Explore the human figure as an agent of design through scholarly analysis and fiction narrative.Experiments with Body Agent Architecture proposes the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate, and highly specific figures in...Loe edasi...
How built environments impact early childhood education in East African refugee camps. Displaced before they were born, children living in long-term refugee camps along the East African Rift grow and learn surrounded by rea...Loe edasi...
Dwelling on the Future studies the design of dwellings and their numerous environments. It explores how architects can, or should, respond to the complex challenges of providing humane places in which to live for a growing, multifarious popula...Loe edasi...
Using case study projects, architect Urs Bette gives an insight into the epistemological processes of his creative practice and unveils the strategies he deploys in order to facilitate the poetic aspects of architecture within a discourse whose ev...Loe edasi...
Perry Kulper and Nat Chard work with conditions of uncertainty, developing a contingent architecture that provokes and absorbs the unforeseen as well as the more predictable relationships into which architecture can enter. In mainstream practice and...Loe edasi...
Books orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Architectural Practice explores the role of the boo...Loe edasi...
Books orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Architectural Practice explores the role of the book form...Loe edasi...
Drawing together writings, drawings, and photographs produced over the past decade, this volume focuses specifically on the issue of contemporary land value, availability and use as the fundamental condition determining architectural production and,...Loe edasi...
Under the surface of cities and within build environments lay hidden layers that for some play a key role in the urban scenario when others got lost in transformation. During the 20th Century, both theoretical works and technical innovations gave ris...Loe edasi...
Digital Poetics celebrates the architectural design exuberance made possible by new digital modelling techniques and fabrication technologies. By presenting an unconventional and originalhumanistic theory of CAD (computer-aided design), the author su...Loe edasi...
Todays architecture has failed the body with its long heritage of purity of form and aesthetic of cleanliness. A resurgence of interest in flesh, especially in art, has led to a politics of abjection, completely changing traditional aesthetics, a...Loe edasi...
Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observat...Loe edasi...
While much has been written on Marcel Duchamp - one of the twentieth centurys most beguiling artists - the subject of his flirtation with architecture seems to have been largely overlooked. Yet, in the carefully arranged plans and sections organisin...Loe edasi...
Architectural discourse is dominated by a false dichotomy between design and chance, and governed by the belief that the architects role is to defend against the indeterminate, this book challenges this position, arguing for the need to develop a mo...Loe edasi...
During the last 30 years, technological, social, economic and environmental changes have brought about the most dramatic evolution to architectural practice that has taken place since the profession emerged during the Italian Renaissance. Whilst thes...Loe edasi...
Most architectural books written by practising architects fall into two categories: theoretical texts, or monographs that describe and illustrate the authors projects. This book combines both, as it explores and illustrates the methodological journe...Loe edasi...
Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture’s inherent temporality. It argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a critical model for this under-researched and under-theo...Loe edasi...
Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture’s inherent temporality. It argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a critical model for this under-researched and under-theo...Loe edasi...
