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The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968
What makes a city? What makes architecture? And, what is to be included in the discussions of architecture and the city? Attempting to answer such ambitious questions, this book starts from a city’s specificity and complexity. In response to recent debates in architectural theory around the agency and locus of critical action, this book tests the potential of criticality through-practice. Rather than through conceptual and ideological categorisations, it studies how architecture and criticality work within specific circumstances. Brussels, a complex city with a turbulent architectural and urban past, forms a compelling case for examining the tensions between urban politics, architectural i...
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
Production Urbanism
The Industrial Revolution caused a paradigm shift from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy, giving birth to the industrial city. ‘City’ became synonymous with a concentration of factories causing unfiltered scenes between centres of production and urban dwellings. The corrupted image of the city ultimately led to the displacement and separation of production away from residential zones in the 20th century. However, new innovative manufacturing technologies are allowing a coexistence between factories and dwellings through hybrid typologies that blend production back into the urban fabric. This AD issue discusses the implications of the re-emergence of production as an architec...
Procuring Innovative Architecture
The case studies in this book describe how clients’ promotion of innovative communities of practice has led to important collections of architectural works. The book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of their approaches. Architects and clients will understand what to look for as they construct their careers and their portfolios with innovation as a goal. It is taken for granted nowadays that supporting innovative architecture benefits society. In countries as diverse as Austria, Australia, Belgium, England, Japan, South East Asia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the USA, retailers, institutions, local and regional government and transport authorities have established substantial bodies of work by new and emerging architects. This books looks at what their goals are and how they have achieved them. Is it possible to promote sustainable communities of innovative practice through such patronage? Can innovation be ‘kick-started’ by importing visionary works?
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Participatiegolven
Kritische studie van participatieprocessen in architectuur, stedenbouw en ruimtelijke ordening ‘Participatie’ werd, in de nasleep van 1968, een sleutelwoord in architectuur, stedenbouw en ruimtelijke ordening in Vlaanderen en Brussel. Sindsdien zijn processen van medezeggenschap, inspraak en coproductie min of meer ingeburgerd in ontwerp- en planningspraktijken. Het enthousiasme voor deze processen is aan wisselende invloeden onderhevig en participatie staat dus lang niet altijd centraal in de feitelijke beslissingsstromen. Dit boek documenteert deze golfbewegingen aan de hand van historische overzichten, gevalstudies, interviews en kritische reflecties. Daarbij wordt nagedacht over de r...
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This two-volume catalogue of this year's Venice Architecture Biennial, brings together some of the most important current projects from the world's top architects. The architects literally range from A to Z, from Tadao Ando to Peter Zumthor, and the works covered will shape the face of the built environment for decades to come. Like the catalog, the show itself is divided into two parts, the first, exhibited in the historic Venice Arsenale, features 100 designs from around the world that are currently under construction, presented in the form of large-scale models and prototypes. These designs are grouped together by building type--housing, museums, skyscrapers, office and workplace design, ...
Trith-Saint-Léger
Le « pays » de Trith-Saint-Léger illustre l'infinie variété des paysages industriels du Nord. Les terroirs, très divers, se couvrirent, lors du premier âge industriel, d'usines parfois similaires, souvent différentes : leur alchimie au sein des territoires ne fut jamais exactement la même. C'est donc un cheminement économique et l'élaboration d'une société originale que l'on découvre au travers d'un « pays » singulier. Au commencement, une campagne fécondée par la mine, un peu d'industrie sucrière et de textile, des brasseries et par un Belge venu de Charleroi avec ses capitaux et ses ouvriers. La graine semée en 1826, simple usine à fer comme tant d'autres en France, ta...
