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Revista LF No.1

Revista LF No.1

Portfolios

Leopoldo Pomés. Cover and interview. Carles Calero. The dream’s Light. Alfonso de Castro. Matters of life and death. Carles Sans. A photographer Tricicle. Jordi Egea. Personal Universe. Hanna Jarzabek. Autumn flowers. Bernat Millet. The Saharawi exile.. Marta Calvo. Literary faces.

Sections

Technique. Heliogravure on copper plate. Cassini Probe. Valid Foto Bcn Gallery. The rule of the air. Condé School. Photobook. Juanan Requena. At the edge of the whole map. #Instagram. The cities of light. Bazaar. Photographic encounters and much more. The advisor. Protecting copyrights.
New York_Global

New York_Global

Critical Writings and Proposals. 1970-2020. Housing, Infrastructure, Pedagogy Richard Plunz On the eve of Plunz’s status as Emeritus at Columbia University, New York_Global bridges five decades of his pedagogical commitment to question the cannons of the design and urbanism fields and their relationship to the contemporary built environment. Global urbanization serves as a backdrop for a heightened consideration of the intermingling of housing, infrastructure, and pedagogy, as he negotiates the evolution of mainstream theory and praxis in architecture and planning. Through interviews, syllabi excerpts, essays, discussions, and projects, New York City is projected as a lens for understanding the potential for metropolises everywhere to serve as firewalls against dystopic social inequities and ecological adversity. In questioning the discourse surrounding urban research and action, Plunz engages with the primordial question of “urban” itself. This book is not a cautionary tale, but rather an assemblage of timestamped evidence toward understanding our current condition. Closely studying the very tools that have fostered today’s environmental and societal consequences, each segment contributes to understanding engagement with a post-accelerated future.  With Contributions of Much of this material originates at the author’s long association with Columbia University and engages New York City as the primary test bed for ideas and projects.
The Loop Project

The Loop Project

Mias Architects This book collects the work of the MIAS studio over twenty years. Their projects cannot be explained only as finished works but need an understanding of the design process: everything that happens before the cranes arrive.  Based on four concepts, it explains the conceptual and constructive evolution of the studio's most emblematic projects through drawings, collages, engravings, sketches and models. Oneiric Spaces, Assemblage, Archive and Finishing are the concepts that articulate the work of MIAS and its trajectory since its foundation in 2000. With Contributions of Peter Cook, Archigram Founder Bob Sheil, Bartlett Director Josep Miàs, MIAS founder & director  
City Science

City Science

Performance Follows Form Ramon Gras, Jeremy Burke The Aretian team, a spin off company from the Harvard Innovation Lab, has developed a city science methodology to evaluate the relationship between city form and urban performance. This book illuminates the relationship between a city’s spatial design and quality of life it affords for the general population. By measuring innovation economies to design Innovation Districts, social networks and patterns to help form organization patterns, and city topology, morphology, entropy and scale to create 15 Minute Cities are some of the frameworks presented in this volume. Therefore, urban designers, architects and engineers will be able to successfully tackle complex urban design challenges by using the authors’ frameworks and findings in their own work. Case studies help to present key insights from advanced, data-driven geospatial analyses of cities around the world in an illustrative manner. This inaugural book by Aretian Urban Analytics and Design will give readers a new set of tools to learn from, expand, and develop for the healthy growth of cities and regions around the world.  With Contributions of Fernando Yu (Co-author of the Atlas of Global Cities) Gauthier de La Ville de Baugé Céleste Richard  Foreword by Fawwaz Habbal Former Executive Dean for Education and Research at Harvard SEAS 
.able

.able

An Image-based Multi-platform Journal at the Intersection of Art, Design, and Sciences Samuel Bianchini (ed.) .able journal reinvents the publication form by making research accessible through images. Free of charge and distributed on numerous platforms, media, and devices, .able journal, through its five visual essay formats (scroll.able, pan.able, zoom.able, story.able and video.able), provides multiple entry points to research in arts, design, and sciences. From the design of sustainable fashion or bioluminescent micro-architecture, to the dynamics of bacterial contamination or the exploration of deep sleep, .able combines academic rigor and accessibility focused on exploring contemporary sociopolitical and environmental issues in images and putting these challenges into perspective. With Contributions of Among others : (.able journal is an ongoing journal, list of contributors is always evolving) Anne Bationo-Tillon, Anaïs Blo, Ninon Bonzom, Walid BREIDI, Dimitri Charrel, Jean-Marc Chomaz, Emile Costard,  Francesca Cozzolino, Jean-Robert Dantou, Dominique Deuff, Émile De Visscher, Christian Duriez, Olga Flór, Jean-Jacques Gay, Arno Gisinger, Denise Gonzales Crisp,  Tzu Nyen Ho, Dan Kneeshaw, François-Joseph Lapointe, Peter Lunenfeld,  Ophélie Maurus, Isabelle Milleville-Pennel, Marie-Eve Morissette, Aurélie Mosse, Nicolas Nova, Virgile Novarina, Ioana Ocnarescu, Étienne Ollion, Christoforos Pappas, Jonathan Pêpe, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen,  Francesco Sebregondi,  Martin Tamke, Gisèle Trudel,  Guro Tyse,   Gentiane Venture, Jeanne Vicerial, Florence Weber,   Clélia Zernik
Leaf Plan

Leaf Plan

Towards the Ecological Transition Mosè Ricci and Sara Favargiotti The Leaf Plan. Towards the Ecological Transition presents innovative methodologies and practices to guide and support a sustainable urban development to cope with climate, social, economic changes. The book will illustrate comprehensive design approaches to address climate change, urban metabolism, temporary uses, landscape multifunctionality, cohabitation through new modes of urban design based on criteria of flexibility and adaptability. Trento is the experimental territory where the innovative process, methodologies and theoretical reflection have been tested above the framework of the three-year research project “TUT Trento Urban Transformation”. The book is structured around the five challenges (Ecological, Accessible, Smart, Welcoming and Beauty) proposed by the TUT research group for the Trento Leaf Plan, the new metabolic plan for the city of Trento. Beside the innovative field-test experimentations, the holistic methodological approach proposed by the book will be transferable and adapted in other metropolitan contexts to enhance the urban ecological transition. The publication, edited by the TUT research group, will include theoretical essays, critical selection of reference projects, operational tools, and interviews with experts in ecological transition, sustainable mobility, co-design approach, sharing, and urban resilience. With Contributions of Mosè Ricci and Sara Favargiotti with Bruno Zanon – Professor University of Trento Matteo Aimini – Professor University of Trento Davide Geneletti – Professor University of Trento Chiara Cortinovis – Ph.D. University of Trento Francesca Marzetti – Arch. Ph.D. University of Trento Silvia Mannocci – Arch. Ph.D. University of Trento Anna Codemo – Arch. Ph.D. candidate University of Trento Giuseppe Scaglione – Professor University of Trento Marco Tubino – Professor University of Trento
Participatory Design Thinking In Architecture & Urban Planning

Participatory Design Thinking in Architecture & Urban Planning

John Odhiambo Onyango Since the Boyer of 1996 of ‘Building Communities: A New future for Architectural Education and Practice’ there has been some movements in architectural and design schools and practitioners exploring ways to inculcate a concern for larger social issues in the design process. Several alternative approaches to the education, practice of architecture and urban design have emerged rooted in the Social Architecture based on four groups of participants; the private visionary; the public professional with a vision; the professional based at non-profit organizations and the activist university. The urban laboratory model is one such model housed in the activist university. One of the arguments for this methodology is that it would lead to a better place-making process. 
Arquitectura No. 386

Arquitectura No. 386

Concursos Javier García-Germán & Alejandro Valdivieso (eds.) This editorial project aims to reflect on the major demographic, economic and ecological transformations that will occur in Madrid up to the year 2050, aspiring to propose the changes that the profession requires to provide an effective response to the challenges that the future Madrid poses. The project aims not only to anticipate the territorial, urban and architectural strategies that will be necessary, but also to reflect on the structure and competencies of the profession, as well as on the institutional framework it needs. Working on the axes of the New European Bauhaus, the proposal The Future Madrid proposes to develop six thematic issues that reflect on the city from the perspective of territory, climate, inclusion, the body, beauty and practice. Each of these thematic issues will be co-edited by two renowned architects, one from Madrid and one international. These international debates will be given local roots through projects and works that exemplify these global dynamics through the prism of the Madrid region. Each thematic issue will contain those competitions, projects, works and other Madrid initiatives that best showcase the issues under discussion, making the theoretical framework and practice go hand in hand. With Contributions of Iñaki Ábalos, Stan Allen, Burr Studio, Javier García-Germán, Fernando Maniá, Imagen Subliminal, Eduardo Prieto, Carlos Riaño, Luis Rojo, Alejandro Valdivieso, Toni Calleñas, Santiago Gómez, Javier Martínez, Silvia Muñoz y Enrique Villamuelas
Climatic Architecture

Climatic Architecture

Philippe Rahm Architectes Philippe Rahm
Architecture and urbanism were traditionally based on climate and health, as we can read in the treatises of Vitruvius, Palladio or Alberti, where exposure to wind and sun, variations in temperature and humidity influenced the forms of cities and buildings. These fundamental causes of urban planning and buildings were ignored in the second half of the 20th century thanks to the enormous use of fossil energy by heating and air conditioning systems, pumps and refrigerators, that today cause the greenhouse effect and global warming.
The fight against climate change forces architects and urban designers to take seriously the climatic issue in order to base their design on its the local climatic context and energy resources. Faced with the climatic challenge of the 21st century, we propose to reset our discipline on its intrinsic atmospheric qualities, where air, light, heat or humidity are recognized are real materials of building, convection, thermal conduction, evaporation, emissivity, or effusivity are becoming design tools for composing architecture and cities, and through materialism dialectic, are able to revolutionize esthetic and social values.
AA Book 2023

AA Book 2023

Ryan Dillon, Anna Lisa Reynolds (eds.) The AA Book 2023 presents a synopsis of the 2022–23 academic year at the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture. The layout of its pages has been generated by the students and tutors of each unit or programme within the school, in parallel with the development of their projects. The middle of the book comprises a series of pull-out posters featuring highlights of the year from other facets of the AA, including the Public Programme, the Visiting School and the Communications Studio. Its centrefold recreates the Front Members’ Room at 36 Bedford Square, which this year sits at the heart of the Projects Review exhibition as a visual catalogue of projects by every student in the school. Together, these elements represent a radical shift in approach from previous iterations of the AA Book towards a more nimble and less wasteful record of the work of the year. They reflect the way in which we navigate the academic year and how we face the urgent challenges of the present: as an association of voices talking loudly and together as one school.
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