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Dimensions. Journal of Architectural KnowledgeVol. 2, No. 4/2022: Essentials …
»Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge« is an academic journal in, on, and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution, and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and architectural modes of interdisciplinary methodological adaptions. Processes, procedures, and results of knowledge creation and practice are…
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Antropologia immobiliareComportamenti dell'abitare e marketing immobiliare
Quando e perché decidiamo di acquistare un'abitazione? Il prezzo è davvero così importante oppure sono altri i fattori che accelerano o inibiscono la nostra scelta? Esiste la casa dei sogni o sono gli stimoli del marketing, le riviste di moda, le suggestioni suscitate dai progetti delle archistar ad imporci nuovi modelli dell'abitare? Corroborato da un'approfondita ricerca sul campo, il libr…
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Agenda: JDS ArchitectsCan We Sustain our Ability to Crisis?
AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architec…
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Crown Hall Dean's Dialogues 2012-2017
Crown Hall Dean's Dialogues: 2012-2017 collects incisive, intimate thoughts from leading contemporary architects in dialogue with students from the Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture. This title collects the voices of 18 esteemed architects, designers, educators and theorists in dialogue with students from the Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture. Voi…
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Critical Prison DesignMas d'Enric Penitentiary by AiB arquitectes + Estudi PS…
The newly built Mas d'Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture's role in the problematic subject of prison design. The prison is an uncomfortable institution and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. This servility forces the prison out of the socio-cultural realm where it belongs, thus erasing it from public discourse. "Mas d'Enric" is a new pe…
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Interdisciplinary DesignNew Lessons from Architecture and Engineering
Architects and engineers both claim to be designers, though how they define design and the approaches they use to realize it, vary widely. However their interaction has also created some of the world's most memorable, enduring and impressive buildings. The unprecedented impact of digital technologies illuminates the complexity and non-linearity of the process that these designers go through whi…
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Verb CrisisVerb #06
Verb Crisis examines architectural solutions to the extraordinary conditions of an increasingly dense and interdependent world.It presents innovative projects and research through original photos, essays, and exclusive interviews with key figures from architecture and urban planning to environmental, economic, and global affairs. Confronted by shifting densities and uncharted urban transformati…
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Adapting Cities to Sea Level RiseGreen and Gray Strategies
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy floods devastated coastal areas in New York and New Jersey. In 2017, Harvey flooded Houston. Today in Miami, even on sunny days, king tides bring fish swimming through the streets in low-lying areas. These types of events are typically called natural disasters. But overwhelming scientific consensus says they are actually the result of human-induced climate change and ir…
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Artful Rainwater DesignCreative Ways to Manage Stormwater
Stormwater management as art? Absolutely. Rain is a resource that should be valued and celebrated, not merely treated as an urban design problem—and yet, traditional stormwater treatment methods often range from ugly to forgettable. Artful Rainwater Design shows that it's possible to effectively manage runoff while also creating inviting, attractive landscapes. This beautifully illustr…
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Creating Green RoadwaysIntegrating Cultural, Natural, and Visual Resources in…
Roads and parking lots in the United States cover more ground than the entire state of Georgia. And while proponents of sustainable transit often focus on getting people off the roads, they will remain at the heart of our transportation systems for the foreseeable future. In Creating Green Roadways, James and Matthew Sipes demonstrate that roads don't have to be the enemy of sustainability: the…
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