussi et surtout une rencontre entre un maître et des élèves – entre Le Corbusier et les étudiants de(...)
ECAL chez Le Corbusier
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L’une des plus prestigieuses écoles d’art au monde définit un nouveau paradigme pédagogique en décloisonnant les disciplines architecture et design industriel. ECAL chez Le Corbusier est un hommage au grand architecte pour marquer les 125 ans de sa naissance. C’est aussi et surtout une rencontre entre un maître et des élèves – entre Le Corbusier et les étudiants de l’ECAL/École cantonale d'art de Lausanne. Imaginer puis produire des objets pour la Villa « Le Lac » de Le Corbusier, à Corseaux, tel est le projet conçu par Elric Petit, responsable du Bachelor en Design industriel à l'ECAL, et Chris Kabel, professeur à l'ECAL. Le projet dépasse vite le cadre d’un enseignement classique : le potentiel du site, l’inventivité mise en œuvre dans ce travail et la qualité des réalisations ont conduit naturellement à l’idée d’une exposition in situ. Les contraintes liées au lieu (proximité du lac, intégration du paysage) et à la nature du bâtiment (premier exemple d’architecture moderne de Suisse, monument historique d’importance nationale) se sont révélées une véritable gageure pour les étudiants et ont joué un rôle de révélateur de talents.
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