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Concession Du Chemin De Fer Funiculaire Lausanne Ouchy
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Book Synopsis Topographical Stories by : David Leatherbarrow
Download or read book Topographical Stories written by David Leatherbarrow and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners alike. Here, David Leatherbarrow offers an entirely new way of thinking of architecture and landscape architecture. Moving beyond partisan arguments, he shows how the two disciplines rely upon one another to form a single framework of cultural meaning. Leatherbarrow redefines landscape architecture and architecture as topographical arts, the shared task of which is to accommodate and express the patterns of our lives. Topography, in his view, incorporates terrain, built and unbuilt, but also traces of practical affairs, by means of which culture preserves and renews its typical situations and institutions. This rigorous argument is supported by nearly 100 illustrations, as well as examples of topography from the sixteenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, through the heroic period of early modernism, to more recent offerings. A number of these studies revise existing accounts of decisive moments in the history of these disciplines, particularly the birth of the informal garden, the emergence of continuous space in the landscapes and architecture of the modern period, and the new significance of landform or earthwork in contemporary architecture. For readers not directly involved with either of these professions, this book shows how over the centuries our lives have been shaped and enriched by landscape and architecture. Topographical Stories provides a new paradigm for theorizing and practicing landscape and architecture.
Download or read book Landform Building written by Stan Allen and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; buildings you walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; buildings that carve into the ground or landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-thinking of architecture's traditional relationship to the ground. The book Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice: not as a cross-disciplinary phenomenon (architects working in the landscape) but as new design techniques, new formal strategies and technical problems within architecture.
Book Synopsis The Netherlands Architecture Institute by : Nederlands Architectuurinstituut
Download or read book The Netherlands Architecture Institute written by Nederlands Architectuurinstituut and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this newly updated book is the building occupied by the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), which was designed by the architect Jo Coenen and opened in 1993. NAi is one of the international centers for architectural thought and ideas, and its home has become Famous in its own right as a contemporary architectural landmark. Featuring a wealth of new photos, floor plans and cross sections, the book also includes extensive texts examining the history of NAi, the commissioning of the building, its collections, and its policies and mission. In addition Jo Coenen describes the background of his work as well as the sources that inspired him.
Download or read book Groundwork written by Diana Balmori and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current environmental crisis calls for a unified practice of landscape and architecture that would allow buildings and landscapes to perform symbiotically to heal the environment. Over the past ten years, a diverse group of architects, landscape architects, and artists have undertaken groundbreaking projects that propose an integration of landscape and architecture, dissolving traditional distinctions between building and environment. Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture examines twenty-five projects, on an international scale, that consider landscape and architecture as true reciprocal entities. Groundwork divides the projects into three design directions: Topography, Ecology, and Biocomputation. Topographic designers create projects that manipulate the ground to merge building and landscape as in Cairo Expo City in Egypt (Zaha Hadid Architects), Island City Central Park Grin Grin in Fukuoka, Japan (Toyo Ito & Associates) and the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Eisenman Architects). Ecologic designers develop environments that address issues such as energy climate and remediation, such as I’m Lost In Paris in France (R&Sie(n)), Turistroute in Eggum, Norway (Snøhetta) and Parque Atlántico in Santander, Cantabria, Spain (Batlle i Roig Arquitectes). Biocomputation designers use digital technologies to align biology and design in projects such as the Grotto Concept (Aranda/Lasch), North Side Copse House in West Sussex, England (EcoLogicStudio) and Local Code: Real Estates (Nicolas de Monchaux.) What these projects all have in common is a desire to pay attention and homage to the liminal space where indoors and outdoors meet. The critical connection between natural and synthetic, exterior and interior space, paves the way toward a more inclusive—and indeed more alive—conceptualization of the physical world.
Book Synopsis Horizontal Skyscraper by : Steven Holl Architects
Download or read book Horizontal Skyscraper written by Steven Holl Architects and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editing by Steven Holl, Janine Buinno, Jennifer Sime, William Stout.
Download or read book Landscrapers written by Aaron Betsky and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the days of cave dwellers, humans have made use of nature's geological formations, but recent developments in structural engineering make it possible to engage the Earth's surface as a building element in its own right. With an increased awareness of the planet's limited natural resources and with landscape architects' greater influence on contemporary design, architects around the world are building into the earth, merging man-made forms with the contours of the land.Presenting the most exciting, sensitive, and innovative buildings from the most acclaimed international architectural practices, Landscrapers offers a global tour of these spectacular structures. From Zaha Hadid's Landesgartenschau pavilion in Germany to MVRDV's Villa VPRO in the Netherlands, from Future Systems' hill-burrowing house in Wales to Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial in Washington, more than fifty projects reveal the breadth and depth of this new direction in architecture.Aaron Betsky begins with an introduction that considers our historical preoccupation with communing with the land through building. He then explores the different ways in which geotecture responds to, interacts with, becomes a part of -- and yet remains distinctive within -- our natural landscape. A reference section includes useful project and architect information, along with further reading.
Download or read book Code X written by Peter Eisenman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Eisenman's competition-winning project for the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, is a formidable battery of museums, libraries, and auditoriums, a cultural acropolis atop a spectacular hillside site in northeastern Spain. By excavating the hilltop and arranging six buildings as a kind of artificial topography, Eisenman creates a new warped landscape that seems to merge building and ground, that occupies the hilltop without seeming to have been built upon it. In CODEX, the New York-based Eisenman, known for a career of formal investigations, reveals in essays and illustrations his theory of coding as a device for producing form. Through more than three hundred line drawings and perspectives, the development of the code--and the buildings and landscape it informs--becomes apparent, culminating in a giant earthwork as excavation of the site begins.
Book Synopsis Exposé des motifs d'un projet de décret concernant la concession d'un chemin de fer pneumatique dès la ville de Lausanne au port d'Ouchy by : Vaud
Download or read book Exposé des motifs d'un projet de décret concernant la concession d'un chemin de fer pneumatique dès la ville de Lausanne au port d'Ouchy written by Vaud and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce projet sera adopté par le Grand Conseil le 2 juin 1871.
Book Synopsis Architecture and Landscape by : Clemens M. Steenbergen
Download or read book Architecture and Landscape written by Clemens M. Steenbergen and published by Birkhauser. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of trends in landscape design and architecture in Italy, France and Great Britain throughout the past 500 years. 384 pp., 300 line drawings, 100 photographs and 16 pages of color illus.
Book Synopsis Infrastructure as Architecture by : Scott Lloyd
Download or read book Infrastructure as Architecture written by Scott Lloyd and published by Jovis Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our cities are constantly changing. The last 100 years in particular have seen radical conversions, extensions and the development of residual areas in inner cities which have significantly changed urban panoramas. Urban infrastructures play a pivotal role in conversion processes. These include transport routes, supply and disposal services, communication networks and the like, making a modern functioning city possible. In the publication Infrastructure as Architecture, acclaimed authors and planners show why architects' participation in the design of future urban infrastructures is vital. Theoretical contributions from the fields of economics, ecology, culture, politics, and land use planning investigate the issue from different perspectives. Practical examples and designs provide readers with an exciting glimpse of the future of our cities.
Book Synopsis OMA/Rem Koolhaas by : Christophe Van Gerrewey
Download or read book OMA/Rem Koolhaas written by Christophe Van Gerrewey and published by Birkhaüser. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4e de couv. : "The activities of Rem Koolhaas and his numerous collaborators have been widely discussed, even before the foundation of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. The work of OMA, including Koolhaas's written oeuvre, is at the root of an important part of the Western discourse on architecture from the past half century. The book compiles about 150 texts - interviews, essays, articles, reviews, letters, introductions, polemics, appraisals, and competition reports - that in many cases have been translated for the first time. As a reader covering the work of OMA/Rem Koolhaas from Delirious New York to S, M, L, XL, it provides a fresh and critical view on one of the most complex architectural oeuvres of recent times. At the same time, the book presents an account of the debates on architecture and the city that remain significative today."
Book Synopsis Groundscapes by : Dominique Perrault
Download or read book Groundscapes written by Dominique Perrault and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the architect Dominique Perrault presents his thoughts on the architecture of the "Groundscape". An idea, a concept, the architect has been exploring and experimenting with for many years in his projects and through his fictions. "It is a work on shaping reality, through subterranean architecture, where is not a question of living but of marking and carving out places for urban life in the earth, this epidermis open to the sky".
Book Synopsis Reflections on Landscape by : Sheila Harvey
Download or read book Reflections on Landscape written by Sheila Harvey and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1987 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the results of the enormous technological changes of the 20th century has been the transformation of the surroundings in which we live. The landscape has been altered dramatically both in the urban environment and in the countryside. Landscape architecture has played a vital role in attempting to shape and control these transformations for the benefit of all of us and this volume presents a first hand account of the lives, work and vision of five of its most eminent practitioners.Based on interviews conducted by Ian Laurie and Michael Lancaster (and including a posthumous chapter on Brenda Colvin), the contributions come from Dame Sylvia Crowe, Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, Sir Peter Shepheard, Professor Peter Youngman and Professor Brian Hackett. Their recollections cover such diverse tasks as the creation of the post-war new towns of Harlow and Basildon, the landscaping of power stations, reservoirs, forests and crematoria, and the designing of both public and private gardens. What is particularly striking in these informal autobiographical accounts is the development of firmly held views on design philosophy, education and social problems and the firm conviction that there must be cooperation between all persons concerned with the environment if its future is to be safeguarded.This fascinating collection will provide stimulating reading for those professionally concerned with the environment at every level. It will also offer the general reader a useful introduction to the world of landscape architecture and an intriguing insight into the professional lives of six exceptional people.
Book Synopsis Étude des chemins de fer funiculaires ... by : Alphonse Vautier
Download or read book Étude des chemins de fer funiculaires ... written by Alphonse Vautier and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
