Gunnar Asplund S Gothenburg

Author : Nicholas Adams
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780271065229

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Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg by Nicholas Adams Pdf

In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspaper campaign led by one of the most noted editors of the day, Torgny Segerstedt. Famous for his determined opposition to National Socialism, he also took a principled stand against the undermining of urban tradition in Gothenburg. Gothenburg’s problems with modern public architecture, though clamorous and publicized throughout Sweden, were by no means unique. In Gunnar Asplund’s Gothenburg, Nicholas Adams places Asplund’s building in the wider context of public architecture between the wars, setting the originality and sensitivity of Asplund’s conception against the political and architectural struggles of the 1930s. Today, looking at the building in the broadest of contexts, we can appreciate the richness of this exquisite work of architecture. This book recaptures the complex magic of its creation and the fascinating controversy of its completed form.

Author : Marc Fontoynont
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134257065

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Daylight Performance of Buildings by Marc Fontoynont Pdf

As part of Daylight Europe, the daylighting behaviour of 60 buildings was observed and measured during a three year period. Buildings of many different types, sizes and ages were included - from offices to museums, libraries, churches, houses, airports and factories; from Classical buildings to modern constructions, and from a small single room to an office of over 100,000 square meters. The results of the study of each building are presented, extensively illustrated in colour, with the unusual features and main lessons highlighted. The book also includes details of the monitoring procedures, the results of and comparisons with simulations, the outcome of post-occupancy evaluation, and a summary of the major findings. These show the extraordinary potential of daylighting techniques to improve amenity and energy performance for the benefit of the occupants and building managers. They also demonstrate how often opportunities are missed, and the frequency of problems of overheating or glare. Above all, they demonstrate the beauty, elegance and scope of daylight design.

Author : Gennaro Postiglione
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : 3822863122

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100 by Gennaro Postiglione Pdf

"The present publication includes the work done by the MEAM Net research group at the Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with 27 institutions Europe-wide. This work, titled "One hundred houses for one hundred European architects of the 20th century", bore fruit in a travelling exhibition and a website"

Author : Claes Caldenby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9185460834

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Asplund's law courts extension in Gothenburg by Claes Caldenby Pdf

Radhustillbyggnaden vid Gustaf Adolfs torg i Göteborg är en av arkitekten Gunnar Asplunds mest kända byggnader. Bland arkitekturintressserade över hela världen är den ett välbekant exempel pa en byggnad som följer bade tidens stil och platsens. Den blev med sin mjuka modernism en inspirationskälla för andra arkitekter och litteraturen där byggnaden tas upp är omfattande. För Asplund var arbetet med Radhuset en langdragen och mödosam historia fran tävlingen 1912 fram till inflyttingen 1936. Essays in English: 'The law courts and time', 'The vision for a new urban center', 'Modern law and modern architecture' and 'A democratic aesthetic'

Author : Erik Gunnar Asplund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architects
ISBN : UCSD:31822007865579

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Gunnar Asplund, 1885-1940 by Erik Gunnar Asplund Pdf

Author : Graeme Brooker,Sally Stone
Publisher : AVA Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9782940373406

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Basics Interior Architecture 01: Form and Structure by Graeme Brooker,Sally Stone Pdf

The subject of interior architecture currently lacks a detailed and educationally focussed text. The new Basics Interior Architecture series will fill this gap, and expand students knowledge of interior design/interior architecture and give an insight into some of the principles and methods of professional interior architects. The first book in the Basics Interior Architecture series, Form & Structure will propose a method of analysis, understanding and exploitation of the existing building that can be used to realise the design of a new insertion.

Author : Ugo Carughi,Massimo Visone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351980357

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Time Frames by Ugo Carughi,Massimo Visone Pdf

11 Post- tradition in Japanese culture -- Heritage -- 12 Industrial architecture -- 13 Landscape architecture -- 14 Middle- class housing -- Memory -- 15 Cultural institutions -- 16 Architectural photography -- Conservation -- 17 Laws and regulations -- 18 Technology -- Economy -- 19 Economic analysis -- Index of places -- Index of names

Author : Randall Korman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317529507

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The Architecture of the Facade by Randall Korman Pdf

The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance as a critical component of the civic realm and arguing for the restoration of the art of the facade as both a subject of study within academia and an aspiration within the profession at large. As the principal surface of mediation, contextualization, and representation, the facade carries the lion’s share of responsibility for containing the internal environment and confronting the outer world. And yet, in recent decades, the very question of what exactly a facade is has been raised by the dramatic changes in building technology, advances of parametric design, and the ubiquity of autonomous buildings. The Architecture of the Facade addresses these and other related issues. The book is organized into 12 chapters, with each chapter focusing on a particular aspect of the phenomenon of the facade such as those of wall, the frame, transparency, and the role of the facade in civic space. Korman also discusses proportional systems, the language of composition, the role of precedent, the importance of context, and much more. Over 350 photos and diagrams provide readers with a variety of examples of artful facades throughout history. Online teaching resources that accompany this book include a course syllabus, a glossary, and a Pinterest tack board of facades. This book will be of great interest to students in architecture studios as well as instructors and professional architects interested in facade design.

Author : Graeme Brooker,Sally Stone
Publisher : AVA Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9782940373710

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Basics Interior Architecture 02: Context & Environment by Graeme Brooker,Sally Stone Pdf

Basics Interior Architecture: Context and Environment examines the ways in which elements based both inside and outside of the host building can influence and affect the interior space. The book proposes a method of interpretation, evaluation and utilisation of physical factors, such as light and orientation, the contextual issues of the urban form and the subject of sustainability, and their influences on the design of the interior and the remodelling of existing buildings. Detailed studies of contemporary work are used to support theory, making this book an invaluable reference tool to all students of interior architecture and design.

Author : Janne Ahlin
Publisher : Park Book
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3906027481

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Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect by Janne Ahlin Pdf

Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) was initially educated as mechanical engineer in Gothenburg. Yet it was his architectural apprenticeship in Munich 1909-10 that set him on his path as an architect, opening his own office in Stockholm in 1911. Although his built work is relatively small, Lewerentz is revered as one of Sweden's most eminent architects. Cemeteries and sacred buildings became a core part of Lewerentz's oeuvre, including Stockholm's South Cemetery (1914-17), Malmo Eastern Cemetery (1916), St. Mark's Church, Bjorkhagen (1956), and Petri Church, Klippan (1963). In association with Gunnar Asplund, he was also the main architect for the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930), and in collaboration with Erik Lallerstedt and David Hellden he created a masterpiece of functionalist architecture, the Malmo City Theatre (1935). Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect is a reprint of the first ever monograph on his work, originally published in English 1987 and long out of print. It tells the story of Lewerentz's life and presents his entire work in text and many photographs, drawings and plans.

Author : Richard Weston
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 9781856693820

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Plans, Sections and Elevations by Richard Weston Pdf

CD-ROM contains: files for all of the plans, sections and elevations included in the book.

Author : Dean Hawkes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351810050

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The Environmental Imagination by Dean Hawkes Pdf

The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book redefines the historiography of environmental design by looking beyond conventional histories to argue that the environments within buildings are a collaboration between poetic intentions and technical means. In a sequence of essays, the book traces a line through works by leading architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that illustrate the impact of new technologies on the conception and realisation of environments in buildings. In this, a consideration of the qualitative dimension of environment is added to the primarily technological narratives of other accounts. In this second edition, the book has been substantially rewritten and restructured to include further research conducted in the decade since the first edition. A number of important buildings have been revisited, in order to extend the descriptions of their environments, and studies have been made of a number of newly studied, significant buildings. A completely new essay offers an environmental interpretation of Luis Barragán’s magical own house in Mexico City and the earlier studies of buildings by Peter Zumthor have been gathered into a single, extended essay that includes a body of new research. On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Reyner Banham’s, The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment, the book concludes with a critical tribute to that seminal text. The Environmental Imagination will appeal to academics and practitioners with interests in the history, theory and technology of architecture.

Author : Françoise Astorg Bollack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003820802

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Old Buildings, New Ideas by Françoise Astorg Bollack Pdf

Some architectural transformations are modest, some are revolutionary. Shining a light on the hidden side of the accepted narrative of the history of architecture, this book explores works which transform existing buildings to build a way forward, through adaptations, additions and visual shifts. Examining 30 buildings across Europe, North America and South America, spanning from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century, it demonstrates the creative possibilities of working with existing buildings. The book reveals how formal inventions can shape architecture and our environment over time in a built world constantly in a state of becoming. As we face a climate emergency, it taps into our deep cultural knowledge about the inventive use and re-use of buildings. Generously illustrated with architectural plans and over 300 colour images, it provides an alternative to the dominant view which sees conservation and preservation of historic buildings as a 20th century creation.

Author : Bjørn N. Sandaker,Arne P. Eggen,Mark R. Cruvellier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317229186

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The Structural Basis of Architecture by Bjørn N. Sandaker,Arne P. Eggen,Mark R. Cruvellier Pdf

This is a book that shows how to "see" structures as being integral to architecture. It engages a subject that is both about understanding the mechanical aspects of structure as well as being able to relate this to the space, form, and conceptual design ideas that are inherent to the art of building. Analyzing the structural principles behind many of the best-known works of architecture from past and present alike, this book places the subject within a contemporary context. The subject matter is approached in a qualitative and discursive manner, illustrated by many photographs and structural behavior diagrams. Accessible mathematical equations and worked-out examples are also included so as to deepen a fundamental understanding of the topic. This new, color edition’s format has been thoroughly revised and its content updated and expanded throughout. It is perfect as either an introductory structures course text or as a designer’s sourcebook for inspiration, for here two essential questions are addressed in parallel fashion: “How do structures work?” and “What form do structures take in the context of architecture – and why so?” A rich, varied and engaging rationale for structural form in architecture thus emerges.

Author : Erik Gunnar Asplund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architects
ISBN : UVA:X006181157

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Erik Gunnar Asplund by Erik Gunnar Asplund Pdf