Actar d aug 2023 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Climate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites-from Venice flooding to extinction in the Galápagos Islands-have garnered empathetic attention in a media landscape that has otherwise failed to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis.In a strategic subversion of the media aura of heritage, DESIGN EARTH casts tenWorld Heritage sites as narrative figures to visualize pervasive climate risks-rising sea levels, extinction, droughts, air pollution, melting glaciers, material vulnerability, unchecked tourism, and the massive displacement of communities and cultural artifacts-all while situating the present emergency within the wreckages of other ends of world, replete with the salvages of extractivism, racism, and settler colonialism.The possibilities of such climate inheritances are narrated in drawing triotvchs and mythologies that bequeath other worlds and values.With Contributions of Lucia Allais, David Gissen, Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - To understand the point at which public housing stock in large urban centers finds itself, it is vital to approach the process of generating social housing in all its complexity. The need to respond sustainably to the housing emergency has prompted a rethinking of the strategy to generate housing and, more urgently, social housing.This publication presents and analyzes the various strategies for the development and construction of social housing carried out in recent years by the municipal administration in the city of Barcelona. It selects a series of projects that exemplify the maximum number of working methodologies, briefs and innovative proposals that also guarantee quality architecture.It is a collective book in which all those involved in the process of gestating and the process of living have a voice. A voice that is materialized in a wide variety of documents: drawings, plans, renderings, photographs, reflections, debates, testimonies. A collection of situations that invite reflection.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book compiles Adamo-Faiden's inventory along with the inventions this body of work distills. Images, drawings and texts are presented in the formof diptychs, forcing the reader to establish subjective bridges between both documents.Adamo-Faiden is an architecture studio established in Buenos Aires by Sebastian Adamo and Marcelo Faiden. Their practice extends to the field of teaching and research, and has been internationally recognized by different media and institutions. Their works were exhibited at the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the LIGA Architecture gallery in Mexico, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, the Storefront for Art & Architecture in New York, and at Princeton University School of Architecture.Inventory's sequential accumulation proposes a journey through two decades of work designed by its authors and positions Adamo-Faiden's architecture between material organization and intellectual speculation.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - TdB Architects accredits extensive experience in the field of building and urban planning since 1992. TdB Architects' activity unfolds in three fields of work. The first in corporate architecture such as Headquarters such as Natura Bissé, Grifols Laboratories, Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, ESADE University on the Sant Cugat del Vallés Campus, or the Hotel Antiga Casa Buenavista. The second field is the rehabilitation where the Mandarín Oriental Hotel in Barcelona stands out, the reform of the modernist building Casa Burés, and the reform of the Baroque Palace 'Palau Moxó'. The third field is the residential architecture of multiple scales and volumes in a wide geographical extension.…