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The Public Private House
  • Language: en

The Public Private House

Throughout the twentieth century, the ancient city of Athens underwent a massive transformation into simple sets of apartment blocks, or polykatoikia. Today, these multifamily residential units define the city's landscape from center to periphery and house a majority of Greece's population. Yet specific circumstances and cultural patterns set Athens's transformation apart from the arrival of architectural modernity in other countries, and what has emerged in Athens is a distinctly Greek variety of modern urban development. The Public-Private House examines Athens's urban character and the apparently unlimited adaptability of polykatoikia. In the first part of the book, a photoessay offers an...

Conceptual Design of Structures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Conceptual Design of Structures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-04-22
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

Most of the embodied energy can be saved in the load-bearing structure! Conceptual Design of Structures is working at the interface between structural engineering, architecture, and art. The book seeks to answer the complex question of what needs to be considered when conceiving a building structure. What influences the process of conceptual thinking? How do space and structure interact? In what ways do architects and engineers work together? The book thus sheds light on the topic of multidisciplinary interrelationships in design, showing numerous different perspectives. Renowned practitioners and researchers from architecture and engineering share their insights, as do artists and historians who cross the disciplinary boundaries. Furthermore, this book also provides an outlook on possible future developments and aspects of sustainable design and construction. Bridging practice, academic, and research Holistic perspectives through contributors from different disciplines Numerous essays, interviews and project reviews provide direct insights Selected works from engineering, architecture, and art

Resisting Postmodern Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

Resisting Postmodern Architecture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-01-10
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials, culture and topography of a specific place) are integrated in architects’ education across the globe. But at the same time, the richer cross-cultural history of critical regionalism has been reduced to schematic juxtapositions of ‘the global’ with ‘the local’. Retrieving both the globalising branches and the overlooked cross-cultural roots...

New Interior Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

New Interior Design

The book is designed to give a stimulating idea of the current direction of international interior design by Nigel Coates, one of the foremost practitioners in the field. The author has selected approximately 30 international designers whose work he thinks is especially interesting. The book will then present a selection of work by these designers in such a way that the relations between different designers (both the differences and similarities) are brought out as well as broader themes in current interior design. While each project selected will be featured over a series of pages, the same project may crop up at various other points through book. The purpose of this is to draw comparisons between each project by letting them cross over into one another’s territory. Hence ‘Collidoscope’, the provisional title of the publication. As such, it should work both as a sourcebook with reference to current tendencies in design and to the ideas that underpin them. It will foreground the designers yet raise challenging differences and overlaps between them.

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 768

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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NL 98 99 00
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 68

NL 98 99 00

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Customize
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Customize

Everywhere we see evidence of standardisation, the serial production of goods and services, uniformity across the globe, and people are beginning to react against this trend. The wish to alter, modify, improve, and distort the standard model is becoming increasingly apparent, and it applies as much to products, building components or plans for town development, as to cultural commonplaces and rituals. This publication provides fascinating reports on some of the rebellious strategies that have been discovered in towns such as Paris, Wuppertal, Seoul and London. Interviews with architects in Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Spain, France and the USA reveal a subversive attitude, which is no longer prepared to accept uniform standards and globalization to the detriment of individuality and idiosyncrasy.

Tony Fretton Architects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Tony Fretton Architects

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-22
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

A comprehensive overview on the work of renowned London architect Tony Fretton (born 1945). After graduating from the reputable Architectural Association in 1982 Fretton opened his own architect's office. He attracted attention early on with the Lisson Gallery and the "Red House" (London). His spatial creations and their incorporation into the urban context are of subtle mastery. With his designs for the Camden Arts Centre, the Fuglsang Kunstmuseum in Denmark, London townhouse for the artist Anish Kapoor and the British embassy in Warsaw, Fretton has emerged as one of the most prominent contemporary architects. This monograph provides a long-awaited reference work to his oeuvre. Since 1999 Tony Fretton has been a visiting professor at the following universities: Technical University Delft, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Berlage Institute Amsterdam, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich.

建築と都市
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

建築と都市

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1971
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Wonderland Travelogue 2004–2006
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Wonderland Travelogue 2004–2006

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-06-22
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Wonderland architecture exhibition toured Europe from 2004 to 2006. At every stop 11 national teams – mostly young, unknown teams – joined the exhibition and presented their work along with the others already featured. The exhibition, which began in Austria and grew continuously, will close where it originated in June 2006. The collection of contributions is both a catalog and travelogue in one: each of the 99 participating architecture teams is introduced with both images and texts. The essays give accounts of the architectural developments in the different countries from the perspective of local architecture experts and contain both a retrospect and forecast of the events surrounding the individual exhibitions.