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South Bank: Architecture & Design

Author : Dominic Bradbury
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849949948
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book South Bank: Architecture & Design written by Dominic Bradbury and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2024-10-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and design specialist Dominic Bradbury draws back the curtain on the iconic South Bank, providing an unrivalled insight into the buildings that populate one of London's epicentres of art and entertainment. Encompassing an art gallery, theatres, festival halls and a cinema, the South Bank is a cultural hub in the heart of London. South Bank: Architecture & Design is a beautifully crafted celebration of its sublime, community-focused architecture. The book opens with an origin story, unravelling the evolution of this riverside enclave since the 1951 Festival of Britain catapulted it onto the scene and exploring the renowned architects and designers that have shaped this space throughout the mid-century and beyond. Much of the book is devoted to the buildings themselves, all of which are accompanied by Bradbury's authoritative text and richly illustrated with photography by Rachael Smith. The buildings include: • Royal Festival Hall • Hayward Gallery • Queen Elizabeth Hall and The Purcell Room • National Film Theatre/BFI • National Theatre This sumptuous book is an invaluable purchase for anyone intrigued by our built heritage and cultural spaces.

People's Palaces

Author : Christoph Grafe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789461400413
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book People's Palaces written by Christoph Grafe and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Author Christoph Grafe investigates an architectonic typology, the cultural edifice, which must often take on the role of national identity and culture in the realisation of a democratic society. This book takes two specific projects as its subject: London's South Bank and the Kulturhus in Stockholm. The buildings were chosen as a result of their architectural meaning, and by the fact that they appeared in two countries that fulfilled a leading role in the development of the post-war 'welfare state'; in Europe. Besides an in-depth analysis of the two cities within the context of their wider national and cultural development, the book includes a photo essay by German photographer Heidi Specker" --

How to Love Brutalism

Author : John Grindrod
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849945179
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book How to Love Brutalism written by John Grindrod and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate and personal book about the writer's own love for a controversial architectural style. Whether you love or hate brutalist buildings, this book will explain what it is about them that elicits such strong feeling. You will understand the true power of concrete and of mammoth-sized buildings, but also some of the more subtle aspects of brutalist buildings that you may not have known or considered. Brutalist architecture, which flourished in the 1950s to mid-1970s, gained its name from the term ' Béton-brut', or raw concrete – the material of choice for the movement. British architectural critic Reyner Banham adapted the term into 'brutalism' (originally 'New Brutalism') to identify the emerging style. The architectural style – typified by buildings such as Trellick Tower in London and Unité D'Habitation in Marseille – is controversial but has an enthusiastic fan base, including the author who is on a mission to explain his passion. John Grindrod's book will be enlightening for those new to the subject, bringing humour, insight and honesty to the subject but will also interest those already immersed in built culture. Illustrated with striking drawings by The Brutal Artist, the book is divided up into a series of mini essays that explains the brutalist world from a human aspect, as well as an architectural, historical and even pop cultural angle. The book journeys from the UK to discover brutalism and its influence around the world – from Le Corbusier's designs in Chandigarh, India, to Lina Bo Bardi's buildings in Brazil.

Archigram

Author : Simon Sadler
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262693226
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Archigram written by Simon Sadler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-06-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length critical and historical account of an ultramodern architectural movement of the 1960s that advocated "living equipment" instead of buildings. In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities that move and houses worn like suits of clothes. In drawings inspired by pop art and psychedelia, architecture floated away, tethered by wires, gantries, tubes, and trucks. In Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Simon Sadler argues that Archigram's sense of fun takes its place beside the other cultural agitants of the 1960s, originating attitudes and techniques that became standard for architects rethinking social space and building technology. The Archigram style was assembled from the Apollo missions, constructivism, biology, manufacturing, electronics, and popular culture, inspiring an architectural movement—High Tech—and influencing the postmodern and deconstructivist trends of the late twentieth century. Although most Archigram projects were at the limits of possibility and remained unbuilt, the six architects at the center of the movement, Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, and Michael Webb, became a focal point for the architectural avant-garde, because they redefined the purpose of architecture. Countering the habitual building practice of setting walls and spaces in place, Archigram architects wanted to provide the equipment for amplified living, and they welcomed any cultural rearrangements that would ensue. Archigram: Architecture without Architecture—the first full-length critical and historical account of the Archigram phenomenon—traces Archigram from its rediscovery of early modernist verve through its courting of students, to its ascent to international notoriety for advocating the "disappearance of architecture."

The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and Practice

Author : Mitra Kanaani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317688740
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and Practice written by Mitra Kanaani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and Practice provides an overview of established and emerging trends in architecture practice. Contributions of the latest research from international experts examine external forces applied to the practice and discipline of architecture. Each chapter contains up-to-date and relevant information about select aspects of architecture, and the changes this information will have on the future of the profession. The Companion contains thirty-five chapters, divided into seven parts: Theoretical Stances, Technology, Sustainability, Behavorism, Urbanism, Professional Practice and Society. Topics include: Evidence-Based Design, Performativity, Designing for Net Zero Energy, The Substance of Light in Design, Social Equity and Ethics for Sustainable Architecture, Universal Design, Design Psychology, Architecture, Branding and the Politics of Identity, The Role of BIM in Green Architecture, Public Health and the Design Process, Affordable Housing, Disaster Preparation and Mitigation, Diversity and many more. Each chapter follows the running theme of examining external forces applied to the practice and discipline of architecture in order to uncover the evolving theoretical tenets of what constitutes today’s architectural profession, and the tools that will be required of the future architect. This book considers architecture’s interdisciplinary nature, and addresses its current and evolving perspectives related to social, economic, environmental, technological, and globalization trends. These challenges are central to the future direction of architecture and as such this Companion will serve as an invaluable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students, existing practitioners and future architects.

Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction

Author : John Pendlebury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317698657
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction written by John Pendlebury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of post Second World War reconstruction has recently become an important field of research around the world; Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction is a provocative work that questions the orthodoxies of twentieth century design history. This book provides a key critical statement on mid-twentieth century urban design and city planning, focused principally upon the period between the start of the Second World War to the mid-sixties. The various figures and currents covered here represent a largely overlooked field within the history of 20th century urbanism. In this period while certain modernist practices assumed an institutional role for post-war reconstruction and flourished into the mainstream, such practices also faced opposition and criticism leading to the production of alternative visions and strategies. Spanning from a historically-informed modernism to the increasing presence of urban conservation the contributors examine these alternative approaches to the city and its architecture.

Architecture and Urban Design in Brisbane

Author : Graham De Gruchy
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 1921920998
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Urban Design in Brisbane written by Graham De Gruchy and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eco-architecture

Author : C. A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 184564171X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Eco-architecture written by C. A. Brebbia and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike the mechanistic buildings it replaces, Eco-Architecture is in harmony with nature, including its immediate environs. Eco-Architecture makes every effort to minimise the use of energy at each stage of the building's life cycle, including that embodied in the extraction and transportation of materials, their fabrication, their assembly into the building and ultimately the ease and value of their recycling when the building's life is over. Featuring papers from the First International Conference on Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature, the text brings together papers of an inter-disciplinary nature, and will be of interest to engineers, planners, physicists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and other specialists, in addition to architects. Featured topics include: Historical and Philosophical aspects; Ecological and Cultural Sensitivity; Human Comfort and Sick Building Syndrome; Energy Crisis and Building Technologies; Carbon Neutral Design; Alternative Sources of Energy (wind, solar, wave, geothermal etc); Design with Nature; Design with Climate; Siting and Orientation; Re-use of Brownfield Sites; Material Selection; Minimal Transportation Approaches and use of Indigenous Materials; Life Cycle Assessment of Materials; Design by Passive Systems; Conservation and Re-use of Water; Building Operation and Management; Applications in Different Building Types; Regulations and Contracts.

The Anxious City

Author : Richard J. Williams
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415279275
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Anxious City written by Richard J. Williams and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and provocative history of the development of the idea of the city in recent years. Key public spaces and buildings in England, Europe and the USA are discussed in relation to their socio-political context.

Architectural Record

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Architectural Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Building News and Engineering Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Building News and Engineering Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Architect

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spiv and the Architect

Author : Richard Quentin Donald Hornsey
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816653143
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book The Spiv and the Architect written by Richard Quentin Donald Hornsey and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how London's queer culture was influenced by postwar efforts to create model citizens ...

Planning London for the Post-War Era 1945-1960

Author : Emmanuel V. Marmaras
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319076477
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Planning London for the Post-War Era 1945-1960 by : Emmanuel V. Marmaras

Download or read book Planning London for the Post-War Era 1945-1960 written by Emmanuel V. Marmaras and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the formation of the post-Second World War reconstruction and planning machinery in Great Britain, the re-planning efforts undertaken in post-war London, and in particular the redevelopment programme regarding its central area in the form of the comprehensive development projects. Originating from a PhD Thesis, the book recreates the atmosphere following step by step arguments and events at various political, socio-economic and technical levels. It also contributes to the understanding of succeeding developments in terms of planning theory and practice. The book is structured into three parts. The first one explores the administrative and statutory developments in town planning matters during the period 1940-59. The second part deals with the plans proposed for London as a whole from independent and official organisations mainly during the 1940s. Finally, the third part examines the proposed projects for the rebuilding of the City of London and for special areas of Central London that suffered from bombing on both sides of the Thames.

On South Bank: The Production of Public Space

Author : Alasdair J.H. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317085833
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book On South Bank: The Production of Public Space written by Alasdair J.H. Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tensions over the production of urban public space came to the fore in summer 2013 with mass protests in Turkey sparked by a plan to redevelop Taksim Gezi Park, Istanbul. In London, concomitant proposals to refurbish an area of the ’South Bank’ historically used by skateboarders were similarly met by staunch opposition. Through an in-depth ethnographic examination of London’s South Bank, this book explores multiple dimensions of the production of urban public space. Drawing on user accounts of the significance of public space, as well as observations of how the South Bank is ’practised’ on a daily basis, it argues that public space is valued not only for its essential material characteristics but also for the productive potential that these characteristics, if properly managed, afford on a daily basis. At a time when policy-makers, urban planners and law enforcement authorities simultaneously grapple with pressures to deal with social 'problems' (such as street drinking, vandalism, and skateboarding) and accusations that new modes of urban planning and civic management infringe upon civil liberties and dilute the publicity of ’public’ space, this book offers an insightful account of the daily exigencies of public spaces. In so doing, it questions the utility of the public/private binary for our understanding both of common urban space and of different sets of social practices, and points towards the need to be attentive to productive processes in how we understand and experience urban open space as public.

Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959

Author : Rika Devos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317179110
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959 written by Rika Devos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959. The volume gives a fascinating account of architecture assuming the role of the carrier of war-related messages, some of them camouflaged while others quite frank. The famous standoffs between the Stalinist Russia and the Nazi Germany in Paris 1937, or the juxtaposition of the USSR and USA pavilions in Brussels 1958, are examples of very explicit shows of force. The book also discusses some less known - and more subtle - messages, revealed through an examination of several additional pavilions in both Paris and Brussels; of a series of expositions in Moscow; of the Universal Exhibition in Rome that was planned to open in 1942; and of London’s South Bank Exposition of 1951: all of them related, in one way or another, to either an anticipation of the global war or to its horrific aftermaths. A brief discussion of three pre-World War II American expositions that are reviewed in the Epilogue supports this point. It indicates a significant difference in the attitude of American exposition commissioners, who were less attuned to the looming war than their European counterparts. The book provides a novel assessment of modern architecture’s involvement with national representation. Whether in the service of Fascist Italy or of Imperial Japan, of Republican Spain or of the post-war Franquista regime, of the French Popular Front or of socialist Yugoslavia, of the arising FRG or of capitalist USA, of Stalinist Russia or of post-colonial Britain, exposition architecture during the period in question was driven by a deep faith in its ability to represent ideology. The book argues that this widespread confidence in architecture’s ability to act as a propaganda tool was one of the reasons why Modernist architecture lent itself to the service of such different masters.

Masted Structures in Architecture

Author : James Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135141851
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Masted Structures in Architecture written by James Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first fully comprehensive survey and analysis of masted structures and covers examples that have evolved during the past three decades. Masted Structures are one of the most interesting developments in post-war architecture resulting from a combination of technology, structural engineering theory and a collaboration between architects and engineers. This is an essential guide for architects to the structural and constructional implications of masted forms in relation to space enclosure, patterns of loading and use of differing materials and techniques. This useful volume will enable architects and engineers to understand the origins, development and nature of masted structures and will provide a stimulating basis for future design.