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Shrinking cities have pushed urban design and classical city planning to their limits. This new challenge requires new approaches in which the "hard" tools of construction are joined by the "soft" tools of political, social, cultural, and communicative interventions. This book provides an international overview of experimental concepts for taking action in shrinking(...)
Shrinking cities, volume 2: interventions
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Shrinking cities have pushed urban design and classical city planning to their limits. This new challenge requires new approaches in which the "hard" tools of construction are joined by the "soft" tools of political, social, cultural, and communicative interventions. This book provides an international overview of experimental concepts for taking action in shrinking cities from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban construction, the media, performance, and art. The approaches range from artistic intercessions and self-empowerment projects to architectural and landscape interventions, and from strategies of media communication and city marketing to new legal regulations and utopian designs. A series of essays provides a critical discussion of both successful and failed projects of recent decades from such countries as the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, and Japan. Projects featured (selection): William Alsop, Crimson, Jeremy Deller, Gordon Matta-Clark, OMA, Cedric Price, Andreas Siekmann, Robert Smithson, Superflex, O. M. Ungers
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Issue 134 offers a sensitive interpretation of contemporary architecture, viewing materials as mediators between the built environment, the human body, and the surrounding landscape. The dossier, preceded by a text of Manuel Bouzas on the importance of fieldwork in architecture, brings together six projects that use natural materials – stone, earth, wood, bamboo, straw,(...)
AV Proyectos 134: Natural construction
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Issue 134 offers a sensitive interpretation of contemporary architecture, viewing materials as mediators between the built environment, the human body, and the surrounding landscape. The dossier, preceded by a text of Manuel Bouzas on the importance of fieldwork in architecture, brings together six projects that use natural materials – stone, earth, wood, bamboo, straw, and fabric – applied without artifice, in a journey ranging from the density of the dwellings by Josep Ferrando or Tuckey Design to the lightness of the temporary structures by Marina Tabassum or Mentrestant.
Revues
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"Repairing the American metropolis" is based on Douglas Kelbaugh's "Common place: toward neighborhood and regional design", first published in 1997. This book presents new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and new urbanism. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan design the built(...)
Repairing the American metropolis : common place revisited
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"Repairing the American metropolis" is based on Douglas Kelbaugh's "Common place: toward neighborhood and regional design", first published in 1997. This book presents new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and new urbanism. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan design the built environment. This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architecture and urban planning students and scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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An unprecedented event in architecture history, the Case Study Houses program gave America new models for residential living. This comprehensive account of the project presents each of the 36 prototype homes through floor plans, sketches, and photographs, and explores how architects like Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen redefined the Los Angeles(...)
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Case study houses: the complete CSH program 1945-1966. 40th edition
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An unprecedented event in architecture history, the Case Study Houses program gave America new models for residential living. This comprehensive account of the project presents each of the 36 prototype homes through floor plans, sketches, and photographs, and explores how architects like Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen redefined the Los Angeles landscape and the modern home.
Modernisme
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Theaters have always been an essential part of the urban landscape in Europe; where new theaters spring up, they signal that regeneration is underway in a particular district. The Hamburg firm PFP Architekten is a leader in the field of innovative theater architecture. This volume surveys the firm's numerous theaters with photographs, plans, essays and interviews with the(...)
Jörg Friedrich PFP architekten: Theaters
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Theaters have always been an essential part of the urban landscape in Europe; where new theaters spring up, they signal that regeneration is underway in a particular district. The Hamburg firm PFP Architekten is a leader in the field of innovative theater architecture. This volume surveys the firm's numerous theaters with photographs, plans, essays and interviews with the buildings' users.
Blaise Drummond
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Blaise Drummond (born 1967) examines the relationship between nature and culture through extreme juxtapositions of architecture and landscape. Reminiscent of Le Corbusier's Pavillon de l´Esprit Nouveau, this catalogue focuses on a recent museum installation, in which a dead tree seems to be growing through the ceiling. This subjugation of the natural world is further(...)
Blaise Drummond
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Blaise Drummond (born 1967) examines the relationship between nature and culture through extreme juxtapositions of architecture and landscape. Reminiscent of Le Corbusier's Pavillon de l´Esprit Nouveau, this catalogue focuses on a recent museum installation, in which a dead tree seems to be growing through the ceiling. This subjugation of the natural world is further explored in Drummond's paintings and drawings.
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Grading is an important aspect of landscape architecture. The book explains the basics such as contour lines, land forms, earth mass calculation, and introduces the topics of slope protection systems, rainwater management, or grading for roads and parking lots. The 2nd edition is updated with new digital technologies including landscapingSMART, DTM and 3D machine control.(...)
Grading: landscapingSmart 3d machine control systems stormwater management
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Grading is an important aspect of landscape architecture. The book explains the basics such as contour lines, land forms, earth mass calculation, and introduces the topics of slope protection systems, rainwater management, or grading for roads and parking lots. The 2nd edition is updated with new digital technologies including landscapingSMART, DTM and 3D machine control. Practical examples and exercises complement the theoretical foundations.
Jardins
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From 1960–1980, both eastern and western Europe experienced a construction boom of new dimensions. Cybernetics, the science of planning, and sociology, as well as the new possibilities offered by technology and production, paved the way to large-scale processes and systems in architecture and urban design, which favored technocratic and utopian concepts. Increasingly,(...)
Re-scaling the environment: New landscapes of design, 1960-1980. East-West central, Vol. 2
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From 1960–1980, both eastern and western Europe experienced a construction boom of new dimensions. Cybernetics, the science of planning, and sociology, as well as the new possibilities offered by technology and production, paved the way to large-scale processes and systems in architecture and urban design, which favored technocratic and utopian concepts. Increasingly, architects and planners saw themselves as designers of comprehensive infrastructure and mega-structures in a technology-focused world. The authors assesses these developments on the back of a knowledge transfer between East and West. It confirms a change in attitude that can still be felt today – recession, social changes, and environmental problems led to criticism of the then contemporary concepts of modernity.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Since they were first established in the 1880s, children’s summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Although the camping experience has a special place in the popular imagination, few scholars have given serious thought to this peculiarly American phenomenon. Why were summer camps created? What concerns and ideals motivated their founders? Whom did they(...)
A manufactured wilderness: summer camps and the shaping of american youth
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Since they were first established in the 1880s, children’s summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Although the camping experience has a special place in the popular imagination, few scholars have given serious thought to this peculiarly American phenomenon. Why were summer camps created? What concerns and ideals motivated their founders? Whom did they serve? How did they change over time? What factors influenced their design? To answer these and many other questions, Abigail A. Van Slyck trains an informed eye on the most visible and evocative aspect of camp life: its landscape and architecture. She argues that summer camps delivered much more than a simple encounter with the natural world. Instead, she suggests, camps provided a man-made version of wilderness, shaped by middle-class anxieties about gender roles, class tensions, race relations, and modernity and its impact on the lives of children. Following a fascinating history of summer camps and a wide-ranging overview of the factors that led to their creation, Van Slyck examines the intersections of the natural landscape with human-built forms and social activities. In particular, she addresses changing attitudes toward such subjects as children’s health, sanitation, play, relationships between the sexes, Native American culture, and evolving ideas about childhood. Generously illustrated with period photographs, maps, plans, and promotional images of camps throughout North America, A Manufactured Wilderness is the first book to offer a thorough consideration of the summer camp environment.
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David Freund: gas stop
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In the twentieth century, any American driver or passenger would stop at gas stations at least weekly, and not just for gas. Gas stations were also oases offering food and drink, car repairs, directions, maps and, importantly, bathrooms. Yet, beyond their appreciation as roadside novelties, their offerings to American culture, landscape and history have been little(...)
David Freund: gas stop
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In the twentieth century, any American driver or passenger would stop at gas stations at least weekly, and not just for gas. Gas stations were also oases offering food and drink, car repairs, directions, maps and, importantly, bathrooms. Yet, beyond their appreciation as roadside novelties, their offerings to American culture, landscape and history have been little photographed. From 1978 to 1981, David Freund analyzed the culture, architecture and landscape of gas stations in more than forty states. The photographs show customers and workers in postures and actions peculiar to gassing up, or just hanging out. Architecture and signage, both corporate and vernacular, beckon passing drivers. Regional landscapes hold and surround gas stations, each with its own landscape of designed plantings or scrappy volunteers. Stations were also outposts for American networks other than petroleum, seen in telephone booths, mailboxes and powerlines. These and all that surrounds them spark recognition and recollection, accruing as elements of a nonlinear American narrative. While Freund’s primary concern is for his photographs to engage and surprise, he acknowledges nostalgia and uses it to imbue his subjects with a compelling sense of belonging. Of more than 200,000 gas stations in the United States at the time of this project, today they and their roles are mostly gone, existing now in memory and in this work. Four hardcover books housed in a slipcase
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