This book focuses on new directions in architectural research, how architects develop new knowledge through their artistic design practice, working in a field between Art and Science. What new digital potentials are there in architectural media like models and drawings and how to put words on artistic research? The book offers theoretical articles, picture galleries of artistic projects, and interviews with senior-researchers at the Danish Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen and their built architectural projects.
Author Nadine Descendre draws from previously unpublished archives a wealth of extraordinarily vivid drawings, models, and photographs, to reveal the restless energy of this mid‑century polymath. In addition to creating dozens of furniture and lighting designs for American and French firms, Paulin executed commissions for clients as diverse as Renault, Air France, Maison de la Radio, a hotel complex in Palmyra (Syria), and a delicately modulated series of rooms within the Elysée Palace (the French White House). Fascinated by the possibilities of new materials, Paulin was both a modernist and a traditionalist, a designer who took equal care whether designing ordinary objects such as fans, razors, and fondue pots or crafting superbly detailed furnishings for President Mitterand.
Aimed at architects, urban designers and product designers, Biomimicry
in Architecture looks to the natural world to seek clues as to how we can
achieve radical increases in resource efficiency. Packed with inspiring case
studies predicting future trends, the principal chapters look in turn at:
structural efficiency; material manufacture; zero-waste systems; water; energy
generation; the thermal environment; and biomimetic products.
"From the penthouse to the sewers--the political
geography of the vertical city Vertical is a brilliant re-imagining
of the world we live in. Today we live in a world that can no longer
be read as a two-dimensional map. In Vertical Stephen Graham rewrites the city
at every level, calling for a a new understanding of our surroundings that
takes into account above and below: why Dubai has been built to be seen from GoogleEarth;
how the superrich in Sao Paulo live their penthouse lives far from the street;
why London billionaires build vast subterranean basements rather than move
house. Vertical will make you look at the city anew: from the viewfinders
of drones, satellites, from the top of skyscrapers, at street-level
and from underground bunkers: this is a new politics of space and
geography".
This book answers some important questions about Geoffrey
Bawa, Sri Lanka's pre-eminent architect, and his legacy. A sizeable
introduction to Bawa's world, life, education and work is reviewed by eminent
Bawa scholar, David Robson. This precedes a site-by-site tour of 45 of his
buildings scattered throughout Sri Lanka, Many are considered "pilgrimage
sites" by up-and-coming architects, designers and lay people interested in
his extraordinary and enduring talent. Insightful texts, contemporary and
archive photographs and a plethora of drawings illustrate the individual
buildings that range from private dwellings to public buildings, schools and
hotels. Each is representative of Bawa's pioneering work on tropical modernism. The book
ends with a brief section on buildings that have been transformed, lost or are at
risk for one reason or another.
The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest
artefact of all time: the city. We live in a world that is now
predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first
century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying
forces that shape our cities, such as resources and land, to the ideas
that shape conscious elements of design, whether of buildings or of space.
Erudite and entertaining, he considers the differences between
capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often
feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners, Muscovites, or Mumbaikars
than in our national identities.
Diasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how
architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing
migration. Arguing that diasporic inhabitations can only be understood as the
co-production of space, subjectivity and politics, the book explores questions
of difference, belonging and movement in the city. Through focusing on a series
of examples, it reveals how diasporas produce new types of spaces and develop
new subjectivities in the contemporary European metropolis. It explores the way
in which geo-politics affects individual lives and how national and regional
borders inscribe themselves onto diasporic bodies. The book claims that the
multiple belongings of diasporic citizens, half-here and half-there, provoke a
crisis in the standard modes of architectural representation that tend to
homogenise and flatten experience. Instead Diasporic Agencies makes a case for
a non-representational approach, where the displacement of the diasporic
subject and their consequent reterritorialisation of space are developed as
modes of thinking and doing. In parallel, mapping otherwise is proposed as a
tool for spatial practitioners to work with these multi-layered spaces.
“…the guide for these designers and a breakdown of the
prospects and challenges they face. Topics include: Methods for launching a
venture into the market; Tips on presentation, pitch and public relations; How
to legally protect intellectual property; Ways to do effective research, and
crowd source; How to benefit from social media; Sources for funding and
investment and incubators; and, Case studies from successful and startup
entrepreneurs.”
"Cut that out is a showcase for all the creative
possibilities of collage in contemporary graphic design. Curated by Ryan Doyle
and Mark Edwards, who work together as the studio DR.ME, it features the work
of fifty leading designers and studios from across the globe ... each
of whom uses collage techniques in spectacularly inventive and diverse
ways."
Criticat is an independent journal of architectural
criticism published twice annually. Twenty-three exemplary articles have been
selected from the journal’s first ten issues, and appear here in English for
the first time. Sharp and insightful, the writings in Yours Critically will
appeal to anyone curious about how our built environment reflects and informs
the forces — social, political, economic, cultural — shaping our world today.
An endless source of visual stimulation for designers, the
natural world encompasses all possibilities from the ubiquitous to the
improbable. Organic Design features designs that have made use of this plethora
of opportunities to craft unique products that show their inspiration while
retaining each designer’s distinct vision... Includes illustrations from the
designer's own sketchbooks as well as process photography documenting the act
of creation.
“… revisits Krauss’s hugely influential text and maps
the ensuing interactions between art and architecture. Responding to
Krauss and revisiting the milieu from which her text emerged, artists,
architects, and art historians of different generations offer their
perspectives on the legacy of “Sculpture in the Expanded Field.”
Including general guidelines, drawings, and instructive
examples, this work develops an essential perspective previously absent from
health care design. Design That Cares contains a plethora of concrete
architectural advice that will serve as an excellent place for executives to
begin in rethinking present facility design in health care.
Bringing together contributions from landscape architects
across the world, this book covers a broad range of research methodologies and
examples to help you conduct research successfully. Also included is a study in
which the editors discuss the most important priorities for the research within
the discipline over the coming years. This book will provide a definitive path
to developing research within landscape architecture.
“…connects the study of design with care, and explores how
concepts of care may have relevance for the ways in which urban environments
are designed. It explores how practices and spaces of care are sustained
specifically in urban settings, thereby throwing light on an important arena of
care that current work has rarely discussed in detail.”
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