Activist Architecture
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Activist Architecture
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Author : Dan Pitera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-04-10
Activist Architecture written by Dan Pitera and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-10 with categories.
Activist Architecture is an edited volume bringing together some of the most creative minds working in the world of community design and socially engaged practice. It asserts that community design centers and other socially engaged practices expand the influence built environmental professions have on culture and society. These practices work under the premise that designers should expand their clientele, where they work, and the types of projects they engage. This does not mean that design centers exclude people who typically build or hire an architect, urban designer, landscape architect, or planner. Design centers include more people, more programs, and more geographies in the process. They are advocates for people who are typically left out of design and place-making decisions. Design centers widen the undertaking beyond some people to include all (or more) people. While looking back over the past 50+ years, Activist Architecture positions the philosophy and practice of community design centers for today and tomorrow. The editors of Activist Architecture put together both a "why-to" and "how-to" guide for establishing and operating a community design center.
Architecture Activism
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Author : GRAFT
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2016-05-24
Architecture Activism written by GRAFT and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with Architecture categories.
Founded in Los Angeles in 1998, GRAFT is a global architectural practice which now maintains branches in Berlin and Beijing. The international practice, which is involved in architectural, urban, and product design – as well as branding – is known for its experimental and interdisciplinary designs as well as for its strong social commitment. The publication will document only projects characteristic of this social responsibility – it portrays architecture as an active tool for driving, in a global context, the development of places worth living in. One key project is the Solar Kiosk developed in 2012, a high-output, solar-based unit which is already used by many communities in Sub-Saharan Africa to secure their power supply.
When Architecture Meets Activism
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Author : Roger Guy
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-11-22
When Architecture Meets Activism written by Roger Guy and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-22 with Social Science categories.
This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resist the planned construction of a community college in the neighborhood of Uptown. This book includes some of the only surviving material that documents the Hank Williams Village project.
Activist Architecture
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Author : Kheng Soon Tay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Activist Architecture written by Kheng Soon Tay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Architecture categories.
Expanding Architecture
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Author : Bryan Bell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Expanding Architecture written by Bryan Bell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Architecture categories.
Edited by Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford. Foreword by Thomas Fisher. Texts by Steve Badanes, Roberta M. Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, John Peterson, Katie Swenson, et al.
Activism In Architecture
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Author : Margot McDonald
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-09
Activism In Architecture written by Margot McDonald and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Architecture categories.
This edited collection gathers contributions from a diverse range of renowned scholars and professionals to uncover the unique relationship between passive architectural systems and activism. Focusing on the pioneering work of the influential American chemist and inventor, Harold R. Hay (1909–2009), and the environmental awareness events that took hold in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s, the book assembles essays which closely examine Hay's contribution to architecture and the work of those who directly and tangentially were affected by it. The book also offers insights into the role of passive energy design today. Appealing to researchers, architects and students interested in architecture and design technology, Activism in Architecture explores the role of passive environmental inventions as an active agent in shaping socio-political debates.
Activism At Home
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Author : Isabelle Doucet
language : en
Publisher: Jovis Verlag
Release Date : 2021-07
Activism At Home written by Isabelle Doucet and has been published by Jovis Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07 with categories.
Activism at Home offers a unique study of architects' own dwellings; homes purposely designed to express social, political, economic, and cultural critiques. Through thirty case studies by architectural scholars, this book highlights different forms of activism at home from the early twentieth century to today. The architect- led experiments in activist living discussed in this book include the dwellings of Ralph Erskine, Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, Charles Moore, Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Kiyoshi Seike, and many others. Offering candid appraisals of alternative living solutions that formulate a response to rising real estate prices, economic inequality, social alienation, and mounting environmental and cultural challenges, Activism at Home is more than a historical study; it is an appeal to architects to use the discipline's tools to their full potential, and a plea to scholars to continue bringing architecture's activist practices into focus--whether at home or elsewhere.
Architecture Design Versus Consumerism
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Author : Ann Thorpe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-06-14
Architecture Design Versus Consumerism written by Ann Thorpe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-14 with Design categories.
The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford — not in environmental, economic or social terms. Although architecture and design have long been seen as engines for consumerism and growth, increasing numbers of designers are concerned about the problems resulting from growth. But designers face a paradox of their own; in scenarios of sustainable consumption, where people consume or build significantly less, what will be left for designers to do? This book, informed by recent research into the viability of a "steady state" economy, sets an agenda for addressing the designer’s paradox of sustainable consumption. The agenda includes ways that architecture and design can help transition us towards a new kind of economy that prioritizes real wellbeing rather than economic growth. Packed with examples and illustrations, the book argues that taking action, or activism, is an important but so far underexplored way for architects and designers to confront consumerism. The first chapters explore how economic growth and consumerism shape and are shaped by the professions of architecture, product, and landscape design and how we can understand the problem of consumerism as four main challenges that designers are already addressing. The book maps out the main issues surrounding the development of metrics that designers and others can use to measure wellbeing, instead of simply measuring economic growth. The second half of the book looks at how design activism works and its connection to growth and consumerist issues. These chapters examine how activist practices are financed, highlight five specific methods that designers use in working for social change, and investigate the power of these methods. The book concludes with a consideration of what design’s role might be in a "post-growth" society.
Architecture Activism
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Author : Lars Krückeberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-05
Architecture Activism written by Lars Krückeberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05 with Architecture categories.
The international practice GRAFT is known for its experimental and interdisciplinary designs as well as for its strong social commitment. The publication documents projects characteristic of this social responsibility portraying architecture as an active tool for driving the development of places worth living in. One key project is the Solar Kiosk, a high-output, which is already used by many communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Bruno Taut And The Architecture Of Activism
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Author : Iain Boyd Whyte
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-11
Bruno Taut And The Architecture Of Activism written by Iain Boyd Whyte and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-11 with Architecture categories.
Bruno Taut was the leading architectural theorist in Germany during the years 1914-1920. The architectural and social premises which he developed in this seminal period were to be of paramount importance in the subsequent development of modern architecture in Germany in the 1920s. The German example, in turn, was to become a model for the international modern movement. Whereas the history of the modern movement in architecture has generally been written in terms of functionalism, and the availability of materials and technology, Dr Whyte suggests that many of the roots of modern architecture were mystical and irrational, and were concerned less with function and purpose and more with millenarian dreams of the a society which might be achieved through the meditation of the architecture. The author also suggests that there were political reasons behind this type of architecture and why it failed to achieve its aim of improving the physical and social condition of society.