A+U 617 Bernardo Bader
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The Austrian practice of Bernardo Bader comes into focus in this edition, illuminated in essays by Arno Ritter and Florian Sauter. Featured are projects for sporting events and activities, such as Reichshof Stadium, Ski Lodge Wolf, and the Alpine Sports Centre, as well as profiles of renovations and new works, encompassing several houses, the Susi Weigel Kindergarten,(...)
A+U 617 Bernardo Bader
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The Austrian practice of Bernardo Bader comes into focus in this edition, illuminated in essays by Arno Ritter and Florian Sauter. Featured are projects for sporting events and activities, such as Reichshof Stadium, Ski Lodge Wolf, and the Alpine Sports Centre, as well as profiles of renovations and new works, encompassing several houses, the Susi Weigel Kindergarten, Salgenreute Chapel, Klostergasse Studio, and an Islamic cemetery. Also in this issue, the winning entries of the Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition 2021 are presented and the awarded British architect Richard Rogers (1933–2021) is remembered.
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In this issue, sociologist Richard Ingersoll defends density in times of social distancing from an architectural standpoint. Featured projects include an S-shaped residential building in Milan, loft apartments on a quay in Rotterdam, new homes at a former brewery site in Brooklyn, and more. A second feature on recent kindergarten design that expresses both flexibility and(...)
C3 408: Defending Density In The Year Of Social Distancing
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In this issue, sociologist Richard Ingersoll defends density in times of social distancing from an architectural standpoint. Featured projects include an S-shaped residential building in Milan, loft apartments on a quay in Rotterdam, new homes at a former brewery site in Brooklyn, and more. A second feature on recent kindergarten design that expresses both flexibility and safety presents work by Tezuka Architects, sam Architecture with Querkraft, MUMA, and others. Also, water’s comforting qualities are central in projects such as Borden Natural Swimming Pool by gh3* architecture, Water Park Aqualagon by Ferrier Marchetti Studio, and Termalija Family Wellness by ENOTA.
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It is commonly understood that school buildings house complex systems. From the kindergarten to the university faculty, the journey through the levels of learning consists of an accumulation of vital experiences arising from the interaction between these systems. The educational function now builds its environments with new paradigms that reflect and respond to an(...)
A+T 50 : complex buildings, learning systems
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It is commonly understood that school buildings house complex systems. From the kindergarten to the university faculty, the journey through the levels of learning consists of an accumulation of vital experiences arising from the interaction between these systems. The educational function now builds its environments with new paradigms that reflect and respond to an increasingly diverse and complex social agenda. Javier Mozas analyses these new educational models in this third instalment of the “Complex Buildings” series, which also includes recent projects by C.F. Møller, NL Architects, Aleph Zero, OMA, Gigon/Guyer, Studio Velocity, and COBE Architects.
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Established by Ma Yansong in 2004, MAD Architects designs and builds organic and dreamlike architectures that invoke our spiritual and emotional connection with nature. It is an architecture of fiction, or perhaps even anticipation, where nature and architecture merge. This book, conceived and designed by the architect, takes readers on a “journey” along the office’s most(...)
Mad X: 10 projects by Mad Architects
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Established by Ma Yansong in 2004, MAD Architects designs and builds organic and dreamlike architectures that invoke our spiritual and emotional connection with nature. It is an architecture of fiction, or perhaps even anticipation, where nature and architecture merge. This book, conceived and designed by the architect, takes readers on a “journey” along the office’s most significant projects, through photomontages, drawings, models, and images. Among these are the Absolute Towers outside Toronto, Harbin Opera House and Chaoyang Park Plaza in China, Clover House kindergarten in Japan, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, and UNIC in Paris.
Architecture Monographs
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The book illustrates how the most up-to-date educational strategies are realized in built form. This specialized field is explained in all its relevant aspects such as role in the community, outdoor spaces, sustainability and technical requirements like lighting and acoustics.
Schools and kindergartens: a design manual, a second edition
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The book illustrates how the most up-to-date educational strategies are realized in built form. This specialized field is explained in all its relevant aspects such as role in the community, outdoor spaces, sustainability and technical requirements like lighting and acoustics.
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Wooden marbles and blocks
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This is a re-production of a 1920's architectural building toy based on the concepts of Fredrich Froebel. In 1837, naturalist and educator Fredrich Frobel invented kindergarten (or "garden of children") - the concept that children should be nurtured like the new sprouts. Frobel carefully chose materials that allow children to discover properties of geometry and design(...)
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Wooden marbles and blocks
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This is a re-production of a 1920's architectural building toy based on the concepts of Fredrich Froebel. In 1837, naturalist and educator Fredrich Frobel invented kindergarten (or "garden of children") - the concept that children should be nurtured like the new sprouts. Frobel carefully chose materials that allow children to discover properties of geometry and design through play. Since play is at the heart of this method, it is important not to instruct,but rather to allow children to learn through self-activity. Children learn through the impression they form while doing. Because of their playful spirit, children become absorbed by the task at hand. Artists and architects Frank Lloyd Wright, piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, and Buckminister Fuller used this system.
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The Toyko firm Tezuka Architects, headed by Takaharu and Yui Tezuka, is enjoying an increasingly international reputation for its refined blend of traditional and contemporary Japanese aesthetics, developing solutions which seem refreshingly unconventional while remaining anchored in the scale and needs of everyday life. Tezuka buildings often sport such features as large(...)
Architecture Monographs
December 2009
Takaharu + Yui Tezuka: nostalgic future
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The Toyko firm Tezuka Architects, headed by Takaharu and Yui Tezuka, is enjoying an increasingly international reputation for its refined blend of traditional and contemporary Japanese aesthetics, developing solutions which seem refreshingly unconventional while remaining anchored in the scale and needs of everyday life. Tezuka buildings often sport such features as large sliding-door fronts and verandas, and make particular use of wood and lightweight steel in order to effect a smooth back-and-forth flow between building and environment. In this respect their buildings call to mind centuries-old Japanese architectural tradition, which is absorbed into present day developments in design and construction technologies. Large public buildings such as the Fuji kindergarten and the Natural History Museum in Matsunoyama demonstrate the popularity of this synthesis.
Architecture Monographs
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Montessori schools became trendsetting educational institutions early on, and their concept is strongly reflected in their architecture and equipment. This is the first book that comprehensively addresses architectural design, construction, and the use of materials in and the furnishing of educational spaces according to Montessori’s ideas. The book’s first part explores(...)
Montessori architecture: A design instrument for schools
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Montessori schools became trendsetting educational institutions early on, and their concept is strongly reflected in their architecture and equipment. This is the first book that comprehensively addresses architectural design, construction, and the use of materials in and the furnishing of educational spaces according to Montessori’s ideas. The book’s first part explores spatial and design principles that make up good kindergarten and school buildings. In the second part, nine case studies are featured in detail through photographs, plans, and concise texts. These examples are located in Europe (the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain) as well as in tropical countries (Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka). Thus, this highly illustrative volume offers practical advice and a wealth of information that is of utmost importance for the design of school buildings in general.
Architectural Theory
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“Peut-être est-il temps de dire, à ceux qui ne l'auraient pas déjà compris, en quoi consiste exactement Le ParK ? Le principe en est très simple. Son concepteur a voulu rassembler en un seul parc toutes ses formes possibles. Le ParK associe ainsi, en une totalité neuve, une réserve animale à un parc d'attraction, un camp de concentration à une technopole, une foire aux(...)
Le Park
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“Peut-être est-il temps de dire, à ceux qui ne l'auraient pas déjà compris, en quoi consiste exactement Le ParK ? Le principe en est très simple. Son concepteur a voulu rassembler en un seul parc toutes ses formes possibles. Le ParK associe ainsi, en une totalité neuve, une réserve animale à un parc d'attraction, un camp de concentration à une technopole, une foire aux plaisirs à un cantonnement de réfugiés, un cimetière à un Kindergarten, un jardin zoologique à une maison de retraite, un arboretum à une prison. Mais il ne les associe pas de manière à ce que chacun de ces éléments maintienne son autonomie et continue de fonctionner à part. Il les combine entièrement, joint tel caractère à tel autre, jette des ponts, mélange les genres, confond les bâtiments, agrège les populations, intervertit les rôles.”
Critical Theory
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As the first independent environments children encounter beyond the home, nurseries, daycare centres, and kindergartens should not appear merely as colourful fantasy worlds. Well-conceived early-learning centres and schools create a microcosm modelled on everyday life – child-friendly yes, but by no means childish. Such places offer security while inviting discovery,(...)
Detail 9 2025: building for children
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As the first independent environments children encounter beyond the home, nurseries, daycare centres, and kindergartens should not appear merely as colourful fantasy worlds. Well-conceived early-learning centres and schools create a microcosm modelled on everyday life – child-friendly yes, but by no means childish. Such places offer security while inviting discovery, appropriation, and adaptation. In this issue we profile child-focused environments realised both as new builds and through adaptive reuse. A kindergarten on a disused industrial site near Copenhagen follows circular construction principles, using mostly materials salvaged from the dilapidated primary school that once stood there. Newly built daycare centres in the German state of Hessen and in Slovenia draw on local building traditions and the surrounding natural landscape. Meanwhile, a former East German telephone exchange was transformed into a playscape that anchors a childcare facility on a university campus in Merseburg.
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