Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure: Making and Using the Urban Environment

ISBN-13: 9781138405486 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Nigel Bertram

Opis

This book is a collection of urban research and architectural projects by award-winning architect Nigel Bertram, using observation as a design tool and design as an observational method. Through this process, a position on the making of architecture and on the role of architecture within the wider urban environment is established.

Recenzje

Prize: Winner of Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media, Australian Institute of Architects ’Recently in many architectural schools efforts intensified to further develop architectural research. Exciting new avenues are being explored, relying upon the design skills of architects and urban designers, combining them with intellectual rigor and in-depth thinking, in order to imagine new spatialities and to unfold hitherto unknown spatial experiences. This series highlights the innovative results of these explorations, opening up a new world of path-breaking research.’ Hilde Heynen, University of Leuven, Belgium 'This is a quintessential textbook that can be read in any direction ... making it very attractive to those who are time-poor ... Bertram provides an articulate and informative - albeit brief - introduction on the theme observation, which serves as a perfect primer for the subsequent read finding space, amplification, making small space, interruption/events and depth/activity ... It is a book that every student, graduate and practising architect should keep in their personal library.' ArchitectureAU

Spis treści

Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Openings; Division and multiplication; Intersections; By-product Tokyo; Appropriations; Elwood House; Thresholds; Fitzroy Apartments; Plans; Somers House and North Fitzroy House; Details; RMIT Building 45; Materials; Pioneer Museum Plaza and Lyons office; Furniture; Conversations; Project data; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Nigel Bertram is a Director of NMBW Architecture Studio, Melbourne and Practice Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Art Design & Architecture at Monash University, Australia.