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Manhattan's Public Spaces
Manhattan’s Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification analyzes a series of architectural works and their contribution to New York’s public space over the past few decades. By exploring a mix of urban mechanisms, supportive frameworks, legal systems, and planning guidelines for the transformation of the city’s collective realm, the text frames Manhattan as a controversial landscape of interests and concerns to authorities, communities, and, very importantly, developers. The production, revitalization, and commodification of Manhattan’s public spaces, as a phenomenon and as a subject of study, also highlights the vicissitudes of the reconciliation of the many different...
the WATERFALL: Arte | Art, Arquitectura | Architecture, Espacio Público | Public Space
the WATERFALL: Una publicación del proceso de ejecución y resultado de la instalación artística ganadora de la primera convocatoria del concurso, XYZ de Art Pùblic, en el puente colgante de Amposta (Tarragona). Una cascada artificial como umbral visual y sonoro entre la ciudad y la naturaleza por el estudio de arquitectura Morcillo + Pallares. El libro contiene más de 100 imágenes a color del proceso, descripción técnica y entrevistas con el equipo. Idioma: Castellano e inglés.______________________________________the WATERFALL: A publication of the construction process and result of the winning installation art proposal of the first ideas competition, XYZ Art Pùblic, on the suspension bridge of Amposta (Tarragona). An artificial waterfall that creates a visual and audible threshold between city and nature by the architecture studio Morcillo + Pallares. The book contains more than 100 color images of the process, technical description and interviews with the team. Language: Spanish and English.
Nueva York: oasis y vitrinas
Oasis y Vitrinas nos descubre dos ciudades en una. Por un lado, un Nueva York Oasis en plena euforia constructiva tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una ciudad donde la diversidad de usos, la sensibilidad social, la exquisita sofisticación, la supervisión cercana y el continuo mantenimiento son claves a la hora de mantener el vulnerable equilibrio de la vida urbana. Por otro lado, el texto vuelve la mirada hacia un Nueva York contemporáneo. Un Nueva York Vitrina donde la presión del mercado inmobiliario, la sobreprotección, los intereses privados y políticos, la excesiva mercantilización y programación de usos, comprometen el carácter cívico del espacio abierto urbano. Una lectura que invita a la reflexión sobre el verdadero sentido de la revitalización de lo publico, entendida en relación con las interacciones que fomenta y que se producen más allá ́ de las intenciones de los autores de los proyectos. Una oportunidad que no solo ahonda en la dimensión publica de las obras analizadas, sino que pretende arrojar luz al proceso, no siempre visible, de la elaboración de estas obras en el espacio publico: quien las propone, por que ́ y a quienes van dirigidas.
English Urban Commons
The book presents a novel examination of urban commons which provides a robust base for education initiatives and future public policy guidance on the protection and use of urban commons as invaluable urban green spaces that offer a diverse cultural and ecological resource for future communities. The book's central argument is that only through a deep understanding of the past and a rigorous engagement with present users, can we devise new futures or imaginaries of culture, well-being and diversity for the urban commons. It argues that understanding the genesis of, and interactions between, the different pressures on urban green space has important policy implications for the delivery of nat...
Drawing for Architects
"Drawing for Architects provides insights into a progression of drawing types, projections, and techniques. By amplifying the conversations among plan, section, elevation, axonometric, oblique, and perspective, this book explains both the technical and disciplinary importance of these conventions of drawing, and the ways they continue to underwrite and enable the efforts of architectural design"--Back cover.
Spectacular Miracles
Winner of the ACE / Mercers' Book Award 2014 Spectacular Miracles confronts an enduring Western belief in the supernatural power of images: that a statue or painting of the Madonna can fly through the air, speak, weep, or produce miraculous cures. Although contrary to widely held assumptions, the cults of particular paintings and statues held to be miraculous have persisted beyond the middle ages into the present, even in a modern European city such as Genoa, the primary focus of this book. Drawing upon rich documentation from northwest Italy and elsewhere, Spectacular Miracles shows how these images “work” in a range of historical contexts. Jane Garnett and Gervase Rosser vividly evoke ...
Lavoirs
No building better embodies the ineffable qualities of rural France than the lavoir, the communal washhouse that, until a few decades ago, was the central gathering place for women in many small villages across the French countryside -" as much a part of communal life as the market. These open-air laundry rooms first appeared for the private use of the social elite in the seventeenth century but flourished as public spaces after the Revolution. Later, they became architectural monuments of regional styles and local materials, often hand-cut stone and hewn timbers, revealing centuries of masonry and woodworking tradition. As running water and modern appliances became standard in French homes ...
Might-E Emilia
Emilia is the bravest girl around, bold, daring, and unafraid of anything, but when her Grandfather, her Abuelo, gets sick, she must face her most difficult challenge yet and find her inner superhero. Can Emma (Might-E) help her friend find her inner hero?
Architecture for the Commons
Architecture for the Commons dives into an analysis of how the tectonics of a building is fundamentally linked to the economic organizations that allow them to exist. By tracing the origins and promises of current technological practices in design, the book provides an alternative path, one that reconsiders the means of achieving complexity through combinatorial strategies. This move requires reconsidering serial production with crowdsourcing and user content in mind. The ideas presented will be explored through the design research developed within Plethora Project, a design practice that explores the use of video game interfaces as a mechanism for participation and user design. The research...
Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy
This volume illuminates the vibrancy of religious beliefs and practices which profoundly shaped family life in this era. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it affirms the central place of the household to Catholic spirituality.
