Trois zoos humains
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Avec crainte ou fascination pour l'Autre et l'Ailleurs, humanisme, exotisme et zoos dialoguent depuis longtemps dans l'histoire de l'Occident. Que l'animal selon Heidegger soit « pauvre en monde » ne dépare nullement la distance maintenue entre le sauvage primitif et son « inventeur » scientifique ou colonial. Mais, ainsi exploré et reconstruit, l'homme serait-il vraiment(...)
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Avec crainte ou fascination pour l'Autre et l'Ailleurs, humanisme, exotisme et zoos dialoguent depuis longtemps dans l'histoire de l'Occident. Que l'animal selon Heidegger soit « pauvre en monde » ne dépare nullement la distance maintenue entre le sauvage primitif et son « inventeur » scientifique ou colonial. Mais, ainsi exploré et reconstruit, l'homme serait-il vraiment devenu un singe affranchi de sa cage ontologique ? Ne serait-il pas l'architecte ayant fait du monde un parc animalier presque sous contrôle ? Et si, par-delà les premières ménageries de la Renaissance, il y avait eu au moins trois autres « humanismes » du zoo : celui des zoos anthropologiques du Jardin d'Acclimatation ; celui de la condition animale d'après-guerre, si interrogatifs au regard des camps du IIIe Reich ; et celui d'un « jardin planétaire » artificiel pour animaux sauvages, Pangée 2.0 sur le thème de leur disparition et, avec eux, de la nôtre ?
Théorie de l’architecture
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Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) n'est pas qu'un ingénieur de talent. Il est également cet inventeur un peu fou qui a imaginé aussi bien les dômes héliportables pour l'US Army que ceux bricolés par les hippies de Drop City. Du premier pas sur la lune à la chute de Saigon (en passant par la « bombe P », le Rapport Meadows et le premier Choc pétrolier), Fuller organisa des(...)
E3 - Energy, earth and everyone
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Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) n'est pas qu'un ingénieur de talent. Il est également cet inventeur un peu fou qui a imaginé aussi bien les dômes héliportables pour l'US Army que ceux bricolés par les hippies de Drop City. Du premier pas sur la lune à la chute de Saigon (en passant par la « bombe P », le Rapport Meadows et le premier Choc pétrolier), Fuller organisa des universités d'été se proposant de modéliser la crise énergétique mondiale à venir. Surnommé E3 par Stewart Brand (le fondateur du Whole Earth Catalog), Energy, Earth, and Everyone est le titre judicieusement retenu par Medard Gabel en 1975. Accompagné d'une contribution de Gene Youngblood, un disciple de la première heure, prend alors forme une passionnante archéologie des politiques énergétiques contemporaines...
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Un an avant le Summer of Love, la revue Progressive Architecture publie un dossier brûlant : le « LSD : un outil de conception ? » Mais comment le LSD pourrait-il le devenir, et surtout : pourquoi ? Auteure de Architecture or Techno-Utopia : Politics after Modernism (MIT Press, 2007), Felicity Scott y répond d'abord à travers la figure tutélaire de Buckminster Fuller, de(...)
Acid visions : l'architecture sous LSD
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Un an avant le Summer of Love, la revue Progressive Architecture publie un dossier brûlant : le « LSD : un outil de conception ? » Mais comment le LSD pourrait-il le devenir, et surtout : pourquoi ? Auteure de Architecture or Techno-Utopia : Politics after Modernism (MIT Press, 2007), Felicity Scott y répond d'abord à travers la figure tutélaire de Buckminster Fuller, de sa « découverte » de l'acide lysergique et de l'adaptation de ses dômes géodésiques en zomes psychédéliques. Or, comme Drop City, les road trips des Merry Pranksters et d'USCO ajoutent à la prairie et à la forêt cybernétiques chères à Richard Brautigan une « vision acide », intermédia et stroboscopiquement amplifiée. Mais, s'agissait-il vraiment d'un Grand Pas pour le Village Global ou le Vaisseau spatial Terre ? Felicity D. Scott est professeure-adjointe à la Graduate School of Architecture de Columbia University.
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Making cities smarter
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More than half of the world’s population is now living in cities, and this number is predicted to rise. This means that more people than ever before will share the same urban infrastructure, and city governments around the world are heavily investing in smart city technologies to prepare. At the same time, scholars argue for a movement toward smart citizens and more(...)
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More than half of the world’s population is now living in cities, and this number is predicted to rise. This means that more people than ever before will share the same urban infrastructure, and city governments around the world are heavily investing in smart city technologies to prepare. At the same time, scholars argue for a movement toward smart citizens and more participatory approaches to city making. "Making Cities Smarter" focuses on an often-overlooked element of the smart-city discourse the interface between citizens and smart-city applications. This volume translates principles from the field of user experience design to explore city-specific challenges, such as integrating physical and digital experiences. Offering a practical perspective on the concept of the smart city, this volume is the first comprehensive publication to focus on the citizen as the end user of smart-city systems.
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Building for dementia
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As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people and especially those with dementia. With advancing age we are increasingly dependent on a spatial environment that not only has a positive effect on us, but also supports our everyday(...)
Building for dementia
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As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people and especially those with dementia. With advancing age we are increasingly dependent on a spatial environment that not only has a positive effect on us, but also supports our everyday activities and takes age-related restrictions into account. A focal point of the new requirements is multisensory architecture: color and lighting design, sound design, tactile materials and surfaces, and haptically attractive forms, creating a spatial atmosphere in which the resident feels comfortable, providing security and orientation and fostering motor skills and cognitive abilities. "Building for Dementia" has been developed as a guideline for contemporary and dignified architecture that meets the requirements of people with dementia and views them as an integral part of society.
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Adolf Loos on trial
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In early September 1928, Viennese police arrested the famed architect Adolf Loos. The charge was child molestation. Two young girls (and eventually a third), ages eight to ten, alleged that Loos had touched them inappropriately and compelled them to commit indecent acts while he was drawing nudes of them. What followed was a very public affair that culminated in a(...)
Adolf Loos on trial
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In early September 1928, Viennese police arrested the famed architect Adolf Loos. The charge was child molestation. Two young girls (and eventually a third), ages eight to ten, alleged that Loos had touched them inappropriately and compelled them to commit indecent acts while he was drawing nudes of them. What followed was a very public affair that culminated in a sensational trial, pitting Loos and his supporters against his many detractors. But the controversy was about more than Loos' guilt: like almost everything in Austria in the late 1920s, those involved saw the events through powerful political and cultural lenses. The arrest and subsequent trial not only set the forces of the right against those of the left, but also the city’s avant-gardists against their conservative critics. This volume documents the controversy.
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We are in the midst of redesigning the world and all its systems as we witness the biggest mass movement of people, goods, factories, frenzied finance and ideas in history. Vast fl ows make the new norm nomadic. Yet there is a yearning for belonging, distinctiveness and identity as the ‘anytime, anyplace, anywhere’ phenomenon enabled by digitization is changing how we(...)
The civic city in a nomadic world
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We are in the midst of redesigning the world and all its systems as we witness the biggest mass movement of people, goods, factories, frenzied finance and ideas in history. Vast fl ows make the new norm nomadic. Yet there is a yearning for belonging, distinctiveness and identity as the ‘anytime, anyplace, anywhere’ phenomenon enabled by digitization is changing how we interact with space, place and time. Old certainties are crumbling and systems are breaking at escalating speed. Apprehension is in the air as we invent a different kind of city. This is the Civic City. It tries to find a pathway through the major faultlines, dilemmas and potentials of our time – shared lives, inequality, environmental distress and urban vitality. This is a place where we reinvent anchorage, an urban commons, connection, but also possibility and inspiration. In this new ground-breaking book, the inventor of the Creative City concept helps us navigate the evolving urban landscapes and its potential.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Dutch architect Cees Dam (born 1932) offers his most fundamental texts about the position of architecture and the architectural designer, in which he investigates the sociocultural role of the architectural profession and the fundamentals of design thinking.
On architecture: visions and dreams
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Dutch architect Cees Dam (born 1932) offers his most fundamental texts about the position of architecture and the architectural designer, in which he investigates the sociocultural role of the architectural profession and the fundamentals of design thinking.
Théorie de l’architecture
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The enormous increase of urbanisation characterising the 20th century often overlays the architectural approaches that took place when cities were founded and continue to have an effect into the present day. Many cities have been newly planned and built from the ground up and relevant new towns' yards are open in Asia and Africa. What they all have in common is the search(...)
New towns: a study on urban design
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The enormous increase of urbanisation characterising the 20th century often overlays the architectural approaches that took place when cities were founded and continue to have an effect into the present day. Many cities have been newly planned and built from the ground up and relevant new towns' yards are open in Asia and Africa. What they all have in common is the search for a new urban beginning. The aim of ambitious programs in the forthcoming decades should especially be a better control of the growth of metropolises and urbanised regional patterns, with a view to the environmental behaviour of people. This book, which not only presents fundamental international planning features, examines factors such as location, size and layout in particular, as well as the spatial value of new metropolises.
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Constellation.s
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Arc en rêve, centre d'architecture à Bordeaux, a imaginé ce projet qui explore les nouvelles manières d'habiter le monde. Face aux mutations planétaires qui bouleversent les conditions de vie, constellation.s repère des initiatives individuelles et collectives qui dessinent des perspectives pour la fabrication de la cité, au regard des défis de demain. Le livre(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Constellation.s
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Arc en rêve, centre d'architecture à Bordeaux, a imaginé ce projet qui explore les nouvelles manières d'habiter le monde. Face aux mutations planétaires qui bouleversent les conditions de vie, constellation.s repère des initiatives individuelles et collectives qui dessinent des perspectives pour la fabrication de la cité, au regard des défis de demain. Le livre constellation.s invite à la découverte de la création architecturales et convoque les sciences sociales, la philisophie, l'architecture, l'économie pour rendre intelligible le monde que nous habitons.
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