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This issue of Volume is largely based on a two-day symposium ‘how do we materialize peace’ held at the NAI in Rotterdam in 2010. The symposium was the kick-off to explore potentials of architecture in the field of post-conflict reconstruction. Awareness, good practice and knowledge exchange are all part of the project with pragmatism as the guiding rule.
Volume 26: Architecture of Peace
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This issue of Volume is largely based on a two-day symposium ‘how do we materialize peace’ held at the NAI in Rotterdam in 2010. The symposium was the kick-off to explore potentials of architecture in the field of post-conflict reconstruction. Awareness, good practice and knowledge exchange are all part of the project with pragmatism as the guiding rule.
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This publication is the firm's first monograph. Their practice has built a reputation for its ability to meet building challenges with uncommon design clarity, elegance, and refinement. They approach highly constrained and technically demanding design problems with a clear set of modernist core principles, a passion for material and detail exploration, and a desire to(...)
Made to measure: the architecture of Leers Weizapel associates
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This publication is the firm's first monograph. Their practice has built a reputation for its ability to meet building challenges with uncommon design clarity, elegance, and refinement. They approach highly constrained and technically demanding design problems with a clear set of modernist core principles, a passion for material and detail exploration, and a desire to create meaningful places for social interaction.
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Cheerful in 3 1/2 months
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Do things differently than you’re used to, and things will seem a lot more fun straight away. Like a fake cigarette, send a gift to someone you don’t know, practice to do a wheelie, replace all your filler words in Hawaiian. With the course you find in this book you say goodbye to dreary, miserable days and aloha to cheerful madness.
Cheerful in 3 1/2 months
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Do things differently than you’re used to, and things will seem a lot more fun straight away. Like a fake cigarette, send a gift to someone you don’t know, practice to do a wheelie, replace all your filler words in Hawaiian. With the course you find in this book you say goodbye to dreary, miserable days and aloha to cheerful madness.
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Monika Grzymala 11
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Polish artist Monika Grzymala (born 1970) expands the practice of drawing to include paper itself: in her latest works, the drawing is the paper, from which Grzymala elicits line-like properties that in turn closely respond to the site of their production. This monographs examines this and other transformations of drawing by Grzymala, such as works using strips of colored tape.
Monika Grzymala 11
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Polish artist Monika Grzymala (born 1970) expands the practice of drawing to include paper itself: in her latest works, the drawing is the paper, from which Grzymala elicits line-like properties that in turn closely respond to the site of their production. This monographs examines this and other transformations of drawing by Grzymala, such as works using strips of colored tape.
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"Snow, Rain, Light, Wind : weathering architecture" explores the potential of textile-based materials as a hybrid art and architectural medium that can bring art, design, technology, and materials research together in built spaces. An architectural practice focusing on buildings that respond to environmental conditions can make us more aware of weather and help us(...)
Snow, rain, light, wind : weathering architecture
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"Snow, Rain, Light, Wind : weathering architecture" explores the potential of textile-based materials as a hybrid art and architectural medium that can bring art, design, technology, and materials research together in built spaces. An architectural practice focusing on buildings that respond to environmental conditions can make us more aware of weather and help us re-examine our contributions to climate change.
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2G 52: Sauerbruch Hutton
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Sauerbruch Hutton is a practice founded by Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton with its main offices in Berlin and London. Active as an independent concern for upwards of twenty years, they have developed a personal language that is essentially characterised by two evident features: the free, sinuous forms of some of their buildings and a bold, emphatic use of colour.
2G 52: Sauerbruch Hutton
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Sauerbruch Hutton is a practice founded by Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton with its main offices in Berlin and London. Active as an independent concern for upwards of twenty years, they have developed a personal language that is essentially characterised by two evident features: the free, sinuous forms of some of their buildings and a bold, emphatic use of colour.
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Bourdieu for architects
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Bourdieu spent much of his life attempting to understand cultural consumption and production through detailed empirical research that included studies of dwellings, art, museums, photography and aesthetics. This book introduces the architectural reader to Bourdieu's key writings on culture and outlines the ways in which they offer powerful practical tools and novel(...)
Bourdieu for architects
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Bourdieu spent much of his life attempting to understand cultural consumption and production through detailed empirical research that included studies of dwellings, art, museums, photography and aesthetics. This book introduces the architectural reader to Bourdieu's key writings on culture and outlines the ways in which they offer powerful practical tools and novel conceptual frameworks for understanding architectural value, taste, and practice.
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Planning the night-time city
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This book draws on international case study research to explain how changing approaches to evening and night-time activities have been conceptualized in planning practice in the UK. It explains how these ideas have been subverted by the entertainment industry to the point that some micro-districts in certain regenerated and creative cities have now been dubbed ‘no-go’ areas.
Planning the night-time city
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This book draws on international case study research to explain how changing approaches to evening and night-time activities have been conceptualized in planning practice in the UK. It explains how these ideas have been subverted by the entertainment industry to the point that some micro-districts in certain regenerated and creative cities have now been dubbed ‘no-go’ areas.
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Urban Theory
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In Brandscapes, Anna Klingmann looks critically at the controversial practice of branding by examining its benefits, and considering the damage it may do. By favoring the creation of signature buildings over more comprehensive urban interventions and by severing their identity from the complexity of the social fabric, Klingmann argues, today's brandscapes have, in many(...)
Brandscapes: Architecture in the experience economy
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In Brandscapes, Anna Klingmann looks critically at the controversial practice of branding by examining its benefits, and considering the damage it may do. By favoring the creation of signature buildings over more comprehensive urban interventions and by severing their identity from the complexity of the social fabric, Klingmann argues, today's brandscapes have, in many cases, resulted in a culture of the copy.
Urban Theory
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The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect's work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright's projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it(...)
The urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright
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The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect's work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright's projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century.
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