We all daydream; we've all experienced that moment when we suddenly realise that instead of paying attention in a meeting or reading a book, our mind has wandered.
Hannes Meyer hat als zweiter Bauhausdirektor die von Walter Gropius und den frühen Meistern begründete Bauhauspädagogik wesentlich verändert und neu konzipiert: Das Prinzip „Volksbedarf statt Luxusbedarf“ löste das in die Krise geratene Konzept „Kunst und Technik – eine neue Einheit“ von 1923 ab.
Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experiments-unique interdisciplinary encounters and performed events generated through collaborations between architects and choreographers.
Challenging mainstream architecture's understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the idea's centrality, in all aspects of everyday design thinking, to be rediscovered or considered for the first time.
Challenging mainstream architecture's understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the idea's centrality, in all aspects of everyday design thinking, to be rediscovered or considered for the first time.
This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the conservation, readaptation, and transformation of past buildings legitimate operations.
Este libro analiza las diversas concepciones de la 'composición arquitectónica' que se formularon en los libros de teoría y se aplicaron en los proyectos y los edificios construidos durante los siglos XIX y XX.
You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building.
This book investigates how immersive environments, across architecture, art, and media, shape spatial perception, cultural identity, and the construction of reality.
Buildings and spaces are like instruments: architectural volumes and their materials, surfaces and structures generate a resonance and therefore have a sensorial impact on people.
Architectural Aesthetic Speculations expands our understanding of the role of formal aesthetic criteria in twentieth-century artistic practices and reveals potentially transformative aspects in the art of architectural composition.
La teoría poscolonial ha influido muy significativamente en la historiografía actual y en la evolución de la crítica arquitectónica contemporánea en particular.
En el casi medio siglo transcurrido desde la edición completa en alemán de su Libro de los Pasajes, Walter Benjamin se ha convertido en una referencia clave en muchos ámbitos de la crítica.
En el casi medio siglo transcurrido desde la edición completa en alemán de su Libro de los Pasajes, Walter Benjamin se ha convertido en una referencia clave en muchos ámbitos de la crítica.
La teoría poscolonial ha influido muy significativamente en la historiografía actual y en la evolución de la crítica arquitectónica contemporánea en particular.
Ruinen sind per definitionem nichts Neues: Als materielle Überreste sesshafter Kulturen zählen sie seit Unzeiten zum Bestand historischer Gegebenheiten.
Framing whiteness as a sensorial quality connate with ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and ontological hierarchies, this edited volume examines how the category of whiteness shaped architectural theories and practices across the early modern period.
This book seeks to improve the work lives of architects of diverse demographics who do not fit, or want to replicate, the traditional '24/7' white-male architect lifestyle.
This book seeks to improve the work lives of architects of diverse demographics who do not fit, or want to replicate, the traditional '24/7' white-male architect lifestyle.
With over one billion people worldwide living in informal settlements and enduring substandard housing conditions, these areas present one of the greatest urban challenges of our time.
Interior Technicity: Unplugged and/ or Switched On invites reflection on how interiors have always been augmenting entities and how they continue to be so-in other words, extending, facilitating and consolidating bodies within socio-cultural environments.
This book presents practical, applicable solutions that contribute to built heritage conservation, discussing challenges like resource constraints, ineffective legislation, lack of coordination between different relevant bodies, and absence of public awareness and involvement.
Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices.
Domine el análisis de estructuras isostáticas y consiga estructuras solventes con facilidad¿Qué pasaría si le dijéramos que analizar los complejos diagramas de normal, cortante y momento flector puede ser sorprendentemente sencillo?
In der aktuellen sprachphilosophischen Debatte um die Semantik/Pragmatik-Unterscheidung bezieht die Autorin gegen eine kontextualistische und zugunsten einer minimalistischen Position Stellung, der zufolge der genuin semantische Gehalt eines geäußerten Satzes nicht von Sprecherintentionen abhängt, sondern allein unter Rekurs auf die konventionelle Bedeutung der verwendeten Ausdrücke und die Regeln ihrer Komposition bestimmt wird.
Die Dokumentation reflektiert die Entwicklung und den Status quo der Gestaltungs- und Darstellungslehre für die grundständigen Studiengänge Architektur und Urbanistik der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
