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The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that foster a sense of place and well being

This book reviews Dante Bini¿s inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction systems. Dante Bini¿s double profile of architect and builder underpins the narrative of the entire book. It is used to analyse the evolution of the early reinforced-concrete Binishell patent into a variety of automated construction systems based on the use of air. Dante Bini has always been quite proactive in promoting his work and disseminating the results of his experimentations and achievements via journal articles, conference presentations and public talks; promotional brochures in multiple languages were also prepared to export and license his patents in various countries, from Italy to the Americas and Australia. Despite this, a rigorous study of Dante Bini¿s work is still unavailable, and the relevance of this figure to contemporary architecture has yet to be discussed comprehensively. This book fills in this gap and arrives at the right time: during the last two decades, there has been an exponential interest in shell and spatial structures, particularly concerning the use of complex geometries and innovative construction techniques.This book will be of interest to academics in architectural design, theory and construction history, and practitioners and students interested in expanding their knowledge in the design and construction of shell and spatial structures.

The AA Book: On Location highlights the agendas and practices that have intersected both physically and metaphorically throughout the Architectural Association (AA) during the 2022-23 academic year. The publication features hundreds of projects by students from every unit and programme within the school, which together document the plurality of agendas explored, interests developed, approaches tested and questions posed and addressed by our community this year.

EVERYONE HAS SOME "BROAD PLACE" of FREEDOM THEY YEARN TO ESCAPE TO, if only in daydreams. The author tells how Cape Cod was such a place for him growing up in the 1950s, when not every bay was lined with mansions and the woods and marshes still had a touch of wildness to them. What the author was escaping is only hinted at first, but crescendos to a near-madness of intellectual hubris. His salvation story is laced with observations on architecture and landscape, struggles between Tradition and Modernity, and many sharp "edges" of "progress" his life has spanned. You'll meet his Uncle Frank, a gifted designer of custom automobile bodies struggling for his art in an increasingly mass-production age. He engages with another uncle, a Christian Scientist, over biblical truth. Another chapter honors the author's late friend, Rev. Paul Anderson, who turned down a fashionable call, to preach in less glamorous Fall River-the "least Bible-minded" city in America-and the high price he paid for faithfulness. Besides evocations of Cape Cod and Boston, anyone who likes Melville's Moby-Dick (a fitting touchstone for the author's observations) and the novels of Charles Dickens will find things to enjoy along the way. Emil Heller Henning III was born and raised between Boston, Mass. and Baltimore, Md. He earned a master's degree in architecture, served three years in the Army Corps of Engineers, and has worked for architects in the Carolinas, starting his own practice in 2002. He became a Christian in 1977 (as told herein) and is an elder at his church. He wrote a book about Ezekiel's Temple Vision (Xulon Press, 2013) and has a second book on it in preparation (2023).

In this book, Jeanne Gang, one of America's most distinguished contemporary architects, proposes applying the plant cultivation technique of grafting to architecture and urban design as a way of rethinking adaptive reuse and combatting climate change. Grafting is the process of connecting two separate living plants-one old and one new-so they can grow and thrive as one. This ancient practice continues to be performed today in search of more fruitful, palatable, and resilient varieties of plants. Grafting is also a useful paradigm for how architecture can address climate change on a broadly impactful scale by reusing and expanding older structures. Addressing both the environmental and cultural value of reuse, Gang shows how the concept of grafting can inform architecture across many scales, provoking the imagination and shaping tectonic, programmatic, formal, and regenerative adaptations.

The term "performance," as used in 1955 by the British philosopher of language John L. Austin, refers to processual, "performative" aspects that take center-stage instead of rigid states and fixed norms. It has found its way into the most diverse areas of science and technology and has recently also appeared in the architectural context. Performance has long been a recurring topic also in the design and research work of Zurich-based architecture firm Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin (EMI). This is particularly visible in the award-winning design for a tourist infrastructure on the eastern ridge of the Jungfrau in the Swiss Alps (2012), in the temporary installation Anthropomorphic Form for the Swiss Art Awards (2019), and in the residential building on Stampfenbachstrasse in Zurich (2022). Their own work is a catalyst for EMI's deeper engagement with performance, now set forth in this book. Texts by the firm's founding partner Elli Mosayebi and by Joseph Schwartz, Laurent Stalder, and Nina Zschocke, all of whom also teach at ETH Zürich's Department of Architecture, as well as artistic and documentary photographs, plans, and drawings, illuminate the phenomenon from the different perspectives of architectural practice, theory of architecture, and structural engineering.

Anyone concerned with the history, tradition, and culture of our built environment will sooner or later come across the term 'Public Humanities'. At the interface between academe and the media-oriented culture industry, Public Humanities is established as a field of inquiry in the US and is increasingly becoming so in Europe too.Whether this field of research remains a product of Western culture will only become apparent in the coming years. However, linking architectural debate with the humanities is an important concern of the papers collected here.These essays on architectural theory provide academic food for thought while encouraging reflection on the discipline of architecture and stimulating urban design in the twenty-first century. The lectures collected here are from a class on Public Humanities at Brown University.

Seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 2015 hat das Centre for Research Architecture (CRA) Goldsmiths, Uni-versity of London, eine bunt gemischte Gruppe von Architekt·innen, Künstler·innen, Urbanist·innen,Geograf·innen, Jurist·innen, Naturwissenschaftler·innen, Journalist·innen und Aktivist·innen ver-sammelt, um Forschungsmethodiken und investigative Techniken zu entwickeln, mit denen sichdie zeitgenössische Raumpolitik adressieren lässt. Die Leser·innen der CRA-Reihe sind eingeladen,an diesem sich stetig weiterentwickelnden pädagogischen Zusammenhang teilzuhaben.Militant Media, der zweite Band der Reihe, widmet sich den ethischen und politischen Implikationenvon Medien und Technologie in zeitgenössischen Kämpfen und Konflikten. Reflektiert wird auch dieveränderte Rolle von Medien in Justiz- und Menschenrechtskampagnen, wobei ein breites Spektrumvon Themen untersucht wird - vom Einsatz von Bildern in Kampagnen bis hin zur potenziellen Be-weiskraft digitaler Materialien in einer Untersuchung. Vielfältige Beiträge zeigen, wie Medien undTechnologie Handlungsmacht und Kontrolle ermöglichen, zugleich aber auch einschränken können.Neben kritischen und theoretischen Betrachtungen präsentiert Militant Media eine Vielzahl praxis-basierter Projekte, die widerständige Formen der Repräsentation und neue ästhetische Strategienund Tools entwickelt haben. All diese Beiträge zielen darauf, bestehende Machtstrukturen infragezu stellen und neue Formen politischer Solidarität zu ermöglichen.Das Herausgeber·innenteam besteht aus Mitarbeiter·innen und Forscher·innen am Centre forResearch Architecture (CRA), das durch seine gemeinsamen Erkenntnisse und Interessen jedemBand der Reihe eine Richtung gibt. Riccardo Badano ist Architekt, Wissenschaftler und Heraus-geber. Er arbeitet am Royal College of Art und promoviert am CRA. Tomas Percival ist Künstlerund Forscher. Er unterrichtet Research Architecture am Goldsmiths, University of London. SusannSchuppli ist Künstlerin, Forscherin und Autorin. Sie ist Direktorin des CRA und leitet den Beirat vonForensic Architecture.

Building with earthquakes is a familiar yet persistent design problem for resilient construction on all continents. This book elaborates on various factors for earthquake-resilient architecture in six thematic chapters that explore the design strategies of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity and consistency. These factors allow designers to develop contextual solutions that marry technical know-how with social and cultural understanding, ranging in scale from buildings to furniture and urban master plans. 120 case studies from roughly 30 countries, including some highly prestigious buildings, provide a comprehensive overview of the different design strategies.

In seinem Büro Urbana, Bangladesch, entwirft Kashef Chowdhury Architekturen, die in der Geschichte und Natur ihres Ortes verwurzelt sind. Natur umfasst hierbei nicht nur Vegetation, Pflanzen und Wälder, sondern auch den spirituellen und kulturellen Kontext einer bestimmten Umgebung und Landschaft. Seine Arbeiten reichen von der Umwandlung von Schiffen über Wohnbauten bis zu Moscheen, Museen und Firmenzentralen. Allen Projekten gemeinsam ist, dass ihnen eine umfassende Forschungsarbeit zugrunde liegt, die darauf abzielt, im Bewusstsein für einen spezifischen Ort und seine Natur ein hohes Mass an Innovation und originellem Ausdruck zu erreichen. So entfalte sich in der Kombination von traditionellem Baustil und zeitgenössischer Architektur oftmals erst eine inspirierende Wirkung.The Consciousness of Place ist eine philosophische Auseinandersetzung Chowdhurys mit seinem eigenen Architekturverständnis, basierend auf seinen Forschungen und Vorträgen. Im Zentrum steht dabei die Bedeutung einer Architektur, die in der Lage ist, uns mit der Natur zu verbinden und uns von der Hektik des städtischen Lebens zu befreien. Häuser und Arbeitsplätze sollten in Oasen der Ruhe und Gelassenheit verwandelt werden, um die Vorzüge der Natur im Sinne einer Erneuerung und Entspannung nutzen zu können.Chowdhury betont die Notwendigkeit, der Natur zu lauschen, ihre Schönheit zu schätzen. Entsprechend bevorzugt er bei seinen Projekten auch natürliche Materialien, setzt auf das Spiel von Licht und Schatten als wesentliche Elemente, um Räume zu schaffen, die uns zum Nachdenken und Innehalten anregen.Die Publikation ist ein Manifest für eine Architektur, die im bewussten Einklang mit dem jeweiligen Ort die Identität der Kultur und ihrer Menschen widerspiegelt. Sein Schaffen versteht Chowdhury dabei weniger als Arbeit, sondern vielmehr als ein Wirken aus Liebe zur Kunst, die dem Menschen dient - darin sieht er die wahre Natur der Architektur.Das gebaute Werk von Chowdhury hat in den vergangenen Jahren internationale Aufmerksamkeit erlangt und wurde u.a. unter anderem mit dem RIBA International Prize 2022 und dem Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016 ausgezeichnet.In his office Urbana, Bangladesh, Kashef Chowdhury designs architecture that is rooted in the history and nature of the location. Nature in this sense not only consists of vegetation, plants and forests, but also the spiritual and cultural context of a specific environment and landscape. The range of his works includes the transformation of ships, the development of housing and the construction of mosques, museums and corporate headquarters. All of his projects have the common feature that they are based on comprehensive research work, aimed at applying an awareness of a specific location and its nature to achieve a high degree of innovation and original expression. This combination of traditional building styles and contemporary architecture often has an inspirational effect.The Consciousness Of Place is Chowdhury's philosophical engagement with his own understanding of architecture, based on his research and lectures. It focuses on the significance of architecture, which is able to connect us to nature and liberate us from hectic urban life. Buildings and workplaces should be transformed into oases of peace and relaxation in order to benefit from nature's regenerative and relaxing qualities.Chowdhury stresses the need to listen to nature and appreciate its beauty. Accordingly, he prefers natural materials in his projects, while also using the interplay of light and shadow as a key element to create spaces that inspire us to pause and think.This publication is a manifesto of a form of architecture that harmonises with the respective location, reflecting the identity of its culture and people. Chowdhury regards his task not so much as work and more as an activity stemming from his love of an art form that serves the people - which he believes is the nature of architecture.In recent years, Chowdhury's constructed works have attracted international attention and have been awarded prizes such as the 2022 RIBA International Prize and the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

"Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals" examines the hardships and major challenges faced by the hospital system today and presents innovative models and solutions in healthcare architecture. Through critical, scientifically based discourse, a variety of authors examine healthcare systems and hospital architecture, what hospitals are missing, and how architecture can contribute to the healing process of patients. The publication answers these questions in three comprehensive chapters based on the medical process: "Symptoms," "Diagnosis," and "Therapy." The introductory section describes the symptoms of the "sick house" and spotlights the urgent need to take these problems seriously in the contexts of both society as a whole and architecture. In the second section, experts from psychology, medicine, and the related sciences, as well as from architectural theory and philosophy, take a diagnostic look at the complex causes that lead to the "diseased house." The third section presents seven "active ingredients" or scientifically investigated environmental variables for successful therapy, incorporating tools from evidence-based design. Finally, thirteen international case studies show how the conscious use of environmental variables leads to a hospital architecture that promotes healing. Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals bridges the gap between the ever-growing expertise on healthcare architecture and the urgent need for planners, politicians, and the public to pay attention to one of the most important issues in architecture today: health.

Dieses Buch schlägt eine Brücke zwischen den Themen Energie und Wasser. Es ist eine kunstvoll gestaltete visuelle Ode, die die komplizierte Verbindung zwischen den Menschen, die auf Staudämme für Energie und Wasser zählen, und der Quelle, die diesen Reichtum speist, vorstellt und reflektiert. Es ist eine Hommage an die grossartige Ingenieursleistung, die die Schweiz zu einem gefragten Energiezentrum machte und den lebenserhaltenden Strom liefert, der unsere moderneWelt antreibt.Unangestrengt und neugierig gilt die Aufmerksamkeit dieser Publikation nicht nur der Erscheinung und Bedeutung von Staudamm und Kraftwerk, sondern auch der Würdigung des Bauwerkes als eindrückliches Manifest von Zivilisation und Kultur im Einklang mit der spektakulären Natur und Umgebung. Mit Interviews und atemberaubenden Ansichten taucht dieses Buch ein in die Geschichte der Talschaft und schliesst Erinnerungen und Meinungen von Beteiligten mit ein. Fachkundige Einblicke erweitern den Kontext und betrachten Emosson als Beispiel einer intakten Symbiose von Natur und Kultur und geben einen Ausblick auf das, was noch kommen wird.

Mobilität prägt die Gesellschaft und damit unsere Beziehungen und sozialen Strukturen. Um ihre Bedeutung und ihr Potenzial zu verstehen, muss man Mobilität als interdisziplinäres Gefl echt von Beziehungen begreifen. Dieses Buch beleuchtet Mobilität aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln und zeigt auf, wie sie die Gesellschaft auf der Mikro- und Makroebene formt. Die Gesichtspunkte werden in einer Fülle von Beiträgen - von visuellen bis hin zu wissenschaftlichen Essays - von Expert:innen aus verschiedenen Bereichen vorgestellt.Die Gestaltung des Buches ermöglicht es dem Leser, praktische und visionäre Verbindungen herzustellen und unsichtbare Beziehungen zwischen Mobilitäten und Aspekten unserer sich entwickelnden Gesellschaft zu erkunden. Um dies zu erreichen, denken die Herausgeber über einen neuen Weg nach, die Gesellschaft mit einem Blick auf Mobilitätsfragen zu betrachten und die gegenwärtigen mentalen und physischen Hürden der Gesellschaft zu überwinden.Dieser Designansatz zur Untersuchung der Gesellschaft lädt die Leserschaft auf eine vielseitige Reise durch die Ströme von Waren, Menschen, Materialien, Ideen und Vermögenswerten sowie deren Interaktion ein. Es entkleidet die Welt von ihren einseitigen und unverrückbaren Eigenschaften und erforscht auf kreative Weise die weicheren Mobilitätsformen, die die Gesellschaft auf ökologischer, globaler und menschlicher Ebene formen.

Innovative educational concepts with an emphasis on Open Source sharing, integral teaching methods, advanced robotic manufacturing, and greater diversity and equity in design-research to better prepare students for the challenges ahead.

In this book, rock-cut and underground structures of Koramaz Valley on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey are described in detail. The valley; located in eastern Turkey near the town of Kayseri, has hundreds of rock-cut structures, in addition to several underground cities, and almost none of them have been studied before. Research conducted by a team from 2014 to 2020, resulted in this overview of all the rock-cut and underground structures in and around seven different settlements in the valley and aims for the physical documentation and inventory of all these structures.The book studies cliff settlements, rock-cut churches, underground cities, and funerary architecture in the valley. These shelters are estimated to have been built between the 7th and 10th centuries and even the smallest of these structures offer rich details for architectural, socio-cultural and historical studies. The rock-cut churches date to the Byzantine Empire period and during the research period, over 400 of these structures were explored, surveyed, and mapped in the region and with all these historical and natural values. Recently, the Koramaz Valley was accepted to the UNESCO World Heritage tentative list. This book is of interest to archaeologists and scholars of built heritage.

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.Focusing on a particular building type, an influential architect's work, as well as relevant texts and documents, each chapter addresses the many facets of "delay" which are central to the problematization of capitalism's progressive dissemination of technological and aesthetic regimes of modernism. This collection underlines the centrality of temporality for a critical understanding of colonialism, modernism, and capitalism. The book is primarily concerned with the historical timeline, the tangential point when a nation enters modernization processes. In exploring modernism in diverse regions such as East Asia, Pacific, Eastern Europe, and Iran, each chapter addresses the historiographic and architectonic unfolding of modernization beyond the western hemisphere.¿The exploration of these diverse case-studies will be of interest to students of architecture and researchers working on the collision of temporalities and the subject's critical importance for different country's built-environments.

This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts. It is essential reading for any student or researcher interested in textiles in architecture through the ages.

This book explores how the concept of 'region' has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice.Curated into four key areas, the contributions from scholars around the world provide an essential volume for students, researchers and professionals.

Classicism is ubiquitous, from the facade of Selfridges to the letterhead of The Times, to the pedimented porches of neo-Georgian housing estates. This book invites readers to discover in their surroundings a rich language of form which is there to be revealed.It discusses the pleasures and problems of post-medieval architectural classicism, both its rigour and flexibility, its perfections and incompleteness, its continuities and innovations, and its expressiveness - from the camp to the sublime, and from originality to plagiarism. Abandoning conventional chronological, biographical or stylistic arrangements, the book makes connections between familiar art historical periods, focusing on looking closely at the buildings and their details, from which useful generalisations emerge.The book discusses how Renaissance architects, when faced with the bewildering variety of classical antiquity, produced canonical versions of the orders and thus a systematic method of designing in the antique manner. It asks how the highly regulated language of classicism can sustain the originality of a Michelangelo, a Soane or a John Simpson and looks at the human body in relation to classical architecture. It examines the various treatments of the wall and of lettering on classical buildings, before concluding with a chapter on architectural backgrounds in Quattrocento art, revealing how this can lead to a different kind of looking at painting and sculpture.

Throughout the 20th century, there were periods when there was urgent demand for housing to accommodate the rapidly increasing population (or rebuilt following wars). Driven primarily by the need to provide housing as cheaply and efficiently as possible, the ideas developed by the early Modernists have informed housing schemes worldwide. Today, in the context of a very different urban landscape, architects optimistic about high-density living are revisiting these seminal designs as they seek to develop their own solutions to our current housing crisis. Chronologically ordered, this book provides a unique survey of over 80 seminal housing projects from across Europe which were constructed during the 20th century. Together with concise contextual history and analysis, each housing study includes carefully redrawn context plan, plans and sections (some also include elevations) which are presented in a way that makes them readily comparable. Beginning with Parker & Unwin's Hampstead Garden Suburb (1907), case studies include housing by Aalto, Le Corbusier, Moretti, Markelius, Tá vora, Atelier 5, Utzon, Stirling & Gowan, Ungers, Brown, Rossi, Siza Vieira, Valle, Nouvel and MVRDV.

A book that brings awareness to preservation in architecture. This third TSAM volume presents content from teaching courses that have been developed at the EPFL for fifteen years. The aim is to promote preservation as a discipline, one of the main branches in the emerging field of socioecological transition. This book also demonstrates how the educational potential of preservation can be harnessed, uniting many social and scientific disciplines, the history of architecture and architects, materiality and its constructed expression, the theory of architecture and design, and the examination‿both abstract and concrete‿of what surrounds us in every sense, from the teaspoon to the territory. In short, what a minority of responsible architects has always concerned itself with: a silent and sometimes fragile architecture. These qualities should enable preservation to reform and reconstruct a new design process for architecture, which will in turn lead to a new kind of practice. Â

The question of what heritage is and how we deal with it is not a neutral one. Recent events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the toppling of monuments have made evident how much the colonial past is inscribed in our built environment; at the same time, colonialism affects memorialization and historiography. Hence, those involved in architectural history are challenged to re-consider their positionality. Whose heritage are colonial sites? Which conflicting memories are attached to them? How are archives and material evidence reassessed to bring forward the stories of marginalized subjects? Following the call for decolonization, this volume explores historical methodologies and shows the entanglement of narratives at architectural sites, bringing together archaeology, architectural history, and heritage studies. A contribution to the current debate on decolonization and memorialization Interdisciplinary perspectives on architecture and heritage International range of authors

Baukultur heißt heute ressourcenschonende Umbaukultur. Erhaltenswerte Bauten und Quartiere anders zu denken, sie besser zu nutzen, umzubauen und klug zu erweitern, ist in Berlin Tradition und Trend in einem. Ein Trend mit viel Zukunft, wie 60 aufregende, in Berlin erdachte Projekte belegen.Mit dabei: clevere Transformationen von Katen, Scheunen oder DDR-Bungalows zu höchst zeitgemäßen Wohnhäusern, eine Manufaktur aus Containern, der zirkuläre Innenausbau für den Impact Hub Berlin im CRCLR House oder aufsehenerregende Quartiersprojekte wie der Holstenfleet in Kiel. Dazwischen spüren renommierte Autorinnen und Autoren der Frage nach, was sich aus Garagenbauten machen lässt, wie Schule im Bestand aussehen kann oder wie ganze Nachbarschaften ohne fossile Energien auskommen.