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Operative Mapping
Operative Mapping investigates the use of maps as a design tool, providing insight with the potential to benefit education and practice in the design disciplines. The book’s fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms. When added to the resources of contemporary design, operative mapping overcomes the analytical and strictly instrumental approaches of maps, opening up the possibility of working both pragmatically and critically by acknowledging the need for an effective transformation of the milieu based on an understanding of pre-existing conditions. The approach is pragmatic, not only discussing the present but, above all, generating a toolbox to help expand on the objectives, methodologies and formats of design in the immediate future. The book joins together a review of the theoretical body of work on mapping from the social sciences with case studies from the past 30 years in architecture, planning and landscape design in the interest of linking past practices with future ones.
Logics of Evolution for the Contemporary Contexts
A collection of installments compiling the works of the students of the Master in Integrated Architectural Design during the academic year 2020/21. The course is organized in 5 logics: environmental, social, digital, tectonic and cultural through which the students explore how architectural design can adapt to the context in which they operate. This collection of installments compiles the works of the students of the Master in Integrated Architectural Design during the academic year 2020/21. The program objectives are to promote innovative architectural design integrated with the wide range of skills on technical and cultural knowledge that contemporary architecture demands. The course is or...
Housing + Single-Family Housing
As cities evolve architects are constantly searching for appropriate architectonic solutions, and in this book the authors present a systematic examination of innovative single-family houses and residential buildings in the context of presentday cities. The latest developments are reviewed in essays and thematic chapters discuss such topics as lowenergy building, the use of prefabricated materials, or low-budget building. A range of international examples from architects such as Wiel Arets, Shigeru Ban, Ben van Berkel, Kees Christiaanse, Philippe Gazeau, Frank O. Gehry, Steven Holl, Hans Kollhoff, Morger & Degelo, MVRDV, Jean Nouvel, Kas Oosterhuis, illustrate the subjects discussed. "Housing" and "Single-Family Housing" were previously published separately, each proving hugely popular. Now both volumes have been incorporated into a single, lowpriced edition.
Handbook of Research on Promoting Economic and Social Development Through Serious Games
While gaming has become an increasingly popular leisure activity in society, the success of the videogame market has also contributed to the application of serious games in many different contexts and most importantly for learning purposes. This technological novelty is the basis for an innovative change in myriad environments such as education, commerce, marketing, healthcare, and many more. It is of great import to understand these applications in order to improve organizational development. The Handbook of Research on Promoting Economic and Social Development Through Serious Games provides reflection on the multidisciplinary applications of serious games. This book contextualizes the importance of serious games in organizational and societal improvement. Covering topics such as cultural heritage, mental health, and tourism, this book is a dynamic resource for policymakers, academicians, interdisciplinary researchers, graduate and post-graduate students, technology developers, faculty of K-12 and higher education, and government officials.
Verb Processing
The shift from modern to digital systems of design and production opens up a material work to a deeper relationship between author and perceiver. From the classical work to the modern object and from the modern industrial to 'computerised' procedures, the interplay between author and user has become closer, more direct and open. How does this increasing complicity affect architectural practice? How can architecture be conceived as a more fluid informational development? Publishing architectures is much more than displaying a recently finished product in which the architect is the unique author. To make architecture is a real undertaking of numerous authors based on the processing of information before, during and after the materialization of the building. The contemporary relationship between information and authorship in architectural practice, featuring works and texts by Manuel de Landa, Jorge Wagensberg, FOA Architects, Sadar & Vuga, njiric & njiric, Love, Lacaton & Vassal.
HiCat: Multilayered strategies
"HiperCatalunya seeks to posit an advanced survey of today's territory, in order to import tomorrow's potentials: to interrogate the territory in order to bring out its capacities and latencies. Beyond the traditional mechanisms of territorial analysis, this collective action seeks to recognize and express a multidisciplinary approach to our surroundings, promoting interpretations open to a possible interaction between the existing and the imaginable, in keeping with an innovative dimension of contemporary culture capable of engendering new spaces for new lifestyles, but also new logics and new aesthetics for new scenarios of progress. HiperCatalunya thus seeks to reflect and to stimulate reflection on the authentic territorial dimension of Catalonia by formulating, through theoretical and practical approaches, four main areas of analysis, reflection and venturing, understood as operative frameworks but also as strategic layers of action, aimed at anticipating and visualizing possible key questions for a future development of the territory"--V.1, back cover.
Vertigo
Dissecting the new architectural landscape of the industrialized world, this collection of essays explores 10 recently completed projects which exemplify the forces that are shaping contemporary cities. It responds to a particular moment when architects are being compelled to answer the challenges of new media, globalization, post-industrial culture and the unprecedented scale and speed of modern development.
Sensing the 21st Century City
Editorial Helen Castle. Introduction Brian McGrath & Grahame Shane. Centrally Located/Worldwide: Johannesburg Emmanuel Pratt. Korean Cyber-Bangs: Seoul Rodrigo Guardia. Million-Dollar Blocks: Wichita, Kansas Laura Kurgan & Eric Cadora. Intense Multiplicity: Bangkok Mark Isarangkun na Ayuthaya. Urban Remote Sensing: Global Comparisons Christopher Small. Before Satellites: Favelas as Self-Organising Systems: Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo Elizabeth Blum & Peter Neitzke. Urban Field Guide, Baltimore, Maryland: Applying Social Forestry Observation Techniques to the East Coast Megalopolis Erika Svendsen, Victoria Marshall & Manolo F Ufer. Beyond Great Walls: Inner Mongolia Jan Leeknegt. Surfactant ...
El projecte urbà
L'objecte dels darrers cursos troncals de les matèries del Departament d'Urbanisme de l'ETSAB és explorar dues formes d'intervenció més complexes que les del traçat o l'ordenació tipològica, que ja s'han tractat anteriorment. Així, doncs, es proposen treballar el projecte urbà com una discussió urbanística d'escala més gran. El projecte urbà, entès com a projecte mixt amb diverses funcions principals, en un espai delimitat però estratègic i amb uns instruments projectuals a mig camí entre la definició arquitectònica i l'ordenació urbanística, és l'objecte del primer quadrimestre del curs. Al segon quadrimestre, en canvi, es tracten els projectes d'àrees de nou creixement, on la definició ha de ser més abstracta i normativa i ha de contenir una referència clara a models, i es valora la interpretació del lloc respecte a la gran escala urbana.
