Download or read book Metropolis Nonformal written by Christian Werthmann and published by ORO Applied Research + Design. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's population is ballooning, and most of Earth's new citizens will live in urban areas. Cities around the globe are already collectively occupied by billions of people with many of these metropolises and megalopolises lacking the organized, government-facilitated infrastructure of so-called "modern" cities in North America and Europe. Instead, residents build their own housing with whatever materials are available, using methods and standards that are sometimes dangerous-and other times ingenious. In fact, safety and health risks do not preclude self-built brilliance, nor vice versa.

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Download or read book Multiple City Stadtkonzepte 1908 2008 urban concepts 1908 2008 anl lich der Ausstellung Multiple City Stadtkonzepte 1908 2008 Pinakothek der Moderne M nchen 4 Dezember 2008 1 M rz 2009 written by Sophie Wolfrum and published by Jovis Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflects on urban development against the background of various urban concepts. This book documents 16 topics of urban development on the basis of texts, photographs and historical planning material. "Multiple City" reflects on current urban development against the background of various urban concepts over the past 100 years. It is possible to trace the history of multiple manifestations, parallel strategies and diametrical developments. Urban concepts and urbanist discourse enjoy temporary booms, but leave behind enduring evidence. Today, a wide range of phenomena, interpretations and debates exist in conjunction with each other. This publication documents 16 important topics of urban development on the basis of texts, up-to-date photographs and historical planning material. Well-known authors adopt standpoints on current urban developments in 32 essays. This book makes it possible to experience urban development as an exciting discourse that involves us all.

Download or read book Building with Timber written by Hermann Kaufmann and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A building material of the future, timber bridges the gap between nature and technology. A sustainable resource and climate-friendly construction material, timber is also materialised solar energy and carbon dioxide accumulator. As a universally applicable heat-insulating material and highly resilient natural product, it is the building material of the future. In this book renouned experts examine timber's ecological importance, it's technological potential as well as the new possibilities for architectural construction and design of the familiar material. The 50 international examples selected in this volume illustrate digital manufacturing methods for timber and the variety of modern timber constructions, from low-energy houses and wide-span supporting structures to high-rise construction.

Download or read book Place and Displacement written by Thordis Arrhenius and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seemingly immobile and durable, architecture remains a challenge in the modern world of collecting and exhibiting. From the late eighteenth century onward, divergent conventions of display have been conflated with urgent discussions of how material culture is handed down, distributed, appropriated, and evaluated. Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture investigates historical and con temporary practices of displaying architecture, whether in full scale or as fragments, models, or two-dimensional representations. Exploring questions of circulation and temporality, issues of institution and canon, and the discourse and politics of architectural spaces on exhibit, the book's essays discuss the ambiguous status of architecture as an object of display. Contributions from leading scholars in the new research field of architectural exhibitions reveal the centrality of the exhibition in defining and redefining the notion of architecture and its history.

Download or read book Micro Architecture written by Richard Horden and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Horden is the pioneer of small-scale structures built with the most advanced materials & techniques available. This book showcases 40 of his projects that draw on technologies from the nautical & aviation industries, as well as natural forms, to make small buildings that are not only highly functional but kind to the environment.

Download or read book Exhibiting Architecture written by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures, paper presentations, and panel dicussions given as part of a symposium at the Yale School of Architecture, October 3-5, 2013. The symposium focused on how architects use exhibitions as laboratories for architectural ideas.