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Editors Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger, PhD Arch Andra Panait, PhD Arch Marina Mihăilă, PhD Arch Daniel Comşa, PhD Arch Design Andra Panait, PhD Arch We acknowledge the help in preparing this volume to the following assistants PhD candidates: arch.Dorin Dascalu, arch.Ionuţ Mândrişcanu, arch.Irina Paţa, arch. Livia Rus, arch.Matei Stoian, arch.Ovidiu Teleche. © “ I o n M i n c u ” P u b l i s h i n g H o u s e B u c h a r e s t ICAR 2012 General Chair: prof.dr.arch. Emil Barbu Popescu Local arrange chair: lect.dr.arch. Daniel Comşa Visual identity and publications coordinator: assoc.prof. Andra Panait Sections Committees 1. Town in history versus possible / future town (Urban and Terri...
This book is the result of recent research that deals with the built environment and innovative materials, carried out by specialists working in universities and centers of research in different professional fields ─ architecture, engineering, physics ─ and in an area that that spans from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, and from South Eastern Europe to the Middle East. This book takes the necessity of re-shaping the concept of building design in order to transform buildings from large scale energy consumers to energy savers and producers into consideration. The book is organized in two parts: theory and case studies. For the theoretical part, we chose from the wide range of so...
The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben’s political thoughts and writings for the theory and the practice of architecture and urban design. It sketches out the potentiality of Agamben’s politics, which can affect change in current architectural and design discourses. The book investigates the possibility of an inoperative architecture, as an ethical shift for a different practice, just a little bit different, but able to deactivate the sociospatial dispositive and mobilize a new theory and a new project for the urban now to come. This particular reading from Agamben’s oeuvre suggests a destituent mode of both thinking and practicing of architecture and urbanism that could possibly redeem them from their social emptiness, cultural irrelevance, economic reductionism and proto-avant-garde extravagance, contributing to a renewed critical ‘encounter’ with architecture’s aesthetic-political function.
This is Hybrid is a selection of the articles and projects published in the Hybrids series of the magazine a+t running over four issues, during 2008 and 2009. The prologue, written by Steven Holl specially for this compilation, puts forward the potential of hybrid buildings in the 21st Century.
ARHITECTURI CONTEMPORANE. DE LA OBIECT LA TERITORIU CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURES. FROM OBJECT TO TERRITORY ISBN 978-606-638-170-3 Editura Universitară ”Ion Mincu” / “Ion Mincu” University Press Bucureşti / Bucharest, 2018 UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURĂ ŞI URBANISM “ION MINCU”, BUCUREŞTI “ION MINCU” UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM, BUCHAREST CENTRUL DE STUDII ARHITECTURALE ŞI URBANE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING STUDY CENTER Ediţie îngrijită şi coordonată de / Edition coordinated by prof. dr. arh. / prof. PhD arch. Ana-Maria Dabija asist. dr. arh. / assist. PhD arch. Anda-Ioana Sfinteş AUTORI: Mihaela ZAMFIR, Marina MIHAILA, Lavinia DRAGAN, Diana GOGOASA-FILIMON, Silvia IONESCU, Laura SABAU TATAR, Daniel COMSA, Mariana Cristina STAN
In the West the Japanese house has reached iconic status in its architecture, decoration and style. Is this neat, carefully constructed version of Japanese life in fact a myth? Inge Daniels goes behind the doors of real Japanese homes and examines every aspect of the home and daily-life.
In a stately Zurich Villa, an unexplained case of fire results in a fatality. Was it arson, and if so, what could have been the motive? Greed, sabotage? Or was the cause simply carelessness? The narrator, a disillusioned journalist, is hired to play detective. His client is a former tobacco merchant who became a missionary do-gooder in old age. The old man wants to know more about the life of his nephew, an engineer, who looks critically at social trends. Underlying the investigation of the fire case, there is a quiet struggle between the journalist's moral attitude and the engineer's sense of responsibility. In the end, they both contribute to the solution of the fire case.
Built Unbuilt revisits 16 years of Julien De Smedt’s work from the inception of the architectural practice PLOT with Bjarke Ingels in 2001 to the work of JDSA and the founding of the design studio Makers With Agendas with William Ravn in 2013. The Built section of this book gives an overview of De Smedt’s built work seen through the lens of photographer Julien Lanoo. The Unbuilt section is a selective narrative by De Smedt of projects that haven’t made it to the built world.
Through the growing importance of electronic media and the services provided by the internet, the delimitation between physical and virtual spaces is becoming increasingly fuzzy. This volume explores the phenomena known as "mediatexture" by looking at the basic knowledge on mediatectonic work.