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Climatic Architecture

Climatic Architecture

Philippe RahmThis book is at the same time a monograph on the architectural, urbanistic and landscape work of the office "Philippe Rahm architectes", a manifesto for a climatic architecture to face global warming.

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 local climatic context and energy resources. Faced with the climatic challenge of the 21st century, Climatic Architecture proposes to reset our discipline on its intrinsic atmospheric qualities, where air, light, heat or humidity are recognized are real materials of building,

Revitalizing Japan

Revitalizing Japan

Mohsen Mostafavi, Kayoko Ota (eds.)This book features innovative and productive responses to the shift in Japan’s social condition under demographic changes that are evident in regional cities

Architecture, Urbanization, and Degrowth Mohsen Mostafavi and Kayoko Ota (eds.) The shrinking and aging of the population is exacerbating the social decline in the regional cities of Japan. While excluded from the market-driven metropolitan areas, architects of the young generation are beginning to build ways of revitalizing regional cities through innovative design or new ways of practicing. This book features works by seven named or unnamed younger architects in Japan that preempt architectural responses to the post-growth condition, a gripping essay by community designer Ryo Yamazaki, and a captivating photo documentation by Kenta Hasegawa. Keynote essay by Toyo Ito. With Contributions of Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Jun Aoki, Schemata Architects, Matthew Gandy, Kenta Hasegawa (photography), Ryo Yamazaki, and architects of the younger generation.

El meu nom és Univers

El meu nom és Univers (CAT ED.)

Toni PouThis is a book of interviews with internationally renowned personalities through which some of the layers of knowledge included in the Periodic Table are revealed.

Who would have thought that a work of art based on a scientific idea could explode like a veritable intellectual Big Bang and take us on a thrilling journey from atoms to galaxies through music, philosophy, art, cinema, chemistry, poetry, theater, dance, astrophysics, education, architecture, painting, quantum physics, religion or mathematics? My name is the universe is a book in which science, the arts and the humanities are intertwined, appealing to the transversality and unity of knowledge. A text that cultivates an attitude of wonder at the world around us, the engine of artistic and scientific creation, and that stimulates the reader's curiosity and creativity. Interviews to: Jordi Balló, Capturing the real Priyamvada Natarajan, Exploring Darkness Amandine Beyer, Flying with Our Feet on the Ground Eugènia Balcells, Re-enchanting the World Federico Mayor Zaragoza, A Factory for Freedom Simon McBurney, Another Narrative Is Possible Eulàlia Bosch, A Welcoming Space Sally Potter, On the Surface

Habitatge a l’àrea metropolitana de Barcelona (CAT ED.)

IMPSOLThis is an important shift in social housing proposals in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, where there has not been as much architectural innovation in this sector in the last half century.

IMPSOL 2015-2024 Metropolitan Institute of Land Development and Property Management (IMPSOL) The Institut Metropolità de Promoció de Sòl i Gestió Patrimonial (Metropolitan Institute of Land Development and Property Management, IMPSOL) develops innovative, high-quality, affordable social housing that meets gender requirements. To carry out this task, it promotes architecture competitions with the aim of achieving the highest architectural quality of the proposals by recruiting the best professional talent, and encourages close collaboration with the teams responsible throughout the process. This publication brings together the projects and works developed by IMPSOL between 2015 and 2024 that represent the new criteria: architectural quality, energy efficiency, typological innovation and inclusivity. This is an important shift in social housing proposals in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, where there has not been as much architectural innovation in this sector in the last half century. The housing projects presented here represent a radical break with models and layouts that have been

Histories of Ecological Design

Histories of Ecological Design

Lydia KallipolitiThis book documents the intersection of architecture and design with ecology, environmental history, policy, governance and law from the 19th century to today.

An Unfinished Cyclopedia Lydia Kallipoliti The term ecological design was coined in a 1996 book by Sim van der Ryn and Stewart Cowan, in which the authors argued for a seamless integration of human activities with natural processes to minimize destructive environmental impact. However, ecological design harks as far back as Ernst Haeckel’s definition of the field of ecology and Henry David Thoreau’s manual for self-reliance. Since World War II, contrary to the position of ecological design as a call to fit harmoniously within the natural world, there has been a growing interest in a form of synthetic naturalism, where the laws of nature and metabolism are displaced from the domain of wilderness to the domain of cities, buildings, and objects. With the rising awareness of disturbances in the planetary reservoir, the field of ecological design has signified not only the integration of the designed object or space in the natural world,

Housing in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (EN ED.)

IMPSOLThis is an important shift in social housing proposals in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, where there has not been as much architectural innovation in this sector in the last half century.

IMPSOL 2015-2024 Metropolitan Institute of Land Development and Property Management (IMPSOL) The Institut Metropolità de Promoció de Sòl i Gestió Patrimonial (Metropolitan Institute of Land Development and Property Management, IMPSOL) develops innovative, high-quality, affordable social housing that meets gender requirements. To carry out this task, it promotes architecture competitions with the aim of achieving the highest architectural quality of the proposals by recruiting the best professional talent, and encourages close collaboration with the teams responsible throughout the process. This publication brings together the projects and works developed by IMPSOL between 2015 and 2024 that represent the new criteria: architectural quality, energy efficiency, typological innovation and inclusivity. This is an important shift in social housing proposals in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, where there has not been as much architectural innovation in this sector in the last half century. The housing projects presented here represent a radical break with models and layouts that have been

Vivienda en el área metropolitana de Barcelona (SP ED.)

IMPSOLThis is an important shift in social housing proposals in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, where there has not been as much architectural innovation in this sector in the last half century.

IMPSOL 2015-2024 Metropolitan Institute of Land Development and Property Management (IMPSOL) The Institut Metropolità de Promoció de Sòl i Gestió Patrimonial (Metropolitan Institute of Land Development and Property Management, IMPSOL) develops innovative, high-quality, affordable social housing that meets gender requirements. To carry out this task, it promotes architecture competitions with the aim of achieving the highest architectural quality of the proposals by recruiting the best professional talent, and encourages close collaboration with the teams responsible throughout the process. This publication brings together the projects and works developed by IMPSOL between 2015 and 2024 that represent the new criteria: architectural quality, energy efficiency, typological innovation and inclusivity. This is an important shift in social housing proposals in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, where there has not been as much architectural innovation in this sector in the last half century. The housing projects presented here represent a radical break with models and layouts that have been

Mi nombre es Universo

Mi nombre es Universo (SP ED.)

Toni PouThis is a book of interviews with internationally renowned personalities through which some of the layers of knowledge included in the Periodic Table are revealed.

Who would have thought that a work of art based on a scientific idea could explode like a veritable intellectual Big Bang and take us on a thrilling journey from atoms to galaxies through music, philosophy, art, cinema, chemistry, poetry, theater, dance, astrophysics, education, architecture, painting, quantum physics, religion or mathematics? My name is the universe is a book in which science, the arts and the humanities are intertwined, appealing to the transversality and unity of knowledge. A text that cultivates an attitude of wonder at the world around us, the engine of artistic and scientific creation, and that stimulates the reader's curiosity and creativity. Interviews to: Jordi Balló, Capturing the real Priyamvada Natarajan, Exploring Darkness Amandine Beyer, Flying with Our Feet on the Ground Eugènia Balcells, Re-enchanting the World Federico Mayor Zaragoza, A Factory for Freedom Simon McBurney, Another Narrative Is Possible Eulàlia Bosch, A Welcoming Space Sally Potter, On the Surface

Japan Story: Sharing Tokyo & Revitalizing Japan

Japan Story Pack

Mohsen Mostafavi, Kayoko Ota (eds.)What is the future of urbanization? What role can design play in shaping that future? What will happen to the conflicting tensions between urban and rural?

Sharing Tokyo Artifice and the Social World Mohsen Mostafavi and Kayoko Ota (eds.) The book questions how “artifice” and the “social world” can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the contemporary urban space can be shared by all. Taking the example of Tokyo, it takes up the two major traits in urban transformation – the large-scale development model on the one hand, and the small-scale model of neighborhood development or preservation on the other – and instead seeks alternative ideas and new strategies. A variety of innovative practices are presented by a diverse group of contributors including renowned scholars, architects, urbanists, and photographers from Japan and the US, and the research team at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. While the discourses and architectural works presented deal with the specificity of Tokyo, they were carefully selected to formulate together a collection of insights, new perspectives, and speculative experiments in urbanism and architecture

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Arquitectura no. 387

Arquitectura No. 387

Chris Reed & Pablo Pérez RamosThe Arquitectura magazine addresses the territorial issue through various formats: projects and constructions, interviews, and discussions with stakeholders involved in the urban transformation

Territorio Javier García-Germán & Alejandro Valdivieso (eds.) The Madrid metropolitan area forms the second largest city in the European Union, following Paris. Moreover, among the major European cities with over 1 million inhabitants, Madrid will be the only one to grow by more than 20%, increasing its population by nearly 1.5 million in 25 years. This transformation presents significant opportunities but also poses substantial territorial challenges. These encompass both infrastructural issues—providing clean air, water, and energy, among others—and considering a territorial mosaic that includes food supply or biodiversity conservation. Such profound demographic growth necessitates the creation of an urban fabric that encourages citizen interaction, creating public spaces, facilities, and quality housing at affordable prices. This issue of Arquitectura magazine aims to study exemplary practices in Madrid that can demonstrate how the city's infrastructural and ecological dimensions should permeate all scales so that, starting from the territorial dimension, it reaches through all layers to the

Tectonic for Non-Extractive Architecture

Tectonics for Non-Extractive Architecture

Josep Ferrando, Jordi Mansilla, Ricardo Devesa, Francisco Cifuentes, Marta Bugés (eds.)This publication presents the results of the seminar organised by the Architectural Logics Emergent Contexts (ALEC), a research line developed at La Salle Campus Barcelona.

Architectural Logics for Emergent Contexts Josep Ferrando, Jordi Mansilla, Ricardo Devesa, Francisco Cifuentes, Marta Bugés (eds.) This publication is a summary of the content, ideas and thoughts that were discussed in the seminar on the current situation of the Mediterranean forest, systems of timber construction, stakeholders, designers, and industries that are shaping the non-extractive architectural principles it fosters. With the seminar The Tectonics of Non-extractive Architecture, compiled here, ETSALS introduced ALEC, a new research line in the framework of La Salle R+D, aimed at making our society, industry and designers ready for a post-carbon future based on new strategies for architectural design and construction. With Contributions of Steve Webb, Margarita Jover, Paco Lloret, Peris+Toral Arquitectes, Sebastián Martorell, Dima Fadel, Gloria Schönburg, Martina Blázquez, Pau Garrofé, Lisa Marie Guerrero. EBOOK VERSION

Cuca de Llum

Mias Architects & LeitnerThis book describes the design process of the new Cuca de Llum funicular in Tibidabo Park, Barcelona.

Funicular Tibidabo Barcelona Mias Architects & Leitner This book tells the story of the new funicular of Tibidabo Park: la Cuca de Llum (glow worm). The emblematic funicular has been rehabilitated several times since its installation in 1901, however, in 2020 it was decided to design a new funicular, which was to be sustainable, transparent, fast and accessible. The new funicular, designed by MIAS in collaboration with Leitner Ropeways, achieves maximum integration into the landscape by hiding its installations, and thus enables the best views of the city of Barcelona. This book shows not only the history of the park and its funicular, but also all the details of its innovative design and connection to the city. With Contributions of Rosa Ortiz, PATSA Director Martin Leitner, LEITNER ROPEWAYS director Josep Miàs, MIAS founder & director

Hybrid Factory, Hybrid City- Nina Rappaport

Hybrid Factory, Hybrid City

Nina RappaportThe book is a compilation of essays from a symposium Hybrid Factory/Hybrid City that Nina Rappaport convened with Future Urban Legacy Lab at the Politecnico di Torino in February 2020.

Nina Rappaport Now that urban industry is often clean, green, small, and quiet it can be integrated at the city and building scale with other uses. Although little explored as of yet, we don’t yet know what this new hybrid will look like and how can it support new entrepreneurs, equitable jobs, and vital urban forms? How can hybrid models change with new technologies, sustainable manufacturing, and advanced production systems to create new open city? Can we break the planning and land-use patterns of segregated zoning by class and function and encourage mixed-use zoning that transforms new building and zoning codes and this the mix in the city? These questions and more are addressed in Hybrid Factory / Hybrid City, through a collection of essays by participants in the eponymous symposium organized by Nina Rappaport at the Future Urban Legacy Lab of the Politecnico di Torino. Divided into two sections, the essays

Supertight

Graham Crist & John DoyleSupertight is an exploration of high-density urban life and reducing the footprint of cities through adaptations in design and behaviour.

Models for Living and Making Culture in Dense Urban Environments Graham Crist & John Doyle The rapidly growing large cities of Asia are critical to understanding our future footprint. Asian cities provide insights into new ways of being densely urbanised. The by-product of this unprecedented metropolitan convergence will be the emergence of new urbanisms and new architectures, new models for living and making culture. The Supertight refers to the small, intense, robust and hyper-condensed spaces that emerge as a by-product of extreme levels of urban density. Tightness arises as consequence of density, but tightness itself is not density. Tightness is a series of social, economic and cultural practices that have developed in cities as a response to the rapid growth and consolidation of cities. While architectural models of density have been heavily explored, this project investigates the culture of tightness that has emerged in Asian cities over the past thirty years, and the

My name is Universe

My Name Is Universe (ENG ED.)

Toni PouThis is a book of interviews with internationally renowned personalities through which some of the layers of knowledge included in the Periodic Table are revealed.

Who would have thought that a work of art based on a scientific idea could explode like a veritable intellectual Big Bang and take us on a thrilling journey from atoms to galaxies through music, philosophy, art, cinema, chemistry, poetry, theater, dance, astrophysics, education, architecture, painting, quantum physics, religion or mathematics? My name is the universe is a book in which science, the arts and the humanities are intertwined, appealing to the transversality and unity of knowledge. A text that cultivates an attitude of wonder at the world around us, the engine of artistic and scientific creation, and that stimulates the reader's curiosity and creativity. Interviews to: Jordi Balló, Capturing the real Priyamvada Natarajan, Exploring Darkness Amandine Beyer, Flying with Our Feet on the Ground Eugènia Balcells, Re-enchanting the World Federico Mayor Zaragoza, A Factory for Freedom Simon McBurney, Another Narrative Is Possible Eulàlia Bosch, A Welcoming Space Sally Potter, On the Surface

mminent commons: Commoning Cities

Imminent Commons: Commoning Cities

Hyungmin Pai, Helen Hejung ChoiThe third book from the Seoul Biennale 2017 explores the value and meaning of cities as commons, which is embedded and operate in various governance mechanisms of cities in the world.

Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017 Hyungmin Pai, Helen Hejung Choi The third book from the Seoul Biennale 2017 explores the value and meaning of cities as commons, which is embedded and operate in various governance mechanisms of cities in the world. Imminent Commons: Commoning Cities presents questions and answers concerning the current state and near future of cities of the world through the lens of public initiatives, projects, and urban narratives. Cities are searching for new possibilities that will help them survive and thrive within new systems of municipal governance. The strategies of cities with regard to rapid urbanization, scarcity of public resources, and privatization of commons will be examined through the diverse spectrum of focused projects. It also discusses the present and future of cities as commons in the 21st century through examining various ways the cities use to deliberate, operate, imagine and execute their policies for the city. EBOOK EDITION

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