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nuevas adquisiciones bibliotecas
Septiembre-Noviembre 2013
encargado de adquisiciones: Sandro Maino
NOTA: el listado de adquisiciones (2008-2013) del DA
disponibles en la Biblioteca Central se encuentra en el
Centro de Documentaciones Angela Schweitzer.
ITURRIAGA, Sandra; STRABUCCHI, Wren
Lo Contador : casas, jardines y
campus = Houses, gardens and
campus
El tema de este nuevo libro de Ediciones ARQ de la Escuela
de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Chile, es el campus Lo Contador, donde actualmente
funciona la Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios
Urbanos de la misma universidad. Sus autores, Sandra
Iturriaga y Wren Strabucchi, presentan a través de un
conjunto de planimetrías comentadas tanto el proceso de
transformación interna del mismo, que gira en gran medida
alrededor de la casa patrimonial de Lo Contador, como su
particular significado barrial y urbano.
Inmerso sin violencia ni desgarros en el vecindario que
todavía se conserva en Pedro de Valdivia Norte, el conjunto
de jardines, patios y edificios que componen el campus es
poseedor de ciertas características excepcionales, puestas
de relieve en el prólogo de Rafael Moneo y el ensayo crítico
de Fernando Pérez Oyarzún que acompañan las
planimetrías, así como en los ensayos fotográficos de
Sergio Larraín Echeñique y Gonzalo Puga. Este libro forma
parte de la Serie Arquitectura – Teoría y Obra de Ediciones
ARQ.
LAVEDAN, Pierre
Histoire de l'urbanisme (3 Vol.)
La publication de l’Histoire de l’urbanisme étalée tout au
long du xxe siècle d’une part, la relation que Pierre
Lavedan a pu établir avec les urbanistes praticiens d’autre
part, offrent un terrain exceptionnel pour repérer les
différentes postures qu’un historien a pu occuper à l’égard
de l’aménagement. Des années 1920 aux années 1950, la
vision du rapport que l’historien entretient avec l’architecte
urbaniste ou l’urbaniste s’est renversée. Alors que le
premier Lavedan se positionne comme un admirateur de
l’artiste, chargé de la récolte et de l’évaluation des formes,
des styles et du patrimoine, le second fait apparaître la
figure d’un donneur d’ordres à l’égard duquel les
architectes deviennent des « exécutants ». Inscrites en
filigrane dans ce discours d’historien, des visions devenues
obsolètes de l’urbanisme ont pu gêner l’appropriation du
travail de Lavedan, par les historiens de la ville qui ont
commencé à publier dans les années 1970.
RYBCZYNSKI, Witold
La casa : historia de una idea
Mediante un amplio panorama de cinco siglos, desde las
grandes salas llenas de humo de los palacios medievales
hasta los ambientes y espacios de hoy, en este libro se
explica de una forma extraordinariamente entretenida qué
es una casa. El término comprende conceptos tales como
confort y comodidad, intimidad y domesticidad o austeridad
y estilo.
El autor, arquitecto y catedrático de Arquitectura, expone
entre otras cosas cómo los cambios sociales y culturales
han influido en los estilos de decoración; la relación entre
los tapices medievales y las moquetas modernas; o cómo
algunos de los lujos más apreciados de la vivienda
moderna obedecen a requisitos técnicos de la construcción.
Rybczynski formula además una dura crítica a «la pobreza
esencial de las ideas arquitectónicas modernas», pues a su
juicio «la idea que del confort tienen los arquitectos y los
ingenieros es fundamentalmente errónea» y el bienestar
doméstico «es algo demasiado importante para dejárselo a
los expertos; es, igual que ha sido siempre, asunto de las
familias y de las personas».
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BOUCHAIN, Patrick; JULIENNE, Loïc;
TAJCHMAN, Alice
Histoire de Construire
Histoire de construire est le premier ouvrage qui révèle,
projet après projet, les processus à l’œuvre dans
l’architecture
inclassable
de
Patrick
Bouchain.
Principalement visuel, composé des nombreuses archives
de l’architecte et son agence – plans, croquis, extraits des
précieux carnets de projet – de photographies explicitant le
"chantier ouvert" ou "la construction comme acte culturel",
ou encore de maquettes retraçant l’avènement de la forme,
il s’agit bien de plonger dans la genèse du projet pour
comprendre une façon de faire, une pensée à l’œuvre.
Chaque projet est unique, de quoi est-il constitué,
comment a-t-il été appréhendé ? D’écoles de cirque en
piscines municipales, de salles de concerts en logements
sociaux expérimentaux – l’architecte doit-il vivre avec
l’habitant ? – de scénographies en campements nomades,
le lecteur se promène au gré de ces histoires de construire
desquelles émane une jouissance du faire certaine.
SMEDT, Julien de
Agenda: JDS Architects: Can We
Sustain our Ability to Crisis?
AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a
collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents
the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year
marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the
day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of
the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting
the absurdities of day-to-day architectural practice while
also staking our intent. Rather than a definitive direction,
our agenda is a definitive attitude - of eagerness,
enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun
and inquiry. It is a directive, a motivation to act, at times
without clear knowledge of where our agenda will lead.
Change, the buzzword of the last U.S. presidential
campaign, is the order of the day, and the task of AGENDA
is to explore what kind of change will be needed if
architects are to assume a political and social agency in
this new landscape. Bringing together diverse forms of
content, AGENDA is a product of vigilant observation,
introspection, and engagement with outside thinkers and
collaborators - artists, curators, politicians, authors,
economists, journalists, developers, educators, and
architects.
TSUKAMOTO, Yoshiharu; KAIJIMA,
Momoyo
Graphic anatomy / Atelier BowWow
Atelier Bow-Wow has up until now designed about twenty
detached houses and holiday villas. An important part of
the design process includes the production of technical
drawings, which astonish with their level of detail, diversity
and spatial depth. This book catalogues 24 designs
accompanied by details and elevations and technical
specifications.
293
RODRÍGUEZ, Ramón
Japón en Occidente arquitecturas
y paisajes del imaginario japonés,
del exotismo a la modernidad
Japón en Occidente. Arquitecturas y paisajes del imaginario
japonés, del exotismo a la modernidad se presenta como
un ensayo crítico que analiza en el ámbito de la cultura
arquitectónica y paisajística japonesa de los últimos ciento
cincuenta años la confrontación entre apasionantes temas
de la cultura universal: tradición y modernidad,
cosmopolitismo e identidad, orientalismo y occidentalismo,
términos cuyos contenidos determinaron en el pasado el
proceso de integración de Japón en el círculo de las
naciones desarrolladas, y que han sido los mismos que
básicamente han regido su cultura hasta nuestros días.
Tras más de dos siglos de hermética cerrazón, con la época
Meiji (1868-1912) Japón dio comienzo a una etapa en la
que el arte y la arquitectura manifestaron las
incertidumbres del momento, pues apostar por la
modernización equivalía a aceptar valores extranjeros, una
colonización que según los defensores de la tradición
disolvería los rasgos identitarios de un país orgulloso de su
idiosincrasia.
MOLEÓN, Pedro
Arquitectos españoles en la Roma
del Grand Tour 1746-1796
El libro reconstruye la experiencia estética y vital del viaje
que algunos arquitectos españoles realizaron a Roma capital artística de la cultura europea de las Luces- en el
siglo XVIII con la intención de ampliar sus estudios y
perfeccionar su formación, en la creencia de que la
antigüedad clásica era la fuente de la que debían obtener
sus principales conocimientos y el modelo en que debía
formarse su gusto. Viaje sin el que no se hubiera dado el
giro neoclásico que marca la mejor arquitectura de la
Ilustración española.
BRAUER, Gernot
München architektur
The face of every city is formed by its architectures.
Munich's historic silhouette is a landscape of towers. This
skyline was created by different people over the course of
many centuries. In the 20th and 21st centuries, too,
landmarks have been added, and, unlike almost anywhere
else, the citizens of Munich have discussed these changes,
and at times vehemently opposed them. The historically
developed appearance of Munich is taken seriously in this
city, which has at the same time acquired and indeed
continues to acquire a wealth of new architecture – for
Munich is growing. This book shows how, after caesura of
the Second World War, Munich defined itself and designed
its future. It shows, too, how Munich handles its legacy and
continues to develop its urban form in a contemporary
fashion.
294
KLEE, Paul
Teoría del arte moderno
"La fuerza creadora escapa a toda denominación.
Probablemente ella misma es materia, una forma de
materia que no es perceptible con los mismos sentidos que
los otros tipos conocidos de materia. Pero es preciso que se
deje reconocer en la materia conocida. Incorporada a ella
debe funcionar, Unida a la materia debe tomar cuerpo,
devenir forma, realidad."
Esta es la experiencia del arte demarcada por la obra de
Paul Klee y sobre ella versan los escritos aquí reunidos.
CHOISY, Auguste
El arte de construir en Bizancio
Primera edición española de la edición francesa de 1883. El
autor, ingeniero civil,realiza un estudio completo de los
procesos y técnicas constructivas en Bizancio. Se centra en
los procedimientos prácticos y, haciendo abstracción de la
decoración, estudia la estructura de los monumentos. La
bóveda ea para Choisy el elemento principal y su estudio
de la construcción abovedadaforma el núcleo de la obra.En
particular, describe con detalle los procedimientos de la
construcción sin cimbra, que los bizantinos llevaron al
máximo grado de desarrollo.
GARGIANI, Roberto
Superstudio
1966, nasce a Firenze Superstudio. Il gruppo formato da
giovani laureati si distingue subito per le forti relazioni con
altri gruppi europei e raggiunge un riconoscimento
internazionale con la mostra "Italy the New Domestic
Landscape" al Moma di New York nel 72. Un'esperienza
dirompente, le cui opere diventano subito fonte di
ispirazione per gli architetti contemporanei più noti, da
Rem Koolhaas a Zaha Hadid. Il volume ripercorre la
produzione di Superstudio nel campo del design,
dell'architettura e delle visioni a scala territoriale,
attraverso disegni di studio inediti, corrispondenza e
testimonianze degli stessi membri del gruppo. Le opere
sono esaminate secondo un ordine cronologico e tematico
che ripercorre l'intera produzione nel contesto culturale
degli anni Sessanta e Settanta, dai progetti scolastici agli
oggetti di design, a quelli che ormai sono diventati
capolavori delle neo-avanguardie della seconda metà del
XX secolo: il Monumento Continuo, gli Istogrammi di
Architettura, la Supersuperficie, le 12 città ideali. E grazie a
queste opere che Superstudio ha lasciato un appassionato
racconto scritto con disegni, fotomontaggi e storyboard,
dedicato al destino dell'architettura, alla sua imminente
dissoluzione, agli invisibili meccanismi di controllo degli
individui messi in atto nelle città all'origine dell'era
dell'elettronica, della realtà virtuale e della globalizzazione.
295
BRORMAN, Boris; THAU, Carsten;
IBELINGS, Hans
Reiulf Ramstad Architects:
selected works
Reiulf Ramstad is one of Norway's most promising
architects and a leading exponent of a new and revitalized
Nordic architecture representing some of the classical
virtues of the tradition known as Critical Regionalism.
Ramstad graduated from the School of Architecture in
Venice in 1995 and was influenced by, among others, Aldo
Rossi, Carlo Scarpa, and later by Sverre Fehn, whose
unique design language, animated use of materials, and
sense of tactility he has managed to both carry on and
reinterpret. Ramstad has won several international prizes
and competitions for his outstanding projects. This
exclusive monograph, edited by Danish architectural critic
Boris Brorman Jensen, presents the architect's mental
landscape and provides an in-depth study of the unique
qualities and exceptional contextual sensibility that
characterize in his entire oeuvre.
TATARKIEWICZ, Wladyslaw
Historia de la estética I. La
estética antigua
Primer volumen de la famosa Historia de la estética del
gran teórico polaco. El libro incluye numerosos textos
originales que -siempre presentados en edición bilingüeconstituyen el fundamento teórico de la obra.
TATARKIEWICZ, Wladyslaw
Historia de la estética II. La
estética medieval
Volumen segundo de la Historia de la estética de W.
Tatarkiewicz. Las corrientes culturales y artísticas ,
orientales y occidentales, hasta la época de Dante. Incluye
en versión bilingüe una extensa antología de los textos
originales en que la obra se basa.
TATARKIEWICZ, Wladyslaw
Historia de la estética III. La
estética moderna, 1400-1700
Tercer volumen de la historia de la estética de W.
Tatarkiewicz. Junto al minucioso estudio del autor sobre las
claves de la estética del período, incluye numerosos textos
de artistas y tratadistas cuyas versiones originales se
ofrecen junto a su correlativa traducción al castellano
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HAUSLADEN, Gerhard
Building to suit the climate a
handbook
In future, buildings that make sense from a bioclimatic
perspective will not be the exception; planners will simply
be expected to design them. With its wealth of facts, this
book serves as a concrete aid to planning and design. With
the planning process as its roadmap, it accompanies the
planner from the basic evaluation stage through conception
and implementation planning all the way to building
operation. The building-related characteristics of the
various climatic zones form the basis for the made-tomeasure development of integrated building solutions.
Well-conceived graphics illustrate planning contexts and
facilitate efficient planning decisions and realistic
predimensioning. Materials, systems, and technologies are
described, and their areas of application are pointed out.
Reference parameters, costs, and the presentation of
interrelationships equip the planner to make a strategic
and well-informed selection.
LAWNER, Miguel
Memorias de un arquitecto
obstinado
Miguel Lawner nos reúne en este solo texto un tejido de
relatos que narran lo que considera las principales
vicisitudes de su existencia. Estamos ante textos escogidos
que procuran trazar una línea de tiempo a partir de
mediados del siglo XX hasta hoy, y que discurre por lo
privado y por lo público, por lo profesional y por lo
amistoso, por lo cotidiano y lo institucional.
BANHAM, Reyner
The architecture of the welltempered environment
Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology,
human needs, and environmental concerns must be
considered an integral part of architecture. No historian
before him had so systematically explored the impact of
environmental engineering on the design of buildings and
on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic
work, Banham has added considerable new material on the
use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human
environments. Included in the new material are discussions
of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre
Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the
environmental wisdom of many current architectural
vernaculars.
297
WESTON, Richard
Tietgen Dormitory / An imaginary
journey around a real building
‘Ideal’ geometric forms such as circles and squares have an
enduring appeal for architects, but are rarely suited to the
contingent demands of modern building programmes and
urban sites. Tietgen Dormitory, completed in Copenhagen
in 2006, is a triumphant exception.
Named after the leading Danish financier C.F. Tietgen
(1829-91) and winner of numerous national and
international architectural awards, the project began life as
the dream of Nordea-fonden who wished to offer students a
collegiate alternative to the contemporary norm of living
individually or in small groups in private accommodation.
Following an architectural competition the foundation’s
vision was given form by the leading Danish architects
Lundgaard and Tranberg, who found that the circular
geometry, so rare in modern architecture, provided both a
telling contrast to the orthogonal discipline of the
surrounding buildings in the new-town district of Ørestad
North and a perfect way of balancing community and
privacy.
Tietgen Dormitory is a unique celebration of a unique
project. Through numerous specially prepared drawings
and photographs and two short but evocative essays, it
invites the reader to take an imaginative journey around
the building and through the long and fascinating history of
circular structures in world architecture – from vernacular
dwellings to prefabricated houses, theatres to sports
stadia, churches to ideal town plans.
HIGGOTT, Andrew; WRAY, Timothy (ed.)
Camera constructs : photography,
architecture and the modern city
"Camera Constructs" contains a selection of essays by a
range of architectural historians and theorists exploring the
relationships between photography, architecture and the
modern city. The work discussed includes commissioned
architectural photography, art practices and architects'
uses of the camera in design processes. This is the first
book to reflect critically on the varied interactions of these
different practices, and to engage with photography's roles
not only in documenting architecture, but in defining how
we imagine it and influencing its processes and forms. The
title thus on the one hand opposes the medium of
photography and the materiality of construction, but on the
other can be read as saying that the camera invariably
constructs what it depicts - the photograph is not a simple
representation of an external reality, but constructs its own
meanings and reconstructs its subjects. Twenty-four
essays, grouped under the themes of 'Modernism and the
Published Photograph', 'Architecture and the City Reimagined', 'Interpretative Constructs' and 'Photography in
Design Practices' provide a rich and highly original analysis
of the relationship of photography to built form through the
twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
298
PUEBLA, Joan
Neovanguardias y representación
arquitectónica : la expresión
innovadora del proyecto
contemporáneo
Desde finales de la década de los sesenta, han ido
surgiendo, en la representación de la arquitectura,
planteamientos gráficos al margen de la operatividad
tradicional, que han abierto interrogantes sobre sus
orígenes, sus modos de expresión y sus posibilidades de
generalización. Esto ha sucedido especialmente en el
ámbito de lo que se ha entendido como neovanguardias
arquitectónicas, la tendencia caracterizada por la
experimentación a partir de diferentes aspectos de una
espacialidad moderna, y también, la más renovadora, en lo
referente a la representación arquitectónica. Cuando la
cultura de la imagen se extiende a todos los campos,
propiciada por las nuevas tecnologías de representación en
constante evolución, las respuestas a esas preguntas
iniciales -aparte de la posible existencia de modas gráficas
o de la búsqueda de un determinado «estilo gráfico»
personal o de equipo- surgirán de planteamientos más
profundos, en correspondencia con los contenidos
arquitectónicos. Este libro pone de manifiesto que, a través
de esta línea, cuya influencia gráfica se ha dejado sentir en
otras posiciones, se está reflejando el carácter abierto de la
representación y su capacidad de renovación actual, a la
vez que se han establecido las bases de la expresión
innovadora del proyecto arquitectónico contemporáneo.
RISEBERO, Bill
Historia dibujada de la
arquitectura últimas tendencias
(forma fantástica)
GARCÍA, Rodrigo
Animaciones arquitectónicas
Este libro apoya la realización de presentaciones animadas
de proyectos arquitectónicos, analizando antecedentes
históricos, técnicos y perceptuales. El autor revisa en
particular técnicas cinematográficas en algunas escenas de
películas, documentales de edificios y animaciones
premiadas, determinado principios de visualización en los
sistemas digitales y proponiendo una metodología general
para realizar animaciones arquitectónicas.
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ARNOLD, Dana; ERGUT, Elvan Altan;
ÖZKAYA, Belgin Turan (ed.)
Rethinking architectural
historiography
Rather than subscribing to a single position, this collection
informs the reader about the current state of the discipline
looking
at
changes
across
the
broad
field
of
methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality.
Divided into three sections, Rethinking Architectural
Historiography begins by renegotiating foundational and
contemporary boundaries of architectural history in relation
to other fields, such as art history and archaeology. It then
goes on to critically engage with past and present histories,
disclosing
assumptions,
biases
and
absences
in
architectural historiography. It concludes by exploring the
possibilities provided by new perspectives, reframing the
discipline in the light of new parameters and problematics.
This timely and illustrated title reflects upon the current
changes in historiographical practice, exploring potential
openings that may contribute further transformation of the
disciplines and theories on architectural historiography and
addresses the current question of the disciplinary
particularity of architectural history.
SCHITTICH, Christian
DETAIL engineering 2: Building
design at Arup
The idea of "Total Architecture", as described by Ove Arup
in his vision of design, continues to serve as the maxim for
the globally operating engineering firm ARUP and its
Building Engineering Department. Drawing on selected
projects from recent years, this second volume in the new
DETAIL engineering series shows how future-oriented and
sustainable civil engineering can be combined with this
ideal of a holistic design process – always with the aim of
achieving perfect unity of strength and elegance in every
structure. The focus is placed on the different processes
that have accompanied the presented construction
projects. Connections are shown between the individual
buildings whose synergies are pursued in an exemplary
fashion.
The remarkable building projects reveal what continues to
drive and inspire the engineers at ARUP to this day: a
passion for pioneering work.
RAMÍREZ, Juan Antonio
Como escribir sobre arte y
arquitectura libro de estilo e
introducción a los géneros de la
crítica y de la historia del arte
Escribir bien sobre arte y arquitectura requiere habilidades
idiomáticas generales, conocimientos específicos de los
asuntos a tratar, y un dominio de los géneros propios de
estas disciplinas. La obra de Juan Antonio Ramírez es un
libro de estilo e introducción a los géneros de la crítica y de
la historia del arte. Ante preguntas relacionadas con el arte
de escribir, proporciona respuestas útiles y orienta al futuro
escritor sobre cómo afrontar la redacción de los distintos
tipos de artículos, cómo se debe hacer una tesis doctoral, o
qué es una crítica de arte, un catálogo de exposición, una
guía artística o un documental. Es una obra indispensable
para estudiantes y para los profesionales que deseen
conocer mejor los procedimientos y recursos para crear
textos de calidad.
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HARDINGHAM, Samantha; RATTENBURY,
Kester
Richard Rogers the Pompidou
Centre
The Pompidou Centre explores Piano+Rogers phenomenal
project for a new type of major cultural building in Paris.
You can hear Richard Rogers description of the project, see
the images and join in the crit. Supported by an extensive
illustrated section, this innovative and compelling book is
an invaluable resource for any architecture student.
COOKE, Catherine
Constructivismo ruso sobre la
arquitectura en las vanguardias
ruso-soviéticas hacia 1917
Los textos presentados en este libro están más vinculados
a la actividad arquitectónica que a la actividad plástica de
este movimiento artístico.
REINOSO, Gastón
Paisajes de lo feo, lo aburrido y lo
ordinario
ZEVI, Bruno
Erich Mendelsohn : the complete
works
A comprehensive monograph on the Complete Works of
Erich Mendelsohn (18871953), the leading exponent of
architectural Expressionism.
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BELIER, Corinne; BERGDOLL, Barry; LE
COEUR, Marc
Henri Labrouste : structure
brought to light
Henri Labrouste is one of the few nineteenth-century
architects consistently lionized as a precursor of modern
architecture throughout the twentieth century and into our
own time. The two magisterial glass-and-iron reading
rooms he built in Paris gave form to the idea of the modern
library as a collective civic space. His influence was both
immediate and long-lasting, not only on the development
of the modern library but also on the exploration of new
paradigms of space, materials and luminosity in places of
great public assembly. Published to accompany the first
exhibition devoted to Labrouste in the United States--and
the first anywhere in the world in nearly 40 years--this
publication presents nearly 225 works in all media,
including drawings, watercolors, vintage and modern
photographs, film stills and architectural models. Essays by
a range of international architecture scholars explore
Labrouste's work and legacy through a variety of
approaches.
HARTMAN, George; CIGLIANO, Jan (ed.)
Pencil points reader : a journal for
the drafting room, 1920-1943
The first issue of the legendary architecture journal Pencil
Points appeared in 1920 as "a journal for the drafting
room." Born out of The Architectural Review, and merged
with Progressive Architecture in 1943, Pencil Points became
the leading voice in architectural and graphic design when
modernism flourished, introducing key players from
America and Europe. It also established the agenda in
architectural theory: multivolume pieces by John Harbeson,
Talbot Hamlin, Hugh Ferris, and others dealt with major
issues that are still relevant today-architectural education
and practice, small-house design and portable housing, city
planning, and the influence (or not) of modernism. Items
like George Nelson's series of reports from Europe in the
early 1930s, H. Van Buren Magonigle's diatribes against
modernism, and a glossary of Ecole des Beaux-Arts terms
sit side-by-side with the best architectural drawings and
photographs of the 20th century.
Pencil Points Reader re-publishes the most important
essays
from
the
journal's
23
years,
arranged
chronologically, and offers an insider's introduction by John
Dixon, the former executive editor of Progressive
Architecture.
Pencil Points Reader is a prized collector's edition and an
essential addition to any architectural library.
FRIEDMAN, Yona
Toward a scientific architecture
Today in architecture and city planning, Friedman (who has
lived and practiced architecture in France for many years)
observes that there are no strict rules that allow an
accurate prediction of the results of a particular decision.
Instead of the intuitive rules or "tricks of the trade" used
by both professions, Friedman proposes a complete list of
objective rules and risks involved as choices are made
among several million possible plans for living space.
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ANGÉLIL, Marc; HEHL, Rainer (ed.)
Building Brazil : the proactive
urban renewal of informal
settlements
In Building Brazil!, the Master of Advanced Studies in
Urban Design, ETH Zürich, turns its attention to the
settlements blanketing the hills of Rio de Janeiro and São
Paulo.
As cities strain under a growing population and demand for
resources, Brazil will provide a test case for how politicians,
architects and urban planners can work together with local
stakeholders to improve living conditions in informal
settlements without upsetting their social structures.
Against
the
backdrop of
recent
and exemplary
developments in Brazilian public policy and slum-upgrading
practices, Building Brazil! suggests a proactive approach to
the favela that opens up the existing urban fabric to
architectural and urban interventions.
Shifting between micro and macro levels of analysis,
Building Brazil! investigates the way forward for the favelas
of Jardim Colombo, Heliópolis, Cidade Ipava and Rio das
Pedras. Practical design solutions for informal, risk-prone
areas are situated within overarching urban strategies; and
context-specific projects are complemented by editorials on
the spatial, social and financial dynamics of the informal
Brazilian city.
MUTHESIUS, Hermann
Style-architecture and buildingart : transformations of
architecture in the nineteenth
century and its present condition
Style-Architecture and Building-Art is Hermann Muthesius’s
classic criticism of nineteenth century architecture. Now
published for the first time in English, this pivotal text
represents the first serious effort by Muthesius to define
the elements of early modernist architecture according to
notions of realism and simplicity.
Although Muthesius is known best in Anglo-American
architectural literature for his studies of the English house,
his scholarship constituted a wide-ranging modernist
polemic emanating from the German realist movement of
the late 1890s. Notions that were introduced in StyleArchitecture and Building-Art became common in later
modernist historiography: disdain for the nineteenth
century’s artistic eclecticism and lack of originality;
appreciation of the material and industrial aspects of
building technology, and, above all, a simpler approach to
design. Muthesius' critique of stylistic architecture is not
only linked to the development of the Deutsche Werkbund
movement, but also can be viewed more broadly as a
cornerstone of the modern movement.
In his introduction, Standford Anderson situates Muthesius
and his work in turn-of-the-century architectural discourse
and analyzes his vision of a new form of architecture.
Anderson also discusses the rationale underlying the call
for cultural renewal, the role of English architectural models
in Muthesius’s thought, critical differences between the first
and second editions of Style-Architecture and Building-Art,
the influence of the Jugendstil and Art Nouveau movements
on Muthesius and, in turn, the influence of Muthesius on
the Deutsche Werkbund movement.
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FRIEDMAN, Yona
Arquitectura con la gente, por la
gente, para la gente =
Architecture with the people, by
people, for the people
La obra de Yona Friedman abarca modelos urbanísticos,
textos teóricos y películas de animación. Ha participado en
varias bienales de arte contemporáneo como Shangai,
Venecia y Documenta. Sus ideas, visionarias y adelantadas
a su época, ocuparon a varias generaciones de arquitectos
y urbanistas e influido de forma clara en Arata Isozaki o
Bernard Tschumi. Activo hasta la fecha y siempre
socialmente comprometido, su periodo de mayor relevancia
se centra en las décadas de los 50 y 60. En 1956 publica el
manifiesto L’Architecture Mobile, en el que planteaba una
estructura urbana sobre pilotes apropiada para terrenos no
construibles, que constituyó a su vez, el documento
fundacional del Groupe d’étude d’architecture mobile
(GEAM). Desarrolló conceptos urbanos como La Ville
Spatiale, cuya fundamento principal consistía en la libre
organización de la ciudad por parte de sus ciudadanos
gracias a modelos móviles y reutilizables de bajo coste.
HENGEVELD, Jaap
Piet Blom
Perhaps best identified with his Cube houses built on
columns in Rotterdam, Dutch architect Piet Blom studied
under Aldo van Eyck and was responsible for a wide range
of designs throughout the Dutch architectural landscape;
ranging from private houses, public buildings, offices,
medium density housing and apartment buildings. As this
monograph testifies, each of the 44 projects documented
here were approached with the same uncompromising set
of principles. Generously illustrated throughout with black
and white photographs, plans and elevations, the
publication is accompanied by personal anecdotes and
explanatory essays.
MARTY, Enrique
Reasons for walling a house (The
guest Files, 2003-2011): 51N4E
Reasons for Walling a House is a book about the unusual
transformation of a small single family house by the
Belgian architecture firm 51N4E. A couple living in a single
family house on the Belgian countryside wanted to have
"more space." But, instead, the architects that they hired
enclosed their small house with a three-meter-tall steel
wall. This paradoxical transformation challenged the
owners to rethink their ideas of a home. Upon the project's
completion they decided to open up their residence as a
guest house for artists, designers, writers, and thinkers.
Each person invited would receive a carte blanche, a fridge
full of food, and the opportunity to have the run of the
house without its inhabitants. Reasons for Walling a House
unravels the secrets of an unlikely transformation, seen
through the eyes of the first seven guests-the artists
Enrique Marty (Spain) and Dirk Braeckman (Belgium),
theater director and actor Josse de Pauw (Belgium),
graphic designers Something Fantastic (Germany), as well
as the architects Andrea Branzi (Italy), BeL (Germany) and
51N4E (Belgium).
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FREDERICK, Matthew
101 cosas que aprendí en la
escuela de arquitectura
Éste es un libro que los estudiantes de arquitectura querrán
tener en su habitación de estudio y en sus mochilas.
También es un libro que querrán mantener alejado de los
profesores, ya que expresa en un lenguaje claro y sencillo
algunas cosas que en clase suelen parecer confusas y
extrañas. Estas concisas 101 lecciones de diseño, dibujo y
presentación –desde el básico «Cómo dibujar una línea»
hasta la complejidad de la teoría del color– constituyen sin
duda un necesario y fundamental libro de texto para
introducirse en la arquitectura, llevando al terreno de lo
concreto lo que a menudo se presenta en la carrera de
manera vaga o indeterminada.
BURRY, Jane
Designing the dynamic: hichperformance sailinf and real-time
feedback in design
Who knows more about the performance impact of design
changes in real time than the sailor and sail trimmer in an
ocean race?
Performance can be most influential on design decisionmaking when the performance response to design change
is experienced in real time. In architecture and design
dynamic feedback is the computational and analogue
design challenge of the hour – how to experience within
dynamic digital and physical design models as those
changes are actually happening. So, in this book, the
challenge is first explored by looking beyond the design of
the static built infrastructure of the city to the ultimate in
reflexive action and high performance design: sailboat
racing.
Successful design decision-making relies on design team
interaction between individuals of very diverse expertise
and points of departure: generalists and specialists.
Designing the Dynamic brings together leading researchers
from architecture, boat design, industrial design,
mathematics, aerospace, structural engineering, and
computer science to explore the design and representation
of dynamic systems. The authors expose diverse aspects of
the subject ranging from the empirical science and
sociology to the deep poetry of designing with dynamic
phenomena.
BUA, Matt
Architectural inventions: visionary
drawings
Born out of the drawingbuilding.org online archive,
Architectural Inventions presents a stunning visual study of
impossible or speculative structures that exist only on
paper. Soliciting the work of architects, designers, and
artists of renown—as well as emerging talents from all over
the world—Maximilian Goldfarb and Matt Bua have
gathered an array of works that convey architectural
alternatives, by products, expansions, or critiques of our
inhabited environments. Highlighting visions that exist
outside of established channels of production and
conventions of design, Architectural Inventions showcases
a multiplicity in concept and vision, fantasy and innovation.
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SMITH, Albert C.
Architectural model as machine a
new view of models from
antiquity to the present day
This book offers an explanation of why scale models are
important to the design process. Albert Smith takes the
reader through the history and significance of models in
architecture from the magic of the Egyptian scale model to
the present day.
Through this description of the relationship between
architecture and the scale model, Smith demonstrates the
most effective process between concept and 'machine',
between the idea and the final building. The great value of
this book is to reveal the nature of the scale model and to
unlock the tremendous potential of this design tool as a
thinking and communicative advice.
His chronological analysis goes on from Egypt through
Rome to the relationship between the Greek paradigm
scale model and then on to Medieval and Renaissance
models. It concludes with the models of the Spanish
architect Antonio Gaudi, the Russian Constructivists, the
American architect Louis Khan and finally looks at the role
of scale models in the present day through the work of the
Polish/American architect Daniel Libeskind and the
American Frank Gehry.
FERNÁNDEZ, Aurora
10 historias sobre vivienda
colectiva : análisis gráfico de diez
obras esenciales
El libro es un reconocimiento a maestros como Ignazio
Gardella, Jean Renaudie, Ralph Erskine o Fumihiko Maki
entre otros, que defendieron su visión personal de la
arquitectura lejos de los dogmatismos y cerca de los
usuarios. Cada historia es un viaje a través de múltiples
enlaces que relacionan el proyecto con obras que lo
precedieron, lo sitúan frente a las de su generación y lo
identifican con los diseños del siglo 21.
No se trata de una lista canónica de edificios, ni son el topten de la vivienda colec-tiva. Han sido elegidos como se
elige a los amigos: porque a pesar de sus defectos,
merecen la pena.
Contenidos:
01 La calle en el aire. Complejo Justus van Effen. Michiel
Brinkman Róterdam,1919-1922
02 El naufragio del condensador social. NarkomfinKommuna. Moisei Ginzburg, Ignaty Milinis. Moscú, 19281932
03 Barato, rápido, ligaro y más alto. Cité de la Muette.
Beaudouin, Lods, Mopin, Bodiansky. París, 1931-1934
04 La elegancia del disidente. Viviendas para los
empleados
de
Borsalino.
Ignazio
Gardella.
Alessandria,1948-1952
05 El proyecto como guión. Complejo multiuso en Corso
Italia. Luigi Moretti Milán,1949-1956
06 Un gueto exquisito. Barbican. Peter Chamberlin, Geoffry
Powell, Christof Bon, Arup. Londres, 1955-1983
07 Cristal líquido. Résidence du Point du Jour. Fernand
Pouillon. París,1957-1963
08 La ciudad lenta. Hillside Terrace. Fumihiko Maki. Tokio,
1967-1998
09 Construyendo estados de ánimo. Regeneración de
Byker. Ralph Erskine Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1969-1982
10 Frente a mi casa, sobre la tuya, mi terraza. Complejo
Jeanne Hachette. Jean Renaudie. Paris, 1970-1975
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FRANKL, Paul
Principios fundamentales de la
historia de la arquitectura el
desarrollo de la arquitectura
europea: 1420-1900
Este libro realiza un exhaustivo repaso de los principios
fundamentales que desde siempre han regido el
funcionamiento de la arquitectura.
WANG, Wilfried; SYLVESTER, Dan
Hans Scharoun: Philharmonie
Berlin, 1956-1963
Rising with its golden roof from the self-inflicted ashes of
World War II, right at the center of the remains of Hitler´s
megalomaniac World Capital Germania, the new concert
hall for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra has become the
symbol of another Germany; a newly democratized nation
that sought to reshape itself with the help of cultural
experiences. Today, the Philharmonie is the nucleus of
Berlin´s Kulturforum with five museums, two concert
venues and the state library, West Berlin´s response during
the Cold War to the Museum Island on the east of Berlin.
Hans Scharoun´s design for the Philharmonie is without
precedent. It became the paradigm for numerous concert
halls all over the world, but none has ever come close to
the
Philharmonie´s
conceptual,
compositional,
constructional, social and synesthetic experiential integrity.
Scharoun (1893-1972) had pursued all his life to project a
symbol for new democracy in Germany. Ever since the
revolutionary air swept German society after World War I,
Scharoun and a number of his friends were dreaming of the
new gleaming glass dome on top of a cultural building that
would become the alternative to the cathedral. More than
four decades later, the purpose-built concert hall for one of
the world´s most respected orchestras, opened its doors to
an avid audience.
The Philharmonie´s unconventional forms, mostly nonorthogonal planes with a few curves – notably as part of
the roof and the ceiling – met with incredulity and outright
rejection. When the designs were published, vociferous
commentators were sure that it could not be built. Its
apparent irregularity was thought by some to be costly and
unnecessary.
Yet on completion, the spatial magic and the constructional
logic won over most critics. Nevertheless, there are some
who remain hostile to the design, considering it to be
irrational and overly expressive.
With the possibility of publishing the drawings from the
Scharoun Archive at the Academy of the Arts, Berlin,
anyone with a slightest ability to read drawings will be able
to trace the direct approach to the detailing and
construction of the Philharmonie´s spatially complex, yet
highly logical composition.
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SCHITTICH, Christian
DETAIL engineering 3: Bollinger +
Grohmann
For the engineers of Bollinger + Grohmann it is of central
importance to understand design and construction in the
planning process as a unit. That is why they see their task
as further development and reinforcement of the respective
design: in dialogue with the architects and other technical
planners – and not least through their knowledge of how to
design load-bearing structures. In order for innovative
structures to be created, their genesis cannot be based just
on structural and mechanical principles, but is instead the
product of experience with materials, construction methods
and technologies. This examination of interdisciplinary
topics, as well as an open and interested consideration of
adjacent disciplines, led to the development of an integral
planning approach that allows the office to react to the
wide range of requirements of worldwide projects.The
many spectacular constructions of recent years speak for
themselves: The limits of feasibility seem to no longer
apply, mathematical laws are assigned a new dynamism,
and common structures are newly interpreted.
SAMUEL, Flora
Le Corbusier and the architectural
promenade
Architecture is experienced as one roams about in it and
walks through it So true is this that architectural works can
be divided into dead and living ones depending on whether
the law of roaming through has not been observed or
whether on the contrary it has been brilliantly obeyed.(Le
Corbusier,
1942)The promenade
architecturale
the
observers pathway through the built space is a central
element of Le Corbusiers architectural and city planning
designs. It is the sequence of images that unfolds before
the eyes of the observer as he or she gradually advances
through the structure. It is the creation of a hierarchy
among the architectural events, a set of instructions for
reading the work the internal circulatory system of
architecture.
With
the
help
of
the
promenade
architecturale, Le Corbusier created virtuosic imbrications
of indoor and outdoor space, fluid spaces that reveal
themselves as the visitor progresses. Architecture
constitutes the space of processes of movement.
TSCHUMI, Bernard
Bernard Tschumi : architecture
concepts red is not a color
An autobiographical look at the work of a seminal
modernist architect. This is the first comprehensive
treatment of the architecture of Bernard Tschumi. Part
monograph, part architectural theory, and part story, the
book narrates a three-decade journey through a personal
history of architecture and architectural ideas, intertwining
theory, practice, and hypothetical projects with forty built
works. From Tschumi s many written works, such as
Architecture
and
Disjunction
and
The
Manhattan
Transcripts to such renowned projects as the Parc de la
Villette in Paris, major concert halls in Geneva, Switzerland,
and in Rouen and Limoges, France, a high-rise in
Manhattan, the Vacheron Constantin Headquarters in
Geneva, the Paris Zoo, and the Acropolis Museum in
Athens, the book presents a profusely illustrated tour
through the work of the architect, set in the context of a
rich history of architectural ideas. Written for the layperson
as well as the specialist, the book is an entertaining
narrative about the condition of architecture today.
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ASENSIO-WANDOSELL, Carlos
Espacios para la enseñanza:
arquitecturas docentes de 6
arquitectos españoles de la 2a
mitad del siglo XX
El libro aborda el estudio de los proyectos que, dentro del
ámbito docente, han desarrollado algunos de los mejores
arquitectos españoles de la segunda mitad del s. XX. Un
artículo introductorio estudia los principales modelos
internacionales, tanto teóricos como construidos, que
pudieron servir de referentes a los arquitectos españoles
seleccionados.
Bajo este prisma con visión global se analizan las
aportaciones que Miguel Fisac, Francisco Javier Sáenz de
Oiza, Julio Cano Lasso, Fernando Higueras, Rafael Moneo y
Alberto Campo Baeza a la arquitectura docente española.
En el libro se repasan desde la primera modernización que
suponen los Institutos laborales de Fisac hasta la
consagración internacional de las escuelas norteamericanas
de Moneo, pasando por experiencias tan interesantes como
el "útero docente" de las escuelas de Batán de Oiza, la
clara sintaxis de los centros de formación profesional de
Cano Lasso, el progresismo activo del colegio Estudio y las
posteriores propuestas de Higueras o los colegios de
geometrías esenciales de volúmenes puros de Campo
Baeza.
KAUFMANN, Emil
Tres arquitectos revolucionarios:
Boullée, Ledoux y Lequeu
KEIL, Andreas
Pedestrian bridges ramps,
walkways structures
Pedestrian bridges need to be above all functional, but
beyond this they should also relate to that which makes a
location special, to its pathways, topography and context.
Through their presence in the public realm, they offer the
opportunity of not only connecting areas separated from
each other, but also of giving a place its own identity. To
draft a good pedestrian bridge, a great deal of design
sensitivity is required, particularly when the bridge is being
built in an inner-city area or in a sensitive landscape.But
since less restrictive functional and structural requirements
apply to pedestrian bridges than to road or rail bridges,
pedestrian bridges offer the required design latitude for
reacting to the place and use with individual solutions.
The book at hand provides an overview of current
tendencies
in
pedestrian
bridge
construction,
of
fundamental structural and functional requirements, of the
various load-bearing systems, of application areas of the
various materials and of important economic aspects.
Successful real-life examples round out the volume and are
meant to provide motivation to make fascinating designs a
reality in interdisciplinary collaboration.
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