A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, »The Vatican to Vegas« takes the reader from lavish Baroque fantasies of the seventeenth century to the Electronic Baroque of today. The ›scripted spaces‹ described by Norman Klein...Loe edasi...
This book reflects on Palladios method(s) beyond historism and style, and thus provide insights into design and building in our time. The architect Andrea Palladio was a draughtsman and a designer, a mason and an engineer, an innovator and a...Loe edasi...
Harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicable strategies and concepts. Harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries...Loe edasi...
For at least two decades, major cities in Turkey have been subjected to endless waves of urban development that has left scores of building demolitions in its wake. The construction waste produced is immense but its removal or abatement is completely...Loe edasi...
Carolina Crijns not only explores the transformative potential in radically rethinking architectures central concepts but introduces a method of utopian speculation for practices ambitious of social change. Under the premise that architectur...Loe edasi...
Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards of modern architecture in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Agra, the contributors to this volume explore the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s and share...Loe edasi...
How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urbanism transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou shows how mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the...Loe edasi...
Public and private, traffic and open space, planned and spontaneous - our idea of a city is characterised by opposites. However, the contributors to this bilingual book show that these poles can also be consciously connected. The urban building block...Loe edasi...
The planetary instantaneity that digital technologies have enabled is leading to an effacement of the divisions that separate the past from the future, ensuring that the present is ubiquitous. While contemporary architecture seems to have lost the ca...Loe edasi...
What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can architecture be used to turn game-worlds into sustainable places in “reality”? This pioneering collection gives an overview of contemporary developments in...Loe edasi...
Lara Schrijver examines the work of Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas as intellectual legacy of the 1970s for architecture today. Particularly in the United States, this period focused on the autonomy of architecture as a correction to the socia...Loe edasi...
In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city itself: its mereological composition.The resonance of parts unfolds to an alternative of a purely...Loe edasi...
This book examines the different roles of architects in rural post-disaster housing and their impact on the degree of success of the projects from villagers perspective. It is based around the building process of three case studies affected by th...Loe edasi...
Architecture and urbanism seem to be »weak« disciplines, constantly struggling for a better understanding of their nature and disciplinary borders. The huge amount of metaphors appearing in the discourse of both not only reference to their creativ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Sep-2006, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Academy Press, ISBN-13: 9780470015926)
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Many architects use finished models for presentations, competitions and exhibitions. Others embrace sketch models as quick, economic and flexible generative tools. It is only with the rise of the virtual that the advantages and disadvantages of more...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2006, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Academy Press, ISBN-13: 9780470868492)
In architecture, the interface between CAD (computer-aided drawing tools) and CAM (computer-aided manufacturing tools) is a hot topic. For architects, it offers the opportunity to work in a totally new way and regain full control of the construction...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Apr-2006, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Academy Press, ISBN-13: 9780470014462)
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Examine the standard procedures making up the life cycle of a design and build project in the latest publication in the Architecture in Practice Series. Author Andrew Mark Thomas provides commentary on the procurement route, specifics of design and b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Feb-2005, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780470092422)
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It is easy for even the most accomplished of designers to lose sight of their higher creative goals, once they are in ensconced in practice and burdened by the everyday concerns of running an office and overseeing complex projects. However, it is ess...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Sep-2004, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Academy Press, ISBN-13: 9780470862131)
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Collyer, the editor of Competitions magazine, offers architects and students tips for deciding whether to enter an international competition, information on preparing and presenting an entry, and winning case studies that show advances in presentatio...Loe edasi...
