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Author: Hanno Rauterberg Publisher: Prestel Publishing ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
Now available in a revised and updated paperback edition, this revealing volume features interviews with twenty of the world's most influential living architects in which they discuss their accomplishments, challenges, inspriations, and dreams. What makes an architect tick? What is the state of architecture today? How do architects view each other's work? No one can answer these questions bettern than the practitioners themselves. Here such distinguished figures as Cecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, and others offer a wide-ranging assortment of persepctives on contemporary architecture and the architects' roles in shaping the state of art today. Each interview focuses on the unique contributions of its subject, and is accompanied by images of their most important works. With a no-holds-barred approach the author obtains interesting details about their ideas on architecture in general, from where they get their inspirations to what formative experiences led them to become architects in the first place. Updated with new images, this informative, accessible, and endlessly fascinating collection offers a chance to compare, contrast, and get to know the architects that are shaping the world we live in.
Author: Hanno Rauterberg Publisher: Prestel Publishing ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
Now available in a revised and updated paperback edition, this revealing volume features interviews with twenty of the world's most influential living architects in which they discuss their accomplishments, challenges, inspriations, and dreams. What makes an architect tick? What is the state of architecture today? How do architects view each other's work? No one can answer these questions bettern than the practitioners themselves. Here such distinguished figures as Cecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, and others offer a wide-ranging assortment of persepctives on contemporary architecture and the architects' roles in shaping the state of art today. Each interview focuses on the unique contributions of its subject, and is accompanied by images of their most important works. With a no-holds-barred approach the author obtains interesting details about their ideas on architecture in general, from where they get their inspirations to what formative experiences led them to become architects in the first place. Updated with new images, this informative, accessible, and endlessly fascinating collection offers a chance to compare, contrast, and get to know the architects that are shaping the world we live in.
Author: Ramin Jahanbegloo Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019909764X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 340
Book Description
Talking Architecture is a part of the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s conversations with prominent Indian intellectuals. This revised edition presents additional visuals and an extended dialogue between Jahanbegloo and Raj Rewal, one of India’s leading architects. The conversation flows effortlessly and we learn of Rewal’s early life and experiences in Europe. The discussions also encompass the aesthetic foundations of Indian architecture as well as the role of architecture in the twenty-first century.
Author: BEATRIZ & WILSON RURAL URBAN FRAMEWORK (ED) & COLOMINA (PETER ET AL.) Publisher: ISBN: 9780648685890 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture documents a series of conversations with some of contemporary architecture's most accomplished thinkers and practitioners. The conversations took place in 2018 and 2019 at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), The University of Melbourne, with the hope of complementing lectures by visitors to the school. Where lectures gave insight into projects, these conversations dive deeper into the ideas and processes behind the buildings - the players, places, forces, cultural imperatives and ideologies that buttress every work of architecture, but that are often obscured by the glamour of the finished output. A set of essays commissioned from writers both inside and outside the discipline of architecture offer fresh insights into the themes uncovered, rounding out this thought-provoking book.
Author: Alan Read Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134564023 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 356
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Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. Together these essays build to reflect not only what it might mean to 'speak architecturally' but also the innate relations between the artist's and architect's work, how they are distinct, and in inspiring ways, how they might relate through questions of built form. This book will appeal to urbanists, geographers, artists, architects, cultural historians and theorists.
Author: Barry Blesser Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 026251317X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 453
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How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater. We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house without furniture. Our experience of music in a concert hall depends on whether we sit in the front row or under the balcony. The unique acoustics of religious spaces acquire symbolic meaning. Social relationships are strongly influenced by the way that space changes sound. In Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?, Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter examine auditory spatial awareness: experiencing space by attentive listening. Every environment has an aural architecture.The audible attributes of physical space have always contributed to the fabric of human culture, as demonstrated by prehistoric multimedia cave paintings, classical Greek open-air theaters, Gothic cathedrals, acoustic geography of French villages, modern music reproduction, and virtual spaces in home theaters. Auditory spatial awareness is a prism that reveals a culture's attitudes toward hearing and space. Some listeners can learn to "see" objects with their ears, but even without training, we can all hear spatial geometry such as an open door or low ceiling. Integrating contributions from a wide range of disciplines—including architecture, music, acoustics, evolution, anthropology, cognitive psychology, audio engineering, and many others—Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? establishes the concepts and language of aural architecture. These concepts provide an interdisciplinary guide for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of how space enhances our well-being. Aural architecture is not the exclusive domain of specialists. Accidentally or intentionally, we all function as aural architects.
Author: Joshua Bolchover Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3038210609 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 192
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While most attention is given to the booming mega-cities in China and the associated problems of over-population, the rural areas in China are being largely ignored. Yet, a sustainable development of the rural areas is precisely that, which will be decisive for China’s future. Through its rapid development into an industrial country, China now needs to tackle far-reaching problems such as increasing population, growing income gap between the poor and the rich, rural exodus, decreased agricultural production, and environmental pollution. Rural Urban Framework is a work group at the University of Hong Kong that not only researches the far-reaching changes of the last thirty years in China’s rural areas, but has also realized concrete projects aimed at improving supply and infrastructure on site. In this publication, the authors present for the first time the results of their research as well as their built projects in the Chinese backlands, and question whether China’s only future model lies in cities.
Author: Naomi Stead Publisher: Chronicle Books ISBN: 1616898909 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 319
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By and large, architectural historians use texts, drawings, and photographs to craft their narratives. Oral testimony from those who actually occupy or construct buildings is rarely taken as seriously. Speaking of Buildings offers a rebuttal, theorizing the radical potential of a methodology that has historically been cast as unreliable. Essays by an international group of scholars look at varied topics, from the role of gossip in undermining masculine narratives in architecture to workers' accounts of building with cement in midcentury London to a sound art piece created by oral testimonies from Los Angeles public housing residents. In sum, the authors call for a renewed form of listening to enrich our understanding of what buildings are, what they do, and what they mean to people.
Author: Melanie Hawley Publisher: ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Buildings protect us, help us and inspire us, but you ever wonder what they would say if they could talk? Do they have dreams of helping us be healthier? What clever friendships have they made with the sun and the wind? Are they excited for the future? This imaginative children's book contemplates what would happen if the buildings surrounding us suddenly piped up to tell us their big sustainability dreams. Written by Senior Marketing Specialist Melanie Hawley and illustrated by ten designers at Little, If Buildings Could Talk 2 is the second book in a series that invites kids of all ages to ponder the conversations they might have with the architecture in their lives.
Author: Paola Antonelli Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art ISBN: 0870707965 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Talk to Me thrives on an important late 20th-century cultural development in design: a shift from the centrality of function to that of meaning. From this new perspective, objects contain information that goes well beyond their immediate use or appearance, providing access to complex systems and networks and acting as gateways and interpreters. Whether openly and actively, or in subtle, subliminal ways, things talk to us, and designers write the initial script that lets us develop and improvise the dialogue. Talk to Me focuses on objects that involve direct interaction, such as interfaces, information systems, communication devices, and projects that establish a practical, emotional or even sensual connection between their users and entities such as cities, companies, governmental institutions, as well as other people. The featured objects range in date from the early 1980s - beginning with the first Graphic User Interface, developed by Xerox Parc in 1981 - with particular attention given to projects from the last five years and to several ones currently in development. Included are a diverse array of examples, from computer and machine interfaces to websites, video games, devices and tools, and installations. Organized thematically, Talk to Me features essays by Paola Antonelli, Jamer Hunt, Alexandra Midel, Kevin Slavin, and Koi Vinh. By introducing design practices that are becoming increasingly crucial to our world, the book presents a highly distilled sample of today's best design production that uses technology in creative and unexpected ways, showing how rich and deep design's influence will be on our future.
Author: Hanno Rauterberg
Author: Hanno Rauterberg
Author: Ramin Jahanbegloo
Author: BEATRIZ & WILSON RURAL URBAN FRAMEWORK (ED) & COLOMINA (PETER ET AL.)
Author: Alan Read
Author: Barry Blesser
Author: Robert Venturi
Author: Joshua Bolchover
Author: Naomi Stead
Author: Melanie Hawley
Author: Paola Antonelli