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Social Housing in the Middle EastArchitecture, Urban Development, and Transna…
Essays on architecture in Kuwait, Iran, Israel, and other nations in the region, and how it can and must address the needs of local residents. As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Mid…
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Bauhaus
Una reflexión sobre el legado y la vigencia de las enseñanzas de la legendaria Bauhaus. ¿Sigue siendo relevante la Bauhaus? ¿Sigue estando vigente su legado como escuela que integraba diversas disciplinas? ¿Sigue siendo influyente en el mundo del diseño? ¿Dónde termina la realidad y empieza el puro mito en torno a las aportaciones de la Bauhaus? Tomás Maldonado fue uno de los fundador…
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Construir y habitarÉtica para la ciudad
Cómo deberían ser las ciudades del futuro? ¿Cómo ha evolucionado su planificación a lo largo de la historia? ¿Cómo afecta a nuestra vida el entorno urbano en el que vivimos? ¿Qué valores urbanísticos se deberían potenciar? ¿Qué lastres se deberían desterrar? Repensar la ciudad es el objetivo último de este libro, que hace un recorrido por su evolución partiendo de los dos ámbi…
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Das Rathaus in Schaffhausen
Das Rathaus von Schaffhausen zählt in der Schweiz zu den ältesten Bauten seiner Art. Im künstlerisch bedeutenden Innern lässt sich der politische Wandel von der Zunftherrschaft zur Demokratie in seltener Deutlichkeit ablesen. Das Gebäude wurde Ende 14. Jahrhundert als multifunktionales Kaufhaus geplant. Nachdem 1411 die Zünfte das Regiment übernommen hatten, erfolgte 1412 die Umnutzung z…
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Material ModernityInnovations in Art, Design, and Architecture in the Weimar …
Material Modernity explores creative innovation in German art, design, and architecture during the Weimar Republic, charting both the rise of new media and the re-fashioning of old media. Weimar became famous for the explosion of creative ingenuity across the arts in Germany, due to experiments with new techniques (including the move towards abstraction in painting and sculpture) and inventive …
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- 9781350228764
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SupertightModels for Living and Making Culture in Dense Urban Environments
Supertight is an exploration of high-density urban life and reducing the footprint of cites through adaptations in design and behavior. Tightness is a positive urban quality, examined through the observations of designers, with a focus on the cities of Asia. The rapidly growing large cities of Asia are critical to understanding our future footprint. Asian cities provide insights into new ways…
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Behavioral FormationVolatile Design Processes and the Emergence of a Strange …
Emergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena. These processes have come to define our contemporary understanding of the nature of becoming, which stands in contrast to established notions of architectural design and authorship. The design research of Roland Snooks is a speculation on the relationship between emergent processes of formation and arch…
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Vacant Spaces NY
Vacant Spaces NY begins gathering the incomplete data available and documenting vacant spaces in New York City. Organized from large to small, general to specific, vacancy in the United States to case studies of specific vacancies in Manhattan, Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and their architecture studio MOS imagine possibilities for repurposing current vacant spaces in New York City. This pr…
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Oser pour Tambacounda. 25 propositions pour une ambition
Voilà un livre qui s'adresse aux populations de Tambacounda qui veulent rompre avec une politique vieillie depuis des décennies, comme le racontent les témoins de l'histoire, d'un « Prince » régnant royalement sur le terroir communal entouré d'une brigade de miliciens et de laudateurs. Cet ouvrage est une invitation à ceux qui possèdent le moindre moyen d'expression, des artistes créa…
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La fabrique de la villeCommunication et design des politiques publiques urbaines
Faire la ville d'aujourd'hui ne se limite plus à intervenir seulement sur son corps biologique en érigeant des masses construites et des voiries. Avec les actuels enjeux socio-urbains (l'amplification de l'usage des TIC, la montée de la conscience durabiliste, le besoin d'une démocratie participative, etc.), la ville est devenue un laboratoire d'expérimentations et de propositions (archite…
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