#books #architecture | MASSX : Neil M. Denari architects : 2000-2017

MASSX : Neil M. Denari architects : some things 2000-2017 / content, graphic design, and layout, Neil M. Denari.
Beijing : AADCU, 2017.
777 p. : il.
ISBN 9780692917947
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Neil M. Denari
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.038 MAS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1119720526

[.en] This formidable monograph of Neil M. Denari Architects can be viewed as a point of departure for examining architecture’s role in the contemporary world. It contains an accumulation of material that has evolved over time, the majority of which has never been published, and offers both a rich history of projects and an extraordinarily in-depth examination of the firm’s practice. The book arranges selected projects, buildings, concepts, references, arguments, and sensibilities (all together classified as “things”) chronologically, from the beginning of the century until the present, and its content must be understood as a mix of media types that are split between the real and the imaginary.

#books #architecture | Phase : the architecture of Jakob+Macfarlane

Phase : the architecture of Jakob+Macfarlane / [autorship, Anna Yudina ; with the participation of Frédéric Migayrou].
AADCU, Beijing : 2012.
319 p. : il.
Texto en inglés y chino.
ISBN 9787214088055
Jakob+Macfarlane (Firma)
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Francia.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72JAKOB PHA
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1788493~S1*spi

Based in Paris, the office of Jakob+MacFarlane is recognised for its investigation of digital technology, both as a conceptual consideration and as a means of fabrication, using new materials to create a more flexible and responsive environment. This comprehensive monograph divides the office s work into four broad categories topological growth, reversible envelopes, critical hybrids, dynamic involutions elaborated in detail with fifteen notable projects. Highlights include Restaurant Georges at the Centre Pompidou, Herold Apartments, FRAC Centre, The Orange Cube and Taipei Performing Arts Centre. Includes insightful texts by Anna Yudina and Frédéric Migayrou.

#books #architecture | CEBRA : from drawing to building : selected works 2001-2012

CEBRA : from drawing to building : selected works 2001-2012 / [curator-editor, Silvio Carta, Bruce Q. Lan]
AADCU, Beijing : 2012
311 p. : principalmente il.
Textos en inglés y chino
ISBN 9787214088079
CEBRA (Firma)
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Dinamarca.
Arquitectura -- Dibujos y planos.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72CEBRA CEB
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1788425~S1*spi

This extensive monograph on the up-and-coming Danish office founded in 2001 and recently attracting a great deal of international attention focuses on the crucial element of drawing and the complex role it plays in the firms ideology and work. Critical to the design process, drawing enables CEBRA to mutate and adapt according to the changing circumstances within each unique project. Numerous concepts and realised projects are detailed, including Isbjerget Housing, Søgaard Skole, Villa UpDown and Cinemaxx Aarhus. With critical texts by Silvio Carta, Samantha Heringuez, Michiel Riedijk, Federica Pau, Martin Søberg, Pablo Núñez and Jeppe Utzon.

Cebra work offers a quite clear example of the new trend the drawing is nowadays taking for the work of the architect; drawing as a tool of simplification which makes possible projects.The drawing is probably the main tool of work for architects. It is always has been. However, architecture has witnessed during its history different uses of this tool to produce projects. The use of drawing stretched from a means of representation and communication of ideas and concepts to being a device for knowing the world and the himself. However, in the last decades we can observe the drawing be used in a different manner which can maybe foresee a new direction. The realization of architecture has become increasingly complex and complicated. The actors involved in the modification of cities and territories are always more in number and increasingly more difficult to agree amongst each others. The factors to be taken into account are also more numerous and complex. A project of architecture is nowadays an extremely complex process for all the actors involved; most than ever. It is thus not a surprise if a successful approach to architectural projects is represented by simplification of the process. A project is successful when the image and the meaning it conveys are immediately understandable to the several people involved (including final users). The drawing is “in this sense” an incredibly powerful tool for designers to simplify the project and be able to control it. The drawing is gradually passed from a tool for controlling the forms of architecture to a tool for controlling the program of the project.