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A case study that analyzes the relationship between ideas and houses, this book focuses on 100 years of housing projects in Mexico: from the space that lies between bedrooms to that of streets and of society itself; from the space that first appears as a graphic representation to its ultimate role in defining our cities.This book questions the common tools used to conceive and represent housing projects. It attempts to collate the discourses of different authors in order to trace the meaning of privacy within shared structures. The global phenomenon of massive urbanization that originated in Latin America manifested itself in Mexico at an unseen scale and has since been a testing ground for novel housing and urban solutions. The geographic, social, and economic diversity of Mexico constitute a prime example of the challenges inherent to meeting individual needs in an increasingly crowded world. The drawings and essays comprise new ways of looking at theories and buildings in order to redefine the connection between housing and the city.

This book explores the public dimension of architecture. In circumstances that are often difficult, buildings add value to their locations, transforming them.This book takes a new look at the eclectic work of Dominique Coulon; his production of public buildings illustrates the complexity of his architectural approach.Dominique Coulon plays with context, light, and materiality to produce public places that are detailed and welcoming. The areas he proposes affect and accompany the body. His architecture is part of a dynamic relationship, mobilizing the senses to propose a specific universe, which may be cheerful, or dramatic. These spaces serve the public dimension of his architecture.The writing of Dominique Coulon & Associes, nominated twice for the Mies van der Rohe award, reflects the agencys work in connection with different contextual postures and the construction of complex spatial relationships."

Mute Icons challenges fixed aesthetic notions of beauty in architecture as both, disciplinary discourse and a spatial practice within the public realm, by intersecting historic antecedents and present instances within contemporary projects wherein indeterminacy, monolithicity and defamiliarization play a speculative role in constructing withdrawn, irritant and yet engaging architectural images.No longer concerned with narrative excesses or with the "shock and awe" of sensation making; the mute icon becomes intriguing in its deceptive indifference towards context, perplexing in its unmitigated apathy towards the body. Object and building, absolute and unstable, anticipated and strange, manifest and withdrawn, such is the dichotomy of mute icons. Dwelling in the paradox between silence and sign and aiming to debunk a false dichotomy between critical discourse, a pursue of formal novelty and the attainment of social ethics, Mute Icons reaffirms the cultural need and socio-political relevance of the architectural image, suggesting a much-needed resolution to the present but incorrect antagonism between formal innovation, social responsibility and economic austerity. Intersecting relevant historical antecedents and polemic theoretical speculations with original design concepts and provocative representations of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S recent work, the book aspires to stimulate authentic speculations on the real.

Proyectar de algún modo sería conocer el proceso en que está inmerso el desarrollo de nuestro mundo en torno y las teorías formuladas a lo largo de la historia no otra cosa que aproximaciones para entenderlo.Pensando de este modo, no es extraño que utilicemos con frecuencia como piedra de toque la realidad del pasado. La historia se convierte asi en algo capaz de incorporarse operativamente a nuestra investigacion, con la enorme ventaja de permitir la observacion de los hechos con una distancia que indudablemente actua como filtro que los aclara.Conviene pues destacar la importancia en cuanto a instrumento didactico que la historia supone; mas aun si tenemos en cuenta que forzosamente la historia interfiere cualquier obra de arquitectura en cuanto que cualquier paisaje esta hoy manipulado, y se nos presenta como algo artificial, como algo cargado de historia.

Esta publicación propone al lector visitar el mundo doméstico de la modernidad. Una visita que hace emerger una nueva modernidad todavía por descubrir, a la espera de quien quiere lograr su tiempo próximo. Estas nueve visitas logran la atractiva invitación al redescubrimiento de una domesticidad oculta tras tanta celebración de fin de siglo, desde las exposiciones de vivienda de los años 20 en Alemania hasta los laboratorios domésticos en la arquitectura japonesa. Un descubrimiento que logra en su pequeña escala el conocimiento de una nueva forma de dar habitación y con ella habitar el mundo entero.

La presente edición, recoge un significativo numero de obras muy heterogéneas entre sí pero que reflejan perfectamente la realidad actual. Una selección en el que lógicamente no están reseñadas por cuestiones de espacio todas aquellas obras que deberian estarlo, pero que por ello, y por la indudable calidad de todas ellas, reivindican ser escuchadas.Una obra que sirve como excelente punto de partida en el viaje realizado por algunas de las obras mas destacables entre las construidas en los ultimos años, y que nos muestra las nuevas imagenes de la arquitectura. Una seleccion de estudios y trabajos distingidos con premios de arquitectura nacionales e internacionales:ESTUDIO RIPOLLTIZON:PREMIO CIUTAT DE PALMA,PREMIO ARQUITECTURA DE MALLORCA, PREMIO NAN, APLUS,HECTOR ELORZA:PREMIO ENOR, BIGMAT Y ATEG, MADRID,PREMIO LOUIS POULSEN, COPENHAGUE, AR+D, INGLATERRA,MAGEN ARQUITECTOS:PREMIO GARCIA MERCADAL, PREMIO ARQUITECTURA MEDITERRANEA,PREMIO NAN Y BAUWELT,FRAN SILVESTRE ARQUITECTOS:PREMIO COACV COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA,MHK AWARD, BERLIN, GERMAN DESIGN RED D,los proyectos que se muestran tiene un fuerte caracter practico y docente, tienen en comun que han sido realizados por arquitectos jovenes, que combinan la practica con la docencia y la investigacion, en las Escuelas de Arquitectura de Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona y Zaragoza, contiene una gran cantidad de informacion grafica, maquetas, dibujos, planos, detalles constructivos, mostrada a traves de una excelente fotografia. Seleccion de trabajos publicados a todo color e impresos sobre papel estucado semimate de 180 gramos, mostrados con todo lujo de detalles, con mas de 200 ilustraciones, entre fotografias y planos, 120 paginas de detalles constructivos, secciones, plantas, fotografias a doble pagina, una excelente edicion en rustica encuadernada y cosida con hilo, con una cubierta resistente, plastificada con dobles solapas y retractilada.

A selection of architecture, landscape and urbanism works from aldayjover | architecture and landscape, an office based in Barcelona, Spain and Virginia in the United States. A collection of projects -- designed from their local and territorial DNA -- that respond in new ways to the global socio-ecological crisis in which we have been in engaged with since the beginning of the 21st century. Featured works include public spaces, architecture and urban studies that incorporate natural dynamics and that also emphasize -- recovering in some cases -- legal access among all citizens and equal access to the city and its opportunities. The works presented are particularly renowned given their leadership role in a new approach to the relationship between cities and rivers, in which natural dynamics become part of the public space, eliminating the effect of catastrophe.

Emergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena. These processes have come to define our contemporary understanding of the nature of becoming, which stands in contrast to established notions of architectural design and authorship. The design research of Roland Snooks is a speculation on the relationship between emergent processes of formation and architectural design intention, and explores the strange specificity of an architecture that is drawn out of this interaction. This research operates within a larger architectural and cultural concern for complex systems and their role in algorithmic design processes..The original methodological territory carved out from this larger milieu is the articulation of a design process in which architectural intention is embedded within emergent processes.

Starting from Radical research to contemporary design, the book collects Andrea Branzi´s work about the relationship city-design.

These title is a resulting work of the Mies Crown Hall americas Prize (MCHAP) emerge, given to the firm Pezo von Ellrichshausen for their Poli House

Modern Architecture articulated itself in specific centers of propulsion, revision and critique during the 20th century. The case of Milan is exemplary:terragni anbd Razionalismo, the reconstruction (Ponti, Rogers, Moretti, Viganó, etc..)the Tendenza of Rossi, product design, up to the current research. MCM traces this history from several contributors´points of view.

Focused on post-labor,psychopathology, and plasticity of human mind and body, this book introduces insight, critiques and propositions in the area of "self-design" ranging from design and architecture to science, media, history, philosophy, and contemporary art.

Architecture in Effect # 2 is a substantial collection of essays emerging from the Swedish research environement of the same name.

Geostories is a manifesto on the environmental imagination presented in architectural projects that engage the planetary scale with a commitment to drawings as medium. In 12 geographic fictions, the book invites critical and speculative engagements of humanitys relations to earth and technology

In May 2015, Studio Link-Arc completed its most prominent work to date, the China Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015. The project was China´s first free-standing Expo Pavilion outside of its own borders.

In defense of a new architectonic logic, Manuel Gausa explores a pioneer decade of decisive experiences in the turn of the millennium.Focusing on the mapping of the contemporary project and city in the turn of the millennium, this book explores the capacity of links between dynamic systems and irregular structures. Manuel Gausa defends a new underlying architectonic logic (spatial-temporal in conception) that has emerged within current culture of the informational age. In accordance with a shared terrain of inquiry, which represents a series of decisive experiences from the past twenty years, this new logic can be considered an advanced ''logic of complexity''.

Twisted documents and explores an eleven-story garment factory building in Shantou, China, for the fashion label Lafayette 148. The book presents the building as an artifact of architecture, with detailed documentation of images and drawings. The book also presents essays that offer a series of distinct but interrelated responses to the many questions that arise when building a garment factory facility in contemporary China. Issues addressed range from the architectural import of the building typology, to the ecological footprint of a factory, to social and architectural concerns regarding labor as well as construction practices, to the ethics and aesthetics of factory building.

The possible Mediums book will present a diverse collection of texts, drawings, and images from invited contributors. Five chapters-Histories, Figures, Objects, Parts, and Projections- group together contributors with related interests and frame the books content in relation to contemporary topics of interest.