Tokyo from Vancouver 2
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Documenting a highly productive four month visit by a group of students from the University of British Columbia to Tokyo, this publication, edited by George Wagner, packs an impressive collection of projects and observations from both students and young practicing Japanese architects. Generously illustrated throughout with photographs, plans, drawings and details of(...)
Tokyo from Vancouver 2
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Documenting a highly productive four month visit by a group of students from the University of British Columbia to Tokyo, this publication, edited by George Wagner, packs an impressive collection of projects and observations from both students and young practicing Japanese architects. Generously illustrated throughout with photographs, plans, drawings and details of recent research and projects the book features work and thoughts from Dana Buntrock, Manabu Chiba, Sou Fujimoto, David Stewart and Kumiko Inui.
Architecture in Canada
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In the late 2000s human society entered a new urban epoch in which the majority of human beings live in cities. Whilst the city has historically been viewed as the foundation of democracy and citizenship, the geo-political spaces of modern cities are widely misunderstood despite their key role in shaping contemporary global society. How and why have cities become the(...)
Rise of cities: Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and other cities
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In the late 2000s human society entered a new urban epoch in which the majority of human beings live in cities. Whilst the city has historically been viewed as the foundation of democracy and citizenship, the geo-political spaces of modern cities are widely misunderstood despite their key role in shaping contemporary global society. How and why have cities become the command centres of the world economy? Does globalization menace cities as we know them? Are cities able to exercise democratic control and strategic choice when multinational corporate competition increasingly limits the importance of place? The Rise of Cities offers intriguing responses to these questions by analyzing how cities coalesce, develop and thrive, and how they can remake themselves for better for worse. Examining key issues such as the parasitic relationships cities have with Nature, the webs of trade and immigration they rely on to survive, and the spatial structure of the contemporary metropolis, the contributors develop a startling outline of cities in crisis and demonstrate why the State has failed, and must fail, to end the urban crisis. These themes are explored through a variety of concrete, real-world examples of the challenges of urban politics: metropolitan governance, urban redevelopment policy, housing problems, grass roots activism and urban planning. In the background looms the spectre of neo-liberal globalization, with the development of influential world cities related to the emergence of modern telecommunications, the growth of multinational corporations and the generation of a world economy with an increased movement of cultural symbols and artifacts across national borders.
Architecture in Canada
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This book shows 25 international houses that are based on modular and prefabrication systems. All of them have ecological advantages in comparison to standard construction systems, since they represent a more effective use of resources and a reduction of construction time and there with costs. All houses are built in factories, carried by road and assembled on site. Thus,(...)
Prefab houses - maisons préfabriquées
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This book shows 25 international houses that are based on modular and prefabrication systems. All of them have ecological advantages in comparison to standard construction systems, since they represent a more effective use of resources and a reduction of construction time and there with costs. All houses are built in factories, carried by road and assembled on site. Thus, building materials can be used more economically and very few refuse is produced during construction. Due to the actual spread of technologies and construction typologies, the international prefabrication industry can deliver up-to-date houses, aesthetically modern, and with an average rank of prizes from very cheap solutions to more exclusive ones, depending on the main material used (wood, steel, galvanised aluminum and concrete).
Prefabricated Architecture
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Land Milano - Andreas Kipar, Giovanni Sala + partner.
Raggi verdi: green vision for Milan 2015
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Land Milano - Andreas Kipar, Giovanni Sala + partner.
Green Architecture
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Présentation du travail du bureau Lhoas & Lhoas installé depuis une quinzaine d'années à Bruxelles où les architectes Pierre et Pablo interrogent les invariants et les contradictions de leur discipline. Leurs oeuvres concilient à la fois plaisir des formes et fonctionnalisme radical, bricolage artisanal et abstraction, structuralisme formel et formalisme structurel.
Lhoas & Lhoas, crime, bricolage & abstraction
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Présentation du travail du bureau Lhoas & Lhoas installé depuis une quinzaine d'années à Bruxelles où les architectes Pierre et Pablo interrogent les invariants et les contradictions de leur discipline. Leurs oeuvres concilient à la fois plaisir des formes et fonctionnalisme radical, bricolage artisanal et abstraction, structuralisme formel et formalisme structurel.
Architecture Monographs
Drivers of change
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Conceived and designed by the Foresight, innovation and incubation team at Arup, the influential consulting firm that advises on all aspects of the built environment, this card set features seven topics that have been chosen as headings for further discussion: energy, waste, climate change, water, demographics, urbanization and poverty. The 189 cards are divided into five(...)
Drivers of change
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Conceived and designed by the Foresight, innovation and incubation team at Arup, the influential consulting firm that advises on all aspects of the built environment, this card set features seven topics that have been chosen as headings for further discussion: energy, waste, climate change, water, demographics, urbanization and poverty. The 189 cards are divided into five domains known as the steep framework: societal, technological, economic, environmental, and political. Each card represents a single driver of change-for instance urban migration, ageing population, austerity-along with a challenging and thought-provoking question. The flip side of the card provides pertinent data to expand on the question, as well as maps, graphs, and other illustrations. An accompanying booklet offers tips on how to use these cards independently or in a group setting. Whether brainstorming for new ideas or facilitating a discussion, these graphically sophisticated cards are an excellent resource for anyone interested in the future of technology, design and sustainability or indeed the way we might live in the years to come.
Green Architecture
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Rudolf Arnheim has been known, since the publication of his groundbreaking Art and Visual Perception in 1974, as an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts. Two anniversary volumes celebrate the landmark anniversaries of his works in 2009. The Dynamics of Architectural Form explores the unexpected perceptual consequences of architecture with(...)
The dynamics of architectural form
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Rudolf Arnheim has been known, since the publication of his groundbreaking Art and Visual Perception in 1974, as an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts. Two anniversary volumes celebrate the landmark anniversaries of his works in 2009. The Dynamics of Architectural Form explores the unexpected perceptual consequences of architecture with Arnheim's customary clarity and precision.
Architectural Theory
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Alongside building an architecture that is iconic, Spanish architect Campo Baeza also creates rational buildings that enter into a dialogue with the place and its surroundings in order to, as he suggests ‘make men happy’. This well-designed survey of the architect’s works features a total of 23 works and projects, realised between 1980 and 2009 and accompanied by colour(...)
Alberto Campo Baeza: idea, light and gravity
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Alongside building an architecture that is iconic, Spanish architect Campo Baeza also creates rational buildings that enter into a dialogue with the place and its surroundings in order to, as he suggests ‘make men happy’. This well-designed survey of the architect’s works features a total of 23 works and projects, realised between 1980 and 2009 and accompanied by colour photographs, plans, elevations and models, along with introductory comments by the architect. Featured are such projects as: the Gaspar House; De Blas House, Caja General Bank Headquarters; the Benetton Nursery; Olnick Spanu House; and, Andalucia’s Museum of Memory. Included also in the second half of the publication is a sizeable essay by Campo Baeza himself, entitled “The Built Idea/ On Architecture” in which various ideas and themes are explored, such as the use of the colour white and the role of light in architecture, and, the foundations and future of architecture.
Architecture Monographs
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This book gathers a series of design research projects produced in 2007, that investigate alternative ways of constructing our relations with our environment. ‘Environment’ is a nebulous term that often implies ‘nature’. It is implied here too, but only in the sense of the nature of complex, dynamic relations. This includes that ‘other’ called ‘culture’, where we are(...)
Plastic green, designing for environmental transformation
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This book gathers a series of design research projects produced in 2007, that investigate alternative ways of constructing our relations with our environment. ‘Environment’ is a nebulous term that often implies ‘nature’. It is implied here too, but only in the sense of the nature of complex, dynamic relations. This includes that ‘other’ called ‘culture’, where we are embedded in environment: ‘we’ as complex sub-entities both distinguishable and inseparable from an encompassing complex, dynamic entity called ‘environment’.
Green Architecture
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The architecture of Ricardo Gordon Bak embraces a particular sensibility, balancing fragility with robustness. Sited in the challenging Portuguese landscape, the architect’s buildings provide comfortable interiors that engage in direct dialogue with their expansive surrounds. Starting with the House in Pousos, Leiria and Two Houses in Casa Queimada, Tavira, this survey(...)
.Bak gordon
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The architecture of Ricardo Gordon Bak embraces a particular sensibility, balancing fragility with robustness. Sited in the challenging Portuguese landscape, the architect’s buildings provide comfortable interiors that engage in direct dialogue with their expansive surrounds. Starting with the House in Pousos, Leiria and Two Houses in Casa Queimada, Tavira, this survey examines an additional 16 works and projects, finishing with the design for the Portuguese Pavilion for ExpoZaragoza, 2008.
Architecture Monographs