Inventions In Architecture

Author : Matt Bua,Maximilian Goldfarb
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781780674018

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Architectural Inventions by Matt Bua,Maximilian Goldfarb Pdf

Born out of the drawingbuilding.org online archive, Architectural Inventions presents a stunning visual study of impossible or speculative structures that exist only on paper. Soliciting the work of architects, designers, and artists of renown –as well as emerging talents from all over the world –Maximilian Goldfarb and Matt Bua have gathered an array of works that convey architectural alternatives, through products, expansions, or critiques of our inhabited environments. From abstract and conceptual visual interpretations of structures to more traditional architectural renderings, the featured work is divided into thematic chapters, ranging from 'Adapt/Reuse' to 'Clandestine'' 'Mobile'' 'Radical Lifestyle', 'Techno-Sustainable', and 'Worship'. Along with arresting and awe-inspiring illustrated content, every chapter also features an essay exploring its respective themes. Highlighting visions that exist outside of established channels of production and conventions of design, Architectural Inventions showcases a wide scope in concept and vision, fantasy and innovation.

Author : Jonathon R. Anderson,Daniel H. Ortega
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317506683

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Innovations in Landscape Architecture by Jonathon R. Anderson,Daniel H. Ortega Pdf

This inspiring and thought-provoking book explores how recent innovations in landscape architecture have uniquely positioned the practice to address complex issues and technologies that affect our built environment. The changing and expanding nature of "landscape" make it more important than ever for landscape architects to seek innovation as a critical component in the forward development of a contemporary profession that merges expansive ideas and applications. The editors bring together leading contributors who are experts in new and pioneering approaches and technologies within the fields of academic and professional landscape architecture. The chapters explore digital technology, design processes and theoretical queries that shape the contemporary practice of landscape architecture. Topics covered include: Digital design Fabrication and prototyping Emerging technology Visualization of data System theory Concluding the book are case studies looking at the work of two landscape firms (PEG and MYKD) and two academic departments (Illinois Institute of Technology and the Rhode Island School of Design), which together show the novel and exciting directions that landscape is already going in.

Author : Pamela Toler
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502623089

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Inventions in Architecture by Pamela Toler Pdf

In the beginning, architecture was synonymous with survival. Early empires built walls to keep enemies out and to define their territory. Inventions including the arch (which was first created by the Romans) and the steel frames that support skyscrapers have elevated architecture to an art form. Inventions in Architecture: From Stone Walls to Solar Panels looks at the innovations responsible for architecture as we know it in the order they were invented. The book also demonstrates how these inventions shaped each other and how they have wider applications, including the potential to change the way we power our lives.

Author : Emilio Ambasz,Tadao Andō,Fumihiko Maki,Peter Buchanan
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015020839521

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Inventions by Emilio Ambasz,Tadao Andō,Fumihiko Maki,Peter Buchanan Pdf

Presents the recent work of this influential designer, including landscape and architectural projects as well as industrial, exhibition and graphic designs

Author : Cammy Brothers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015077631722

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Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture by Cammy Brothers Pdf

By following steps by which Michelangelo arrived at his inventions, the author questions conventional notions of spotaneity as a function of genius. Rather, she explores the idea of drawing as a mode of thinking, using its evidence to reconstruct the process by which Michelangelo arrived at new ideas.

Author : Volker M. Welter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 0942006755

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Walter S. White by Volker M. Welter Pdf

Overview of this mid-century modern architect and inventor who built in the Coachella Valley of California from the 1940s to the 1960s and in Colorado Springs beginning in the 1960s.

Author : Azra Aksamija,Raafat Majzoub,Melina Philippou
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262542876

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Design to Live by Azra Aksamija,Raafat Majzoub,Melina Philippou Pdf

The power of design to create a life worth living even in a refugee camp: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. This book shows how, even in the most difficult conditions--forced displacement, trauma, and struggle--design can help create a life worth living. Design to Live documents designs, inventions, and artworks created by Syrian refugees living in the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. Through these ingenious and creative innovations--including the vertical garden, an arrangement necessitated by regulations that forbid planting in the ground; a front hall, fashioned to protect privacy; a baby swing made from recycled desks; and a chess set carved from a broomstick--refugees defy the material scarcity, unforgiving desert climate, and cultural isolation of the camp. Written in close collaboration with the residents of the camp, with text in both English and Arabic, Design to Live, reflects two perspectives on the camp: people living and working in Azraq and designers reflecting on humanitarian architecture within the broader field of socially engaged art and design. Architectural drawings, illustrations, photographs, narratives, and stories offer vivid testimony to the imaginative and artful ways that residents alter and reconstruct the standardized humanitarian design of the camp--and provide models that can be replicated elsewhere. The book is the product of a three-year project undertaken by MIT Future Heritage Lab, researchers and students with Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp, CARE, Jordan, and the German-Jordanian University. Copublication with Future Heritage Lab, MIT

Author : David Leatherbarrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521442656

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The Roots of Architectural Invention by David Leatherbarrow Pdf

Site, Enclosure and Materials in Architecture is a study in the history and theory of architecture. Challenging the contemporary concentration on style, it argues that site, enclosure and materials are fundamental elements in sound architectural design. Each of the chapters in this study reviews and criticises current assumptions and then provides an analysis of historical texts, by such theoreticians as Perrault, F. L. Wright, and Le Corbusier, in so far as they illuminate current thinking. Considerable discussion is also devoted to significant buildings, both modern and venerable, that provide the basis for the author's argument. Outlining typical thinking in architecture, with reference to rhetoric and the art of memory, Site, Enclosure and Materials in Architecture defines architecture as a form of representation that is caught up in the temporal unfolding of human events.

Author : Frank D. Prager,Gustina Scaglia
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486157283

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Brunelleschi by Frank D. Prager,Gustina Scaglia Pdf

Comprehensive book describes how Filippo Brunelleschi built the dome of Florence's famed cathedral: masonry techniques, construction concepts, and more. 28 halftones. 18 line illustrations.

Author : Thomas Gordon Smith
Publisher : G.M. Smith
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015013169522

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Classical Architecture by Thomas Gordon Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X001968338

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Precedent and Invention by Anonim Pdf

Author : Geoff Manaugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822040804940

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Landscape Futures by Geoff Manaugh Pdf

This work travels the shifting terrains of architectural invention, where new spatial devices on a variety of scales - from the handheld to the inhabitable - reveal previously overlooked dimensions of the built and natural environments. From philosophical toys and ironic provocations to a room-sized kinetic mechanism that models future climates, these devices are not merely diagnostic but creative, deploying fictions as a means of exploring different futures. Exhibition: Nevada Museum of Art (13.08.2011-12.2.2012).

Author : Pamela Toler
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502623072

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Inventions in Architecture by Pamela Toler Pdf

In the beginning, architecture was synonymous with survival. Early empires built walls to keep enemies out and to define their territory. Inventions including the arch (which was first created by the Romans) and the steel frames that support skyscrapers have elevated architecture to an art form. Inventions in Architecture: From Stone Walls to Solar Panels looks at the innovations responsible for architecture as we know it in the order they were invented. The book also demonstrates how these inventions shaped each other and how they have wider applications, including the potential to change the way we power our lives.

Author : Alberto Pugnale,Alberto Bologna
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783031267352

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Architecture Beyond the Cupola by Alberto Pugnale,Alberto Bologna Pdf

This book reviews Dante Bini’s inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction systems. Dante Bini’s double profile of architect and builder underpins the narrative of the entire book. It is used to analyse the evolution of the early reinforced-concrete Binishell patent into a variety of automated construction systems based on the use of air. Dante Bini has always been quite proactive in promoting his work and disseminating the results of his experimentations and achievements via journal articles, conference presentations and public talks; promotional brochures in multiple languages were also prepared to export and license his patents in various countries, from Italy to the Americas and Australia. Despite this, a rigorous study of Dante Bini’s work is still unavailable, and the relevance of this figure to contemporary architecture has yet to be discussed comprehensively. This book fills in this gap and arrives at the right time: during the last two decades, there has been an exponential interest in shell and spatial structures, particularly concerning the use of complex geometries and innovative construction techniques. This book will be of interest to academics in architectural design, theory and construction history, and practitioners and students interested in expanding their knowledge in the design and construction of shell and spatial structures.

Author : Peter H. Christensen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262048958

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Prior Art by Peter H. Christensen Pdf

A groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture. Although patents existed in Renaissance Italy and even in Confucian thought, it was not until the middle third of the nineteenth century that architects embraced the practice of patenting in significant numbers. Patents could ensure, as they did for architects’ engineering brethren, the economic and cultural benefits afforded by exclusive intellectual property rights. But patent culture was never directly translatable to the field of architecture, which tended to negotiate issues of technological innovation in the context of the more abstract issues of artistic influence and formal expression. In Prior Art, scholar Peter Christensen offers the first full-scale monographic treatment of this complex relationship between art and invention. Christensen’s method, a site-oriented approach steeped in multinational and multilingual archival work, is geared toward unifying fractured global histories of architectural patents through the distinct union of architectural, cultural, and legal history. Prior Art offers a record of the marriage of intellectual property and architectural invention—a momentous, understudied, and still underutilized aspect of architectural culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and the ways in which it influenced how buildings are conceived, designed, engineered, constructed, and promoted.