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Splintering Towers of Babel
Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contemporary urban studies including town planning histories, architecture, heritage, colonialism and postcolonialism, philosophy, and ethics. The book combines transdisciplinary perspectives on the key historical, philosophical, and political issues associated with urban experiences, built forms, and infrastructure networks. It explores uneven dimensions in contemporary urbanisms and develops spatial phenomenological thinking with reference to the northern and southern hemispheres. This book connects the past and the present, in addition to Western and global South geographies, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Its main contribution is to broaden readers' understanding of infrastructure through the lens of the humanities and to engage with political, poetical, and ethical perspectives. This book is tailored to scholars working in the fields of urban planning, urban geography, architectural history, urban design, infrastructure studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, African studies, and philosophy.
The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods
'The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods' explores different ways of understanding the city. The social city approach proceeds from the ground-up, it focuses on human interactions shaped by economic and environmental processes. The built city method looks through a top-down lens, examining policy and planning for buildings and infrastructure, including utilities and energy networks. This volume is different from other city anthologies in that it explores them through their differences, by presenting each chapter in one of the two categories. While there is invariably an overlap between the two areas, they are distinct positions. In doing so the book identifies how, despite ...
Clara n°3/2015
Ce troisième numéro de la revue CLARA Architecture/Recherche explore les relations entre architecture et sciences humaines et sociales. Le croisement des points de vue offre l’opportunité de questionner la discipline architecturale et ses méthodes qui, comme toute discipline transversale, emprunte à d’autres sciences, diverses écoles, multiples cultures académiques et professionnelles. Le dossier Penser les rencontres entre architecture et sciences humaines est animé par plusieurs scènes de rencontre entre des chercheurs et des méthodes empruntées à la sociologie, l’histoire culturelle, la promotion immobilière, l’anthropologie, la philosophie. Dans ce numéro, CLARA s...
Clara n°2/2014
Ce deuxième numéro de la revue CLARA Architecture/Recherche aborde deux thématiques qui se situent au coeur de récents débats d’architecture et de société. Dans un premier dossier thématique, étudiants et enseignants d’un atelier de la Faculté d’architecture La Cambre-Horta, aidés de chercheurs de l’ULB, nous emmènent à la découverte des mosquées bruxelloises. À travers des relevés de terrain, des enquêtes et des projets, ils visitent l’architecture des lieux de culte musulmans, en questionnant la place de l’islam dans l’espace public et la capacité du tissu urbain et social bruxellois à accueillir de nouveaux usages. Un second dossier est consacré au récent transfert de l’enseignement de l’architecture à l’université. Il interroge l’historicité du dispositif pédagogique de l’atelier, la scientificité de la discipline architecturale, les défis de son enseignement et le statut de l’architecte.
Human Cities
'Human Cities: Celebrating Public Space' combines theoretical, practical and artistic approaches related to public space.
Towards a Metropolitan City Centre for Brussels
Between 2015 and 2020, the city centre of Brussels witnessed the creation of its first major pedestrian zone, one of the largest urban projects in recent decades. Has the Brussels city centre finally done away with the car hegemony? Can the city centre be extended to become the centre of the Brussels metropolis where everyone can find his or her own place? This book presents scientific background to the issue and brings together in words and images the research carried out over the past four years by the Brussels Centre Observatory.
Design Activism
Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the near-future. New approaches, methods and tools are urgently required as sustainability expands the context for design and what it means to be a 'designer'. Design activists, who comprise a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. They seek to funda...
Human Settlements
Summary: Wars, internal conflicts and natural catastrophes are plaguing the world. Millions of people are on the run in search of new, safer places to settle temporarily or permanently. "Human settlements" goes in more depth into the aspects of modern settlements that are related to architecture, urban design and planning. Both practical cases from the period 1960-1980 and present-day cases since 1990 are analysed in this book.
Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Renowned editors and contributors have come together to produce one of the first books to tackle cosmopolitanism from a geographical perspective. It employs a range of approaches to provide a valuable grounded treatment.
Latin American Modern Architectures
Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Lucio Costa and Félix Candela, which will show you unfamiliar aspects of their work, and for essays on the work of little-known figures, such as Uruguayan architect Carlos Gómez Gavazzo and Peruvian architect and politician Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Covering urban and territorial histories from the n...
