Adventure Into Architecture

Author : Tom Dyckhoff
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781448136902

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The Age of Spectacle by Tom Dyckhoff Pdf

'A great storyteller . . . you would be hard pushed to find a more knowledgeable or entertaining [guide]' Icon 'Such an interesting book . . . I cannot recommend it enough.' Lauren Laverne In Dubai, a luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In China, President Xi Jinping denounces the trend of constructing ‘bizarre’ new buildings in wacky shapes and colours. In Cincinnati, celebrity architect Zaha Hadid is paid millions to design a single ‘iconic’ structure – with the hope of single-handedly transforming the region’s ailing fortunes. These incidents are all part of the same story: the rise of the age of spectacle. Over the last fifty years, there has been a revolution in how our cities operate. In The Age of Spectacle, Tom Dyckhoff tells the story of how architecture became obsessed with the flashy, the monumental and the ostentatious – and how we all have to live with the consequences. Exploring cityscapes from New York to Beijing, and from Bilbao to Portsmouth, Dyckhoff shows that we are not just witnessing a new kind of building: we are living through a fundamental transformation in how our urban spaces work. The corporate explosion of the last few decades has fundamentally shifted the relationship between architects, politicians and cities’ inhabitants, fostering innovative new kinds of engineering and design, but also facilitating ill-conceived vanity projects and commercial power-grabs. Timely, passionate and bursting with new ideas, The Age of Spectacle is both an examination of how twenty-first century cities work, and a manifesto for a radically new kind of urbanism. Our cities, Dyckhoff shows, can thrive in the age of spectacle – but only if they engage us not just with dazzling structures, but by responding to the needs of the people who inhabit them. 'Engaging . . . The “iconic” building is the most obvious architectural phenomenon of our age yet, somehow, no one has quite done what Tom Dyckhoff does with The Age of Spectacle, which is to tell its story clearly and plainly.' Rowan Moore, Observer 'First class. Finally, a book that nails the iconic movement – Tom Dyckhoff’s The Age of Spectacle is the book that I wish I had written.' Simon Jenkins 'Unusually accessible [and] well argued.' Evening Standard

Author : Vicky Chan
Publisher : Design Genius Jr.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781631599729

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Adventures in Architecture for Kids by Vicky Chan Pdf

Design Genius Jr.: Adventures in Architecture for Kids uses design thinking to teach kids how buildings are built.

Author : Gregor Hohpe
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781492077497

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The Software Architect Elevator by Gregor Hohpe Pdf

As the digital economy changes the rules of the game for enterprises, the role of software and IT architects is also transforming. Rather than focus on technical decisions alone, architects and senior technologists need to combine organizational and technical knowledge to effect change in their company’s structure and processes. To accomplish that, they need to connect the IT engine room to the penthouse, where the business strategy is defined. In this guide, author Gregor Hohpe shares real-world advice and hard-learned lessons from actual IT transformations. His anecdotes help architects, senior developers, and other IT professionals prepare for a more complex but rewarding role in the enterprise. This book is ideal for: Software architects and senior developers looking to shape the company’s technology direction or assist in an organizational transformation Enterprise architects and senior technologists searching for practical advice on how to navigate technical and organizational topics CTOs and senior technical architects who are devising an IT strategy that impacts the way the organization works IT managers who want to learn what’s worked and what hasn’t in large-scale transformation

Author : Daniel Libeskind
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architects
ISBN : 0719566738

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Breaking Ground by Daniel Libeskind Pdf

Daniel Libeskind's iconic buildings around the world -- from the Jewish Museum in Berlin to the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, the V&A 'Spiral' to the most symbolic rebuilding project ever: the World Trade Center -- have sparked vigorous debate, not only for the way they look but for the ideas they contain. These are ideas that are important for all of us, and this is the story of those ideas -- a memoir of Libeskind's own life experiences, and of the events of history that have informed them. It is a book about the adventure life can offer each of us if we seize it, and about how we can all harness positively the powerful forces of tragedy, memory and hope.

Author : Elsa Lam,Graham Livesey
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616898830

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Canadian Modern Architecture by Elsa Lam,Graham Livesey Pdf

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) President's Medal Award (multi-media representation of architecture). Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary architecture. Beginning with the nation's centennial and Expo 67 in Montreal, this fifty-year retrospective covers the defining of national institutions and movements: • How Canadian architects interpreted major external trends • Regional and indigenous architectural tendencies • The influence of architects in Canada's three largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver Co-published with Canadian Architect, this comprehensive reference book is extensively illustrated and includes fifteen specially commissioned essays.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732945101

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Norman's Architecture Adventure by Anonim Pdf

Norman is a young boy who wants to be an architect just like his mom. Along the way he explores, meets new friends, and learns that having an imagination is the greatest adventure anyone can have.

Author : Richard Francis-Jones
Publisher : Oro Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Architectural practice
ISBN : 1954081650

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Truth and Lies in Architecture by Richard Francis-Jones Pdf

This is a collection of provocative essays that journey into the vexed circumstance of contemporary architectural practice. The nature of the great cultural, social, political, environmental, and consumerist challenges facing the contemporary architect are explored, interpreted, and questioned, while drawing connections from architecture theory, philosophy, science, literature, and film sources in an attempt to negotiate the territory between the truth and lies in architecture. These essays written by a leading Australian architect represent a level of comprehensive critical awareness rarely found within the architectural profession and one would be hard pressed to find another comparable figure in contemporary architectural practice. The entire argumentation is impressive, challenging, intellectually at the highest level and beautifully written.

Author : Joshua Abbott
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781783528578

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A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land by Joshua Abbott Pdf

From Barnet to Richmond, explore the history of London's Metro-Land A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land is your essential pocket guide to the modernist architecture of London's suburbs. Inspired by John Betjeman's 1973 documentary Metro-Land and the writing of Ian Nairn, it examines the growth of the city's suburbs from the 1920s up to the present day – a story that is closely interwoven with the development of innovative architecture in Britain – through its most remarkable modernist buildings. Featuring work by architects such as Charles Holden, Erno Goldfinger and Norman Foster, the book covers nine London boroughs and two counties: Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Richmond, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. It is designed to help you explore Metro-Land's modernist heritage, featuring short descriptions of each building alongside maps of the areas covered, and more than 100 colour photographs.

Author : Norman M. Giller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Architects
ISBN : UCAL:B4322188

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An Adventure in Architecture by Norman M. Giller Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Monasteries
ISBN : UOM:39015006743473

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Adventure in Architecture by Anonim Pdf

Here, in words and pictures, is the most exciting architectural story since the building of the great medieval churches in Europe, the grand plan on which a monastic community in Collegeville, Minnesota, and a world-famous architect -Marcel Breuer- have embarked. At the beginning, the Benedictine community of St. John's was considering only the addition of a small brick annex. But as the work progressed, the project evolved into a comprehensive, long-range plan for 19 new buildings. Each new building must be planned for the growth of the community in its several functions: as church, seminary, university, monastery and preparatory school. The Abbot summed up the feeling of the community in his letter to the 12 leading architects who were asked to submit plans for the buildings: "The Benedictine tradition at its best challenges us to think boldly and to cast our ideals in forms which will be valid for centuries to come, shaping them with all the genius of present-day materials and techniques." Functional and artistic success in such a building program depends upon the sensitivity of both patron and architect and the cooperative spirit that is engendered between them. The partnership between the community and Breuer has proved to be as productive as that of any of the great church builders of the Middle Ages. The scope and creativity of Breuer's master 100-year-plan and the spirit of cooperation between him and the monks, who are doing much of the actual labor themselves, have impressed architects all over the world. Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer, who first won recognition for his work with the Bauhaus group in Germany in the 1920's, subsequently taught at the Harvard School of Architecture. He has been practicing in this country and in Europe for 20 years; during this time, his outstanding works have been the church of St. John's Abbey, the UNESCO Building in Paris, the Torrington Manufacturing Plant in Los Angeles and the New Kensington Housing Project in Pittsburgh. A book about his work and ideas, Sun and Shadow, was published last year. -- from dust jacket.

Author : Robert A.M. Stern
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580935890

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Between Memory and Invention by Robert A.M. Stern Pdf

"A capsule history of American architecture since 1960.”—Wall Street Journal Architect, historian, and educator Robert A. M. Stern presents a personal and candid assessment of contemporary architecture and his fifty years of practice. For more than fifty years, Robert A. M. Stern has designed extraordinary buildings around the world. Founding partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), Stern was once described as “the brightest young man I have ever met in my entire teaching career” by Philip Johnson and recently called “New York City’s most valuable architect” by Bloomberg. Encompassing autobiography, institutional history, and lively, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture surveys the world of architecture from the 1960s to the present and Robert A. M. Stern’s critical role in it. The book chronicles Stern’s formative years, architectural education, and half-century of architectural practice, touching on all the influences that shaped him. He details his Brooklyn upbringing, family excursions to look at key twentieth-century buildings, and relationships with prominent teachers—Paul Rudolph and the legendary Vincent Scully among them. Stern also recounts the origins of RAMSA and major projects in its history, including the new town of Celebration, Florida, the restoration of Times Square and 42nd Street, 15 Central Park West, Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray Colleges at Yale, and the George W. Bush Presidential Center, as well as references the many clients, fellow architects, and professional partners who have peopled his extraordinary career. By turns thoughtful, critical, and irreverent, this accessible, informative account of a life in architecture is replete with personal insights and humor. Stern’s voice comes through clearly in the text—he details his youthful efforts to redraw house plans in real estate ads, his relationship to Philip Johnson, which began at Yale and was sustained through countless lunches at the Four Seasons, his love of Cole Porter and movies from the 1930s and 1940s, his struggle to launch an architecture practice in the 1970s in the midst of a recession, and his complex association with Disney and Michael Eisner. Unsurprisingly, New York City plays a big role in Between Memory and Invention. Stern has a deep commitment to the city and recording its past—he is the lead author of the monumental New York book series, the definitive history of architecture and urbanism from the late nineteenth century to the present—and shaping its future. Though now a global practice, RAMSA residential towers rise throughout Manhattan to enrich the skyline in the tradition of the luxurious apartment buildings of the 1920s and 1930s. Supported by a lively mix of images drawn from Stern's personal archive and other resources, this much-anticipated memoir is interspersed with personal travel slides, images of architectural precedents and the colleagues that have shaped his thinking, and photographs of the many projects he discusses. With a thoughtful afterword by architectural historian Leopoldo Villardi that delves into Stern’s process of putting together this extraordinary autobiographical work, Between Memory and Invention is a personal candid assessment of a foremost practitioner, historian, instructor, and advocate of architecture today.

Author : Bernard John Grad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X000568675

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Adventure Into Architecture by Bernard John Grad Pdf

This is a source book written particularly for people interested in learbing about the architectural profession; it is not a history or textbook on architecture. -- from preface.

Author : Larry Wolff,Outmask
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578315068

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An Architect's Journey by Larry Wolff,Outmask Pdf

An Architect's Journey - Mastering Future Trends in the Anthropocene is a journey into the future of architecture and mastering the Anthropocene's dangerous forces. The book demonstrates how architects and building professionals can lead the way to overcome climate change and the related perils of the Anthropocene by mastering future trends in the design domain. Captivating narratives show how architects can shift their emphasis from aesthetic object-making to meaningful and extraordinary achievement by understanding society's needs and expectations as they critically address the book's thesis. Can architecture shift from its resource-consumptive nature to become a productive, regenerative project that supports urban agriculture and reforestation, serves as a potable water source, produces net positive renewable energy, captures carbon, recycles and converts waste streams into usable materials, while allowing unlimited opportunities for developing new architectural forms and features that increase human and environmental performance without sacrifice to artistic expression and creative experimentation? An Architect's Journey provides new tools, methods, and strategies necessary to make architecture vitally more significant and instructs readers how to apply more aggressive sustainable practices to their work while achieving new modes of artistic expression. The future directions defining the next few decades support a long-range forecast of unlimited opportunity mixed with turbulence, uncertainty, and peril. To succeed, architects and building professionals must strive for positions of leadership, contradict the status quo, expand conventional thinking, behave un-conventionally, abandon exclusive theories, innovate from a framework of multiple perspectives, and skillfully navigate the consequences of difficult choices and actions through informed, collaborative, and integrated practices as forecast by An Architect's Journey.

Author : David Polfeldt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1538754185

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The Dream Architects by David Polfeldt Pdf

"The inside story of the booming video game industry from the late 1990s to the present, as told by the Managing Director of Ubisoft Massive (The Division, Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed: Revelations)"--

Author : FLORIAN. KLEIN KLAFFENBACH (MARKUS. SUNDARESAN, SURESH.),Markus Klein,Suresh Sundaresan
Publisher : Packt Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788623762

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Multi-Cloud for Architects by FLORIAN. KLEIN KLAFFENBACH (MARKUS. SUNDARESAN, SURESH.),Markus Klein,Suresh Sundaresan Pdf

Your one-stop guide to work with multiple cloud service providers Key Features A practical step-by-step guide that will teach you to architect effective Cloud computing solutions and services efficiently You will learn the key differences in both platforms and how you can interconnect them to each other Eliminate the pain-points of architecting, interconnect and managing multi-cloud services and solutions. Book Description With the passing of time and with technology evolving, organizations all around the globe, from small- to medium-sized enterprises through to companies that are fully equipped, have started migrating or adapting to cloud computing. If you are looking at adapting entirely to any cloud and its services, this book will be your go-to guide to find perfect solutions, irrespective of the size of your infrastructure. This book will teach you effective solutions for overcoming various implementation scenarios. Our book covers two major cloud platforms (AWS and Azure) and provides practical use cases. You will start by designing the building blocks for infrastructure solutions that will involve core cloud platform services, such as compute, networking, storage, and identity, through various cloud providers. You will be able to plan and design solutions across major cloud providers and streamline interconnections and identities. Finally, you will understand the differences between, and the behavior of, both platforms, and you will be able to plan interconnects and identities for single-instance management. By the end of this book, you will know everything you need in order to be able to architect a multi-cloud solution for your organization. What you will learn Get to grips with different cloud offerings according to service and availability model Choose your cloud model, depending on real-world requirements Become familiar with interconnecting and designing multi-cloud solutions according to network, identity, and application Interconnect major cloud providers and frameworks, such as Microsoft Azure/Azure Stack, and AWS, and manage hosting solutions Resolve key show stoppers in a multi-cloud environment Familiarize yourself with example architectures based on real-world projects and solutions Who this book is for If you are a Cloud Architect, Solutions architect, system/network administrator, or a DevOps engineers aware of Cloud solutions and keen to successfully architect them to your organization then, this book is for you.