Arkitektur: professionel praksis

"No Trust, No City!" was the longtime credo on their website; "Some Ideas for Better Cities" was their first joint lecture series; and Acting in Public was their first book. For over twenty years, the architecture collective raumlaborberlin has been searching for new spaces of encounter and for ways of achieving cooperative urban development. Together with experts from various disciplines, they experiment with new forms of urban practice, participation, and the joint production of space. Polylemma explores the work of the collective from diverse perspectives. Its nine members visit the sites of their work, come together with long-standing colleagues and critics, dissect the mechanisms behind their actions, and reflect on the tools and methods of their research-based practice. Examining numerous projects, they discuss strategies for learning together, experimental building, radical recycling, and cooperative urban development. The book is a call to action: space becomes an actor that fundamentally questions design itself and the role of architects. It offers an extensive collection of photos and drawings, analyses and ideas, tutorials and building instructions, that continually test and explore the parameters for action in urban space. Polylemma asks: How do we want to live together in the future? It is a request to think space openly; a plea for the city as a sphere of action.

Paper and cardboard as sustainable building materials are currently the subject of research and testing. They can be produced inexpensively, are made from renewable raw materials and are completely recyclable. The focus of their application is on temporary uses, such as for transitional schools, emergency shelters or "microhomes". Properly protected from moisture and fire, the material proves to be durable. Design and aesthetic qualities are by no means neglected, as case studies by Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban demonstrate: the Chengdu Elementary School, the Paper Concert Hall in Aquila or the Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch all provided a sign of hope after devastating earthquakes. This introduction explains the technology of building with cardboard and paper and shows a wide range of examples.

During the last 30 years, Advanced Architecture has consolidated an interactive and informational logic that differs from that of Modernity and Postmodernity. This logic is threefold; it is modulated through three coexisting protocols -modes of action- whose peaks of intensity occur in three different decades: Conformative Protocols (1990-2000), Distributive Protocols (2000-2010) and Expansive Protocols (2010-2020). This work proposes a threefold cultural narrative whose interactive and informational logic differs from that of modernity and postmodernity. It positions three different ethos by critically approaching the architectural side of a cultural mutation that has been affecting the Western experimental areas of knowledge and practice since the end of the last century. A transformative process constituted by a constellation of transdisciplinary manifestations, accelerations, turns, shortcuts and clusterizations that by no means can be read under one single epistemological umbrella. In this sense, rather than approaching the practice of architecture focusing on its disciplinary inner specificity, this book approaches the research of experimental architecture focusing on its extra-disciplinary entanglements. It argues that a vast multiplicity of fields of knowledge participates in a cultural endeavour modulated through three protocols -forms of action- that singularize three decades: Conformative Protocols (1990-2000), Distributive Protocols (2000-2010) and Expansive Protocols (2010-2020). These three periods shouldn't be read as three hermetic and concatenated monades, but as three different modulations of the same narrative, that is, as three overlapping and coexisting systems whose peaks of intensity occur in three different decades. However, the main purpose of this book is not limited to unveiling the ethos of these three conjugations. It also aims at using this framework as a "time-field", a narrative map that moves from the classificatory to the cartographical in order to vectorize the last 30 years of experimental architecture. In this sense, this book argues that this threefold set of protocols represents the progressive attempt to constitute critical interiorities "looking for" and "produced through" interactions that are increasingly more intimate and whose agents are increasingly more diverse. A tendency oriented towards the consolidation of an "intimacy between strangers" that highly resonates with the cultural and technological landscape in which experimental architecture operates.

Geometric Taxonomy gets closer to the geometries of Carlos Ferrater and OAB that are present in timeless architecture, those that are explicit in the great treatises, those that dazzled us with "the correct and magnificent wise play of forms under the light", the elemental forms that inspired modernity a hundred years ago.

在這本＂鞋子是如何制作＂的一書中，你会看到大品牌是如何進行鞋子的设计。這書決不是一个运动鞋工厂的导游参观而已，這本＂鞋子是如何制作＂的書将向您展示如何从最初的设计图纸，通过样品开发和现代运动鞋的制造來創造一双富有生命力的球鞋。

A compedium of essays and projects that creates a projective document capable of setting up new scenarios for the architecture of the next decade. This publication wants to transmit the constant values of the Seung H-Sang's architecture, which has been routed on principles and ideals driven by sensuous and essences of raw materials, echoing the extemporal features of the culture where buildings are placed, discovering the prettiness of scarcity of resources. IROJE's buildings, landscapes and urban proposals have been always looking for the equilibrium between endurance of the past essence of each place and the freshness of the new life experiences generated by the architecture. The book proposes to compile the best architectural IROJE's works employing the magnificence of black and white pictures, creative sketches, and elementary plans and drawings to illustrate the permanent values of Seung H-Sang.Iroje architects and planners got the "Korea Award for Art and Culture" in 2007. Seung H-Sang first City Architect of Seoul Metropolitan Government in 2016.

"Floppy Logic is an exploration into the 'architecture' of fashion and textiles, and how the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and construction of this architecture might be understood and used to design and fabricate objects and space differentially. This book explores these territories through physical and digital testing of ideas that begin at the scale of papers and end at the scale of buildings"--Page 4 of cover.

"In light of the current political crisis around climate change, what can architecture possibly contribute towards a new planetary imaginary of our contemporary environment, beyond environmentalism and technological determinism? Architecture as measure is an elaboration on the disciplinary and cultural potentials of such a provocation. It positions climate change as a cultural and political idea that requires a renewed architectural environmental imagination"--Back cover

"La plasticidad en valuación" (Versión a colores) no pretende ser un nuevo método o tratado sobre la valoración de propiedades, busca más bien un enfoque adaptable y compatible con los métodos y procedimientos actuales de nuestros sistemas de habla hispana, poniendo énfasis en lo visual, lo volumétrico, lo espacial, lo tridimensional, la visión sinóptica, en el análisis sobretodo del entorno de las propiedades, en los procesos de valuación, incluye la interpretación del bien en términos de su uso y su potencial, la empatía con el potencial comprador o entidad financiera. "Los sistemas de valuación contemporáneos, que vienen poniendo en práctica los diferentes organismos financieros para sustentar la valuación de bienes constructivos y la otorgación de los créditos, se caracterizan por considerar cuatro elementos básicos: son de naturaleza mecanicista, se apoyan en análisis históricos sobre el mercado de propiedades y construcciones, le conceden más importancia a lo cuantitativo que a lo cualitativo y por lo general no conceden valor a lo arquitectónico. Se estima el valor de un activo inmobiliario como la suma de una serie de factores económicos concretos, que son necesarios para llevar a cabo la construcción de una obra y donde la parte plástica no es evaluada." Fragmento del prefacio La plasticidad en valuación A través de este libro, logramos visualizar con mayor facilidad el requerimiento de valorar una solución arquitectónica integral, además de revisar su funcionalidad, debemos buscar un concepto de armonía con el entorno, para constituir así un aporte al valor de la imagen que genere desvaloración o plusvalía adicional al bien, elementos en ocasiones intangibles que generan un cambio en el valor, una especie de efecto sinérgico que constituye otro valor paralelo, No podemos desconocer que en la realidad lo que abunda como "expertise" en la mayoría de procesos de valoración, es el énfasis al cálculo basado en números fríos, método numéricos y rígidos en apreciación, siendo que se trata de un tema que requiere sutileza y pericia en el proceso de ejecución de la valuación, al tomar en cuenta entornos físicos visibles, además de los valores tangibles e intangibles del entorno mediato e inmediato. "El nacimiento de esta obra constituye el resultado de un estudio creativo y dedicación profesional de su autor Eladio Soto Barquero. El autor es un profesional que cuenta con una vasta experiencia en el ejercicio de su profesión y que ha sabido combinar con el campo docente universitario, donde ha impartido múltiples cursos sobre la plástica y el diseño en diferentes universidades de Costa Rica, el autor. Es un profesional estudioso del quehacer plástico y precisamente de allí nace su intento por contribuir con una metodología de valoración sobre el otro enfoque complementario en el quehacer de la valuación y pese a ser realizada por un arquitecto no pretende ser un procedimiento para uso exclusivo de los arquitectos. Se conjugan una serie de instrumentos que busca de manera coherente brindar un valioso aporte a la valoración de la plástica en las obras constructivas. En mi condición de economista opino que esta iniciativa del arquitecto Eladio Soto es sumamente valiosa y representa un intento por completar un área en la valuación donde existe un vacío y se requiere un tratamiento de valoración distinto de lo que se ha hecho hasta el momento. Presenta de manera novedosa y en forma pionera un intento de contribuir con una metodología más depurada en la valuación de obras constructivas donde se realice gestión arquitectónica y no dudo será de enorme beneficio para los profesionales y entidades que buscan cada día formas de valuación más depuradas." Carlos Suárez Cruz, M.B.A, Economista Este libro incluye una herramienta o tabla de valoración para aplicar, según los parámetros estudiados, que será de gran utilidad luego de conocer las paut

Architecture Planning Notebook - Architects Large Sketch Pad Journal in Matte finish 8.5" x 11" 120 5x5 Graph pages on white paper. The Ideal workbook, planner, sketchbook companion for all Architects carry out design drawing projects.

Taking readers behind architecture's facades and finishes, this charmingly illustrated book explores how some of the most important buildings in the world were constructed. Specially commissioned isometric drawings present the essential structural elements of the world's masterpiece buildings that are not visible to the naked eye. These illustrations are displayed alongside plans, details, and photographs, all of which are clear and accessible, yet accurate and elegant enough to satisfy the most discerning eye.

"The Under the Influence book is based on the eponymous symposium, which brought together scholars and practitioners of architecture in order to focus on one of the most anxious disciplinary topics: influence. The symposium invited each of the participants to illuminate a single term -- a disciplinary synonym for appropriation -- and through that term, the specific strategies, historical, and disciplinary circumstances in which it is enmeshed. It was organized and hosted by Ana Miljaécki, and presented by the MIT Department of Architecture. With some small additions this is a reprint of that book. Influence is not easily quantified. It is elusive, even when we casually admit to it as we ogle images on the internet, or feel ourselves softening our resolve on an important issue in light of a beautifully crafted piece of rhetoric; or as the mass-media drone imperceptibly rewires some of our most fundamental desires. When Under the Influence symposium took place at MIT in 2012 [that is, 2013], the invitation to discuss issues of originality and copying in architecture were still taboo. There have been a number of projects on the topic since, but they have hardly exhausted the topics of copying and copyright, whose importance increases with every act of scrolling or 'liking' architectural images on Instagram."--

"Design Practice Research at RMIT University is a longstanding program of research into what venturous designers actually do when they design. It is probably the most enduring and sustained body of research of its kind: empirical, evidence-based and surfacing evidence about design practice. This first Pink Book documents some of its past achievements. It is probably the most enduring and sustained body of research of its kind: empirical, evidence-based and surfacing evidence about design practice. It is a growing force in the world, with a burgeoning program of research in Asia, Oceania and Europe. This book documents some of its past achievements. Two kinds of knowledge are created by the research. One concerns the ways in which designers marshal their intelligence, especially their spatial intelligence, to construct the mental space within which they practice design. The other reveals how public behaviours are invented and used to support design practice. This new knowledge combined is the contribution that this research makes to the field of design practice research."--Back cover.

Garc'a stands out among the latest generation of Chilean architects for his sensitive focus on his projects' public impact, expressed in the ways his buildings obey their own internal logic and respect their local cultural, social and spatial contexts. This edition compiles 13 of the architect's designs.signs.

The Teopanzolco Cultural Center project is the product of a wider initiative to remodel and construct new cultural facilities in Cuernavaca, Mexico, with the aim of making the state of Morelos a national and international cultural destination. Drawings, plans and photographs are included, and the final section of the book features images of the finished building, which now boasts five multipurpose forums and a spacious public patio and viewing platform connecting the archaeological site to the city.

Is architecture inherently complete? Or is it a state of incompletion and seeming inadequacy that incites us to imagine architecture as an armature for an ever-changing daily life? Buildings and Almost Buildings explores the work of nARCHITECTS as a single project - an anti-monograph with a subtle manifesto about the open-ended, incomplete, and ambiguous in architecture. Structured around a variety of modes of representation specially prepared for the book, Buildings and Almost Buildings reveals the ways in which the celebrated New York office led by Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang addresses contemporary issues of a world in flux. Across a range of buildings, public spaces, and ephemeral installations, nARCHITECTS argues for the formal and social potential of an architecture that remains somehow incomplete and ambiguously perceived-or in the authors' words, Almost Buildings.

Nature and history is the physical place that has been chosen to develop a space by RCR Arquitectes to conceive and experiment and to rethink man's relationship with the world. This physical space is located in the La Vila estate, in the Bianya Valley (Catalonia), surrounded by woods, water, farmland, country houses, etc. In this environment, research is not defined as an isolated phenomenon, but rather as having a direct relationship with what is being explored. It's a creative, experimental project, and one that is constantly evolving. Technological advances and innovation are applied on an experiential basis in this landscape. New realities are generated, like the humanitacle, a project about the synthesis of man and the built habitat in relation to the surroundings, nature and technology, and la dona i l'home núvol (cloud woman and cloud man), creative beings par excellence and creators of reality. Book introduces this utopia under construction.

Mute Icons' challenges fixed aesthetic notions of beauty in architecture as both, disciplinary discourse and a spatial practice within the public realm. 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. 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. This book aspires to stimulate authentic speculations on the real building, public space and landscape