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Book hunch 3  the Berlage Institute report

Download or read book hunch 3 the Berlage Institute report written by Jennifer Sigler and published by episode publishers. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunch 3 features Julius Shulman, Richard Neutra, and Henry the Dog. Live and work in Igor Kebel's Just-in-Time Infrastructure; expect an explosion in the photos of Bas Princen; sink into 3D-City with Winy Maas and Wiel Arets; x-ray Rotterdam with Berlage participants; ask Jeff Derkson why Nobody Likes You; redefine agriculture in Andrea Branzi's Weak Urbanization; read Shiuan-Wen Chu's latest Bad Architecture Story; get stuck in unfine spaces with Diego Barajas; and debate the Dutch non-debate with Rem Koolhaas.

Book Hunch

Download or read book Hunch written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hunch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Berlage Instituut
  • Publisher : episode publishers
  • Release : 2002-02
  • ISBN : 9789080536241
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Hunch written by Berlage Instituut and published by episode publishers. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Disciplines

    Book Details:
  • Author : Penelope Dean
  • Publisher : episode publishers
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9789080536289
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book Disciplines written by Penelope Dean and published by episode publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Big Data  Code and the Discrete City

Download or read book Big Data Code and the Discrete City written by Silvio Carta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Data, Code and the Discrete City explores how digital technologies are gradually changing the way in which the public space is designed by architects, managed by policymakers and experienced by individuals. Smart city technologies are superseding the traditional human experience that has characterised the making of the public space until today. This book examines how computers see the public space and the effect of algorithms, artificial intelligences and automated processes on the human experience in public spaces. Divided into three parts, the first part of this book examines the notion of discreteness in its origins and applications to computer sciences. The second section presents a dual perspective: it explores the ways in which public spaces are constructed by the computer-driven logic and then translated into control mechanisms, design strategies and software-aided design. This perspective also describes the way in which individuals perceive this new public space, through its digital logic, and discrete mechanisms (from Wi-Fi coverage to self-tracking). Finally, in the third part, this book scrutinises the discrete logic with which computers operate, and how this is permeating into aspects of city life. This book is valuable for anyone interested in urban studies and digital technologies, and more specifically in big data, urban informatics and public space.

Book Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture  Quality and Knowledge

Download or read book Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture Quality and Knowledge written by Jean-Pierre Chupin and published by Potential Architecture Books. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Winner of the 2016 Bronze medal in Architecture, Independent Publisher Book Awards] This book comprises a series of 22 case studies by renowned experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. In 2015, it constitutes the most comprehensive survey of the dynamics behind the definition, organization, judging, archiving and publishing of architectural, landscape and urban design competitions in the world. These richly documented contributions revolve around a few questions that can be summarized in a two-fold critical interrogation: How can design competitions - these historical democratic devices, both praised and dreaded by designers - be considered laboratories for the production of environmental design quality, and, ultimately, for the renewing of culture and knowledge? Includes 340 illustrations, bibliographical references and index of over 200 cited competitions. Keywords: Architecture / International competitions / Architectural judgment / Design thinking / Digital archiving (databases) / Architectural publications / Architectural experimentation / Landscape architecture / Urban studies

Book Rethinking Representations

Download or read book Rethinking Representations written by Penelope Dean and published by episode publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hunch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Berlage Institute
  • Publisher : episode publishers
  • Release : 2002-09
  • ISBN : 9789080536258
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Hunch written by Berlage Institute and published by episode publishers. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unplanned Visitors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olivier Vallerand
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2022-03-30
  • ISBN : 0228013771
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Unplanned Visitors written by Olivier Vallerand and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexuality and gender have long been influential in understanding the construction of domestic space, its meanings, often revealing a binary division of private and public, female and male. By reconstructing the foundation of queer critiques of space and by analyzing the representation of domesticity in contemporary art and architecture, Unplanned Visitors shows the blurring of private and public that can occur in any domestic space and explores the potential of queer theory for understanding, and designing, the built environment. Olivier Vallerand investigates how queer critiques, building on pioneering feminist work, question the relation between identity and architecture and highlight normative constructs underlying domestic spaces. He draws out a genealogy of queer space in theoretical discourse in architecture, studying projects by Mark Robbins, Joel Sanders, J Mayer H, Elmgreen & Dragset, Andrés Jaque, and MYCKET, among others. These works blur the traditional borders between architecture and art to emphasize the tensions between private and public and their impact on assumptions about domestic space and family structure. The challenges in moving from experimental installations to built environments suggest how designers must acknowledge and respond to the social contexts that shape architecture, rethinking how domestic spaces can be designed to allow everyone to better manage the expression of their self-identification through their living environments. Unplanned Visitors poses a challenge to traditional architectural theory and history, but also suggests a renewed and more inclusive ethics whereby designers explicitly address social and political power structures. The potential of a queer approach to architectural design, history, theory, and education is precisely to enact a method that creates more inclusive buildings and safer neighbourhoods for everyone.

Book Hunch

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Hunch written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Interior Architecture Theory Reader

Download or read book The Interior Architecture Theory Reader written by Gregory Marinic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Interior Architecture Theory Reader presents a global compilation that collectively and specifically defines interior architecture. Diverse views and comparative resources for interior architecture students, educators, scholars, and practitioners are needed to develop a proper canon for this young discipline. As a theoretical survey of interior architecture, the book examines theory, history, and production to embrace a full range of interior identities in architecture, interior design, digital fabrication, and spatial installation. Authored by leading educators, theorists, and practitioners, fifty chapters refine and expand the discourse surrounding interior architecture.

Book Reading MVRDV

    Book Details:
  • Author : Véronique Patteeuw
  • Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9789056622879
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Reading MVRDV written by Véronique Patteeuw and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an old printing shop in Rotterdam, MVRDV produces designs and studies in the fields of architecture, urbanism and landscape design. Founded in Rotterdam in 1991 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries, MVRDV has become a household name in the Netherlands and beyond. With experimental research projects and mind-bending architecture, MVRDV has carved itself a niche in the international scene over the past ten years. Classic projects include the gravity-defying WoZoCo old age home in Amsterdam, the headquarters for public broadcasting company VPRO in Hilversum, the Dutch pavilion for World Expo 2000 in Hanover, and the recently completed Housing Silo in Amsterdam. The firm's experimental research projects on density, using a method of shaping space through complex amounts of data, have resulted in the publication FARMAX, the traveling exhibition Metacity/Datatown, and Pig City and Costa Iberica. This publication examines the context of MVRDV's research-based thinking and radical design strategies. Texts by a number of international critics, philosophers and architects probe into the whys and wherefores of MVRDV's architecture, the potential of the data-scapes, and the secret of the firm's success. Contributors compare MVRDV with other generations of architects and describe how new concepts are born.

Book The Berlage Cahiers

Download or read book The Berlage Cahiers written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Integral Urbanism

Download or read book Integral Urbanism written by Nan Ellin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integral Urbanism is an ambitious and forward-looking theory of urbanism that offers a new model of urban life. Nan Ellin's model stands as an antidote to the pervasive problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: sprawl, anomie, a pervasive culture - and architecture - of fear in cities, and a disregard for environmental issues. Instead of the reactive and escapist tendencies characterizing so much contemporary urban development, Ellin champions an 'integral' approach that reverses the fragmentation of our landscapes and lives through proactive design solutions.

Book Splintering Urbanism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Graham
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2002-09-11
  • ISBN : 113465698X
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Splintering Urbanism written by Steve Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about: *globalization and the city *technology and society *urban space and urban networks *infrastructure and the built environment *developed, developing and post-communist worlds. With a range of case studies, illustrations and boxed examples, from New York to Jakarta, Johannesberg to Manila and Sao Paolo to Melbourne, Splintering Urbanism demonstrates the latest social, urban and technological theories, which give us an understanding of our contemporary metropolis.

Book Reading Architecture and Culture

Download or read book Reading Architecture and Culture written by Adam Sharr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture displays the values involved in its inhabitation, construction, procurement and design. It traces the thinking of the individuals who have participated in it, their relationships, and their involvement in the cultures where they lived and worked. In this way, buildings, their details, and the documents used to make them, can be read closely for cultural insights. Introducing the idea of reading buildings as cultural artefacts, this book presents perceptive readings by eminent writers which demonstrate the power of this approach. The chapters show that close readings of architecture and its materials can test commonplace assumptions, help architects to appreciate the contexts in which they work, and indicate ways to think more astutely about design. The readings collected in this innovative and accessible book address buildings, specifications and photographs. They range in time from the fifteenth century – examining the only surviving drawing made by Leon Battista Alberti – to the recent past – projects completed by Norman Foster in 2006 and Herzog and De Meuron in 2008. They range geographically from France to Puerto Rico to Kazakhstan and they range in fame from buildings celebrated by critics to house extensions and motorway service areas. Taken together, these essays demonstrate important research methods which yield powerful insights for designers, critics and historians, and lessons for students.

Book The Globalization of American Infrastructure

Download or read book The Globalization of American Infrastructure written by Matthew Heins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an account of how the U.S. freight transportation system has been impacted and “globalized,” since the 1950s, by the presence of the shipping container. A globally standardized object, the container carries cargo moving in international trade, and it utilizes and fits within the existing transportation infrastructures of shipping, trucking and railroads. In this way it binds them together into a nearly seamless worldwide logistics network. This process occurs not only in ocean shipping and at ports, but also deep within national territories. In its dependence on existing infrastructural systems, though, the network of container movement as it pervades domestic space is shaped by the history and geography of the nation-state. This global network is not invariably imposed in a top-down manner—to a large degree, it is cobbled together out of national, regional and local systems. Heins describes this in the American context, examining the freight transportation infrastructures of railroads, trucking and inland waterways, and also the terminals where containers are transferred between train and truck. The book provides a detailed historical narrative, and is also theoretically informed by the contemporary literature on infrastructure and globalization.