The Architecture Of Community

Author : Leon Krier
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610911245

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Leon Krier is one of the best-known—and most provocative—architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas have circulated mostly among a professional audience of architects, city planners, and academics. In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. With three new chapters, The Architecture of Community provides a contemporary road map for designing or completing today’s fragmented communities. Illustrated throughout with Krier’s original drawings, The Architecture of Community explains his theories on classical and vernacular urbanism and architecture, while providing practical design guidelines for creating livable towns. The book contains descriptions and images of the author’s built and unbuilt projects, including the Krier House and Tower in Seaside, Florida, as well as the town of Poundbury in England. Commissioned by the Prince of Wales in 1988, Krier’s design for Poundbury in Dorset has become a reference model for ecological planning and building that can meet contemporary needs.

Author : Serge Chermayeff,Christopher Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : OCLC:1002517673

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Community and Privacy by Serge Chermayeff,Christopher Alexander Pdf

Author : Brian Mackay-Lyons
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616894047

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Local Architecture by Brian Mackay-Lyons Pdf

In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditions, materials, and crafts; and strives to create a sense of community is not recent. Yet, the way it has evolved in the past few years in the hands of some of the world's most accomplished architects is indeed defining a new movement. From the rammed-earth houses of Rick Joy and Pacific Northwest timber houses of Tom Kundig, to the community-built structures of Rural Studio and Francis Kéré, designers everywhere are championing an architecture that exists from, in, and for a specific place. The stunning projects, presented here in the first book to examine this global shift, were featured at the thirteenth and final Ghost conference held in 2011, organized by Nova Scotia architect, educator, and local practitioner Brian MacKay-Lyons. The result is the most complete collection of contemporary regionalist architecture available, with essays by early proponents of the movement, including Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Pritzker Prize–winning architect Glenn Murcutt.

Author : Nick Wates,Charles Knevitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architects and community
ISBN : 0140104283

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Community Architecture by Nick Wates,Charles Knevitt Pdf

Author : Leon Krier
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262512930

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Drawing for Architecture by Leon Krier Pdf

Drawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with ferocity and wit for traditional urbanism and architecture. Architect Léon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of contemporary architecture. Thus he shows us a building bearing a suspicious resemblance to Norman Foster's famous London “gherkin” as an example of “priapus hubris” (threatened by detumescence and “priapus nemesis”); he charts “Random Uniformity” (“fake simplicity”) and “Uniform Randomness” (“fake complexity”); he draws bloated “bulimic” and disproportionately scrawny “anorexic” columns flanking a graceful “classical” one; and he compares “private virtue” (modernist architects' homes and offices) to “public vice” (modernist architects' “creations”). Krier wants these witty images to be tools for re-founding traditional urbanism and architecture. He argues for mixed-use cities, of “architectural speech” rather than “architectural stutter,” and pointedly plots the man-vehicle-landneed ratio of “sub-urban man” versus that of a city dweller. In an age of energy crisis, he writes (and his drawings show), we “build in the wrong places, in the wrong patterns, materials, densities, and heights, and for the wrong number of dwellers”; a return to traditional architectures and building and settlement techniques can be the means of ecological reconstruction. Each of Krier's provocative and entertaining images is worth more than a thousand words of theoretical abstraction.

Author : Peter Katz
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780071849128

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The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community by Peter Katz Pdf

The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as well as case studies, site plans, project analyses, and 180 beautiful photographs. This unique reference also tackles--and answers--the critical issues of crime, health, traffic, environmental degradation, and economic vitality and opens a startling window on the look and feel of future communities. Every designer can profit from this guide to building the utopias of tomorrow--today!

Author : Léon Krier
Publisher : Papadakis Publisher
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 9781901092035

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Architecture by Léon Krier Pdf

This polemic is essential reading for anyone converned with the state and direction of architecture and urban planning today and will provake wide-ranging discussion.

Author : Paul A Wellington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1732965102

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Black Built by Paul A Wellington Pdf

Architecture by Black Architects, discussing the history and influence of a wide range of American works in the Black community from the 19th century to present.

Author : Dan Pitera,Craig L. Wilkins,Gilad Meron,Mia Scharphie,Raphael Sperry,Sheri Blake,Stephen Vogel,Frank Russell,Charles Bohl,Kathy Dorgan,Anthony Costello,Doug Kelbaugh,Stephen Luoni,Jana Cephas,Katie Swenson,Tom Dutton,Tom Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990459543

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Activist Architecture by Dan Pitera,Craig L. Wilkins,Gilad Meron,Mia Scharphie,Raphael Sperry,Sheri Blake,Stephen Vogel,Frank Russell,Charles Bohl,Kathy Dorgan,Anthony Costello,Doug Kelbaugh,Stephen Luoni,Jana Cephas,Katie Swenson,Tom Dutton,Tom Fisher Pdf

Activist Architecture is an edited volume bringing together some of the most creative minds working in the world of community design and socially engaged practice. It asserts that community design centers and other socially engaged practices expand the influence built environmental professions have on culture and society. These practices work under the premise that designers should expand their clientele, where they work, and the types of projects they engage. This does not mean that design centers exclude people who typically build or hire an architect, urban designer, landscape architect, or planner. Design centers include more people, more programs, and more geographies in the process. They are advocates for people who are typically left out of design and place-making decisions. Design centers widen the undertaking beyond some people to include all (or more) people. While looking back over the past 50+ years, Activist Architecture positions the philosophy and practice of community design centers for today and tomorrow. The editors of Activist Architecture put together both a "why-to" and "how-to" guide for establishing and operating a community design center.

Author : Bryan Bell
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Kenneth Frampton,Charles Correa,David Robson,Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Organization)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500283303

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Modernity and Community by Kenneth Frampton,Charles Correa,David Robson,Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Organization) Pdf

This in-depth book offers critical essays and profiles of work by architects and designers in Muslim nations, as recognized by the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. 270 illustrations, 100 in color.

Author : Francesca Miazzo,Tris Kee
Publisher : Valiz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9078088915

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We Own the City by Francesca Miazzo,Tris Kee Pdf

Result of a collaboration between CITIES and ARCAM, the Amsterdam Center of Architecture, in order to show the results of a joint investigation into the development of bottom-up initiatives and their relationships with the history of the city, brought to life in Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Moscow, New York and Taipei.

Author : Michael Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Apartment houses
ISBN : 0500343306

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Building Community by Michael Webb Pdf

An international survey of the most inventive contemporary apartment buildings, to inspire architects, developers, urban planners, and informed city dwellers

Author : Sam Jacoby,Jingru (Cyan) Cheng
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811568114

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The Socio-spatial Design of Community and Governance by Sam Jacoby,Jingru (Cyan) Cheng Pdf

This book proposes a new interdisciplinary understanding of urban design in China based on a study of the transformative effects of socio-spatial design and planning on communities and their governance. This is framed by an examination of the social projects, spaces, and realities that have shaped three contexts critical to the understanding of urban design problems in China: the histories of “collective forms” and “collective spaces”, such as that of the urban danwei (work-unit), which inform current community building and planning; socio-spatial changes in urban and rural development; and disparate practices of “spatialised governmentality”. These contexts and an attendant transformation from planning to design and from government to governance, define the current urban design challenges found in the dominant urban xiaoqu (small district) and shequ (community) development model. Examining the histories, transformations, and practices that have shaped socio-spatial epistemologies and experiences in China – including a specific sense of community and place that is rather based on a concrete “collective” than abstract “public” space and underpinned by socialised governance – this book brings together a diverse range of observations, thoughts, analyses, and projects by urban researchers and practitioners. Thereby discussing emerging interdisciplinary urban design practices in China, this book offers a valuable resource for all academics, practitioners, and stakeholders with an interest in socio-spatial design and development.

Author : Renata Holod
Publisher : Millerton, N.Y. : Aperture
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Aga Khan Award for Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822008004095

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Architecture and Community by Renata Holod Pdf

Examines fifteen architectural projects which have won awards for developing a modern style that derives from traditional Moslem design.