Questo volume intende proporre una riflessione volta a delimitare un campo d'interazione interdisciplinare tra linguistica e architettura, presentandosi come un'occasione e un modello di studio per provare a rispondere ad alcune domande: è lecito considerare la lingua dell'architettura un linguaggio specialistico – al pari delle scienze dure, della medicina, del diritto – o un linguaggio s…
A definitive, interdisciplinary reference to using artificial intelligence technology and data-driven methodologies for sustainable design Artificial Intelligence in Performance-Driven Design: Theories, Methods, and Tools explores the application of artificial intelligence (AI), specifically machine learning (ML), for performance modeling within the built environment. This work develops the t…
Elemento caratterizzante la città europea, la piazza appartiene alla nostra cultura da secoli. In varie declinazioni - monumentale, del mercato, conventuale, principale - la piazza, fin dalla sua comparsa in Europa, nel XII secolo, ha legato le sue trasformazioni all'evolvere delle condizioni di vita e dei modelli politici. Marco Romano, che da sempre si occupa della città, fornisce al lettor…
"This book will—no question—make you think in new ways. Why have we surrendered our cities to cars? What might it be like to inhabit a space designed for people instead? It's exciting and hopeful—this we can do!" —Bill McKibben, author of The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon Almost everywhere in the world, streets are designed for travel at the highest speed, giving precedence to…
From architecture to landscape, the step was not short, like the jumping in scale in the perspective perception of spaces. For architecture, the view stopped against a wall, to then enter and capture the space through the category of the Alberti concinnitas. This book contains articles developed for conferences and magazine papers, written over the last fi ve years, and reconstructs a theoretic…
Klöster werden zu Kindergärten und ein altes Gefängnis zur juristischen Fakultät: In Flandern sind Umnutzungen der Bestandsarchitektur so gewagt wie kaum anderswo. Bestehende Gebäude werden dank sorgfältiger Sanierungen und erfinderischer Anbauten an die aktuellen Bedürfnisse ihrer Nutzer: innen angepasst und erhalten neue Funktionen. Die aktuelle Baukultur Flanderns zeichnet sich als kr…
This book, and its individual essays, examine key emerging and evolving practices, theories and methodologies that operate in the blurred boundary between spatial design disciplines, such as architecture, interior and urban design, and film and moving image studies more broadly. The collection is an exploration of the evolving interdisciplinary rhetoric connecting spatial design discipl…
The Physical and the Digital City is a unique collection of projects where researchers and designers show how the theories of technology underpinning the digital urban environment are applied in practical and spatial terms. The authors are experts in their respective fields, who pursue cutting edge solutions for city-making and consider the theoretical premise critically. It is designed to be…
Thematically focused analysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known architects. In the mid-twentieth century, dramatic social and political change coincided with the ascendance and evolution of architectural modernism in Texas. Between the 1930s and 1980s, a state known for cowboys and cotton fields rapidly urbanized and…
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…