Búsqueda de Editorial : ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION

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  • MANIFEST DESTINY: A GUIDE TO THE ESSENTIAL INDIFFERENCE OF AMERICAN SUBURBAN HOUSING
    JASON GRIFFITHS AND MARTINO STIERLI
    On 18 October 2002 Jason Griffiths and Alex Gino set out to explore the American suburbs. Over 178 days they drove 22,383 miles, made 134 suburban house calls and took 2,593 photographs. In Manifest Destiny, Griffiths reveals the results of this exploration. Structured through 58 short chapters, the anthology offers an architectural pattern book of suburban conditions all focus...

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  • MARSEILLE MIX
    FIREBRACE, WILLIAM
    Marseille Mix describes the city of Marseille, its culture, buildings, gastronomy, cinematic images, history, planning, language, music, detective stories, criminology. These aspects of the city interrelate and overlap, to create a complex ever shifting image. Marseille lies on the edge of Europe, separated from the rest of France by a circle of high mountains. It looks outward...

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  • OFF THE SHELF
    JOHNSTON, PAMELA / KAYE, ALLON
    Most buildings designed by architects are "one-offs" - elaborate, crafted productions defined by subjective aesthetic criteria. "Off the Shelf" proposes an alternative - an imaginative, non-standard architecture carefully assembled using standard elements available from catalogues. It is illustrated with projects drawn from both the practice of dRMM (de Rijke Marsh Morgan) and ...

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  • KVA: MATERIAL MISUSE
    The work of Boston-based Kennedy & Violich addresses the conditions of standardized systems and materials of construction, and explores the potential of underused sites - in particular the familiar, uncanny spaces of infrastructure hidden in the body of the building or the city. Their projects work with these spaces in order to explore alternatives to the normative spatial rela...

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  • SHADOWED
    VICTOR BURGIN
    Victor Burgin has made remarkable contributions as an artist and cultural theorist for more than three decades. His writings on general issues such as photographic, psychoanalytic and cultural theory are noted for their lucidity, compactness and reason. In contrast, the photographs and videos that Burgin creates as an image-maker are richly paradoxical and constitute an inquiry...

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  • RUINS OF MODERNITY
    The book offers a reassessment of Mendelsohn ´s Hat Factory in Luckenwalde, which has long been thought to represent a radical break in Mendelsohn´s thinking. Essays and photographs are accompanied by proposals from the AA´s Intermediate Unit 8 students. ...

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  • SPACE AS MEMBRANE
    EBELING, SIEGFRIED

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  • ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION PROJECTS REVIEW 02/03

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  • RITUALS AND WALLS
    The book itself is the result of a year-long investigation on the nature of sacred space and its manifestation developed in the AA's Diploma Unit 14. It consists of design proposals that range from a multi-faith school in Strasbourg to the reconstruction of a festival hall in the city of Xian, China; from a Jesuit monastery in Detroit to a women's Islamic centre in Paris. Each ...

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  • PANEL
    PALMAROLA, H / ALONSO I.P

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  • AA BOOK 2017
    AA Book 2017 offers an overview of the AA’s 2016/17 academic year and features hundreds of drawings, models, installations, photographs and other materials documenting the world’s most international and experimental school of architecture. ...

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  • SOME REASONS FOR TRAVELLING TO ITALY
    WILSON, PETER
    Italian cities have been points of reference for much of architect Peter Wilson’sprofessional life, and the many reasons for visiting the country have long presentedthemselves as not just the easy list – holidays, food, architecture and culture.The grand tour is the most obvious of tropes for framing these things, but it canalso serve as a useful vehicle for a more ingrained un...

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  • SMALL ARCHITECTURE / NATURAL ARCHITECTURE
    KUMA, KENGO
    This two-volume set of essays by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma offers anoverview of his key built works and gives insight into his ideas about architecture.Until now available only in Japanese, this edition comprises a lucid theoreticalmanifesto for humble, sustainable architecture that is sensitive to materials andto place. Written in the wake of the 2011 tsunami which dev...

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  • CEDRIC PRICE WORK / A FORWARD-MINDED RETROSPECTIVE (2 VOLS.)
    HARDINGHAM, SAMANTHA

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  • ARCHITECTURE WORDS 6. PROJECTILES
    BERNARD CACHE

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  • AA BOOK: PROJECTS REVIEW 2011. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE AA
    The work of the AA's 600+ full-time students ranges from small-scale studies and drawings to large 1:1 working prototypes, interactive media and built installations, including the annual AA summer pavilion in Bedford Square. The book also includes selected projects originating from the AA's Hooke Park campus in Dorset and our Research Cluster initiatives as well as from the imm...

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  • AGENDAS N° 9. MAKING PAVILIONS
    SELF, MARTIN / WALKER, CHARLES
    Over the past four years students of the AA's Intermediate Unit 2 have designed and built a series of experimental pavilions. Structured to follow a year in the life of the unit, this book presents the processes of the pavilions' design and production, from concept ideas to workshop fabrication. Essays by the unit's tutors, Charles Walker and Martin Self, explain the ambitions ...

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  • ARCHITECTURE WORDS 5-8.
    This limited edition box set contains the latest four volumes in the highly-acclaimed Architecture Words series: Vol. 5: Form, Function, Beauty = Gestalt (Max Bill); Vol. 6: Projectiles (Bernard Cache); Vol. 7: Modernity Unbound (Detlef Mertins); and Vol. 8: Tarzans in the Media Forest (Toyo Ito). ...

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  • ARCHITECTURE WORDS 7. MODERNITY UNBOUND
    DETLEF MERTINS

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  • ARCHITECTURE WORDS 8. TARZANS IN THE MEDIA FOREST
    TOYO ITO
    For 40 years Toyo Ito has not only built architecture, but written it. Since the beginning of his career he has arranged words on pages with the kind of ingenuity and precision most architects associate only with the disposition of concrete, glass, wood or steel. In Ito's hand and mind architecture is an idea. The texts in this collection feature famous essays as well as previo...

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  • BEYOND ENTROPY
    STEFANO RABOLLI PANSERA
    he theme of the book derives from the urgency with which the idea of energy has been raised in recent years in political, economic and scientific debates. The book charts the efforts of architects to reappropriate this theme and to address the debate in a wider cultural sphere. ...

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  • ARCHITECTURE WORDS 1. SUPER-CRITICAL
    P. EISENMAN / KOOLHAAS / KIPNIS / SOMOL
    AA Words is a new series, with emphasis on the written word as a basis for critical debate by contemporary architects and theorists.AA Words One: Supercritical: Peter Eisenman meets Rem Koolhaas is based on an evening of conversation at the AA in 2006. Each architect states his views about the terms of architecture, including its theories and relationship to the city and other ...

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  • ARCHITECTURE WORDS 4. HAVING WORDS
    DENISE SCOTT BROWN
    This title includes essays that extend from her 1969 text, "On Pop Art, Permissiveness and Planning" (written 3 years before the publication of "Venturi", Scott Brown and Izenour's seminal book "Learning from Las Vegas") to "Towards an Active Socioplastics" from 2007, offering an overview of Scott Brown's education and the gestation of her key architectural and urban ideas. ...

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  • ARCHITECTURE WORDS 5. FORM, FUNCTION, BEAUTY = GESTALT
    MAX BILL
    Max Bill (1904-1994) - a product of the Bauhaus at Dessau, pupil of Walter Gropius, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee - was a virtuoso designer whose work overleaped disciplinary boundaries, encompassing architecture, painting, sculpture, industrial and graphic design, as well as education. What unites all the work is a clarity and precision of expression. Through both his designs...

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  • ARCHITECTURE ON DISPLAY: ON THE HISTORY OF THE VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE
    A. LEVY / W. MENKING
    The origins of the architecture biennale are generally traced to the 1970s, when it emerged from under the umbrella of the larger Venice Biennale, which was itself established in 1895. Since then it has become one of the most prestigious forums for architectural discourse today, and has served as a model for a range of international exhibitions. The book explores the biennale t...

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  • AA BOOK: PROJECTS REVIEW 2009
    AA Book: Projects Review 2009 showcases the AA’s 2008/09 academic year by archiving student projects, design from the AA Print Studio, the public programme and photographs of events and day to day life around the school. ...

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  • AA BOOK: PROJECTS REVIEW 2008
    "AA Book: Projects Review 2008" is presented this year in a thicker, heftier print form than ever before. In its 536 full-colour pages you will find a complete record of the AA's 2007/08 academic year, including commissioned texts, photo-journalism, reviews, graphics, photographs and, most importantly, projects selected from across the entire School. ...

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  • MORPHOGENESIS OF FLUX STRUCTURE
    MATSURO SASAKI
    What Sasaki proposes in his projects is nothing less than an engineering revolution - an overturning of traditional empirical methods in favour of new kinds of shape analysis that use the principles of evolution and self-organisation of living creatures, adapted from an engineering standpoint, to generate rational structural shapes with a computer. The resulting architecture fl...

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  • BEFORE OBJECT, AFTER IMAGE KOSHIRAKURA LANDSCAPE 1996-2006
    SHIN EGASHIRA
    Each summer for the past ten years the AA's Shin Egashira has organized a workshop in the remote village of Koshirakura, in a mountainous region north of Tokyo. Each summer, the 81 mainly elderly inhabitants of the village are joined by a youthful horde of outsiders who become part of their lives for three weeks, occupying the empty schoolhouse, visiting their homes, and contri...

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  • CORPORATE FIELDS. NEW OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS BY THE AA DRL
    Imagines and gives form to the future of office life, bringing together more than 2000 diagrams, models, renderings and other images from 26 architectural projects completed during the first three years of the AA DRL programme. ...

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