Five Works - Beat Consoni
Beat Consoni is known well beyond the borders of Switzerland for his finely balanced solitaire buildings. His recent work is always based on an analysis of the urban space and the topography of the site.
Large, Lasting and Inevitable
A journey through the influential work, ideas, and trajectory of Argentinian-born architect Jorge Silvetti articulated through a revealing collection of recent conversations and a selection of his writings. Jorge Silvetti looks back on a long career as both a designing architect and as an architectural teacher and theoretician. Born in Argentina he was educated in music, the visual arts, and architecture amidst the vibrant culture and political turmoil of Buenos Aires in the 1950s and 60s. Silvetti continued his studies and began teaching at the University of California Berkeley after 1967, where his professional association with Rodolfo Machado began. Their work together continues until today as Machado Silvetti Associates, with offices in Boston and Buenos Aires. Silvetti's teaching, projects, and writings have significantly shaped contemporary architectural discourse. Large, Lasting & Inevitable is a reflection on Jorge Silvetti's impactful five decades in architecture, set against the backdrop of fervent discussions about discourse, history, cultural politics, and practice today. Featuring a selection of Silvetti's seminal writings since the 1970s alongside engaging dialogues with Mark Lee, Erika Naginski, Elisa Silva, Nader Tehrani, Alfredo Thiermann, and Nicol獺s Delgado Alcega, the book illuminates foundational moments shaping contemporary architectural thought. This journey through Silvetti's perspective is marked by his profound curiosity and clear understanding of architecture's role among the field of cultural practices, material culture, and the tangible realities of building, offering readers a deep dive into the evolution and influence of his architectural ideology.
It’s a Mood
Interior design legend Cara Woodhouse presents a bold, modern aesthetic for a new generation of design enthusiasts--and shows us how to create spaces that we will truly love to inhabit It's a Mood helps readers get in touch with their own design instincts. Organized by mood, this book offers both inspiration and practical advice for incorporating the elements that we feel passionate about. For interior designer Cara Woodhouse, interiors are experiences. Her approach goes beyond the visual, creating spaces that intuitively tap into our senses and invoke a mood that washes over all who enter. Her instinct for capturing a person's spirit and translating it into a personal space is unmatched. Woodhouse's interiors balance pattern play, an emphasis on eye candy, moody maximalism, quirky accents, and anything fun and random. With special tips on controlling sound in a space, what type of stone works best and when, and how to deck out your home office, this book is for everyone who wants to curate an authentic, original aesthetic perfectly tailored to their own preferences, while accentuating the beauty of each room. This book appeals equally to those decorating their first apartments on a budget to those setting up their forever homes with signature touches. The bold, modern design and sprayed edges make this coffee table book perfect for sharing, displaying, and gifting.
Architecture, Empire, and Trade
This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC). From the imperial Royal Niger Company's charter in the 1890s through to its suave African department stores of the 1960s, the UAC - a British company firmly embedded in the economies of colonialism, extraction, and exploitation - became the largest commercial firm in West Africa, involved in almost every commercial enterprise and sector, and responsible for procuring architecture, infrastructure, and city real-estate across a vast region. Based on unprecedented access to the UAC archives, this book pieces together a new architectural history of West Africa from the high colonial period through to independence. It reproduces an extraordinary array of newly-uncovered material - from photographs of streetscapes, buildings, and West African everyday life to civic reports and city plans - and presents these alongside critical and theoretical discussions to reveal an alternative account of the architecture of the region which stands in contrast to more conventional state-focused histories. The book explores technological, aesthetic, and political shifts through an architectural lens, and brings to the fore an awareness of the violence and appropriation which underlie each architectural episode, showing how the UAC, as a case-study, presents a unique opportunity to investigate how architecture manifests power, culture, and identity in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Liverpool.
The Urbanism Reader
Positioning design at the center of the debate, The Urbanism Reader brings together classic and contemporary readings to help designers understand the complexities of cities and urban design in the 21st century. The selection of readings presented here is uniquely tailored to a design perspective for architects and urban designers - balancing social issues in urbanism with a clear focus on foregrounding design as an instrument for change in cities, and examining the outcomes and challenges of recent design theories, design methods, and technologies in the built urban environment. Covering today's most urgent issues, 45 texts explore key topics in urbanism - from digital design technologies to smart cities, from the ongoing ecological crisis to public health and the impact of Covid-19, and from emergence and informality to economic inequity in global cities. Chapters cover cultural issues including diversity, indigenous knowledge, decolonization, social justice, and inclusion alongside technological developments, while a final chapter speculates on the future of urbanism through readings in AI, virtual reality, and the frontiers of current thinking in architecture and urban design. The extracts are grouped by theme, each with an introduction to the historical contexts and guiding paradigms - helping design students, researchers, and professionals to make sense of the diverse field of theory and practice in the past, present, and future of global urbanism.
Sustainable Cities
-It is a comprehensive and thought-provoking book that provides insights into the complex and multifaceted nature of sustainable urban development.-The book highlights the challenges and opportunities associated with creating sustainable cities and emphasizes the need for collaborative action and community engagement in achieving this goal.-The book emphasizes the importance of integrated planning and decision-making and highlights the need for interdisciplinary approaches to sustainable urban development.-It encourages readers to think critically about the realities and dreams of creating sustainable cities and the challenges associated with achieving this goal.-The book is an essential read for urban planners, policymakers, researchers, and anyone interested in the future of our cities and the planet.
Saudi Modern
Saudi Modern: Jeddah in Transition, 1938-1964, edited by Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz of Bricklab, explores the urban and architectural transformation of the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, since the discovery of oil-highlighting the city's rapid modernization and societal change. Over the last ninety years, Jeddah has transitioned from a modest walled city and pilgrimage hub into a sprawling modern metropolis. The complex urban morphology that characterizes it today can be credited to the port city's role in the Saudi Arabian oil industry that arose after the discovery of natural oil reservoirs in 1938. The industry brought foreign companies and institutions, as well as workers and their families, from around the world. The city grew beyond its old walls. Moreover, interactions with modern technologies and development models launched a radical infrastructural and architectural reconfiguration of the urban fabric. As a reaction to this dramatic shift, the language of the vernacular has become fetishized. Modernist developments post-1938 are today commonly considered inauthentic, and many of the buildings, streets, and neighborhoods that bear witness to the evolution of the city right after the discovery of oil have been demolished without formal archival documentation. In their place, new megaprojects have sprung up. Driven by global capital, Jeddah, along with other cities across the Persian Gulf, has entered yet a new phase of sweeping urban transformation. Highlighting fifteen case studies, the book further combines scholarly essays with visual contributions, presenting unparalleled documentary research and historical contextualization of the city's disappearing modernist heritage. With contributions by Asaad Badawi, Lina Barnawi, Bricklab, Abdulrahman Gazzaz, Turki Gazzaz, Laurian Ghini?oiu, Stefan Maneval, Safouh Naamani, Todd Reisz, Anhar Salem, Saudi Ethnographic Diary, Sumayya Vally, and excerpts from historical research by Abdulla Yahia Bokhari and Sameer Al Layali.
Passive Building Model
-This book has been written to present elementary practical and efficient applications in saving energy concept, as well as propose a solitary action for this category of topics.-It illustrates various methods in treatment the concept of thermal insulation such as processes and the attempt to build an efficient passive building model.-While high-performance windows are a critical component of passive buildings, transparent or translucent envelopes can also be used to increase energy performance. These materials allow natural light to enter the building while also providing thermal insulation.-A new method for numerical modeling has been described that takes into account the thermal conductivity and diffusivity of the insulation material, as well as the geometry and boundary conditions of the system.-The book would be a useful resource for students and academics studying sustainable design principles, energy-efficient building construction, and heat transfer.
Trust Your Gut
Protect your business and preserve your peace of mind.As a residential contractor, chances are you've seen it all: litigation threats, withheld payments, and indecisive clients who change plans midproject or, worse, abandon a project altogether.Are you prepared for the unexpected? How do you protect your time, subcontractors, and reputation when even one unhappy customer could derail your progress?In Trust Your Gut, Karalynn Cromeens shares why a residential construction contract is more than a legal document: it's a safety net. She shows you how to create a contract with clear expectations, breaking down the essentials and guiding you to draft contracts that work for you and your business. Learn how to handle disputes like the pro you are, include the right warranties, define the scope of work, and trust your gut when picking clients. A must-read for all residential contractors, Trust Your Gut shows you how to create peace of mind in writing.
LA+ Sense
Ever more technologies are being created to sense our environment, and much is being learned about how animals and plants sense theirs. We often think of these tools as extending our capacity for sensing what is not available through natural human perception. But what is "natural" about human perception? Not as much as was once believed, it turns out. Many of the contributors to LA+ SENSE consider how our senses have become naturalized, and our bodies and experiences standardized. Topics also include sense and surveillance, sense of place, and whether we can even trust our senses. Edited by Karen M'Closkey, contributors include Elena Abbiatici, Sarah Coleman, Tim Cresswell Lisa Yin Han, Ai Hisano, David Howes, Mark Kingwell, Jia Hui Lee, Gascia Ouzounian, Kris Paulsen, Sally Pusede, Erin Putalik, Douglas Robb, Chris Salter, Alexa Vaughn, Alexa Weik von Mossner, and Mark Peter Wright.
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The Mannerist Phase in Architecture
This book frames mannerism as an inescapable stage in the creative process. The mannerist phase is usually an adolescent stage of language, preceding the consolidation of thought. It is that period, as fertile as it is anguished, in which each author engages in a dialogue with his or her past, reinterpreting or completely transforming it. The mannerist phase is that period when architects design spaces, not yet knowing what it means to design places.The mannerist condition can be short-lived or protracted until it becomes systemic. In all cases, it is a period of research experienced by architects who are also intellectuals, that is, architects who operate between the practice of making and the elaboration of a personal design philosophy, within a perspective in which history, theory and criticism are intertwined. In this sense, the mannerist condition can also be defined as the style of the academic thought.The book explores the work of many authors, analyzing their relationship to history and how they managed to emerge from its shadow. Of interest to academics, scholars and students exploring the theory of architecture, this book offers an unconventional, transtemporal reading of mannerism, where facts, events and images belonging to different times and spaces are juxtaposed to generate a series of temporal paradoxes.
David M. Schwarz Architects
This beautifully presented monograph features the outstanding architectural and planning design work of Washington D.C.-based David M. Schwarz Architects, a firm with a significant focus on how buildings relate and contribute to their surroundings. Featuring 40 projects across the United States, the range of work in this book is extensive and includes cultural, sports and entertainment, office and residential, mixed-use, retail, hospitality, civic, healthcare, and education projects. Each project is richly photographed in lavish full color, with text commentary by Craig P. Williams, who has been associated with David M. Schwarz Architects for nearly forty-five years. All essays in this volume are based either on Craig P. Williams's firsthand recollections or direct conversations with his colleagues who worked on those projects.
Romische Mitteilungen 130 (2024)
Die Romischen Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts sind die jahrlich erscheinende Zeitschrift der Abteilung Rom des DAI. Sie fordern den internationalen wissenschaftlichen Austausch in den Bereichen Archaologie, Kunst und Architektur Italiens und angrenzender Gebiete. Die Zeitschrift versteht sich als Plattform fur die Vorstellung und Diskussion der materiellen Kultur von der prahistorischen Zeit bis ins Fruhmittelalter mit traditionellem Schwerpunkt auf der klassischen Antike. Veroffentlicht werden Beitrage von Einzelstudien bis zu Uberblicken von Grabungsergebnissen, die ein doppel-blindes Peer-Review-Verfahren durchlaufen haben. Seit Band 127 (2021) erscheinen die Romischen Mitteilungen zusatzlich zur gedruckten Ausgabe zeitgleich online im Open Access, alle Artikel sind auch in der iDAI.world als interaktive Texte aufrufbar.
Historic Building Mythbusting
'Funny, occasionally filthy and ultimately fascinating.' - Richard Herring, comedianGo to any ancient building in the land and there will be interesting and exciting stories presented to the visitor. Tales of secret passages and hidden tunnels, strange marks and carvings left by stonemasons - all commonly believed and widely repeated, but are they really true?From ship timbers being repurposed on dry land to spiral staircases giving advantage to right-handed defenders, and from archers sharpening their arrows on church stones to claims of being the oldest pub in the country, Historic Building Mythbusting seeks to uncover the real stories.Buildings archaeologist James Wright explains and unpicks the development of these myths and investigates the underlying truths behind them. Sometimes the realities hiding behind the stories are even more engaging, romantic and compelling than the myths themselves...
Trop Terrains + Open Spaces
This beautifully illustrated monograph showcases gorgeous examples of landscape architectural design by award-winning studio TROP with insights into the thought behind the designs. This beautifully illustrated monograph showcases gorgeous examples of landscape architectural design--terrain + open space--by award-winning studio TROP. Established in 2007, TROP has worked on various projects throughout Asia, including Thailand, Singapore, and China. Led by Pok Kobkongsanti, its philosophy is to create a unique design for each project that TROP works on. TROP believes that the design process is as important as the design itself, and strives to work very closely with each of its clients. TROP works include hospitality, residential, and commercial. Packed with insights into the challenges and thought behind the creation of harmonious compositions, the narrative also provides a space for reflection by the studio on its many award-winning designs. TROP's thoughtful designs succeed in creating a balance between nature, taking into consideration rainwater runoff in tropical areas, and the need to preserve greenery in large cities for the wildlife and beneficial cooling for city residents, resulting in true sustainable design.
Correlations: Life + Work
Based in a historically distinguished town near New York City, the firm of Bentel & Bentel Architects has been led for over 50 years by two generations - men and women - of one family. The interweaving of their experiences, lifestyles, and personal philosophies has produced a uniquely elegant series of works including public buildings, restaurants, and hotels. The buildings are equally notable for their thoughtful relationships to the structures they occupy or adjoin, the communities in which they stand, and the experiences of their intended users. Bentel & Bentel's accomplishments reflect not only its cumulative design experience but the insights the partners bring to their work from a variety of related activities: painting, sculpture, dance, design of furnishings, architectural history, and education. Reflecting the lives and accomplishments of the firm's partners, this monograph is composed of three narratives: Who We Are, What We Do, and Who We Were.
Disasters and Social Capital
This book analyzes social capital and preparations for natural hazards in the Philippines, arguing that economic inequality is detrimental to social capital which then makes societies more at risk of having natural hazards turn into disasters. It features a case study of a rural municipality in the Eastern Visayas region.
Architecture Asia: Local Progressive - Thailand Contemporary Architecture
Architecture Asia, as the official journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia, aims to provide a forum not only for presenting Asian phenomena and their characteristics to the world, but also for understanding diversity and multiculturalism within Asia from a global perspective. This issue reveals the development of Thailand contemporary architecture, and features five essays and twelve projects that elaborate this perspective. The five essays elaborate the contemporary architecture of Thailand in Southeast Asia, and how Thailand architecture was influenced by western architectural theories and finally found a good balance between modernization and localization. The twelve projects, accompanied with full-color photos and text descriptions, concentrate on the exploration of modernity, regionalism and futurism in Thai architecture from 1940 to 1980, and highlight architectural works that reflect on practical industrial buildings, demonstrate the exploration of Thai contemporary architecture from form, space and architecture to the complex disciplines of ecology, humanities, society and industry.
The Additional Element in Architecture
An ingenious reconstruction--and revealing analysis through "visual archaeology"--of avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich's lost arkhitektons. Among the Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich's most intriguing works, the arkhitektons are also the most enigmatic, as these quasi-architectural sculptures made in the 1920s were almost entirely lost, along with many of the accompanying drawings, or planits. In The Additional Element in Architecture, Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Paulina Bitr獺n bring Malevich's elusive arkhitektons to startling, three-dimensional life and show how these objects form a comprehensive universe that embodies the artist's Suprematism--his belief in the supremacy of pure artistic sensation in abstraction. The book features digital reconstructions of 15 arkhitektons and planits that are lost in their original physical form. Using a method they call visual archaeology, Alonso and Bitr獺n explore how these structures figure in Malevich's investigations of spatial form. In the authors' view, the arkhitektons and planits constitute a series of changing configurations, or "states," rather than fixed or closed monolithic sculptures that can be reckoned with individually. They are provisional assemblages of prismatic volumes linked only by gravity and equilibrium--ephemeral arrangements that digital modeling exposes and opens to new analysis. Along with its illustrations and analysis of the ingeniously recreated arkhitektons and planits, Alonso and Bitr獺n provide historiographical notes on the different appearances of these models, as well as a critical consideration of how Malevich's own conception of the "additional element" might place these beguiling figures within a wider history of modern architecture.
