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Design for a radically changing world
'Design for a Radically Changing World' brings to light the impact of design on our everyday lives and offers innovative ways that design can help address some of the world's most pressing issues and urgent crises.
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Buffalo at the Crossroads
Buffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of
cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized
importance of Buffalo, New York, within the story of American
urbanism. Across the collection, they consider the history of
Buffalo's built environment in light of contemporary developments
and in relationship to the evolving interplay between nature,
industry, and architecture.
The essays examine Buffalo's architectural heritage in rich
context: the Second Industrial Revolution; the City Beautiful
movement; world's fairs; grain, railroad, and shipping industries;
urban renewal and so-called white flight; and the larger networks
of labor and production that set the city's economic fate. The
contributors pay attention to currents that connect contemporary
architectural work in Buffalo to the legacies established by its
esteemed architectural founders: Richardson, Olmsted, Adler,
Sullivan, Bethune, Wright, Saarinen, and others.
Buffalo at the Crossroads is a compelling introduction
to Buffalo's architecture and developed landscape that will frame
discussion about the city for years to come.
Contributors: Marta Cieslak, University of Arkansas - Little
Rock; Francis R. Kowsky; Erkin Özay, University at Buffalo; Jack
Quinan, University at Buffalo; A. Joan Saab, University of
Rochester; Annie Schentag, KTA Preservation Specialists; Hadas
Steiner, University at Buffalo; Julia Tulke, University of
Rochester; Stewart Weaver, University of Rochester; Mary N. Woods,
Cornell University; Claire Zimmerman, University of Michigan
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Lines of development
The advent of complex forms in contemporary architceture has necessitated the use of developable surfaces to post-rationalize geometries of double curvature for economy and contructability.
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Forty ways to think about architecture : architectural history and theory today
How do we think about architecture historically and theoretically? Forty Ways to Think about Architecture provides an introduction to some of the wide-ranging ways in which architectural history and theory are being approached today.
The inspiration for this project is the work of Adrian Forty, Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), who has been internationally renowned as the UK's leading academic in the discipline for 40 years. Forty's many publications, notably Objects of Desire (1986), Words and Buildings (2000) and Concrete and Culture (2012), have been crucial to opening up new approaches to architectural history and theory and have helped to establish entirely new areas of study. His teaching at The Bartlett has enthused a new generation about the exciting possibilities of architectural history and theory as a field.
This collection takes in a total of 40 essays covering key subjects, ranging from memory and heritage to everyday life, building materials and city spaces. As well as critical theory, philosophy, literature and experimental design, it refers to more immediate and topical issues in the built environment, such as globalisation, localism, regeneration and ecologies. Concise and engaging entries reflect on architecture from a range of perspectives.
Contributors include eminent historians and theorists from elsewhere – such as Jean-Louis Cohen, Briony Fer, Hilde Heynen, Mary McLeod, Griselda Pollock, Penny Sparke and Anthony Vidler – as well as Forty's colleagues from the Bartlett School of Architecture including Iain Borden, Murray Fraser, Peter Hall, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell and Andrew Saint. Forty Ways to Think about Architecture also features contributions from distinguished architects, such as Tony Fretton, Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth, and well-known critics and architectural writers, such as Tom Dyckhoff, William Menking and Thomas Weaver. Many of the contributors are former students of Adrian Forty.
Through these diverse essays, readers are encouraged to think about how architectural history and theory relates to their own research and design practices, thus using the work of Adrian Forty as a catalyst for fresh and innovative thinking about architecture as a subject.
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The mother tongue of architecture : essays on architecture, urbanism, and culture : selected writings from Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
A collection of critical essays on abiding and compelling topics in architecture and the culture of architecture.
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The architecture of neoliberalism : how contemporary architecture became an instrument of control and compliance
The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture.This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive.
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Atlas of world landscape architecture
Landscape architecture is comprised of a wide and multifaceted range of very diverse outdoor space designs stern or playful, shrill or romantic, straightforward or low key. As their main building materials are trees and shrubs, flowers and grass, landscape architecture projects are in a constant state of flux. As opposed to architectural buildings, projects in this sector are therefore never quite finished or completely developed. This compendium is a reference book and source of inspiration in one, presenting around 350 current projects from around the world.
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Power and architecture
Capital cities have been the seat of political power and central stage for their state's political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. In the modern era, they provide symbols for and confer meaning to the state, thereby contributing to the \"invention\" of the nation. Capitals capture the imagination of natives, visitors and outsiders alike, yet also express the outcomes of power struggles within the political systems in which they operate. This volume addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation, urban planning, and public architecture in the Western world. It examines the role of urban design and architecture in expressing (or hiding) ideological beliefs and political agenda. Case studies include \"old\" capitals such as Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw; \"new\" ones such as Washington DC, Ottawa, Canberra, Ankara, Bonn, and Brasilia; and the \"European\" capital Brussels. Each case reflects the authors' different disciplinary backgrounds in architecture, history, political science, and urban studies, demonstrating the value of an interdisciplinary approach to studying cities.
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History of architecture from the earliest times : its present condition in Europe and the United States : with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms
Originally published in 1848, according to the author, 'every person has an individual interest in Architecture as a useful art, and all who cultivate a taste of the Fine Arts must give it a high place among them'. The chapters include examinations of many types of architecture such as Egyptian, Persian and Chinese, as well as considering the principles of architecture, the qualifications for an architect and the contemporary state of the art in America.
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Food and Urbanism
Cities are now home to over fifty per cent of the world’s population, but the contribution of food to shaping cities is often overlooked. Food matters in designing and planning cities because how it is grown, transported, bought, cooked, eaten, cleaned up and disposed of has significant effects on creating a sustainable, resilient and convivial urban future. The book explores methods for extending the gastronomic possibilities of urban space - from the scale of the table to the metropolis. Using a wealth of examples from cities worldwide, the book explores how physical design and socio-spatial arrangements focused on food can help maintain socially rich, productive and sustainable urban space. Underpinning the book’s analysis of food and cities is the view that decisions about a hyper-urban future should recognise the fundamental role of food. Food and Urbanism provides an original and new contribution to food scholarship; exploring some intriguing research questions about the ways that food, urbanism and sustainable conviviality interconnect.
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