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Economy and Architecture

Author : Juliet Odgers,Mhairi McVicar,Stephen Kite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317501688

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Economy and Architecture by Juliet Odgers,Mhairi McVicar,Stephen Kite Pdf

Economy and Architecture addresses a timely, critical, and much-debated topic in both its historical and contemporary dimensions. From the Apple Store in New York City, to the street markets of the Pan American Highway; from commercial Dubai to the public schools of Australia, this book takes a critical look at contemporary architecture from across the globe, whilst extending its range back in history as far as the Homeric epics of ancient Greece. The book addresses the challenges of practicing architecture within the strictures of contemporary economies, grounded on the fundamental definition of ‘economy’ as the well managed household – derived from the Greek oikonomia – oikos (house) and nemein (manage). The diverse enquiries of the study are structured around the following key questions: How do we define our economies? How are the values of architecture negotiated among the various actors involved? How do we manage the production of a good architecture within any particular system? How does political economy frame and influence architecture? The majority of examples are taken from current or recent architectural practice; historical examples, which include John Evelyn’s villa, Blenheim Palace, John Ruskin’s Venice, and early twentieth century Paris, place the debates within an extended critical perspective.

Building Economics for Architects

Author : Thorbjoern Mann
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015025154405

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Building Economics for Architects by Thorbjoern Mann Pdf

Details the procedure by which architects can make informed decisions on the economic feasibility and performance of any building project, and calculate the economic impact of design decisions, especially in the early phases. Includes topics such as where funding for a building comes from, and using.

Governing by Design

Author : Aggregate
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822977896

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Governing by Design offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves. In these chapters, historians offer their analysis on design as a vehicle for power and as a mediator of social currents. Power is defined through a variety of forms: modernization, obsolescence, technology, capital, ergonomics, biopolitics, and others. The chapters explore the diffusion of power through the establishment of norms and networks that frame human conduct, action, identity, and design. They follow design as it functions through the body, in the home, and at the state and international level. Overall, Aggregate views the intersection of architecture with the human need for what Foucault termed “governmentality”—societal rules, structures, repetition, and protocols—as a way to provide security and tame risk. Here, the conjunction of power and the power of design reinforces governmentality and infuses a sense of social permanence despite the exceedingly fluid nature of societies and the disintegration of cultural memory in the modern era.

New Global Economic Architecture

Author : Masahiro Kawai,Peter J. Morgan,Pradumna B. Rana
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783472208

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New Global Economic Architecture by Masahiro Kawai,Peter J. Morgan,Pradumna B. Rana Pdf

Policymakers, academics, think tanks and practitioners will benefit from the international perspective of the book, particularly those interested in the influential Asian architecture. This book is also a useful reference tool for students of macroecon

Architecture and Capitalism

Author : Peggy Deamer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135049546

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Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will find have dealt with diverse but surprisingly familiar economic issues. Told through case studies, the narrative begins in the mid-nineteenth century and ends with 2011, with introductions by Editor Peggy Deamer to pull the main themes together so that you can see how other architects in different times and in different countries have dealt with similar economic conditions. By focussing on what previous architects experienced, you have the opportunity to avoid repeating the past. With new essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Keller Easterling, Lauren Kogod, Robert Hewison, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Robin Schuldenfrei, Deborah Gans, Simon Sadler, Nathan Rich, and Micahel Sorkin.

The Architecture of Waste

Author : Caroline O'Donnell,Dillon Pranger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000191820

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Global material crises are imminent. In the very near future, recycling will no longer be a choice made by those concerned about the environment, but a necessity for all. This means a paradigm shift in domestic behavior, manufacturing, construction, and design is inevitable. The Architecture of Waste provides a hopeful outlook through examining current recycling practices, rethinking initial manufacturing techniques, and proposing design solutions for second lives of material-objects. The book touches on a variety of inescapable issues beyond our global waste crisis including cultural psyches, politics, economics, manufacturing, marketing, and material science. A series of crucial perspectives from experts cover these topics and frames the research by providing a past, present, and future look at how we got here and where we go next: the historical, the material, and the design. Twelve design proposals look beyond the simple application of recycled and waste materials in architecture—an admirable endeavor but one that does not engage the urgent reality of a circular economy—by aiming to transform familiar, yet flawed, material-objects into closed-loop resources. Complete with over 150 color images and written for both professionals and students, The Architecture of Waste is a necessary reference for rethinking the traditional role of the architect and challenging the discipline to address urgent material issues within the larger design process.

The Work of Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

Author : Robert McCarter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Architects
ISBN : 0500343314

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An inspiring monograph that captures the practical yet beautiful architecture of one of the leading architectural firms in the world

Architecture in Development

Author : Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000543544

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This extensive text investigates how architects, planners, and other related experts responded to the contexts and discourses of “development” after World War II. Development theory did not manifest itself in tracts of economic and political theory alone. It manifested itself in every sphere of expression where economic predicaments might be seen to impinge on cultural factors. Architecture appears in development discourse as a terrain between culture and economics, in that practitioners took on the mantle of modernist expression while also acquiring government contracts and immersing themselves in bureaucratic processes. This book considers how, for a brief period, architects, planners, structural engineers, and various practitioners of the built environment employed themselves in designing all the intimate spheres of life, but from a consolidated space of expertise. Seen in these terms, development was, to cite Arturo Escobar, an immense design project itself, one that requires radical disassembly and rethinking beyond the umbrella terms of “global modernism” and “colonial modernities,” which risk erasing the sinews of conflict encountered in globalizing and modernizing architecture. Encompassing countries as diverse as Israel, Ghana, Greece, Belgium, France, India, Mexico, the United States, Venezuela, the Philippines, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Turkey, Cyprus, Iraq, Zambia, and Canada, the set of essays in this book cannot be considered exhaustive, nor a “field guide” in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers theoretical reflections “from the field,” based on extensive archival research. This book sets out to examine the arrays of power, resources, technologies, networking, and knowledge that cluster around the term "development," and the manner in which architects and planners negotiated these thickets in their multiple capacities—as knowledge experts, as technicians, as negotiators, and as occasional authorities on settlements, space, domesticity, education, health, and every other field where arguments for development were made.

Critique of Architecture

Author : Douglas Spencer
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035621648

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Critique of Architecture offers a renewed and radical theorization of the relations between capital and architecture. It explicates the theoretical gymnastics through which architecture legitimates its services to neoliberalism, examines the discipline’s production of platforms for happily compliant consumers, and challenges its entrepreneurial self-image. Critique of Architecture also addresses the discourse of autonomy, questioning its capacity to engage effectively with the terms and conditions of capitalism today, analyses the post-political turns of contemporary architecture theory, and reckons with the legacies and limitations of critical theory.

Brandscapes

Author : Anna Klingmann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262515030

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Architecture as imprint, as brand, as the new media of transformation—of places, communities, corporations, and people. In the twenty-first century, we must learn to look at cities not as skylines but as brandscapes and at buildings not as objects but as advertisements and destinations. In the experience economy, experience itself has become the product: we're no longer consuming objects but sensations, even lifestyles. In the new environment of brandscapes, buildings are not about where we work and live but who we imagine ourselves to be. In Brandscapes, Anna Klingmann looks critically at the controversial practice of branding by examining its benefits, and considering the damage it may do. Klingmann argues that architecture can use the concepts and methods of branding—not as a quick-and-easy selling tool for architects but as a strategic tool for economic and cultural transformation. Branding in architecture means the expression of identity, whether of an enterprise or a city; New York, Bilbao, and Shanghai have used architecture to enhance their images, generate economic growth, and elevate their positions in the global village. Klingmann looks at different kinds of brandscaping today, from Disneyland, Las Vegas, and Times Square—prototypes and case studies in branding—to Prada's superstar-architect-designed shopping epicenters and the banalities of Niketown. But beyond outlining the status quo, Klingmann also alerts us to the dangers of brandscapes. By favoring the creation of signature buildings over more comprehensive urban interventions and by severing their identity from the complexity of the social fabric, Klingmann argues, today's brandscapes have, in many cases, resulted in a culture of the copy. As experiences become more and more commodified, and the global landscape progressively more homogenized, it falls to architects to infuse an ever more aseptic landscape with meaningful transformations. How can architects use branding as a means to differentiate places from the inside out—and not, as current development practices seem to dictate, from the outside in? When architecture brings together ecology, economics, and social well-being to help people and places regain self-sufficiency, writes Klingmann, it can be a catalyst for cultural and economic transformation.

Asymmetric Labors

Author : Tahl Kaminer,Nick Beech,Laura Diamond Dixit,Kadambari Baxi,Jordan Carver,Mabel O. Wilson,Joan Ockman,Eva Hagberg Fisher,Susanne Schindler,Gary Fox,Anne Kockelkorn,James Graham,Jack Self,Andreas Rumpfhuber,Meredith TenHoor,Mark Jarzombek,Fabrizio Gallanti,Peg Rawes,Daniel Barber,Christopher Barker,Felipe Aravena,Joaquin Díez Canedo,Alessandro Toti,Tijana Vujosevic,Dariel Cobb,Nadir Lahiji,Pier Vittorio Aureli,Anna Goodman,Joe Crowdy,Kirti Durelle,Hanan Kataw,Christos Kritkos,Joanne Preston,Curt Gambetta,Jacob Moore,Eric Wycoff Rogers,Gevork Hartoonian,Brian Sturlaugson,Stefano Tornieri,Tobias Danielmeier,Danie Fernández Pascual,Adam Sharr,James Longfield,Yasser Megahed,Kieran Connolly,Norihiko Tsuneishi,Yang Yang,Andrew Herscher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732653704

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Asymmetric Labors by Tahl Kaminer,Nick Beech,Laura Diamond Dixit,Kadambari Baxi,Jordan Carver,Mabel O. Wilson,Joan Ockman,Eva Hagberg Fisher,Susanne Schindler,Gary Fox,Anne Kockelkorn,James Graham,Jack Self,Andreas Rumpfhuber,Meredith TenHoor,Mark Jarzombek,Fabrizio Gallanti,Peg Rawes,Daniel Barber,Christopher Barker,Felipe Aravena,Joaquin Díez Canedo,Alessandro Toti,Tijana Vujosevic,Dariel Cobb,Nadir Lahiji,Pier Vittorio Aureli,Anna Goodman,Joe Crowdy,Kirti Durelle,Hanan Kataw,Christos Kritkos,Joanne Preston,Curt Gambetta,Jacob Moore,Eric Wycoff Rogers,Gevork Hartoonian,Brian Sturlaugson,Stefano Tornieri,Tobias Danielmeier,Danie Fernández Pascual,Adam Sharr,James Longfield,Yasser Megahed,Kieran Connolly,Norihiko Tsuneishi,Yang Yang,Andrew Herscher Pdf

The scenes are familiar ones: the scribe of the gallery plaque, the bespectacled figure hurrying from the archive to the classroom, the designer reluctantly forced to write to make her tenure case, the turtlenecked critic summoned to embellish the panel at a biennale. As in many professions, the architectural historian or theorist comes in many forms. Unlike most professions, though, the figure most be made to explain herself. Not at all wed to art historical methodologies, nor interested in drawing connections between his intellectual project and built offerings, all the while refusing to identify as either a scientist or humanist. Who is this person? What is their work?

Golf Architecture

Author : Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : History
ISBN : 9785879122077

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With an introduction by H. S. Colt.

Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective

Author : Stefano Della Torre,Sara Cattaneo,Camilla Lenzi,Alessandra Zanelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Building
ISBN : 9783030332563

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Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective by Stefano Della Torre,Sara Cattaneo,Camilla Lenzi,Alessandra Zanelli Pdf

This open access book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry and intervention with respect to the built environment, based on principles of sustainability and circular economy strategies. A series of key challenges are considered in depth from a multidisciplinary perspective, spanning engineering, architecture, and regional and urban economics. These challenges include strategies to relaunch socioeconomic development through regenerative processes, the regeneration of urban spaces from the perspective of resilience, the development and deployment of innovative products and processes in the construction sector in order to comply more fully with the principles of sustainability and circularity, and the development of multiscale approaches to enhance the performance of both the existing building stock and new buildings. The book offers a rich selection of conceptual, empirical, methodological, technical, and case study/project-based research. It will be of value for all who have an interest in regeneration of the built environment from a circular economy perspective.

The Architecture of Oppression

Author : Paul B. Jaskot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134594610

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The Architecture of Oppression by Paul B. Jaskot Pdf

This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. Through an analysis of such major Nazi building projects as the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds and the rebuilding of Berlin, Jaskot ties together the development of the German building economy, state architectural goals and the rise of the SS as a political and economic force. As a result, The Architecture of Oppression contributes to our understanding of the conjunction of culture and politics in the Nazi period as well as the agency of architects and SS administrators in enabling this process.

Architecture and Design Versus Consumerism

Author : Ann Thorpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849713566

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Informed by recent research into the viability of a 'steady state' economy, this book sets an agenda for addressing the designer's paradox of sustainable consumption.