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Book Lebbeus Woods  Exquisite Experiments  Early Years

Download or read book Lebbeus Woods Exquisite Experiments Early Years written by Aleksandra Wagner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American architect Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012) remains a quiet hero not only among his colleagues, but also for architectural students intrigued by the ideas and fluent beauty of his powerful graphic verve, as well as of his writing. His projects from the mid-1980s until the end of his life have been widely published. However, this AD, in collaboration with the Estate of Lebbeus Woods, explores the earlier period beginning in the late 1960s when Woodswas honing his draughtsmanship and theoretical positions while experimenting with a variety of themes and different modes of expression. When he burst onto the international architectural scene with a solo exhibition and accompanying catalogue (Lebbeus Woods: Origins) at the Architectural Association, London, in 1985, some wondered how anyone could emerge so fully formed, from nowhere. Working against the logic of ‘nowhere’, this issue charts his early trajectory through the largely unpublished drawings and texts, linking them with what came after. Aiming to generate new scholarship, its roster of international interdisciplinary critics and commentators offer a new understanding of Woods’s work and of his formative years, also shining a light on how we might think about the ‘early work’ of any architect’s career. Contributors: Joseph Becker, Aaron Betsky, Peter Cook, Mark Dorrian, Riet Eeckhout, Kevin Erickson, Joerg Gleiter, Sharon Irish, Eliyahu Keller, Lawrence Rinder, Ashley Simone, Ben Sweeting.

Book Multispace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Owen Hopkins
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2023-10-30
  • ISBN : 1394163541
  • Pages : 139 pages

Download or read book Multispace written by Owen Hopkins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guest-edited by Owen Hopkins Multispace exists at the intersection of the physical and digital, and in the blurring of their previously clear dividing lines. Multispace is not a single space, but a hybrid space where, in effect, we occupy multiple spaces simultaneously. We enter it on a Zoom call, when we are in our office and in a meeting with 20 people; when we are cycling down a country lane whilst racing against thousands of others who also use the Strava app; when we are watching a TV show while live tweeting; or, perhaps most literally, when wandering around the local park looking for creatures that only appear on a smartphone screen. A fundamental question of this AD is why the phenomena that multispace describes are of concern to architects. The answer is that multispace points to a situation that is at root an architectural one. Offering both a collective and highly personalised experience, static and dynamically customisable, and above all at the same time public and private, multispace lies at the centre of a set of tensions, concerns and preoccupations at the core of our conception of architecture as theory and practice. It is the messy space between, with rough and uneven edges that are constantly shifting. Contributors: Aleksandra Belitskaja, Alice Bucknell, Jesse Damiani, Wendy Fok, Andrew Kovacs, Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg, Micaela Mantegna, Holly Nielsen, Giacomo Pala, Paula Strunden, Lucia Tahan, and Francesca Torello and Joshua Bard. Featured architects and artists: iheartblob, Ibiye Campis, Office Kovacs, Space Popular and Liam Young.

Book Art and Architecture

Download or read book Art and Architecture written by Neil Spiller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The link between architecture and art and the sublimity it can create has a history that stretches back millennia. From cave paintings to the stained glass and saintly icons in churches and cathedrals, to the geometric and calligraphic treatments of mosques and contemporary artists channelling architecture and vice versa, and so much else. This AD is about the contemporary interactions between living artists and architects, and the artistic practices, such as poetry and abstractions, that architects adopt to develop ideas for their projects. The issue features artists, architects, curators, musicians, poets and designer craftspeople, illustrating the current rich mix of architectonic constructions, interventions and set pieces that range from musical performance to exhibition designs, glass works and digital 3D scanning. It lays out the wide spectrum and beauty of these sublime correspondences, with contributions from architects about their own artistic practices, and creative works viewed through the eyes of architectural commentators. An explosion of colour, form and creative tactics for making multifaceted work that above all is architectural, it offers a cornucopia of possibilities. Contributors: Peter Baldwin, Kathy Battista, Nic Clear, Mathew Emmett, Paul Finch, Paul Greenhalgh, Hamed Khosravi, Eva Menuhin, Felix Robbins, and Simon Withers. Featured architects and artists: a-project, Captivate, Brian Clarke, Andy Goldsworthy, Barbara Hepworth, Danny Lane, Ben Johnson, Brendan Neiland, Ian Ritchie, and Zoe Zenghelis.

Book Anarchitecture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lebbeus Woods
  • Publisher : Academy Press
  • Release : 1992-10-15
  • ISBN : 9781854901484
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Anarchitecture written by Lebbeus Woods and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 1992-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of Woods' visionary architecture which is concerned with the cultural regeneration of society.

Book Posthuman Architectures

Download or read book Posthuman Architectures written by Mark Garcia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Posthuman is the new paradigm of architecture. Encompassing related topics such as the post-Anthropocene, more-than-human, non-human, trans-human, anti-human and meta-human, this AD presents a synthesis of the architectural Posthuman. Proliferating and diversifying, the Posthuman is now as planetary as it is everyday, and as disruptive, contested and contradictory as it is sublime. From the detail to the interplanetary, and from real and fictional designs and spaces to more proleptic universe-building futures, the issue describes and speculates on these spectacular and shocking new species. It envisions the Posthuman through the array of emerging technologies, and features original contributions from academics, professionals, design studios and related disciplines and domains. These new spaces include the full electromagnetic spectrum and present new entanglements of Posthuman theories and technologies. Contributors: Mario Carpo; Paul Dobraszczyk; Alberto Fernandez; Ariane Harrison; Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger and Olga Bannova; Steven Hutt; Xavier de Kestelier, Levent Ozruh and Jonathan Irwan; Sylvia Lavin; Jacopo Leveratto; Tyson Hosmer, Roberto Bottazzi and Mollie Claypool; Colbey Reid and Dennis Weiss; Andrew Witt; and Brent Sherwood. Featured designers and architects: Blue Origin, Christian Rex van Minnen, Harrison Atelier, and Hassell.

Book Ghost Stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter J. Baldwin
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2024-07-15
  • ISBN : 1394185081
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book Ghost Stories written by Peter J. Baldwin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not without irony that in an age characterised by the dissolution of certainty – a consequence of digital dematerialisation and the catastrophic destabilisation of our social institutions and natural world – architecture, for so long the repository for our myths and the vessel for our intangible narratives and rituals, has been stripped bare. Increasingly preoccupied with the physical, material and measurable, architecture has forfeited its original purpose as a mediating link between the tacit and the tangible. Drawing on the current resurgence and our enduring cultural fascination with the ethereal and uncanny, this AD frames the spectral as a deconstructive gesture that undermines the fixedness and certainties of binary logics, a means to develop new practices and positions from which to address our contemporary uncertainties. Gathering a body of work that explores and speculates on architecture’s long romance with the incorporeal, the issue is intended as a catalyst through which latency, contingency and indeterminacy, inherent characteristics of the architectural condition, can once more be valued, cultivated and nurtured. Contributors: Kirsty Badenoch; Michael Chapman;Nat Chard;Oliver G Goche and Peter P Goché; Perry Kulper; Ifigeneia Liangi and Daniel Dream; Eva Menuhin; Mark Morris; Mike Phillips; Ian Ritchie; Chris Speed, and Cameron Stebbing Featured architects and designers: Captivate: Spatial Modelling Research Group, Daniel Libeskind, Night Kitchen Studio, Michael Sandle, and Ritchie Studio

Book The New City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lebbeus Woods
  • Publisher : Touchstone Books
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book The New City written by Lebbeus Woods and published by Touchstone Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas

Download or read book Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas written by John H. Stubbs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “From such well-known and long-vexed sites as the Athenian Acropolis to more contemporary locales like the Space Age Modernist capital city of Brasília, the conflicting and not always neatly resolvable forces that bear upon preservation are addressed as clearly and thoughtfully as the general reader could hope for.”—New York Review of Books “...an astonishing feat of research, compilation and synthesis.”—Context The book delivers the first major survey concerning the conservation of cultural heritage in both Europe and the Americas. Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas serves as a convenient resource for professionals, students, and anyone interested in the field. Following the acclaimed Time Honored, this book presents contemporary practice on a country-by-country and region-by-region basis, facilitating comparative analysis of similarities and differences. The book stresses solutions in architectural heritage protection and the contexts in which they were developed.

Book Radical Reconstruction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lebbeus Woods
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 2001-03-01
  • ISBN : 9781568982861
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Radical Reconstruction written by Lebbeus Woods and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lebbeus Woods is widely regarded as the most exciting and original architectural visionary today. His body of theoretical work and extraordinary drawings have served as inspiration for architects, artists, and legions of students. Radical Reconstruction, now available in paperback for the first time, contains projects that address the relationships between architecture and war, political revolution/reaction, and natural disasters. These projects define new approaches to the reconstruction of buildings and urban fabric damaged by unpredictable and largely uncontrollable forces of both human and natural origin.

Book Designs from India

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dover
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2007-09-19
  • ISBN : 048699886X
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Designs from India written by Dover and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2007-09-19 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting centuries of design from traditional crafts and textiles, 279 resplendent images will leave artists and designers breathless. A luminous color collection.

Book Julian Schnabel

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  • Author : Julian Schnabel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9788857211022
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Julian Schnabel written by Julian Schnabel and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, more than 40 works trace Julian Schnabel's artistic career from the 1970s to the present day and provide the chance to admire the paintings and sculptures of a great creative man who is considered an all round American phenomenon.

Book Architectural Research Methods

Download or read book Architectural Research Methods written by Linda N. Groat and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to research for architects and designers—now updated and expanded! From searching for the best glass to prevent glare to determining how clients might react to the color choice for restaurant walls, research is a crucial tool that architects must master in order to effectively address the technical, aesthetic, and behavioral issues that arise in their work. This book's unique coverage of research methods is specifically targeted to help professional designers and researchers better conduct and understand research. Part I explores basic research issues and concepts, and includes chapters on relating theory to method and design to research. Part II gives a comprehensive treatment of specific strategies for investigating built forms. In all, the book covers seven types of research, including historical, qualitative, correlational, experimental, simulation, logical argumentation, and case studies and mixed methods. Features new to this edition include: Strategies for investigation, practical examples, and resources for additional information A look at current trends and innovations in research Coverage of design studio–based research that shows how strategies described in the book can be employed in real life A discussion of digital media and online research New and updated examples of research studies A new chapter on the relationship between design and research Architectural Research Methods is an essential reference for architecture students and researchers as well as architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and building product manufacturers.

Book Welfare Architecture for All  C F  M  ller Architects

Download or read book Welfare Architecture for All C F M ller Architects written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book illuminates the human and holistic approach to architecture by the Scandinavian office C.F. Møller Architects, in order to to inspire to a new approach in the industry. Consisting of a series of essays, the book explores the company?s most recent projects in relation to today?s biggest challenges and changes in architecture, urban planning and design.0How can architecture enable better socialising, living, working, learning and healing? This book will aim to answer those questions.0C.F. Møller Architects is one of Scandinavia?s leading architectural firms, with 90 years of award-winning work in the Nordic region and worldwide0Today C.F. Møller has app. 300 employees. Head office is in Aarhus, Denmark and branches in Copenhagen, Aalborg, Oslo, Stockholm and London.

Book Computation Works

    Book Details:
  • Author : Xavier De Kestelier
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-04-15
  • ISBN : 1119952867
  • Pages : 155 pages

Download or read book Computation Works written by Xavier De Kestelier and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects are now taking advantage of the computer in new ways through experimentation with algorithmic and simulation-driven design. Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought focuses on this emerging theme in design practice, showcasing built and soon-to-be-built projects and providing a state of the art in computational design. Computational design is considered to be first a design tool, and second a series of instruments that can be applied in the creation of architecture. It allows architects to incorporate performance analysis and knowledge about material, tectonics and the parameters of production machinery. Moving towards a new role as hybrid practitioners, architects are taking concepts from other disciplines and customising architectural and other CAD software. In addition to the discussion of built projects, a further series of texts examines new custom software instruments. New digital tools provide new modes of representation, new methods of evaluation, and new techniques for design exploration. The development of new computational tools can create more responsive designs, allowing architects to explore new design options and to analyse architectural decisions during the design process. This issue raises important questions such as: How is computation changing the way architects design? Are the design tools and methods related to the result? What is computational design in the context of architectural practice? and How is computation changing the processes of design and construction?

Book Slow Manifesto  Lebbeus Woods Blog

Download or read book Slow Manifesto Lebbeus Woods Blog written by Lebbeus Woods and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 2007, Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012), long admired for his visionary architecture and mastery of drawing, began a blog. Part forum and part public journal, the eclectic mix of articles, drawings, anecdotes, poetry, interviews, and photographic essays explored topics ranging from architectural theory and criticism to education and politics. Amassing more than three hundred entries by its end in the summer of 2012, it is regarded by many as the most comprehensive and accessible archive of Woods's prodigious creativity. Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog, an edited volume of the blog's centerpiece entries, stands as a fragmentary essay on the nature of architecture that will be dear to architects, students, and thinkers everywhere.

Book Nordic Architects

Download or read book Nordic Architects written by David B. Sokol and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by David Sokol, Nordic Architects includes a unique question-and-answer format that provides firsthand accounts of the dialogues shaping northern Europe's design community. Readers will engage with the region's enduring legacy of modernist architecture that is sensitive to site and occupants as well as the global currents that are moving designers toward experimental work and provocative thinking. The volume spans architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture within the Nordic countries and beyond, and features a crisp layout punctuated by stunning photography.

Book Considering Forgiveness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aleksandra Wagner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780982174500
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Considering Forgiveness written by Aleksandra Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Aleksandra Wagner with Carin Kuoni, Matthew Buckingham. Contributions by Anne Aghion, Ayreen Anastas, Gregg Bordowitz, Omer Fast, Rene Gabri, Andrea Geyer, Mark Godfrey, Sharon Hayes, Sandi Hilal with Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman, Susan Hiller, Julia Kristeva, Lin & Lam, Jeffrey K. Olick, Brian D. Price, Jane Taylor, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl.