Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Regional

The book intends to communicate a targeted objective, to circumscribe a segment, a series of observations and actions in architecture. However, it is a selected, fully open, and deep fragment, outlining conceptual and practical verifications on critical views and concrete projects, concerning the actual, extensive world of architecture in the Latin...

While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract houses of America's postwar suburbs represent the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing. Houses for a New World is the first comprehensive history of this uniquely American form of domestic architecture and...

Urban Change untersucht die massiven Veranderungsprozesse des urbanen Raumes in einer Welt rapide fortschreitender Urbanisierung. Vor dem Hintergrund der Komplexitat dieser Veranderung analysieren international renommierte Experten diesen Wandel aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Wissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse der Change Theory werden mit Praktiken inklusiver Raumproduktion ebenso vernetzt wie kunstlerische Praktiken im offentlichen Raum mit neuen stadtebaulichen Uberlegungen. Das Buch beschreibt Transformationsprozesse, die von kunstlerischen Interventionen und Bestrebungen nach...

Superblocks are the basic unit of China's urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined 'Megablocks' then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential global proliferation of Chinese urban models, reconsidered through the filters of ecology, economics, and ethics.

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