Bracket 3At Extremes

Bracket [at Extremes] includes critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate architecture, infrastructure and technology as they operate in conditions of imbalance, negotiate tipping points and test limit states. We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, archit…

L'action socioculturelle dans la ville

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9782296295742

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1 online resource (186 pages)

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By Practice, by InvitationDesign Practice Research in Architecture and Design…

Design Practice Research at RMIT University is a longstanding program of research into what venturous designers actually do when they design. It is probably the most enduring and sustained body of research of its kind: empirical, evidence-based and surfacing evidence about design practice. This first Pink Book documents some of its past achievements.It is probably the most enduring and sustaine…

Exploring Autodesk Revit 2020 for Architecture, 16th Edition

Exploring Autodesk Revit 2020 for Architecture is a comprehensive book that has been written to cater to the needs of the students and the professionals who are involved in Building Information Modeling (BIM) Profession. Revit 2020 book is a gateway to power, skill, and competence in the field of architecture and interior presentations, drawings, and documentations. In this book, the author has…

Les deux faces de la modernité en architecture : ornementalisme et fonction…

En ce début de XX° siècle s'épanouit à Vienne comme à Budapest une période particulièrement féconde élaborant une nouvelle esthétique. L'effervescence artistique, à la fois élégante et créative, va transformer les anciennes configurations urbaines, la ville, l'habitat et la vie au quotidien. Elle donnera naissance à des courants architecturaux novateurs dans le cadre desquels la…

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…

The Everyday Life of Memorials

A timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary—and oftentimes unseen—lives of memorials Memorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of modern society. Just as often, they are understood as sites of political contestation, where people battle over the meaning of events. But most of the time, they are neither. Instead, they take their rest as ordinary…

La vie collective des habitants du Corbusier

Dans le droit fil des théories issues de la Charte d'Athènes, la naissance des unités d'habitation selon Le Corbusier a donné lieu à 5 expériences uniques au monde, dont 4 en France entre 1952 et 1968. Ces immeubles collectifs ont en commun une architecture "utopiste", dans lesquels le projet d'ensemble comprend également un jeu d'équipements et de services mis à disposition des habita…

Green New Deal Landscapes

Given the ongoing climate and socio-ecological emergencies, it is paramount to support a socially just rethinking of the world we inhabit, which is intrinsically dependent on the health of the earth's systems. This requires a radical transformation of the role of environmental designers in developing propositions, mitigation strategies and advocacy initiatives. This issue of AD explores the p…

La ciudad latinoamericanaUna figura de la imaginación social del siglo XX

La expresión "ciudad latinoamericana" remite hoy con exclusividad a las grandes metrópolis que crecen sin control, escenarios amenazantes de violencia e inseguridad. Este libro reconstruye, en cambio, una historia fulgurante en la que la "ciudad latinoamericana" imantó el pensamiento y la acción, como punto de cruce entre los lenguajes de las ciencias sociales en su momento más experimenta…