The materials book
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To achieve truly climate-friendly architecture means not just switching to sources of renewable power, but building with materials that produce zero carbon emissions, use no fossil fuels, and create no waste. This publication contains essays, case studies, and a catalogue of building materials compiled by more than 60 architects, engineers, and scientists from around the(...)
The materials book
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To achieve truly climate-friendly architecture means not just switching to sources of renewable power, but building with materials that produce zero carbon emissions, use no fossil fuels, and create no waste. This publication contains essays, case studies, and a catalogue of building materials compiled by more than 60 architects, engineers, and scientists from around the world that deal with the environmentally mindful and socially responsible use of materials and resources. Ideas range from centuries-old traditions to newly developed biomaterials, from low-tech, artisanal methods to advanced digital technologies, and from incremental shifts to massive, top-down changes.
Materials and Lighting
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The new generation of Mexican architecture is represented by Taller Héctor Barroso and Estudio Macías Peredo, two offices whose work emerges in harmony with the surrounding site, generating spaces with an emotional content that evoke memory and highlight the habitable quality of their architecture. Projects by the former, established by Barroso in Mexico City in 2011,(...)
A.MAG 19 : Taller Hector Barroso / Estudio Macias Peredo
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The new generation of Mexican architecture is represented by Taller Héctor Barroso and Estudio Macías Peredo, two offices whose work emerges in harmony with the surrounding site, generating spaces with an emotional content that evoke memory and highlight the habitable quality of their architecture. Projects by the former, established by Barroso in Mexico City in 2011, often take advantage of the natural resources of each place, including local materials and construction methods. Estudio Macías Peredo was launched in 2012 in Guadalajara, with a special focus on the local context. This developing interest has become the central theme of their approach.
Magazines
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Fuminori Nousaku strives to make architecture a new kind of ecosystem that incorporates an extensive range of design requirements on the topics of land and its history, materials and resources, lifestyles, the housing industry, and social system. With 16 chapters brimming with grand scales and detailed thought, this series probes the young Japanese architect's mind for(...)
Fuminori Nousaku: Edifice of the wild
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Fuminori Nousaku strives to make architecture a new kind of ecosystem that incorporates an extensive range of design requirements on the topics of land and its history, materials and resources, lifestyles, the housing industry, and social system. With 16 chapters brimming with grand scales and detailed thought, this series probes the young Japanese architect's mind for architectural methods concerned with topical issues: residential and urban development that factors in ecosystems and the global environment, off-grid homes powered by solar energy, architecture and landscaping that restore soil health, and ecological design that plans for circulation of materials from production to disposal.
Architecture Monographs
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This publication presents contributions from the symposium ''Constructive Futures – Beyond Concrete'', which marked the start of the academic year 2021/2022 at the School of Architecture of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Its aim is to explore constructive and future-oriented solutions beyond our professional comfort zones and provide(...)
Beyond concrete: Strategies for a post-fossil Baukultur
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This publication presents contributions from the symposium ''Constructive Futures – Beyond Concrete'', which marked the start of the academic year 2021/2022 at the School of Architecture of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. Its aim is to explore constructive and future-oriented solutions beyond our professional comfort zones and provide the opportunity to reflect on where the construction and planning industry currently stands. Why does a fundamental change seem inevitable? With an eye towards our limited resources, we must also rethink approaches and nurture a design culture that finds new ways to deal with building materials.
Green Architecture
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This volume presents a new perspective on Japanese architecture by introducing a young generation of architects and designers. Influenced by the Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, they share the desire for a sincere engagement with social, economic, and ecological issues today. Their creative handling of limited resources, found materials, and(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Make do with now: New directions in Japanese architecture
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This volume presents a new perspective on Japanese architecture by introducing a young generation of architects and designers. Influenced by the Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, they share the desire for a sincere engagement with social, economic, and ecological issues today. Their creative handling of limited resources, found materials, and existing building stock helps them in their quest to respond to these urgent topics. The book’s written contributions and photographic essays provide a multifaceted impression of architectural innovation in Japan now, including more than 20 current projects and a closer look at five architecture practices.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Deeply moved by the severe earthquake of April 6th, 2009, the teachers and students of the Faculty of Architecture of Pescara searched for ways in which to help the people affected. Following the initial, spontaneous impulse to pitch in and lend a hand, the teachers and students realized that their energy and resources could be put to more effective use than by(...)
Designing after the earthquake : the Abruzzo region experience
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Deeply moved by the severe earthquake of April 6th, 2009, the teachers and students of the Faculty of Architecture of Pescara searched for ways in which to help the people affected. Following the initial, spontaneous impulse to pitch in and lend a hand, the teachers and students realized that their energy and resources could be put to more effective use than by volunteering their help on an individual basis. This book presents projects and proposals drawn up in a year of hard work, documenting this first important contribution to designing after the earthquake from the world of science.
Engineering Structures
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13th International Architecture Exhibition: the art of organizing the space we share. The ambition of Common Ground is to reassert the existence of an architectural culture made up not only of singular talents but also of a rich continuity of diverse ideas united in a common history, in common aspirations, in common predicaments and ideals. If architecture is to be more(...)
Common ground : 13th International Architecture Exhibition
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13th International Architecture Exhibition: the art of organizing the space we share. The ambition of Common Ground is to reassert the existence of an architectural culture made up not only of singular talents but also of a rich continuity of diverse ideas united in a common history, in common aspirations, in common predicaments and ideals. If architecture is to be more than only the exceptional and privileged moment of our built world, a deeper engagement must then be found between talents and resources. Common Ground invites us to consider how these shared concerns and expectations may be better directed.
Contemporary Architecture
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Wood has always been a stong contributing factor in the creation of interesting architecture. Because of its special physical characteristics, its many possibilities of application and combination with other construction materials, since human beings began building houses, wood has been one of the main building materials. In addition, because of the increasing sensitivity(...)
Wood: architecture and design
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Wood has always been a stong contributing factor in the creation of interesting architecture. Because of its special physical characteristics, its many possibilities of application and combination with other construction materials, since human beings began building houses, wood has been one of the main building materials. In addition, because of the increasing sensitivity for the protection of resources the ecological potential of wood as a renewable raw material wood has gained in significance. To build with wood has been for years and is still a trend topic, this volume is a road tour of contemporary wood architecture.
Timber Construction
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The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing—of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and commercialization of the public realm. In Sharing Cities, Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman argue that the intersection of cities’(...)
Sharing cities: case for truly smart and sustainable cities
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The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing—of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and commercialization of the public realm. In Sharing Cities, Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman argue that the intersection of cities’ highly networked physical space with new digital technologies and new mediated forms of sharing offers cities the opportunity to connect smart technology to justice, solidarity, and sustainability. McLaren and Agyeman explore the opportunities and risks for sustainability, solidarity, and justice in the changing nature of sharing.
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Atascadero, Calif. : Ridgeview, 1987-, Cambridge, MA : Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons
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Atascadero, Calif. : Ridgeview, 1987-, Cambridge, MA : Blackwell Publishers, Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons