Archiprix International


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Accompanying DVD-ROM includes 60 minute documentary on the 2005 Archiprix International; project presentations from 2001, 2003 and 2005; exhibition panels and an off-line version of the web site.




Archiprix International Montevideo 2009


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"Every two years, Archiprix International highlights the best graduation projects in the world. It does so with the aim of introducing the latest generation of talented designers to a broad public, of bringing the designers themselves into contact with one another, and of giving them a little support in their tentative entrance into professional practice"--Page 15




Archiprix International


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Summary: "This book, with corresponding CD-ROM, presents the Archiprix International 2001 and 2003. The CD-ROM contains all the participating projects and presents a picture of the workshops in Rotterdam and Istanbul. The book shows a selection of the participating projects, including all the prize-winners." -- foreword.




Robotic Building


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The first volume of the Adaptive Environments series focuses on Robotic Building, which refers to both physically built robotic environments and robotically supported building processes. Physically built robotic environments consist of reconfigurable, adaptive systems incorporating sensor-actuator mechanisms that enable buildings to interact with their users and surroundings in real-time. These require Design-to-Production and Operation chains that are numerically controlled and (partially or completely) robotically driven. From architectured materials, on- and off-site robotic production to robotic building operation augmenting everyday life, the volume examines achievements of the last decades and outlines potential future developments in Robotic Building. This book offers an overview of the developments within robotics in architecture so far, and explains the future possibilities of this field. The study of interactions between human and non-human agents at building, design, production and operation level will interest readers seeking information on architecture, design-to-robotic-production and design-to-robotic-operation.




Synthetic Cultures


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Architecture Thesis Project by Gary Polk from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, 2018.




Lebbeus Woods, Architect


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Lebbeus Woods, Architect brings together drawings from the past 40 years by one of the most influential designers working in architecture. Beyond architects, Woods (1940-2012) has been hailed by designers, filmmakers, writers and artists as a significant voice in recent history; his works resonate across many disciplines for their conceptual depth, imaginative breadth and ethical potency. Woods worked cyclically, returning often to themes of architecture's ability to transform, resist and free the collective and the individual. As an architect whose work lies almost solely in the realm of the proposed and the unbuilt, his contributions to the field opened up new avenues for exploring and inscribing space. The publication centers on transformation as a recurring theme. The organization of the images of works is thematic rather than chronological.




Jaap Bakema and the Open Society


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Jaap Bakema and the Open Society' is the first extensive publication on the Dutch architect and the remarkable production of his office Van den Broek and Bakema. His ideas on the open society are extremely relevant to the current debates about how to involve citizens in city building and creating alternative systems to crumbling welfare states. This historical document will highlight both his most relevant and less known work through texts, archival materials and photography. The book contains interviews with his contemporaries such as John Habraken and Herman Hertzberger and essays that each emphasize a different aspect of his work and the context in which it came into being.




Dwelling on the Future


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The Architectural Annual


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Spaces, Poetics and Voids


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Simone Pizzagalli's project for a London prison. The project is "framed" by the contributions of scholars familiar with the topics raised, emphasising the void as an appropoate design technique for an architectural construct. The first part of the book contains a study of the East London Railway Line. The analysis of the chaotically ordered composition of this part of the city involves spaces, places, voids and objects.