More Water Less Land New Architecture

Author : Weston Wright
Publisher : AADR – Art Architecture Design Research
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783887789411

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MORE WATER LESS LAND NEW ARCHITECTURE by Weston Wright Pdf

Climate change, and the inevitability of sea level rise, will require much more of us than simply pulling back from the coastline. The thesis of Weston Wright's More Water Less Land New Architecture is that we need to start thinking in an entirely different way about the relationship of cities to waterfront sites and of the relationship of buildings to water, which means rethinking many of architecture's implicit premises. If architecture has been confrontational with water—think bold towers erected beside the sea, as if to dare the water to challenge them—Wright's argument is that we will need to be modest, accommodating, and accepting of the power and presence of water if our cities are to survive. He knows that nature is stronger than we are, and that best chance mankind has to build successfully will be to build with, not against, the reality of water. This is an important book, not least because its quiet, sober tone balances natural history with architectural history, and reaches across the world to show examples of architecture that accommodates to the water ranging from small vernacular houses on stilts to huge megastructures anchored like islands in the sea. Although Wright's argument transcends aesthetics or style, his book is, in the end, a case for the strength that comes from restraint, and perhaps even for the lasting power of gentlenes

Author : Weston Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3887785886

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MORE WATER, LESS LAND, NEW ARCHITECTURE by Weston Wright Pdf

Author : Elsa Lam,Graham Livesey
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Regina Stephan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3887785606

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More Than Bauhaus by Regina Stephan Pdf

In 2003 Tel Aviv became a UNESCO World Heritage site. On this occasion Tel Aviv was described as a "synthetic representation of some of the most significant trends of the Modern Movement in architecture, as it developed in Europe". Today the "White City" in Tel Aviv with its some 4, 000 buildings from the 1920s and 1930s is renowned as the largest collection of so-called Bauhaus buildings in the world. What does it mean that the architects of these projects arrived from all over Europe, and only six of them were Bauhaus alumni? Over recent decades the word Bauhaus has become synonymous with modernity in art, design and architecture. Often disregarding the original intentions of the School, founded in 1919 and closed in 1933, it serves as a label for all kinds of merchandise. Among them architecture is the most prominent. But, what is Bauhaus? And, is there such a thing as a specific Bauhaus architecture? In search of an answer to these crucial questions, students from Germany, Israel and Austria studied the original Bauhaus buildings in Dessau, Germany, before traveling to Tel Aviv, Israel to undertake further research. For them, the question remained: Bauhaus or not? (Klappentext).

Author : Robert Barker,Richard Coutts
Publisher : Riba Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1859465315

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Aquatecture by Robert Barker,Richard Coutts Pdf

Water plays a vital role in shaping our built environment, as it has done for centuries. We depend on it, we use it, we live with it and we must respect it. Aquatecture is the first book to outline new ways of 'designing for water,' using examples from around the world to illustrate methods of utilizing water innovatively, efficiently and safely.The first part of the book explores the historical relationship between water and architecture, examining how cities and civilisations have been drawn to water and have attempted to control it. The chapters go on to assess how this relationship has changed over time, and introduce readers to a range of brand new techniques that will revolutionise the way we think about water, design and urban planning. Solutions such as amphibious housing, wet-proof buildings, zero carbon development, rain gardens, flood storage and new methods of waterfront design are discussed and their effectiveness assessed. Full colour illustrations and international case studies are used throughout the book to bring these new theories to life; practical, technical advice sits alongside truly ground-breaking and ambitious ideas for the future. This book is an ideal reference tool for all architects, urban designers, planners and sustainability experts who have an interest in creating a beautiful, sustainable, intelligent and pleasurable built environment on land, in water and with water.

Author : David Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1308 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature (Aesthetics)
ISBN : 0520232887

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New Organic Architecture by David Pearson Pdf

New Organic Architecture is a manifesto for building in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and kinder to the environment. It illuminates key themes of organic architects, their sources of inspiration, the roots and concepts behind the style, and the environmental challenges to be met. The organic approach to architecture has an illustrious history, from Celtic design, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, to the work of Antoni Gaud� and Frank Lloyd Wright. Today there is a response to a new age of information and ecology; architects are seeking to change the relationship between buildings and the natural environment. In the first part of his book, David Pearson provides a history and assessment of organic architecture. The second part comprises statements from thirty architects from around the world whose work is based on natural or curvilinear forms rather than the straight-line geometrics of modernism. Each statement is accompanied by full-color illustrations of one or several of the architects' built projects.

Author : Elena Giunta,Agnese Rebaglio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3887784448

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Design Research on Temporary Homes by Elena Giunta,Agnese Rebaglio Pdf

Author : Justin McGuirk
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781688687

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Radical Cities by Justin McGuirk Pdf

What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving. Ever since the mid twentieth century, when the dream of modernist utopia went to Latin America to die, the continent has been a testing ground for exciting new conceptions of the city. An architect in Chile has designed a form of social housing where only half of the house is built, allowing the owners to adapt the rest; Medellín, formerly the world’s murder capital, has been transformed with innovative public architecture; squatters in Caracas have taken over the forty-five-story Torre David skyscraper; and Rio is on a mission to incorporate its favelas into the rest of the city. Here, in the most urbanised continent on the planet, extreme cities have bred extreme conditions, from vast housing estates to sprawling slums. But after decades of social and political failure, a new generation has revitalised architecture and urban design in order to address persistent poverty and inequality. Together, these activists, pragmatists and social idealists are performing bold experiments that the rest of the world may learn from. Radical Cities is a colorful journey through Latin America—a crucible of architectural and urban innovation.

Author : Valerio Olgiati,Markus Breitschmid
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 303860142X

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Non-referential Architecture by Valerio Olgiati,Markus Breitschmid Pdf

Non-Referential Architecture is a manifesto on a new kind of architecture. Non-Referential Architecture presents a new framework for architecture in a world that is increasingly free of ideologies. We have left behind the values of multicultural postmodernity! Non-Referential Architecture offers unlimited possibilities for the liberated mind.

Author : Vivian Manasc
Publisher : Brush Education
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781550598629

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Old Stories, New Ways by Vivian Manasc Pdf

Vivian Manasc, one of the founders of Manasc Isaac Architects, has pioneered sustainable architecture in Canada. Her work in partnership with Indigenous communities has been her greatest inspiration, and it has transformed the very nature of her practice. Through the profound lessons of the seven Grandfather Teachings, Vivian came to understand that the process of planning and designing a building should be a circle, with the beginning and end of the story linked together. The stories Vivian tells in Old Stories, New Ways are also framed by these teachings of Courage, Love, Wisdom, Respect, Truth, Humility and Honesty, with each teaching illuminating an aspect of how working with Dene, Cree, Saulteaux, Métis, Inuit and Inuvialuit communities has influenced her design practice.

Author : Christopher Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190050351

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A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander Pdf

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.

Author : Norman T. Newton
Publisher : La Editorial, UPR
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0674198700

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Design on the Land by Norman T. Newton Pdf

Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.

Author : Brook Muller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 1477325115

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Blue Architecture by Brook Muller Pdf

"Architect and scholar Brook Muller writes that when it comes to water, the architectural design community is working at a level of sophistication and innovation that is about a generation behind where they are with energy. Muller's new book seeks to address that lag through a close look at a series of cases, mostly in the American West"--

Author : Malcolm Millais
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 0711229740

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Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture by Malcolm Millais Pdf

The Modern movement began in the 1920s when a small group of young architects felt all that had gone before should be rejected and that architectural design should start afresh. This fresh start, they declared, should be based on modern technology and a new, modern approach to life. Their innovations became the 20th century's dominant movement in architecture, crystallizing into the international style of the 1920s and '30s. In "Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, " Malcolm Millais explores the forces and factors that led to the emergence of the Modern movement, arguing that it was based on completely false premises. Millais offers a rarely heard perspective on the Modern movement, explaining its failures and how the well-meaning "revolutionaries" behind it gained and maintained power.

Author : Wenche Dramstad,James D. Olson,Richard T.T. Forman
Publisher : Shearwater Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015036061318

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Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning by Wenche Dramstad,James D. Olson,Richard T.T. Forman Pdf

This concise handbook lists and illustrates key principles in the field, presenting specific examples of how the principles can be applied in a range of scales and diverse types of landscapes around the world. Chapters cover: patches – size, number, and location edges and boundaries corridors and connectivity mosaics summaries of case studies from around the world