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Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture, Quality and Knowledge
[Winner of the 2016 Bronze medal in Architecture, Independent Publisher Book Awards] This book comprises a series of 22 case studies by renowned experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. In 2015, it constitutes the most comprehensive survey of the dynamics behind the definition, organization, judging, archiving and publishing of architectural, landscape and urban design competitions in the world. These richly documented contributions revolve around a few questions that can be summarized in a two-fold critical interrogation: How can design competitions - these historical democratic devices, both praised and dreaded by designers - be considered laboratories for the production of environmental design quality, and, ultimately, for the renewing of culture and knowledge? Includes 340 illustrations, bibliographical references and index of over 200 cited competitions. Keywords: Architecture / International competitions / Architectural judgment / Design thinking / Digital archiving (databases) / Architectural publications / Architectural experimentation / Landscape architecture / Urban studies
Gināns
Composed in Indian languages and idioms, the Ginans have been sung for many centuries in the daily rituals of the Shia community, specifically the Satpanth Ismaili Muslims of South Asia. This volume on the Ginans illustrates how Muslims were influenced by the surrounding cultures and philosophies, and evolved/created new ways of expressing their beliefs and values.
The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism
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.
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Mathematics and Its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS)
This book celebrates the 15th anniversary of the bi-annual symposium series Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS), which was first held in 2005 following the continued collaboration of an international group of researchers from ICME Topic Study Group 21. The MACAS-conferences bring together scientists and educators who are interested in the connection between mathematics, arts and science in educational curriculum, while emphasizing on, as well as researching about, the role of mathematics. By pooling together these different approaches and viewpoints between mathematics, arts and sciences, this book reveals possible synergies and paths for collaborations. In view ...
Des maisons pas comme les autres
Depuis plus d’un demi-siècle, le vieillissement de notre société s’est tellement accentué qu’il est devenu une réelle préoccupation pour les collectivités publiques, en Suisse comme en Europe. Face à cette situation, l’effort prodigué dans ce domaine par les autorités vaudoises depuis plusieurs années est particulièrement probant : plus d’une dizaine de concours pour la création d’établissements médicosociaux (EMS) ont été lancés ces dernières années, correspondant à autant de constructions existantes ou en devenir. Ces mises en concurrence et les réalisations qui ont suivi représentent un matériel d’investigation extrêmement intéressant, permettant de mieux comprendre l’évolution des pratiques dans ce champ spécifique. Sur la base d’une approche historique, d’un classement des formes architecturales des projets de concours ainsi que d’un regard sur les récentes réalisations vaudoises d’EMS, cette publication, abondamment illustrée, rassemble les thématiques liées à ce programme et pose les jalons des préoccupations actuelles en la matière.
Intimacies
Founded in 2008, the French-Lebanese firm of Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates has a delicate signature that takes the regional context as its starting point in developing an individual architectural language. By using a wide variety of materials that interact with the built environment, they create buildings that evolve over time alongside their inhabitants. The book documents twelve of the firm's projects - from a single-family home to a museum, including urban interventions in Beirut, Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, and Bucharest. The book also includes an essay that takes a comprehensive look at the working methods of this firm, focusing in particular on the dimension of time and the changes that occur as the buildings are used.
Petites histoires d'architecture
Ce livre propose de découvrir (ou redécouvrir) - depuis ses coulisses - la scène française de l'architecture contemporaine de 1965 à aujourd'hui. Pour chaque date, il propose un éclairage original sur un événement marquant (Mai 68, Mai 81, Banlieues 89...), une personnalité influente (Michel Foucault, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Houellebecq, Jean Nouvel...) ou une réalisation phare (les Halles, centre George Pompidou, tour Montparnasse, pyramide du Louvre, parc de la Villette, Institut du monde arabe...), tout en analysant ses répercussions dans le champ de l'architecture et de la ville. Ce panorama ludique invite ainsi le lecteur à voyager dans le temps et dans l'espace, à partir de points d'ancrage qui lui sont familiers. Les textes qui composent cet ouvrage, issus en partie de chroniques publiées dans la revue AMC, peuvent se lire, à l'instar de récits ou de "petites histoires", de manière autonome et sans ordre prédéterminé.
