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Author: José Rafael Moneo
Publisher: Mit Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780262134439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a compilation of lectures given to students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on the work of contemporary architects.
Author: Enis Aldallal
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-10
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1317548787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSite and Composition examines design strategies and tactics in site making. It is concerned with the need for a renewed understanding of the site in the twenty-first century and the need for a critical position regarding the continued tendency to view the site as an isolated ‘fragment’ severed from its wider context. The book argues revisiting the traditional instruments or means of both siting and composition in Architecture to explore their true potential in achieving connections between site and context. Through the various examples studied here it is suggested that such instrumental means have the potential for achieving greater poetic outcomes. The book focuses on the works of twentieth century architects of wide-ranging persuasion – Peter Eisenman, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvaro Siza, Herzog and de Meuron, and Charles Correa, for example – who have strived in quite different ways to achieve deeper engagement with the physical qualities of place and context. Departing from a reconsideration of the fragment, Site and Composition emphasises the role of the ‘positive fragment’ in achieving both historical continuity and renewed wholeness. The potential of both planimetric and sectional compositional methods are explored, emphasising the importance of reciprocity between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ – between fragment and the whole, as well as materiality. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book makes vital reading for both researchers and students of architecture and urbanism.
Author: Diane Ghirardo
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0300234937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautifully illustrated book provides a crucial new look at Aldo Rossi's built work in relationship to his writings, drawings, and product design, and explores his contributions to the architecture in postwar Italy.
Author: Ray Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-29
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1317148207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focuses on parallel projections such as axonometric, isometric, and oblique drawings. Ray Lucas argues that by retracing the marks made by architects, we can begin to engage more directly with their practice as it is only by redrawing the work that hidden aspects are revealed. The practice of drawing offers significantly different insights, not easily accessible through discourse analysis, critical theory, or observation. Using James Stirling, JJP Oud, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk, and Cedric Price as case studies, Lucas highlights each architect's creative practices which he anaylses with reference to Bergson's concepts of temporality and cretivity, discussing ther manner in which creative problems are explored and solved. The book also draws on a range of anthropological ideas including skilled practice and enchantment in order to explore why axonometrics are important to architecture and questions the degree to which the drawing convention influences the forms produced by architects. With 60 black-and-white images to illustrate design development, this book would be an essential read for academics and students of architecture with a particular interest in further understanding the inner workings of the architectural creative process.
Author: Braden R. Engel
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2022-05-11
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1527582957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColin Rowe is recognized as one of the most influential architecture teachers of the twentieth century, yet he is more popularly known for his critical essays. This book investigates the methods that made Rowe such an influential teacher. Paralleling the promises of the modernists to biblical prophecies of salvation, Rowe led his students into the temptations of modern architecture in order to test their convictions in architectural design. Everything Rowe did taught, and, beyond his published writing, this book uniquely pulls from his personal notes, sketches, talks, and thoughts. This analysis of Rowe’s use of irony, paradox, ambiguity, and subversion will benefit educators and designers interested in the roles of mischief and curiosity in creative endeavors. The book offers a more balanced appreciation of Colin Rowe, while rethinking attitudes to pedagogy, historical interpretation, and meaning in the arts.
Author: Andra PANAIT
Publisher: Editura Universitara Ion Mincu, Bucuresti / Ion Mincu University Publishing House, Bucharest
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 205
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternational Conference on Architectural Research - ICAR 2015 RESEARCH THROUGH ARCHITECTURE ISSN 2393 - 4433 ISSN-L 2393 - 4433 Descrierea CIP a Bibliotecii Naţionale a României Re[search] through architecture / ed.: conferenţiar dr. arh. Andra Panait. - Bucureşti : Editura Universitară “Ion Mincu”, 2015. – (International Conference on Architectural Research - ICAR 2015, ISSN 2393-4433, ISSN L-2393-4433) ISBN 978-606-638-112-3 I. Panait, Andra (ed.) 72 Graphic design: Andra Panait We acknowledge the help in preparing this volume to the following peoples: assoc.prof. Daniel Comşa, Arch.PhD; assoc.prof. Elena-Codina Duşoiu, arch.PhD; assoc.prof. Francoise Pamfil, arch.PhD; lecturer Marina Mihăilă, Arch.PhD; assist. Daniel ARMENCIU, Arch.PhD, assist. Oana DIACONESCU, Arch.PhD; assist. Mihaela ZAMFIR, Arch.PhD; assist. Raluca BOROŞ, Arch.PhD student. © “Ion Mincu” Publishing House Bucharest Introduction Under the title theme Re[Search] through Architecture, ICAR 2015 proposes a debate of the subject defining some new principles of nowadays architectural design. In the XXI-st century, in searching of a “style”, after Postmodernism, it is considered that new architecture based on algorithms and parameters may offer new senses of space continuity and legibility. In opposite, the contextualist and phenomenologist movements consider this approach as a formal and fragile tendency, culturally un-sustained and which won’t prove its consistence in time as utopist and futurist did. Topics like new avant-garde movement, stylistic searching, anachronistically architecture, space continuities and correspondences, lived architecture or experimental manifesto projects, the evolving of geometries, urban continuities or classical defragmentation, functional zoning, social impact scenarios, space formalization, aesthetic and symbolic design values, authentically or new built archaeology, sustainable design etc. will be presented and debated under three main sections: Traditional versus Computational, Innovation and Experiment, Archive – Utopia – Events. Built / Unbuilt. Assoc.Prof. Beatrice-Gabriela JÖGER, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania COMMITTEES General Chair Assoc.Prof. Beatrice-Gabriela JÖGER, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Local arrange chair Assoc.Prof. Daniel COMŞA, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Visual Identity, Publications Coordinator Assoc.Prof. Andra PANAIT, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania SECTIONS 1. Traditional versus Computational Chair: Assoc.Prof. Elena Codina DUŞOIU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest Assistant chair: Assist.Prof. Oana DIACONESCU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest 2. Innovation and Experiment Chair: Assoc.Prof. Françoise PAMFIL, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest Assistant chair: Lecturer Marina MIHĂILĂ, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest 3. Archive – Utopia – Events. Built / Unbuilt Chair: Assoc.Prof. Daniel COMŞA, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest Assistant chair: Assist.Prof. Mihaela ZAMFIR, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT Assist.Prof. Daniel ARMENCIU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest Assist.Prof. Raluca BOROŞ, Arch, PhD student, UAUIM, Bucharest SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Prof. Byeong-Joon KANG, Arch, PhD, INJE University -Ghimbae, South Corea Assoc.Prof. João MENEZES DE SEQUEIRA, Arch, Head of Architectural Department, Ulusofona, Lisbon, Portugal Prof. Antonino SAGGIO, Arch, PhD, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy Assoc.Prof. Maria VOYATZAKI, Arch, PhD, School of Architecture of Aristotle Univer¬sity of Thessaloniki, Greece Assoc.Prof. Cosmin CACIUC, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Daniel COMŞA, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Codina DUŞOIU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Cristina ENACHE, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Ştefan GHENCIULESCU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Celia GHYKA, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Prof. Augustin IOAN, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Beatrice-Gabriela JÖGER, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Zina MACRI, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Anca MITRACHE, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Françoise PAMFIL, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Gabriel PASCARIU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Alexandru PETRIŞOR, Ecol., PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Monica RĂDULESCU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Assoc.Prof. Claudiu RUNCEANU, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania Prof. Ana Maria ZAHARIADE, Arch, PhD, UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Juan P. HINESTROZA, Assoc.Prof., Director of The Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory, College of Human Ecology of Cornell University, USA. Karin HOFERT FEIX, Arch., Profesor Titular E.U., Department of Architectural Design, Barcelona School of Architecture ETSAB, Politechnical University of Catalunya UPC, Spain Romolo MARTEMUCCI, Arch., PhD, Professor of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Director of Pennsylvania State University - Sede di Roma; President of Pantheon Institute, Rome; President of Accademia Adrianea di Architettura e Archeologia, Rome, Italy João MENEZES DE SEQUEIRA, Arch, PhD, MsC, Assoc.Prof., Head of Architectural Department, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal Zuhal ULUSOY, Arch., PhD, Professor, Dean of Faculty of Art and Design, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey Maria VOYATZAKI, Arch, PhD, Assoc.Prof., School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Author: Leen Meganck
Publisher: Universitaire Pers Leuven
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9058679187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe complex and shifting relation between regionalism and modernity With its search for purity, honesty, modesty, and ‘fitness of purpose', the late 19th and early 20th century concept of architectural regionalism is seminal to the modern movement. In later historiography, however, regionalism in Europe was neglected and even labeled ‘backward'. The origins of this drastic change of perception can be traced to the 1930s, when regionalism as a positive form gradually turned into a ‘closed' form of regionalism, a folding back on one's own region as a defence mechanism in an economically and politically turbulent decade.
Author: Shirley Montgomery
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-01-30
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1300672668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the global need for sustainable building. The number of people on earth and their use of the resources of the planet for energy make it necessary to build differently. The planet is showing serious signs of stress. According to Dr. David Grissmer, my sister's husband, as we all rode together recently through the melting Columbia ice field in Alberta, Canada, "The consequences of global warming are potentially catastrophic, and since the preventative strategies are likely to take decades to work, even if the chances are small that humans are the cause, we need to begin to address the issue." I knew this was a guarded statement from a physicist about what had possibly caused the changed ecosystems in our world.
Author: Paul Guyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1108820425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that the fundamental goals of architecture remain valid despite constant changes in human activities, technologies, and styles.
Author: Jianfei Zhu
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-11-30
Total Pages: 1016
ISBN-13: 1317914716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook, representing the collaboration of 40 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of roughly 6,000 years of Chinese architecture, from ancient times to the present. This volume combines a broad-spectrum approach with a thematic framework for investigating Chinese architecture, integrating previously fragmented topics and combining the scholarship of all major periods of Chinese history. By organizing its approach into five parts, this handbook: Traces the practices and traditions of ancient China from imperial authority to folk culture Unveils a rich picture of early modern and republican China, revealing that modernization was already beginning to emerge Describes the social, intellectual, ideological, and formal enterprises of socialist architecture Frames a window on a complex and changing contemporary China by focusing on autonomy, state practices, and geopolitics of design, ultimately identifying its still evolving position on the world stage Examines the existing cultural and political theories to highlight potential avenues for future transformations in Chinese architecture that also retain Chinese identity Providing a pioneering combination of ancient and modern Chinese architecture in one coherent study, this book is a must-read for scholars, students, and educators of Chinese architecture, architectural history and theory, and the architecture of Asia.
