Author: Steven HollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rural & Urban House Types in North America
Author: Steven HollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rural & Urban House Types in North America
Author: Steven HollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Pamphlet Architecture 9: Rural and Urban House Types
Author: Steven HollPublisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9780910413152
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Holl focuses on a collection of peculiarly American house types. These building forms exhibit a simplicity and integrity of construction and expression that link folk to modern architecture, and they offer a framework for thinking about alternatives to suburban tract housing.
Pamphlet architecture
Author: Steven HollPamphlet Architecture 9: Rural and Urban House Types
Author: Steven HollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Holl focuses on a collection of peculiarly American house types. These building forms exhibit a simplicity and integrity of construction and expression that link folk to modern architecture, and they offer a framework for thinking about alternatives to suburban tract housing.
Porches of North America
Author: Thomas Durant VisserPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611682215
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A complete architectural guide to this well-loved building feature
Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure
Author: Nigel BertramPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351935178
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observations, pointing out what had not been so clear before and revealing the potential for other actions yet to occur. This book is a collection of urban research and architectural projects by award-winning architects Nigel Bertram / NMBW Architecture Studio, using observation as a design tool and design as an observational method. Through this process, a position on the making of architecture and on the role of architecture within the wider urban environment is established; embracing the full messy reality of the present, finding delight in the everyday and developing sensitivity to a range of found environments. By taking pre-existing conditions seriously, each project, architectural or analytical, large or small, becomes understood as the strategic renovation of a continuing state. This method of working operates by thinking simultaneously at different scales, from furniture to structure and infrastructure, searching for combinations of what might normally be separated into different categories, moving between the many small and ad-hoc actions of individuals to wider systems of collective organisation. Thinking about the effects of small moves on the larger urban field (and vice-versa), the role of unplanned or uncontrolled events in relation to the inward focus of design; thinking about the combinatory effect of what is newly made with what is already there, for example, enables architecture and the city to be understood in relative terms - in terms of relationships. Between people, groups of people, things, and parts of things, actions and groups of actions: urban architecture is the social arrangement of activity with the physical arrangement of large and small parts of its environment. But what people do also changes the place in which they do it. Considering different scales and types of relationships between individuals and groups, insiders and outsiders, expected and unexpected actions can be a way of crossing categories and establishing new relations. Breaking down components of a given situation or brief, before re-grouping, can be used to flatten and redistribute hierarchies embedded within. Similarly, finding ways of carefully observing things just as they are in the present, helps to see around the presuppositions of familiarity, without worrying about cause or effect. These aims, techniques and thoughts are presented through the discipline of the architectural project, where precise strategies must in the end be found to define an exact physical arrangement and materiality, usually at minimum cost. This collection of works researches the manner in which such precision can also generate openness and indeterminacy, allowing and provoking the engagement of others.
Rural Homes
Author: Gervase WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Rural Escapes
Author: Bo NilesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781845978907
Category : Country homes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An exuberant tribute to North America's architectural heritage, Rural Escapes explores how country homes have been built to reflect and enhance the natural features of the countryside. In four parts, it showcases 24 beautiful homes that embrace the history of the land and the peoples who live and have lived on it. Each is lavishly illustrated and sympathetically described by a team of acclaimed writers led by American country expert Bo Niles. The first part, Colonial Charm, is devoted to vintage homes, including houses in Early American, Colonial, and Shaker styles. Rustic Beauty ventures deep into the forests to discover log cabins, hunting lodges, and camps from Connecticut to Colorado. In New Frontier Spirit, innovative and unusual homes show that the pioneer instinct is alive and well; they include a Vermon barn of stilts, a tropical paradise in California, and a beach house on Long Island. Finally, Contemporary Inspiration looks at how materials such as glass and steel create houses that seem to mesh with their environment just as harmoniously as their traditonal predecessors.
Alternative Development
Author: Cathrine BrunPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317182553
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book brings together a collection of essays that discuss alternative development and its relevance for local/global processes of marginalization and change in the Global South. Alternative development questions who the producers of development knowledges and practices are, and aims at decentring development and geographical knowledge from the Anglo-American centre and the Global North. It involves resistance to dominant political-economic processes in order to further the possibilities for non-exploitative and just forms of development. By discussing how to unravel marginalization and voice change through alternative methods, actors and concepts, the book provides useful guidance on understanding the relationship between theory and practice. The main strength of the book is that it calls for a central role for alternative development in the current development discourse, most notably related to justice, rights, globalization, forced migration, conflict and climate change. The book provides new ways of engaging with alternative development thinking and making development alternatives relevant.