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Experiments with Life Itself
Every book relating the history of modern architecture features a large number of pages dedicated to avant-garde designs and the formation of the modern movement in the interwar years, and a similar number devoted to reconstruction and expansion after the Second World War. Meanwhile, as if owing to lack of understanding or convenient silence, there is void of dark years, of wars, exile and misfortune about which little can be said. However, it was in these dark times, as in so many other revealing moments in the history of culture, that experimental and profoundly invigorating experiences were taking place. Architects and artists voluntarily or forcibly driven to the margins of social importance began to react to a culturally unsustainable situation of which we know very little even today. In Experiments with Life Itself, Francisco Gonzalez de Canales studies a series of unrelated cases from the late 1930s to the late 1950s that he refers to as domestic self-experimentation.
Experiments with Life Itself
Every book relating the history of modern architecture features a large number of pages dedicated to avant-garde designs and the formation of the modern movement in the interwar years, and a similar number devoted to reconstruction and expansion after the Second World War. Meanwhile, as if owing to lack of understanding or convenient silence, there is void of dark years, of wars, exile and misfortune about which little can be said. However, it was in these dark times, as in so many other revealing moments in the history of culture, that experimental and profoundly invigorating experiences were taking place. Architects and artists voluntarily or forcibly driven to the margins of social importance began to react to a culturally unsustainable situation of which we know very little even today. In Experiments with Life Itself, Francisco Gonzalez de Canales studies a series of unrelated cases from the late 1930s to the late 1950s that he refers to as domestic self-experimentation.
Typological Urbanism
How can architecture today be simultaneously relevant to its urban context and at the very forefront of design? For a decade or so, iconic architecture has been fuelled by the market economy and consumers' insatiable appetite for the novel and the different. The relentless speed and scale of urbanisation, with its ruptured, decentralised and fast-changing context, though, demands a rethink of the role of the designer and the function of architecture. This title of 2 confronts and questions the profession's and academia's current inability to confidently and comprehensively describe, conceptualise, theorise and ultimately project new ideas for architecture in relation to the city. In so doing, it provides a potent alternative for projective cities: Typological Urbanism. This pursues and develops the strategies of typological reasoning in order to re-engage architecture with the city in both a critical and speculative manner. Architecture and urbanism are no longer seen as separate domains, or subservient to each other, but as synthesising disciplines and processes that allow an integrating and controlling effect on both the city and its built environment.
Innovaciones en el aprendizaje con tecnologías digitales
La Sociedad actual se encuentra en constante redefinición para afrontar los vertiginosos cambios planteados por el desarrollo de las tecnologías y la diversificación de sus usos: proliferación de fuentes de información y formatos de contenidos educativos, usos de redes sociales, globalización, ciudadanía digital... La irrupción de nuevas tecnologías y su popularización han aumentado las oportunidades para aprender y diversificado los contextos y formas de hacerlo y ha puesto en primer plano del debate público los desafíos a los que se enfrenta la educación en la actualidad, que requiere nuevas metodologías y estrategias pedagógicas para una educación más abierta y flexible para responder a un aprendizaje móvil, conectado y distribuido. En esta era donde la educación se plantea en términos de una educación líquida y sin muros, nuevas metodologías y modalidades educativas tienen o aspiran a tener un peso destacado.
The Mannerist Mind
Departing from a discussion on what it would be a mannerist attitude in the architecture of today, and theorizing around it, this book analyzes some works of contemporary European practices including Lutjens Padmanabhan, architekten de vylder vinck taillieu, TEd’A, Maio, 6a architects and AOffice KGDVS. Art critics between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries imprinted a long-standing derogatory meaning to the word “mannerism”. Even though scholars such as John Shearman or Wolfgang Lotz rehabilitated the term to a certain degree during the twentieth century, it is still uncommon nowadays to find the expression “mannerist” used without certain pejorative connotations. This book provides a contemporary revision of the mannerist attitude for the present, creating a framework to analyze and shed light not only on the work that these practices are carrying out, but also on the less evident filiations and affinities, as well as on their deeper implications.
Arquitectura y género
La historiografía de la arquitectura occidental tiene pendiente una revisión de su enfoque y cómo afecta a nuestras formas de vida. Este ensayo invita a la reflexión sobre la disciplina de la arquitectura desde el entendimiento de que se trata de un ámbito patriarcal que es origen de desigualdades efectivas. La construcción de los espacios tiene un sentido cultural: su diseño se limita, jerarquiza y valora desde las estructuras de poder y puede perpetuar sistemas de dominación. La incorporación de la perspectiva de género en los estudios e investigaciones de arquitectura es una cuestión de justicia social ineludible por más tiempo.
El territorio como "demo" : demo(a)grafías, demo(a)cracias y epidemias
Tres argumentos-clave son recorridos por este libro coral, donde investigadores de la Red de Estudios Socioespaciales (RESE), debaten distintos trabajos de investigación, en términos espaciales y desde miradas críticas, a partir de una negativa propositiva, para poner a disposición de otros especialistas, pero sin duda de la sociedad en general, los desencajes y subsunciones del Espacio respecto al Tiempo, Demo(a)cracias, Demo(a)grafía y Epidemias epitomizan, con los desarrollos aquí propuestos, tres factores de nuestro presente, con un cuarto añadido
First Works
During a tumultuous period in the 1960s and 70s, a new generation of architects began their careers amidst a period of profound social change, new conditions for architecture and the city and lasting changes to popular and critical forms of cultural production. First Works tells the story of this period and reassesses the conditions of architecture and the beginnings of architectural careers through a selection of projects undertaken during the 60s and 70s. The book presents a single key early project, in the form of models, sketches, photographs and drawings, by 20 young architectural practices: Archigram, Archizoom, Aldo Rossi, Alvaro Siza, Cedric Price, Robert Venturi, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, Paul Virilio and Claude Parent, Rafael Moneo, Renzo Piano, Peter Eisenman, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Tom Mayne and Michael Rotondi, Morphosis, Bernard Tschumi, Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid. Alongside these 'first works', 20 invited critics, including Kenneth Frampton, Sylvia Lavin and Pier Vittorio Aureli, offer contemporary commentaries on these projects and their place within the architects' subsequent careers.
Shopping for Pleasure
In Shopping for Pleasure, Erika Rappaport reconstructs London's Victorian and Edwardian West End as an entertainment and retail center. In this neighborhood of stately homes, royal palaces, and spacious parks and squares, a dramatic transformation unfolded that ultimately changed the meaning of femininity and the lives of women, shaping their experience of modernity. Rappaport illuminates the various forces of the period that encouraged and discouraged women's enjoyment of public life and particularly shows how shopping came to be seen as the quintessential leisure activity for middle- and upper-class women. Through extensive histories of department stores, women's magazines, clubs, teashops...
Masterplanning Futures
Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award! In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes. These frequently disregarded existing social and cultural structures, while the old modernist planning model zoned space for home and work. At a time of urban growth, these models are now being replaced by more adaptable, mixed use plans dealing holistically with the physical, social and economic revival of districts, cities and regions. Through today’s public participative approaches and using technologically enabled tools, contemporary masterplanning instruments embody fresh principles, gi...
