PostDomestiCity is an inquiry and speculative exercise into the conditions of obsolescence in the post-industrial city, from a contemporary perspective. Working with three paradigmatic cases that were conceived from industrial ...

The publication rethinks climate control - a key concern of the discipline of architecture - through the lens of city climate phenomena over the course of the 20th century. Based ...

This book examines the urban fabric of contemporary Tokyo as a valuable demonstration of permeable, inclusive, and adaptive urban patterns that required neither extensive master planning nor corporate urbanism to ...

Made from prefabricated concrete panels, Plattenbauten rose from the ruins of Berlin, providing a quick and inexpensive solution to the severe housing shortage faced by the city after World War ...

A multimedia exploration of the morphology of architecture in the American Southwest as defined by evolving modes of transportation. In examining advances in transportation, the book asks how we have ...

Este libro cuenta una pequeña parte de lo que implica 'hacer ciudad' desde la mirada de ReUrbano, un laboratorio que busca incidir positivamente en la ciudad. Cada uno de los ...

This book tells the story of the making of a community, which occurred hand-in-hand with the building of an archipelago of residences in the countryside north of Rome. Lina Malfona ...

At that time historical centres were regarded as shabby and as tarnishing the desired image of a magnificent new city, of a showcase of the dictatorship. This led to the ...

Didier Grumbach repasa su papel en las diferentes iniciativas empresariales relacionadas con la producción y distribución de la moda francesa; esto es, del sistema de la moda tal y como ...

Our time is an urban age. More people live in cities than ever before, cities are growing larger and denser than ever, and urbanity is reaching new levels of complexity. ...

Steel Architecture offers a re-interpretation of Modernist design through an examination of the history of metal-framed buildings, from the mills, warehouses and spectacular glasshouses of the nineteenth century to the ...

The Open Call in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking, northern part of Belgium) is more than just another architecture competition: any governmental agency or public institution can choose to work with an ...

Homelessness'the state of having no home'is a growing global problem that requires local discussions and solutions. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, it has noticeably become a collective concern. ...

This publication, leaded by the National University of Singapore School of Design and Environment, presents the research by design results of four consecutive years in four different countries (China, Philippines, ...

BCNecología ha sido clave en la definición de un nuevo modelo urbano para Barcelona, que ha situado la ciudad a la cabeza de las transformaciones urbanas en el mundo, con ...

THE FUTURE CITY. VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

'Urban interstices'?their design?are the topic of this book. What are urban interstices? What different issues, opportunities, roles, and concepts do they deal with? The books five chapters written by urban ...

As focus shifts to 'no net land take' city regeneration approaches one of the main traditional elements of architecture?the roof?is gaining renewed prominence. This book provides a survey of worldwide ...

The architecture of the interwar period is still often described solely with terms such as classical modernism, Neues Bauen, or the International Style. But, for some time, there have also ...

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