Reimagining the library of the future: Public buildings and civic space for tomorrow's knowledge
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This study investigates the various models of public buildings and civic space through the lens of the library. It takes a critical look at the history, present, and future transformation of this significant building typology that has recently emerged as a redefined community place, social condenser, and urban incubator for knowledge generation, storage, and sharing. In(...)
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Reimagining the library of the future: Public buildings and civic space for tomorrow's knowledge
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This study investigates the various models of public buildings and civic space through the lens of the library. It takes a critical look at the history, present, and future transformation of this significant building typology that has recently emerged as a redefined community place, social condenser, and urban incubator for knowledge generation, storage, and sharing. In particular, the library has evolved as a vibrant and vital member of community development and as a basis for outreach efforts. This book presents 40 recent public and academic libraries from around the world. As the survey of precedents shows, the historical cases have informed the design of the recent libraries and the continuous development of the building type over time. Well-designed libraries are now in abundance, and the wider view of this study includes mediatheques and learning centers. The selection of contemporary projects focuses on urban libraries in Europe (Germany, Italy, Austria, Netherlands), the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, and China.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021., ©2021
Visual delight in architecture : daylight, vision and view / Lisa Heschong ; illustrations by Garth von Ahnen.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021., ©2021
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318 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 25 cm
[Cornellà de Llobregat] : Fundación Agbar, Noviembre 2009.
Cerdà : 150 years of modernity / editors, Francesc Magrinyà, Fernando Marzá ; authors, Rosa Feliu, Francesc Magrinyà, Fernando Marzá, Albert Serratosa, Angel Simón, Joan Tort ; translations and corrections, Joaquina Ballarín, Mònica Cabré, Anna Campeny, Elaine Fradley.
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[Cornellà de Llobregat] : Fundación Agbar, Noviembre 2009.
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1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color
London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1982.
City context & culture revalued / [presented by] Miguel Angel Roca.
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London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1982.
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286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Berlin : Jovis Verlag GmbH, [2020]
The big Asian book of landscape architecture / Heike Rahmann, Jillian Walliss, (Eds.).
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Berlin : Jovis Verlag GmbH, [2020]
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©2015, Halifax, NS : Dalhousie Architectural Press, 2015.
Competing modernisms : Toronto's new City Hall and Square / George Thomas Kapelos ; with an introduction by Christopher Armstrong.
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How has Berlin’s urban landscape changed in its remarkable transformation from divided city to creative capital? Despite the monumental heritage and grand development projects, Berlin still conjures up images of urban fragmentation and vacant inner-city land. The book reveals the changing nature and complex politics of this open space. A rephotographing of sites between(...)
Spaces of uncertainty: Berlin revisited
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How has Berlin’s urban landscape changed in its remarkable transformation from divided city to creative capital? Despite the monumental heritage and grand development projects, Berlin still conjures up images of urban fragmentation and vacant inner-city land. The book reveals the changing nature and complex politics of this open space. A rephotographing of sites between 2001 and 2016 shows how no man’s land has made way for new apartments and underground hangouts have changed into commercial hubs, but it also transports us to remaining pockets of urban wilderness and unexpected freedom right next to the city’s most iconic squares. The accompanying essays by noted urban thinkers explore this little-known but vital reserve—forcing us to reflect on our unrelenting efforts to chart the future of the city at large.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Like its successful predecessor, Spacecraft 2 showcases international projects by architects, artists and designers that meet the changing spatial needs of our modern lifestyles and that are simultaneously expanding our current understanding of architecture. This sumptuous volume further documents a dynamic range of ephemeral structures such as pavilions, art projects and(...)
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janvier 2009, Berlin
Space craft 2: more fleeting architecture and hideouts
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Like its successful predecessor, Spacecraft 2 showcases international projects by architects, artists and designers that meet the changing spatial needs of our modern lifestyles and that are simultaneously expanding our current understanding of architecture. This sumptuous volume further documents a dynamic range of ephemeral structures such as pavilions, art projects and exhibition spaces as well as transient architecture including mobile habitats, and vacations homes that inconspicuously adapt to their natural or urban environments.
Architecture expérimentale
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Lamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the dead and the more-than-human. Gestures such as singing or breathing, gathering, and performances that exceed rationality can inspire a renewed approach to(...)
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octobre 2023
Urban lament: Collective expressions of pain, rage and affection
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Lamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the dead and the more-than-human. Gestures such as singing or breathing, gathering, and performances that exceed rationality can inspire a renewed approach to life and death, rural and urban. After all, amidst ongoing processes of extinction, how to mourn a queer activist, a Roma father, a burnt forest, an exiled body, and a ship sunken in the Mediterranean? How to experience loss not as something individual, but within an expanded continuum of pain? How to explore emotions beyond the private sphere? Through case studies and narrations, in different times and geographies surrounding the Aegean Sea, this book amplifies the echoes of collective tears to invigorate contemporary mourning practices that claim public space by grief, rage, and affect.
Théorie/ philosophie
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The striking inequalities in living conditions in today's cities and metropolises reveal one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time. Ascertaining that architecture can never be neutral, those involved in this field of design are called on to recognize and to act on their social responsibility – not only – in the city-making process. Their work should(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
avril 2018
A book on urban thinking: architecture and human rights
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The striking inequalities in living conditions in today's cities and metropolises reveal one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time. Ascertaining that architecture can never be neutral, those involved in this field of design are called on to recognize and to act on their social responsibility – not only – in the city-making process. Their work should therefore not be limited to creating living space as questions of the distribution of resources, so closely interwoven with architectural design, must also play a role. This book is conceived as a collage of narratives, photos and critical conversations on the link between human rights and architecture. In its hybrid form, all of the people involved at every level are given a voice and encouraged to question whether the architecture of the towns, streets and buildings for which they are responsible contributes to the protection and advancement of human rights. The ultimate goal is that the consideration of human rights become an architect's powerful tool for better and fairer urban planning.
Théorie de l’architecture