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MCHAP: The Americas brings together leading architects and academics in a dialogue exploring the current state of architecture throughout the Americas and analyzes themes raised by the seven finalist projects (designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Alvaro Siza, Steven Holl Architects, OMA/ LMN Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus, Smiljan Radi, Cristian Undurraga, Rafael Iglesia) from the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize recognizing the best built works in the Americas from 2000 through 2013.

Les architectes construisent dans et pour un système non seulement pathologique mais toxique, qui détruit la terre. Nous clairement au bout de ce qui reste possible dans cette écologie

English Monograph, with translation at the end of the book in Spanish, French and italian.The book talks about the design and construction of the building 774 at CERN( European Organization for Nuclear Research) . The building 774 is a unique building both for its architectural value and for its location. Located in front of of the CCC (Control Center) at CERN is the main door of more than 100,000 tourists come visiting CERN each year.

Issue 10 of the Cornell Journal of Architecture will collect a spectrum of specters from the phenomenal to the digital, and question the role and the possibilities of the spirit in architecture today.In distilling, the small amount of alcohol evaporated during the aging process is known as the angels share. at is, while lost to us, the alcohol does not cease to exist, but instead is given to or taken by the angels.Architectures own angels sharethe notion of an absent and intangible otherhas too been personi ed. From Genius Loci to Zeitgeist, the gure of the spirit is perhaps the most fundamental component of architecture, even before walls or columns. Whether phenomenal or conceptual, without this ickering spirit, one might say, there is no architecture. As technology enables the virtual realm to be inhabited in more everyday ways, the notion of another kind of spirit becomes more present yet more blurred. e digital, as architectures alternate and now ickering specter, skirmishes with architectures existing ghosts.

Architects build in and for a system that is not only pathological, but toxic. It is ruining the only planet we have, and we are clearly at the end of what is still possible within this ecology.The architecture presented in this book is a form of resistance one which actively engages in the societies and territories it is inscribed in and which presents an antidote to the accelerating banalization of our everyday environments. The search for singularity is not a search for formal distinction or a fetishism of the architectural object, but instead the desire to inscribe oneself into a unique territory and moment in time.

Landscape Tunings maintains that landscape is more than ecology and technical performance; it is also an environment of paramount importance to ones dispositions and wellbeingan emotional space of social relevance, tuned with and for its communities. In this book, OFICINAA examines the design potentials of the Danube River as a civic anchor, a bioclimatic medium, and a space for collective imagination in the city of Ingolstadt, Germany.

Barcelona Masala documents an innovative educational design project conducted in the Raval district of Barcelona over a three-year period. Winchester School of Art and the Elisava, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering have formulated a series of workshops that have challenged design students to develop inter and transdisciplinary methods and strategies of working applied to the changing needs of an urban community in Barcelona. The projects and associated workshops were conducted to promote cultural understanding and exchange while developing dialogues between the Asian immigrant population of the Raval and the wider city in a period of time that the Raval has transformed through migratory change. This publication looks at how design activism and social engagement could contribute to better understanding of peoples and societies within the context of the globalised urban situation. Essays from Spanish historians, anthropologists, artists and designers that locate this project within a framework of history, cultural change, social politics and contemporary visual arts/design. Three separate workshops/projects are documented here instigated by Ed D Souza from Winchester School of Art in the UK in collaboration with Daniel Cid at the Spanish Design School Elisava in Barcelona.

Clinical means "relating to a clinic", but also "based on observation of an individual. It also means "analytical".

SOUPERgreen!--Souped Up Green Architecture features projects and essays that offer a critique of the prevailing approach to "green" architecture by interrogating the architectural discipline's fairly narrow expectations for "environmental performance," which are predominantly evaluated through scientific calculation and quantifiable measurement. In contrast, SOUPERgreen! re-examines the very nature of the environment as a human construct rather than a given condition--as a manifestation of philosophy's long-recognized epistemological gap between reality and its appearance. The book therefore addresses the manner in which the constructed nature of the environment both problematizes the assumption of humanity's ability to objectively calculate and measure it, and also leads to habits and behaviors that are detrimental to the environment. It also argues that aesthetic "performances" are necessary to reveal new forms of environmental engagement, and that architecture's unique aesthetic and spatial expertise might therefore be leveraged for valuable types of environmental performances that profoundly alter, enhance, and transform the public's understanding of and actions toward the environment.

An unique guiding model that seeks to adress the relationship between the economic meldown and the built environment in Iceland using ecological approaches.After a period of extraordinary economic growth at the turn of the twenty-first century, the economy of Iceland collapsed into the deepest and most rapid peacetime fiscal crisis ever recorded. Seeing the development of the capital area through the lens of scarcity, triggered new urban and regional questions and ecological approaches to design. This book considers both the crash and its aftermath as an opportunity to distil an intense snapshot of how ecological and human systems are interrelated, and how different ways of wiring those systems might lead to better and more resilient solutions. This publication derives from a case study on the built environment in the Reykjavik capital area in the light of the financial meltdown in October 2008. It is the work of the participants in the case study and a number of invited contributors from different fields; researchers, artists and activists that offer different perspectives on the case. The case study is a part of a larger European project, Scarcity and Creativity in the built Environment (SCIBE), funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). The work presented suggests a new spirit of development applicable to various cultures and climates beyond Iceland.

El rumor del río Darro, el goteo de una fuente, el sinuoso discurrir de las acequias y el murmullo de los aljibes, es lo que invade al visitante cuando pasea en una tranquila mañana de invierno por la ciudad de Granada. Dispongamos nuestros pasos hacia la Alhambra, recorramos sus palacios y jardines, caminemos por las empedradas calles del Albayzin, o nos detengamos a contemplar el fluir de los rios Darro y Genil, el agua no nos abandona, siempre esta ahi, constate, incesante, con su sonido embriagador. Susurros de agua, murmullos que sin cesar y sin que seamos conscientes siquiera, nos relatan la historia de la ciudad de Granada. Dado que en cada una de sus acequias, aljibes, fuentes y rios, se encuentra el origen mismo de esta muchas veces idealizada ciudad, consideramos que la arquitectura del agua es uno de los mejores medios para conocer la realidad de la tantas veces evocada mad nat Gran a. Analizada en diversas ocasiones, la historia de Granada dentro del mundo andalusi, sigue siendo a dia de hoy todo un enigma por descubrir. Buen ejemplo de ello, es la Granada almohade, un episodio olvidado, como el discurrir del agua en las vidas de los granadinos, algo tan cotidiano, tan comun, pero a la vez tan oculto e interiorizado, que es casi ignorado. Pero que para el visitante, es el agradable sonido de Granada

The architects Saavedra and Díaz-Llanos produced a marvelous adaptation of the architectural style to the environment without compromising its essence.

Form follows function. There has never been a more seductive dictum in the history of architecture. In The Function of Form, internationally acclaimed architect Farshid Moussavi provides a provocative critique of the historically opposing relationship between function and form to reveal the contradiction at the heart of modernism. We need to move away from the defunition of function as utility, she argues, to align it with how function is defined in mathematics, biology or music. Form, on the other hand, should be considered not only in the way buildings are produced, but also how they perform sensorially.

Ce livre analyse plusieurs projets de Rem Koolhaas dont Exodus, New York Délire, La villa Dall'Ava et Euralille. Koolhaas cherche a faire évoluer les meilleurs aspects de l'architecture moderne. Il brise l'autorité esthétique moderniste. Il récupère les formes abstraites par l'emploi de techniques figuratives comme l'allégorie, le montage, le cadavre exquis... Je montre comment, dans l'œuvre de Koolhaas, l'abstraction est devenue figure de la modernité et la modernité figure de la métropole.

MADE BY THE OFFICE FOR METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF DESIGN

OFFICE FOR METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE

Conarquitectura ediciones edita el catálogo de la exposición HINCHABLES, la Galería. Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño español, se presenta una colección ecléctica de proyectos de distintas escalas, con distintos objetivos, realizados desde diferentes partes del mundo pero con un denominador común: el uso del aire como clave estructural, temática y elemento generador.

"Siguiendo las teorías de Christopher Alexander y basado en profundos conocimientos matemáticos y científicos, Salíngaros explica la raíz de las formas y su impacto psicológico, expone las proporciones de la arquitectura, desentraña la escala universal subyacente a las estructuras que consideramos vivas y muestra los avances de las neurociencias en el estudio de la relacion del ser humano con el ambiente construido. Tambien aporta una critica de la vanguardia arquitectonica actual, enredada en alambicadas discusiones academicas sin verdadero apoyo teorico.Asi, reintroduce al ser humano en la naturaleza, se ocupa de su configuracion fisiologica y psicologica (o espiritual), dando al lector una perspectiva completa y refrescante que cambiara para siempre su vision sobre la arquitectura."

Into the Great Wide Open is a book about a search for a form of practice in architecture. Practice here is understood both as a critical reflection of a status quo and its history, as well as forms of (active) intervention through designing and planning. The book is a fragmentary snapshot of an on going, constantly developing and altering process to find a place in the production and reflection of our built environment, and implicitly disputes the question: What is to be done?

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.