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Das Museum Zofingen
Das Museum Zofingen konnte 1899–1901 dank einer Schenkung des Fabrikanten Gustav Rudolf Strähl erbaut werden. Der Auftrag zur Ausführung ging an den renommierten Architekten Emil Vogt, der in der Grünzone ausserhalb der Altstadt ein Gebäude im Stil der florentinischen Renaissance plante und für die Fassadengestaltung den Luzerner Sgraffito-Fachmann Seraphin Weingartner beizog. Er konzent…
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Retrospective ColumnsIonic Capitals and Perceptions of the Past in Greek Arch…
An innovative study of how and why ancient Greek builders sometimes combined older and contemporary carving styles when making capitals The Ionic order of ancient Greek architecture gradually evolved over the course of the sixth century BCE. In Retrospective Columns, Samuel Holzman examines an overlooked group of nine Ionic monuments that are varied in design but have capitals that combine the…
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Arquitecturas híbridas de culturas híbridasAnidación y eclosión del Movim…
Arquitecturas Híbridas de Culturas Híbridas proporciona unfundamento para el entendimiento crítico de las dinámicas globalestras la producción de arquitectura en nuestros días, en los que laagenda de la descolonización en ocasiones pretende desconocerque somos "tanto esto como aquello".En su análisis, devela cómo códigos indígenas, mediterráneos, racionalistas, pop y folclóricos, l…
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L'informale nei paesaggi dell'abusivismo
L'abusivismo edilizio ha assunto nel secondo Novecento i lineamenti di un fenomeno di urbanizzazione dotato di elevata aggressività territoriale, determinando situazioni di particolare urgenza in termini ambientali, di rischio e di crisi dei modelli di welfare. Nel Mezzogiorno – dove la frattura tra pianificazione e deregolamentazione si fa territorio –, l'abusivismo rivela l'urgenza di un…
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The Smart and Resilient CityModels and Ways of Life
While advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and data infrastructures offer solutions for improving urban management and quality of life a priori, they also raise major challenges and risks. This book explores the constituent dimensions of the so-called smart city from two singular angles: the new uses stimulated by innovations and the needs th…
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The Type V CityCodifying Material Inequity in Urban America
How building codes shaped material, social, and environmental landscapes in American cities. Almost every American city contains neighborhoods dominated by wood frame construction—light, cheap, combustible, and requiring the lowest upfront investment of labor and material in the building industry. Known as a Type V (five) construction in the terminology of building codes, these buildings bec…
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Centros sociales autogestionadosPor una reapropiación colectiva de la ciudad
Los centros sociales autogestionados representan formas singulares y anómalas de producir la ciudad. Su ya prolongada historia ha recibido una atención académica en aumento durante los últimos años, de la cual han participado ampliamente los autores de este libro. Sin embargo, no ha sido tan habitual su análisis e interpretación teórica de acuerdo con paradigmas como el del «derecho a …
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The Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in AsiaA Lead from Display-ness
This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia's spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. Historical and theoretical inquiries into architecture and urbanism in order to trace a notional "common divisor" are integrated with readings of this Asian imagery. Such a common divisor is conditioned to Asia's phenomenal postcolonial subjectivation and …
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AttunementArchitectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science
Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities, an architecture that is connected—attuned—to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Pérez-Gómez explains, operates as a communicative sett…
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Noah's ArkEssays on Architecture
Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a "displaced philosopher," Hubert Damisch in these essays offers a meticulous parsing of language and structure to "think architecture in a different key," as Anthony Vidler puts it in his introduction. Drawn to architecture because it provides "an open series of structural models," Damisch examines the origin of archi…
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