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Architecture : a visual history
Explores the details, principal elements, and decorative features of every architectural style, from China's Temple of Heaven and the Great Mosque of Damascus, to the Guggenheim Museum and the London Olympic Velodrome.
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Digital architecture beyond computers : fragments of a cultural history of computational design
Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by designers today.
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Rethinking Design and Interiors
The world is increasingly and rapidly being affected by environmental and technological changes. It is imperative that the design profession address these developments with a new way of thinking. This book points the way for the design of interiors in this newly complex world and will be indispensable for students, practitioners, and theoreticians.The book is divided into four chapters that explore aspects of the human experience of the interior, from mans earliest search for shelter to an outline of past and current thinking on design, psychology and well-being. An epilog looks at such future concerns as population growth and sustainability and suggests how the design profession can confront these challenges.Rethinking Design and Interiors is a fascinating exploration of how art and science can come together for the benefit of those who inhabit the built environment.
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Time Matter(s): Invention and Re-Imagination in Built Conservation
Even though the idea of altering an existing building is presently a well established practice within the context of adaptive reuse, when the building in question is a 'mnemonic building', of recognized heritage value, alterations are viewed with suspicion, even when change is a recognized necessity. This book fills in a blind spot in current architectural theory and practice, looking into a notion of conservation as a form of invention and imagination, offering the reader a counter-viewpoint to a predominant western understanding that preservation should be a 'still shot' from the past. Through a micro-historical study of a Renaissance concept of restoration, a theoretical framework to question the issue of conservation as a creative endeavor arises. It focuses on Tiberio Alfarano's 1571 ichnography of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, into which a complex body of religious, political, architectural and cultural elements is woven. By merging past and present temple's plans, he created a track-drawing questioning the design pursued after Michelangelo's death (1564), opening the gaze towards other possible future imaginings. This book uncovers how the drawing was acted on by Carlo Maderno (1556-1629), who literally used it as physical substratum to for new design proposals, completing the renewal of the temple in 1626. Proposing a hybrid architectural-conservation approach, this study shows how these two practices can be merged in contemporary renovation. By creating hybrid drawings, the retrospective and prospective gaze of built conservation forms a continuous and contiguous reality, where a pre-existent condition engages with future design rejoining multiple temporalities within continuity of identity. This study might provide a paradigmatic and timely model to retune contemporary architectural sensibility when dealing with the dilemma between design and preservation when transforming a building of recognized significance.
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The ABC of styles
Ever wondered why your ceiling is shaped like the arches in a gothic cathedral? Or why your offi ce building looks so different from its neighbouring counterparts? The ABC of Styles invites you to explore the many different architectural and decorative interior styles from their ancient origins to the 1940s. Take a journey through history to see how the French aristocracy styled their palaces and castles to the simple designs of the Dominican monastic churches during the middle ages. Often, political changes implicate a stylistic transformation. Thus, the different European styles were frequently named after a sovereign or a historical period (Renaissance style, Medieval style). Until the end of the nineteenth century, the stylistic mutations of the time were generally based on the tastes of the royalty. Stylistic expression was, therefore, an affirmation of power.
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Performance-Oriented Architecture
Architecture is on the brink.It is a discipline in crisis.Over the last two decades, architectural debate has diversified to the point of fragmentation and exhaustion. What is called for is an overarching argument or set of criteria on which to approach the design and construction of the built environment.
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Atlas of never built architecture
'The Atlas of Never Built Architecture' features hundreds of the most spectacular unbuilt projects of the 20th and 21st centuries in a comprehensive, geographically arranged survey. At times impractical or fanciful but always imaginative and ambitious, the projects included in this book reveal the incredible diversity of ideas that have emerged from the world's most influential architects.
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Distilling Insights about Educational Designing from a History of Architectural Design Education
Historical studies of architectural design education have endeavored to understand the development not only of this interdisciplinary field but also how architects became architects. While these studies supply descriptions about the changing education of architects, our agenda was to distil the key characteristics of educational designs, in different periods and different cultures, that supported the education of architects in the first place. Furthermore, we considered whether this archival study could shed light on the nature and utility of the term “design” for Education. First, we scrutinized a selective history of architectural design education so as to gain insights into the nature of its educational designs. This resulted in distinguishing eight particular facets of education design: from ancient cultures with their emphasis on ensuring traditions were inherited to contemporary environments (often networked and technologically mediated) that nurture students’ research investigations. We then examined what could and could not be gleaned about designing from that scrutiny of educational design in this discipline. Whilst much was learned from this historical study, it did not yield clear guidance on designing in (architectural design) education. Distilled findings did however suggest the required character for such an investigation into educational designing.
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