The Architecture Of Community
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The Architecture Of Community
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Author : Leon Krier
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2009-05-08
The Architecture Of Community written by Leon Krier and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-08 with Architecture categories.
Leon Krier is one of the best-known—and most provocative—architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas have circulated mostly among a professional audience of architects, city planners, and academics. In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. With three new chapters, The Architecture of Community provides a contemporary road map for designing or completing today’s fragmented communities. Illustrated throughout with Krier’s original drawings, The Architecture of Community explains his theories on classical and vernacular urbanism and architecture, while providing practical design guidelines for creating livable towns. The book contains descriptions and images of the author’s built and unbuilt projects, including the Krier House and Tower in Seaside, Florida, as well as the town of Poundbury in England. Commissioned by the Prince of Wales in 1988, Krier’s design for Poundbury in Dorset has become a reference model for ecological planning and building that can meet contemporary needs.
Local Architecture
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Author : Brian Mackay-Lyons
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2014-12-16
Local Architecture written by Brian Mackay-Lyons and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-16 with Architecture categories.
In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditions, materials, and crafts; and strives to create a sense of community is not recent. Yet, the way it has evolved in the past few years in the hands of some of the world's most accomplished architects is indeed defining a new movement. From the rammed-earth houses of Rick Joy and Pacific Northwest timber houses of Tom Kundig, to the community-built structures of Rural Studio and Francis Kéré, designers everywhere are championing an architecture that exists from, in, and for a specific place. The stunning projects, presented here in the first book to examine this global shift, were featured at the thirteenth and final Ghost conference held in 2011, organized by Nova Scotia architect, educator, and local practitioner Brian MacKay-Lyons. The result is the most complete collection of contemporary regionalist architecture available, with essays by early proponents of the movement, including Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Pritzker Prize–winning architect Glenn Murcutt.
Architecture Of Thought
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Author : Andrzej Piotrowski
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2011
Architecture Of Thought written by Andrzej Piotrowski and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Architecture categories.
An innovative examination of how material practices and constructed environments have shaped cultures.
Drawing For Architecture
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Author : Leon Krier
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2009-07-10
Drawing For Architecture written by Leon Krier and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-10 with Architecture categories.
Drawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with ferocity and wit for traditional urbanism and architecture. Architect Léon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of contemporary architecture. Thus he shows us a building bearing a suspicious resemblance to Norman Foster's famous London “gherkin” as an example of “priapus hubris” (threatened by detumescence and “priapus nemesis”); he charts “Random Uniformity” (“fake simplicity”) and “Uniform Randomness” (“fake complexity”); he draws bloated “bulimic” and disproportionately scrawny “anorexic” columns flanking a graceful “classical” one; and he compares “private virtue” (modernist architects' homes and offices) to “public vice” (modernist architects' “creations”). Krier wants these witty images to be tools for re-founding traditional urbanism and architecture. He argues for mixed-use cities, of “architectural speech” rather than “architectural stutter,” and pointedly plots the man-vehicle-landneed ratio of “sub-urban man” versus that of a city dweller. In an age of energy crisis, he writes (and his drawings show), we “build in the wrong places, in the wrong patterns, materials, densities, and heights, and for the wrong number of dwellers”; a return to traditional architectures and building and settlement techniques can be the means of ecological reconstruction. Each of Krier's provocative and entertaining images is worth more than a thousand words of theoretical abstraction.
The Architecture Of Affordable Housing
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Author : Sam Davis
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1995
The Architecture Of Affordable Housing written by Sam Davis and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Architecture categories.
This text is about the design of dignified, affordable housing for those not served by the private sector, and how that housing fits comfortably into our communities. It is a non-technical analysis for everyone interested in the creation of affordable housing.
The New Urbanism Toward An Architecture Of Community
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Author : Peter Katz
language : en
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Release Date : 2014-07-08
The New Urbanism Toward An Architecture Of Community written by Peter Katz and has been published by McGraw Hill Professional this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-08 with Architecture categories.
The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as well as case studies, site plans, project analyses, and 180 beautiful photographs. This unique reference also tackles--and answers--the critical issues of crime, health, traffic, environmental degradation, and economic vitality and opens a startling window on the look and feel of future communities. Every designer can profit from this guide to building the utopias of tomorrow--today!
We Own The City
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Author : Francesca Miazzo
language : en
Publisher: Valiz
Release Date : 2014
We Own The City written by Francesca Miazzo and has been published by Valiz this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Architecture categories.
Result of a collaboration between CITIES and ARCAM, the Amsterdam Center of Architecture, in order to show the results of a joint investigation into the development of bottom-up initiatives and their relationships with the history of the city, brought to life in Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Moscow, New York and Taipei.
Urban Concepts
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Author : Denise Scott Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Urban Concepts written by Denise Scott Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Architecture categories.
Architecture
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Author : Léon Krier
language : en
Publisher: Andreas Papadakis Publishers
Release Date : 2007
Architecture written by Léon Krier and has been published by Andreas Papadakis Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Architecture, Modern categories.
Leon Krier, theorist and reformer of modern traditional architecture and urbanism reveals in this layman's manifesto why, in matters of democracy, architecture is far behind politics. The fact that modernism has never been a popular choice is not, according to Krier, due to people's ignorance but to modernism's own conceptual poverty. This polemic is essential reading for anyone concerned with architecture and urban planning today. It will be a vital tool in the renaissance of the art of building cities that are pleasant and agreeable to live in, an art that we are in danger of losing.
Cape Cod Modern
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Author : Peter McMahon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Cape Cod Modern written by Peter McMahon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Architect-designed houses categories.
In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. Thus began a chapter in the history of modern architecture that has never been told _until now. The area was a hotbed of intellectual currents from New York, Boston, Cambridge and the country's top schools of architecture and design. Avant-garde homes began to appear in the woods and on the dunes; by the 1970s, there were about 100 modern houses of interest here.