Architecture As Nature

Author : Paolo Portoghesi
Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 : 9788881186587
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature and Architecture written by Paolo Portoghesi and published by Skira. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-illustrated text is the result of a research project begun in the 1950s, which relates forms of architecture - and even more, the rules and ideas that have charcterized architectural production down the centuries - with the forms of nature.

Author : Diana Agrest
Publisher : ORO Applied Research + Design
ISBN 13 : 9781939621948
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture of Nature written by Diana Agrest and published by ORO Applied Research + Design. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on documentation originating in the environmental sciences, history of science, philosophy and art, Architecture of Nature explores the materiality and the effects of the forces at play in the history of the earth through the architect's modes of seeing and techniques of representation. This book presents the research work developed for the past eight years in the Advanced Research graduate studio "Architecture of Nature/ Nature of Architecture," created and directed by Diana Agrest at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union. Architecture of Nature departs from the traditional approach to nature as a referent for architecture and reframes it as its object of study. The complex processes of generation and transformations of extreme natural phenomena such as glaciers, volcanoes, permafrost, and clouds are explored through unique drawings and models, confronting a scale of space and time that expands and transcends the established boundaries of the architectural discipline.

Author : Sarah Bonnemaison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134455380
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Nature written by Sarah Bonnemaison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2006 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award! The word 'nature' comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root, they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States, the relationship between nation and nature has been central to its colonial and post-colonial history, from the idea of the noble savage to the myth of the frontier. Narrated, painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity. Architecture and Nature presents an in-depth study of how changing ideas of what nature is and what it means for the country have been represented in buildings and landscapes over the past century.

Author : Philip Jodidio
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture written by Philip Jodidio and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The relationship between contemporary architecture and nature is fundamental to today's creativity. Some architects reject nature or imagine that they can create an artificial world of their own - while others are seeking new ways, aided by science and the computer, to chart new directions for the buildings of tomorrow. From ecologically-oriented designs to the most astonishing new forms, this book shows how essential nature remains to architecture."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Preston Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317749774
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of Nature written by Preston Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design. What do the terms mean? Are they de facto design requirements? Or are they unintended design replacements? The book is divided into five parts giving you multiple viewpoints on the role of the relations between architecture, nature, technology, and culture. A detailed case study of a built project concludes each part to help you translate theory into practice. This holistic approach will allow you to formulate your own theory and to adjust your practice based on your findings. Will you provoke change, design architecture that responds to change, or both? Coedited by an architect and a historian, the book features new essays by Robert Levit, Catherine Ingraham, Sylvia Lavin, Barry Bergdoll, K. Michael Hays, Diane Lewis, Andrew Payne, Mark Jarzombek, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Elizabeth Diller, Antoine Picon, and Jorge Silvetti. Five case studies document the work of MOS Architects, Michael Bell Architecture, Steven Holl Architects, George L. Legendre, and Preston Scott Cohen.

Author : Koichi Takada
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847868478
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Koichi Takada written by Koichi Takada and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first monograph on the Japanese-born, Sydney-based architect, celebrated for his innovative holistic approach to design, nature, and urbanism. Koichi Takada is part of a new generation of architects striving to bring nature back into the urban environment—an approach he developed after living in Tokyo, New York, and London. His architecture reconnects people to the natural environment, drawing inspiration from organic forms and local contexts. This elegant volume showcases a series of Takada’s recent projects, illustrating the unique way his talent connects the natural and the designed, and how it has evolved over the last ten years. Beautiful photographs of buildings and interiors juxtapose against sketches and images of nature—illustrating the aesthetic inspirations behind the designs and the way they embody light, air, and even sound. Philip Jodidio’s texts guide readers through the range of spaces that span from the interiors of the award-winning National Museum of Qatar in Doha and Urban Forest in Brisbane, the “greenest residential building in Australia,” to striking buildings in Sydney, Melbourne, Los Angeles, China, and the construction of a new space in Tokyo. This unique architectural journey will inspire readers to see architecture with a new mindset.

Author : Donald Hoffmann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140261
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House written by Donald Hoffmann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painstakingly researched and illuminating account of the making of the Fred C. Robie home. Revealing family documents, excerpts from a 1958 interview with Fred Robie, and 160 black-and-white illustrations.

Author : Alessandro Rocca
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568987217
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Architecture written by Alessandro Rocca and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As organic as the materials with which they are built, these creations allow the living landscape to naturally overtake each structure until it finally decomposes."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Narciso G. Menocal
Publisher : Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture as Nature written by Narciso G. Menocal and published by Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) has long been associated with the American transcendentalist movement of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman, this is the first book to analyze his transcendetalist thought with the development of his architectural style. It also explores sources of and influences on his thought that have not been considered before. With the help of Narciso G. Menocal's new work, both scholars and students of architectural and art history, as well as American cultural and intellectual history, will gain new insights into Sullivan and his work.

Author : Eugene Tsui
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Architecture written by Eugene Tsui and published by . This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the guiding principles behind Tsui's evolutionary approach to explore the many design lessons that can be learned from nature and share the impressive results of their application to architectural projects.