CtEU
CtEU

Author: Maarten Simons

Publisher: Universitaire Pers Leuven

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 9058678741

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The university is an institution that goes back to the Middle Ages. As universitas magistrorum et scholarium, the university was a community of scholars and students gathered around books and preoccupied with study and the search for truth. What is the role of the university today? The meanings of teaching, study, and research have changed. Screens are replacing books, online learning environments are replacing lecture halls, and students are becoming learners. In the context of a growing emphasis on innovation and development, competition among institutions, and the privatization of knowledge, the role of communities of scholars and students is changing. Some argue that the university is entering a new phase; others claim that we face the end of the university. Curating the European University features projects involving new ways of publishing, alternative organizations of departments, proposals for open access and open source, and university architecture and accessibility; it offers a unique contribution to the public debate on the role of the university.

Cartographic Grounds
Cartographic Grounds

Author: Charles Waldheim

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1616895144

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Mapping has been one of the most fertile areas of exploration for architecture and landscape in the past few decades. While documenting this shift in representation from the material and physical description toward the depiction of the unseen and often immaterial, Cartographic Grounds takes a critical view toward the current use of data mapping and visualization and calls for a return to traditional cartographic techniques to reimagine the manifestation and manipulation of the ground itself. Each of the ten chapters focuses on a single cartographic technique—sounding/spot elevation, isobath/contour, hachure/hatch, shaded relief, land classification, figure-ground, stratigraphic column, cross-section, line symbol, conventional sign—and illustrates it through beautiful maps and plans from notable designers and cartographers throughout history, from Leonardo da Vinci to James Corner Field Operations. Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, introduces the book.

Delirio y mas
Delirio y mas

Author: Rem Koolhaas

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13:

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This extensive publication by the Spanish Architectural magazine El Croquis presents a comprehensive overview of the major building projects that Koolhaas and his OMA have created since 1996. It shows conceptual plans, drawings, floor plans, cross-sections, models and photographs of the following projects: Hyperbuilding, Bordeaux House and Pool [The Sustainable House], Port of Genoa, Universal Headquarters Building, 'De Rotterdam' Building [Vertical City], MoCA [Museum of Contemporary Arts, Rome], UN City, Schiphol City [New Concept for the Schiphol Site], Wenner House [The Distributed House], 3 USA Prada Epicenters [in-store Technology, Prada San Francisco Epicenter, Prada New York Epicenter, Prada Los Angeles Epicenter, Astor Place Hotel, Cordoba Congress Center, Flick House I & II, Whitney Museum Extension, LACMA [Los Angeles County Museum of Art], Koningin Julianaplein, CCTV Television Station and Headquarters and TVCC Cultural Center, NATO Headquarters, Deltametropool, European Union and Brussels Study, The McCormick Tribune Campus Center at IIT, H e rmitage Museum Extension, St. Petersburg, Quartier des Halles [Urban Development Study], European Central Bank Headquarters, Netherlands Embassy in Berlin, and the Content Exhibition.

Transforming Landscapes
Transforming Landscapes

Author: Françoise Fromonot

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2020-02-24

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 3035609977

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Michel Desvigne is the most renowned French landscape architect in the world. Based in Paris, he has held guest professorships at such distinguished institutions as the Architectural Association in London and Harvard University. Desvigne’s projects have a strong strategic and conceptual component. Urban infrastructure projects play a major role, and emphasize the urban planning and design expertise evident in his landscape architecture. The book documents ten of Devigne’s major projects from France, the US, Spain and Qatar, in which he is responsible not only for the landscape architecture, but for coordination of the entire project. How can such highly complex projects be realized? What does the intellectual thought process look like? What specific problems arise in their realization?

Xaveer De Geyter Architects
Xaveer De Geyter Architects

Author: Geert Bekaert

Publisher: Nai010 Publishers

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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Increasing urban sprawl throughout Western Europe is giving rise to more and more areas characterized by a diffuse urbanization or urban network. In After Sprawl, the Brussels-based firm of Xaveer de Geyter Architects examines this phenomenon by focusing on six such areas: London, England; Randstad, Holland; Brussels-Antwerp-Ghent, Belgium; the Ruhr area, Germany; Zurich-Basle, Switzerland; and the Veneto region, Italy. Their research distills a method for analysing the spatial hallmarks of today's city, replacing old urban strategies with new methodologies appropriate to the new questions being raised by these new types of cities. With a modest batch of projects to their name, Xaveer de Geyter Architects have amassed an international reputation for unpretentious architecture and urban design born of a discerning and radical strategy. De Geyter himself is noted for his longterm practice with OMA, the office of Rem Koolhaas.