Urban Think Tank

Author : Alfredo Brillembourg,Hubert Klumpner
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783775742863

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Urban-Think Tank by Alfredo Brillembourg,Hubert Klumpner Pdf

Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) ist eine interdisziplinäre Designagentur, die aus der politisch instabilen Lage Caracas’ zu Zeiten der Chávez-Ära hervorging und seit gut 20 Jahren Projekte in Lateinamerika, Europa und Afrika verwirklicht. Durch seine vielschichtige Arbeit nahm das Unternehmen Ende der 1990er-Jahre die Vorreiterrolle einer sozialen Wende in der Architektur ein; mit stadtplanerischen Interventionen, die den sozialen Zusammenhalt in den Metropolen auf der südlichen Halbkugel und in den wachsenden Städten Europas stärkten. Zudem produzierte U-TT zahlreiche Medienprojekte, die Film, Theater, Ausstellungen und Druckarbeiten für sich nutzen, um neue diskursive Räume zu schaffen und die Frage aufzuwerfen, wie und für wen unsere Städte entwickelt sind. Die wohl bekannteste Arbeit entstand über das Torre-de-David-Hochhaus, die auf der Architekturbiennale von Venedig 2012 mit dem Goldenen Löwen ausgezeichnet wurde. Dieses Buch blickt jedoch nicht nur zurück, sondern auch nach vorn, ersinnt neue Räume für eine hyper-urbanisierte Welt und ermöglicht Einblicke in informelle Siedlungen, räumliche Spielflächen und künstlerische Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum.

Author : Urban-Think Tank (Firm)
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3037782986

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Torre David by Urban-Think Tank (Firm) Pdf

Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal and tenuous squat, that some have called a "vertical slum." Urban-Think Tank, the authors of TORRE DAVID: INFORMAL VERTICAL COMMUNITIES, spent a year studying the physical and social organization of this ruin-become home. Richly illustrated with photographs by Iwan Baan, the book documents the residents' occupation of the tower and how, in the absence of formal infrastructure, they organize themselves to provide for daily needs, with a hair salon, a gym, grocery shops, and more. The authors of this thought-provoking work investigate informal vertical communities and the architecture that supports them and issue a call for action: to see in informal settlements a potential for innovation and experimentation, with the goal of putting design in service to a more equitable and sustainable future. ILLUSTRATIONS: 300

Author : Raymond J. Struyk
Publisher : Open Society Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : 9639719005

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Managing Think Tanks by Raymond J. Struyk Pdf

Practical advice for policy institutes and consulting agencies.

Author : Justin McGuirk
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Alfredo Brillembourg,Hubert Klumpner,Andres Lepik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3980926397

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Si/No: The Architecture of Urban-Think Tank by Alfredo Brillembourg,Hubert Klumpner,Andres Lepik Pdf

Author : Benjamin H. Bratton,Nicolay Boyadjiev,Nick Axel
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3038602205

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The New Normal by Benjamin H. Bratton,Nicolay Boyadjiev,Nick Axel Pdf

Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture, and Design was founded by entrepreneur and philanthropist Alexander Mamut in 2009 to change the cultural and physical landscapes of Russian cities. The institute promotes positive changes and creates new ideas and values through its educational activities. This thorough, inspirational book is the first major publication emerging from Strelka's The New Normal program. The institute's most ambitious research unit focuses on research and design for Moscow and explores the opportunities posed by emerging technologies for interdisciplinary urban design practices. Strelka is a speculative urbanism think-tank and a platform for the invention and articulation of a new discourse and new models. The New Normal has been conceived by the American sociologist and architectural theorist Benjamin H. Bratton, who is known for his unique mix of philosophical and aesthetic research, organizational planning and strategy, and for his writing on the cultural implications of computing and globalization. The book features seventeen lavishly illustrated contributions by international researchers and designers that outline the scope of The New Normal's output, held together by a thematic essay in nine chapters by Bratton. Highly topical, this first comprehensive survey of research work produced by The New Normal program will appeal to all readers interested in the future of cities and urban design.

Author : Julian Dobson
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447323938

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How to Save Our Town Centres by Julian Dobson Pdf

Has the Internet killed our main streets? Have our town and city centers become obsolete? This book looks beyond the empty commercial buildings and “shop local” campaigns to focus on the real issues: how the relationship between people and places is changing; how business is done and who benefits; and how the use and ownership of land affects us all. Written in an engaging and accessible style and incorporating numerous original interviews,How to Save Our Town Centres sets out a comprehensive and coherent agenda for long-term, citizen-led change. It will be vital reading for policy makers and researchers alike, and anyone interested in planning, architecture and the built environment, economic development, and community participation.

Author : Kristin Feireiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X030150246

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Moderating Urban Density by Kristin Feireiss Pdf

Author : Lucy Bullivant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415554466

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Masterplanning Futures by Lucy Bullivant Pdf

Lucy Bullivant analyses the ideals and processes of international masterplans, and their role in the evolution of many different types of urban contexts in both the developed and developing world. Among the book's key themes are landscape-driven schemes, social equity through the reevaluation of spatial planning, and the evolution of strategies responding to a range of ecological issues and the demands of social growth. The author's research was enabled by grants from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), the SfA (the Netherlands Architecture Fund), the Danish Embassy and support from the Alfred Herrhausen Society.

Author : Gulbenkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humanity
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319014579

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Water and the Future of Humanity by Gulbenkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humanity Pdf

This unique, engaging, and highly authoritative volume enlightens readers on changes needed in the way society accesses, provides, and uses water. It further shines a light on changes needed in the way we use food, energy, and other goods and services in relation to water, and offers projections and recommendations, up to 2050, that apply to water access challenges facing the poor and the common misuse of water in industry, agriculture, and municipalities. Written by an unparalleled slate of experts convened by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the book takes on one of the most critical issues on the planet today. In a frank yet optimistic assessment of major developmental challenges, but also opportunities, facing future generations, the author elucidates linkages between water and a range of other drivers from various disciplinary and stakeholder perspectives. Ultimately portraying the belief that Humanity can harness its visionary abilities, technologies, and economic resources for increased wellbeing and sound stewardship of resources, the book presents an optimistic statement stressing actions scientists, policy makers, and consumers can and must take to meet the water management challenges of a warming planet anticipating nine billion inhabitants by 2050. Gulbenkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humanity: Benedito Braga, Pres. World Water Council & Prof. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil; Colin Chatres, Director General of the International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka; William J. Cosgrove, Pres. of Ecoconsult Inc. & Senior Adviser for the UN World Water Development Report, Canada; Luis Veiga da Cunha, Prof. Environmental Science and Engineering, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; Peter Gleick, Pres. of the Pacific Institute, USA; Pavel Kabat, Director, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria; and Prof. & Chair, Earth Systems Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; Mohamed Ait Kadi, President of the General Council of Agricultural Development, Morocco; Daniel P. Loucks, Prof. of Civil Engineering, Cornell Univ. USA; Jan Lundqvist, Senior Scientific Advisor, Stockholm International Water Institute, Sweden; Sunita Narain, Director, Center for Science & Environment, New Delhi, India; Jun Xia, Pres., International Water Resources Association, Chair Prof. & Dean, The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), Wuhan University, China.

Author : Oli Mould
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317633259

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Urban Subversion and the Creative City by Oli Mould Pdf

Check out the author's video to find out more about the book: https://vimeo.com/124247409 This book provides a comprehensive critique of the current Creative City paradigm, with a capital ‘C’, and argues for a creative city with a small ‘c’ via a theoretical exploration of urban subversion. The book argues that the Creative City (with a capital 'C') is a systemic requirement of neoliberal capitalist urban development and part of the wider policy framework of ‘creativity’ that includes the creative industries and the creative class, and also has inequalities and injustices in-built. The book argues that the Creative City does stimulate creativity, but through a reaction to it, not as part of it. Creative City policies speak of having mechanisms to stimulate individual, collective or civic creativity, yet through a theoretical exploration of urban subversion, the book argues that to be 'truly' creative is to be radically different from those creative practices that the Creative City caters for. Moreover, the book analyses the role that urban subversion and subcultures have in the contemporary city in challenging the dominant political economic hegemony of urban creativity. Creative activities of people from cities all over the world are discussed and critically analysed to highlight how urban creativity has become co-opted for political and economic goals, but through a radical reconceptualisation of what creativity is that includes urban subversion, we can begin to realise a creative city (with a small 'c').

Author : Landry, Julien
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789909234

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Critical Perspectives on Think Tanks by Landry, Julien Pdf

This innovative book explores think tanks from the perspective of critical policy studies, showcasing how knowledge, power and politics intersect with the ways in which think tanks intervene in public policy.

Author : Cruz Garcia,Nathalie Frankowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9462085625

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Narrative Architecture by Cruz Garcia,Nathalie Frankowski Pdf

For Dutch please see below Narrative Architecture reveals a stream of remarkable architectural and urban visions in the twentieth century that culminated in the construction of one of the most powerful, misunderstood and underutilized weapons of architectural and urban critique, thinking and representation. This historical genealogy in three parts weaves inseparable modern architecture and narrative critique through never before seen images of half a century of utopian, heroic, commercial, ironic and critical projects by Le Corbusier, Team 10, Constant, Victor Gruen, Yona Friedman, Archizoom, Superstudio and Rem Koolhaas. Alluding to Diogenes, the ancient kynic who wandered with a lantern in search of an honest man, through narrative, archival and provocative images and texts, the book lays the groundwork in search of an honest architecture able to question the pressing challenges of our times. Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski are architects, educators, codirectors of international studio WAI Architecture Think Tank and authors of Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture. -- Narrative Architecture ontsluit een stroom van opmerkelijke, twintigste-eeuwse architectonische en stedelijke visies die is geculmineerd in de ontwikkeling van een van de krachtigste, onbegrepen en onderbenutte wapens van de architectonische en stedenbouwkundige kritiek, filosofie en representatie. Deze historische genealogie in drie delen verweeft de onafscheidelijke moderne architectuur en de narratieve kritiek door middel van nooit eerder gepubliceerde afbeeldingen uit een halve eeuw van utopische, heroïsche, commerciële, ironische en kritische projecten van Le Corbusier, Team 10, Constant, Victor Gruen, Yona Friedman, Archizoom, Superstudio en Rem Koolhaas. De titel verwijst naar Diogenes, de cynicus uit de oudheid die naar verluid met een lantaarn rondzwierf op zoek naar een eerlijk man. Het boek legt door middel van verhalende, archivale en provocerende beelden en teksten de basis voor een eerlijke architectuur die in staat is de prangende uitdagingen van onze tijd kritisch te benaderen. Cruz Garcia en Nathalie Frankowski zijn beide architect, docent, directeur van de internationale studio WAI Architecture Think Tank en auteur van Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Author : Andres Lepik,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780870707841

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Small Scale, Big Change by Andres Lepik,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 28 Sept. 2010-3 Jan. 2011.

Author : Nishat Awan,Tatjana Schneider,Jeremy Till
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134722563

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Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture by Nishat Awan,Tatjana Schneider,Jeremy Till Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future. Particularly pertinent in the current economic climate, this book offers the reader new approaches to architectural practice in a changing world. It makes essential reading for any architect, aspiring or practicing.