Iñaki Alday – Actar Publishers

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Dean and Richard Koch Chair in Architecture at the Tulane School of Architecture; Co-Director of The Yamuna River Project; and architect at aldayjover architecture and landscape. He promotes a new attitude in response to the professional and academic challenges facing the transformation of our environment.

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Cities & Rivers (ENG ED.)

Iñaki Alday, Margarita Jover, Jesús Arcos, Francisco MesoneroPublic spaces, architecture and urban studies that incorporate natural dynamics as the floods with some normality in the urban context.

aldayjover architecture and landscape Iñaki Alday, Margarita Jover, Jesús Arcos, Francisco Mesonero The architectural culture of Spain in the last 20 years of boom and bust has been an important incubator for a paradigmatic shift of vision in the profession, a process in which the architecture of Iñaki Alday and Margarita Jover, with their firm aldayjover architecture and landscape, has played a pioneering role. Taken as a whole, aldayjover's work demonstrates the importance of understanding architecture in all its facets, from building design to landscape and territorial planning, as a unified cultural and a technical discipline that is capable of addressing complex problems in holistic terms. During the years of the icon builders, the cultural dimension of architecture was seen chiefly as a question of individual creative expression, of a personal poetics or sensibility, which was invested in the built object as if it were a work of art. aldayjover's role, in contrast,

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The ReView

Iñaki Alday / Tulane School of ArchitectureThis book tries to communicate the pedagogical project and some of the lines of research of the Tulane School of Architecture (TuSA) through the work, mostly visual, of its students and professors.

How and What for Iñaki Alday / Tulane School of Architecture The ReView: How and what for, presents the pedagogical project of the Tulane School of Architecture through the work, mostly visual, of both students and faculty over the past few years. The book is organized into two main blocks, "how" and "what for". On the one hand, "how" exposes the sequence of studies and theoretical courses with exceptional pedagogical methodologies. On the other hand, "what for" shows the connection of the Tulane School of Architecture's academic work with the social, economic, and environmental reality we face today. The conceptual link that connects the "How?" and the "What for?" is the idea of innovation. In a time of global crisis, the Architecture - and educational systems - needs to be revised. This revision of academic programs is crucial to educate new architects to address social and environmental challenges from an innovative perspective. With Contributions

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Yamuna River Project

Iñaki Alday & Pankaj Vir GuptaPresents the results of focused research initiatives and designs from The University of Virginia School of Architecture towards the revitalization of New Delhi

New Delhi Urban Ecolgy Iñaki Alday & Pankaj Vir Gupta This publication presents the results of more than five consecutive years of focused research initiatives and designs from The University of Virginia School of Architecture towards the revitalization of New Delhi, India's water bodies. In collaboration with the Delhi Jal Board, The University of Virginia's Yamuna River Project is an inter-disciplinary research program, proposing to revitalize the ecology of the Yamuna River in Delhi and creating vital urban links with the Yamuna River as it flows through India's capital city. Through the research, methodologies, and designs contained within this publication, this project aims to serve as a catalyst for the urgent recovery of the Yamuna River and its tributaries, building a publically accessible body of information and expertise resulting in visions of what an alternative future would be. Only by addressing human equality and the complexity of Delhi's urban phenomenon can the social and

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