Урбанизм

Working with urban water presents one of the most fundamental and rewarding challenges in our cities today.

After realizing Asia is heavily in need of flood protection and improvement of water quality and urban quality, we feel delighted to present our ideas for those issues in this book. After the three editions of Waterscapes, we made a conscious decision to publish our most current work now in an English/Chinese bilingual version for Asia.

As the urbanisation process has reached an enormous speed, the consideration of clean water, blue sky and quality of life for people in dense cities has reached utmost importance. This has to be seen also in the light of harsh competition between cities and their abilities to attract investment and talent.

About the Author

Herbert Dreiseitl, born in 1955, is a sculptor, water artist and landscape architect. After his studies, he founded Atelier Dreiseitl in Überlingen on Lake Constance in 1980. He has realized numerous projects in the fields of stormwater management, water art and landscape architecture. He is active in lecturing worldwide and his work is widely published. He is guest professor at NUS Singapore and director at Ramboll LCL.

10 принципов городской трансформации. Европейский путь восстановления городов (Том 1)

Эта книга является практическим руководством, в котором на примере крупных европейских городов демонстрируется, как может выглядеть городское развитие, ориентированное на людей. Такой подход предполагает обновление и развитие именно гуманных городов с учетом их истории и созданием масштабного архитектуры человека. Книга придерживается традиции, начатой ​​Яном Гейлом, которая рассматривает городское пространство как среду для жизни и общения людей. Отправной точкой для этой книги является европейская традиция плотного классического города. Особое внимание уделяется физическим и пространственным параметрам, моделям развития застройки и типам зданий, а также руководящим принципам, регулирующим доступность и взаимосвязи с дорогами общего пользования. Все это является основой безопасной городской жизни. Книга разделена на десять тематических разделов, в каждом из которых приведены определения и общее описание основных проблем вместе с предложениями по их решению.

Исторический очерк городского развития и практически организованная тематическая структура, лежащая в основе обсуждаемых концепций, позволяют приведенным примерам значительно расширить понимание этой темы.

10 принципов современной планировки. Европейский путь восстановления городов (Том 2)

Что такое квартальные города? Это плотные органические города с взаимосвязанными строительными структурами и доступными городскими пространствами. Города, предлагающие разнообразие, яркость и высокие архитектурные качества, побуждают исследовать их пешком или на велосипеде. Они создают чувство открытости, позволяют жителям чувствовать себя в безопасности, предлагают места для общения и способствуют культурному единству. Города, уважающие традиции и культурное наследие. В этой книге архитектор Карстен Полссон рассматривает городские кварталы как структуру, которая лучше всего подходит для содействия развитию устойчивой городской жизни. Он исследует появление определенных качеств благодаря использованию городских кварталов в качестве основных элементов застройки, беря примеры из выбранных европейских городов, а также старых и новых городских районов в столице Дании Копенгагене. Он определяет ключевые элементы квартального города и исследует его широкий потенциал. Наконец, Полссон предлагает десять принципов современного планирования, которые являются основой подхода к трансформации старых городских районов и новых.

"Public art is one of the most important elements that define a city. Public installations echo the character and spirit of a time and place, and remind us all of the imperative need for creativity and imagination in our daily lives."
(Carole Feuerman)

Art has always made a substantial contribution to cultural identity. This impact is considerably enhanced when a work of art is created for a public place and takes on a space-defining function. Whatever the shape, size or medium, art in public, accessible to all, attracts attention. Its presence provokes thought, questions assumptions, expresses values, and adds new qualities to communities and cities.

In this volume, selected works introduce the history of public art over 4,500 years of historical eras and styles, including world-famous landmarks such as the Great Sphinx of Giza, the Trevi Fountain or the Statue of Liberty. The majority of art works presented here are from modern times, allowing an in-depth look at contemporary works by important artists like Alexander Calder, Nam June Paik, Jeff Koons, Eduardo Chillida or Ai Weiwei.

Sir William Chambers (1722–96) was a Swedish-British architect with an unusual track record. He designed imaginative castle buildings and luxurious interiors as well as simple and rational utilitarian architecture. After growing up in Sweden, he worked mostly in England, where he became a favorite of King George III. But throughout his life he emphasized his Swedish background and also designed buildings in Sweden. A Treatise on Civil Architecture is a handbook in architecture, where Chambers wanted to explain the basics of the art of building in a pedagogical way. Even today it serves as an excellent guide to the secrets of classical architecture with concise texts and beautiful plates with both details and overviews of different building types and their functions.

About the Authors:

Frank Salmon is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Since 2021 he has been Director of the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture at Cambridge. He is an architectural historian specialising in British and European architecture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Among his many publications are the book Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture.

Clive Aslet is an award-winning architectural historian and journalist. During a long association with Country Life, he was editor for 13 years. As author of The Edwardian Country House, The American Country House, Landmarks of Britain and Villages of Britain, he is an authority on the countryside, British history and architecture, and life at the turn of the twentieth century on both sides of the Atlantic. A lifelong advocate of Classicism, he helped establish the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture at Cambridge in 2021.

Since Carl Benz’ 1886 patented three wheeled motorcar the automobile has changed public space more than any other invention. New building types had to be created to house the car when immobile, so when it is purchased, serviced or parked. From the beginning architects have transformed the purely functional buildings into landmarks, places of wonder and experience.

Automobile Architecture presents the most interesting contemporary showrooms, gas stations and parking structures. It becomes clear that a new paradigm has emerged, one that places functionality, aesthetics and sustainability at the center of the conceptualization of automobile architecture. The most interesting design concepts are featured from prominent as well as upcoming architects.

From the contents:

- C42 Showroom in Paris, Frankreich (Manuelle Gautrand)
- Abu Dhabi Automotive, UAE (ONL)
- Civic Center Parking in in Santa Monica, USA (Moore Ruble Yudell)
- Shinjuku Gardens in Tokyo, Japan (Cheungvogl)
- Gloucester Gateway Services, Great Britian (Glenn Howells Architects)

The city of Lviv in western Ukraine has been undergoing a process of transformation for several years aimed at modernising its infrastructure and promoting urban development. The challenges the city faced reached an unprecedented level following Russia’s full scale invasion in February 2022. Lviv quickly became a critical hub for hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the war-torn regions of eastern Ukraine. The city was tasked with mitigating the immediate effects of the war while developing resilient structures to sustain this role in the short, medium, and long term.

Even before the war, the city fostered smart dialogue between research and practice in local and international contexts. Through their Academic Cooperation Programme, the Faculties of Architecture at Lviv Polytechnic National University and TU Wien contribute to this continuous dialogue. This book discusses practical and academic proposals for the urban transformation of Lviv, particularly during the ongoing crisis. It thereby offers valuable insights for urbanists, architects, city managers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, and the general public.

A visually stunning and beautifully written celebration of park life around the world.

Parks are an absolutely essential part of modern life. From the author who brought you Lido, here are 50 of the world’s greatest parks – but not just a list of the examples we already know. Yes, we’ll tell you about those storied greats such as Central Park in New York and Phoenix Park in Dublin, but we’ll also take you to the Philippines, to Australia, to provincial Britain and around the world to show you the most historic and the most interesting, the newest and most cutting-edge that mix the best of nature and architecture. We’ll explore what you can find there, who goes there, why they are important, and how parks respond to their environments, including ones over a road, on old rail lines or in Berlin’s former airport. Examples include:

- Freeway Park, Seattle, USA: a bizarre and brilliant brutalist park over a motorway.
- Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil: this one contains amazing galleries and theatres.
- Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, UK: mountains within a city.
- Adelaide’s parks, Australia: unique in that the entire city centre is enclosed by parks.

and many, many more. Illustrated with glorious photographs throughout, this book is a fascinating record of the world’s most interesting and innovative parks, and the people who use them – you’ll want to visit them all.

About the Author:

Christopher Beanland is a journalist, comedy writer and author who specialises in architecture and travel writing. He is the author of Unbuilt: Radical Visions of a Future that Never Arrived and Lido: A dip into outdoor swimming pools: the history, design and people behind them. He writes regularly for the Guardian, Independent and The Telegraph and is the creator of Park Date – a podcast where he interviews celebrity guests in a park. Christopher lives in London.

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Planning competitions are used in public and private projects as an instrument for optimising the design and selecting planning partners. For both small and large projects, the organised, fair, transparent and specialist process helps to improve the quality of urban development, buildings, open spaces and art. Like its successful predecessor title, this book documents the competition procedures coordinated by [phase eins]. in recent years. Founded in 1998, [phase eins]. is one of the leading offices for project consulting and competition management in the fields of architecture and urban design. A total of

27 projects in Germany, Austria, Albania, Ukraine, Kuwait, Belgium, Canada and Lebanon are presented with extensive illustrations and explanations. The book also contains texts on fundamental issues relating to the competition system.

About the Authors:

Benjamin Hossbach, born 1966 in Darmstadt, Germany. In 1995 he completed his architecture degree at the TU Berlin. After having worked as an online editor of Bauwelt – Germany’s leading architectural journal – and as a self-employed architect, in 1998 he founded the firm [phase eins]. Projektberatung + Wettbewerbsmanagement für Architektur und Städtebau (Project Consultancy + Competition Management for Architecture and Urban Development). He is also an author of numerous specialist publications on architectural competitions and a guest lecturer, incl. at the ETH Zürich, Harvard University and the TU Berlin. Christian Lehmhaus, born 1963 in Bielefeld, Germany. In 1993 he completed his architecture degree at the TU Berlin. Since 2001, after having been employed as an architect, he has been Partner and Managing Director at [phase eins]. Projektberatung + Wettbewerbsmanagement für Architektur und Städtebau. He was also Professor of Project Management and Project Development at Bochum University of Applied Sciences. Christine Eichelmann, born 1959 in Werneck, Germany. In 1986 she completed her architecture degree at the TU Berlin. Since 2008, after having been employed as an architect – incl. at Studio Libeskind (Berlin), OMA (London) and Karen van Lengen (New York) – and as a project manager, she has been General Manager and Chief Representative of [ phase eins]. Projektberatung + Wettbewerbsmanagement für Architektur und Städtebau. She was also a research assistant at the TU Berlin und ran her own architectural practice from 1994 to 1997.

Mass housing and urban planning are a key element in North ­Korea’s material foundation. In the post-war era, the country attempted to socialise all types of living spaces – from small apartment rooms to urban settings – based on political ideology. The idea that North Korea’s political for­ces are brainwashing their people is superficial – as testimonies from many defectors have revealed.

By exploring home culture and daily life, this book aims to capture the actual life of North Koreans, who have largely supported the country’s unique dictatorial political system. 
To this end, it uses drawings, maps, and diagrams obtained from various archives. While these are neutral forms of communication, they also convey the actual intentions of North Korean architects and planners hidden behind the deceitful claims of political leaders.

· The reconstruction of Pyongyang and Hamhŭng
· Piotr Zaremba and the urban planning of Chongjin
· The creation of Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang
· The emergence of mass housing in Post-War North Korea
· The introduction of microdistricts in site planning
· Socialisation of rural space in North Korea
· The planning of Gwangbok Street New Town in Pyongyang
· The development of the housing market

About the Author:

Inha Jung is teaching architectural history and theory at Hanyang University (ERICA Campus). He graduated from Seoul National University in 1987, and acquired his Ph.D. at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), France in 1993. After joining the Hanyang faculty in 1995, he focused his research on Korean modern architecture. Based on the investigation of archival documents, he tried to clarify Korean architects’ role and contribution in the modernization of Korean society.

Un-volumetric architecture expresses a new condition acquired in dealing with and designing open and public space from the nineties to today.

This volume is therefore intended to offer a theoretical reflection conducted through 100 construction projects worldwide that have faced the difficult challenge of delineating and building a new identity for that transient and continually metamorphosing category that is the contemporary open space.

The considerable creative freedom, the low budget, the sophisticated relationship with the landscape and geography, the dialogue with new metropolitan realities, the possibility of offering temporary solutions, all make these projects among the richest, freest and most stimulating collections currently available, through the work of major protagonists and many emerging authors on the international scene.

The volume is divided into 10 sections: Surfaces, Vertical, Enclosures, Design, Shelters, Environment, Earthworks, Figures, Technique and Events, which attempt to accompany the reader around a complex world of solutions and projects ranging from the traditional public space to the landscape, from the rock concert to the provisional space for cultural and artistic events, from the design of infrastructures to the most sophisticated garden.

Each section is introduced by a small essay, written by such important authors on the contemporary scene as Denise Scott Brown, James Wines, Pippo Ciorra, Wes Jones, Enrico Morteo, Alberto Ferlenga, Ilhyun Kim, Kengo Kuma, Arie Graafland, Juan Purcell and Bernardo Secchi, who attempt to tackle the theme of the contemporary open space, offering unprecedented stimuli for theoretical reflection.

Protecting human beings has always been one of the most genuine purposes of architecture. Due to the increase in global warming in recent years, protection from the sun is becoming one of its most important functions. This challenge has resulted in numerous trendsetting technological innovations and amazing design concepts, which have been collected in this book. Shade is mainly created in three ways: while opaque constructions block off all light, perforated devices as well as translucent materials reduce the exposure to light.

Creating Shade presents all conceivable types and forms of shade-providing design made of a host of different materials such as wood, fabrics, concrete, and a great number of synthetic materials. The collection includes elegant pergolas, extravagant pavilions, and roofed piazzas, as well as a fascinating solution for a canopy over a Roman excavation site and the spectacular Metropol Parasol in Seville. Outstanding serial products are presented along with individually constructed creations.

- Solar Carport in Las Vegas, USA (SunPower Design)
- Fresh Flower in London, UK (Tonkin Liu)
- Panyaden School in Chiang Mai, Thailand (24H architecture)
- Oval Shade in Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia (Bureau Alexander Brodsky)
- On the Way to the Sea in Bat-Yam, Israel (Derman Verbakel Architecture)

Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas’s celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behaviour. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle — “the culture of congestion” — and its architecture.

“Manhattan,” he writes, “is the 20th century’s Rosetta Stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall).” Koolhaas interprets and reinterprets the dynamic relationship between architecture and culture in a number of telling episodes of New York’s history, including the imposition of the Manhattan grid, the creation of Coney Island, and the development of the skyscraper. Delirious New York is also packed with intriguing and fun facts and illustrated with witty watercolours and quirky archival drawings, photographs, postcards, and maps. The spirit of this visionary investigation of Manhattan equals the energy of the city itself.

About the Author:

Rem Koolhaas is the internationally known architect, a founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) in Rotterdam, and author of the critically acclaimed S,M,L,XL.

An entirely new language of design is reshaping our gardens, public squares and business parks

Despite its importance to urban planning and the environment, landscape design has often played a subsidiary role to architecture but, now, new social sensitivities, advances in materials, mapping techniques, digital technologies and construction methods are driving landscape design and producing a new wave of work around the world.

A vital publication, Digital Landscape Architecture Now presents work by the 50 most innovative practices across the globe. From dedicated landscape designers to architects turning their hand to the horizontal.

A successor to Digital Architecture Now, this large format, highly visual book is packed with inspiration and new ideas for a world of more beautifully designed outdoors.

Includes work by:

Ballistic Architecture Machine
Balmori
Bradley Cantrell
EcoLogicStudio
Emergent
Fletcher Studio
Freise Brothers
Groundlab
GT2P
Paulo Guerreiro
Kathryn Gustafson
Zaha Hadid
Hargreaves Associates
Hood Design
Andrés Jaque Arquitectos 
Laboratory for Visionary Architecture
LAND
Land-I Archicolture
Landworks Studio
Lateral Office

Metagardens
Meyer & Silberberg
MLZ Design
MVRDV
Nox
O2 Planning & Design
Philip Paar
Jörg Rekittke
Paisajes Emergentes
PEG Office of Landscape & Architecture
PYO Arquitectos
R&Sie(n)
Chris Speed Stoss
LU
TerreformONE
opotek1
Turenscape
Urbanarbolismo
VisionDivision
West 8

A spectacular global survey of the new buildings merging architecture and nature to transform our cities for a sustainable future.

Concrete horizons, urban sprawl, high-density living: never have our cities and their buildings been in greater need of greening. Yet what’s required is more than an occasional vertical garden or living roof. Featuring seventy projects from around the world – some built, some ongoing, some from the future – Garden City looks at the increasingly inventive ways in which architects and designers are incorporating nature into the built environment, transforming the city for the benefit of all.

From office buildings that incorporate urban farms and exchange the CO2 produced by humans for food and oxygen produced by plants, to lightweight systems for growing gardens on vertical surfaces; from ‘tree houses’ the size of city blocks to civic buildings that are ‘plugged into’ existing water-management systems – there are rich and often unexpected ideas for every inquiring designer.

The future of our urban architecture is biologically alert, naturally self-sustaining and alive. Garden City is this future’s first manifesto.

About the Author:

Anna Yudina is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Monitor magazine. She has curated a number of international architecture and design exhibitions, including shows on Zaha Hadid and Jakob & MacFarlane, both represented in this book. Yudina is also the author of Phase: The Architecture of Jakob & MacFarlane and Eske Rex: Silent Action.