Foucault for architects
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From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and the arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have transformed architectural history and theory, while his attitude to arts(...)
Foucault for architects
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From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and the arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have transformed architectural history and theory, while his attitude to arts and aesthetics led to a renewed focus on the avant-garde. The book concentrates on a number of historical and theoretical issues often addressed by Foucault that have been grouped under the themes of archaeology, enclosure, bodies, spatiality and aesthetics in order to examine and demonstrate their relevancy for architectural knowledge, its history and its practice.
Architectural Theory
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In Diagramming the Big Idea, Jeffrey Balmer and Michael T. Swisher illustrate how to create and use diagrams to clarify your understanding of both particular projects and organizing principles and ideas. With accessible, step-by-step exercises that interweave diagrams, drawings and virtual models, the authors clearly show how to compose meaningful and useful diagrams.(...)
September 2012
Diagramming the big idea: methods for architectural composition
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In Diagramming the Big Idea, Jeffrey Balmer and Michael T. Swisher illustrate how to create and use diagrams to clarify your understanding of both particular projects and organizing principles and ideas. With accessible, step-by-step exercises that interweave diagrams, drawings and virtual models, the authors clearly show how to compose meaningful and useful diagrams. This publication also includes architectural composition concepts such as proportion, site, form, hierarchy and spatial construction.
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In the years of reconstruction and economic boom that followed the Second World War, the domestic sphere encountered new expectations regarding social behaviour, modes of living, and forms of dwelling. This book brings together an international group of scholars from architecture, design, urban planning, and interior design to reappraise mid-twentieth century modern life,(...)
Atomic dwelling: anxiety, domesticity, and postwar architecture
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In the years of reconstruction and economic boom that followed the Second World War, the domestic sphere encountered new expectations regarding social behaviour, modes of living, and forms of dwelling. This book brings together an international group of scholars from architecture, design, urban planning, and interior design to reappraise mid-twentieth century modern life, offering a timely reassessment of culture and the economic and political effects on civilian life. This collection contains essays that examine the material of art, objects, and spaces in the context of practices of dwelling over the long span of the postwar period. It asks what role material objects, interior spaces, and architecture played in quelling or fanning the anxieties of modernism’s ordinary denizens, and how this role informs their legacy today.
Architectural Theory
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This book explores what it means for development activists to practise architecture on a global scale, and provides a blueprint for developing architectural practices based on reciprocal working methods. The content is based on real situations - through extended field research and contacts with architecture schools and architects, as well as participating NGOs. It(...)
Architecture for rapid change and scarce resources
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This book explores what it means for development activists to practise architecture on a global scale, and provides a blueprint for developing architectural practices based on reciprocal working methods. The content is based on real situations - through extended field research and contacts with architecture schools and architects, as well as participating NGOs. It demonstrates that the ability to produce appropriate and sustainable design is increasingly relevant, whether in the field of disaster relief, longer-term development or wider urban contexts, both in rich countries and poor countries.
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Dwelling with architecture
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This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme 'dwelling and the land'. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of the landscape to live on. It could also be seen as a kind of road map, full of both warnings and encouragements for all those involved with, or just interested in, the(...)
Dwelling with architecture
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This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme 'dwelling and the land'. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of the landscape to live on. It could also be seen as a kind of road map, full of both warnings and encouragements for all those involved with, or just interested in, the making of houses.
Architectural Theory
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"Designed for Habitat presents potent evidence of the link between design and dignity, particularly in the context of low-income housing. It captures a crucial trifecta of perspectives - Habitat for Humanity leaders, homeowners, and designers. Their powerful, sometimes explosive stories aren't sugarcoated by Hinson and Miller; the pair makes clear that these(...)
Designed for habitat : collaborations with Habitat for humanity
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"Designed for Habitat presents potent evidence of the link between design and dignity, particularly in the context of low-income housing. It captures a crucial trifecta of perspectives - Habitat for Humanity leaders, homeowners, and designers. Their powerful, sometimes explosive stories aren't sugarcoated by Hinson and Miller; the pair makes clear that these collaborations present huge challenges for often-opposing cultures, but can yield unprecedented payoffs. With America's housing in a perpetual state of crisis, such partnerships are more important than ever. This highly-instructive, landmark book is an unmatched guide for future collaborations. It communicates so clearly and so convincingly to Habitat and its homeowners that they too deserve good design; indeed, we all do." -John Cary, Author, The Power of Pro Bono; Founder & Editor, PublicInterestDesign.org
Architectural Theory
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Our global thirst for energy and raw materials is increasing all the time. Year after year, humanity exhausts large quantities of mineral resources; the areas of the world in which we drill and dig for oil, gas, coal, gravel, clay and ore are becoming more and more remote, and the range of resources demanded is expanding constantly. Lusitania is a prime example of this(...)
Redesigning wounded landscape : the IBA workshop of Lusatia
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Our global thirst for energy and raw materials is increasing all the time. Year after year, humanity exhausts large quantities of mineral resources; the areas of the world in which we drill and dig for oil, gas, coal, gravel, clay and ore are becoming more and more remote, and the range of resources demanded is expanding constantly. Lusitania is a prime example of this kind of resource depletion. Unrestrained open-pit mining during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has devastated the region, and ten years ago this "wounded landscape" became the subject of an International Building Exhibition dedicated to providing creative designs for a post-mining landscape. What are the possibilities of such landscapes? What methods and processes may be applied in regions beyond Lusatia? In Redesigning Wounded Landscapes, ten authors explore these questions, looking at the region and the project from a wide range of perspectives.
Contemporary Architecture
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F.R. David is a journal published twice-yearly by 'de Appel' arts centre, Amsterdam,in co-edition with Will Holder, founder of 'the Werkplaats Typografie'. It focuses on the 'status' of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as 'the core material' of a number of visual artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual. This issue is(...)
F.R. David Summer 2011 : Spin cycle
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F.R. David is a journal published twice-yearly by 'de Appel' arts centre, Amsterdam,in co-edition with Will Holder, founder of 'the Werkplaats Typografie'. It focuses on the 'status' of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as 'the core material' of a number of visual artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual. This issue is part of a project curated by the participants of de Appel Curatorial Programme 07/08, who have hijacked the journal to encapsulate their intentions (shared, stolen or otherwise discovered). The journal explores the many intersections between circulation and storytelling.
Art Theory
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Suite à L’habiter dans sa poétique première, ce livre recueille les actes du colloque tenu en septembre 2009 à Cerisy-la-Salle. Il s’agit à présent de la création, c’est-à-dire de la poïétique d’un monde autre que l’insoutenable monde actuel. Insoutenable, notre monde l’est puisque non viable écologiquement, injustifiable moralement (car de plus en plus inégalitaire), et(...)
Architectural Theory
June 2012
Donner lieu au monde : la poétique de l’habiter
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Suite à L’habiter dans sa poétique première, ce livre recueille les actes du colloque tenu en septembre 2009 à Cerisy-la-Salle. Il s’agit à présent de la création, c’est-à-dire de la poïétique d’un monde autre que l’insoutenable monde actuel. Insoutenable, notre monde l’est puisque non viable écologiquement, injustifiable moralement (car de plus en plus inégalitaire), et inacceptable esthétiquement (car il « tue le paysage »). Dans la réarticulation cosmologique du Vrai (ici l’adéquation de notre mode de vie aux capacités de la Terre), du Bien et du Beau, les auteurs ont donc été invités à imaginer un nouveau poème du monde, au-delà de la modernité qui l’a fait taire en disjoignant les champs respectifs de la technoscience, de l’éthique et de l’esthétique.
Architectural Theory
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Tout a commencé par la décision d’une rencontre, et la réciprocité qu’elle enclenche ; c’est la première scène : décider d’y aller voir de plus près. Michel Agier et Sara Prestianni décrivent dans cet ouvrage des « jungles », campements et squats à Patras, Rome, Calais et Paris. Ce sont des refuges où l’on s’abrite dans un contexte hostile, des lieux où des(...)
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
June 2012
Je me suis réfugié là: bords de routes en exil
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Tout a commencé par la décision d’une rencontre, et la réciprocité qu’elle enclenche ; c’est la première scène : décider d’y aller voir de plus près. Michel Agier et Sara Prestianni décrivent dans cet ouvrage des « jungles », campements et squats à Patras, Rome, Calais et Paris. Ce sont des refuges où l’on s’abrite dans un contexte hostile, des lieux où des habitants en transit s’inventent un quotidien dans le temps de l’attente. Leur hospitalité, leur sourire et leur désir d’autrui ont un sens politique qui déroute les politiques de la « guerre aux migrants ». Aux commentaires qui associent trop souvent leur condition précaire à des existences inférieures, ils opposent par leurs regards droits, par leurs gestes et leur manière d’habiter ces lieux, une présence digne. michel agier, anthropologue, est directeur d’études à l’EHESS.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration