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Architecture Without Architects
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Author : Bernard Rudofsky
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 1987
Architecture Without Architects written by Bernard Rudofsky and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Architecture categories.
A unique examination of building and culture.
Buildings Without Architects
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Author : John May
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Release Date : 2010
Buildings Without Architects written by John May and has been published by Rizzoli International Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture categories.
A wonderfully informative reference on vernacular styles, from adobe pueblos and Pennsylvania barns to Mongolian yurts and Indonesian stilt houses. This small but comprehensive book documents the rich cultural past of vernacular building styles, from Irish sod houses to sub-Saharan wattle-and-daub huts and redwoods treehouses. It offers inspiration for home woodworking enthusiasts as well as architects, conservationists, and anyone interested in energy-efficient building and sustainability. The variety and ingenuity of the world's vernacular building traditions are richly illustrated, and the materials and techniques are explored. With examples from every continent, the book documents the diverse methods people have used to create shelter from locally available natural materials, and shows the impressively handmade finished products through diagrams, cross-sections, and photographs. Unlike modern buildings that rely on industrially produced materials and specialized tools and techniques, the everyday architecture featured here represents a rapidly disappearing genre of handcrafted and beautifully composed structures that are irretrievably "of their place." These structures are the work of unsung and often anonymous builders that combine artistic beauty, practical form, and necessity.
Architecture Without Architects
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Author : Bernard Rudofsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Architecture Without Architects written by Bernard Rudofsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Architecture categories.
Architecture Without Architects
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Author : Bernard Rudofsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Architecture Without Architects written by Bernard Rudofsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Architecture categories.
An Unfinished Encyclopedia Of Scale Figures Without Architecture
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Author : Michael Meredith
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2019-01-08
An Unfinished Encyclopedia Of Scale Figures Without Architecture written by Michael Meredith and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with Architecture categories.
More than 1,000 representations of the human figure in architectural drawings by architects ranging from Aalto to Zumthor, removed from their architectural context. Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and MOS present their rich findings on the human presence in architectural drawings not in any chronological or other linear order, but based on the convention of the encyclopedia, thus presenting (and perhaps deliberately condoning) surprise encounters made possible by the contingency created by alphabetical order.…. From the contemporary perspective of a pluralistic world, the form of the encyclopedia may be particularly apt to represent such a vast body of material as is presented here: defying any linear historical account or master narrative, it invites the reader to construct his or her own readings of the material by establishing relationships between individual drawings. —From the foreword by Martino Stierli Throughout history, across radically different movements in Western culture, the human figure appears and reappears, in multiple guises, to remind us, the observers, of architectural purpose and of our mutual position in the world.…This encyclopedia has enlarged or reduced all figures to the same approximate scale. Meredith, Sample, and MOS have gathered them here in an unprecedented, intoxicating way, like being at a fabulous party. —From the afterword by Raymund Ryan Architects draw buildings, and the buildings they draw are usually populated by representations of the human figure—drawn, copied, collaged, or inserted—most often to suggest scale. It is impossible to represent architecture without representing the human form. This book collects more than 1,000 scale figures by 250 architects but presents them in a completely unexpected way: it removes them from their architectural context, displaying them on the page, buildingless, giving them lives of their own. They are presented not thematically or chronologically but encyclopedically, alphabetically by architect (Aalto to Zumthor). In serendipitous juxtapositions, the autonomous human figures appear and reappear, displaying endless variations of architecturally rendered human forms. Some architects' figures are casually scrawled; others are drawn carefully by hand or manipulated by Photoshop; some are collaged and pasted, others rendered in charcoal or watercolors. Leon Battista Alberti presents a trident-bearing god; the Ant Farm architecture group provides a naked John and Yoko; Archigram supplies its Air Hab Village with a photograph of a happy family. Without their architectural surroundings, the scale figures present themselves as architecture's refugees. They are the necessary but often overlooked reference points that give character to spaces imagined for but not yet occupied by humans. Here, they constitute a unique sourcebook and an architectural citizenry of their own.
Architecture Without Architects
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Author : B. Rudofsky
language : en
Publisher: Wiley
Release Date : 1996-12-14
Architecture Without Architects written by B. Rudofsky and has been published by Wiley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-14 with Architecture categories.
Architects After Architecture
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Author : Harriet Harriss
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-15
Architects After Architecture written by Harriet Harriss and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with Architecture categories.
What can you do with a degree in architecture? Where might it take you? What kind of challenges could you address? Architects After Architecture reframes architecture as a uniquely versatile way of acting on the world, far beyond that of designing buildings. In this volume, we meet forty practitioners through profiles, case studies, and interviews, who have used their architectural training in new and resourceful ways to tackle the climate crisis, work with refugees, advocate for diversity, start tech companies, become leading museum curators, tackle homelessness, draft public policy, become developers, design videogames, shape public discourse, and much more. Together, they describe a future of architecture that is diverse and engaged, expanding the limits of the discipline, and offering new paths forward in times of crisis. Whether you are an architecture student or a practicing architect considering a change, you’ll find this an encouraging and inspiring read. Please visit the Architects After Architecture website for more information, including future book launches and events: architectsafterarchitecture.com
Archigram
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Author : Simon Sadler
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2005-06-24
Archigram written by Simon Sadler and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-24 with Architecture categories.
The first book-length critical and historical account of an ultramodern architectural movement of the 1960s that advocated "living equipment" instead of buildings. In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities that move and houses worn like suits of clothes. In drawings inspired by pop art and psychedelia, architecture floated away, tethered by wires, gantries, tubes, and trucks. In Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Simon Sadler argues that Archigram's sense of fun takes its place beside the other cultural agitants of the 1960s, originating attitudes and techniques that became standard for architects rethinking social space and building technology. The Archigram style was assembled from the Apollo missions, constructivism, biology, manufacturing, electronics, and popular culture, inspiring an architectural movement—High Tech—and influencing the postmodern and deconstructivist trends of the late twentieth century. Although most Archigram projects were at the limits of possibility and remained unbuilt, the six architects at the center of the movement, Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, and Michael Webb, became a focal point for the architectural avant-garde, because they redefined the purpose of architecture. Countering the habitual building practice of setting walls and spaces in place, Archigram architects wanted to provide the equipment for amplified living, and they welcomed any cultural rearrangements that would ensue. Archigram: Architecture without Architecture—the first full-length critical and historical account of the Archigram phenomenon—traces Archigram from its rediscovery of early modernist verve through its courting of students, to its ascent to international notoriety for advocating the "disappearance of architecture."
Reading The Architecture Of The Underprivileged Classes
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Author : Nnamdi Elleh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Reading The Architecture Of The Underprivileged Classes written by Nnamdi Elleh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Architecture categories.
The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned parts of the cities that are identified by a plethora of terminologies such as bidonville, favela, ghetto, informal settlements, and shantytown. Often, the dwellings in such settlements are described as shacks, architecture of necessity, and architecture of everyday experience in the modern and the contemporary metropolis. This volume argues that the types of structures and settlements built by people who do not have access to architectural services in many cities in the developing parts of the world evolved simultaneously with the types of buildings that are celebrated in architecture textbooks as 'modernism.' It not only shows how architects can learn from traditional or vernacular dwellings in order to create habitations for the people of low-income groups in public housing scenarios, but also demonstrates how the architecture of the economically underprivileged classes goes beyond culturally-inspired tectonic interpretations of vernacular traditions by architects for high profile clients. Moreover, the essays explore how the resourceful dwellings of the underprivileged inhabitants of the great cities in developing parts of the world pioneered certain concepts of modernism and contemporary design practices such as sustainable and de-constructivist design. Using projects from Africa, Asia, South and Central America, as well as Austria and the USA, this volume interrogates and brings to the attention of academics, students, and practitioners of architecture, the deliberate disqualification of the modern architecture produced by the urban poor in different parts of the world.
Architecture Without Architects
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Author : Bernard Rudofsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Architecture Without Architects written by Bernard Rudofsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Architecture, Primitive categories.