actar d jan 2016 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A deep look into the structural mechanisms that affect the finances of the African-American community and some solutions to make the changes necessary for the community to succeed in the face of institutional racism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the Age of Environment, the scale waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as matter out of place. Geographies of Trash reclaims the role of forms, technologies, economies and logistics of the waste system in the production of new aesthetics and politics of urbanism. Honored with a 2014 ACSA Faculty Design Award, the book charts the geographies of trash in Michigan across scales to propose five speculative projects that bring to visibility disciplinary controversies on the relations of technology, space and politics.The book reclaims the materiality and spatiality of municipal solid waste systems.The research-design methodology and book structure adopt a threefold approach, 1) toconceptualize the spatial issues; 2) to chart relations of trash and space in Michigan across different scales; 3) to speculate on alternative strategies, rituals and imaginaries that reclaim trash as matter in place. Geographies of Trash proposes five situated yet generic architectural strategies of trash-formations throughout the American territorial grid. By making trash visible and formal, the project aspires to engage disciplinary debates on waste systems in architectural urbanism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This projects examine emerging forms of sponsorship, new forms of connectivity that produce innovative modes of collaboration and strategies for cultivating relationships that allow us to rethink typical hierarchies between those in power and those in service.The profession of architecture has traditionally been characterized by patronage. Throughout the twentieth century, private clients have enabled architects to develop and realize their most significant work. Today, the landscape of patronage is shifting. While the role of private clients is still central to the survival of the profession, an increasing number of architects and design practitioners are actively cultivating partnerships with not-for-profits institutions and other public organizations. How are these broader relationships redefining the role of patronage in architecture Have our current economic, ecological, and political climates provoked architecture to confront its own priorities and assumptions How can the practice of architecture be shaped not only through relationships of power, but also through strategies of empowerment.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At a time when fundamentals of design education are being questioned and studios are being used as laboratories for everything ranging from design-build and fabrication practices to community service, material research, and multidisciplinary incubators, this volume of Catalyst positions the current pedagogy at the University of Virginia School of Architecture within an extended history of the school through an archival project that traces the lineages of its faculty. It considers design pedagogy through the lens of the formative experiences and agendas of the faculties of the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, examining their role in shaping the school's direction, independent of top-down mandates and institutional agendas.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - OAB draws on the collaborative nature of the Carlos Ferrater previous studio, incorporating new ways of understanding the contributions of each team member to generate richer and more varied, prepared and flexible projects. The creation of this new platform attempts to address the challenges that contemporary architecture has raised in intellectual, social, technological, and environmental spheres.The contents are organized as a collection of chapters that turn the spotlight on both projects and recently built works. These convey a willingness to work in different scenarios, expanding and enriching the range of proposals in the pursuit of new avenues of formal expression. The book covers the theoretical aspects of each project, focusing on innovation, research, and the application of new technologies. At the same time, as we explore each project's development, emphasis is placed upon context, the building's objectives, and the social roots of the architect's work.