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Author: Richard Saul Wurman Publisher: MIT Press (MA) ISBN: 9780262730358 Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
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This is a collection of photographs of clay models of fifty significant towns and cities all to the scale of 1:14,000. Because the models exhibited only the gross topographical and architectural characteristics of each locality, a city's general pattern, shape, and area can be apprehended immediately and compared directly with the form and size of the others included. The models were the work of a second-year studio in architecture with help from other members of the student body. They were built from white plasticene, balsa wood, and paint to the scale of 1:7200 (600 feet to an inch) and photographically reduced to the scale of 1:14,000 (1200 feet to an inch). For the most part the settlements are represented at the peak of their historical importance, whether in ancient, medieval, or modern times. Included are Aigues-Mortes, Amsterdam, Angkor, Assisi, Athens, Avila, Babylon, Bruges, Cambridge, Carcassone, Chandigarh, Chartres, Chichen Itza, Granada, Hook, Karlsruhe, Kristiansund, Lubeck, Machu Picchu, Middelburg, Miletus, Monte Alban, Mont-Saint-Michel, Moscow, New York, Nordlingen, Palmanova, Paris, Peking, Pergamum, Persepolis, Philadelphia, Pompeii, Portofino, Priene Pyramid Complex, Rome, Saarlouis, Sabbioneta, San Gimignano, Savannah, Siena, Tikal, Timgad, Venice, Versailles, and Washington, D. C.
Author: Richard Saul Wurman Publisher: MIT Press (MA) ISBN: 9780262730358 Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
This is a collection of photographs of clay models of fifty significant towns and cities all to the scale of 1:14,000. Because the models exhibited only the gross topographical and architectural characteristics of each locality, a city's general pattern, shape, and area can be apprehended immediately and compared directly with the form and size of the others included. The models were the work of a second-year studio in architecture with help from other members of the student body. They were built from white plasticene, balsa wood, and paint to the scale of 1:7200 (600 feet to an inch) and photographically reduced to the scale of 1:14,000 (1200 feet to an inch). For the most part the settlements are represented at the peak of their historical importance, whether in ancient, medieval, or modern times. Included are Aigues-Mortes, Amsterdam, Angkor, Assisi, Athens, Avila, Babylon, Bruges, Cambridge, Carcassone, Chandigarh, Chartres, Chichen Itza, Granada, Hook, Karlsruhe, Kristiansund, Lubeck, Machu Picchu, Middelburg, Miletus, Monte Alban, Mont-Saint-Michel, Moscow, New York, Nordlingen, Palmanova, Paris, Peking, Pergamum, Persepolis, Philadelphia, Pompeii, Portofino, Priene Pyramid Complex, Rome, Saarlouis, Sabbioneta, San Gimignano, Savannah, Siena, Tikal, Timgad, Venice, Versailles, and Washington, D. C.
Author: Joel Katz Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118420098 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 226
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"The book itself is a diagram of clarification, containing hundreds of examples of work by those who favor the communication of information over style and academic postulation—and those who don't. Many blurbs such as this are written without a thorough reading of the book. Not so in this case. I read it and love it. I suggest you do the same." —Richard Saul Wurman "This handsome, clearly organized book is itself a prime example of the effective presentation of complex visual information." —eg magazine "It is a dream book, we were waiting for...on the field of information. On top of the incredible amount of presented knowledge this is also a beautifully designed piece, very easy to follow..." —Krzysztof Lenk, author of Mapping Websites: Digital Media Design "Making complicated information understandable is becoming the crucial task facing designers in the 21st century. With Designing Information, Joel Katz has created what will surely be an indispensable textbook on the subject." —Michael Bierut "Having had the pleasure of a sneak preview, I can only say that this is a magnificent achievement: a combination of intelligent text, fascinating insights and - oh yes - graphics. Congratulations to Joel." —Judith Harris, author of Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery Designing Information shows designers in all fields - from user-interface design to architecture and engineering - how to design complex data and information for meaning, relevance, and clarity. Written by a worldwide authority on the visualization of complex information, this full-color, heavily illustrated guide provides real-life problems and examples as well as hypothetical and historical examples, demonstrating the conceptual and pragmatic aspects of human factors-driven information design. Both successful and failed design examples are included to help readers understand the principles under discussion.
Author: Molly Wright Steenson Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262546787 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 329
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Architects who engaged with cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies poured the foundation for digital interactivity. In Architectural Intelligence, Molly Wright Steenson explores the work of four architects in the 1960s and 1970s who incorporated elements of interactivity into their work. Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Architecture Machine Group all incorporated technologies—including cybernetics and artificial intelligence—into their work and influenced digital design practices from the late 1980s to the present day. Alexander, long before his famous 1977 book A Pattern Language, used computation and structure to visualize design problems; Wurman popularized the notion of “information architecture”; Price designed some of the first intelligent buildings; and Negroponte experimented with the ways people experience artificial intelligence, even at architectural scale. Steenson investigates how these architects pushed the boundaries of architecture—and how their technological experiments pushed the boundaries of technology. What did computational, cybernetic, and artificial intelligence researchers have to gain by engaging with architects and architectural problems? And what was this new space that emerged within these collaborations? At times, Steenson writes, the architects in this book characterized themselves as anti-architects and their work as anti-architecture. The projects Steenson examines mostly did not result in constructed buildings, but rather in design processes and tools, computer programs, interfaces, digital environments. Alexander, Wurman, Price, and Negroponte laid the foundation for many of our contemporary interactive practices, from information architecture to interaction design, from machine learning to smart cities.
Author: Nadia Amoroso Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136997113 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 193
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There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye – crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few. If a city was able to be defined by these characteristics, what form would it take? How could it be mapped? Nadia Amoroso tackles these questions by taking statistical urban data and exploring how they could be transformed into innovative new maps. The "unseen" elements of the city are examined in groundbreaking images throughout the book, which are complemented by interviews with Winy Maas and James Corner, comments by Richard Saul Wurman, and sections by the SENSEable City Lab group and Mark Aubin, co-founder of Google Earth.
Author: Hildebrand Frey Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1135814058 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 240
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Designing the City looks at current urban problems in cities and demonstrates how effective urban design can address social, economic and environmental issues as well as the physical planning at local level. The book is highly visual and illustrates the topic with a variety of sketches, line drawings, axonometrics and models. The author draws upon the valuable experience gained by the City of Glasgow and compares its solutions - successful and less successful - with projects in a variety of European countries.
Author: Kevin Lynch Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262620017 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 212
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The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Author: Roger W. Caves Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 0415252253 Category : Cities and towns Languages : en Pages : 597
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A first-class work of reference that will be both an essential resource for independent study as well as a useful aid in teaching: a solid but also provocative starting point for wider exploration of the city.
Author: Pierre Jacquet Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) ISBN: 8179931315 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 273
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The twenty-first century is already an urban one. Cities are pivotal to sustainability concerns globalization, climate change, food security, environmental protection, and innovation.Today's urban actors, both citizens and their leaders, have a major responsibility as trustees of the future: their present actions will influence the shape and structure of cities, so that the generation to come may live healthy and contended lives.This volume takes the reader straight to the heart of how cities work, and identifies contemporary trends, mechanism and tools that can influence current strategies and choices.The authors show that urbanization is not a problem per se for sustainable development, but rather that cities, in all their diversity and complexity, offer solutions as well as challenges.The reader will be inspired by vital analyses of the next decade's windows of opportunity for sustainable urban growth.
Author: Ola Söderström Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 111863277X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 236
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Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries. Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Considers the ways in which a city’s relationships with other places influences its urban development Provides fresh ideas for comparative urban studies that move beyond discussions of economic and policy factors Offers a clear and concise narrative accompanied by more than 45 photos and maps
Author: Richard Saul Wurman
Author: Richard Saul Wurman
Author: Richard Saul WURMAN
Author: Joel Katz
Author: Molly Wright Steenson
Author: Nadia Amoroso
Author: Hildebrand Frey
Author: Kevin Lynch
Author: Roger W. Caves
Author: Pierre Jacquet
Author: Ola Söderström