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The wall as living place
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

The wall as living place

There is ample evidence as to how the modern masters, in their shared pursuit of formal inventions and constructional inventions, variously referred to past examples they had freely chosen as guides that could inspire and support them in their strenuous pursuit of new things. The buildings shaped like soft clouds and gelatinous bowels, or the spiked bravura pieces designed by today's fashionable architects have no relation with either construction or history. Louis Kahn, instead, kept form, structure and history paradigmatically together. The book systematically reviews the intense structural experimentation that, in terms not just of building engineering but of spatial and representational ...

Comparison
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 474

Comparison

Design-Driven Research encompasses many different forms of research in which architectural, design, and artistic practices and the results thereof, are implemented as a means to generate and disseminate new knowledge. This includes contemporary alternative formulations of the field, like Artistic Research, Research by Design, Practice-Based/Led Research, Creative Practice Research. CA2RE+ is a joint Erasmus+ strategic partnership of nine European universities in association with EAAE, ELIA and ARENA, and it supports early-career researchers and Ph.D. students to improve the quality of their research. CA²RE+ explicates the transformative and innovative power of highly individual strategies in artistic research, the diversity of research traditions, and the integrative nature of architectural design research, able to face the contemporary knowledge fragmentation from humanities, social sciences, and technology. Along with the CA2RE+ timeline project, the focus of Milano conference narrows by comparing design strategies and tactics applied to highlight common approaches and methodological specificities within the consortium and the broader community involved.

Graphic Design for Wine
  • Language: en

Graphic Design for Wine

The book is a collection of about one hundred graphic designs for wine labels suitable for vintners of various sizes from across the world. The graphic design approaches depicted are equally varied - they may be photographic or minimal; based on line drawings or digital concepts; resulting in either bespoke or exible solutions. While this selection has no pretence to be an exhaustive survey, it certainly conveys a meaningful sample of the recent graphic design production in this field. 278 colour illustrations

The affective city
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

The affective city

Cities are not made only of stone: they harbor ways of life, practices, movements, moods, atmospheres, feelings. Yet the ineffable nature of affects has long deprived human passions of a meaningful role when it comes to observing urban space and envisioning its future transformation. With this book, we explore the contemporary city and its transitional conditions from a different perspective: a quest to understand how the space of collective life and the feelings this engenders are connected, how they mutually give form to each other. In an interdisciplinary collection of essays, The Affective City means to open a discussion on the “soft” presences animating the world of urban objects: beyond the city built out of mere things, this book’s focus is on the forces that make urban life emerge, thrive, flourish, but also wither, and sometimes die. A task crucial for the survival of cities as human habitats, in an urban world that – with every passing day – seems to draw closer a crisis.

Fragility and Antifragility in Cities and Regions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Fragility and Antifragility in Cities and Regions

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Offering a novel and interdisciplinary approach, this thought-provoking book critically analyses the notions of fragility and antifragility and addresses their connections and applications in planning theory, urban studies and architecture. It goes beyond the risk and resilience paradigm and proposes methodological and pragmatic strategies to cope with severe forms of uncertainty and socio-spatial inequalities.

New Metropolitan Perspectives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2873

New Metropolitan Perspectives

The book aims to face the challenge of post-COVID-19 dynamics toward green and digital transition, between metropolitan and return to villages’ perspectives. It presents a multi-disciplinary scientific debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools, within the urban–rural areas networks and the metropolitan cities. The book focuses on six topics: inner and marginalized areas local development to re-balance territorial inequalities; knowledge and innovation ecosystem for urban regeneration and resilience; metropolitan cities and territorial dynamics; rules, governance, economy, society; green buildings, post-carbon city and ecosystem services; infrastructures and spatial information systems; cultural heritage: conservation, enhancement and management. In addition, the book hosts a Special Section: Rhegion United Nations 2020-2030. The book will benefit all researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in the issues applied to metropolitan cities and marginal areas.

Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2014
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 842

Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2014

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-07-02
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  • Publisher: Springer

The six-volume set LNCS 8579-8584 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2014, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in June/July 2014. The 347 revised papers presented in 30 workshops and a special track were carefully reviewed and selected from 1167. The 289 papers presented in the workshops cover various areas in computational science ranging from computational science technologies to specific areas of computational science such as computational geometry and security.

100 Posters
  • Language: en

100 Posters

The book is a collection of 100 posters designed between 1967 and 2017 by world-renowned Italian graphic designer, Armando Milani. AUTHOR: Armando Milani, who conceived of and designed this book, is President of AGI / Italy (Alliance Graphique International) and President of Milani Design, with offices in Milan and southern France. He organises lectures and seminars on graphic design. In 1992 he produced the book "Double Life", with the sense of humor and creativity of 80 AGI designers and an introduction by Paul Rand, and in 2000, "50 poems of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and 50 images of Armando Milani". In 2003 he designed a poster for the United Nations, "War/Peace", that was displayed all over the word. In 2015 he designed the book "No Words Posters", a collection of the works of 80 international graphic designers.

The ineffable in Charles Correa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 80

The ineffable in Charles Correa

Charles Correa – seen by many in India as a sort of guru, as someone capable to transcend and grasp the ineffable reality that surrounds us – has left his noteworthy architectural heritage across the globe. In 2013, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) celebrated him as one of the greatest contemporary urban planners showcasing his work in an exhibition called: “Charles Correa: India’s greatest architect”. Profoundly tied to my Indian origins, to me Correa has been the master over distance, a personal benchmark to set my goals against. He was my inspiring thinker, architect and urbanist, or simply said, the designer I would have liked to be. Many of Correa’s last works show his deep-rooted search of the highest spiritual dimension in the attempt to trap part of the cosmic energy surrounding us into architectural works that were – and are – the shadow of his soul.

Sport Architecture. Design Construction Management of Sport Infrastructure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Sport Architecture. Design Construction Management of Sport Infrastructure

The history of civilisations and places conveys the importance of the role the culture of sport and a cultivated management of leisure play in the definition of the identity of peoples and communities. Elevating such realms to the status of cultural assets to be shared and enhanced by analysing the dynamics of transformation of the city and territory related to them is a sensible, necessary and ethically correct action. The context of European architecture shows an increasing number of plans that both transform existing facilities and create new ones with a defining and strategic role in the development of urban and landscape fabrics. Activating a basic and permanent theoretical discussion i...