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3) Expanding fields of architectural discourse and practice: curated works from the P.E.A.R. journal
Publisher
UCL Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice presents a selection of essays, architectural experiments, and works that explore the diversity within the fields of contemporary architectural practice and discourse. The book pays particular attention to the question of how and why architecture can and should manifest a critical and reflective capacity outside of its primary function; it also closely examines the ways the discipline currently...
Publisher
Leuven University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism.0Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux....
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 434 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The Architect's Guide to Design-Build Services offers authoritative knowledge and industry insight to architects considering entry into the burgeoning practice of design-build project delivery. Written by architects and other professionals with expertise in risk management, law, ethics, finance, and contracts, this instructive guide addresses the roles architects can assume during a design-build project, including leading the project, acting as subcontractor,...
Publisher
UCL Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
FABRICATE is an international peer reviewed conference that takes place every three years with a supporting publication on the theme of Digital Fabrication. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE brings together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation....
Series
Publisher
UCL Press
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xx, 292 pages)
Language
English
Description
What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today and tomorrow?Re-Centring the City zooms in on these questions, taking as...
Author
Publisher
ANU E Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xviii, 213 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The story of how these progressive clients contributed to the innovative design of their houses brings fresh insights to mid-twentieth-century Australian domestic architecture and to Canberra's rich cultural history.
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 electronic resource (261 pages )
Language
English
Description
Is it possible for conservationists to approve of the reconstruction of old façades when virtually everything behind them is modern? Should they continue to protect the front façade, when the rest of the historic building has vanished? Is it socially responsible to spend government money on reconstructing a historic building that has been completely destroyed? Can one do such a thing fifty years on?. According to reigning ideas in the world of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In every age, science and technology have played an important role in advancing human civilization. From architecture to engineering, communication to transportation, humans have invented and developed extraordinary wonders. Architecture is a key element of every culture. From the earliest huts, humans have been building a variety of structures in which to live, work, and play. Sometimes we take our buildings for granted, but architecture impacts...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm
Language
English
Description
Frank Lloyd Wright, born in Wisconsin, is the avatar of American architecture. Both before and after World War I, the boldness and innovation of Wright's buildings, built largely in the Midwest, established his reputation as a leading architect. As his career progressed, Wright became discouraged with the confinement of cities and moved to develop his ideas for buildings in harmony with the natural world. Today, many years after his death, not only...
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