Dialogues On Architecture

Author : Emilio Faroldi,Maria Pilar Vettori
Publisher : LetteraVentidue Edizioni
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788862426213

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Dialogues on architecture by Emilio Faroldi,Maria Pilar Vettori Pdf

he dialogue, as “the talking of the soul with itself” that constitutes the act of thinking (Plato), has been selected as the ideal form through which to vividly and accurately convey the thinking of a number of protagonists of Italian modern architecture. Knowledge remains a latent legacy of the soul until a given stimulus reawakens its memory: architecture, more than sophia (wisdom), becomes philo-sophia, i.e. love of knowledge. A reading of the architectural phenomenon aimed at faithfully bringing out its complexity cannot help but involve the stories directly told by the protagonists, and the micro-stories of individual episodes, in order to explore the relationship that exists between the poetic and the technical-scientific spheres, underlining their complementary and conflictual nature. The disciplinary tools of exegesis of design and its materialization stimulate a form of critique of criticism driven by the rejection of an angle of interpretation of architecture oriented exclusively towards its results. Method and result constitute the inseparable terms: the direct testimony of certain protagonists of Italian architecture makes it possible to reconnect the interrupted threads of a narrative that has often been rendered syncopated and unilateral by excessively superficial explanation. The Dialogues on Architecture explore the interaction between idea, design and construction, revealing different operative and conceptual modes through which to achieve the finished work. Franco Albini, Lodovico B. Belgiojoso, Guido Canella, Aurelio Cortesi, Roberto Gabetti & Aimaro Isola, Ignazio Gardella, Vittorio Gregotti, Vico Magistretti, Enrico Mantero, Paolo Portoghesi, Aldo Rossi, Giuseppe Terragni, Vittoriano Viganò are the authors of this narrative.

Author : Urs Bette
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781787357228

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Architecture in Dialogue with an Activated Ground by Urs Bette Pdf

Architecture in Dialogue with an Activated Ground sets out to validate the role of the unreasonable in the design process. Using case study projects, architect Urs Bette gives an insight into the epistemological processes of his creative practice, and unveils the strategies he deploys in order to facilitate the poetic aspects of architecture within a discourse whose evaluation parameters predominantly involve reason. Themes discussed include the emergence of space from the staged opposition between the architectural object and the site, and the relationship between emotive cognition and analytic synthesis in the design act. In both cases, there is a necessary engagement with forms of ‘unreasonable’ thought, action or behaviours. By arguing for the usefulness and validity of the unreasonable in architecture, and by investigating the performative relationship between object and ground, Bette contributes to the discourse on extensions, growth and urban densification that tap into local histories and voices, including those of the seemingly inanimate – the architecture itself and the ground it sits upon – to inform the site-related production of architectural character and space. In doing so, he raises debates about the values pursued in design approval processes, and the ways in which site-relatedness is both produced and judged.

Author : Rory Hyde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415533539

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Future Practice by Rory Hyde Pdf

Interviews with innovators who define seventeen new architectural practice types including community enabler, management thinker, and civic entrepreneur.

Author : Eduardo Catalano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Space (Architecture)
ISBN : 0937999024

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The Constant by Eduardo Catalano Pdf

Author : Massimiliano Locatelli,Giovanna Cornelio,Annamaria Scevola,Davide Agrati
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780847865987

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Locatelli Partners: Dialogues by Massimiliano Locatelli,Giovanna Cornelio,Annamaria Scevola,Davide Agrati Pdf

The first book to celebrate the work of Milan-based architecture firm Locatelli Partners, the go-to studio, from residences to showrooms, for many of the fashion world's leading lights. Locatelli Partners is one of Italy's leading architecture firms, with offices in Milan (in a sixteenth-century frescoed church) and New York. Offering an unprecedented insight into the practice's methodology, this monograph gathers more than twenty years of projects illustrating the firm's mastery of innovative solutions at different scales, from subtle material touches to ambitious architectural propositions. This anthology features thirty-two residential and commercial projects, as well as highlights from the firm's furniture and lighting design. Featured projects include Massimiliano Locatelli's home in Milan's iconic Torre Velasca, a 3D-printed house, and renowned Milan design dealer Nina Yashar's Nilufar Depot, as well as showrooms for Missoni, MSGM, and Miss Sixty. The book will chart the unique remit and bespoke innovations of each project, as well as the firm's consistent commitment to historical heritage and character. Through drawings, photographs, and floor plans, it will illustrate the firm's continuous exploration of space and materials and its balance of tradition, craft, and innovation to create a unique design language. An inspiring resource for architects, designers, and interiors professionals, this book celebrates Locatelli Partners' pioneering design approach and a distinctive alchemy of quality, Italian craft, and contemporary forms.

Author : Karen A. Franck,Teresa von Sommaruga Howard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470721902

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Design through Dialogue by Karen A. Franck,Teresa von Sommaruga Howard Pdf

Completed projects receive more public attention than the process of their creation and so the myth that architects design buildings alone lives on. In fact, architects work with a great many others and the relationships that develop, particularly with clients, have a significant impact on design. Design through Dialogue explores the relationship between client and architect through the lens of four overlapping activities that occur during any project: relating, talking, exploring and transforming. Cases of design and collaboration range from smaller scale retail, residential and educational projects in the US, Sweden, the UK and the Pacific Rim to large institutions, including Seattle’s Central Library, the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC, the Supreme Court in Jerusalem and the Museum of New Zealand. Material is taken from interviews with clients and architects and research in psychotherapy, group dynamics and design studies. Throughout the book aspects of process are linked to design outcomes to illustrate how architects and clients collaborate creatively.

Author : Jean-Francois Lejeune,Michelangelo Sabatino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135250270

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Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean by Jean-Francois Lejeune,Michelangelo Sabatino Pdf

Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.

Author : Marc M. Angelil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architects
ISBN : 3721208021

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Architecture Dialogues by Marc M. Angelil Pdf

Interviews with thirty famous Swiss architects including: Herzog & de Meuron, Peter Zumthor, Valerio Olgiati, Mario Botta, Luigi Snozzi and many others.

Author : Nadir Z. Lahiji
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781782797364

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Can Architecture Be an Emancipatory Project? by Nadir Z. Lahiji Pdf

Can architectural discourse rethink itself in terms of a radical emancipatory project? And if so, what would be the contours of such a discourse?

Author : Kim Trogal,Irena Bauman,Ranald Lawrence,Doina Petrescu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351659659

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Architecture and Resilience by Kim Trogal,Irena Bauman,Ranald Lawrence,Doina Petrescu Pdf

Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not resilient. Our urban infrastructures, our buildings, our economies, our ways of managing and governing are still too tightly bound to models of unrestrained free-market growth, individualism and consumerism. Research has shown that the crises arising from climate change will become increasingly frequent and increasingly severe. It is also known that the effects of climate change are not evenly distributed across places and people, and neither are the resources needed to meet these challenges. We will need specific responses in place that engage with, and emerge from, citizens ourselves. This volume takes resilience as a transformative concept to ask where and what architecture might contribute. Bringing together cross-disciplinary perspectives from architecture, urban design, art, geography, building science and psychoanalysis, it aims to open up multiple perspectives of research, spatial strategies and projects that are testing how we can build local resilience in preparation for major societal challenges, defining the position of architecture in urban resilience discourse.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9881619432

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Dialogues in Space by Anonim Pdf

Dialogues in Space: Process and Ideas in the work of Wendell Burnette Architects is the first multi-project monograph on this American architects selective body of work. The title alludes to the architects view that architecture is a constructed conversation between people, things and time. Six singular projects from the architects oeuvre are presented in-depth through the architects' own words, drawings and photography. Also included is a comprehensive essay by the celebrated architectural writer / critic Robert McCarter entitled Crafting Space: Composition and Construction in the Architecture of Wendell Burnette that examines the "thinking and making" process behind the built and un-built work across 15 years of practice. The different typologies of the work explores authentic human experience through provocative spatial constructions - public and private in diverse locales - that attempt to promote an expansive dialogue with our places, our environment, our communities, ourselves, and our time. Through extensive research into the 'art of building' - the specificity of place and locally appropriate construction systems, materials, craft, and their infinite capacity to transcend mere construction, the work strives toward an architecture that is at once functional and poetic.

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781551993874

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The Architecture of Happiness by Alain De Botton Pdf

Bestselling author Alain de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, and how we could build dwellings in which we would stand a better chance of happiness. In this witty, erudite look at how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings, Alain de Botton applies Stendhal’s motto that “Beauty is the promise of happiness” to the spaces we inhabit daily. Why should we pay attention to what architecture has to say to us? de Botton asks provocatively. With his trademark lucidity and humour, de Botton traces how human needs and desires have been served by styles of architecture, from stately Classical to minimalist Modern, arguing that the stylistic choices of a society can represent both its cherished ideals and the qualities it desperately lacks. On an individual level, de Botton has deep sympathy for our need to see our selves reflected in our surroundings; he demonstrates with great wisdom how buildings — just like friends — can serve as guardians of our identity. Worrying about the shape of our sofa or the colour of our walls might seem self-indulgent, but de Botton considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes at a new level of depth and insight. When shopping for furniture or remodelling the kitchen, we don’t just consider functionality but also the major questions of aesthetics and the philosophy of art: What is beauty? Can beautiful surroundings make us good? Can beauty bring happiness? The buildings we find beautiful, de Botton concludes, are those that represent our ideas of a meaningful life. The Architecture of Happiness marks a return to what Alain does best — taking on a subject whose allure is at once tantalizing and a little forbidding and offering to readers a completely beguiling and original exploration of the subject. As he did with Proust, philosophy, and travel, now he does with architecture.

Author : Tom Finkelpearl
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262561484

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Dialogues in Public Art by Tom Finkelpearl Pdf

Examining the changing attitudes toward the city as the site for public art.

Author : SERGISON ET AL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3038602280

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Conversations on Architecture by SERGISON ET AL Pdf

Ten conversations on current issues and timeless aspects of architecture form an inspirational reader for both professionals and anyone with an interest in architecture. Sergison Bates architects, established in 1996 and today running offices in London, Zurich, and Brussels, have made a name for themselves with projects ranging from housing to care homes, from educational and cultural institutions to urban-scale regeneration designs. Since the outset, the partners have engaged with the debate within the professions and have curated a number of exhibitions about the themes they explore in their teaching and practice. This book features ten conversations Jonathan Sergison, Stephen Bates, and Mark Tuff have conducted with prominent Swiss-based architects, historians, and researchers and in which they reflect with their guests on the many aspects of making, teaching, and writing architecture. Toipcs and guests include: Learning from the European City (Roger Diener), The Provocation of Sustainability (Sascha Roesler), Rethinking Housing Conventions (Jean-Paul Jaccaud), Learning from the Recent Past (Stanislaus von Moos), Thinking and Writing (Martin Steinmann), Exploring Construction (Roger Boltshauser), Shaping Public Space (Maria Conen and Raoul Sigl), Finding and Repurposing (Elisabeth and Martin Boesch), Lessons from Teaching (Ludovica Molo), and Working Methods (Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan). The lively dialogues draw shared experiences in practice, teaching, and research, and form an inspirational reader for anyone with a deeper interest in architectural practice.

Author : Ari Seligmann
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781785002496

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Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 by Ari Seligmann Pdf

Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 uses a series of thematic lenses to explain the rich history of Japanese architectural developments from the 1920s foundation of modern architecture to contemporary permutations of modern and post-modern architecture. The book introduces the diversity of Japanese architecture and traces the evolution of Japanese architecture in the context of domestic and international developments. It examines the relationship between architecture and nature, and explores various approaches to craft and material. Finally, this new book considers tensions between refinement and ostentation in architectural expression. Of interest to students of architecture, and anyone with an interest in Japanese post-war culture and superbly illustrated with 95 colour images.