Rural Studio At Twenty

Author : Andrew Freear,Elena Barthel,Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 161689153X

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Rural Studio at Twenty by Andrew Freear,Elena Barthel,Andrea Oppenheimer Dean Pdf

For two decades the students of Auburn University's Rural Studio have designed and built remarkable houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County, one of the poorest in the nation. Our critically acclaimed bestseller Rural Studio (2002) showed how salvaged lumber, bricks, discarded tires, hay-and-waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, carpet tiles, and old license plates were transformed into inexpensive buildings that were also models of sustainable architecture. Rural Studio at Twenty chronicles the evolution of the legendary program, founded by (MacArthur Genius Grant and AIA Gold Medal winner) Samuel Mockbee, and showcases an impressive portfolio of projects. Part monograph, part handbook, and part manifesto, Rural Studio at Twenty is a must-read for any architect, community advocate, professor, or student as a model for engaging place through design.

Author : Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568982925

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Rural Studio by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean Pdf

Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, and old license plates, they create inexpensive buildings in a style Mockbee describes as "contemporary modernism grounded in Southern culture."".

Author : Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568985002

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Proceed and Be Bold by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean Pdf

In 1992, Samuel Mockbee launched the Rural Studio to create homes and community buildings for the poor while offering hands-on architecture training for coming generations. This new book explains the changes the studio has undergone since his death.176 pp.

Author : Samuel Mockbee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architects
ISBN : 093139452X

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Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio by Samuel Mockbee Pdf

The architect and teacher Samuel Mockbee, founder of Auburn University's Rural Studio, was an idealist who put into action one of the boldest programs in contemporary architecture. Mockbee led his students in the design and construction of homes, community centers and other essential structures in Hale County, Alabama--one of the poorest counties in the United States. Mockbee believed that architecture could play a determining role in combating the brutalities of poverty. He inspired students to create vanguard designs and utilize an array of innovative, cost-effective building materials that included scraps of carpet baled into rectangular building blocks. This combination of ingenuity and enterprise informed the unique character of Mockbee's undertaking. "Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio" appraises Mockbee's unique contribution, assessing how he believed that architecture, practiced as a community-oriented undertaking, could transform the social environment.

Author : Randall Arendt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351177566

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Rural by Design by Randall Arendt Pdf

For America’s rural and suburban areas, new challenges demand new solutions. Author Randall Arendt meets them in an entirely new edition of Rural by Design. When this planning classic first appeared 20 years ago, it showed how creative, practical land-use planning can preserve open space and keep community character intact. The second edition shifts the focus toward infilling neighborhoods, strengthening town centers, and moving development closer to schools, shops, and jobs. New chapters cover form-based codes, visioning, sustainability, low-impact development, green infrastructure, and more, while 70 case studies show how these ideas play out in the real world. Readers —rural or not—will find practical advice about planning for the way we live now.

Author : Bryan Bell
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568983913

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Good Deeds, Good Design by Bryan Bell Pdf

Explores new thoughts and practices in the movement toward an architecture that serves everyone, including the poor.

Author : Eduard Kögel,Saskia Sassen,Remy Sietchiping,Martino Stierli,Tiantian Xu,Jun Wang
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3038601861

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The Songyang Story by Eduard Kögel,Saskia Sassen,Remy Sietchiping,Martino Stierli,Tiantian Xu,Jun Wang Pdf

In 2014, Xu Tiantian, founder ofBeijing-based studio Design and Architecture (DnA) began to work inSongyang County, in China's Zhejiang Province. Her exemplary holisticplanning concept of Architectural Acupuncture, which has gained thesupport of local administrative and political leadership, aims atrevitalising rural areas and comprises the renovation of productionplants and of tourist and technical infrastructure as well as thecreation of venues for culture and education and of social housing. Eachof Xu's small-scale interventions at local level is unique, only thesmall budget is common to all of them. Moreover, they are allinter-related with each other and in their entirety serve the broadergoal of mutual enhancement. This book introduces Xu's concept ofArchitectural Acupuncture and discusses the influence of architecture oncultural self-understanding and economic renewal in 21st-century ruralChina. It features some 20 new buildings and conversions of existingstructures with diverse functions. Published alongside are essays byinternational economists, sociologists, and curators as well as by thesecretary of the Songyang County Party Committee, examining the social,political, and economic implications of sustainable planning andcollective action in the Chinese province.

Author : Michael Sorkin
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780865477582

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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan by Michael Sorkin Pdf

Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows—giving us extraordinary access to the layers of history, the feats of engineering and artistry, and the intense social drama that take place along a simple twenty-minute walk.

Author : Charlie Hailey
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616895181

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Design/Build with Jersey Devil by Charlie Hailey Pdf

Steve Badanes, Jim Adamson, and John Ringel believe an architect's job does not stop at designing a building, but that it extends to constructing it as well. Now working into their fifth decade, Jersey Devil, the loose-knit group they founded in 1972, bands together under this design/build ethos that an architect's place is just as much on the job site as it is at the drawing board. The trio pioneered design/build practice and their influence has spawned more than one hundred design/build programs. Jersey Devil's process and expertise are unpacked in this Architecture Brief, providing students and teachers with a toolkit for design/build education. Through stories, didactic commentary, and sample exercises, the Design/Build complements nuts-and-bolts content with Jersey Devil's philosophy and perspective, allowing the book to impart practical instruction while acting as a valuable guide for navigating the elusive challenges of design/build. Themes touch on socially responsible architecture, intuition and intentionality, detailing and fostering craftsmanship, group work and collaboration, off-the-shelf components and nonstandard applications, educational reform, ethos and risk, good life and play, the politics of building, and university-community relations.

Author : Andrew Freear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1616893176

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Rural Studio at Twenty by Andrew Freear Pdf

Author : Winka Dubbeldam,Archi-Tectonics
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568985355

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AT-INdex by Winka Dubbeldam,Archi-Tectonics Pdf

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Author : Simon Unwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136955051

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Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand by Simon Unwin Pdf

Have you ever wondered how the ideas behind the world’s greatest architectural designs came about? What process does an architect go through to design buildings which become world-renowned for their excellence? This book reveals the secrets behind these buildings. He asks you to ‘read’ the building and understand its starting point by analyzing its final form. Through the gradual revelations made by an understanding of the thinking behind the form, you learn a unique methodology which can be used every time you look at any building.

Author : Andreas Nierhaus
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 3038601616

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Los Angeles Modernism Revisited by Andreas Nierhaus Pdf

Two Austrian-born designers have left their indelible mark on California?s residential architecture of the 1930s to 1960s: Richard Neutra (1892?1970) and Rudolph M. Schindler (1887?1953) combined modern form and inventive construction with new materials to create a truly modern vision of living that remains inspirational to the present day.00This new book features twenty famous and lesser known houses from that period, designed by the two pioneers and other architects that were influenced by Neutra?s and Schindler?s ideas. All are marked by highly economical use and outstanding quality of space, a minimalist aesthetic, and by their ideal adaption to climatic conditions. They are monuments of a period as well as timeless models for contemporary and future architecture.00The images by photographer David Schreyer show the buildings in their present state as a commodity of highest quality that can be, and should be, altered to meet today?s changed demands to a living space. Andreas Nierhaus?s texts, based on interviews, explore the relationship of the present inhabitants to their homes and what they mean to them. Together, the authors offer uniquely intimate insights into a sophisticated way of life still too little known outside California.

Author : Scott Rozelle,Natalie Hell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226740515

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Invisible China by Scott Rozelle,Natalie Hell Pdf

A study of how China’s changing economy may leave its rural communities in the dust and launch a political and economic disaster. As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China, the truth is much more complicated and might be a serious cause for concern. China’s growth has relied heavily on unskilled labor. Most of the workers who have fueled the country’s rise come from rural villages and have never been to high school. While this national growth strategy has been effective for three decades, the unskilled wage rate is finally rising, inducing companies inside China to automate at an unprecedented rate and triggering an exodus of companies seeking cheaper labor in other countries. Ten years ago, almost every product for sale in an American Walmart was made in China. Today, that is no longer the case. With the changing demand for labor, China seems to have no good back-up plan. For all of its investment in physical infrastructure, for decades China failed to invest enough in its people. Recent progress may come too late. Drawing on extensive surveys on the ground in China, Rozelle and Hell reveal that while China may be the second-largest economy in the world, its labor force has one of the lowest levels of education of any comparable country. Over half of China’s population—as well as a vast majority of its children—are from rural areas. Their low levels of basic education may leave many unable to find work in the formal workplace as China’s economy changes and manufacturing jobs move elsewhere. In Invisible China, Rozelle and Hell speak not only to an urgent humanitarian concern but also a potential economic crisis that could upend economies and foreign relations around the globe. If too many are left structurally unemployable, the implications both inside and outside of China could be serious. Understanding the situation in China today is essential if we are to avoid a potential crisis of international proportions. This book is an urgent and timely call to action that should be read by economists, policymakers, the business community, and general readers alike. Praise for Invisible China “Stunningly researched.” —TheEconomist, Best Books of the Year (UK) “Invisible China sounds a wake-up call.” —The Strategist “Not to be missed.” —Times Literary Supplement (UK) “[Invisible China] provides an extensive coverage of problems for China in the sphere of human capital development . . . the book is rich in content and is not constrained only to China, but provides important parallels with past and present developments in other countries.” —Journal of Chinese Political Science

Author : Karsten Jørgensen,Nilgül Karadeniz,Elke Mertens,Richard Stiles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351212908

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Teaching Landscape by Karsten Jørgensen,Nilgül Karadeniz,Elke Mertens,Richard Stiles Pdf

Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience gathers a range of expert contributions from across the world to collect best-practice examples of teaching landscape architecture studios. This is the companion volume to The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Landscape in the two-part set initiated by the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). Design and planning studio as a form of teaching lies at the core of landscape architecture education. They can simulate a professional situation and promote the development of creative solutions based on gaining an understanding of a specific project site or planning area; address existing challenges in urban and rural landscapes; and often involve interaction with real stakeholders, such as municipality representatives, residents or activist groups. In this way, studio-based planning and design teaching brings students closer to everyday practice, helping to prepare them to create real-world, problem-solving designs. This book provides fully illustrated examples of studios from over twenty different schools of landscape architecture worldwide. With over 250 full colour images, it is an essential resource for instructors and academics across the landscape discipline, for the continuously evolving process of discussing and generating improved teaching modes in landscape architecture.