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MARINA TABASSUM Architecture: My Journey is the first book devoted to the Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum and her multifaceted architectural oeuvre.Marina Tabassum's exploratory approach makes her architectural practice one of the outstanding contemporary positions internationally. Her diverse oeuvre spans from governmental projects to housing and has brought her numerous honors and accolades in the international field of architecture.This volume presents various public and private building projects that Marina Tabassum has worked on since 1995, first with the architectural office URBANA and since 2005 through Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). The selection of her architecture in this book ranges from early projects in the city of Dhaka shortly after completing her studies at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), such as the Museum of Independence and the celebrated Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, to recent mobile modular structures called Khudi Bari. Tabassum is establishing the latter for the people affected by displacement in various geographically and climatically challenged locations-both in the Ganges Delta and in the Rohingya refugee camp at Cox's Bazar on the border to Myanmar, which is currently the largest refugee camp in the world.The internationally renowned authors reflect on various perspectives and interpretations of Tabassum's work. Besides the historical and political background, the contributions deal, among other things, with spotlighting particular architectural elements that pervade Tabassum's work, such as place and memory, light and spirituality, brick and materiality, and people and community.With contributions by Sean Anderson, Vera Simone Bader, Kareem Ibrahim, Hanif Kara, Andres Lepik, Nondita Correa Mehrotra, Tanzil Shafique, Cristina Steingräber, Marina Tabassum, Sarah M. Whiting, and Danny Wicaksono.

Since the firm's founding twenty-five years ago, AKT II have forged an international practice that unifies the cultures and disciplines of architecture and structural engineering. This book is an engine for critical reflection on the scope, potential, and limits of what they have come to define as design engineering.Structured into five discursive domains-scale, variability, attitude, reverse engineering, and the craftsmanship of engineering-the book presents a robust selection of the firm's endeavours, which together demonstrate a vast range of encounters and processes in design. Common among them is a desire to understand and reshape the boundaries of the discipline of structural engineering, along with its links to fields such as philosophy, computer science, and geography. Interlaced with the projects, texts by contributors from varying fields engage the theoretical discussions and social conditions that bind contemporary practice.Matters of Engineering Design: AKT II balances structural concerns that require an equilibrium of internal and external forces, a clear understanding of boundary conditions, and knowledge of the properties of material with the overarching challenges that society faces today, including advances in technology, changing economic orders, and ecological responsibility.With contributions by William Baker, David Basulto, Hanif Kara, Jayne Kelley, Priya Khanchandani, Adrian Lahoud, Lesley Lokko, Ibrahim Mahama, Stephen Parnell, Vicky Richardson, and Ellis Woodman.

Megaprojects of construction would no more be difficult to initiate, understand and carry out practically. A key to all the problems related to Mega Project Management is going to be in your hand. It will be no more complex now. You have been facilitated to solve each and every problem by yourself. The book is going to be a perfect guide for you because it will tell:¿What is Megaproject Management?¿A Fundamental Conceptualization of Mega Infrastructure Construction¿Significant Engineering and Construction of Mega-Infrastructure¿Management of Massive Infrastructure Construction¿Management of Construction Projects to Mega Infrastructure Construction Management: From Systematisms to Complexity¿The Difficulty of Building and Managing Mega Infrastructure¿The Good, The Bad, and the Best of Megaprojects¿Making Megaprojects Modular¿8 Planning and Organizing Best Practices for Megaproject Success¿The Causes and Cure for Underperforming Megaprojects¿The Increasing Difficulty of Building Mega-Infrastructure¿The Possibilities and Hope for the Future

Being boring (or boringness) has been one of the qualities of architecture an architect desperately tries to avoid. Not to provoke (or at least try to provoke) some reaction from one's audience is to admit to a lack of ideas or an absence of creativity. In Kind of Boring, Paul Preissner rejects the idea that architecture should demand anything from its audience. The "boring and dumb" architecture documented in this book leaves us alone. In this way, the work of Paul Preissner Architects produces a conceptual space, a meaning independent of our relationship to the work; we can only understand (or misunderstand) it. Kind of Boring looks at the origin of architectural ideas behind a work and the theoretical and practical consequences resulting from an architecture that prioritizes class politics through experimentation with formal practice. The book presents an alternative to contemporary architecture through a kind of work which embraces normalcy, and weird deviations from such, making a kind of architecture which explores basic form, anonymous history, and the effects of indifference and inattention to make the normal weird. The book composes source material for the ideas behind the projects mixed with the projects themselves to present architecture in the same way it is understood (or misunderstood) in the world; within visual contexts. The projects are then offered for deeper review through their drawings and contributed essays, inquiring into an architecture which resists genre categorization, appreciates sloppiness in a field committed to precision, and makes room for intuition and less formal precedent. Through a lot of drawings, some essays, and many pictures, this book documents what happens when architecture stops begging for our attention and instead makes space for reflection. -- Publisher's website

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Materials and the myriad technologies that have been developed to manipulate them are of essential relevance to product designers, architects, artists and stylists, as they represent the starting point for every product and every architectural work. The book is an encyclopaedic compendium of around 1,000 terms in this field, from aerogel to marble to zirconium. It features traditional and frequently used materials, as well as new and unexpected ones. Their respective advantages and disadvantages are precisely described. In addition, terms related to production processes, such as upcycling or tanning, or that describe the properties of materials or are closely related to the topic have also been included.

Architectures of Weaving bridges architecture and textile by exploring fiber architectures from the micro scale of biological systems to the macro scale of textile and built structures. Selected case studies, essays, and interviews reflect on cultural practices and materials research through the lens of textile thinking. In the quest for sustainable and resilient approaches that meet the challenges of our time, the book presents fascinating approaches heralding a paradigm shift by working with fibrous materiality: structures become flexible and adaptive, they interact with their environment. As a source of inspiration, the book assembles exceptional contributions from the fields of architecture, art, material science, cultural history, design, engineering, mathematics, microbiology, and textile technology.

The work of Pritzker Prize–winning architect Thom Mayne and that of the firm Morphosis at its most pure is best seen in the models that preceded the buildings, masterworks made at scale, for the first time comprehensively gathered—and shown here. Thom Mayne is a deeply theoretical and conceptual architect whose built work and that of the firm Morphosis can be seen worldwide. On the cutting edge of exploration and discovery in design, the architecture is marked by complexity, disruption, ambiguity, and power. In each case, prior to the building came the model, which may serve as a key to understanding and appreciation; models express purely the basis of Mayne’s theory and intention. This volume offers, for the first time ever, an exhaustive look at the models upon which all the rest has been built, and is, as well, an essential history of the work of Mayne and Morphosis. A forty-plus-year office retrospective and a love letter to models, their process and concepts, and those that made them, the book considers at once the evolution of the model and that of the work of the firm. It features small-scale dwellings, such as the early and award-winning Sedlack Residence in Venice, California—a single room and study set atop a one-car garage—to Unicorn Island, a mixed-use master plan including a transit station, university campus, commerical and office buildings, parks, and green space in Chengdu, China. In addition to models never before documented, the book includes outside commentary from architecture historians, critics, and practicing architects, such as Kenneth Frampton, Steven Holl, and Wolf Prix.

An inspirational and insightful resource for architecture students and professionals that offers a new way of thinking about the architecture to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.

The study of the architectural discipline suffers from an increasing disconnect between its teaching and its professional practice. In this edited collection, 18 architectural voices address this disconnect by reflecting on the ways in which they exercise the architectural discipline in three ways: research, teaching, and practice. This book argues that the totality of activities encompassed by the architectural profession can be best fulfilled when reconsidering the critical interactions between these three fields in the everyday exercise of the profession.Split into three parts, "Architecture as Research," Architecture as Pedagogy," and "Architecture as Practice," each section focuses on one of these three dimensions while establishing continuity with the other two. In doing so, the book not only favors a more fulfilling interaction between academia and the profession but also reinforces the implementation of design theory and research in everyday teaching and practice. The contributions come from 18 teams of architects operating from geographically diverse locations, including Pezo von Ellrichshausen in Chile, Kengo Kuma & Associates in Japan, Barclay & Crousse in Peru, Shift in Iran, Heinrich Wolff in South Africa, and People's Architecture Office in China, opening the design conversation to larger contexts and framing continuity and inclusion in time.Written for students, instructors, and practitioners alike, the inspiring reflections in this volume encourage readers to grow as architects and play an instrumental role in transforming the built environment.

The study of the architectural discipline suffers from an increasing disconnect between its teaching and its professional practice. In this edited collection, 18 architectural voices address this disconnect by reflecting on the ways in which they exercise the architectural discipline in three ways: research, teaching, and practice. This book argues that the totality of activities encompassed by the architectural profession can be best fulfilled when reconsidering the critical interactions between these three fields in the everyday exercise of the profession.Split into three parts, "Architecture as Research," Architecture as Pedagogy," and "Architecture as Practice," each section focuses on one of these three dimensions while establishing continuity with the other two. In doing so, the book not only favors a more fulfilling interaction between academia and the profession but also reinforces the implementation of design theory and research in everyday teaching and practice. The contributions come from 18 teams of architects operating from geographically diverse locations, including Pezo von Ellrichshausen in Chile, Kengo Kuma & Associates in Japan, Barclay & Crousse in Peru, Shift in Iran, Heinrich Wolff in South Africa, and People's Architecture Office in China, opening the design conversation to larger contexts and framing continuity and inclusion in time.Written for students, instructors, and practitioners alike, the inspiring reflections in this volume encourage readers to grow as architects and play an instrumental role in transforming the built environment.

In their new book, the international CARTHA network engages with the question of forming identity in society and the role that architecture plays in this process. Inspired by Jacques Lacan's approach from psychoanalysis, CARTHA's members break down the identity-formation process into four sub-steps, which they explore in interviews: Maarten Delbeke, professor of history and theory of architecture at ETH Zurich, talks about Assimilation; Frederike Lausch, researcher at TU Darmstadt's Department of Architecture, about Appropriation; Rob Krier, Berlin and Liguria-based architect and sculptor, about Denial, and Jonathan Sergison, London-based architect, about Reconciliation. These conversations make up the cornerstones for a new, experimental design methodology, which has been tested in practice by architecture firms Bruther (Bordeaux), Bureau Spectacular (Los Angeles), Conen Sigl (Zurich), Made In (Geneva / Zurich), Monadnock (Rotterdam), Studio Muoto (Paris), and Sam Jacob Studio (London). CARTHA-Building Identities features a variety of buildings-houses, cottages, apartments-designed in the context of these insights. The book offers a didactic manual for contemporary architectural design. The concept of identity that CARTHA proposes invites readers to adopt a critical attitude towards any found environment. The objective is a deeper understanding of how architects actually create identity through their designs.

Der sri-lankische Architekt Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003) verband ein Bewusstsein für den lokalen Kontext mit den technologischen Errungenschaften und Gestaltungsprinzipien der Moderne. Dement sprechend bezog Bawa in seine modernistischen Entwürfe h.ufi g Materialien (lokaler Stein und Holz) und Charakteristika (hohe Dächer, Querlüftung, grosse Überhänge) ein, die für das Monsunklima und die geschichtsträchtige Architektur Sri Lankas typisch sind - von den Höhlenklöstern der Anuradhapura-Periode bis zum feudalen Walauwa-Stil der Herrenhäuser.Diese Publikation bringt Essays von Wissenschaftler:innen und Autor:innen aus einer Vielzahl von Disziplinen zusammen - darunter Architektur, Fotografie, Geografie, Stadtplanung und Kunstgeschichte. Der Fokus ist auf Bawas aussergewöhnlich schöne Architekturzeichnungen gerichtet, wobei die zentrale, vielschichtige Rolle dieses Mediums in der Praxis untersucht wird - von der Idee über die Anleitung bis hin zur überprüfung nach der Fertigstellung. Der Sammelband befasst sich auch mit der Identität Sri Lankas nach der Unabhängigkeit, die Bawa mitgestaltet hat - ästhetisch und, weniger offenkundig, ideologisch. Mit über 200 üppigen Zeichnungen und Fotografien, von denen viele noch nie zuvor veröffentlicht wurden, richtet sich das Buch sowohl an ein allgemeines als auch ein wissenschaftliches Publikum mit Interesse an Architektur, Zeichnung und Archiven.

Das grossformatige Album Punjab Simla. Chandigarh, Mars 1951 ist ein Notizbuch des Architekten Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier füllte die Seiten des Albums mit Skizzen und Notizen aus der Zeit seines zweiwöchigen Aufenthalts in dem Gebiet, in dem Chandigarh, die neue Hauptstadt des indischen Bundesstaates Punjab, entstehen sollte - ein städtebauliches Experiment, das schnell zum bekanntesten Beispiel für eine moderne Stadtgründung wurde.Das Album versammelt sowohl persönliche Überlegungen des Architekten wie auch Notizen und Lösungsskizzen aus Sitzungen. Es ist eine primäre Quelle für die Rekonstruktion der Themen, mit denen sich die kleine Gruppe von Architekten und Regierungsbeamten befasste, die in nur wenigen Tagen die Leitlinien für den Plan von Chandigarh ausarbeiteten. Der originalgetreue Nachdruck des Albums wird mit einer Sammlung bislang unveröffentlichter Fotografien ergänzt, die Le Corbusiers Cousin Pierre Jeanneret während dieser frühen Expeditionvon der Landschaft und den Menschen machte, bevor die neue Grossstadt dieses Gelände völlig verändern sollte. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar der Architekturhistorikerin Maristella Casciato schliesst eine Lücke in der Forschung, indem er die Vielfalt der im Notizbuch behandelten Themen reflektiert und einordnet und die fieberhaften Tage, in denen die neue Hauptstadt entworfen wurde, nachzeichnet.

Hendes arbejdsbord blev tilbage i 1959 udråbt som verdens mest elegante og blev et ikon, der understøttede et omfattende internationalt virke indenfor design og formgivning. I mere end syv årtier har professor, arkitekt MAA Bodil Kjær (f. 1932) set det som sin fornemste opgave at løse problemer: Fra planlægning af fleksible arbejdsomgivelser, bygherrerådgivning og byudvikling til undervisning på højere læreranstalter i ind- og udland. Allerede som ganske ung orienterede Bodil Kjær sig mod udlandet og som 26-årig rejste hun til USA. I New York og sidenhen Boston arbejdede hun for førende praksisser og udviklede en serie elementer af arkitektur, der straks høstede anerkendelse kloden rundt og førte til talrige udviklingsopgaver i relation til såvel byggeri som møbelfremstilling.Igennem 1960’erne, 70’erne og 80’erne leverede Bodil Kjær væsentlige bidrag til udlægningen af vores omgivelser som henholdsvis designer, udvikler, rådgiver, leder, underviser og formidler. Med en sikker sans for proportionering og funktionalitet leverede hun væsentlige løsninger på det moderne samfunds udfordringer. I en alder af 90, ser hun i denne bog tilbage på de 50 år, hvor hun i særligt grad virkede internationalt med en vedholdende ambition om at sætte mennesket i centrum og at omfavne det essentielle.I foråret 2022 modtog Bodil Kjær Bindesbøll Medaljen, Akademiraadets særlige udmærkelse for sit virke som møbeldesigner båret af et arkitektonisk helhedssyn.Peter Beck er uddannet cand.mag. i dansk og kunsthistorie. Han har været ansat hos Bruun Rasmussen Kunstauktioner siden 1998 med speciale i moderne kunst og design. Peter har bl.a. skrevet artikler til Jyllands-Posten og medvirket i TV-programmerne "Antikduellen", "Guld i købstæderne", "Auktionshuset" m.fl.

Lehmbau gehört nicht nur zu den ältesten, sondern auch zu den modernsten Bauweisen unserer Zeit. Welche ökonomischen, ökologischen und sozialen Chancen liegen in der verstärkten Nutzung von Erde als Baumaterial? Zement als wichtiger Bestandteil von Beton wird - wie andere knappe Ressourcen auch - in Zukunft nur noch begrenzt herstellbar sein und immer teurer gehandelt werden. Es ist notwendig, alternativen Baumaterialien mehr Beachtung zu schenken.Dieser Band stellt ein weites Spektrum gebauter und ungebauter Projekte sowie neue Strategien zur Realisierung von Lehmarchitektur vor - eine Bauweise, die jeder Kultur und jedem Kontext angepasst werden kann. Die Autoren präsentieren anhand eindrucksvoller Beispiele bahnbrechende technologische Innovationen, wobei sie die Vorteile dieses Materials veranschaulichen: von der weltweiten Verfügbarkeit bis zur Möglichkeit der vollständigen Wiederverwertung, von der klimaneutralen Produktion bis zum sozialverträglichen Einsatz insbesondere auch in Schwellenländern. Dieses Buch zeigt die erstaunlichen Potenziale der Lehmarchitektur auf - für die Menschen und für den ganzen Planeten.

This book explores, debates and exhibits practices of contemporary architectural drawing, taking at its basis a series of meetings between a cohort of architects, critics and curators who discussed contemporary drawing practices and production in their own work and research. The participants - Laura Allen, Bryan Cantley, Nat Chard,  Peter Cook, Mark Dorrian, Riet Eeckhout, Adrian Hawker, Perry Kulper, CJ Lim, Shaun Murray, Mark Smout, Neil Spiller, Natalija Subotincic, Michael Webb, Mark West and Michael Young - focused on drawings or drawing-related artefacts, around which dialogues took place. Beyond the usual representational imperatives of architecture drawing, the group considered and discussed its agency as a site of emergence and imagination. Organised in relation to specific topics and framed by contextual essays by Nat Chard, Mark Dorrian, Riet Eeckhout, Michael Young, Thomas-Bernard Kenniff and Carole Levesque, the book includes a selection of exquisite and fascinating key drawings by the various contributors, together with edited transcripts of discussions around drawing which developed at the symposia. The drawings presented in the book are in dialogue with one another, while their authors are themselves in extended conversation. This double aspect will make the book a distinctive publication and an enduringly important document and resource for thinking about architectural drawing.

Part aphorism and part manifesto, this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) references his ideas and thoughts about space. He suggests 'the empty room' as the very essence of architecture, and 'the spatial experience' as its highest mandate. Reza revisits architecture not as the walls that enclose the space but rather the space in-between the walls. What he calls an "anti-architecture" of invisible voids. Today architecture has fallen short as a discipline and has instead converted into an industry, part of the commercial establishment. Accordingly it has given up its capacity to offer contributions and has been reduced to being a service. It has become all about a form-making exercise and dressing it up with a fashionable skin. What matters most, is the look of it, and the contest to keep that look relevant in the media as long as possible. It submits itself to a sick competition for visibility. The more awes it creates, the more viral it becomes. What used to be an autonomous discipline and a source of inspiration, stimulation, and motivation now has become the subject of entertainment, speculation, and show business. Now, it is necessary or rather urgent to pause, take a moment, go inward, search for the essentials, and hope to rediscover a principle which is at once basic and timeless. Where to begin then! Well, as Kahn always said: Architecture comes from the making of a room. This book starts with this, the very desire to dwell in a space in its most basic form-- a room. Through short passages and aphorisms, this text revisits space as the only protagonist, the very foundation, and the sole essence of architecture. It affects your perception of space, it makes you to look at architecture differently-- most likely to see the invisible.