Architecture In Dialogue With An Activated Ground

Author : Urs Bette
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787357228
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture in Dialogue with an Activated Ground written by Urs Bette and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture in Dialogue with an Activated Ground sets out to validate the role of the unreasonable in the design process. Using case study projects, architect Urs Bette gives an insight into the epistemological processes of his creative practice, and unveils the strategies he deploys in order to facilitate the poetic aspects of architecture within a discourse whose evaluation parameters predominantly involve reason. Themes discussed include the emergence of space from the staged opposition between the architectural object and the site, and the relationship between emotive cognition and analytic synthesis in the design act. In both cases, there is a necessary engagement with forms of ‘unreasonable’ thought, action or behaviours. By arguing for the usefulness and validity of the unreasonable in architecture, and by investigating the performative relationship between object and ground, Bette contributes to the discourse on extensions, growth and urban densification that tap into local histories and voices, including those of the seemingly inanimate – the architecture itself and the ground it sits upon – to inform the site-related production of architectural character and space. In doing so, he raises debates about the values pursued in design approval processes, and the ways in which site-relatedness is both produced and judged.

Author : Urs Bette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unreasonable Creatures written by Urs Bette and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research examines the dialogue between architecture and site. It investigates the role of 'the unreasonable' in the design process and reveals the strategies deployed to facilitate the poetics of architecture within a discourse whose evaluative parameters predominantly involve reason. The examination of my design practice unveils a cumulative process that starts with intuitive moves, which are further developed through an iterative process charting the project from different perspectives. This is achieved by immersing myself in the architectural object, the site and the observer. My background in communication design comes into play when I empathise with 'the other' - the object, the site, the observer - and translate the experience into a display that can be shared. Themes discussed include, the production of space from the staged opposition between the architectural object and the site, as well as the relationship between the intuitive and analytic synthesis within the design act. In both of these there is necessary engagement with forms of 'unreasonable' thought, action and behaviour. The work seeks to promote acceptance of the usefulness and validity of 'the unreasonable' in architecture and contributes to discourse on the relationship between landscape and the generation of architectural form and space.

Author : WAI Architecture Think Tank
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0760380627
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universal Principles of Architecture written by WAI Architecture Think Tank and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal Principles of Architecture illustrates in 100 concepts the importance, possibilities, challenges, and roles that architecture plays in shaping the world. Divided into Archetypes, Methods, Conditions, Relationships, and Imaginaries, each of the five sections in the book introduces in 20 principles architecture at different scales and stages of the design process. Through an inclusive and holistic approach, the book refers to initial design ideas, creative design approaches, reflections on the effects of the built and destroyed environments, and architectural desires and aspirations to transform the world and engage with the cosmos. Because architecture is the converging point where many fields of knowledge, ideas, forms, approaches, methods, sensibilities, and materials meet, the book provides a flexible and dynamic space where the material, conceptual, and social take shape. Written, illustrated, and designed by critically acclaimed architects, educators, and authors Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski of WAI Architecture Think Tank, Universal Principles of Architecture combines accessible writing with otherworldly images like the ones they have displayed in exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou Metz, Museum of Modern Art New York, Neues Museum Nuremberg, and Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology Lisbon. Intended as an intergenerational and transdisciplinary reference volume, the book presents an ambitious overview of what architecture has been and can be in a world full of urgent challenges and abundant opportunities for social and ecological responsibility, and design creativity. The titles in the Rockport Universal series offer comprehensive and authoritative information and edifying and inspiring visual examples on multidisciplinary subjects for designers, architects, engineers, students, and anyone who is interested in expanding and enriching their design knowledge.

Author : Michael U. Hensel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317541952
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grounds and Envelopes written by Michael U. Hensel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a source of vision for the revitalisation of ground and envelope as spatial elements that can inform the search for embedded locally specific architectures, this book collects essays and projects that each contributes a particular element to what might constitute an integrated and richly nuanced approach to spatial organisation. Projects include: Paulo Mendes da Rocha; Brazilian Pavilion, Osaka World Expo 1970, Osaka, Japan RCR Arquitectes: Marquee at Les Cols Restaurant, Olot, Girona, Spain Weiss / Manfredi; Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington, USA Peter Eisenman; City of Culture of Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Plasma Studio and Groundlab; Xi’an Horticultural Expo, Longgang, China Foreign Office Architects; Yokohama International Ferry Terminal, Yokohama, Japan Nekton Design; Turf City, Reykjavik, Iceland Alvaro Siza; Swimming Pool, Leça da Palmeira, Portugal Eduardo Souto de Moura; Braga Municipal Stadium, Braga Portugal MVRDV; Villa VPRO, Hilversum, Netherlands Bernard Tschumi; Le Fresnoy Art Centre, Tourcoing, France OCEAN; World Centre for Human Concerns, New York City, USA R&Sie(n); Spidernethewood, Nîmes, France Toyo Ito; Serpentine Pavilion, London, England Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós; Olympic Archery Range, Barcelona, Spain Kengo Kuma; GC Prostho Museum Research Centre, Aichi Prefecture, Japan Cloud 9; MediaTic, Barcelona, Spain Diller, Scofidio and Renfro; Blur Building, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, Swiss National Expo With an abundance of built and un-built key projects available, it is now possible to outline the contours of a new discourse. This book initiates a new beginning in this direction so that architecture can partake in the creation of heterogeneous space and culturally, socially and environmentally sustainable built environments.

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Publisher : Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789881619433
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues in Space written by and published by Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogues in Space: Process and Ideas in the work of Wendell Burnette Architects is the first multi-project monograph on this American architects selective body of work. The title alludes to the architects view that architecture is a constructed conversation between people, things and time. Six singular projects from the architects oeuvre are presented in-depth through the architects' own words, drawings and photography. Also included is a comprehensive essay by the celebrated architectural writer / critic Robert McCarter entitled Crafting Space: Composition and Construction in the Architecture of Wendell Burnette that examines the "thinking and making" process behind the built and un-built work across 15 years of practice. The different typologies of the work explores authentic human experience through provocative spatial constructions - public and private in diverse locales - that attempt to promote an expansive dialogue with our places, our environment, our communities, ourselves, and our time. Through extensive research into the 'art of building' - the specificity of place and locally appropriate construction systems, materials, craft, and their infinite capacity to transcend mere construction, the work strives toward an architecture that is at once functional and poetic.

Author : Jonathan Bean
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527544958
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Practices in Architecture written by Jonathan Bean and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book embraces the idea that in today’s complex world, multiple, emerging perspectives are critical to the design fields, the environment, and society. It also brings authors into conversation to focus on the built environment from the perspective of critical practice. The authors take as a starting point Jane Rendell’s ground-breaking work, which defines critical spatial practice as “self-reflective modes of thought that seek to change the world.” In opposition to conventional conceptions of architectural education and work, this book reflects how socially engaged architects, landscape architects, designers, urbanists, and artists take up critical spatial practice. Bridging ideas from multiple countries and approaches to design scholarship, each chapter seeks to find places of convergence for the multiple strands that form around themes of practice, equality, methods, theory, ethics, pedagogy, and representation. Rendell’s foreword and postscript provide context for these themes and suggest a way forward in today’s challenging, changing times.

Author : A. Papadakēs
Publisher : London : Academy Editions ; New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deconstruction III written by A. Papadakēs and published by London : Academy Editions ; New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Michael Krüger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture as Dialogue written by Thomas Michael Krüger and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen A. Franck
Publisher : Academy Press
ISBN 13 : 9780470057834
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture from the Inside Out written by Karen A. Franck and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a basis for design that transcends fixed notions of style and emerging technologies, this book emphasizes feeling, moving and the experiential. Since the book's initial publication in 2000, architects and writers have been drawn to a more sensory approach to architecture. But there is still a need to encourage and to illustrate the pursuit of design, not as a project, imposing preconceived ideas upon a situation, but as a process evolving from the inside - from movement, sensation, surroundings and a dialogue between architect and client. The authors describe such an approach that places human life, experience and materiality at the centre of design and that seeks out opportunities for discovery, growth and transformation. Karen A. Franck is an environmental psychologist who has taught for many years in the New Jersey School of Architecture. R. Bianca Lepori is a practicing architect in Italy with many years of experience in designing houses and maternity health care facilities. Praise for the first edition: Franck and Lepori believe [architecture] should be more alive and take its character from the human body. When similarly designed from the inside out, rather than being austere and devoid of sensibilities, buildings would offer spatial sensations that connect with people. Beverly Russell, Executive Director, Archeworks The authors use...contemporary lenses as phenomenology and feminism to guide us on our journey through buildings. They trace the haptic qualities of architecture back through the design process with both daring and documentation. Deborah Gans, Architect and Associate Professor, Pratt Institute This book should be required reading for all architectural and design students as well as for all those individuals who are responsible for making decisions that influence our built environment. Wayne Ruga, Founder, Symposium on Healthcare Design and the Center for Health Design.

Author : Christopher Allen Tadych
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture as cultural dialogue written by Christopher Allen Tadych and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: