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This wide-ranging book examines the world’s most significant large-scale housing complexes, which point the way for the future of housing design. The seventy residential complexes featured here are recognized as architectural milestones, embodying forward-thinking attitudes towards urban planning. This book chronicles the evolution of these structures, revealing how(...)
Collective Housing
March 2006, Munich Berlin London New York
Housing in the 20th and 21st centuries / Wohen im 20. umd 21. jahrundert
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This wide-ranging book examines the world’s most significant large-scale housing complexes, which point the way for the future of housing design. The seventy residential complexes featured here are recognized as architectural milestones, embodying forward-thinking attitudes towards urban planning. This book chronicles the evolution of these structures, revealing how each best represented its era’s goals: housing a new society in the 1920s and 30s; the 40s and 50s’ leap toward functionality and the future; the high-density urban projects of the 60s and 70s; and diversity and environmental awareness in the 80s and 90s. It also looks at this century’s most progressive developments: Beijing’s Looped Hybrid, a city within a city; India’s Aranya township, which provides housing for impoverished residents; and the environmentally friendly Solaire Apartments in Manhattan, among others. As today’s cities face myriad global challenges, this book provides ample food for thought for anyone concerned with socially responsible architecture.
Collective Housing
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This important book tells the multifaceted story of humankind’s relationship with flooding, a story that is permeated with a history of both worship and fear. Modern water engineering has turned plains and valleys into fully inhabitable environments. At the same time, those environments have become highly vulnerable to climate change. In efforts to prevent future floods,(...)
Floodscapes: contemporary landscape strategies in times of climate change
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This important book tells the multifaceted story of humankind’s relationship with flooding, a story that is permeated with a history of both worship and fear. Modern water engineering has turned plains and valleys into fully inhabitable environments. At the same time, those environments have become highly vulnerable to climate change. In efforts to prevent future floods, countries are rediscovering adaptation strategies: making room for flooding, redistributing risks and reconsidering the use and legal status of floodplains. Through historical investigations and six contemporary projects implemented in four European countries, "Floodscapes" illustrates how flood-mitigation measures can be embedded in local space and culture. Merged with landscape development, agriculture, recreation, nature, and even urban growth, river management becomes a design issue, giving landscape architects and urban designers a prominent role in future transitions. This book provides an in-depth look into the most common natural disaster in the US, and the innovative solutions that have arisen.
Environment and environmental theory
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This book explores how art and design can contribute to our urban futures. It explores creative tensions in the public realm, focusing on two roles for art: as decoration within re-visioned urban design, and as a social process of criticism and engagement. A wealth of striking images and examples, New York, Seattle, London and elsewhere, illustrate and(...)
Art, space and the city : public art and urban futures
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This book explores how art and design can contribute to our urban futures. It explores creative tensions in the public realm, focusing on two roles for art: as decoration within re-visioned urban design, and as a social process of criticism and engagement. A wealth of striking images and examples, New York, Seattle, London and elsewhere, illustrate and inform the text.
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September 1997, London
Urban Theory
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In light of today’s societal and environmental challenges, it is clear that architecture is no longer just an aesthetic or functional discipline, but increasingly plays a role in shaping a more sustainable, more inclusive future. The latest Flanders Architectural Review, comprising 22 projects, 11 critical essays and 6 photo series, shows that caring, responsibility and(...)
Flanders Architectural Review n.16 : Responses in responsibility
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In light of today’s societal and environmental challenges, it is clear that architecture is no longer just an aesthetic or functional discipline, but increasingly plays a role in shaping a more sustainable, more inclusive future. The latest Flanders Architectural Review, comprising 22 projects, 11 critical essays and 6 photo series, shows that caring, responsibility and collaboration are the core values of contemporary architecture.
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Architect and social critic Michael Sorkin develops his own vision of the future lower Manhattan through a series of chronologically organized essays illustrated with full-color images of his own plans. Mixing his inimitable brand of social criticism with more personal reflections, "Starting from zero" offers a striving challenge to the "Ground zero" redevelopment plan(...)
Starting from zero : reconstructing New York
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Architect and social critic Michael Sorkin develops his own vision of the future lower Manhattan through a series of chronologically organized essays illustrated with full-color images of his own plans. Mixing his inimitable brand of social criticism with more personal reflections, "Starting from zero" offers a striving challenge to the "Ground zero" redevelopment plan recently chosen by New York's establishment insiders.
Architectural Theory
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The book highlights the architectural consequences of humanitarian actions on the basis of three case studies in Port-au-Prince, the West Bank, and Nairobi. Twelve projects are analyzed in terms of typology and construction. The authors investigate the far-reaching effects of such architectural aid and supply architects, town planners, and NGOs with useful advice for(...)
Contemporary Architecture
September 2017
Architectures of humanitarian space: forms of aid
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The book highlights the architectural consequences of humanitarian actions on the basis of three case studies in Port-au-Prince, the West Bank, and Nairobi. Twelve projects are analyzed in terms of typology and construction. The authors investigate the far-reaching effects of such architectural aid and supply architects, town planners, and NGOs with useful advice for future planning and design.
Contemporary Architecture
Redefining brutalism
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Brutalism is a highly debated topic in the architectural press and amongst architectural critics and institutions who promote the preservation of these buildings. This book is combining images with description of both British and International brutalist buildings and architects, alongside analysis of the present and future of brutalism. Not just a historical tome, this(...)
Redefining brutalism
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Brutalism is a highly debated topic in the architectural press and amongst architectural critics and institutions who promote the preservation of these buildings. This book is combining images with description of both British and International brutalist buildings and architects, alongside analysis of the present and future of brutalism. Not just a historical tome, this book discusses brutalism as a living and evolving entity.
Contemporary Architecture
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Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus(...)
Radical technologies: the design of everyday life
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Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future.
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Scaling infrastructure
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Scaling Infrastructure presents the proceedings of the second and final conference of MIT's Center for Advanced Urbanism biennial theme of infrastructure. The conference brought together political leaders, engineers, designers, and academics to investigate how critical the issues of appropriate infrastructural investments and scales have become to the future of urbanized(...)
Scaling infrastructure
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Scaling Infrastructure presents the proceedings of the second and final conference of MIT's Center for Advanced Urbanism biennial theme of infrastructure. The conference brought together political leaders, engineers, designers, and academics to investigate how critical the issues of appropriate infrastructural investments and scales have become to the future of urbanized territories when faced with new economic, political, and environmental challenges.
Urban Theory
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eVolo presents the best 60 projects of the 2006, 2007, and 2008 Skyscraper Competition. An investigation by architects, students, and designers on the future of the skyscraper. What is the skyscraper in the beginning of the XXI Century? What is the historical and social context of these mega-structures? What is their response to the urban fabric? Is the human scale lost?
Evolo: skyscraper for the 21th century
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eVolo presents the best 60 projects of the 2006, 2007, and 2008 Skyscraper Competition. An investigation by architects, students, and designers on the future of the skyscraper. What is the skyscraper in the beginning of the XXI Century? What is the historical and social context of these mega-structures? What is their response to the urban fabric? Is the human scale lost?
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