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Historia natural de la arquitectura

Autor: Philippe Rahm

Número de Páginas: 379

¿Es posible que la necesidad de mantener nuestro cuerpo a 37 oC sea la razón del nacimiento de la arquitectura? En esta brillante historia de la arquitectura, Philippe Rahm analiza las causas naturales de la evolución arquitectónica, esto es, los factores físicos, biológicos y climáticos que, a lo largo de la historia, y en estrecha relación con los avances científicos y tecnológicos, han influido en su desarrollo y conformado sus fundamentos, desde la prehistoria hasta la actualidad. De la mano del arquitecto suizo, releer la evolución de la arquitectura y el urbanismo desde sus causas materiales nos permite no solo comprender de qué modo se han ido adaptando a las necesidades y acontecimientos de cada momento, también afrontar los retos medioambientales presentes y futuros.

What Is Cosmopolitical Design? Design, Nature and the Built Environment

Autor: Albena Yaneva , Alejandro Zaera-polo

Número de Páginas: 262

The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos. Cosmos embraces everything, including the multifarious natural and material entities that make humans act. The book examines cosmopolitics in its relation to design practice. Abandoning the modernist idea of nature as being external to the human experience - a nature that can be mastered by engineers and scientists from outside, the cosmpolitical thinking offers designers to embark in an active process of manipulating and reworking nature ’from within.’ To engage in cosmopolitics, this book argues, means to redesign, create, instigate, and compose every single feature of our common experience. In the light of this new understanding of nature, we set the questions: What is the role of design if nature is no longer salient enough to provide a background for human activities? How can we foster designers’ own force and make present what causes designers to think, feel, and act? How do designers make explicit the connection of humans to a variety of entities with different ontology: rivers, species, particles, materials and forces? How do they redefine...

De la psicodelia a las cortinas del siglo XXI

Autor: Manuel Collado Arpia

Número de Páginas: 380

Las Cortinas del siglo XXI es la expresión con la que Toyo Ito trata de visualizar los síntomas que indicarían que algunos arquitectos contemporáneos establecen en su trabajo una relación cada vez más natural con la ingente cantidad de tecnología de raíz electrónica hoy disponible. Este fuerte despliegue de tecnología ha desencadenado una densa superposición de capas en los espacios que habitamos, capas de información y de energía que han penetrado en nuestro entorno de forma masiva, aunque en ocasiones nos resulten aparentemente imperceptibles. Los arquitectos envueltos por esta fuerte entropía tecnológica nos sentimos necesariamente interpelados; se ha perturbado nuestro adormecido sistema perceptivo, modificando nuestras relaciones con los espacios que habitamos. Con esta lectura descubriremos que precisamente, las herramientas perceptivas y tecnológicas de estas nuevas relaciones espaciales contemporáneas, pueden buscarse en los años 60, durante la revolución sensorial que desencadeno ́ el movimiento conocido como Psicodelia. La Psicodelia y sus practicas afines, despertaron las conciencias y los cuerpos de una generación a una nueva sensibilidad,...

Scented Spaces

Autor: Jieling Xiao

Número de Páginas: 182

This book explores the overlooked role of smell in architecture, design, and urban life, positioning olfaction as a powerful medium for shaping place, atmosphere, and experience. Beginning with the concept of the “scentsphere,” it establishes how smells carry cultural memory, therapeutic potential, and behavioural influence, reframing them as active agents in how environments are felt and understood. Building on this foundation, the text introduces a framework for creating smell-spatial narratives, a step-by-step manifesto for creatives to integrate smells into their spatial practices. Smells are conceptualised as spatial design materials and it shifts the paradigm of smells from the intangible to the tangible with new concepts of “scentability,” “scentography,” and “scentonics.” Case studies from art, architecture, and urban design illustrate practical interventions, from scented materials to landscapes and devices, showing how olfactory design operates across scales and durations. Concluding with a futurist outlook, the book situates smellscape ecology within climate change and inclusive, life-centred design, introducing “olfactory diversity” as a guiding...

Antarctica, Art and Archive

Autor: Polly Gould

Número de Páginas: 369

Antarctica, that icy wasteland and extreme environment at the ends of the earth, was - at the beginning of the 20th century - the last frontier of Victorian imperialism, a territory subjected to heroic and sometimes desperate exploration. Now, at the start of the 21st century, Antarctica is the vulnerable landscape behind iconic images of climate change. In this genre-crossing narrative Gould takes us on a journey to the South Pole, through art and archive. Through the life and tragic death of Edward Wilson, polar explorer, doctor, scientist and artist, and his watercolours, and through the work of a pioneer of modern anthropology and opponent of scientific racism, Franz Boas, Gould exposes the legacies of colonialism and racial and gendered identities of the time. Antarctica, the White Continent, far from being a blank - and white - canvas, is revealed to be full of colour. Gould argues that the medium matters and that the practices of observation in art, anthropology and science determine how we see and what we know. Stories of exploration and open-air watercolour painting, of weather experiments and ethnographic collecting, of evolution and extinction, are interwoven to raise...

Beyond Sustainable

Autor: Ryan Ludwig

Número de Páginas: 323

Beyond Sustainable discusses the relationship between human-beings and the constructed environments of habitation we create living in the Anthropocene, an increasingly volatile and unpredictable landscape of certain change. This volume accepts that human-beings have reached a moment beyond climatological and ecological crisis. It asks not how we resolve the crisis but, rather, how we can cope with, or adapt to, the irreversible changes in the earth-system by rethinking how we choose to inhabit the world-ecology. Through an examination of numerous historical and contemporary projects of architecture and art, as well as observations in philosophy, ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, neurobiology and psychology, this book reimagines architecture capable of influencing and impacting who we are, how we live, what we feel and even how we evolve. Beyond Sustainable provides students and academics with a single comprehensive overview of this architectural reconceptualization, which is grounded in an ecologically inclusive and co-productive understanding of architecture.

Architecture's Model Environments

Autor: Lisa Moffitt

Número de Páginas: 127

Seen through the distilling lens of the architectural model, Architecture’s Model Environments is a novel and far-reaching exploration of the many dialogues buildings have with their environmental surroundings. Expanding on histories of building technology, the book sheds new light on how physical models conventionally understood as engineering experimentation devices enable architectural design speculation. The book begins with a catalogue of ten original model prototypes – of wind tunnels, water tables and filling boxes – and is the first of its kind to establish an architectural approach to fabricating such environmental models. Subsequent chapters feature three precedent models that have been largely overlooked within the wider oeuvres of their authors: French polymath Étienne-Jules Marey’s 1900-2 wind tunnels, Hungarian-American architects Victor and Aladár Olgyay’s 1955-63 thermoheliodon, and Scottish chemist and building ventilation expert David Boswell ‘The Ventilator’ Reid’s 1844 test tube convection experiments. Moving between historic moments and the present day, between case studies and original prototypes, the book reveals the potent ability for...

4°C Between Me and You

Autor: Philippe Rahm , Sana Frini

Número de Páginas: 0

Scientific studies show that temperatures in France will rise by +4°C by 2100. Its current temperate climate will be transformed into a subtropical one. This book, published for the 3rd biennial of architecture and landscape of Île-de-France, looks southwards, to these already warmer climates, to find models for building architecture in northern latitudes today that can withstand this rising heat. The book begins by thoroughly revisiting pre-air-conditioned architecture found in warm climates through a detailed scientific analysis of 120 distinct vernacular buildings. This comprehensive analysis uncovers the various ingenious strategies these buildings utilize to remain cool and effectively resist both drought and flooding. It then explores the innovative work of approximately forty contemporary architects who are already actively working in these increasingly warmer regions to gain a deeper understanding of how their designs successfully manage heat. The book concludes with a series of thought-provoking essays discussing the future of architecture in the context of global warming, including the important roles of non-human entities and technological agents in addressing the...

Climatic Architecture

Autor: Philippe Rahm

Número de Páginas: 0

This book is about climate and architecture. Written by the Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, it 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, and a theoretical and practical treatise on the art of building atmospheres. Architecture and urbanism were traditionally based on climate and health, as we can read in 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 the architects and urban designer to take back seriously the climatic issue in order to base their design on more consideration to the local climatic context and energy resources. Faced with the climatic challenge of the 21st century, we propose to reset our...

Dysfashional

Autor: Luca Marchetti

Número de Páginas: 152

This book is a brave new fashion project, but rather than exhibiting clothes and styles, Dysfashional explores the broad range of materials and mechanisms that turn fashion into a way of representing personal identity and experience. Staged like a construction site, Dysfashional tackles the seemingly frivolous yet vital realm of fashion, by examining the approaches and perspectives of designers and artists from diverse backgrounds. A dramatic journey into the creative process as center stage. With: Hussein Chalayan, Jean Colonna & Jeff Burton, Hiroaki Ohya, Maison Martin Margiela, Antonio Marras, Grit & Jerszy Seymour, SHOWstudio, Raf Simons, Sissel Tolaas, Gaspard Yurkievich, BLESS, Herms, You Wear It Well, and many more key international designers.

Precisions

Autor: Ákos Moravánszky , Ole W. Fischer

Número de Páginas: 282

"Where is the place of architecture? Closer to the arts or to the sciences? And has there been a shift of this position over the past years due to technological evolution? - The term "precision" serves as a starting point for observing the influence of scientific methods on architecture and art. Well-known authors explore the subject from different angles: from digital design strategies in lightweight construction to filigree architectural projects. Practical examples are flanked by essays on art and architectural theory, which also provide a prospect for the future of digitalization and cybernetics."--BOOK JACKET.

AV monografías

Número de Páginas: 366

El Croquis

Número de Páginas: 520

Natural History of Architecture

Autor: Philippe Rahm

Número de Páginas: 0

Interior Design

Número de Páginas: 680

AC/DC Contemporary Art, Contemporary Design

Autor: Haute école D'art Et De Design (geneva, Switzerland)

Número de Páginas: 286

Over the past few years the debate concerning the traditional relationships between art and design, largely based on a division of ground and on more or less accepted hierarchical relationships, has intensified. New intrigues have built up between art and design, different modalities have to be examined. In this anthology based on a symposium, design specialists such as Paola Antonelli, Anthony Dunne, Alexandra Midal, Rick Poynor, and Alice Rawsthorn, and art specialists such as Paul Ardenne, Diedrich Diederichsen, and Hal Foster, deliver original contributions that enlighten this dialogue between art and design and question the autonomy of each field. Published with Geneva University of Art and Design and Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève.

Territory

Autor: David Gissen

Número de Páginas: 142

Advancing relationships between architecture and nature, this work emphasises the simultaneous production of architectural objects and their surrounding environment. It enables the various geographical patterns, effects, and sensations within architectural and urban experience. It features contributions from geographers, historians, and theorists.

Décosterd & Rahm

Autor: Office Fédéral De La Culture

Número de Páginas: 388

"We emphasize such factors in architecture as materials, structures, space, and light, and their physical effects. We pay attention to the electromagnetic, biological, and chemical interaction between architecture, the environment, and our organism." (Décosterd & Rahm). This book has been published for the exhibition in the Swiss Pavilion at the 8th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2002. The publication documents Décosterd & Rahm ́s contribution to the Biennale, and also investigates their work, their motivation, and philosophy; it also includes essays and critical appraisals of the work of these young architects from Lausanne. After completing their architectural studies in Lausanne Jean-Gilles Décosterd (*1963) and Philippe Rahm (*1967) founded their own office Décosterd & Rahm associés in 1993 with a branch office in Paris.

Arquitectura COAM.

Número de Páginas: 274

The Diagrams of Architecture

Autor: Mark Garcia

Número de Páginas: 328

Since the 1980s, the diagram has become a preferred method for researching, communicating, theorising and making architectural designs, ideas and projects. Thus the rise of the diagram, as opposed to the model or the drawing, is the one of the most significant new developments in the process of design in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Diagrams of Architecture is the first anthology to represent - through texts and diagrams - the histories, theories and futures of architecture through the diagram. Spanning the Pre-historic to the Parametric, Diagrams of Architecture illustrates over 250 diagrams and brings together 26 previously published and newly commissioned essays from leading international academics, architects, theorists and professional experts. These combine to define the past and future of the diagram's discourse. Prefaced with a critical introduction by Mark Garcia, each text investigates a central concept or dimension of the diagram ranging from socio-cultural studies, science, philosophy, technology, CAD/CAM, computing and cyberspace and virtual/digital design to methodology, environment/sustainability and phenomenological, poetic and art architecture; as well...