High Tech ArchitectureA Style Reconsidered

High Tech - sometimes known as Structural Expression - is a style of Modern architecture that produced some of the most prominent and visually exciting buildings of the twentieth century. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters in Hong Kong, the Lloyd's of London headquarters in London, UK, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. Extensively illustrated with photographs and…

La fabrique des modes d'habiterHomme, lieux et milieux de vie

Voici une plongée au coeur de l'univers mental et matériel de l'habitant, plongée éclairante pour comprendre les ressorts de ses choix résidentiels, de ses pratiques spatiales, de sa relation aux lieux qu'il traverse, occupe, transforme, qui l'encombrent ou l'aident à vivre. Le lecteur est invité à cheminer avec l'habitant, à l'intérieur de lui, pour comprendre comment il habite et po…

Ambiguous TerritoryArchitecture, Landscape and the Postnatural

The writers and designers in this collection are among the most thoughtful architects, artists, landscape architects, and theorists working today. The editors organized these essays and works of art and design around three territories: the atmospheric, the biologic, and the geologic. Each cluster of essays is further framed by forewords and afterwords, which draw individual points of view into …

Nuove città antichi segni

Il volume illustra i risultati di due Laboratori di Progettazione Architettonica del terzo anno della Facoltà di Architettura di Firenze (anni 2003-2005) dal tema "Parti urbane ed edifici dell'istituzione". Agli studenti veniva chiesto di ipotizzare ampliamenti urbani in tre aree periferiche di Firenze, Pisa e Livorno; i lavori sono quindi stati condotti in stretta collaborazione tra docenti e…

O complexo arte-arquitetura

'Arte e arquitetura nunca estiveram tão próximas como atualmente. Mas seria a mescla positiva? Em seu livro, Hal Foster critica o mau uso da arte na arquitetura e a obsessão em juntar as duas em projetos arrojados, mas esvaziados de sentido. Já a condição de complexo, cujas significações abrangem desde o léxico psicanalítico até a designação de grandes aparatos sociais – como um …

Calme Bloc

Architects, authors, and photographers – different viewpoints on a dense and complex building in Paris's 20th arrondissement. Located just above the city's eight-lane ring road, this "calm block" was recently completed by Parisian architecture firms Chartier Dalix and Avenier Cornejo, which combines a kindergarten with 240 studio apartments for young workers – in a rapidly changing neighbou…

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Skinny Streets and Green NeighborhoodsDesign for Environment and Community

Cities are growing at unprecedented rates. Most continue to sprawl into the countryside. Some are only now adopting policies that attempt to control air pollution from vehicles, reduce water pollution from urban runoff, and repair fragmented urban ecosystems. Can good urban design and sound environmental design coincide at a neighborhood level to create healthy communities? Absolutely, and the…

Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018The History of Architectural Practice in The Midd…

Using Kuwait as a case study and Pan Arab Modernism as a lens, this book comes to fill two voids in the literature on Middle Eastern architecture: one is in practice and the other is in history. The current practice of architecture in Kuwait, the Gulf and the larger Middle East, is typically a-contextual and lacking any understanding of the local context. The architectural history, on the other…

Natural Hazard MitigationRecasting Disaster Policy And Planning

The first half of the 1990s saw the largest and most costly floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the history of the United States. While natural hazards cannot be prevented, their human impacts can be greatly reduced through advance action that mitigates risks and reduces vulnerability. Natural Hazard Mitigation describes and analyzes the way that hazard mitigation has been carried out in th…