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Acompañemos a Martín Quezada a través de varios viajes por diferentes departamentos y regiones del Perú, adentrándonos en su folclore, creencias y formas de ver la vida, en estas narraciones el autor narra sus experiencias a detalle cuando tubo contacto con duendes, espíritus, demonios y otras entidades del orbe. en este primer libro de las narraciones de un iniciado llamado: "Historias de miedo peruanas" podrán conocer detalles de tales seres, donde aparecen y a que leyendas están sujetos. es un libro que habla de lugares mágicos y promete llevar al éxtasis emocional a todo lector amante de lo paranormal.

Dive into the pages of our groundbreaking publication where the profound truth echoes: Protecting the sea is safeguarding life. In a world grappling with the relentless force of Climate Change, this compendium becomes a beacon of wisdom, guiding readers on a journey of discovery and responsibility. Unveil the intrinsic connection between the ocean and the very essence of existence--an origin and sustenance that demands our unwavering protection. Within these pages, explore the imperative to learn, adapt, and collaborate in the face of environmental challenges. The Underwater Gardens Regenerative Parks emerge as beacons of hope, seamlessly integrating knowledge that not only exists but is instrumental in creating a sustainable future. It's a call to arms, urging society to elevate intelligence and sensitivity in every cubic centimeter of human intervention across our territories. This publication is a comprehensive exploration of interconnected disciplines--a harmonious blend of science, innovation, and conservation. Embrace the urgent need for sustainable practices, ensuring the health and resilience of our oceans and, by extension, the very fabric of life on Earth. This is not just a publication; it's a manifesto for a thriving, interconnected future.

This book's collection of critical engagements by designers and Arctic scholars aims to bring clarity to the timely question: "What is postcolonial Arctic urbanization?". This book project frames plural understandings of postcolonial Arctic urbanization. In the past, Arctic urbanization has been dominated by colonial and nation-state interests, was influenced by design perspectives appropriate to more southern landscapes, and suffered from a limited understanding of the region's internal dynamics, unique climatic conditions, and diversity of people and cultures. Today, designers must take on the responsibility to avoid committing the same mistakes as seen in the past. Through a postcolonial lens and geared to an international design audience, this publication is a response to such varied histories impacting the discipline and practices of Arctic urbanization. Taken together, this work brings together a range of formats, styles of contributions, and different media into a varied, polyvocal assembly--weaving and overlapping different notions of the many built environments across the many Arctics.

Le village et Son Double offers a look at Dominique Perrault's experience as designer of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village. Part lecture book, part urban planning manual, the book explores the transformation of a neighborhood into an integral part of Greater Paris, offering a profound reflection on contemporary urban design. This book is perfectly anchored in French and international current affairs. The book explores the vision of renowned French architect Dominique Perrault, who designed an Olympic and Paralympic village at the crossroads of concerns such as legacy, site reversibility and the relationship with the existing territory. He discusses the history of Olympic villages in recent decades, explains the choice of the Paris site, its past, the process of Paris' bid for the 2024 Games, Dominique Perrault's guiding concept for the design of the village, and the project's 12 ambitions. It is a window through which Greater Paris takes shape... Richly illustrated with photographs, graphics and plans, this book is aimed at designers and the general public alike. Its publication, a few months before the start of the Games, amplifies its impact by exploiting current events.

The publication explores the concept of polycephalum, a biologicalorganism known for its decentralized intelligence and adaptability. Drawinginspiration from nature's wisdom, ecoLogic Studio proposes a paradigm shiftin architectural and design thinking. The authors argue that by emulatingthe resilience and efficiency of polycephalum, we can pave the way towards asustainable future.Through a rich tapestry of case studies, design proposals, and theoreticalreflections, this volume showcases the studio's pioneering projects thatseamlessly integrate cutting-edge technology, biological principles, andartistic vision. From bio-digital urban facades to responsive ecologicalinstallations, the publication demonstrates how architecture can play apivotal role in addressing the urgent challenges of climate change.

This volume locates housing at the center of urban thinking today. The short essays, case studies, and roundtable conversations featured throughout Housing+ position housing as inextricably linked to urbanity and the pursuit of more desirable standards of living for all. Housing+ investigates how all facets of urbanity are implicated in the making of sustainably designed affordable housing. It draws on the experiences of 32 scholars, designers, and practicing professionals working across the fields of architecture, urban design, planning, and policymaking to situate the eponymous "+" as a harbinger of dialogue between scales, across space, and through time. Offered as a record of MIT's Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's third biennial conference, Housing+ offers exclusive insight into the projects that have defined the work of scholars and practitioners leading housing innovation across the fields of planning, policy, and urban and architectural design. The shorts essays, case studies, and roundtable conversations featured throughout the volume draw housing of out of isolation and positions it at the center of urban thinking today. Its consolidation of generations of work into a single, authoritative volume is of particular interest to those working on housing at the intersections of fabrication, community and partnership building, typology design, infrastructure, urban planning, placemaking, and participatory design.

Delve into the intriguing world of digital urban futures through discussions initiated at a series of engaging salons at MIT's Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, where experts from urban planning, filmmaking, virtual media, architecture, computer science, and activists explore, critique, and discuss the intersection of urbanism, technology, and design at a moment that AI is transforming the world. Openly available generative AI and algorithmic models have increased exponentially in the last decade, and these tools have already become embedded in our daily lives. City governments, urban designers, and planners are increasingly grappling with how to use them to design resilient urban futures. Digital urban processes are transforming social and spatial dynamics, shifting urban boundaries, enabling important socioeconomic mobility and engendering political collective capacities. Technology has always played a role in the development of urban environments since the earliest civilizations, and at this moment of mass technological change it is essential to redefine the role of technologies in urban environments and Digital Urbanism will lead the way in addressing these radical shifts. Digital Urbanism seeks to redefine the role of technology in the urban realm through a series of curated conversations on the future of technology in the urban realm where experts from urban planning, filmmaking, virtual media, architecture, computer science, and activists explore, critique, and discuss the intersection of urbanism, technology, and design. Five dinner conversations frame the dialog starting with the role of science fiction in creating new urban imaginaries, moving to a critique of technocentric urbanism, a discussion about the pedagogy needed for future professionals, then a focus on the evolving relations between climate research and computation, and finally the role of digital platforms and technology in urban environments and their ability strengthen civic engagement, public participation, and city services. With Contributions of Sarah Williams, Nicholas de Monchaux, Roi Salgueiro Barrio, Garnette Cardogan, Katja Schechtner, Dietmar Offenhuber, Elizabeth Christoforetti, Will Hunter, Gautam Sundaram, John Fernandez, David Carroll, Nigel Jacobs, and Catherine D'Ignazio

The book investigates spatial practices at the ground level of Beirut - Appropriation, Commoning, Production, and Activism - that fill the gap between the city's capital-driven development and the aspirations and needs of its inhabitants, in search for cohabitation and planning lessons that withstand chaos and uncertainty. Through such practices, the book reflects on the ground's project for collectivity reclaiming it as the backbone for co-producing the city.>This book examines specifically four spatial practices - Appropriation, Commoning, Production, and Activism - in how they inform and transform the diverse urban morphologies of the city from built matter to cultural organization. Through expansive visual and written narrations, the book constructs a graphical analysis of each practice, its materialization on the ground, its shaping of experience, and its impact on Beirut's urban transformation through the shifts that the city continues to endure.Central to the research is an extensive exploration of urban and architectural taxonomies that characterize the ground level of the city at multiple scales and through different time frames. Organized in four topical chapters, the work reflects on and analyzes each practice through specific methods, such as comparative urban sampling, typological cataloging, time-based mapping, and analytical drawings.>The work thus presents the tension between ground form In Beirut and its appropriation through the different spatial practices. It offers lessons of adaptation and planning for an uncertain future and helps rethink the ground of the city as the common denominator for collectivity and co-producing the city.

This monograph features a series of projects for architectural environments integrating synthetic ecologies with shifting material states. The projects engage the relationships between material histories and ecological futures in architecture.

This book traces the atypical journey of the Dacheng Flour Factory as a significant industrial heritage in Shenzhen's Shekou Industrial Zone. It spans from its inception at the beginning of China's Reform and Opening Up in the 1980s, its role as a venue of an international biennale in 2015, to its present-day condition of a ruined site with uncertain fate. Perspectives from diverse angles - urban planner, site owner, biennale organizer, architect - are interwoven to provoke reflections, with images capturing each pivotal stage of its journey. Built in 1980, Dacheng Flour Factory was the first wholly foreign-owned and exclusively operated enterprise introduced to Shekou Industrial Zone, Shenzhen, After years of flour production, it ended its operation in 2010 due to the industrial upgrading and transformation of the area. In 2015, the factory was selected as the main exhibition venue for the 6th Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) as a remarkable industrial legacy, and it was revitalized and brought to life through the design and renovation by NODE. However, the buildings in the renovated area started to demolish only six months later after the biennale. The remaining part of the factory fell in silence again with uncertainties beside the new rising bustling world-class homeport. Witness to the different stages of the city, Dacheng Flour Factory represents an exceptional yet universal case within the rapid urbanization process of the Pearl River Delta region in China. By revisiting and retracing its history through close observation and research, the book reflects on the current state of this industrial heritage, fosters conservation of urban regeneration on a broader scale, and hopes to promote changes in the reality.

Rethinking suburbs provides answers to how can we design and plan neighborhoods in which non-motorized mobility is a viable and efficient alternative; and how the street systems and alleys of neighborhoods can be designed and retrofitted to make their urban fabrics more efficient and integrated.>The conventional suburban model of low-density, automobile-centric development with fragmented streets cannot foster high levels of accessibility within neighborhoods. This study offers an alternative, evidence-based suburban design model for future cities.

As a sequel to The Empty Room: Fragmented thoughts on Space (Actar, 2020), this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) elaborates the same theme with one hundred iterations of a square room, each of which tells a different story of the emptiness between the walls. The Empty Room, in the absence of any visual materials, was a written manifesto composed of RZLBD's poems and collection of quotes intended to portray the room and the emptiness as the essence of architecture. Now, 100 Rooms complements our own blurry images of the empty room with a visual guide. Each spread consists of a plan and a physical model of a room, which is an excavation of the geometry and order inherent within the square. It holds no design intention -- no scale or function -- but simply one of infinite possibilities that emerge from a square. This framework suggests that the formal expression of a room comes from within. With these visual references, one can begin to imagine many approximations to the empty room. A line on paper is always less, as Kahn says, but through these measurable means, the immeasurable idea of the empty room will be formed in one's mind.

This book examines the relationship between architecture theory and the philosophy of mind. Today, the art of building has become increasingly dominated by concepts borrowed from science, but how do we interpret this influence when the causal reduction of thought and feeling to space-time physics has repeatedly failed? This collection of essays--part short fiction, part philosophical investigation, part architecture treatise--explores the "hard problem of consciousness" and what happens in theory when two distinct yet closely related ontologies are called into question. By deconstructing the conceptual supports for material monism and substance dualism, Ghost City raises questions largely ignored by contemporary designers--especially those focused on the evolution of artificial intelligence. Through a series of technologically motivated critiques, the author argues vehemently that direct insight into the nature of mind can help create a more timeless and ecologically sound framework for design in an age of accelerating change.

This is the first English publication of PARKKIM, Seoul and Boston based landscape architectural practice founded in 2004. When their first book publication ever "Alternative Nature (Mediabus, Seoul: 2015)" was mainly in Korean and sans images, this title invites the global audience to an in- depth discussion on the practice, backed by photos, drawings, and essays. This book is something beyond a normative architectural monograph that just describes projects, but something that invites readers to a new way of thinking about landscape architecture, nature, and the built environmen through the practice of PARKKIM. The selective works of PARKKIM, both built and unbuilt, are featured along with the photos, drawings, and narratives. A critical and introductory essay by Kim and Park invites the reader to join to ponder alternative ways of making the experience and function of nature. A few essays by design professionals and cultural critics expand the discourse by putting PARKKIM's practice within the contemporary context. Upon returning to the United States to teach at Harvard GSD, Yoonjin and Jungyoon detected the lack of discourse on contemporary Asian landscape practice in architecture publishing and beyond, even though the size of the Asian market and the quality of built works there have escalated to a previously unfathomable degree in recent decades. Additionally, Korean culture has recently made an unignorable impact across continents, races, and ages, mostly through K-pop and K-movie, which could facilitate increased interest in Korean architecture.

This anthology is a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago, and hosted by the Danish Arts Foundation at the 2021 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The pages give space to a conversation that stretches far outside both the confines of the Soil Lab's site in North Lawndale and the short duration of the biennial. The book is a meeting place for the voices which contributed to the Soil Lab project, and maps their constellation of disciplines--across architecture, art, anthropology, ecology, craft and community work--and global geographies, including the US, Denmark, Ireland, Puerto Rico and Austria. The story of the project, and the many lives and threads that it brushed up against, is told through histories, criticism, photographic essays, instruction manuals, soil recipes and interviews.

Beginning in the Spring 2018 semester, the Yale School of Architecture Gallery launched a program to give students the opportunity to curate and stage exhibitions. The content is driven by student proposals and strives to be responsive to current interests and concerns in the school, while remaining open to the unique perspectives that stem from the breadth of our students backgrounds and outlooks. With the 2022-23 academic year, the North Gallery was able to return to a schedule of presenting three exhibitions per semester. This publication collects the six entries that graced our walls over that period.>Founded in 2018, the Yale School of Architecture North Gallery program gives students the opportunity to curate and stage exhibitions. The content is driven by student proposals and strives to be responsive to current interests and concerns in the school, while remaining open to the unique perspectives that stem from the breadth of our student's backgrounds and outlooks. This edition of the catalog contains six exhibitions from the 2022-23 academic year.

Christoph Zellweger is a jewellery designer, whose approach is cross-disciplinary. He creates hybrid objects and contemplative works of art and develops products, interactive installations and exhibition events.