Книги по философии архитектуры

A graphic guide to ornaments in the twentieth century. It unveils the function of ornament as the agent for specific affects, dismantling the idea that ornament is applied to buildings as a discrete or non-essential entity. Each case exploits specific synergies between the exterior and the interior, constructing an internal order between ornament and material. These internal orders produce expressions that are contemporary, yet whose affects are resilient in time.

Initiated as a seminar at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Farshid Moussavi is a partner in leading London-based firm Foreign Office Architects.

Metapolis (multicity): Beyond the metropolis of the industrial era emerges the Metapolis of the digital era. The city is now a place of places, where numerous urban models coexist, each with its own qualities that make it different from the rest. In the Metapolis, the dwelling becomes a place where we live, work and rest--thanks to audiovisual and telematic systems--where the neighborhood is a multinational environment of direct relation between citizens and where zoning no longer has any meaning. The Metapolis creates complete environments (dwelling, leisure, commerce, education) in the proximity of the dwelling. - from the Metapolis entry in the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture.

A dictionary for a world whose cities are linked by fiber optic cables and whose citizens are virtually global, a world where airports are meeting places and meetings take place via web conference, the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture identifies a new architectural will and a new social and cultural panorama.

From "abduction" to "zoom," radical definitions abound. Collected together they form a global, cross-disciplinary, multi-voiced vision of new architectural action. They define an architecture that is inscribed in information society, that is influenced by new technologies and new economies, and that concerns itself with the environment and sustainability.

Entries have been written by the six main authors - Gausa, Guallart, Müller, Morales, Porras and Soriano - plus dozens of international contributors, including Iñaki Abalos & Juan Herreros, Stan Allen, Cecil Balmond, Ben van Berkel, Aaron Betsky, Eduard Bru, Greg Lynn, Josep Lluís Mateo, Frédéric Migayrou, Marcos Novak, José Pérez Arroyo, Andreas Ruby, Antonino Saggio, Saskia Sassen, Kelly Shannon, Lars Spuybroek, Roemer van Toorn and Mark Wigley.

For the sake of accessibility, the dictionary has been organized according to three distinct systems.

The main dictionary is laid out in alphabetical order, with each entry explained via one or various contributors' interpretations, plus a list of related words.

Within this larger dictionary are two smaller ones: the ideological dictionary (see "ideological dictionary"), located roughly at the center of the book, offers analogical groups of words related to specific idea; the dictionary of aphorisms (see "synthetical") synthesizes some of the key definitions from the main dictionary in the form of mottos.

Finally, please note that this is an illustrated dictionary, with images used to facilitate quick explanations of related terms.

Beginning in the "heroic" period of the 1920s, Le Corbusier presented his work to the world in his lectures: in Paris and Rome, Geneva and Zurich, Barcelona and Brussels, Prague and Moscow, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, as well as at Columbia University in New York.

In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them, we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the arguments and strategies, seminal ideas and most convincing highlights and fuses them into an architectural conception that every advanced architectural position and practice must still come to terms with today.

After presenting the lectures in detail in a series of thematic chapters, the final third of the book reproduces five pivotal lectures from the 1920s and 1950s.

New possibilities for seemingly impossible buildings and spaces.

Thanks to innovations in building materials, design technologies, and construction tools, a new generation of architects can finally realize structures that would have previously remained mere dreams. This emergence of a new vernacular of radically sculpted buildings, rooms, and installations melds rigorous usability with a playful and cutting edge aesthetic, facilitating highly functional yet undeniably exhilarating spaces.

The Sky’s the Limit serves as a compelling exploration of these seemingly impossible, yet surprisingly practical structures and spaces. Unleashing the creative potential offered by the latest developments in design and construction, this book presents spectacularly formed buildings, façades, and interiors as well as inspiring temporary projects and urban interventions by both young and established talents. The projects featured here have all been built, are actively in use, and transport us to the outer limits of our spatial imagination.

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In contemporary architecture, nothing appears impossible anymore. Today, every form, space, and idea — no matter how visionary, radical, or confounding — proves not only conceivable, but also technically feasible. Advances in innovative materials and digital construction tools empower a new generation of architects, engineers, and designers to build structures that would have previously remained mere dreams. This emergence of a new vernacular of radically sculpted buildings, rooms, and installations melds rigorous usability with a playful and cutting edge aesthetic, facilitating highly functional yet undeniably exhilarating spaces.

The Sky’s the Limit serves as a compelling and international exploration of these seemingly impossible, yet surprisingly practical structures and spaces by both young and established talents. Within the book, spectacularly formed permanent buildings mingle alongside expressive interiors and exteriors for both temporary projects and urban interventions.

The Sky’s the Limit challenges architects, engineers, interior designers, artists, booth builders, material experts, and exhibition planners to discover and develop innovative design and construction techniques. The projects featured here have all been built and are actively in use, transporting us to the outer limits of our spatial imagination.

As a complex entity, an interesting building always has an interesting epic, a story that is embedded in the organisation of matter. A specific building epic, that of the Yokohama International Port terminal, is described in this book, the first in the series of Verb monographs. The book is structured as a replica of architecture design team's unique process, one where every member is in charge of an entire design package. This editorial structure has two fundamental intentions: first, to depict the design development process as the growth of ideas from rather specific material domains; second, to rediscover the linearity of the ordering system of construction documents. As an experiment falling outside of the typical architecture publication, we have chosen to exlude critical texts (theorisation on the work) in favor of a description of the set of decisions that made various matters evolve into a building.As a complex entity, an interesting building always has an interesting epic, a story that is embedded in the organisation of matter. A specific building epic, that of the Yokohama International Port terminal, is described in this book, the first in the series of Verb monographs. The book is structured as a replica of architecture design team's unique process, one where every member is in charge of an entire design package. This editorial structure has two fundamental intentions: first, to depict the design development process as the growth of ideas from rather specific material domains; second, to rediscover the linearity of the ordering system of construction documents. As an experiment falling outside of the typical architecture publication, we have chosen to exlude critical texts (theorisation on the work) in favor of a description of the set of decisions that made various matters evolve into a building.

GD #4: TRADITION & CRISIS is a source of architectonic inspiration. It demonstrates how the modern Danish architectural tradition continues in a time characterised by a historical financial and architectural crisis. The book features architecture within the following typologies: housing, sports buildings, culture buildings, educational and public buildings. The projects featured are created by Danish architectural firms such as BBP Arkitekter, Entasis, Gottlieb Paludan Arkitekter, KHR Arkitekter, and Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects.

An inspirational exploration of utopias and radical approaches to city planning.

Whether created by established architects and artists or new talents, the examples in Utopia Forever are important catalysts for fundamental change and are radically shaping our notions of life in the future. The current projects and concepts from architecture, city planning, urbanism, and art collected here point beyond the restrictions of the factual to unleash the potential of creative visions. This inspiring work explores how current challenges for architecture, mobility, and energy as well as the logistics of food consumption and waste removal can be met. Text features by both architects and theorists give added insight.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.- Oscar Wilde

The cities in which we live today are unfortunately not the cities that we need for a humane and sustainable tomorrow. Societies and politicians are desperately looking for solutions and ideas for the urban areas of the future. That is why the development and discussion of utopias are - next to sustainability - the most current topics in contemporary architecture.

We have learned from the 1960s and 1970s that utopian visions are one of the most important catalysts for fundamental change. Modern wind farms for generating energy, for example, were initially contemplated at that time and are now permanent fixtures in our landscapes.

Utopia Forever is a collection of current projects and concepts from architecture, city planning, urbanism, and art that point beyond the restrictions of the factual to unleash the potential of creative visions. In contrast to the largely ideal-theoretic approaches of the past, today’s utopias take the necessity for societal changes into account. The projects in this book explore how current challenges for architecture, mobility, and energy as well as the logistics of food consumption and waste removal can be met.

Whether created by established architects and artists or new talents, the projects in Utopia Forever are radically shaping our notions of life in the future.

Verb Crisis examines architectural solutions to the extraordinary conditions of an increasingly dense and interdependent world.

It presents innovative projects and research through original photos, essays, and exclusive interviews with key figures from architecture and urban planning to environmental, economic, and global affairs.

Confronted by shifting densities and uncharted urban transformations, Crisis tackles the conflict between the physical limits of architectural design and the demands on the practice for an updated social relevance.

Featuring: FOA, Teddy Cruz, Shigeru Ban, Elemental, Boris B.Jensen, Hilary Sample, John May, Jacobo García Germán, Markus Miessen, Interboro Partners, MVRDV, and Takuya Onishi.

“What is fascinating is the inability to separate the real from the digital, because they already form part of the same nature.”

So we said in the last issue of Verb.

Here we explore how this fusion takes place. Buildings and cities grow, are transformed, and dissolve.

How can this evolution be generated, controlled, enhanced or imagined?

Is our environment programmable?

How does the fusion of natural and artificial matter produce new architectural organisms, new environments, new natures?

How does technology animate space, and how do users and programs animate matter?

The fifth volume of Actar's boogazine looks for a new definition of the organic.

Projects by: Terraswarm, Aranda/Lasch, Shohei Matsukawa / 000studio, Kram/Weisshaar, Michael Meredith, mos, Foster + Partners, George L. Legendre, IJP Corporation, PTW Architects + Arup Australia + CSCEC, ON-A, Hitoshi Abe, Manuel Gausa Asociados, Vicente Guallart, Mick Pearce, Yusuke Obuchi, R&Sie(n), Cristina Díaz, AMID, INI, ONL...

The shift from modern to digital systems of design and production opens up a material work to a deeper relationship between author and perceiver.

From the classical work to the modern object and from the modern industrial to 'computerised' procedures, the interplay between author and user has become closer, more direct and open.

How does this increasing complicity affect architectural practice?

How can architecture be conceived as a more fluid informational development?

Publishing architectures is much more than displaying a recently finished product in which the architect is the unique author.

To make architecture is a real undertaking of numerous authors based on the processing of information before, during and after the materialization of the building.

The contemporary relationship between information and authorship in architectural practice, featuring works and texts by Manuel de Landa, Jorge Wagensberg, FOA Architects, Sadar & Vuga, njiric & njiric, Love, Lacaton & Vassal.

Книга Аллана Джейкобса рассказывает о лучших улицах и их характеристиках, поддающихся расчету и проектированию. Главная цель исследования — дать проектировщикам и специалистам, ответственным за принятие решений в сфере планирования городов, информацию, которой они могли бы пользоваться в работе. Книга снабжена рисунками, чертежами и планами. Издание предназначено для специалистов и тех, кто интересуется проблемами урбанистики.

Несмотря на то, что Джекобс написал ее еще в 1995 году, именно сейчас тема улицы как полноценной городской институции злободневна и актуальна.

Модернистская концепция улицы – отрезка от А до Б – изжила себя. Тенденция к созданию комфортной городской среды – прежде всего в мегаполисах – требует вернуть пешеходам те сформированные в традиционной парадигме пространства, которые служат средством коммуникации.

«Если мы будем проектировать наши улицы так, чтобы они становились более комфортными и способствовали объединению населения микрорайонов, превращаясь в общественные пространства, привлекательные для всех жителей города и его окрестностей, то треть городского пространства будет вовлечена в процесс совершенствования напрямую, а другие две трети окажутся под сильным его воздействием», – пишет Джекобс.

На примере Рамблы в Барселоне, улицы Строгет в Копенгагене, Пятой авеню в Нью-Йорке, бульвара Сан-Мишель в Париже – улиц, сформировавшихся преимущественно до 1930-х годов – автор живым, понятным даже непрофессиональному читателю языком анализирует наиболее «успешные» и привлекательные городские «артерии» по всему миру.

«Единственный грех на Земле — это делать свою работу плохо», - говорит в этом сборнике статей всемирно известный голландский архитектор Эрик ван Эгераат.

В течение 4 лет, пришедшихся на мировой финансовый кризис, он публиковал в журнале Commercial Real Estate статьи, которые на первый взгляд могут показаться интересными лишь небольшому количеству коммерсантов, выписывающих журнал, да менеджерам, грезящим о девелоперском будущем.

Однако будучи объединенными в сборник с программным текстом «Жизнь без красоты», статьи неожиданно сложились в книгу, помогающую понять место архитектуры и конкретного человека в глобальном мироустройстве.

При этом Эгераат не учит тому, какой должна быть современная архитектура и не дает советов как надо строить, не рекомендует куда надо вкладывать деньги, не ругает Россию и российских архитекторов. Он просто поводит подводит читателя к мысли, которую, кажется, каждому человеку в современном обществе стоило бы вбить в голову с детства - что универсальным мерилом деятельности общества или отдельного человека является не произведенное им количество денег, а созданная им красота. Почти неожиданно в своей простоте.

Редакция журнала об архитектуре и дизайне Architectural Digest выпустила исключительное издание "Словесные конструкции. 35 великих архитекторов мира".

За десять лет издания в России с 2002 года в журнале AD (Architectural Digest) регулярно публиковались интервью со звездами мировой архитектуры:

- Норманом Фостером,
- Оскаром Нимейером,
- Кисе Курокавой,
- Фрэнком Гери и многими другими.

В сборнике "Словесные конструкции. 35 великих архитекторов мира" собраны лучшие из этих интервью.
Авторы текстов - ведущие архитектурные критики России: Алексей Тарханов, Григорий Ревзин, Владимир Паперный.