Actar d jan 2011 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This issue of the Cornell Journal of Architecture is about the now, the new, and the next in architecture, while simultaneously acknowledging that every possible future is intrinsically linked to the existent, to the present and its attendant past. At the heart of issue 8: RE is the understanding that the creative act itself is reiterative; that in rethinking, recombining, reshuffling, recycling, and reimagining aspects of the world around us, we produce work that both belongs to the current moment and establishes new future trajectories. The texts reflect the interconnected strands of technology, history, theory, and intuition that necessarily reinforce each other in architectural education and practice today: issues of reuse and recycling; of feedback loops and regression; of dialogue, criticism, and correspondence; and of the role that changing technologies have in restructuring the way we think, see, and remember.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Developer Charles Atwood and architect David M. Schwarz with Yale students designed pedestrian-friendly urban design projects in Las Vegas. In context with the original 1968 Yale Las Vegas Studio, Atwood and Schwarz asked students to learn from other cities how to combat Las Vegas's lack of street-oriented urbanism.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Twenty-seven countries under the gaze of Jordi Bernado, a photographer who collects the places and landscapes he has lived: some comical, some excessive, some implausible. This vision speaks of a world where life continues to alter each and every element that would initially appear well-ordered. The author's course carries us far and wide, making us his travelling companions, indeed his accomplices in the highly personal vision he constructs. Bernado comes across successively as euridte, historian, architect, sociologist, but most often as storyteller. With a perfect mastery of colour ranges, he employs de vocabulary of documentary photography.…