Ways of Residing in Transformation

Ways of Residing in Transformation
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 9781134808809
ISBN-13 : 1134808801
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Book Synopsis Ways of Residing in Transformation by : Sten Gromark

Download or read book Ways of Residing in Transformation written by Sten Gromark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfolding diversity of residential architecture and spatially restructured cities. The complexity of urban and societal processes behind these changes requires new research approaches in order to fully grasp the significant changes in citizens lifestyles, their residential preferences, capacities and future opportunities for implementing resilient residential practices. The international case studies in this book examine why ways of residing have changed as well as the meaning and the significance of the social, economic, political, cultural and symbolic contexts. The volume brings together an interdisciplinary range of perspectives to reflect specifically upon the dynamic exchange between evolving ways of residing and professional practices in the fields of architecture and design, planning, policy-making, facilities management, property and market. In doing so, it provides a resourceful basis for further inquiries seeking an understanding of ways of residing in transformation as a reflection of diversifying residential cultures. This book will offer insights of interest to academics, policy-makers and professionals as well as students of urban studies, sociology, architecture, housing, planning, business and economics, engineering and facilities management.

Architecture and the Housing Question

Architecture and the Housing Question
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9781351182959
ISBN-13 : 1351182951
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Book Synopsis Architecture and the Housing Question by : Can Bilsel

Download or read book Architecture and the Housing Question written by Can Bilsel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing political projects and to the architecture profession. How have architects acting as housing experts helped alleviate or enforce class, race, and gender inequality? What are the disciplinary implications of taking on shelter for the multitude as an architectural assignment and responsibility? The book features essays in the historiography of architecture and the housing question, and a collection of historical case studies from Belgium, China, France, Ghana, the Netherlands, Kenya, the Soviet Union, Turkey, and the United States. The thematic organization of the collection, interrogating housing expertise, the state apparatus, segregation and colonialism, highlights the methodological questions that underpin its international outlook. The book will appeal to students and scholars in architecture, architectural history, theory, and urban studies.

Rethinking the City

Rethinking the City
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781040270882
ISBN-13 : 1040270883
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Book Synopsis Rethinking the City by : Maria Filomena Molder

Download or read book Rethinking the City written by Maria Filomena Molder and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-12-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the disintegration that characterises modern cities. Asking how we might unsettle and decrypt the homogeneous images of cities created by processes linked to capitalism and globalisation, it invites us to consider the possibility of reimagining and rethinking the urban spaces we inhabit. An exploration of the complex relationship between aesthetics, the arts and the city, Rethinking the City: Reconfiguration and Fragmentation will appeal to scholars across various disciplines, including philosophy, urban sociology and geography, anthropology, political theory and visual and media studies.

Plus

Plus
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Publisher : Editorial GG
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9788425226540
ISBN-13 : 8425226546
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Book Synopsis Plus by : Anne Lacaton

Download or read book Plus written by Anne Lacaton and published by Editorial GG. This book was released on 2013-02-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En las décadas de 1960 y 1970 se construyeron en Francia y en toda Europa numerosos conjuntos de vivienda colectiva que, si bien lograron paliar la apremiante necesidad de viviendas de la posguerra, hoy en día presentan graves carencias. Frédéric Durot, Anne Lacaton y Jean-Philippe Vassal se enfrentan a esta problemática desde una actitud novedosa y proponen su radical transformación para adaptarlas a los modos de vida actuales. 'No derribar nunca, no restar ni reemplazar nunca, sino añadir, transformar y reutilizar siempre.' Esta es la premisa en la que se basa la propuesta de los autores. A partir de un análisis de los elementos que conforman la vivienda, en un recorrido que va de dentro afuera del edificio, los autores recuperan el placer de habitar desde una actitud precisa y delicada que tiene en cuenta todas las preexistencias. Los siete proyectos que aquí se presentan son el resultado de este planteamiento, en unos casos estudios y, en otros, propuestas ganadoras de concursos de arquitectura donde se desarrollan los objetivos y las ideas planteados en los primeros.

Climate Change and Sustainable Heritage

Climate Change and Sustainable Heritage
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781527520455
ISBN-13 : 1527520455
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Book Synopsis Climate Change and Sustainable Heritage by : Christian Kersten Hofbauer

Download or read book Climate Change and Sustainable Heritage written by Christian Kersten Hofbauer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection deals with the impacts of climate change, focusing on urban regions and heritage-related scenarios. It assesses the effects of climate change on our cultural and natural heritage, disaster management, adaptation to climate change, and sustainability in building and urban planning. Climate change concerns our cultural and natural heritage, so it is crucial that we address this issue with regard to all of its social, physical and cultural consequences. Far-reaching actions are needed to adapt the natural and historic environment to make it more resilient to climate change and to limit further damage.

Totem and taboo in architectural imagination

Totem and taboo in architectural imagination
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Publisher : LetteraVentidue Edizioni
Total Pages : 106
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ISBN-10 : 9788862427494
ISBN-13 : 8862427492
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Book Synopsis Totem and taboo in architectural imagination by : Alessandro Rocca

Download or read book Totem and taboo in architectural imagination written by Alessandro Rocca and published by LetteraVentidue Edizioni. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identify powerful features of the architecture of the present time seeking to illuminate hidden knowledge and processes through a few key concepts. The image: apparently, it seems so essential to understand today’s architecture but which, on closer analysis, turns out instead to be an absence, an unsolved problem, an enigma hidden behind a culture secretly afflicted by iconoclasm. Post-production and montage: so relevant in the avant-garde and now fixed as an indispensable but often hidden creative component. The parody: the hidden but almost always present humor that corrodes the immediate message of architecture and makes it more unstable and, above all, more interesting. Ornament: a component censored by Modernism that today is once again the protagonist in new guises. The relationship with the classic: a secret affair that remains as a founding root of Western architecture.

Lacaton & Vassal

Lacaton & Vassal
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Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : UCBK:C099094942
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Book Synopsis Lacaton & Vassal by : Anne Lacaton

Download or read book Lacaton & Vassal written by Anne Lacaton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monographic book designed by Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, is published in conjunction with their exhibtion at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine. It gathers all the projects designed by their firm into thematic groups (beginnings, landscape, dreams, freedom, Inhabiting, transformation, enchanting and city) and weaves them into a story that challenges their proposals. Their approach, involving an in-depth reflection on the ethical dimension of architecture, is founded upon both the generosity of the dwelling and the pleasure of the dweller. In denying the obvious, they seek in its place what is essential and specific to each situation and context. Lacaton and Vassal propose architecture that allows us greater freedom.