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In the period following the Second World War, the Architectural Association (AA) became the only British school of architecture of truly global renown. It was one of only two schools in the world which fully embraced and promoted the pedagogical ideals put forward by CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne), and emerged as an admired example for architectural(...)
The Architectural Association in the postwar years
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In the period following the Second World War, the Architectural Association (AA) became the only British school of architecture of truly global renown. It was one of only two schools in the world which fully embraced and promoted the pedagogical ideals put forward by CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne), and emerged as an admired example for architectural education in other countries. Many of the most famous British architects and critics of the past 60 years attended the AA. This book traces the history of the school from the end of the war until the mid-1960's, when it surrendered its position as the pacemaker in British architectural education in order to safeguard its institutional independence. Alvin Boyarsky, who became chairman in 1971, remodeled the AA as a postmodern, "internationalist" school and detached it from its modernist, British origins. Thus, there has been no research into the AA’s postwar history, which remains dominated by myths and half-truths. The book replaces these myths with an in-depth account of what really happened.
Théorie de l’architecture
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In ''Remember to dream!'', celebrated curator Hans Ulrich Obrist collects an abundance of thoughts for the day, dreams, drawings, musings, jokes, quotations, questions, answers, poems and puns from some of the world’s greatest contemporary artists, musicians and more, handwritten on Post-it notes (and other scraps).
Remember to dream! 100 artists, 100 notes
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In ''Remember to dream!'', celebrated curator Hans Ulrich Obrist collects an abundance of thoughts for the day, dreams, drawings, musings, jokes, quotations, questions, answers, poems and puns from some of the world’s greatest contemporary artists, musicians and more, handwritten on Post-it notes (and other scraps).
Théorie de l’art
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A room’s acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects have systematically endeavored to represent and control the propagation of sound in large interior spaces. Their work has been informed by the science of sound but has also been entangled with debates on style, visualization(...)
Echo's chambers: architecture and the idea of acoustic space
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A room’s acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects have systematically endeavored to represent and control the propagation of sound in large interior spaces. Their work has been informed by the science of sound but has also been entangled with debates on style, visualization techniques, performance practices, and the expansion of the listening public. Echo’s Chambers explores how architectural experimentation from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth centuries laid the groundwork for concepts of acoustic space that are widely embraced in contemporary culture. It focuses on the role of echo and reverberation in the architecture of Pierre Patte, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Carl Ferdinand Langhans, and Le Corbusier, as well as the influential acoustic ideas of Athanasius Kircher, Richard Wagner, and Marshall McLuhan. Drawing on interdisciplinary theories of media and auditory culture, Joseph L. Clarke reveals how architecture has impacted the ways we continue to listen to, talk about, and creatively manipulate sound in the physical environment.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviors with environmental incentives, implementing what Joy Knoblauch calls 'psychological functionalism.' Recruited by(...)
The architecture of good behaviour
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Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviors with environmental incentives, implementing what Joy Knoblauch calls 'psychological functionalism.' Recruited by federal construction and research programs for institutional reform and expansion — which included hospitals, mental health centers, prisons, and public housing—architects theorized new ways to control behavior and make it more functional by exercising soft power, or power through persuasion, with their designs. In the 1960s – 1970s era of anti-institutional sentiment, they hoped to offer an enlightened, palatable, more humane solution to larger social problems related to health, mental health, justice, and security of the population by applying psychological expertise to institutional design. In turn, Knoblauch argues, architects gained new roles as researchers, organizers, and writers while theories of confinement, territory, and surveillance proliferated. 'The Architecture of Good Behavior' explores psychological functionalism as a political tool and the architectural projects funded by a postwar nation in its efforts to govern, exert control over, and ultimately pacify its patients, prisoners, and residents.
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Responsive environments. An Interdisciplinary Manifesto on Design, Technology and the Human Experien
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The entanglement of physical contexts with digital environments is constantly changing our relationship with the surrounding space and creating new hybrid experiences. These transformations pose complex design challenges and yet offer novel opportunities for the understanding and development of human-centered built environments. Drawing from a 5-year design research(...)
Responsive environments. An Interdisciplinary Manifesto on Design, Technology and the Human Experien
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The entanglement of physical contexts with digital environments is constantly changing our relationship with the surrounding space and creating new hybrid experiences. These transformations pose complex design challenges and yet offer novel opportunities for the understanding and development of human-centered built environments. Drawing from a 5-year design research collaboration between the REAL Lab at Harvard GSD and the University of Bergamo, this book unfolds the experiential facets of our technologically-mediated relationship with space in the fields of architecture, urbanism and art. The book attempts to describe what makes an environment "responsive" in the form of a design manifesto, introducing ten attributes or principles at both methodological and experiential levels. Critically articulated from the perspective of leading experts, scholars and professionals, the ideas explored are unpacked through speculative urban visions and design concepts at different timeframes, contexts and scales ranging from smart artifacts to smart cities.
Théorie de l’architecture
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L’hypothèse est que l’histoire de l’habitat se situe dans un temps long, une longue durée anthropologique, et que les évolutions sont lentes. C’est pourquoi il est nécessaire de s’interroger sur la dimension vernaculaire de l’habitat et, aujourd’hui, sur les relations entre un contexte local et un monde global qui tend précisément à effacer les différences. En Europe,(...)
Habiter: ville et architecture
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L’hypothèse est que l’histoire de l’habitat se situe dans un temps long, une longue durée anthropologique, et que les évolutions sont lentes. C’est pourquoi il est nécessaire de s’interroger sur la dimension vernaculaire de l’habitat et, aujourd’hui, sur les relations entre un contexte local et un monde global qui tend précisément à effacer les différences. En Europe, depuis le début du XXe siècle, les caractéristiques des logements se sont établies et généralisées. Comment cette généralisation s’est-elle opérée? Les réponses apportées à cette question permettent de décrire une évolution dans laquelle le présent se situe. Cependant, avec le mode de vie urbain ou métropolitain qui s’est développé et tend à devenir dominant, des formes de l’habitat ont été conçues et réalisées, correspondant à de nouvelles exigences. Il s’agit d’analyser ces formes, en particulier du point de vue de l’idée de communauté qu’elles proposent, et du point de vue de ce que l’on considère être le confort contemporain.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
Walden X : essai paysagiste
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S'inscrivant dans la veine de "Walden ou la vie dans les bois" de Henry David Thoreau nourrit non pas de 2 ans 2 mois et 2 jours mais de 20 ans d'expérience, "Walden X" offre un panorama très accessible sur l'art du paysage baignade publique aménagée sur les bords du lac de Zurich en proposant une digression continue du Bad Utoquai vers l'île de Naoshima au Japon, le Silo(...)
Walden X : essai paysagiste
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S'inscrivant dans la veine de "Walden ou la vie dans les bois" de Henry David Thoreau nourrit non pas de 2 ans 2 mois et 2 jours mais de 20 ans d'expérience, "Walden X" offre un panorama très accessible sur l'art du paysage baignade publique aménagée sur les bords du lac de Zurich en proposant une digression continue du Bad Utoquai vers l'île de Naoshima au Japon, le Silo District à Cape Town, le bas Clichy ou encore l'aire de jeux de Belleville.
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« Alternatives » à la prison
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À l'occasion d'une conférence donnée à Montréal peu après la publication de « Surveiller et punir, » Michel Foucault répond à une question qu'on lui pose : y a-t-il des « alternatives » à la prison? Foucault doute que l'imposition croissante de conditions restrictives en dehors de l'enceinte de la prison témoigne d'une rupture avec l'emprisonnement; il semble en réalité(...)
« Alternatives » à la prison
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À l'occasion d'une conférence donnée à Montréal peu après la publication de « Surveiller et punir, » Michel Foucault répond à une question qu'on lui pose : y a-t-il des « alternatives » à la prison? Foucault doute que l'imposition croissante de conditions restrictives en dehors de l'enceinte de la prison témoigne d'une rupture avec l'emprisonnement; il semble en réalité que le progressisme pénal et le développement de techniques de surveillance aillent de pair. Ainsi ne s'agit-il pas tellement d'inventer des « alternatives », mais plutôt de savoir si l'on souhaite diffuser ou faire décroître le contrôle social. La lecture rétrospective d'« Alternatives » à la prison, loin de tarir les questionnements sur notre actualité criminologique, suscite de nombreuses interrogations quant à l'extension d'une société policée. Des textes de Sylvain Lafleur, Toni Ferri et Anthony Amicelle viennent actualiser cette analyse.
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'From Gardens Where We Feel Secure' is gardener and writer Susanna Grant's exploration of her thinking on history, value and meaning of nature in the city. Examining the premise that naming species allows us to expand our understanding, our interest, our ways of looking at the world around us, and the idea of plant-blindness-our tendency not to see what we can't name in(...)
From gardens where we feel secure
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'From Gardens Where We Feel Secure' is gardener and writer Susanna Grant's exploration of her thinking on history, value and meaning of nature in the city. Examining the premise that naming species allows us to expand our understanding, our interest, our ways of looking at the world around us, and the idea of plant-blindness-our tendency not to see what we can't name in the nature that surrounds us-she throws a spotlight on five of her favourite wildflowers with accompanying images by photographer Rowan Spray. These stories are interspersed with reflections on Grant's own countryside childhood and her work in London's community gardens.
Théorie du paysage
Poetics of the oriental rug
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‘Poetics of the Oriental Rug’ is published as a supplement to 'MacGuffin Magazine 9: The Rug'. It is the transcript of a seminal lecture entitled Poetica del tappeto orientale and delivered at the University of Padua in the early 1960s by Italian art historian Sergio Bettini (1905–1986).
Poetics of the oriental rug
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‘Poetics of the Oriental Rug’ is published as a supplement to 'MacGuffin Magazine 9: The Rug'. It is the transcript of a seminal lecture entitled Poetica del tappeto orientale and delivered at the University of Padua in the early 1960s by Italian art historian Sergio Bettini (1905–1986).
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