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Dernier volet d'un long parcours scientifique, cet ouvrage poursuit l'interrogation menée par le laboratoire Gerphau sur la conception et la réalisation d'artefacts humains dans une perspective écologique. En convoquant le concept de synergie, qu'il applique aux domaines de l'architecture de la ville, du paysage et du projet, ce volume introduit à de nouvelles(...)
Synergies urbaines : pour un métabolisme collectif des villes
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Dernier volet d'un long parcours scientifique, cet ouvrage poursuit l'interrogation menée par le laboratoire Gerphau sur la conception et la réalisation d'artefacts humains dans une perspective écologique. En convoquant le concept de synergie, qu'il applique aux domaines de l'architecture de la ville, du paysage et du projet, ce volume introduit à de nouvelles méthodologies, plus ouvertes, en mesure de prendre en compte les phénomènes de transformation, coévolution et adaptation continue qui parcourent le monde urbain contemporain.
Urban Theory
Airbnb, la ville uberisée
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A l'été 2008 naissait Airbnb. Dix ans plus tard, l'économie du partage est devenue une économie de la prédation : Paris a vu 20 000 de ses logements disparaître au profit de la multinationale, dont elle est le premier marché au monde. Données inédites à l'appui, Ian Brossat montre comment cette "ubérisation de l'urbain" impacte nos vies : hausse des loyers, spéculation,(...)
Airbnb, la ville uberisée
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A l'été 2008 naissait Airbnb. Dix ans plus tard, l'économie du partage est devenue une économie de la prédation : Paris a vu 20 000 de ses logements disparaître au profit de la multinationale, dont elle est le premier marché au monde. Données inédites à l'appui, Ian Brossat montre comment cette "ubérisation de l'urbain" impacte nos vies : hausse des loyers, spéculation, standardisation des commerces, transformations des temps de vie, perte d'identité de quartiers entiers.
Urban Theory
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Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this "Very Short Introduction" Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists(...)
Postmodernism: a very short introduction
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Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this "Very Short Introduction" Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all members of a loosely constituted and quarrelsome political party' - a party which includes such members as Cindy Sherman, Salman Rushdie, Jacques Derrida, Walter Abish, and Richard Rorty - creating a vastly entertaining framework in which to unravel the mysteries of the 'postmodern condition', from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct.
Architectural Theory
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'Authorship' critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in architecture’s cultural production? In 'Authorship', a cross-disciplinary group of designers and scholars explores(...)
Authorship. Discourse, a series on architecture
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'Authorship' critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in architecture’s cultural production? In 'Authorship', a cross-disciplinary group of designers and scholars explores this topic through a myriad of lenses.
Architectural Theory
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Can good design truly make us happier? Given that we spend over 80% of our time in buildings, shouldn't we have a better understanding of how they make us feel? This book explores the ways in which buildings, spaces and cities affect our moods. It reveals how architecture and design can make us happy and support mental health, and explains how poor design can have the(...)
Happy by design: a guide to architecture and mental wellbeing
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Can good design truly make us happier? Given that we spend over 80% of our time in buildings, shouldn't we have a better understanding of how they make us feel? This book explores the ways in which buildings, spaces and cities affect our moods. It reveals how architecture and design can make us happy and support mental health, and explains how poor design can have the opposite effect.
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Plan and play, play and plan
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"Visual artist" is a term with manifold variations and meanings. But how, as an artist (or designer, photographer or other "independent creator"), do you become who you are and who you would like to be? How can you guide your artistic practice? "Plan and Play, Play and Plan" invites the artist to explore their own questions about their work, using analytical models to(...)
Plan and play, play and plan
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"Visual artist" is a term with manifold variations and meanings. But how, as an artist (or designer, photographer or other "independent creator"), do you become who you are and who you would like to be? How can you guide your artistic practice? "Plan and Play, Play and Plan" invites the artist to explore their own questions about their work, using analytical models to help them determine where they stand and what they stand for.
Art Theory
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Leon van Schaik AO, Professor of Architecture at RMIT University for 30 years and mentor to countless Australian architects, lays down his highly influential creative philosophies in his latest book, ''Architecture in its Continuums.'' The text represents a distillation of a lifetime of thinking about architecture and the ways in which it is practiced, researched and(...)
Architecture in its continuums
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Leon van Schaik AO, Professor of Architecture at RMIT University for 30 years and mentor to countless Australian architects, lays down his highly influential creative philosophies in his latest book, ''Architecture in its Continuums.'' The text represents a distillation of a lifetime of thinking about architecture and the ways in which it is practiced, researched and taught. The book remediates a gap that van Schaik sees in current architecture writing. There are, he says, ''very few books on architecture that, I believe, concern the practice of architecture itself, as distinct from the large body of writing about the history, sociology and environmental science of architecture.'' Van Schaik contends that we all share a common experience of space and light. Therefore, the architect's skill in the crafting of space and light has the potential to intimately connect architecture with humanity.
Architectural Theory
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Associating the changing natural world with journeys in self-understanding, and the design process with a visual and spatial autobiography, this book describes journeys between London and the North Sea in successive centuries, analysing an enduring and evolving tradition from the picturesque and romanticism to modernism. Creative architects have often looked to the past(...)
A landscape of architecture: history and fiction
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Associating the changing natural world with journeys in self-understanding, and the design process with a visual and spatial autobiography, this book describes journeys between London and the North Sea in successive centuries, analysing an enduring and evolving tradition from the picturesque and romanticism to modernism. Creative architects have often looked to the past to understand the present and imagine the future. Twenty-first-century architects need to appreciate the shock of the old as well as the shock of the new.
Architectural Theory
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Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century – NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) – who emerged from the Architectural Association at the start of the 1980s, this book explores the group’s work which echoed a wider artistic and literary culture that drew on the specific political, social and physical condition of 1980s London. It traces(...)
NATØ: narrative architecture in postmodern London
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Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century – NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) – who emerged from the Architectural Association at the start of the 1980s, this book explores the group’s work which echoed a wider artistic and literary culture that drew on the specific political, social and physical condition of 1980s London. It traces NATØ’s identification with a particular stream of post-punk, postmodern expression: a celebration of the abject, an aesthetic of entropy, and a do-it-yourself provisionality.
Architectural Theory
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An investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary cultural production. What, and where, is “the Rural”? From the rocks that break a farmer's plough on a field in Japan to digital infrastructures that organize geographically dispersed interests and ambitions, vast parts of our lives(...)
The rural
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An investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary cultural production. What, and where, is “the Rural”? From the rocks that break a farmer's plough on a field in Japan to digital infrastructures that organize geographically dispersed interests and ambitions, vast parts of our lives are still connected and dependent on resources, production, and infrastructures located within rural geographies, and the rural remains a shared cultural space. This anthology is formed as a document, tool, and navigation device for future artistic practice in which “the rural” is filtered through a lens sharpened by an audience-based model of art that practices from within the culture it addresses.
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