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Architects and engineers both claim to be designers, though how they define design and the approaches they use to realize it, vary widely. However their interaction has also created some of the...

This book compiles Adamo-Faiden's inventory along with the inventions this body of work distills. Images, drawings and texts are presented in the formof diptychs, forcing the reader to establish...

Josep Maria Jujol was one of the great forwardvisionaryarchitects from Catalonia, mostlyknown for his work with Antoni Gaud?. This bookpresents, through one of his most wonderful andunkown buildings,...

Three-dimensionality can be seen as architecture's fundamental existence, the profession's acclaimed domain. In times of globalism and scale enlargement, an update of this definition seems needed:...

Documents the artworks of the exhibition Repair, Australian Pavilion, 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, under the creative direction of Baracco+Wright Architects in...

Laboratorio de Vivienda presents the 32 projects selected and built, including research, drawings, and descriptions by the architects. It considers the problem of low-income housing by bringing...

Le village et son double offers a look at Dominique Perrault's experience as designer of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village. Part lecture book, part urban planning manual, the book...

A historical photograph shows a room in a steel and glass building and a man which is evidently the architect Mies van der Rohe. Only the name of the photographer is known. In a manner more usually...

Frames recoge los ultimos cinco anos del trabajo del arquitecto italiano Massimiliano Fuksas. La idea detras de Frames es la del fragmento, es decir, la idea de comprender la obra del arquitecto como...

This biennial prize is conceded by the European Union and organized by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation in Barcelona to recognize and reward the quality of the architectural production in Europe...

In a year when Spanish curators directed the Venice Biennale for the first time, Antoni Muntadas, representing Spain in the Spanish pavilion, told a reporter that the Biennale "takes its ideas from...

Antoni Muntadas (*Barcelona, 1942) is one of the most important contemporary Spanish artists. His work addresses social, political and communi-cations issues, the relationship between public and...

German graphic design has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis in recent years. Young professionals and students have been demonstrating heightened technical skills and strong, individualistic styles...

The growing urbanization of the planet, visible in the fact that by the middle of this century some 70% percent of the population will live in cities, situates the urban question as a key issue for...

Framed by the period of the Great Acceleration, these writings and projects represent a critical commentary on the state of architecture and urbanism and their causal role in global metamorphosis. ...

OAB draws on the collaborative nature of the Carlos Ferrater previous studio, incorporating new ways of understanding the contributions of each team member to generate richer and more varied,...

One to OneAuthor: Tanja BackePublisher: ActarPublication Date: Mar 01, 2007Number of Pages: 248 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 8496540162ISBN-13: 9788496540163

One Week End Book Series Graphic TourismAuthor: Martin LorenzPublisher: ActarPublication Date: Mar 01, 2006Number of Pages: 300 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 8496540170ISBN-13:...

Open-ended Logic: Space-Time-Information (Composition -> Position -> Disposition) defends the new, underlying architectonic logic (spatial-temporal in conception) that has emerged within contemporary...

Monika Mitasova interviewed an influential group of current American theorists, historians and practitioners proposing critical and projective architecture, respectively, which forms the first book...

This book provides literature of the social movements that led to the rise of alternative design methods. It also critically examines the methodologies used and how they contribute to best practice...

Positions-FrenchAuthor: Frédéric EdelmannPublisher: ActarPublication Date: Jun 01, 2008Number of Pages: 216 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 8496954587ISBN-13: 9788496954588

This book presents over 40 finished works by Chinese architects, produced between 2003 and 2008. A compelling selection representing a new generation of architects in a country whose building rhythm...

The Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) has a clear commitment in compiling and presenting an overview of the projects it has carried out during the last 35 years. Therefore, it has edited and...

This book features innovative and productive responses, in the form of architectural design and thinking, to the shift in Japan's social condition under demographic changes that are evident in...

After a period of extraordinary economic growth at the turn of the twenty-first century, the economy of Iceland collapsed into the deepest and most rapid peacetime fiscal crisis ever recorded. Seeing...

The anxiously awaited follow-up to Holland Design, Super Holland Design explores new functionality in contemporary Dutch design. Featured designers transform concepts into strong messages, using new...

Marcus Prize Studio at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Winy Maas of MVDRV and Grace La of UWM present the work of twelve students who explored the relationship between infrastructure,...

Sluminsider is a choral narrative that attempts to reveal the complexity of the slum of Mathare, one of the biggest shantytowns in Nairobi. The project of expansion of a street school, the Why Not...

Metaverse Urbanism is a seminal work that explores the spatial internet and its implications, touching on the future of architecture, urbanism, and spatial design. The book is structured into five...