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Book Europan 10 Results Inventing Urbanity  Regeneration  Revitalization  Colonization

Download or read book Europan 10 Results Inventing Urbanity Regeneration Revitalization Colonization written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Europan 10 Results

Download or read book Europan 10 Results written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Adaptable City

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  • Author : Didier Rebois
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-04-01
  • ISBN : 9782914296304
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book The Adaptable City written by Didier Rebois and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flexible Housing

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  • Author : Jeremy Till
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-09-19
  • ISBN : 1315393565
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Flexible Housing written by Jeremy Till and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible housing is housing that can adjust to the changing needs of the user and accommodate new technologies as they emerge. Flexible Housing by Jeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider examines the past, present and future of this important subject through over 160 international examples. Specially commissioned plans, printed to scale, together with over 200 illustrations and diagrams provide fascinating detail and allow direct visual comparisons to be made. Combining history, theory and design the book explains the social and economic benefits that can be achieved and shows the various ways it has been and can be delivered. The book ends with an accessible guide to how flexible housing might be designed and constructed today to achieve adaptable and ultimately sustainable buildings. Housing designers, housing managers and students of architecture, construction and housing will find this book of immense value both as a comprehensive reference and design manual.

Book Global Gentrifications

Download or read book Global Gentrifications written by Lees, Loretta and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book uses a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond to highlight the intensifying global struggle over urban space and underline gentrification as a growing and important battleground in the contemporary world.

Book Educating Architects Towards Innovative Architecture

Download or read book Educating Architects Towards Innovative Architecture written by Constantin Spirindonis and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Interstices  The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In between

Download or read book Urban Interstices The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In between written by Dr Andrea Mubi Brighenti and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a team of international scholars with an interest in urban transformations, spatial justice and territoriality, this volume questions how the interstice is related to the emerging processes of partitioning, enclave-making and zoning, showing how in-between spaces are intimately related to larger flows, networks, territories and boundaries. Illustrated with a range of case studies from places such as the US, Quebec, the UK, Italy, Gaza, Iraq, India, and South-east Asia, the volume analyses the place and function of interstitial locales in both a ‘disciplined’ urban space and a disordered space conceptualized through the notions of ‘excess’, ‘danger’ and ‘threat’. Warning not to romanticize the interstice, the book invites us to study it as not simply a place but also a set of phenomena, events and social interactions. How are interstices perceived and represented? What is the politics of visibility that is applied to them? How to capture their peculiar rhythms, speeds and affects? On the one hand, interstices open up venues for informality, improvisation, challenge, and bricolage, playful as well as angry statements on the neoliberal city and enhanced urban inequalities. On the other hand, they also represent a crucial site of governance (even governance by withdrawal) and urban management, where an array of techniques ranging from military urbanism to new forms of value extraction are experimented. At the point of convergence of all these tensions, interstices appear as veritable sites of transformation, where social forces clash and mesh prefiguring our urban future. The book interrogates these territories, proposing new ways to explore the dynamics, events and visibilities that define them.

Book Formations of the Secular

    Book Details:
  • Author : Talal Asad
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2003-02-03
  • ISBN : 0804783098
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Formations of the Secular written by Talal Asad and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dark but brilliantly original work . . . one of the most important books on religion and the modern in recent years.” —H-Net Reviews Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East. Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the terrain it allegedly covers. He argues that while anthropologists have oriented themselves to the study of the “strangeness of the non-European world” and to what are seen as non-rational dimensions of social life (things like myth, taboo, and religion),the modern and the secular have not been adequately examined. The conclusion is that the secular cannot be viewed as a successor to religion, or be seen as on the side of the rational. It is a category with a multi-layered history, related to major premises of modernity, democracy, and the concept of human rights. This book will appeal to anthropologists, historians, religious studies scholars, as well as scholars working on modernity. “A difficult if stunningly eloquent book, a response both elusive and forthright to the many shelves of ‘books on terrorism’ which this country’s trade publishers are rushing into print.” —Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature “This wonderfully illuminating book should be read alongside the author’s Genealogies of Religion.” —Religion “One of the most interesting scholars of religious writing today.” —Christian Scholar’s Review “Asad’s brilliant study remains a defining piece of intellectual and scholarly contribution for all of those interested in exploring the religious and the secular in the modern era.” —The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences

Book Cubity

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  • Author : Anett-Maud Joppien
  • Publisher : Jovis Verlag
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9783868594256
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Cubity written by Anett-Maud Joppien and published by Jovis Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "CUBITY is the first modular residential cluster for students worldwide that meets an energy-plus standard. This innovative spatial concept is based on a house-within-a-house principle, with very minimized individual rooms and maximized communal areas with different temperature zones under one roof. It therefore enables transitions from the individual to the communal, from the small to the large, from the whole to the divided—as a synthesis of the key motifs cube, city and community. The publication documents various stages of the development of the spatial concept at the architecture faculty of TU Darmstadt, as well as the presentation at Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 in Versailles. CUBITY provides exemplary solutions for sociological and energy issues and combines contemporary forms of communal living with sustainability aspects."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Book Portuguese Plain Architecture

Download or read book Portuguese Plain Architecture written by George Kubler and published by Middletown, Conn : Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Syria Before the Deluge

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  • Author : Peter Aaron
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-04-30
  • ISBN : 9781388227197
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Syria Before the Deluge written by Peter Aaron and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains infrared black and white photographs made in April 2009 in Damascus, Aleppo, Palmyra and other Syrian historical sites.

Book Rhythmanalysis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henri Lefebvre
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2013-10-24
  • ISBN : 1472528867
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Rhythmanalysis written by Henri Lefebvre and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms -- both biological and social -- Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life.With dazzling skills, Lefebvre moves between discussions of music, the commodity, measurement, the media and the city. In doing so he shows how a non-linear conception of time and history balanced his famous rethinking of the question of space. This volume also includes his earlier essays on "The Rhythmanalysis Project" and "Attempt at the Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Towns."

Book Housing Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard Leupen
  • Publisher : NAI Publishers
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9789056628260
  • Pages : 447 pages

Download or read book Housing Design written by Bernard Leupen and published by NAI Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual sheds light on every aspect of designing housing. The organization of the living space and the residential building is dealt with systematically, from the breadth, depth, stacking, access to dwellings and the urban ensemble. This revised edition has been expanded with 20 new exemplary projects, boasts an improved structure and has been enriched with a new chapter about the process of design. Housing Design is primarily focused on residential construction in larger entities, such as stacked developments. Because of its wide-ranging approach to the theme, this manual is also useful when designing in low densities and even for the design of an individual house or villa. It provides the tools necessary to analyse the context of residential construction, ranging from large-scale tabula rasa plans to the infill of a gap in an urban elevation. With regard to the tectonics of residential construction, the supporting structure, the envelope, the scenography and the service elements are dealt with in turn, in each case considering the consequences of the choice of material and form for the space and the living experience. The manual pays considerable attention to the relationship between the domestic floor plan, space and how it is experienced.--Cover.

Book Mediating the Spatiality of Conflicts

Download or read book Mediating the Spatiality of Conflicts written by Armina Pilav and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a three-day conference held at the TU Delft on November 6-8, 2019 researchers, scholars, activists, practitioners and artists presented individual papers that addressed the relationships between spatiality, mediation and conflict from a variety of perspectives.0In addition to academic paper contributions, the conference welcomed other proposals in different formats and media: audio-visual material (film, video, photography), digital or physical archives, experimental design proposals, installations, performances, etc.0The thematic core of the conference explored new ? or innovative ? theoretical and methodological approaches and insights on: (1) Spaces of conflict as transitional spaces of material interactions between violence and everyday life; and (2) Spaces of memory as transformative space of violence).0This conference proceedings shares the outcome of the academic event.

Book Kay Fisker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Søberg
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2021-07
  • ISBN : 1350068195
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Kay Fisker written by Martin Søberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and writing. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this book examines Fisker's key projects – from his early railway stations and innovative housing projects to the Danish Academy in Rome – and analyses his work as a historian and writer. Fisker's output is closely associated with the functional tradition, a hybridization of international modernism and regional architectural typologies, and this book shows how his architectural poetics can be understood as an amalgamation of an ideal order with the contingent conditions of landscapes and urban sites. Hybridization is not only a valuable notion for understanding Fisker, the book argues, it can also be applied to an understanding of modernist architecture as a whole, with its various expressions, agendas and tensions both regionally and internationally.

Book Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges

Download or read book Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges written by Manuel Jorge Rodrigues Couceiro da Costa and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 1267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The escalating interdependecy of nations drives global geopolitics to shift ever more quickly. Societies seem unable to control any change that affects their cities, whether positively or negatively. Challenges are global, but solutions need to be implemented locally. How can architectural research contribute to the future of our changing society? How has it contributed in the past? The theme of the 10th EAAE/ARCC International Conference, “Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges”, was set to address these questions. This book, Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges, includes reviewed papers presented in June 2016, at the 10th EAAE/ARCC International Conference, which was held at the facilities of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. The papers have been further divided into the following five sub-themes: a Changing Society; In Transit – Global Migration; Renaturalization of the City; Emerging Fields of Architectural Practice; and Research on Architectural Education. The EAAE/ARCC International Conference, held under the aegis of the EAAE and of the ARCC, is a conference organized every other year, in collaboration with one of the member schools/ universities of those associations, alternatively in North America or in Europe.

Book Architecture  Critique  Ideology

Download or read book Architecture Critique Ideology written by Sven-Olov Wallenstein and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a long philosophical tradition from Kant to Adorno and Deleuze, as well on a series of debates in architectural and artistic discourse from the sixties onward, this book explores the possibility of reframing critical theory in a contemporary theoretical landscape that today seems more difficult to chart than ever.