#books #construction | Engineering nature : timber structures

Engineering nature : timber structures / editor, Jakob Schoof.
Munich : Detail, 2021
226 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Construcción de madera / Cubiertas (Construcción) / Estructuras – Diseño

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783955535520
Cita APA-7: Schoof, Jakob (ed.). (2021). Engineering nature : timber structures. Detail.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-624.011 ENG
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1322867677

[.en] Thanks to high-performance composite structures made of wood and steel or concrete, wooden buildings are now being erected far beyond the high-rise boundaries. An end to the increase in altitude is hardly in sight. Wooden constructions are also on the uptrend in residential and office construction, sports halls, industrial buildings and bridges. They are the epitome of sustainable building and, thanks to new prefabrication processes, are also competitive in terms of construction costs. The book shows the current development of structural planning with wood on the basis of around 20 outstanding engineering structures. The engineers involved in the planning describe the conception of the supporting structures as well as individual solutions for their implementation.

#libros #arquitectura | Rehabilitación : madera en la edificación

Rehabilitación : madera en la edificación / Enrique Nuere, Paco Cabeza ; colaborador en el capítulo 15, Ángel Luis Candelas.
Madrid : Asociación de Investigación Técnica de las Industrias de la Madera, 2021.
248 p. : il.
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectura – Conservación y restauración / Construcción de madera / Vivienda - Rehabilitación

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788487381546
Cita APA-7: Nuere, Enrique, & Cabeza, Paco (2021). Rehabilitación : madera en la edificación. Asociación de Investigación Técnica de las Industrias de la Madera.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.025.4 REH
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1257783822

[.es] Este libro está dedicado a la recuperación de estructuras de madera antiguas en los cascos viejos de ciudades españolas. Enrique Nuere, el gran maestro español sobre esta materia, vierte en este libro experiencias de casos concretos y da orientaciones generales sobre cómo abordar la rehabilitación de estructuras de madera. El libro está ilustrado con fotografías de gran calidad visual y los magníficos dibujos de línea clara a que nos tiene acostumbrados este autor. Analiza los enemigos de la madera, las diferentes características patológicas según ciudades y localizaciones, teniendo en cuenta clima y otras características que afectan a estas construcciones y su rehabilitación, explica las soluciones incluso en casos "casi imposibles", trata los nuevos productos para el tratamiento de estos edificios y en definitiva, aporta toda la experiencia de tantos años rehabilitando y ejecutando obras en edificios con este tipo de estructuras de madera.

#libri #architettura | Gio Ponti e la Concattedrale di Taranto : genesi di un'architettura : dall'idea originaria alla forma finita

Gio Ponti e la Concattedrale di Taranto : genesi di un'architettura : dall'idea originaria alla forma finita / [a cura di] Fernando Errico, Gabriele Rossi, Francesco Simone ; con Maria Piccarreta e Vittorio De Marco ; e la collaborazione di Marco Aprea ... [et al.].
Cinisello Balsamo, Milano : Silvana, 2021.
156 p. : il.
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectura religiosa – Italia / Catedrales – Italia / Gio Ponti / Taranto (Italia)

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788836646913
Cita APA-7: Errico, Fernando, Rossi, Gabriele, & Simone, Francesco (eds.) (2021). Gio Ponti e la Concattedrale di Taranto : genesi di un'architettura : dall'idea originaria alla forma finita. Silvana.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-726.6 GIO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1335116403

[.it] L’evoluzione dell’idea di cattedrale di Ponti attraverso la corrispondenza, gli schizzi, gli appunti e gli elaborati originali, in un percorso connotato da ripensamenti e indecisioni lungo il quale si susseguono modifiche, attuate in fase di elaborazione e di realizzazione. I tre progetti presentati al committente e il quarto, frutto delle riflessioni e delle varianti in corso d’opera, scandiscono i momenti salienti di tale percorso, sintetizzandone graficamente lo sviluppo. Il ridisegno critico e la modellazione delle singole soluzioni ricompongono l’unità che gli studi rimasti sulla carta non hanno mai avuto e le nuove elaborazioni divengono base per un supporto conoscitivo e comunicativo di analisi e di comparazione. Attraverso le inedite rappresentazioni si riesce così a scorgere la sequenza evolutiva dell’idea e sintetizzare la grande quantità di informazioni che si è provato a raccontare in questo volume.

#books #architecture | Imagination and participation : next steps in public library architecture

Imagination and participation : next steps in public library architecture / Joyce Sternheim & Rob Bruijnzeels.
Rotterdam : Nai010 publishers, 2021.
223 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Bibliotecas – Arquitectura

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9789462086623
Cita APA-7: Sternheim, Joyce, & Bruijnzeels, Rob (2021). Imagination and participation : next steps in public library architecture. Nai010.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-727.8 IMA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1322189577 

[.en] A manifesto for the future of the library, featuring conversations with leading architects and designers. In ‘Imagination and Participation’, Dutch librarians Rob Bruijnzeels and Joyce Sternheim examine the most important recent changes in public library design through conversations with experts and architects who have designed public libraries in the Netherlands and abroad. These conversations and the authors’ insights and experiences offer a vision for future library buildings that respond to the needs of the communities they serve. Imagination and Participation lays out a manifesto guided by what the authors believe visitors should experience when they visit a library. Libraries featured include the Birmingham Library in Alabama, Mies van der Rohe’s Martin Luther King Library in Washington, DC, and the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; architects and designers interviewed include Jo Coenen, Chris van Duijn, Francine Houben, Winy Maas, Vincent Panhuysen, Michael Riedijk and more.

#books #urbanisme | Urban interstices in Italy : design experiences

Urban interstices in Italy : design experiences / edited by Bertrando Bonfantini and Imma Forino.
Siracusa : LetteraVentidue Edizioni, 2021.
323 p. : il.
/ EN / Libos / Ciudades – Renovación – Italia / Espacios públicos

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788862425667
Cita APA-7: Bonfantini, Bertrando, & Forino, Imma (eds.) (2021). Urban interstices in Italy : design experiences. LetteraVentidue Edizioni.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-712.25 URB
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1322799114

[.en] “Urban interstices”—their design—are the topic of this book. What are urban interstices? What different issues, opportunities, roles, and concepts do they deal with?The book’s five chapters written by urban planners, architects and interior designers provide five different views and keys—Urban rewriting, Architectural threshold, Green rooms, Connecting publicness, Ephemeral devices—and draft a possible path to sound the spectrum of urban interstices’ design in Italy. Urban space can be “interstitial” in its ambiguous capability of signification in the sense-making process; that is, in the double valence of a mute void—space without signification—or meaningful room—a small and dense universe of suspension. Sometimes the project for interstitial spaces aims to transform the former into the latter. Sometimes, on the other hand, the project makes the interstice an interface, connector, exchanger, membrane, space of interrelation. So that urban interstices become alternatively thresholds and pulsating rooms, and urban catalysts activated by specific design moves and devices. And somehow they also speak of a general “interstitial” condition of urban space today. The critical path proposed here is based on the review of seventy contemporary Italian cases. A collection of sixty projects is provided in the second part of the book, while ten cases—two for each thematic key—are explored in brief monographic essays and by interviews with the authors of the projects. They are the subject of the photographic essay, Visual narration, put in the middle of the book.

#libros #arquitectura | Interpretación y representación de planos : edificación y obra civil

Interpretación y representación de planos : edificación y obra civil / María Asunción Salgado de la Rosa.
Madrid : Tornapunta, 2021.
270 p. : il.
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectura – Dibujos y planos / Geometría

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788418632204
Cita APA-7: Salgado de la Rosa, María Asunción. (2021). Interpretación y representación de planos : edificación y obra civil. Tornapunta.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-721.021 INT
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1346850000

[.es] Este manual recoge el contenido de la unidad formativa UF0306: Análisis de datos y representación de planos, incluida en los certificados profesionales de nivel 3 EOCO0108: Representación de proyectos de edificación y EOCO0208: Representación de proyectos de obra civil. Junto con el manual de Representación gráfica, maquetismo, y presentación de proyectos de construcción, editado por Tornapunta ediciones S.L.U, conforma el módulo formativo común a ambos certificados: MF0638_3: Representaciones de construcción.

En sus contenidos se abordan el análisis de los datos, la elaboración y la interpretación de los planos y, por lo tanto, los conocimientos necesarios para comprender, representar y trasladar al entono físico real los aspectos incluidos en el proyecto, con el fin de definir la geometría de la obra, los materiales a emplear, sus características físicas, etc.

Los planos del proyecto son una abstracción de los objetos que se quieren representar. Es por ello, que solo el conocimiento previo de los códigos que rigen la representación gráfica de estos documentos posibilita una correcta elaboración de los mismos por parte del delineante y su posterior interpretación por el personal que trabaja en la ejecución de la obra.

En este libro se apuntan mecanismos gráficos y los trucos que, basándose en la geometría, resuelven problemas reales, amén de otras curiosidades que acompañan esta faceta de la representación.

#libros #arquitectura | Arquitectura de los pantanos en España

Arquitectura de los pantanos en España / Eduard Callís Freixas.
Sevilla : Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2021.
267 p. : il.
Serie: Textos de doctorado de IUACC. Arquitectura ; 58.
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectura del paisaje / Obras hidráulicas – España / Presas

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788447223107
Cita APA-7: Callís, Eduard (2021). Arquitectura de los pantanos en España. Editorial Universidad de Sevilla.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-627 ARQ
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1345457263

[.es] Examinar la arquitectura de los pantanos en España, un país que cuenta con más de 1.500 presas que condicionan el paisaje y el territorio, equivale a hacer un análisis global de la orografía de la península ibérica: forma, relieve, cuencas... Los pantanos analizados en este libro han sido seleccionados y jerarquizados atendiendo a diez aspectos que permiten clasificarlos en diferentes familias; de esta manera, los nombres que recogen los capítulos dedicados a cada caso dan cuenta de las diferentes perspectivas empleadas para abordarlos: el lugar en el que estas colosales obras se han levantado, su construcción, los avatares sufridos, entre otros. El objetivo final del volumen, que contiene múltiples dibujos de plantas y secciones, es facilitar al lector una serie de herramientas que permita abordar la forma, estructura, técnica y materialidad de esta manera de almacenar y administrar el agua.

#books #architecture | Bernard Desmoulin : more or less

Bernard Desmoulin : more or less / [direction editoriale, Dario Cimorelli].
Cinisello Balsamo, Milano : Silvana editoriale, 2021.
287 p. : il. 

Ed. bilingüe inglés - francés
/ EN / FR / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Francia / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI - Francia

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788836644292
Cita APA-7: Cimorelli, Dario (2021). Bernard Desmoulin : more or less. Silvana editoriale.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72DESMOULIN BER
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1335116389

[.en] Bernard Desmoulin (b. 1953) is a Paris based-French architect is known for his many réalisations (Pole de restauration de l’ENSAM of Cluny, Nouvel Hopital Lariboisière, Place Campichi in Ajaccio, school buildings, museums and private houses in France. This book offers a rediscovery of the architect’s creations, more centered on their intrinsic beauty and on the poetry that emanates from them.

[.fr] «Il voudrait, à toute force, n’avoir qu’à restaurer les lignes et rafraichir les couleurs d’un déjà-là qui serait déjà beau… il ne transforme les sites qu’en en prélevant des fragments... Il soustrait des petits coins du Paradis à la rapacité du Moloch.» -- Pascal Urbain. L’architecture de Bernard Desmoulin trouve ses racines dans une curiosité constante pour les paysages et les matières. Faisant du passé «table ouverte», il compose des scénarii contemporains sur des lieux remarquables ou délaissés.

#books #architecture | Noeroarchitects : building and drawing

Noeroarchitects : building and drawing / Samanta Bartocci, Massimo Faiferri.
[Trento] : LIStLab, 2021.
367 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Jo Noero Architects

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788832080384
Cita APA-7: Bartocci, S., Faiferri, M., & Jo Noero Architects. (2021). Noeroarchitects : building and drawing. LIStLab.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72JO NOERO NOE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1316775052

[.en] Jo Noero is a South African architect. He made his name internationally during Apartheid, working for NGOs, Desmond Tutu and the Anglican Church on schools, community centers, churches, and homes in the townships, most notably in Soweto. With the coming of democracy, the scope of Noero’s work broadened to include offices, public buildings, schools, and the homes of some of South Africa’s leading struggle heroes, business leaders, and arts personalities. Noero has completed over 200 buildings and is most known for The Red Location Precinct in New Brighton, a township in Port Elizabeth. This was named the Best Building in the World at the 2013 Icon Awards in London, while The Red Location Museum won the Lubetkin Prize in 2006 for the Most Outstanding Building Outside the EU, as well as The Dedallo Minosse President’s Award, The RIBA International Award, and a World Leadership Award for Public Architecture. This publication covers the entire career of Jo Noero, spanning from the initial works to today, and, while providing a portrait of the changing environment of South Africa, offer a comprehensive insight into the professional ethos and disciplinary approach of Noeroarchitects to the design of the built environment.

#libri #architettura | Studio Monestiroli : opere e progetti di architettura

Studio Monestiroli : opere e progetti di architettura / a cura di Luca Cardani.
Milano : Electa, 2021.
255 p. : il.
Serie: Documenti di architettura ; 205
/ IT / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Italia / Studio Monestiroli

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788892821422
Cita APA-7: Cardani, Luca (ed.) (2021). Studio Monestiroli : opere e progetti di architettura. Electa.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72MONESTIROLI STU
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1322894295

[.it] Il volume documenta le opere e i progetti dello Studio Monestiroli. Nel 2002 Antonio e Tomaso Monestiroli fondano lo studio Monestiroli Architetti Associati che nel 2018 cambia denominazione in Studio Monestiroli. Il lavoro dello studio si svolge nella continua interazione tra attività di ricerca ed esperienza professionale. Lo studio si occupa di tutte le fasi della progettazione architettonica e urbana, partecipando a numerosi concorsi di progettazione nazionali e internazionali, in collaborazione con istituzioni pubbliche e committenti privati. Tra le principali realizzazioni degli ultimi venti anni ci sono il quinto ampliamento del cimitero maggiore di Voghera, la nuova stazione ferroviaria di Pioltello, il complesso parrocchiale di San Carlo Borromeo a Roma e il Planetario e Museo della scienza della città di Cosenza. Il lavoro dello Studio Monestiroli è stato esposto in numerose mostre collettive nazionali e internazionali tra cui la Biennale di Venezia e la Triennale di Milano, e oggetto di mostre monografiche nelle principali sedi universitarie europee come Berlino, Delft, Venezia, Napoli, Roma, Firenze, Siracusa, Pisa, Mantova e Milano. I progetti e le opere dello studio sono stati pubblicati sulle riviste nazionali e internazionali oltre che raccolti anche in varie pubblicazioni monografiche.

#books #architecture | Frank Lloyd Wright's forgotten house : how an omission transformed the architect's legacy

Frank Lloyd Wright's forgotten house : how an omission transformed the architect's legacy / Nicholas D. Hayes.
Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021.
XIV,183 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX –Estados Unidos / Arquitectura doméstica – Estados Unidos / Casas individuales – Estados Unidos / Frank Lloyd Wright

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9780299331801
Cita APA-7: Hayes, Nicholas D. (2021). Frank Lloyd Wright's forgotten house : how an omission transformed the architect's legacy. University of Wisconsin Press.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.3 FRA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1322813066 

[.en] While the grandiosity of Fallingwater and elegance of Taliesin are recognized universally, Frank Lloyd Wright’s first foray into affordable housing is frequently overlooked. Although Wright began work on his American System-Built Homes (ASBH, 1911–17) with great energy, the project fell apart following wartime shortages and disputes between the architect and his developer. While continuing to advocate for the design of affordable small homes, Wright never spoke publicly of ASBH. As a result, the heritage of many Wright-designed homes was forgotten. When Nicholas and Angela Hayes became stewards of the unassuming Elizabeth Murphy House near Milwaukee, they began to unearth evidence that ultimately revealed a one-hundred-year-old fiasco fueled by competing ambitions and conflicting visions of America. The couple’s forensic pursuit of the truth untangled the ways Wright’s ASBH experiment led to the architect’s most productive, creative period. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Forgotten House includes a wealth of drawings and photographs, many of which have never been previously published. Historians, architecture buffs, and Wrightophiles alike will be fascinated by this untold history that fills a crucial gap in the architect’s oeuvre.

#books #architecture | Aurelio Galfetti : costruire lo spazio = the construction of space

Aurelio Galfetti : costruire lo spazio = the construction of space / a cura di = edited by Frank Graf.
Cinisello Balsamo, Milano : Silvana, 2021
159 p. : il.
Ed. bilingüe italiano – inglés.
/ EN / IT / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Aurelio Galfetti

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788836648689
Cita APA-7: Graf, Frank (ed.) (2021). Aurelio Galfetti : costruire lo spazio = the construction of space. Silvana , 2021.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72GALFETTI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1287236101

[.it] I tre saggi qui raccolti propongono una lettura specifica di momenti differenti del lavoro di Aurelio Galfetti e, a partire da un singolo progetto, dimostrano come l'idea di un'architettura territoriale abbia sempre legato nella sua attività il progetto (a qualsiasi scala) al luogo, al paesaggio e al territorio.

[.en] The volume contains three essays offering a specific reading of different moments in the work of Aurelio Galfetti (Lugano, 1936), a well-known Swiss architect who collaborated - between the sixties and eighties - with exponents of the so-called "Ticino school" and founder, together with Mario Botta, of the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture. Starting from a single project - such as the new pavilion of the neuropsychiatric hospital in Mendrisio (New Villa Ortensia), representative of Galfetti's professional practice - it is shown how the idea of a territorial architecture has always linked the project in his work (on every scale) to the place, the landscape and the territory.

#books #architecture | Art Nouveau to Modernism : architecture in Malta, 1910-1950

Art Nouveau to Modernism : architecture in Malta, 1910-1950 / Conrad Thake.
[Hamrun ]: Kite, 2021.
255 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Art nouveau (Arquitectura) / Arquitectura – Siglo XX - Malta

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9789918230358
Cita APA-7: Thake, Conrad (2021). Art nouveau to Modernism : architecture in Malta, 1910-1950. Kite.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.036(458.2) ART
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1335110875

Architecture in Malta during the first half of the twentieth century has to date been a neglected area of academic research. Although there have been succinct contributions profiling some of the more prominent architects, Maltese architecture of this period has never been analyzed within the prevailing political and socio-economic context. This publication seeks to address this lacuna in local architectural history. The period under study is a tumultuous one, encompassing the First World War (1914–18), the Sette Giugno (1919), the Self-Government Constitution (1921), the suspension of that same Constitution (1930), the Language Question (mid-1930s), the Second World War (1939–45), and the Post-War Reconstruction (1943–50). It was a period of major challenges with Malta under British colonial rule, characterized by an unstable economy, distinct social classes, and political aspirations for greater autonomy and self-governance.

‘Conrad Thake has imposed on himself a forty-year time frame for his impressive research into architectural activity in Malta and its more notable exponents. The period 1910–50, is not an inordinately long stretch of time, but is still a most momentous one. Forty years that embrace, among others, no less than two world wars, the Communist revolution, the discovery of antibiotics, the rise and fall of Fascism and Nazism, the assertion of the airplane, the acceptance of abstract art, the diffusion of sound cinema and television.’ - Giovanni Bonello

‘Architect Thake, with his habitual academic analyses, hones in on a period so far sparsely covered or researched: that of the architecture of the initial decades of the last century. During the first five decades of that century local architects were prone to borrowing motives from past historical styles, while also adapting imported influences from then current foreign architectural trends. As such, the local panorama of buildings of this era presents a varied and hybrid amalgam manifesting examples of Art Nouveau, menageries of resuscitated historical styles, and the initial birth-pangs of local Modernism.’ - Richard England

#books #architecture | CPKA : five decades of India's built environment

CPKA : five decades of India's built environment / authored by Arunima Kukreja, Dikshu C. Kukreja.
New Delhi : Roli Books, 2021.
371 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – India / CP Kukreja Architects

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788194969136
Cita APA-7: Kukreja, Arunina, & Kukreja, Dikshu C. (2021). CPKA : five decades of India's built environment. Roli Books.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72(54) CPK
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1322799265

[.en] India has been historically known for its repertoire in architecture and design. Post-Independence, the country struggled to come to its feet in terms of policies, economic direction and infrastructural development. Nonetheless, the country has witnessed tremendous transformation in its built environment in the past five decades. Most projects in the seventies focused on providing housing and building townships, establishing industries and offices to provide work, and setting up institutions to empower people with education. With the onset of the eighties, the focus expanded to designing cultural centres and embassies, and interweaving them into the urban fabric. The nineties opened up opportunities in the country post-liberalization. One could sense a significant shift in the architectural design language, albeit retaining the vernacular sensibilities. Integration of a redefined ideology into the building’s fabric reformed working spaces, industrial facilities, institutional designs as well as façades of buildings. This period also showcased newness in building materials. A decade into the new millennium, technology metamorphosed by upgrading the functions and design sensibilities it was able to bring into architecture. Promoting sustainable development, the designs reflect a futuristic aesthetic where the structures are responsive to their environment. At the same time, the designs are also curated to address the present-day issues, bringing with it a sense of responsibility. In a surge for meaningful design responses in India’s urban environment while imbibing the tenets of sustainability, this book captures the transformations that have taken place through the lens of a leading, multidisciplinary architecture and engineering practice, CP Kukreja Architects.

#books #architecture | Ricardo Carvalho : Work, situation, process = Obra, situação, process

Ricardo Carvalho : Work, situation, process = Obra, situação, processo / Ricardo Carvalho ; traduçao = translation Angela Marquito, Inês Hugon.
Lisboa, Portugal : A+A Books, 2021.
232 p. : il.
Ed. bilingüe inglés – portugués.
/ EN / PT / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Portugal / Ricardo Carvalho

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9789895440146
Cita APA-7: Carvalho, Ricardo (2021). Ricardo Carvalho : Work, situation, process = Obra, situação, processo. A+A Books.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72CARVALHO RIC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1287236177

[.en] Offering an extensive analysis of the work of Ricardo Carvalho, this volume introduces the thinking and methods of the critically acclaimed Portuguese architect. It focuses on a number of his past projects, among them Lisbon’s Design and Fashion Museum (MUDE), a hotel in Douro Vineyards, Ribeira 11 apartment building, Sebastião da Gama School, Lima de Freitas School, exhibition designs, and several houses and apartments, as well as examples of interior design. The monograph features a number of texts authored by Carvalho, together with pieces by Manuel Aires Mateus, João Belo Rodeia, and Chilean architect Mauricio Pezo.

#books #architecture | Architecture China : fall 2020 Architecture China Award

Architecture China : fall 2020 Architecture China Award / editor-in-chief, Li Xiangning.
New York, NY : The Images Publishing Group, ACC Art Books, 2021.
175 p. : il.
Serie: Architecture China ; 3.
/ EN / Libros / Catálogos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – China / Arquitectura - Concursos

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781864709056
Cita APA-7: Xiangning, Li (ed.) (2021). Architecture China : fall 2020 Architecture China Award. Images Publishing Group, ACC Art Books.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.092 ARC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1322189735

[.en] This issue, ‘Fall 2020, Building with Nature: Architecture China Award’, is a catalogue of the award, one of the most prestigious architectural awards in China. Organised by Architecture China, it embraces the concept of building with nature proposed by the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Wang Shu. There are four categories: Excellence Award in Practice, Exploration Award in Techniques, Prospect Award for Youth, and Jury Special Award. The evaluation committee members of the award include Wang Shu, Cui Kai, Yung Ho Chang, Li Xiangning, Ge Ming, Wang Lu, Aric Chen, Ching-Yueh Roan, Benedetta Tagliabue, Iwan Baan and Philip Ursprung.

#books #architecture | OMA NY : search term

OMA NY : search term / Shohei Shigematsu, Jason Long.
New York : Rizzoli, 2021.
1 v. (pag. var.): il.
Incluye entrevistas de Shohei Shigematsu y Jason Long con Chris Hawthorne, Lisa Phillips/Massimiliano Gioni, Taryn Simon, Iris van Herpen, Virgil Abloh, David Byrne, Alice Waters y Cecilia Alemani.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura - Siglo XXI / Fotografía de arquitectura / Office for Metropolitan Architecture

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9780847869206
Cita APA-7: Shigematsu, Shohei, & Long, Jason (2021). OMA NY : search term. Rizzoli.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72OMA OMA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1313530048

[.en] The long-anticipated monograph on OMA New York by Shohei Shigematsu and Jason Long is sure to be the design and architecture book of the season. Presenting more than 20 radical architectural projects from a new generation of the firm, this mammoth volume is the first compendium by OMA, since Content and Rem Koolhaas’s S, M, L, XL.

Well into its fourth decade, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1975, remains one of the most influential and successful practices of its kind. OMA describes itself as “a firm operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism that applies architectural thinking to domains beyond.” OMA New York, has grown from an American outpost to a full-fledged operation with its own attitudes, contributing to the evolution of the globally acclaimed office. Through a diversity of projects, the firm has transformed our understanding of the city and our evolving relationship with art, fashion, food, sustainability, and other quintessentially twenty-first-century preoccupations. 

The works presented here elaborate on OMA’s philosophy even as they expand its portfolio geographically. Featured projects (led by partners Shohei Shigematsu and Jason Long) include residential skyscrapers in New York, Miami, and San Francisco, mixed-use developments in cities from Tokyo to Houston, and projects like 11th Street Bridge Park in the public realm, alongside more intimate spaces such as the studio for renowned Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Permanent structures, such as Milstein Hall at Cornell University, the new galleries of Quebec’s Musée National des Beaux-Arts, a cultural forum and neighborhood for Faena in Miami, and the expansion of museums such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the New Museum in Manhattan, contrast vividly with temporary interventions such as the Manus x Machina exhibition at the Met Costume Institute and the sculptural installation of soaring concrete columns for An Occupation of Loss.

In between projects are dialogues with leading policy makers, museum directors, artists, fashion designers, musicians, chefs, and curators—Christopher Hawthorne, Lisa Phillips and Massimiliano Gioni, Taryn Simon, Iris van Herpen, Virgil Abloh, David Byrne, Alice Waters, and Cecilia Alemani—who provide insight onto areas of the firm’s interests and preoccupations beyond the realm of architecture.

#books #architecture | How architecture tells : 9 realities that will change the way you see

How architecture tells : 9 realities that will change the way you see / by Robert Tabin Steinberg ; with Gerald Sindell.
Novato, California : Oro, 2021.
295 p. : il. + 1 póster.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura y sociedad

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781954081314
Cita APA-7: Steinberg, Robert Tabin (2021). How architecture tells : 9 realities that will change the way you see. Oro.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72:316 HOW
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1317678710

[.en] The general reading public is likely to think of architecture as buildings. But, with this book, Robert Steinberg would like to help readers understand that architecture shapes lives. Architecture can help communities integrate and thrive. Architecture can touch us, influencing how we feel, and how we interact with others. In short, architecture can fundamentally improve our quality of life.

As a young graduate architect fresh from Berkeley, Steinberg began to discover the potential of architecture to shape communities. Working with his father, an architect who had studied with Mies van der Rohe (and whose father was also an architect), one of Steinberg’s first projects was to draft and redraft a parking garage in downtown Silicon Valley, CA. As he mediated between the two architects in charge of the project―his father and the city architect―he noticed that with each evolution, the garage became more beautiful and refined. And with each improvement, this garage became more able to succeed in the goal of reviving the dying downtown core of Silicon Valley.

The garage was a huge success, and Steinberg began to codify what he had learned. Thanks to the garage, he wrote the first of what would become the 9 Realities of Architecture: Architecture is the Pursuit of Perfection ― a magnificent take-away from a humble parking garage project. As Steinberg eventually rose to become CEO of his firm and grew it into a global practice with six regional offices including Austin and New York, and a major office in Shanghai, he used his drive for creating thriving communities to eventually touch the lives of countless people around the world.

#books #architecture | Acoustics in architectural design

Acoustics in architectural design / Raf Orlowski.
Ramsbury, U.K. : The Crowood Press, 2021.
160 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Acústica arquitectónica / Auditóriums / Teatros – Construcción

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781785008788
Cita APA-7: Orlowski, Raf (2021). Acoustics in architectural design. Crowood Press.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-534 ACO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1316702339

[.en] It was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that the physicist Wallace Clement Sabine developed his theory of reverberation, which has remained fundamental to architectural acoustics to this day, and has subsequently been applied to many building types, especially those for the performing arts. Yet the practice of architectural acoustics goes back much further with the impressive designs of the Greeks proving highly influential. This comprehensive book explores the development of acoustics in architectural design from the theatres of Classical Greece, through the early development of opera houses, concert halls and theatres, to the research work of Sabine and his successors and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century buildings. Topics covered include: the fundamentals of acoustics; the influential legacy of the Greeks and Romans; the evolving design of opera houses, theatres and concert halls and, finally, the acoustics of schools, music schools and recital halls.

#books #architecture | Urban Oases : Dutch Hofjes as Hidden Architectural Gems

Urban Oases : Dutch Hofjes as Hidden Architectural Gems / Willemijn Wilms Floet ; photography, Katja Effting.
Rotterdam : nai010 publishers, 2021.
208 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Historia / Arquitectura doméstica – Holanda / Patios / Urbanismo – Holanda

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9789462086609
Cita APa-7: Floet, Willenijn Wilms (2021). Urban Oases : Dutch Hofjes as Hidden Architectural Gems. nai010.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72(492) URB
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1323250428
🔓 Ed. digital: Open Acces / RE-TUDelf
https://books.open.tudelft.nl/home/catalog/book/20

[.en] Urban Oases is an ode to the architecture of Dutch hofjes. It explains why hofjes have been a natural and attractive part of the urban fabric of the Netherlands for six centuries and why they continue to appeal to new generations. The appeal of hofje architecture lies in its ability to renew its medieval archetype – an enclosed living environment around a shared green garden. Hofjes allow both residents and visitors to enjoy an especially serene and intimate atmosphere that contrasts surprisingly with the urban experience of hustle and bustle. The drawings, text and photography of Urban Oases take the reader to the capillaries of old Dutch cities and are relevant to an important contemporary global question: How can high-quality, compact residential environments be created in twenty-first century cities? Inspired by this extraordinary architectural heritage, the author addresses everyone who wants to contribute to a sustainable and liveable city.