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The Colours of ...

Autor: Erik Mattie

Número de Páginas: 376

Color is inextricably linked with architecture; as a design element and also as an inherent quality, it characterizes the shape and texture of the built fabric. The book presents extraordinary color schemes, both in terms of technology and aesthetics, for ground-breaking architecture with a wide spectrum of functions: from apartment to concert hall, from flagship store to city park. The focus is on the works of the three architects Frank O. Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Wang Shu. This is expanded by the works of other practices such as BIG, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Toyo Ito and SANAA. This publication presents a compendium that documents color schemes in architecture in the context of very different aesthetic approaches. The large-format photographs by Iwan Baan, Christian Richters, Roland Halbe and Philippe Ruault fascinate with their clarity and presence.

Detail

Número de Páginas: 127

Revista de arquitectura y detalles constructivos. A través de cinco secciones (Debate, Reportajes, Documentación, Técnica e Información de Productos) organizadas en torno a un tema monográfico en cada número, pretende facilitar al lector los detalles constructivos más significativos de una selección de proyectos de la arquitectura contemporánea a nivel mundial.

Viabilidad y beneficios de combinar techos verdes con tecnologías de energía renovable

Autor: José Pierre González

Número de Páginas: 71

El estudio de viabilidad y beneficios de combinar techos verdes con tecnologías de energía renovable de José Pierre González presenta un análisis de la literatura científica relacionada con la materia y una evaluación objetiva de los beneficios que repercuten en aspectos ambientales, económicos, sociales, etc., además de identificar una serie de obstáculos para aportar las posibles soluciones estratégicas. Así, el investigador hace un recorrido por cuestiones de arquitectura sostenible, ecología urbana, eficiencia energética, ingeniería o diseño urbano, entre otras, para situar al lector en contexto antes de abordar el estudio de casos concretos en ciudades como Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga y Sevilla. El cierre del trabajo con las esperadas conclusiones está complementado con un gran detalle sobre las limitaciones encontradas durante la investigación, áreas de mejora identificadas. Por añadidura, el autor incluye dos capítulos dedicados, uno, a proporcionar sugerencias de optimización de la eficiencia y de cuestiones a considerar antes de replicar los modelos actuales, y, otro, a mirar hacia el futuro de esta aplicación de diseño sostenible de espacios verdes ...

Building Dynamics

Autor: Branko Kolarevic , Vera Parlac

Número de Páginas: 466

Buildings are increasingly ‘dynamic’: equipped with sensors, actuators and controllers, they ‘self-adjust’ in response to changes in the external and internal environments and patterns of use. Building Dynamics asks how this change manifests itself and what it means for architecture as buildings weather, programs change, envelopes adapt, interiors are reconfigured, systems replaced. Contributors including Chuck Hoberman, Robert Kronenburg, David Leatherbarrow, Kas Oosterhuis, Enric Ruiz-Geli, and many others explore the changes buildings undergo – and the scale and speed at which these occur – examining which changes are necessary, useful, desirable, and possible. The first book to offer a coherent, comprehensive approach to this topic, it draws together arguments previously only available in scattered form. Featuring the latest technologies and design approaches used in contemporary practice, the editors provide numerous examples of cutting-edge work from leading designers and engineering firms working today. An essential text for students taking design studio classes or courses in theory or technology at any level, as well as professionals interested in the latest...

Enric Ruiz Geli Spek (www.spek.baunetz.de)

Autor: Enric Ruiz Geli

Número de Páginas: 60

Material Strategies

Autor: Blaine Brownell

Número de Páginas: 162

Blaine Brownell s best-selling Transmaterial series has introduced designers to hundreds of emergent materials that have the potential to transform our built environment. In our new Architecture Brief, Material Strategies, Brownell shows architects how creative applications of these materials achieve such transformations. Chapters based on fundamental material categories examine historical precedents, current opportunities, and future environmental challenges. Case studies featuring detailed illustrations showcase pioneering buildings from today s most forward-thinking architectural firms.

Dwell

Número de Páginas: 266

At Dwell, we're staging a minor revolution. We think that it's possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.

Smart Architecture

Autor: Ed Van Hinte

Número de Páginas: 176

Miradas proyectuales

Autor: Lucas Peries

Número de Páginas: 94

Diseñar un paisaje urbano-arquitectónico es construir una escena a partir de una imagen (en la forma de prefiguración). Una mirada proyectual implica una posición desde la cual se aborda el proyecto con un determinado andamiaje instrumental, que se traduce en imágenes fijas o secuenciales. Este libro propone descubrir en el área de la morfología arquitectural, nuevas modalidades de diseño empleando herramientas digitales y analógicas. La información contenida rescata ejemplos y conceptos, de la cultural disciplinar, además de generar vínculos con múltiples disciplinas, entre ellas: la fotografía, la pintura, el diseño gráfico y el cine, en sintonía con la complejidad de la proyectación contemporánea. Se plantean técnicas, métodos y procedimientos como disparadores de procesos de diseño innovativos, para el desarrollo de trabajos académicos, profesionales e investigaciones proyectuales.

Media-ICT

Autor: Marta Albiñana

Número de Páginas: 339

Cloud 9 surprises again with the Media-tic building where digital and performative architecture meet.

Detail

Número de Páginas: 127

Revista de arquitectura y detalles constructivos. A través de cinco secciones (Debate, Reportajes, Documentación, Técnica e Información de Productos) organizadas en torno a un tema monográfico en cada número, pretende facilitar al lector los detalles constructivos más significativos de una selección de proyectos de la arquitectura contemporánea a nivel mundial.

Climax Change!

Autor: Pedro Gadanho

Número de Páginas: 240

Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture, both in terms of its design philosophy and rising opportunities to innovate and radically transform the current tenet of architecture’s aesthetic, ethical and professional drives. Climax Change! offers an overview of how the current environmental emergency will impact the practice of architecture. At a crossroads in which the construction sector and built environment produce nearly 40% of greenhouse gases accountable for global warming, architects are just starting to acknowledge their complicity in an impending disaster. In need of a paradigm shift similar to that of the Modern Movement, architecture desperately requires clear guidelines and targets so as to operate its inevitable transformation towards an ecologically-friendly design logic. From historical analyses of ecocide or the environmental avant-gardes, to topics such as decarbonization, degrowth, the Great Transition and the aspirations of Green New Deals, this book features ten essays around today's climate change debates, bringing them home to architectural...

Ferran

Autor: Colman Andrews

Número de Páginas: 338

The first-ever biography of Ferran Adrià, the chef behind Spain's renowned El Bulli restaurant, by one of the world's foremost food authorities. More than just the most influential chef of the late-twentieth and early-twenty- first century, Ferran Adrià is arguably the greatest culinary revolutionary of our time. Hailed as a genius and a prophet by fellow chefs, worshipped (if often misunderstood) by critics and lay diners alike, Adrià is imitated and paid homage to in professional kitchens, and more than a few private ones, all over the world. A reservation at his one and only restaurant, El Bulli, is so coveted that scoring a table is harder than nabbing fifty-yardline tickets to the Super Bowl. In his lively close-up portrait of Adrià, award-winning food writer Colman Andrews traces this groundbreaking chef's rise from resort-hotel dishwasher to culinary deity, and the evolution of El Bulli from a German-owned beach bar into the establishment voted annually by an international jury to be "the world's best restaurant." Taking the reader from Adrià's Franco-era childhood near Barcelona through El Bulli's wildly creative "disco-beach" days and into the modern-day creative...

¡Prescindible organizado!

Autor: Enrique Nieto Fernández

Número de Páginas: 467

Este libro eleva a escrutinio público la travesía del autor por algunos de los dominios que atraviesan la arquitectura. A su vez, reclama para las aulas la posibilidad de recrear afirmativamente un futuro deseable desde una ética y de lo creativo.

Digital Design

Autor: Stephen Eskilson

Número de Páginas: 292

"A groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to todayDigital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where product design intersects with art, film, business, engineering, theater, music, and artificial intelligence. Stephen Eskilson traces the history of digital design from its precursors in the nineteenth century to its technological and cultural ascendency today, providing a multifaceted account of a digital revolution that touches all aspects of our lives.We live in a time when silicon processors, miniaturization, and CAD-enhanced 3D design have transformed the tangible world of cars and coffee makers as well as the screen world on our phones, computers, and game systems. Eskilson provides invaluable historical perspective to help readers better understand how digital design has become such a vibrant feature of the contemporary landscape. Along the way, he paints compelling portraits of key innovators behind this transformation, from foundational figures such as Marshall McLuhan, Nam June Paik, and April Greiman to those mapping new frontiers, such as Sepandar Kamvar, Jeanne Gang, Karim...

Armorican Psycho - Gagnant Prix du suspense Psychologique 2019

Autor: Guellec Le Guellec

Número de Páginas: 572

Un photographe solitaire atteint d'une maladie le contraignant à voir le monde en noir et blanc enquête sur la disparition de son ami, et se retrouve confronté à un mystérieux tueur se faisant appeler le Tailleur de sel...

Le New Deal Vert Mondial

Autor: Jeremy Rifkin

Número de Páginas: 227

Après avoir théorisé la Troisième Révolution industrielle (La Troisième Révolution industrielle, LLL, 2012), Jeremy Rifkin s’attaque à la notion de « New Deal Vert ». Il s’agit d’un projet économique et de société, fruit d’une prise de conscience mondiale sur l’état de la planète. Le but : sauver la vie sur Terre, tout simplement.

Nos 20 prochaines années

Autor: Christian Gatard

Número de Páginas: 357

Quels seront les comportements du grand public face aux changements qui affecteront la vie quotidienne des deux décennies à venir ? Dans cet essai prospectif, Christian Gatard s'attache à repérer et comprendre comment les individus s'adapteront aux scénarios de vie que les experts imaginent aujourd'hui.L'étude de plusieurs phénomènes (nomadisme ou sédentarité, la performance, le concept de marque et les rituels) et de thèmes clés (manger, boire, dormir, aimer, voyager, etc.) servent une approche nouvelle de la sociologie de la consommation en se basant sur des études de consommateurs ainsi que sur des entretiens menés auprès des observateurs et des acteurs socioculturels d'aujourd'hui.Un livre pour comprendre les consommateurs et les citoyens de demain.

La Ville des flux

Autor: Olivier Mongin

Número de Páginas: 430

La mondialisation est avant tout urbaine. Devenue un gigantesque accélérateur de trajectoires individuelles, soumise aux impératifs de la vitesse, la ville des flux perd progressivement son attache avec le territoire. Elle oscille ainsi entre les friches urbaines des non-lieux que les flux contournent – les favelas de Rio ou São Paulo, les bidonvilles de Kinshasa et de Johannesburg – et le paroxysme de la communication des hyperlieux branchés sur les réseaux, où s’affichent les signes d’une modernité agressive et insolente – comme à Singapour, Doha ou Dubaï. Y a-t-il encore une place pour l’émergence de milieux qui cherchent à soumettre ces flux à l’exigence anthropologique de l’habiter, ainsi qu’à celle, politique, de l’agir ensemble – comme le symbolisent désormais la place Tahrir du Caire ou la place Taksim d’Istanbul ? Pour déjouer les projections fonctionnalistes des architectes-urbanistes ainsi que les tentatives de planification des édiles et des aménageurs, pour résister aux nostalgies patrimoniales comme aux séductions des images futuristes, il faut être sensible aux pouvoirs de l’informel, celui des quartiers tremplins qui...

La cocina de los valientes (edición actualizada)

Autor: Pau Arenós

Número de Páginas: 655

«El libro definitivo para comprender la cocina contemporánea.» Ferran Adrià Premio Nacional de Gastronomía, premio Juan Mari Arzak y premio a la Excelencia Gastronómica de la Academia Internacional de Gastronomía, Pau Arenós nos brinda, en la presente edición, el libro definitivo sobre la gastronomía contemporánea: una edición ampliada de este libro magistral, publicado en 2011 y reconocido, en 2012, como mejor libro español de historia de la gastronomía.Un retrato crítico de la alta cocina contemporánea, cuyas palabras claves son: vanguardia, creatividad, innovación y gallardía. Una extensa reflexión acerca de, entre otros conceptos, el producto, la ecococina, la regeneración de la cocina popular... Así como una osada reivindicación de que «la cocina no es para cobardes sino para los valientes del fuego, del nitrógeno líquido y de la brasa, del cuchillo y del robot, del chuletón y de la esferificación.» La crítica ha dicho... «Uno de los más grandes escritores gastronómicos del mundo.» Juan Mari Arzak

Quaderns

Número de Páginas: 392

National Geographic Traveler Barcelona 5th Edition

Autor: National Geographic

Número de Páginas: 303

National Geographic Traveler guidebooks contain must-know travel information, inspiring photography, insider tips, and expert advice you won’t find on the internet for bucket-list destinations around the world. Brimming with fascinating culture and world-renowned art and architecture, Barcelona is on many travelers’ must lists, and National Geographic Traveler: Barcelona is the perfect guidebook to help plan your trip to this cosmopolitan city. Whether your ideal trip includes architectural gems like the Sagrada Familia church and the UNESCO World Heritage site Park Güell or the lively beaches of the La Barceloneta neighborhood and the Picasso museum, the capital of Catalonia is the ideal destination for your next great escape.

Environmental Design Sourcebook

Autor: William Mclean , Pete Silver

Número de Páginas: 199

How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices, a re-invention of construction and evolving building programmes that look at lifecycle, embodied energy and energy use. Highly illustrated with practical information and simple explanations for design ideas, this book is the perfect introduction to sustainable design for architecture students. It presents key concepts in relation to the embodied energy of construction, material properties and environmental performance of buildings in an accessible way. In explaining the principles and technologies by which we heat, cool, moderate and mitigate, it demystifies environmental design as a technical exercise and enables students to create sustainable buildings with impact. Keep this sourcebook with you. Features: Amphibious House (Baca Architects), Ashen Cabin (HANNAH), Bunhill 2 Energy Centre (Ramboll, Cullinan Studio, McGurk Architects and Colloide), Cork House (Matthew Barnett Howland, Oliver Wilton and Dido Milne), Dymaxion House (Richard Buckminster Fuller), Eastgate Centre (Mick Pearce), Neuron Pod (Will Alsop – aLL Design and AKT II), Quik House (Adam Kalkin)...

Housing + Single-Family Housing

Autor: Manuel Gausa , Jaime Salazar

Número de Páginas: 550

As cities evolve architects are constantly searching for appropriate architectonic solutions, and in this book the authors present a systematic examination of innovative single-family houses and residential buildings in the context of presentday cities. The latest developments are reviewed in essays and thematic chapters discuss such topics as lowenergy building, the use of prefabricated materials, or low-budget building. A range of international examples from architects such as Wiel Arets, Shigeru Ban, Ben van Berkel, Kees Christiaanse, Philippe Gazeau, Frank O. Gehry, Steven Holl, Hans Kollhoff, Morger & Degelo, MVRDV, Jean Nouvel, Kas Oosterhuis, illustrate the subjects discussed. "Housing" and "Single-Family Housing" were previously published separately, each proving hugely popular. Now both volumes have been incorporated into a single, lowpriced edition.

Smart Architecture – A Sustainable Approach for Transparent Building Components Design

Autor: Valentina Frighi

Número de Páginas: 287

This book explores the specific role that glazing technologies play within the world of smart architecture as important components of contemporary and future sustainable architectural and technological research. Smart Architecture begins with a definition of the concept of “smart” in architecture and examines how innovative technologies and materials have shaped buildings over the years. The author then provides a supporting database of contemporary smart architecture—mapping adopted strategies, recognizing common patterns, and evaluating current and future trends in the context of smart building envelopes, energy efficiency, and the development of high-potential innovative building components. The book proceeds with a focus on the specific role that glazing technologies play in this framework and provides a systematic methodology to quantify options for the effective integration of transparent building components within advanced and innovative building envelope systems.

On-site

Autor: Terence Riley

Número de Páginas: 284

On Site~ISBN 0-87070-499-0 U.S. $45.00 / Paperback, 9 x 10.5 in. / 280 pgs / 295 color and 165 b&w. ~Item / February / Architecture Featuring 36 buildings that have made Spain a center for architectural innovation and excellence.

Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme

Número de Páginas: 224

Digital and Smart Cities

Autor: Katharine Willis , Alessandro Aurigi

Número de Páginas: 309

Digital and Smart Cities presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities. There is a growing awareness in the fields of design and architecture of the need to address the way that technology affects the urban condition. This book aims to give an informative and definitive overview of the topic of digital and smart cities. It explores the topic from a range of different perspectives, both theoretical and historical, and through a range of case studies of digital cities around the world. The approach taken by the authors is to view the city as a socially constructed set of activities, practices and organisations. This enables the discussion to open up a more holistic and citizen- centred understanding of how technology shapes urban change through the way it is imagined, used, implemented and developed in a societal context. By drawing together a range of currently quite disparate discussions, the aim is to enable the reader to take their own critical position within the topic. The book starts out with definitions and sets out the various interpretations and aspects of what constitutes and defines digital cities. The text then investigates and considers the range of factors ...

Innovative Houses

Autor: Avi Friedman

Número de Páginas: 412

Housing is rapidly having to adapt to the global changes of the twenty first century. These include the transformation of the family and the rise of the non-traditional household, increases in construction costs, and concerns over climate change and the depletion of natural resources. Designing residential environments that address these issues is an urgent priority. This book examines the latest residential design trends that have arisen in response to these challenges. Divided into four broad areas, tightly focused thematic chapters look at twenty discrete topics, such as live/work; adaptable housing; prefabrication; water efficiency; green roofs; and innovative landscaping. Each chapter includes an essay which lays out principles, methods and practices. Using text, drawings and photos from a variety of contemporary international practices, the book demonstrates how these ideas can be applied by architects. It offers a comprehensive collection of strategies and examples that will inspire a much needed housing revolution.

Archinesia 03

Autor: Imelda Akmal

Número de Páginas: 209

Does Architecture Shape the City or Vice Versa? Architecture is a visual object that most strongly shape the face of any city. And in this 3 volume, Archinesia trying to discusses cities in their relation to architecture with seven urban experts to give an answer about the architecture of Jakarta. Completed with written interview with Syed Sobri Zubir (associate professor at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UTM) Malaysia, to gain a clearer perspective of this edition’s main topic “Does Architecture Shape the City or Vice Versa?”; Current Project From Southest Asia : Andra Matin DCM Jakarta Indra Tata Adilaras Wilkinson Eyre Architects DP Architects Ong & Ong Singapore Bangkok Project Company Limited Openbox / Thailand Vo Trong Nghia / Vietnam a21 Studio / Vietnam Moh Hack & Partner / Brunai

Design Thinking in Smart Cities

Autor: Vasiliki Geropanta

Número de Páginas: 111

This book encapsulates an exploration of design thinking in 21st-century smart cities, where the fusion of physical and digital realms redefines architectural practice. The global prevalence of advanced technology has led to a profound transformation, blurring boundaries and introducing digital interventions that reshape urban landscapes. The volume poses critical questions about the role of architects in smart cities, questioning whether they merely disseminate technological innovations or have the potential to forge new design ideologies countering technological dominance. Focused on postmodern and contemporary case studies, the chapters delve into transdisciplinarity, identity, ownership, and the visual experience in smart city design. It brings forth issues of participation, inclusivity, and subjective shifts, offering a critical reflection on architectural trends within smart cities. Positioned as a valuable addition to global discussions on the future of architecture, this volume provides insights for planners and designers, contributing to a nuanced understanding of the evolving dynamics in smart city design.

A + a

Autor: Fredy Massad , Alicia Guerrero Yeste

Número de Páginas: 458