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Urban Planning and Cultural Identity
This book reviews the intense spatiality of conflict over identity construction in three cities where culture and place identity are not just post-modernist playthings but touch on the raw sensibilities of who people define themselves to be.
The Dissolution of Place
Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs. This book extends this debate beyond the modernist/postmodernist rivalry to situate postmodernism as an already superseded concept that has been upended by deconstructionist and virtual architecture as well as the continued turn toward the use of theming in much new public and corporate space. It investigates architecture on the margins of postmodernism -- those places where both ar...
The Fair-Line and the Good Frontage
This book offers an extended consideration of the fairground showfront. It combines archival material, contemporary examples of fairs, and a sustained theoretical engagement with influential philosophies of surface, including recent work by Avrum Stroll and Andrew Benjamin, as well as the nineteenth century author Gottfried Semper. Semper’s work on the origin of architectural enclosure —formed from woven mats and carpets— anticipates the surface and material history of the showfront. Initial chapters introduce these philosophies, the evolution of showfronts, and the ways in which individual fairground rides and attractions are arranged to form an enclosing boundary for the whole fair. Later chapters focus on issues of spectacle and illusion, vast ‘interior’ spaces, atmosphere, crowds and surface effects. Informed by a wide range of work from other design and cultural studies, the book will be of interest to readers in these areas, as well as architecture and those curious about the fairground.
Architecture Transformed
This book examines the key role of the digital image in architecture over four decades – in the process of digitizing knowledge in theory and practice – as well as its influence on architectural design and visualization: The transition from the analogue to the digital age is analyzed on the basis of 51 design visualizations, from hand drawings to hybrid methods to computer renderings, in order to illustrate how architecture has been impacted by digital methods and media. Architecture Transformed is the result of a collaboration between the Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg and the Chair of Architecture and Visualization at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg as part of the German Research Foundation program entitled “The Digital Image.” On the practice of the digital image in architecture With essays and 51 design visualizations by David Chipperfield, Odile Decq & Benoît Cornette, Gramazio & Kohler, Herzog & de Meuron, Greg Lynn, Jean Nouvel, Oswald Mathias Ungers, among others With in-depth explanatory texts
Walter Benjamin and Architecture
Drawing from Walter Benjamin’s ideas, the essays compiled in this book contribute to a critical understanding of contemporary architectural theories.
Brunet Saunier Architecture
Founded in 1981 in Paris, Brunet Saunier Architecture is a French leader in the design of hospitals and large-scale public buildings. This publication is much more than a monograph. It is also a professional reference work, as hospital buildings make up a large portion of the showcased projects. Over the last ten years the architectural office has been developing a successful concept known as “Monospace”. The book discusses and analyzes this concept in detail, presenting trueto- scale floor plans, cross-sections, architectural views, and other information. The Monospace concept – which is based on a process of creative reduction down to essentials, i.e. “simplexity” – is adaptive rather than normative or prescriptive, and based on probabilities rather than determinism. It respects energy, even when it sometimes uses it. It takes the individual’s experience into account, and starts from the position of the subject. It also permits changing perspectives. This design concept should attract attention far beyond the borders of France.
Urban Textures | Yves Lion
Yves Lion, geboren 1945 in Casablanca, gehört zu den bedeutendsten Architekten Frankreichs. Seit dreißig Jahren spielt Lion in der französischen Architektur und auch der Architekturdebatte eine eminente Rolle. Dieses Buch des führenden Architekturhistorikers Jean-Louis Cohen versucht zum ersten Mal eine Zusammenschau seines Wirkens. Thematisch geordnet spannt Cohen einen großen Bogen und beschreibt über drei Jahrzehnte hinweg Leitmotive und Schwerpunkte in Lions Arbeit, darunter seine Auseinandersetzung mit urbanistischen Themen, dem Wohnungsbau oder seinen Diskurs u.a. mit James Stirling, Charles Jencks, Aldo van Eyck oder Bernard Tschumi. Illustriert wird Cohens Essay durch Abbildungen der Bauten Lions, die ausführlich dokumentiert werden. Dazu gehören die Oper in Nantes, die Botschaft Frankreichs in Beirut oder das Maison européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Jean-Louis Cohen, geboren 1949 in Paris, ist Architekt und Autor vieler Publikationen, darunter Mies van der Rohe und Paris: L’Architecture 1900–2000. Er hat an verschiedenen Universitäten wie Paris VIII und New York University unterrichtet.
Fast & Flexible
The health care system is undergoing constant and increasingly rapid change, fuelled by digitalised processes, innovations in medicine and medical technology, and social upheavals. Sustainable hospital architecture must be able to keep pace with this constant regeneration. But how can this be achieved when health care buildings – with an average minimum lifespan of 20 years – appear to be an inert mass compared to the rapidly changing health care sector? How can adaptable and flexible structures be created that ensure efficient care even in crisis situations – as we experienced in the pandemic years? Volume 9 of the ‘Health Care of the Future’ series examines this question from very different perspectives: from contributions on the digital future of health care and structural planning for change to reports on visionary, international hospital concepts and research into the robotic construction methods of the future.
Architecture of France
Covering all regions of France—from Avignon's Palace of the Popes to Versailles' Petit Trianon—and all periods of French architecture—from the Roman theater at Orange to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris—this volume examines more than 60 of France's most important architectural landmarks. Writing in a clear and engaging style, David Hanser, professor of architecture at Oklahoma State University, describes the features, functions, and historical importance of each structure. Besides identifying location, style, architects, and periods of initial construction and major renovation, the cross-referenced and illustrated entries also highlight architectural and historical terms explained in the...
Berlin Contemporary
For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the city in the 1990s and early 2000s. Among the most visible and the most contested of the new projects were those designed for the national government and its related functions. Berlin Contemporary explores these buildings and plans, tracing their antecedents while also situating their iconic forms and influential designers within the spectacular world of global contemporary architecture. Close studies of these sites, including the Reichstag, the Chancellery, and the reconstruction of the Berlin Stadtschloss (now known as the Humboldt Forum), demonstrate the complexity of Berlin's political and architectural “rebuilding”-and reveal the intricate historical negotiations that architecture was summoned to perform.
