Bøger i Architectural Design serien

Envisioning a positive future through design 2050: Designing Our Tomorrow describes the ways in which architecture and design can engage with the key drivers of change and provide affirmative aspirations for a not-so distant future.

Latin America at the Crossroads explores current urban design strategies within the historic urban context as Latin America stands on the precipice of globalization, and the opportunity to once again undergo major change.

Transgression will explore the idea that those working on and beyond the architectural periphery can make a positive impact on the mainstream.

Advancing new relationships between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production ofarchitectural objects and their surrounding environment.

The special issue gathers a range of creative and provocative contributions to examine the urban impact of trauma. These contributions go beyond architecture's agency as a reflex action in disaster response to probe the wider disciplinary and practical questions of design in the aftermath.

China is undergoing a process of unprecedented urbanisation, with cities often being built from scratch in just three to five years. It is projected that 400 new cities will be built over the next 20 years with newly urbanised populations of over 240 million.

This book studies the social, political, and practical implications of the architectural celebrations for the Millennium worldwide. It investigates why the event is seen as an excuse for regeneration and revitalization of the built environment.

If the 20th century can be characterised by theories and manifestoes, which emanated across every sphere of life from politics to the fine arts, the beginning of the 21st century can be distinguished by its very break from theory.

Practical, technical and topical, this new title from Architectural Design brings together contributions on all aspects of housing around the world: from design solutions to the focus on technical and cultural approaches to affordable innovation in housing design Housing for the people.

Closing the Gap brings together a group of academics, architects, engineers and construction managers each engaged in the use of Building Information Models in the actualization -- from design to construction -- of complex building projects.

Digital Cities looks at the impact of digital technologies on the design and analysis of cities, and how they might be used to help architects and designers operate at the urban scale, and design cities in a new way. Brings together work from established designers and theorists with work from emerging young talent and exciting new voices.

Pattern-making is ubiquitous in both the natural and manmade world. The human propensity for pattern recognition and fabrication is innate. Encompassing the historical, vernacular and parametric, this title explores the creation, materialisation and theorisation of some of the world's most significant and spectacularly patterned spaces.

Architextiles explores the links between architectural and urban design and fashion and textile design. Focussing on fashion and textile design's potential for architectural design, this issue explores the intersections of research and practice within these disciplines.

Exploring how today;s most compelling design is emerging from new forms of collaborative practice and modes of collective intelligence, this title of AD engages two predominant phenomena: design's relationship with new information and telecommunication technologies, and new economies of globalisation.

Versatility & Vicissitude progresses the discussions initiated by the earlier two titles of AD ( Emergence , May 2004, and Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design , March 2006) further by placing the spotlight on performance and interaction with natural ecologies.

Programming Cultures explores the relationship between software engineering and the various disciplines that benefit from new codes and programming tools. The title focuses on a range of practices including: aviation design, urban infrastructure simulation, Hollywood special effects, nanotechnology, mathematics and architecture.

The illusive and uncertain world of translating ideas into matter is a negotiation between the ideal and the real and a central preoccupation of architectural production. By invading the toolbox of digital fabrication, design has transgressed into protocols of manufacturing previously the domain of other disciplines and skills sets.

Food and the City makes the relationships between food and the city visible by exploring both the ways in which buying and eating food have become such a significant part of urban public life, and the ways in which design supports and enhances the place of food in the city.

We are at a new moment in architecture, one when many cultures are contributing to the unfolding of modernism. This enriching influence is broadening the mix, extending the range available to architecture, of materials and colours, of evocative forms, of cultural references and of social thinking.

The 1970s was marked by a seismic change that occurred in the representation of ideas in architecture as they appeared monthly on the pages of Architectural Design.

For both students and educators, Back to School presents outlines of every major topic in architectural education, as well as interviews with influential educators and prominent figures such as Rem Koolhaas and Paul Virilio.

Emergence is an important new concept in artificial intelligence, information theory, digital technology, economics, climate studies, material science and biometric engineering. It is a development which is set to inform not only the construction of buildings, but also the composition of new materials.

Explores the onslaught of accurate digital metrology tools in large - and small-scale 3-D scanning and 3-D modelling. This book examines the capabilities of advanced technologies in design production through their impact on design theory, practice and greater levels of collaboration between design and manufacturing.