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Beyond the West

Author : Robert Klanten
Publisher : Gestalten
ISBN 13 : 9783899558791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the West written by Robert Klanten and published by Gestalten. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decades Western architecture has largely dominated the discourse and the built environment worldwide. Recently architecture firms from non-Western countries have been establishing local and global recognition for themselves. Practices all over the world face challenges against a backdrop of rapidly growing cities, ecological demands, changing societies and climate, and emerging economies. Local architects often find strikingly different solutions to local requirements, including sustainability, transportation, migration, construction materials, and traditions.In Mexico, architects work closely with indigenous communities to create modular social housing that can be assembled in one week. In Namibia, a lodge in a wildlife conservancy is designed to echo a local birds nest, while in Vietnam, a library and public space have created a micro-ecosystem to house fish and grow food.Beyond the West journeys across Asia, Africa, and the Americas to understand how local architects respond to a changing world, and focuses its wide lens on inspiring and truly global architecture.

The Theory of Architecture

Author : Paul-Alan Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471285335
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Architecture written by Paul-Alan Johnson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1994-04-18 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theory of Architecture Concepts, Themes & Practices Paul-Alan Johnson Although it has long been thought that theory directs architectural practice, no one has explained precisely how the connection between theory and practice is supposed to work. This guide asserts that architectural theory does not direct practice, but is itself a form of reflective practice. Paul-Alan Johnson cuts through the jargon and mystery of architectural theory to clarify how it relates to actual applications in the field. He also reveals the connections between new and old ideas to enhance the reader's powers of critical evaluation. Nearly 100 major concepts, themes, and practices of architecture--as well as the rhetoric of architects and designers--are presented in an easily accessible format. Throughout, Johnson attempts to reduce each architectural notion into its essential concept. By doing so, he makes theory accessible for everyday professional discussion. Topics are arranged under ten headings: identification, definition, power, attitudes, ethics, order, authority, governance, relationship, and expression. Areas covered under these headings include: * Utopic thought in theories of architecture * Advocacy and citizen participation in architecture * The basis of architectural quality and excellence * The roles of the architect as artist, poet, scientist, and technologist * Ethical obligations of architecture * Rationales for models and methods of design * How authority is determined in architecture * How architects structure their concepts * Conventions of communication within the architectural profession Each section begins by showing the etymology of key terms of the topic discussed, along with a summary history of the topic's use in architecture. Discussions probe the conceptual and philosophical difficulties of different theories, as well as their potential and limitations in past and present usage. Among the provocative issues discussed in terms of their relationship to architecture are chaos theory, feminism, service to the community, and the use of metaphor. Johnson points out with stunning clarity the intentions as well as the contradictions and inconsistencies of all notions and concepts. All architects and designers, as well as students and teachers in these disciplines, will gain many insights about architectural thought in this groundbreaking text.

Architecture INTL

Author : Nancy Solomon
Publisher : Visual Reference Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781584711629
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Architecture INTL written by Nancy Solomon and published by Visual Reference Publications. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the occasion of its 150th anniversary, the American Institute of Architects asked more than 70 contributors to examine the complex and evolving of the America's architects in shaping our cities and communities. Through essays, vignettes, and profiles, illustrated with more than 560 photographs, Architecture provides a look at the breath and depth of the architecture profession and points to the significant contributions architects have made in all aspects of society. Most important, the book demonstrates the value of applying "architectural thinking" to the many serious issues - from global warming and homeland security to accessibility and diversity - facing our world today."--BOOK JACKET.

Proceedings of the ACSA Annual Meeting

Author : Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ACSA Annual Meeting written by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World as an Architectural Project

Author : Hashim Sarkis
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262043963
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The World as an Architectural Project written by Hashim Sarkis and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others. The world's growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale. The World as an Architectural Project shows how for more than a century architects have imagined the future of the planet through world-scale projects. With fifty speculative projects by Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Saverio Muratori, Takis Zenetos, Sergio Bernardes, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and many others, documented in text and images, this ambitious and wide-ranging book is the first compilation of its kind. Interestingly, architects begin to address the world as a project long before the advent of contemporary globalism and its assorted anxieties. The Spanish urban theorist and entrepreneur Arturo Soria y Mata, for example, in 1882 envisions a system that connects the entire planet in a linear urban network. In 1927, Buckminster Fuller's “World Town Plan—4D Tower” proposes to solve global housing problems with mobile structures delivered and installed by a Zeppelin. And Joyce Hsiang and Bimal Mendis visualize the conditions of a worldwide “City of Seven Billion” in a 2015–2019 project. Rather than indulging the cliché of the megalomaniac architect, this volume presents a discipline reflecting on its own responsibilities.

Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs Vol.3 No. 3., 2019

Author : Michael Karassowitsch, Professor Dr.,Melis Kocaoğlu, Ph.D Candidate, Halime Demirkan, Professor Dr.,Selin Oktan, Ph.D. Candidate, Serbülent Vural, Dr.,Zeynep Cigdem Uysal Urey, Dr.,Hidayet Softaoğlu, Dr.
Publisher : Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs Vol.3 No. 3., 2019 written by Michael Karassowitsch, Professor Dr.,Melis Kocaoğlu, Ph.D Candidate, Halime Demirkan, Professor Dr.,Selin Oktan, Ph.D. Candidate, Serbülent Vural, Dr.,Zeynep Cigdem Uysal Urey, Dr.,Hidayet Softaoğlu, Dr. and published by Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researching the Efficacy of Studio Education and the Profession’s Futurity The Faculty Project of Architectural Studio Education Michael Karassowitsch, Professor Dr. 1-14 PDF HTML An Experiential Study on Empathic Design in Interior Architecture Education Melis Kocaoğlu, Ph.D Candidate, Halime Demirkan, Professor Dr. 15-26 PDF HTML Thinking on the Correlation Between Bauhaus and Computational Design Education Selin Oktan, Ph.D. Candidate, Serbülent Vural, Dr. 27-38 PDF HTML The Cognitive Use of Prior Knowledge in Design Cognition: The Role of Types and Precedents in Architectural Design Zeynep Cigdem Uysal Urey, Dr. 39-50 PDF HTML Scrutinising The Production Of Space On The Example Of Regent Street and Painting A Modern Life By The Agencies Of Regency Hidayet Softaoğlu, Dr. 51-66 PDF HTML

Contemporary Problems of Architecture and Construction

Author : Evgeny Rybnov
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000393704
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Problems of Architecture and Construction written by Evgeny Rybnov and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Problems of Architecture and Construction 2020 includes contributions on various complex issues and aspects of engineering and construction of buildings and structures, protection, reconstruction and restoration of architecture, as well as intellectualization of energy and safety systems functioning urban development. The contributions were presented at the eponymous conference (ICCPAC 2020, St Petersburg, Russia, November 25-26, 2020), and cover a wide range of topics: Urban development: problems of urban construction and architecture Engineering, construction and operation of buildings and structures Implementation of building information modeling (BIM) and geo-information systems (GIS) technologies in the construction industry Energy efficiency of buildings and maintenance systems Engineering technologies of sustainable nature management and environmental protection Intellectualization and algorithmization of large cities road safety systems functioning Economics and management in construction and public utility services. Contemporary Problems of Architecture and Construction 2020 will be of interest to academics and professionals involved in the urban development, engineering technologies, architecture and construction, economics and management in construction industry.

Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty

Author : Benjamin Flowers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317179145
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty written by Benjamin Flowers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades economic bubbles inflated and architectural spending around the globe reached fever pitch. In both well-established centers of capital accumulation and far--flung locales, audacious building projects sprang up, while the skyscraper, heretofore more commonly associated with American capitalism, seemed as if it might pack up and relocate to Dubai and Shanghai. Of course, much has changed in the past couple of years. In formerly free-spending Dubai, the tallest building in the world is now is named after the president of Abu Dhabi after he stepped in with last--minute debt financing. In cities across the United States, housing prices have nose-dived and cleared lots sit ready for commercial redevelopment that likely won't take place for another decade. Similar stories are not hard to find in many other nations. Architecture firms that swelled in flush days are jettisoning employees at a startling rate. In the context of economic instability (and its attendant social and political consequences), this edited volume brings together scholars, critics, and architects to discuss the present state of uncertainty in the practice and discipline of architecture. The chapters are organized into three main areas of inquiry: economics, practice, and technology. Within this larger framework, authors explore issues of security, ecological design, disaster architecture, the future of architectural practice, and the ethical obligations of the social practice of design. In doing so, it argues that this period has actually afforded architecture a valuable moment of self-reflection, where alternative directions for both the theory and practice of architecture might be explored rather than continuing with an approach which was so nurtured by capitalist prosperity and affluence.

Housing, Culture, and Design

Author : Setha M. Low
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512804282
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Housing, Culture, and Design written by Setha M. Low and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book originates in two symposia held during 1985 at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Environmental Design Research Association.

Participatory Culture and the Social Value of an Architectural Icon: Sydney Opera House

Author : Cristina Garduno Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317083857
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Participatory Culture and the Social Value of an Architectural Icon: Sydney Opera House written by Cristina Garduno Freeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops new and innovative methods for understanding the cultural significance of places such as the World Heritage listed Sydney Opera House. By connecting participatory media, visual culture and social value, Cristina Garduño Freeman contributes to a fast-growing body of scholarship on digital heritage and the popular reception of architecture. In this, her first book, she opens up a fresh perspective on heritage, as well as the ways in which people relate to architecture via participation on social media. Social media sites such as YouTube, Pinterest, Wikipedia, Facebook and Flickr, as well as others, become places for people to express their connections with places, for example, the Sydney Opera House. Garduño Freeman analyses real-world examples, from souvenirs to opera-house-shaped cakes, and untangles the tangible and intangible ways in which the significance of heritage is created, disseminated and maintained. As people’s encounters with World Heritage become increasingly mediated by the digital sphere there is a growing imperative for academics, professionals and policy-makers to understand the social value of significant places. This book is beneficial to academics, students and professionals of architecture.

Preparing the Next Generation of Teachers for 21st Century Education

Author : Tang, Siew Fun
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522540814
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Preparing the Next Generation of Teachers for 21st Century Education written by Tang, Siew Fun and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As educational standards continue to transform, it has become essential for educators to receive the support and training necessary to effectively instruct their students and meet societal expectations. To do this, fostering education programs that include innovative practices and initiatives is imperative. Preparing the Next Generation of Teachers for 21st Century Education provides emerging research on innovative practices in learning and teaching within the modern era. While highlighting topics such as blended learning, course development, and transformation practices, readers will learn about progressive methods and applications of 21st-century education. This book is an important resource for educators, academicians, professionals, graduate-level students, and researchers seeking current research on contemporary learning and teaching practices.

Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics

Author : Graham Cairns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317069633
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics written by Graham Cairns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics brings together a series of thirteen interview-articles by Graham Cairns in collaboration with some of the most prominent polemic thinkers and critical practitioners from the fields of architecture and the social sciences, including Noam Chomsky, Peggy Deamer, Robert A.M. Stern, Daniel Libeskind and Kenneth Frampton. Each chapter explores the relationship between architecture and socio-political issues through discussion of architectural theories and projects, citing specific issues and themes that have led to, and will shape, the various aspects of the current and future built environment. Ranging from Chomsky’s examination of the US–Mexico border as the architecture of oppression to Robert A.M. Stern’s defence of projects for the Disney corporation and George W. Bush, this book places politics at the center of issues within contemporary architecture.

The Shape of Green

Author : Lance Hosey
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610912144
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Green written by Lance Hosey and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does going green change the face of design or only its content? The first book to outline principles for the aesthetics of sustainable design, The Shape of Green argues that beauty is inherent to sustainability, for how things look and feel is as important as how they’re made. In addition to examining what makes something attractive or emotionally pleasing, Hosey connects these questions with practical design challenges. Can the shape of a car make it more aerodynamic and more attractive at the same time? Could buildings be constructed of porous materials that simultaneously clean the air and soothe the skin? Can cities become verdant, productive landscapes instead of wastelands of concrete? Drawing from a wealth of scientific research, Hosey demonstrates that form and image can enhance conservation, comfort, and community at every scale of design, from products to buildings to cities. Fully embracing the principles of ecology could revolutionize every aspect of design, in substance and in style. Aesthetic attraction isn’t a superficial concern — it’s an environmental imperative. Beauty could save the planet.

Maintenance Architecture

Author : Hilary Sample
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034972
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Maintenance Architecture written by Hilary Sample and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects. Maintenance plays a crucial role in the production and endurance of architecture, yet architects for the most part treat maintenance with indifference. The discipline of architecture values the image of the new over the lived-in, the photogenic empty and stark building over a messy and labored one. But the fact is: homes need to be cleaned and buildings and cities need to be maintained, and architecture no matter its form cannot escape from such realities. In Maintenance Architecture, Hilary Sample offers an inventive examination of the architectural significance of maintenance through a series of short texts and images about specific buildings, materials, and projects. Although architects have seldom choose to represent maintenance—imagining their work only from conception to realization—artists have long explored subjects of endurance and permanence in iconic architecture. Sample explores a range of art projects—by artists including Gordon Matta-Clark, Jeff Wall, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles—to recast the problem of maintenance for architecture. How might architectural design and discourse change as a building cycle expands to include “post-occupancy”? Sample looks particularly at the private home, exhibition pavilion, and high-rise urban building, giving special attention to buildings constructed with novel and developing materials, technologies, and precise detailing in relation to endurance. These include Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House (1929), the Lever House (1952), the U.S. Steel Building (1971), and the O-14 (2010). She considers the iconography of skyscrapers; maintenance workforces, both public and private; labor-saving technology and devices; and contemporary architectural projects and preservation techniques that encompass the afterlife of buildings. A selection of artworks make the usually invisible aspects of maintenance visible, from Martha Rosler's Cleaning the Drapes to Inigo Manglano-Ovalle's The Kiss.

Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture

Author : Paul Oliver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136424059
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture written by Paul Oliver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of vernacular architecture explores the characteristics of domestic buildings in particular regions or localities, and the many social and cultural factors that have contributed to their evolution. In this book, vernacular architecture specialist Paul Oliver brings together a wealth of information that spans over two decades, and the whole globe. Some previously unpublished papers, as well as those only available in hard to find conference proceedings, are brought together in one volume to form a fascinating reference for students and professional architects, as well as all those involved with planning housing schemes in their home countries and overseas.

Architectural Issues of Web-enabled Electronic Business

Author : V. K. Murthy
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 159140049X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Architectural Issues of Web-enabled Electronic Business written by V. K. Murthy and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Web technologies play a critical role in today's web-enabled e-Business. A key to success in applying the web-based technologies to the real world problems lies in understanding the architectural issues and developing the appropriate methodologies and tools for designing e-Business systems. The main purpose of Architectural Issues of Web-Enabled Electronic Business therefore, is to provide e-Business professionals a holistic perspective of this field that covers a wide range of topics.

Architecture’s Disability Problem

Author : Wanda Katja Liebermann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040042716
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Architecture’s Disability Problem written by Wanda Katja Liebermann and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture’s Disability Problem explores the intersection of architecture and disability in the United States from the perspective of professional practice. This book uncovers why, despite the profound effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act on the architectural profession, there has been so little interest in design for disability in mainstream architecture. To counter this, the book investigates alternative approaches to designing with disability, through three case studies. These showcase both buildings and how design processes driven by disabled people shape design and professional roles. Combining historical research, formal and discourse analysis, and interviews with people who design, construct, use buildings, and advocate for access, the book develops a social understanding of how the buildings work at functional, affective, and symbolic levels. Architecture’s Disability Problem is aimed at three primary readers: practicing architects, architectural scholars, and members of disability scholar-activist communities. Grounded in detailed design studies, the author hopes to unearth the social meaning-making of architecture related to disability. Ultimately, the book makes an argument for a focus on disability in its own right—as well as on the body—in place of the dominance of formal, object-oriented approaches. This book presents and argues for a fundamental shift in the way architectural education, policy, and practice views and engages with disability. It will be key reading for students, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers.