Mutation And Morphosis

Author : Günther Vogt,Thomas Kissling
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 3037786183

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Mutation and Morphosis by Günther Vogt,Thomas Kissling Pdf

Anyone viewing what we call a landscape from a distance will recognize that it is an artifact, a habitat created by humans as part of our built environment. Designing this realm carefully is a discipline that is taking on increasing importance today. Gunter Vogt, with his practice in VOGT Landscape Architects and as a professor at ETH Zurich, has developed a set of tools and a working method that incorporate all the different dimensions of the human-designed environment, from the large-scale landscape to the small-scale urban public space.00'Mutation and Morphosis' looks at all the many aspects involved in the collective process of designing and shaping landscapes, from planning to implementation. The model as a tool and the collection as a driving force are illustrated on the basis of an astonishing variety of topics. In theoretical discussions and the examination of detailed dossiers of facts on the ground, a trajectory is traced: from the emergence of new landscapes as a result of climate change to the migration of the wolf to Central Europe, from the impact of invasive plants to the study of geological formation processes. The panorama that unfolds gives us insights into the broad context that landscape architects must consider in their work, exemplifi ed by the outstanding projects realized by VOGT.

Author : Günther Vogt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Landscape architecture
ISBN : 3037782331

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Miniature and Panorama by Günther Vogt Pdf

Author : Günther Vogt
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Landscape architects
ISBN : 3037783044

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Landscape as a Cabinet of Curiosities by Günther Vogt Pdf

Inspired by the architects' tradition of passing on experience in conversation form, this paperback book provides insights into the ideas, methods, and memories of one of Europe's most innovative landscape architects. In twelve concise conversations, Vogt inquires into the meaning of landscape architecture in the context of the worldwide urbanization process, and tries to define this young discipline's position. To this day, our concept of landscape appears to be influenced by an Arcadian ideal. Only when landscapes are understood on several levels, as the product of natural, cultural, and social processes, can atmospheric and living urban landscapes appropriate to the specific situation be created. Günther Vogt sees landscape architecture decidedly as part of a city, given its close relationship to topography, architecture, and infrastructure.

Author : Thom Mayne
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780847866458

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Morphosis by Thom Mayne Pdf

A resounding masterpiece of architectural publishing, this volume, Rizzoli's sixth on Morphosis and its founder, architect Thom Mayne, features the work of the award-winning interdisciplinary architectural and design practice over the past fourteen years. Known for its architecture of complexity, disruption, and ambiguity, Morphosis is on the cutting edge of exploration and discovery in design. Sometimes on the border of controversy with daring vision and provocative large-scale urban projects, the firm continually invites us to question what architecture is and can be while remaining sensitive to its central purpose--to provide safe, sheltering spaces for life, work, and play. This book documents the great variety of the firm's creations across the globe, a new academic building for the Cooper Union in New York, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Texas, the Casablanca Finance City Tower in Morocco, and the Sejong M-Bridge, in Sejong City, South Korea. Like the architecture of this trailblazing firm, the book is an exhilarating demonstration of visual excitement, bold graphics, and innovative design.

Author : Andrea Simitch,Val Warke
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781627880480

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The Language of Architecture by Andrea Simitch,Val Warke Pdf

DIVLearning a new discipline is similar to learning a new language; in order to master the foundation of architecture, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language – the definitions, function, and usage. Language of Architecture provides students and professional architects with the basic elements of architectural design, divided into twenty-six easy-to-comprehend chapters. This visual reference includes an introductory, historical view of the elements, as well as an overview of how these elements can and have been used across multiple design disciplines./divDIV /divDIVWhether you’re new to the field or have been an architect for years, you’ll want to flip through the pages of this book throughout your career and use it as the go-to reference for inspiration, ideas, and reminders of how a strong knowledge of the basics allows for meaningful, memorable, and beautiful fashions that extend beyond trends./divDIV /divDIVThis comprehensive learning tool is the one book you’ll want as a staple in your library./divDIV /div

Author : Brian K. Hall,Wendy M. Olson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674022408

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Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology by Brian K. Hall,Wendy M. Olson Pdf

Covering more than 50 central terms and concepts in entries written by leading experts, this book offers an overview of this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show how embryonic development relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, and responses to and integration with environmental factors.

Author : Lars Müller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783907078471

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Freitag by Lars Müller Pdf

In an age of irony, Freitag bags shoulder it all. Respectable, credible, authentic, genuine, trustworthy, and honest, they are an urban tool, a saddlebag for the city cowboy, a messenger bag for the real and the virtual; durable enough to be carried all over the world. Invented by Swiss brothers Daniel and Markus Freitag, who wanted bags just like the ones worn by New York bike couriers, bags that were practical, weatherproof, quick, and easy, the Freitag bag is tailor-made on a small-scale of recycled truck tarpaulins, bicycle inner tubes, and car seatbelts. In line with the Freitag principle, each book is individually bound with a spine made of typical bag material, and it holds a grab bag of printed goodies. In addition to covering the history of the bag and its particular ecological, economic, and sociocultural contexts, Freitag contains portraits of 3000 Freitag bags and their owners, most of whom are members of a generation that is as vain as it is critical of consumerism -- a generation for whom the Freitag bag is the ideal brand-name product.

Author : Bruno Latour
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509530595

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Down to Earth by Bruno Latour Pdf

The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretense at sharing a common future with the rest of the world. Hence their flight offshore and their massive investment in climate change denial. The Left has been slow to turn its attention to this new situation. It is still organized along an axis that goes from investment in local values to the hope of globalization and just at the time when, everywhere, people dissatisfied with the ideal of modernity are turning back to the protection of national or even ethnic borders. This is why it is urgent to shift sideways and to define politics as what leads toward the Earth and not toward the global or the national. Belonging to a territory is the phenomenon most in need of rethinking and careful redescription; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is our biggest challenge. Bringing us down to earth is the task of politics today.

Author : Klaus Lanz,Christian Rentsch
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:49015003153245

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Who Owns the Water? by Klaus Lanz,Christian Rentsch Pdf

"The shortage of fresh, clean water,” states a report by the Human Rights Commission, "is the greatest danger to which mankind has ever been exposed.” It is only thanks to water and its mysterious qualities that life on earth is possible at all. Without water there would be no food, no clothing, there would not even be the ink the Bill of Rights was written with. Who owns the Water? discusses the phenomenon of water, marvels at its uniqueness and addresses the dangers and opportunities water offers to life. The book looks at the most important questions about providing drinking water and producing food, but also deals with water as a destructive force, and investigates the chemical qualities of the molecule. Who owns the Water? points out the risks of unlimited privatization of water, and records how dependence on water is exploited. Committed picture sequences and detailed texts explain how water can belong to no one, but has to be treated responsibly and held in appropriate esteem by the whole of mankind.

Author : Stefan Gandl
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Computer graphics
ISBN : 3037784350

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Neubau Forst Catalogue by Stefan Gandl Pdf

-Neubau Forst Catalogue- is the 432-page print catalogue of a digital collection of tree silhouettes and sculptures seen at different seasons. Working by hand, the Neubau designers digitally removed the trees from their original Berlin surroundings and thereby crafted a body of visual material whose scope, outstanding quality of detail and excellent image resolution sets it clearly apart from conventional tree libraries compiled with autotracing tools. Each book contains an individual download code that guarantees you an exclusive discount of 25% on purchases from the data archive in the standard image (TIFF) and vector (EPS) format.

Author : Frank Tieri,Leah Williams,Zac Thompson
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302518202

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Absolute Carnage by Frank Tieri,Leah Williams,Zac Thompson Pdf

Collects Absolute Carnage: Lethal Protectors (2019) #1-3, Absolute Carnage: Avengers (2019) #1. The cult of Carnage comes to New York City! When he was last seen, John Jameson was being recovered from the site of a massacre in Doverton, Colorado, by Misty Knight. Since then, they've both been MIA. So how, then, did they become the only two people poised to prevent chaos as a deadly foe of Spider-Man's is resurrected in the basement of the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane? Can the team of Iron Fist, Morbius and Cloak Dagger help them defeat the back-from-the-dead Demogoblin?! Plus: Years ago, Cletus Kasady used the Carnage symbiote to take over Doverton - as well as the team of Avengers who arrived to stop him! Now Captain America, Hawkeye, Wolverine and the Thing must assemble once more when they discover the town's fate!

Author : Tamar Schlick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387224640

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Molecular Modeling and Simulation by Tamar Schlick Pdf

Very broad overview of the field intended for an interdisciplinary audience; Lively discussion of current challenges written in a colloquial style; Author is a rising star in this discipline; Suitably accessible for beginners and suitably rigorous for experts; Features extensive four-color illustrations; Appendices featuring homework assignments and reading lists complement the material in the main text

Author : Gareth Doherty
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3037783796

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Roberto Burle Marx Lectures by Gareth Doherty Pdf

Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) remains one of the leading landscape architects ever. The significance of his landscape design lies in his use of abstract shapes that rarely employ symmetry, and his use of tropical, mainly Brazilian, flora. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx's own words have been published. This book of previously unpublished lectures fills this void. The lectures, delivered on international speaking tours, address topics such as: "The Garden as an Art in Living," "Gardens and Ecology," and "The Problem of Garden Lighting." Their timely publication helps shed light on Burle Marx's distinctive style and ethos of landscape as a way of life.

Author : Axel Langer,Indra Kupferschmid
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015080858429

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Helvetica Forever by Axel Langer,Indra Kupferschmid Pdf

Designed in 1957, the Helvetica font is an icon of Swiss graphic design, which was a model of sober, functional communication throughout the world in the 1950s & 60s. This text retraces Helvetica's 50-year history, compares it to the well-known sans serif fonts of the 20th century, & examines the phenomenon of its unparalleled spread.

Author : Luciana Parisi
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCSC:32106017280527

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Abstract Sex by Luciana Parisi Pdf

Astract Sex investigates the impact of advances in contemporary science and information technology on conceptions of sex. Evolutionary theory and the technologies of viral information transfer, cloning and genetic engineering are changing the way we think about human sex, reproduction and the communication of genetic information. Abstract Sex presents a philosophical exploration of this new world of sexual, informatic and capitalist multiplicity, of the accelerated mutation of nature and culture.