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Impact: Design With All Senses
This book reflects and expands on the current trend in the building industry to understand, simulate and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them. Shifting away from the traditional focus, which was exclusively on building tasks, this approach presents new challenges in all areas of the industry, from material and structural to the urban scale. The book presents contributions including research papers and case studies, providing a comprehensive overview of the field as well as perspectives from related disciplines, such as computer science. The chapter authors were invited speakers at the 7th Symposium “Impact: Design With All Senses”, which took place at the University of the Arts in Berlin in September 2019.
sweep
Vom Klang der Stadt als Ausdruck gesellschaftlich-kultureller Gegebenheiten und von der auditiven Dimension in der Planung, von der Verräumlichung von Klang und von der Verklanglichung von Raum, vom um die Ecke Hören und Wahrnehmen, was das Auge nicht im Blickfeld hat, von Luft und Beton als klanglich skulpturales Material und von einem ortsspezifisch adaptierbaren Schallschutzsystem, von plastischen Audio-Visionen und von hybriden Controllern, vom ‚shared perceptional space‘ und von Beziehungen zum Raum, die auf individuellen Ausgangspunkten beruhen, von effektvoll vertonter Stille und vom Klang als Fiktion und Dokumentation – das Symposium SWEEP widmet sich dem Spektrum des Hörens...
Positionen zu Architektur und Städtebau der documenta-Ausstellungen
Architektur und Städtebau wurden im Kontext der Weltkunstschau documenta in Kassel seit ihrer ersten Ausstellung im Jahre 1955 stets thematisiert. Die vorliegende Dissertationsschrift beleuchtet die documenta-Ausstellungen seit 1955 bis heute in diesem Zusammenhang. Exemplarisch wird eine Essenz aus 27 Positionen zu Architektur und Städtebau besprochen und im Kontext der jeweiligen kuratorischen Setzungen der documenta-Ausstellungen gespiegelt. Ergänzt werden die Untersuchungen durch die Betrachtungen zahlreicher Nebenschauplätze zum Themenkomplex sowie durch Gespräche mit unterschiedlichen Persönlichkeiten und Akteuren der documenta.
Material Revolution 2
Following the huge success of Material Revolution, this second volume addresses the rapid development of material research and presents materials new to the market since 2010. The significance of sustainable and intelligent materials in design and architecture has increased enormously over the last two years. Numerous new products have been introduced to the market and designers’ thirst for knowledge about the sustainability of new material is as strong as ever, making a sequel to Material Revolution necessary. The new volume contains a similar system of classification but covers a completely different range of materials. There is a chapter dedicated solely to the criteria and factors of sustainable product design, as well as to innovative projects by designers and architects that work with new materials and technologies.
Shrinking Cities in Reunified East Germany
The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and urban design practices. Starting from a journey in former East Germany, six different scenes are explored in which plans, projects, and policies have dealt with shrinkage since the 1990s. The book is a sequence of scenes that reveals the main characteristics, dynamics, narratives, reasons and ambiguities of the shrinking cities’ transformations in the face of a long transition. The first scene concerns the demolition and transformation of social mass housing in Leinefelde-Worbis. The second scene deals with the temporary appropriation of abandoned buildings in Halle-Neustadt. The third scene, observed in Leipzig, shows the results of green space projects in urban voids. The scene of the fourth situation observes the extraordinary efforts to renaturise a mining territory in the Lausitz region. The fifth scene takes us to Hoyerswerda, where emigration and ageing process required a reduction and demolition in housing stock and social infrastructures. The border city of Görlitz, the sixth and last scene, deals with the repopulation policies that aim to attract retirees from the West.
Rethinking Wood
Advances in the materials and the digitalization of architecture bring about new methods in design and construction. Whereas traditional timber construction consists of pre-cut and pre-assembled timber sections, modern timber buildings today consist of elaborate wood-based materials. Owing to their flexibility and good properties in terms of building physics and ecology, these wood-based materials are ideal for computer-aided building component production. Fifteen case examples from research, teaching, and practical applications provide inspiring insights into the potential of formable wood-based materials and digital design: Woven Wood, Wood Foam, Living Wood and Organic Joints, Timber Joints for Robotic Building Processes, Efficiencies of Wood, Designing with Tree Form.
Transmaterial Next
Virtually every revolution in architecture has been preceded by a revolution in materials: think iron, glass, steel, concrete, plastics, or composites. What is the next revolutionary material that will reshape the very nature of architecture? A solid that's lighter than air, metal latticework so delicate it rests on a dandelion, building insulation made from processed seaweed, self-generating microbial glue that repairs cracks in concrete, or transparent solar panels? Materials expert Blaine Brownell, author of our bestselling Transmaterial series, reveals emerging trends and applications that are transforming the technological capacity, environmental performance, and design potential of architecture in Transmaterial Next. This book is an essential compendium for thinking architects, designers, and other creative professionals passionate about materials and looking for their bleeding edge and practical implementation.
Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca
"Ponder and Lindberg provides a breathtaking overview of the evolutionary history of the Mollusca, effectively melding information from anatomy, ecology, genomics, and paleobiology to explore the depths of molluscan phylogeny. Its outstanding success is due to thoughtful planning, focused complementary contributions from 36 expert authors, and careful editing. This volume is a must for malacologists."—Bruce Runnegar, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles "Our understanding of the phylogeny and evolutionary history of the mollusca has been revolutionized over the past two decades through new molecular data and analysis, and reinvestigation of morphological characters. In this volume Ponder, Lindberg, and their colleagues do a wonderful job of integrating this work to provide new perspectives on the relationships of the major molluscan clades, their evolutionary dynamics, and their history. Particularly timely is the coverage of molluscan evo-devo and genomics."—Douglas H. Erwin, Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates, National Museum of Natural History
Kunstforschung als ästhetische Wissenschaft
Kunstforschung, künstlerische Forschung oder kunstbasierte Forschung sind derzeit populäre Begriffe - spekuliert werden darf jedoch, was mit ihnen gemeint sei. Der Band konzipiert Kunstforschung als »ästhetische Wissenschaft«, als einen Prozess, der das spezifische Wissen und die Kompetenzen von Künstlern nutzt, um sie in anderen Kontexten als dem Kunstsystem zur Anwendung zu bringen: Künstlerische Kompetenzen und Arbeitsweisen werden mit wissenschaftlichen verwunden, um problemorientiert neues Wissen zu generieren.
