The industrious city
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Cities have always been places where commerce and production, working and living, are physically and functionally integrated. Only with the rise of industry have zoning regulations been introduced to separate these functions. But what role do these regulations play when industry is digitized, increasingly emission-free and shifting away from mass production What will the(...)
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Cities have always been places where commerce and production, working and living, are physically and functionally integrated. Only with the rise of industry have zoning regulations been introduced to separate these functions. But what role do these regulations play when industry is digitized, increasingly emission-free and shifting away from mass production What will the ideal mix of working and living be in the future In a world characterized by digital disruption, migration and demographic shifts, how do we build cities based on social equity and resilience. Based on interdisciplinary urban design research undertaken at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, the Zurich-based architecture studio Hosoya Schaefer presents ''The industrious city: urban industry in the digital age''. Investigating how production can be reintroduced into the urban fabric, this book explores how production, services, leisure and living might come together in a future integrated city.
Urban Theory
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Les mobilités transforment la vie urbaine et la production de l'espace et de l'architecture. Dans la société des échanges, les hubs sont les réceptacles premiers de ces transformations en cours. Ils préfigurent les évolutions globales de la ville des déplacements durables, à l'heure de la communication numérique embarquée et des flux intelligents. « Le Projet Hub» ne(...)
Le projet hub : l'architecture de nouvelles mobilités
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Les mobilités transforment la vie urbaine et la production de l'espace et de l'architecture. Dans la société des échanges, les hubs sont les réceptacles premiers de ces transformations en cours. Ils préfigurent les évolutions globales de la ville des déplacements durables, à l'heure de la communication numérique embarquée et des flux intelligents. « Le Projet Hub» ne décrit pas à nouveau l'urbanisme des transports ou la complexité des réseaux, mais aborde la question qui s'impose: comment plus de trente modes de mobilités potentiels peuvent-ils coexister et se relier en un même lieu, à l'image des données qui s'échangent dans l'espace virtuel et ubiquitaire de nos smartphones? Les gares de la mégalopole nippone, de par leur histoire et leur surdéveloppement, ont représenté au 20e siècle l'avenir de telles infrastructures. Elles en incarnent désormais le passé. Bientôt bouleversées par la diversité des nouvelles mobilités écologiques, elles se révèlent être le terrain privilégié pour projeter la transformation du hub des mobilités du futur proche, qui n'existe pas encore et que nous devons faire apparaître.
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Le capital dans la cité
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Parce qu’il s’est immiscé dans les moindres recoins des sociétés contemporaines, le capitalisme a bouleversé le visage des villes telles que nous les connaissons. La concentration de la population mondiale dans des agglomérations désormais gérées comme des entreprises fait de la construction de l’espace urbain un observatoire privilégié tant des logiques managériales et(...)
Le capital dans la cité
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Parce qu’il s’est immiscé dans les moindres recoins des sociétés contemporaines, le capitalisme a bouleversé le visage des villes telles que nous les connaissons. La concentration de la population mondiale dans des agglomérations désormais gérées comme des entreprises fait de la construction de l’espace urbain un observatoire privilégié tant des logiques managériales et financières que de la production des inégalités sociales et spatiales. De l’adaptation au changement climatique à la Smart City en passant par le zonage logistique et l’économie de plateformes, cette encyclopédie critique propose une cartographie inédite de la ville contemporaine, qui invite concevoir l’espace comme un rapport social et donc comme un lieu de lutte. Présentant de riches enquêtes empiriques menées aux quatre coins du globe, ses entrées exposent de manière thématique les principaux enjeux auxquels sont confrontées des populations marginalisées à la fois d’un point de vue matériel et dans les processus de décisions qui affectent leur vie quotidienne. La démarche suivie, qui associe à ce réquisitoire implacable l’esquisse systématique de voies alternatives, argumente de manière actuelle et accessible en faveur de la défense renouvelée d’un « droit à la ville ».
Urban Theory
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ÉPUISÉ/NON AVAILABLE Cette publication met en lumière les causes naturelles, physiques, biologiques ou climatiques qui ont influencé le déroulé de l’histoire architecturale et provoqué le surgissement de ses figures, de la préhistoire à nos jours. Induite par un contexte d’accès massif et facile à l’énergie, celle du charbon puis du pétrole, et par les progrès de la(...)
Histoire naturelle de l'architecture : comment le climat, les épidémies et et l’énergie ont façonné la ville et les bâtiments
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ÉPUISÉ/NON AVAILABLE Cette publication met en lumière les causes naturelles, physiques, biologiques ou climatiques qui ont influencé le déroulé de l’histoire architecturale et provoqué le surgissement de ses figures, de la préhistoire à nos jours. Induite par un contexte d’accès massif et facile à l’énergie, celle du charbon puis du pétrole, et par les progrès de la médecine (avec l’invention des vaccins et des antibiotiques), l’historiographie politique, sociale et culturelle a, au XXe siècle, largement ignoré les faits physiques, géographiques, climatiques et bactériologiques qui ont façonné de façon décisive, à travers les siècles, les formes architecturales et urbaines. Relire l’histoire de l’architecture à partir de ces données objectives, matérielles, réelles permet d’affronter les défis environnementaux majeurs de notre siècle et de mieux construire, aujourd’hui, face à l’urgence climatique.
Architectural Theory
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In the 2010s, the term ''autotheory'' began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, applying it to other disciplines and practices. Fournier provides a long-awaited account of autotheory, situating it as a mode of(...)
Autotheory as feminist practice in art, writing and criticism
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In the 2010s, the term ''autotheory'' began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, applying it to other disciplines and practices. Fournier provides a long-awaited account of autotheory, situating it as a mode of contemporary, post-1960s artistic practice that is indebted to feminist writing, art, and activism. Investigating a series of works by writers and artists including Chris Kraus and Adrian Piper, she considers the politics, aesthetics, and ethics of autotheory.
Art Theory
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From the grandiose histories of monumental state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner cafés, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, "Clean living under difficult circumstances" argues for the city as a socialist project. This essay collection spans a period from immediately before the 2008 financial(...)
Clean living in difficult circumstances
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From the grandiose histories of monumental state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner cafés, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, "Clean living under difficult circumstances" argues for the city as a socialist project. This essay collection spans a period from immediately before the 2008 financial crash to the year of the pandemic. Against the business-as-usual responses to both crises, Owen Hatherley outlines a vision of the city as both a venue for political debate and dispute as well as a space of everyday experience, one that we shape as much as it shapes us. Incorporated here are the genres of memoir, history, music and film criticism, as well as portraits of figures who have inspired new ways of looking at cities, such as the architect Zaha Hadid, the activist and urbanist Jane Jacobs, and thinkers such as Mark Fisher and Adam Curtis. Throughout these pieces, Hatherley argues that the only way out of our difficult circumstances is to imagine and try to construct a better modernity.
Urban Theory
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How do we formulate alternative approaches to the world’s unresponsive or intractable dilemmas—from climate cataclysm to inequality to concentrations of authoritarian power? Easterling argues that the search for solutions is a mistake. Instead, she offers the perspective of medium design, one that considers not only separate objects, ideas and events but also the space(...)
Medium design: knowing how to work on the world
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How do we formulate alternative approaches to the world’s unresponsive or intractable dilemmas—from climate cataclysm to inequality to concentrations of authoritarian power? Easterling argues that the search for solutions is a mistake. Instead, she offers the perspective of medium design, one that considers not only separate objects, ideas and events but also the space between them. This background matrix with all its latent potentials is profoundly underexploited in a culture that is good at naming things but not so good at seeing how they connect and interact. In case studies dealing with everything from automation and migration to explosive urban growth and atmospheric changes, ''Medium design'' looks not to new technologies for innovation but rather to sophisticated relationships between emergent and incumbent technologies. It does not try to eliminate problems but rather put them together in productive combinations. And it offers forms of activism for modulating power and temperament in organisations of all kinds.
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Building for hope
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This new book by Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni, seeks to understand how cities and buildings- scarred by conflict, blight, and pandemic- can be healed through design and urban mindfulness. When Marwa al-Sabouni published Battle for Home in 2016, she was a little-known architect, living in battle-ravaged Homs, Syria, unable to practice her profession. She turned her(...)
Building for hope
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This new book by Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni, seeks to understand how cities and buildings- scarred by conflict, blight, and pandemic- can be healed through design and urban mindfulness. When Marwa al-Sabouni published Battle for Home in 2016, she was a little-known architect, living in battle-ravaged Homs, Syria, unable to practice her profession. She turned her fierce intelligence to chronicling how her city and country were undone through decades of architectural mismanagement and mistakes. Once published, Marwa al-Sabouni’s book and story attracted the attention of international media- CNN, The New York Times- and received critical acclaim worldwide. The United Nations called on her for insights and expertise. She became a TED fellow, was invited to speak to audiences around the world, and some suggested she be nominated for architecture’s highest honor, the Pritzker Prize. Al-Sabouni’s deep understanding of Middle Eastern heritage and architecture gives her insight into a wide range of cities, informing her views on how cities work best, how they might fail, and what can be done to harmonize the lives of all their inhabitants. In this new book, al-Sabouni draws together several narratives: her personal and professional observations of some of the world’s most fascinating cities, from Detroit to Helsinki; the lessons that Western societies might learn from Islamic culture and design; and philosophical reflections on how our personal and communal spaces can provide the basic foundations for happiness. Through this tapestry of personal experience, unblinking perspective, and insight, al-Sabouni offers real-world solutions- and hope- for how peace might be created through mindful urban planning.
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Black landscapes matter
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The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated cities, from freedman villages to northern migrations for freedom, the nation’s landscape bears the detritus of diverse origins. Black landscapes matter because they tell the truth. In this vital new collection, acclaimed(...)
Black landscapes matter
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The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated cities, from freedman villages to northern migrations for freedom, the nation’s landscape bears the detritus of diverse origins. Black landscapes matter because they tell the truth. In this vital new collection, acclaimed landscape designer and public artist Walter Hood assembles a group of notable landscape architecture and planning professionals and scholars to probe how race, memory, and meaning intersect in the American landscape. Essayists examine a variety of U.S. places— ranging from New Orleans and Charlotte to Milwaukee and Detroit— exposing racism endemic in the built environment and acknowledging the widespread erasure of black geographies and cultural landscapes. Through a combination of case studies, critiques, and calls to action, contributors reveal the deficient, normative portrayals of landscape that affect communities of color and question how public design and preservation efforts can support people in these places. In a culture in which historical omissions and specious narratives routinely provoke disinvestment in minority communities, creative solutions by designers, planners, artists, and residents are necessary to activate them in novel ways. Black people have built and shaped the American landscape in ways that can never be fully known. ''Black landscapes matter'' is a timely and necessary reminder that without recognizing and reconciling these histories and spaces, America’s past and future cannot be understood.
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L'architecture naturelle
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Architecte du stade olympique ou du musée Hiroshige de Tokyo et en France, de la cité des arts de Besançon, du FRAC de Marseille ou de l’étonnant conservatoire d’Aix-en-Provence, mais aussi de nombreuses maisons audacieuses en bambous ou en bois, Kengo Kuma décline le principe fondamental de l’architecture japonaise, qui unit l’homme et la nature. Il n’y a pas(...)
L'architecture naturelle
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Architecte du stade olympique ou du musée Hiroshige de Tokyo et en France, de la cité des arts de Besançon, du FRAC de Marseille ou de l’étonnant conservatoire d’Aix-en-Provence, mais aussi de nombreuses maisons audacieuses en bambous ou en bois, Kengo Kuma décline le principe fondamental de l’architecture japonaise, qui unit l’homme et la nature. Il n’y a pas d’opposition entre le dedans et le dehors. Tout est affaire de gradation, de superpositions, de syntonie. À l’opposé de l’architecture occidentale pour qui la monumentalité est l’aboutissement. En huit chapitres, huit matériaux, huit réalisations emblématiques, cet architecte radical nous entraîne dans de nouvelles voies de respect de la nature. Ce livre est à la fois, un livre d’histoire subjective de l’architecture, un manuel d’application pratique et le portrait d’un architecte épris de nature.
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