Al Manakh. (Archis + AMO + Moutamarat)
David Assael
Editores: Rem Koolhaas, Mitra Khoubrou, Ole Bouman
Editor Manager: Arjen Oosterman
Diseño: Irma Boom, Natasha Chandani, Sonja Haller
Formato: 24x17, 500 páginas
Editorial: Archis Foundation
ISBN 978-90-77966-12-9
http://www.archis.org
Volume #12
"The world is running out of places where it can start over." Rem Koolhaas Al Manakh offers a detailed analysis of the history, culture and architecture of The Gulf region including Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah and discusses the implications of the rapid development of these territories for the rest of the world. This is the first time that the unprecedented urban condition of this region has been comprehensively documented from diverse viewpoints and communicated to outside the region. Voices of architects, intellectuals and developers making the Gulf happen are represented in the numerous essays and interviews that accompany this richly illustrated study. Key figures such as, Rem Koolhaas, Ole Bouman, and Thomas Krens give their take on the current situation in The Gulf, along with their predictions for the future of this 'ultimate tabula rasa'.
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Al Manakh was first presented on the occasion of the International Design Forum in Dubai, May 2007
Brauen + Wälchli
Edited by: Heinz Wirz
Contribution: Hubertus Adam
Descriptions of the projects: Christoph Schläppi
76 pages, 22,5 x 29 cm
83 colour and 40 b/w illustrations, 64 plans
Stitched brochure
CHF 48.–/EUR 31.–/£ 19.50/$ 32.–
German/English ISBN 978-3-907631-48-5
http://www.quart.ch
The spirit of quest and research is very prominent in the work of Ueli Brauen and Doris Wälchli, whether in experiments with exterior envelopes, with spacious spatial intersections or with the precise positing and modelling of static elements.
Naturaleza y ciudad.
Planificación urbana y procesos ecológicos
Michael Hough
318 paginas
Rústica
Textos. Español
ISBN: 84-252-1632-X
colección: Arquitectura y Diseño + Ecología
http://www.ggili.com
Naturaleza y ciudad abre un debate sobre el conflicto entre los intereses económicos y tecnológicos que plantea la ciudad moderna en su encuentro con el medio ambiente. Debido al creciente interés por la conservación de la energía, el aumento de la protección de los sistemas naturales y de la conciencia medioambiental, el deseo de mantener un medio ambiente saludable, donde naturaleza y ciudad coexistan se convierte en el tema clave de este libro en una aportación imprescindible al estudio del diseño urbano y su desarrollo, en el intento por parte de las ciudades por ser económicas, medioambientales y socialmente sostenibles.
Colección GGMínima
GGmínima es una nueva colección de ensayos que parte de una premisa propositiva: tratar de incidir directamente sobre el pensamiento contemporáneo a través de textos que, aun siendo breves, tienen una gran intensidad de contenidos. Con el fin de ofrecer al lector la posibilidad de reflexionar sobre temas del pensamiento contemporáneo, GGmínima propone ensayos que o nunca se han traducido al castellano, o se han recogido en publicaciones de difícil acceso. A lo largo de la colección, y gracias a un precio y formato asequibles, se irá construyendo un libro de libros que compilará los momentos más intensos de la cultura arquitectónica y artística actual.
Carmen H. Bordas y Moisés Puente son los editores de la colección.
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From Agit-Prop to Free Space
The Architecture of Cedric Price
Stanley Mathews
352 pages
Paperback,
Illustrations: colour and b/w
25 x 18 cm
http:blackdogonline.com
UK £29.95 | US $45.00
Cedric Price was one of the most visionary architects of the late twentieth century, taking a playful, interactive approach to his projects that was wholly lateral and completely unconventional. From Agit-Prop to Free Space is the first and only authoritative text on the early work of this visionary architect and thinker.
Jørn Utzon.
Obras y proyectos
Jaime Ferrer Forés
colección: Obras y Proyectos
306 pp, 20 x 14 cm
Rústica
english/español
ISBN: 978−84−252−2060−9
Precio: 17.31 €
La trayectoria del arquitecto danés Jørn Utzon (Copenhague, 1918) fluye sobre dos convicciones esenciales: la construcción y el paisaje. Sobre ellas levanta, con la tradición material del maestro constructor, una arquitectura que concilia la sabiduría de la arquitectura vernácula con las construcciones de la Antigüedad y que tiene, en la elocuencia plástica de las cáscaras de la Ópera de Sídney, una de las edificaciones más destacadas del siglo XX. El itinerario profesional se inicia con un período que tiende progresivamente los proyectos al terreno del paisaje; la segunda etapa se caracteriza por los hallazgos formales y constructivos de las plataformas masivas y las cubiertas leves; mientras que en el tercer período, desarrolla, con la denominada arquitectura aditiva, la síntesis de geometría, modulación y producción estandarizada, que alcanza en los refugios insulares en Mallorca el reconocimiento internacional a una trayectoria tenaz y lírica. Jaime J. Ferrer Forés (Palma de Mallorca, 1975) es arquitecto por la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (2000), doctor arquitecto (2006), profesor en formación en el departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos desde 2000 y becario del Ministerio de Educación para la Formación del Profesorado Universitario (2001−2005).
In Detail: Housing for People of All Ages
flexible, unrestricted, senior-friendly
Schittich, Christian (Ed.)
Series: In Detail (english)
2007
176 pages
Dust jacket
427 illus., 179 in color.
ISBN: 978-3-7643-8119-6
http://www.birkhauser.ch
Communal living, intergenerational living, living for families, handicap-accessible living, living and working, living and leisure time – the wide variety of current demands is shaping future concepts in housing, which will have to do justice to the needs of our increasingly multilayered society. The examples in this new volume in the In Detail series are correspondingly diverse. From the demand for stroller- and wheelchairaccessible housing through facilities that accommodate the needs of senior citizens all the way to the modernization of existing buildings, the selection of projects offers a panoramic overview. Organized thematically, In Detail: Integrated Housing highlights a variety of well-defined topics, such as handicap-accessibility and flexibility of use, and presents them together with explanatory technical articles and examples of realized projects. In closing, it provides addresses of information centers and associations as well as sources of additional information.
Excepto 16. Picadodeblas.
Geometría, escala y color
72 páginas
Rústica
Textos: Inglés/Español
ISBN: 978-84-96656-32-1
http://www.ggili.com
Excepto es una ublicación de carácter monográfico y periodicidad bimestral que muestra argumentos de trabajo de estudios de arquitectura madrileños ea! ediciones de arquitectura (Fundación COAM)
Signage Design Manual
Edo Smitshuijzen
456 pages
Hardcover
Illustrations: b/w
ISBN 978-3-03778-096-1 english
16 x 26 cm
http://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com
Lars Müller Publishers
In an entertaining and straightforward way, Edo Smitshuijzen’s Signage Design Manual leads the reader step by step through the individual phases of signal design. More than nine hundred illustrations guide him or her through this demanding process. Both in-depth and comprehensive, this book is a unique publication. It not only contains information on traditional methods, design questions, and materials, but even touches on future developments, such as navigational aids for mobile devices and other futuristic equipment. The combination of wide coverage and precise, detailed information makes this book accessible to a broad spectrum of readers, from information and graphic designers to design students and professionals of every stripe who are involved with signal design on any level. With the publication of Smitshuijzen’s Signage Design Manual, the canon of signaletics finally has its own engaged textbook.
Spacefighter
The Evolutionary City (Game:)
MVRDV, Delft School of Design
Edited by: Winy Maas, DSD
300 pages
Softcover
Illustrations: Color and Duotone
Texts: English
ISBN: English [978-84-96540-73-6]
15 x 21 cm.
29.00 €
http://www.actar.es
Directed by Winy Maas of MVRDV, Space Fighter presents the Evolutionary City by the Action Space! studio. An ambitious project to create a new ‘simulator’ tool for both urban planners and project managers alike. The journey begins with evolution, Darwin’s phenotypes and the realms of biology, sociology, and economics. Pumped by evolution's magic, the studio delves into game theory, synthesizing a set of games modeled on diverse aspects of the city - from the practicality of a building developer’s tasks to the intangible social aspects of a city.
An MVRDV/DSD project in collaboration with the Berlage Institute, MIT and cThrough.
To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans
Eric Jenkins
240 pages
Hardback / Paperback
Texts: English
ISBN: 9780415954013
US4
www.routledge.com/builtenvironment
How big is Moscow’s Red Square in comparison to Tiananmen Square? Why are there less public squares in Japan than in Italy? What lessons might be found in the plan of Savannah, Georgia’s historic district?
To Scale is a collection of plans of urban spaces drawn at the same scale to help answer these and other questions by providing a single and accurate resource of urban plans for architects, urban designers, planners and teachers and students in these fields.
The book contains one hundred figure-ground plans from seventy-eight cities around the world, describing an identical area (half a kilometer square) for each urban space. Accompanying each plan are photographs, diagrams and text that illustrate essential aspects of the plan or urban space for the designer. Rather than purely historical description, the text explores those lessons that might be found in the urban condition.
This compilation is an excellent resource helping to visualize, compare and reconceptualize urban design for those wanting to understand the lessons of existing cities and the making of urban spaces.
Eric J. Jenkins is Asóciate Profesor and Assistant Dean in the School of Architure and Planning at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC, where the teachers design, analytical sketching and research methodologies.
Tránsitos de la forma
Enrique de Teresa
223 páginas
Rústica
Ilustraciones en b/n y color
Texto en castellano
ISBN 978-84-931388-1-3
24x22 cm.
2007
editorial: http://www.arquia.es
Arquithesis 22
“Tránsitos de la forma" analiza diversas obras de Le Corbusier, James Stirling y Álvaro Siza, incidiendo en algunos aspectos críticos que las vinculan a una determinada tradición moderna dominada por la poderosa presencia del arquitecto suizo. Se trata de ver cómo esa influencia es recogida por Stirling y Siza, de manera diversa, y cómo mantienen la vitalidad de dicha tradición.
Visualizing Density (Book)
Campoli, Julie and Alex S. MacLean
160 pages
Paperback
Texts: English
ISBN 978-155844-171-2
Inventory ID 171-2
Publication Date: February 2007
http://www.lincolninst.edu
The American Dream of a single-family home on its own expanse of yard still captures the imagination. But with 100 million more people expected in the United States by 2050, rising energy and transportation costs, disappearing farmland and open space, and the clear need for greater energy efficiency and reduced global warming emissions, the future built environment must include more density.
Consumer demand for more walkable, mixed-use, and concentrated neighborhoods is already on the rise among some demographic groups—the 70 million retiring baby boomers, for example, and young professionals seeking transit-oriented development for shorter commutes. But for others, density continues to have negative connotations. In many established urban neighborhoods, concerns about traffic congestion and parking, and strains on infrastructure, schools, and parks have led to resistance to more concentrated settlement patterns. Into this context, landscape architect and land planner Julie Campoli and aerial photographer Alex S. MacLean have joined forces with the Lincoln Institute to create a full-color, richly illustrated book to help planners, designers, public officials, and citizens better understand, and better communicate to others, the concept of density as it applies to the residential environment.
Visualizing Density includes an essay on the density challenge facing the United States, an illustrated manual on planning and designing for “good” density, and a catalog of more than 250 diverse neighborhoods across the country, noting density in housing units per acre for each site. Four photographs of each location are included—close-up, context, neighborhood, and plan views—to provide an impartial and comparative view of the many ways to design neighborhoods.
This book grew out of a series of Lincoln Institute courses of the same name taught by Campoli and MacLean since 2003. Participants in those classes shared many stories of concentrated developments rejected outright or forced to reduce the number of housing units. The authors concluded there was a clear need for a better way to present density to the public.
For many Americans density is associated with ugliness, crowding, and congestion, even though it can be shown that, when properly planned and designed, higher density can save land, energy, and dollars. Moreover, many people have difficulty estimating density from visual cues or distinguishing quantitative (measured) and qualitative (perceived) density. We tend to overestimate the density of monotonous, amenity-poor developments and underestimate the density of well-designed, attractive projects, thereby reinforcing the negative stereotypes. A primary objective of this work is to correct these misperceptions. As Campoli stated at the Massachusetts Smart Growth Conference in Worcester, Massachusetts in December, “We don’t have a density problem. We have a design problem.”
Bill McKibben, scholar in residence at Middlebury College in Vermont and author of Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future(Times Books, 2007) and The End of Nature (Random House, 2006), said that Visualizing Density “makes an abstract concept—density—completely real and easy to understand, to feel. Planning board members, town zoning officials, or anyone charged with figuring out the vexing future of our physical landscape will profit from reading it, and find pleasure, too.”