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About Star Architecture
Cities across the world have been resorting to star architects to brand their projects, spark urban regeneration and market the city image internationally. This book shifts the attention from star architects to star architecture, arguing that the process of deciding about and implementing relevant architectural and urban projects is not the product of any single actor. Star architecture can, in fact, be better studied and understood as assembled by multiple actors and in its relationship with urban transformation. In its 18 chapters, the book presents a multidisciplinary collection of expert contributions in the fields of urban planning, architecture, media studies, urban economics, geography, and sociology, consistently brought together for the first time to deal with this topic. Through a vast array of case studies and analytical techniques touching over 20 cities in Europe, the book shows the positive and more problematic impacts of star architecture with reference to the preservation of built heritage, tourism and media. The book will be of interest to architects, sociologists, urban planners, and public administrators.
MCM – Milan, Capital of the Modern
MCM - Milano Capital of the Modern, edited by Lorenzo Degli Esposti, is made up of texts and images from over 300 contributors from Europe and the US, across three generations, involved in the activities of the Padiglione Architettura in EXPO Belle Arti of Vittorio Sgarbi, a programme by the Regione Lombardia hosted in the Grattacielo Pirelli during the EXPO 2015. They investigate the relationships between modern architecture, the city of Milan (Razionalismo, reconstruction, Tendenza, Radical Design, up to current research) and the city in general, between single and specific works and the large scale of the urban territory, in the contradictions between architecture autonomy and its dependence on specific place and historical time. The idea of MCM is that each capital of the Modern brings an original version of modernity in architecture: in the specific Milanese case, this kind of Modern is characterized by the simultaneous presence of abstract, systematic and syntactic features and an ontological conception of both buildings and architectural and urban voids.
The New Arab Urban
Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else they may be, indisputably sensational. The world’s tallest building is in Dubai; the 2022 World Cup in soccer will be played in fantastic Qatar facilities; Saudi Arabia is building five new cities from scratch; the Louvre, the Guggenheim and the Sorbonne, as well as many American and European universities, all have handsome outposts and campuses in the region. Such initiatives bespeak strategies to diversify economies and pursue grand ambitions across the Earth. Shining special light on Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha—where the dynamics of extreme u...
Transnational Architecture and Urbanism
Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning, design, policy, and geography studies to offer place-based and project-oriented insight into relevant case studies of urban transformation in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. Since the 1990s, increasingly multinational modes of design have arisen, especially concerning prominent buildings and places. Traditional planning and design disciplines have proven to have limited comprehension of, and little grip on, such transformations. Public and scholarly discussions argue that these projects and transformations derive from socioeconomic, political, cultural trends or conditions of globalization. The author suggests...
Pflanzenfaserarchitektur Heute
Der Einsatz von Baustoffen aus schnell wachsende Pflanzen ist eine große Chance, unmittelbar viel CO2 einzuspeichern und damit dem Klimawandel entgegenzuwirken. Die 50 in diesem Buch vorgestellten biogenen Bauwerke (Wohnhäuser, Schulen, Gewerbebauten, Infrastrukturprojekte, etc.) wurden aus 226 Einreichungen von der Jury des FIBRA Awards, dem weltweit ersten Preis für zeitge-nössische Pflanzenfaserarchitektur, ausgewählt. Aus Bambus, Stroh, Schilf, Palmblättern, Rinde, Nordseegras oder sogar aus Pilzen und lebenden Pflanzen hergestellt, fördern diese inspirierenden Beispiele aus 45 Ländern die Verwendung der reichlich vorhandenen, natürlichen, kostengünstigen und in der Verarbeitun...
Sluminsider
Sluminsider' is a choral narrative that attempts to reveal the complexity of the slum of Mathare, one of the biggest shantytowns in Nairobi. The project of expansion of a street school, the Why Not Junior Academy, and the process of environmental improvement of the surrounding area, where a community agriculture initiative has been set up to replace an unauthorized dump, is the starting point from which to combine experiences and identities from very different disciplines, including architecture,design, agriculture, photography and video.
L'industria della canzone
Ogni giorno vengono pubblicate sulle piattaforme più di centomila canzoni: arricchiscono un catalogo di oltre cento milioni di brani, accessibili in streaming. Non solo su Spotify o YouTube, le canzoni sono ovunque: su Instagram o su TikTok, nella sigla o nella scena di una serie, alla tv o alla radio. È quasi impossibile passare un giorno senza ascoltarne una, e per questo si tende a darle per scontate. La canzone, invece, è uno degli oggetti più complessi della cultura contemporanea e, con l'avvento delle piattaforme, è diventata ancora più pervasiva ed è cresciuta esponenzialmente l'industria, dalla discografia ai live, dai media tradizionali a quelli digitali. Dalla canzone italiana classica al rap e alla trap, da Elvis Presley a Taylor Swift, dai concerti e dai videoclip al Festival di Sanremo: uno studio sistematico ricostruisce il ruolo narrativo, produttivo e simbolico della canzone e del suo rapporto con l'industria e i media.
