The contributions to this book, from a range of internationally renowned and younger scholars, explore the dynamics that shape urban theories and professional practices today.
A unique cooperation of photography and history: The book combines artistic documentary photography of a post-conflict and post-socialist city in Kosovo with solid micro-historical account of socialist urbanisation and industrialisation.
HORTITECTURE explores synergies combining architecture and vital plant material - taking plants off the ground into a new conceptual and spatial context.
A hundred years ago, the baroque Neues Palais in the Sanssouci park, Potsdam, Germany, became a museum.
This book explores a rediscovery of the concept of monuments as essential and creative parts of cities. Based on the re-reading of four powerful urban interplays in Sao Paulo, the concept of 'Monuments of Everyday Life' is outlined, revealing specific spatial patterns that are understood as alternatives to places of instability,
Approaches Max Dudler's architecture through the interior spaces and furniture he has designed.
Reflexive Design presents an integrative approach, both in theory and in practice, to the emergence and interpretation of design and research in architecture.
The Sound of Architecture - in accordance with this key notion, for more than five decades the architect Eckhard Gerber and his firm have been producing award-winning projects, which have attracted widespread international attention in the fields of architecture, urban design, interior design, and landscape design.
Compiles guidelines for assessing landscape suitability for, and vulnerability to, renewable energy projects together with a toolbox for landscape-aware public participation in planning.
New planning approaches in relation to hitherto insufficient responses to the big issues of global urbanisation.
Presentation and analysis of various urban development plans and strategies.
Landscript 2: Filmic Mapping examines forms of 'land measurement' primarily through documentary and essay films of the past 10 years.
The biggest challenge for contemporary urban design is, therefore, to plan the city itself as a regenerative cycle, not only in terms of shaping its spatial and aesthetic qualities, but also in relation to its development over time.
This book provides an account of the constructional development of the old town, based on representative buildings and construction projects.
Recoding the City asks about the intentions and claims of the protagonists who shaped the city of the nineteenth century.
Offers an evaluation of the increasingly intersecting disciplines of art and architecture, and explores the resultant changes in exhibiting.
In its 20th issue speech: magazine focuses on the relationship between architecture and nature in modern landscapes.
A novel approach to architecture that takes inspiration from visual arts, music, dance and other related disciplines.
The volume documents the first stage of an international project that addresses and presents women as personalities between professional and family responsibilities.
Published to accompany the exhibition which brings together the model railway assembly kits and the post-war architecture that were their inspiration.
A call for the concept of Thresholds to be reconsidered in modern architecture.
Follows the residents of an urban area as they embrace the ecomobile way of life.
An in-depth study of the current influences shaping the future of urban development.
Highlighting the work of the group of female artists, all originally from rural areas, as they explore traditional and future rural-urban relationships.
An analysis of the origin and development of Japanese creativity in architecture.
Passion for the Built Environment provides new insights and perspectives and illuminates the array of methodological approaches and design options called for by our built environment - from the design to the realisation and the finished property.
Worldwide urbanisation brings seemingly inescapable and uncontrollable forms of densification with it. This book puts forward a model of density as a tool for sustainable urban development, which contributes to good quality city life
Landscape architects Topotek 1 work as commuters across different disciplines, landscape-typologies and scales; the office also jaunts into architecture, urban design and art. The book introduces Topotek 1's most important approaches and methods, and showcases ten significant projects and works in detail.
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