Entrée principale:

Vasconez, Veruska author aut

Titre et auteur:

The city as a stage : housing and the stories we build / Veruska Vasconez.

Description:

116 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Série(s):

Housing, Infrastructure, and Transportation 1
Pocket Books Collection

Notes:
Prologue / Veruska Vasconez -- Housing As Infrastructure / Álvaro Arancibia -- The Spoiled Valley / Gabriella Gama & Filipe Lourenç̧o -- Afforable Housing and Civic Granduer / Alexander Gorlin -- A Systemic Framework for Territorial Architecture / spaceworkers® -- Prefabrication as Method / Samuel Gonçalves -- When Cheap is Expensive / Thiago Soveral, Cauê Capillé, Ariane Pereira & Lucas Marques -- Finding in 3D Printing for Construction New Architectural Design Tectonic / João Teixeira, Tássia Latarroca, Elis Ribeiro, Manuel Jesus and Bárbara Rangel -- Authors Biography
In English.

Résumé:

"The act of creating a city, at once a cultural artifact and a technological pursuit, remains inseparable from the quotidian experience of life. Each morning, we awaken within a choreography of light, space, and atmosphere that quietly scripts our routines: from the apertures of our dwellings to the passing breezes that carry the pulse of the street, and the thresholds that guide us into the shared realm of public space. To borrow from Walter Benjamin, the built environment serves as the stage upon which collective life unfolds, shaping our perception of time, community, and history. The city endures as a guiding presence, both backdrop and protagonist, capable of evoking frustration, yet continually enveloping us in boundless, often unseen, but profoundly transformative inspiration.This volume gathers seventeen voices, architects, historians, and practitioners, who illuminate how housing, infrastructure, and design act as mediators for the most urgent challenges of our time. These essays are not isolated reflections but rather interwoven inquiries into architecture's capacity as a form of social imagination, a vehicle for justice, and a medium for re-envisioning urban futures. Emerging from the graduate seminar Housing, Infrastructure, and Transportation at the University of Miami, originally developed by my mentor, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, this compilation stands as both a pedagogical experiment and a scholarly contribution. Over the course of the Fall 2023 semester, colleagues and friends shared their projects and critical perspectives with students, generating dialogues that demanded to expand beyond the classroom into this publication. With the generous support of Ana Leal and her team, these conversations have been refined and crystallized into the first volume of a trilogy dedicated to reframing the global discourse on housing and infrastructure." -- Versuka Vasconez.

ISBN:

9789893628492
9893628490

Sujet:

Architecture.
Cities and towns.
Villes.
architecture (discipline)
cities.

Vedettes secondaires:

Arancibia, Álvaro author
Gama, Gabriella author
Lourenç̧o, Filipe author
Gorlin, Alexander, author.
Gonçalves, Samuel author
Sovera, Thiago author
Capillé, Cauê author
Periera, Ariane author
Marques, Lucas author
Teixeira, João author
Latarroca, Tássia author
Ribeiro, Elis author
Jesus, Manuel author
Rangel, Bárbara author
Marques, Henrique author
Dinis, Rui, author.

PB 08 The city as a stage : housing and the stories we build

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 326590
Cote: 326590
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Statut: Disponible