#books #architecture | Convergence : the redesign of design

Convergence : the redesign of design / Randy Deutsch.
Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
233 p. : il.
Serie: AD Smart ; 05.
ISBN 9781119256212
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Informática / Arquitectura – Innovaciones / Arquitectura – Práctica
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72:681.3 CON
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1125152003

Those working in architecture and engineering feel pressure to work faster, at lower cost, while maintaining a high level of innovation and quality. At the same time, emergent tools and processes make this possible. Convergence is about the firms, teams and people who thrive in this environment as a result of their ability to creatively combine and innovate. It seeks to answer several timely questions: What are the tools and work processes that are converging? How are individuals and organizations converging their tools and work processes? What challenges and benefits are they seeing? What is the ultimate endgame of this convergence? What skillsets and mindsets would someone need to develop to work effectively in this changing environment? What are the implications of convergence on the role of the designer, and on design? On how we design, build, fabricate, and construct? On how we work? The book explains how convergence relates to, but ultimately differs from integration, consolidation, multi-tasking, automation, and other forms of optimization. The practice-based research builds upon the author's research in BIM and in the collaborative leveraging of data in design and fabrication. As an investigation and meditation on the impact of technology on the education and making of design professionals Convergence explains what is happening in the world of design, and discusses the implications for the future of education, training and practice.

#books #architecture | Successful restaurant design

Successful restaurant design / Regina S Baraban, Joseph F Durocher.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2010 / 3rd ed.
XII, 304 [16] p. de lám. : il.
ISBN 9780470250754
/ EN / Libros / Restaurantes – Diseño y construcciónn
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-725.71 SUC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1125151897

An integrated approach to restaurant design, incorporating front- and back-of-the-house operations. Restaurant design plays a critical role in attracting and retaining customers. At the same time, design must facilitate food preparation and service. Successful ‘Restaurant Design’ shows how to incorporate your understanding of the restaurant's front- and back-of-the-house operations into a design that meets the needs of the restaurant's owners, staff, and clientele. Moreover, it shows how an understanding of the restaurant's concept, market, and menu enables you to create a design that not only facilitates a seamless operation but also enhances the dining experience.

This ‘Third Edition' has been thoroughly revised and updated with coverage of all the latest technological advances in restaurant operations. Specifically, the ‘Third Edition’ offers:

• All new case solutions of restaurant design were completed within five years prior to this edition's publication. The examples illustrate a variety of architectural, decorative, and operational solutions for many restaurant types and styles of service.
• All in-depth interviews with restaurant design experts are new to this edition. To gain insights into how various members of the design team think, the authors interviewed a mix of designers, architects, restaurateurs, and kitchen designers.
• New information on sustainable restaurant design throughout the book for both front and back of the house.
• New insights throughout the book about how new technologies and new generations of diners are impacting both front- and back-of-the-house design.

The book closes with the authors' forecast of how restaurants will change and evolve over the next decade, with tips on how designers and architects can best accommodate those changes in their designs.

#books #architecture | Architects' houses

Architects' houses / Michael Webb.
London : Thames & Hudson, 2018.
303 p. : il.
ISBN 9780500343401
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectos / Arquitectura doméstica / Casas individuales
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.3 ARC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127050782

Thirty of the world's most talented architects, including Norman Foster, Thom Mayne, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, talk about the houses they designed for themselves over the past decade in Architects' Houses. What inspired them, what were the constraints, how did their concepts take shape? Michael Webb explores the creative process and traces the influence of architects' houses over the past two hundred years, from Jefferson's Monticello to the creations of Charles and Ray Eames, Toyo Ito, and Frank Gehry. Texts, sketches, and plans illustrate houses that differ widely, in size, material, character, and location. Spacious or frugal, ambitious or modest, refined or rough edged, daring or reductive, these adventurous dwellings make a statement. This generously illustrated book brims with ideas and inspiration as these architects' houses show different answers to the question: how can a house enrich lives and its natural surroundings?

#books #townplanning | Sustainable urban planning : vibrant neighbourhoods, smart cities, resilience

Sustainable urban planning : vibrant neighbourhoods, smart cities, resilience / Helmut Bott, Gregor C Grassl, Stephan Anders.
Munich : Edition Detail, 2019.
ISBN 9783955534622
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Desarrollo sostenible / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 SUS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1121582616

Life in the city is popular and creating liveable urban space is undoubtedly a priority for planners. Yet what makes a city worth living in? How do we define sustainable neighbourhoods that will function properly and continue to attract people in the future? What does "Smart City" or "resilience" really mean? The completely revised, new edition of this publication provides the answers. It addresses the fundamental challenges of urban planning today and offers planners essential knowledge, implementation strategies and ways toward holistic concept development. Examples of international neighbourhood developments clearly show how aspects of sustainable urban planning can be implemented in practice.

#books #architecture | Robotic building : architecture in the age of automation

Robotic building : architecture in the age of automation / edited by Mollie Claypool ... [et al.].
Munich: Detail Business Information GmbH, 2019.
128 p. : il.
ISBN 978395553424
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Informática / Diseño asistido por ordenador
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72:681.3 ROB
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126314440

How does the use of robots affect architecture? The use of robots in architecture is already commonplace: Robots automate processes that were previously done manually; complex shapes are created with the help of 3D printing; and autonomous swarm robots construct complex buildings. The potential of using robotics in architecture, structural design, and structural engineering is far from being fully exploited. A number of important questions need to be answered: How does the use of robots influence the resulting structures; how does it affect the way in which architects who work with robots think and plan? "Robotic Building" answers these questions and more, drawing on a variety of practical examples. A final chapter explores the idea of architect as robot, the fully-automated home and similar concepts in which the robot merges with its environment and becomes part of our experience.

#books #architecture | Vincent van Duysen : works 2009-2018

Vincent van Duysen : works 2009-2018 / visual essay by Hélène Binet ; foreword by Julianne Moore ; introduction by Nicola di Battista ; photographic contribution by François Halard ; essay by Marc Dubois.
London : Thames & Hudson, 2018.
320 p. : il.
ISBN 9780500021644
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Bélgica / Vincent van Duysen
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72VAN DUYSEN VIN
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127050504

A new collection of Vincent Van Duysen's work, featuring his most recent projects. Since the release of his first monograph, Vincent Van Duysen has consolidated his reputation for buildings of exceptional spatial mastery and highly refined detailing, and built a growing international following. This beautiful companion volume presents thirty of the Belgian architect’s most recent works produced over the past decade, much of which has been exquisitely captured by renowned photographers Hélène Binet and François Halard. The buildings featured from this latest period include an array of elegant residences in Europe, New York, Paris and The Hamptons, as well as larger-scale commercial and public projects. Product and furniture designs, microcosms of the architect’s rigorous attention to detail, are also featured, including yacht interiors and objets décoratifs.

With a foreword by close friend and Academy Award-winning actor Julianne Moore, the broader context of Van Duysen’s contribution to contemporary architecture is provided by architect Nicola di Battista and architecture critic Marc Dubois. An illustrated chronology provides a complete overview of the architect’s recent projects. Van Duysen has established a reputation as one of the world’s most refined and artful architects. This major new publication will further cement his uncompromising commitment to creating timeless places and spaces.

#books #architecture | The sound of architecture : Eckhard Gerber

The sound of architecture : Eckhard Gerber / Dieter Nellen, Jürgen Tietz, eds.
Berlin : Jovis, 2019.
255 p. : il.
ISBN 9783868595000
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Alemania / Eckhard Gerber
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72GERBER SOU
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126770894

The Sound of Architecture - in accordance with this key notion, for more than five decades the architect Eckhard Gerber and his firm have been producing award-winning projects, which have attracted widespread international attention in the fields of architecture, urban design, interior design, and landscape design. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, this book traces Gerber's life and architectural career. In personal contributions, long-standing friends, comrades, and colleagues recount their own experiences and involvement in the work of the architect. In the context of Eckhard Gerber's work and person, the publication also includes new contributions from renowned publicists and other personalities which discuss the culture of building and competitions, architecture and urban design in their historical context, the social responsibility of architecture, and the functional and subjective significance of building and landscape.

#books #architecture | Inter actions : housing design in uncertain environments

Inter actions : housing design in uncertain environments / Nadia Charalambous, Giorgos Kyriazis.
Berlin : Jovis, 2018.
143 p. : il.
ISBN 9783868595239
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura doméstica / Viviendas – Construcción
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.1 INT
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126996189

‘Inter Actions’ explores the transformations and uncertainties that shape contemporary living, revealing concerns about how those uncertainties impact both the design of living environments and the architectural education of the future designers of those spaces. The book aims to foster an inquiry into potential responses in the form of policy, design, social innovation, and community initiatives, reflecting on the housing studio as an educational space. While there is a gap between the traditional housing studio and the complex, dynamic world in which architects practice, this book seeks to trace attempts by particular housing studios to develop and embrace a culture of ‘Interactions’ between the individual student and the team, between different disciplines, between academia, the profession, and the community, and between global driving forces and local contexts.

#books #architecture | Housing for all : building catalogue

Housing for all : building catalogue / edited by Paul Andreas, Karen Jung and Peter Cachola Schmal.
Berlin : DOM Publishers, 2019.
429 p., [10] p. de lám. : il.
ISBN 9783869227238
/ EN / Libros / Catálogos / Arquitectura – Concursos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Europa / Arquitectura doméstica / Vivienda social
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.092 HOU
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1121254985

Affordable housing is an enduring political challenge. Cities have endeavored to set international standards for this important field of architecture since the 1920s. Planners must work within a socially motivated tradition to find exemplary solutions both at the political and architectural level. This building catalogue documents over 130 residential buildings dedicated to affordable housing. It presents floor plans, large photos, key data, and clear diagrams, providing a comprehensive overview of the solutions being tested today. The publication is rounded off with ten affordable housing concepts that were designed as part of the Housing for All competition, organized by the Frankfurt Department of Planning and Housing, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, and ABG Frankfurt Holding. Renowned architecture practices based in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and France were invited to submit design concepts for building sites in the Hilgenfeld area of Frankfurt. These concepts will reignite the contemporary discourse on affordable housing - in Frankfurt and beyond.

#books #architecture | Sports facilities : leisure and movement in urban space

Sports facilities : leisure and movement in urban space / Sandra Hofmeister (ed.).
Munich : Detail Business Information GmbH, 2019.
208 p. . il.
ISBN 9783955534967
/ EN / Libros / Instalaciones deportivas – Diseño y construcciónn
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-725.85 SPO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126588255

The book presents current sports buildings, which stand out for the quality of their construction, their integration into the urban context, and their objectives. Sport today means lifestyle and fun and is associated with joining an association and social inclusion as well as with individualization and health awareness. The spectrum of examples from all over Europe ranges from school gyms to urban open spaces that can be used by anyone at any time. The visibility and presence of spatial forms for activities such as skateboarding, jogging or fitness today are radically different from the gyms of the past, providing rich and aesthetic contributions to their surroundings.

#books #architecture | A feeling of history

A feeling of history / Peter Zumthor, Mari Lending ; with a series of photographs by Hélène Binet.
Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess, 2018.
79 p. : il.
ISBN 9783858818058
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Filosofía / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Suiza / Peter Zumthor
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72ZUMTHOR FEE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127907694

While completing the Almannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor asked Norwegian scholar Mari Lending to engage in a dialogue about the project. Departing from the ways in which Zumthor's pavilions frame the barely visible traces of the industrial exploitation of zinc in the 1890s, the conversation took unexpected turns. In meandering, impressionistic style and drawing on Zumthor's favourite writers, such as Johann Peter Hebel, Stendhal, Vladimir Nabokov, and T.S. Eliot, their exchanges explore how history, time and temporalities reverberate across the famous architect's oeuvre. Looking back, Zumthor ponders on how a feeling of history has informed his continuous attempts of emotional reconstruction by means of building, from architectural interventions in dramatic landscapes to his design for the redevelopment of Los Angeles' LACMA on a grand urban scale. This small, beautifully designed new book records the conversation between Zumthor and Lending, illustrated with photographs by the renowned Swiss architectural photographer Helene Binet.

#books #architecture | Superusers : design technology specialists and the future of practice

Superusers : design technology specialists and the future of practice / Randy Deutsch.
Abingdon, Oxon [etc.] : Routledge, 2019.
XX, 200 p. : il.
ISBN 9780815352600
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Práctica / Diseño arquitectóncio
ehuBiblioteca BCG A-72:681.3 SUP
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1125151836

Design technology is changing both architectural practice and the role of the architect and related design professionals. With new technologies and work processes appearing every week, how can practitioners be expected to stay on top and thrive? In a word, Superusers.

‘Superusers: Design Technology Specialists and the Future of Practice’ will help you identify who they are, the value they provide, and how you can attract and retain them, and become one; what career opportunities they have, what obstacles they face, and how to lead them. Written by Randy Deutsch, a well-known expert in the field, this is the first-ever guide to help current and future design professionals to succeed in the accelerating new world of work and technology.

Providing proven, practical advice, the book features:

• Unique, actionable insights from design technology leaders in practice worldwide
• The impacts of emerging technology trends such as generative design, automation, AI, and machine learning on practice
• Profiles of those who provide 20% of the effort but achieve 80% of the results, and how they do it
• What will help firms get from where they are today to where they need to be, to survive and thrive in the new world of design and construction.

Revealing the dramatic impact of technology on current and future practice, ‘Superusers’ shows what it means to be an architect in the 21st century. Essential reading for students and professionals, the book helps you plan for and navigate a fast-moving, uncertain future with confidence.

#books #landscaping | The English landscape garden : a survey

The English landscape garden : a survey / Michael Symes.
Swindon : Historic England, 2019.
viii, 96 p. : il.
ISBN 9781848023772
/ EN / Libros / Jardines – Arquitectura / Jardines – Gran Bretaña
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-712.3 ENG
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1122551384

The 18th-century phenomenon of the English Landscape Garden was so widespread that even today, when so much has been built over or otherwise changed, one is never far from an example throughout England. Although seemingly natural, the English Landscape Garden was generally the result of considerable contrivance, effort and design skill, the result of `the art that conceals art'. It might involve digging lakes, raising or levelling hills, and planting trees, sometimes in vast numbers. Nature was arranged and shown to best advantage. The English landscape garden took many forms, and the variety of manifestations was and remains remarkable. A great number survive, if sometimes in modified form, and can be visited and appreciated.

The book is structured so as to give the background to, and motivation for, creating the landscape garden; to summarise the chronology of its development; to chart the most significant writers and theorists; and to consider the range of the many forms it took. The story of the landscape garden is complex, multi-layered and constantly changing in emphasis for such an apparently simple and straightforward construct. This book will help to uncover some of the richness that lies behind a meaningful part of the environment. The book can be regarded as a companion to the volume already published by Historic England, ‘The English Landscape Garden in Europe’.

#books #landscaping | Urban landscape planning

Urban landscape planning / chief editor, Li Aihong ; executive editor, Li Aihong, Song Jia.
Shenzhen, China : Artpower International Publishing Co., [2018].
257 p. . il.
ISBN 9789881354112
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura del paisaje / Espacios públicos / Olin Partnership / Parques / Zonas verdes
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-712.25 URB
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126313977

Public landscapes are an integral part of city life. They not only add beauty to cities, but also maintain a harmony and balance between human and environment. This book contains the most recent representative works of numerous excellent designers from across the world. The spaces illustrated include parks, streets, squares, commercial spaces, educational spaces, and cultural spaces. It illustrates the most unique landscape designs from design concept to detailed description, and from overall landscapes to partial features.

#books #architecture | Architecture of defeat

Architecture of defeat / Kengo Kuma ; translated by Hiroshi Watanabe.
New York [etc.] : Routledge, 2019.
VI, 174 p. : il.
ISBN 9781138390843
/ EN / JA* / Libros / Arquitectura – Filosofía
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.01 ARC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126314122

Kengo Kuma, one of Japan’s leading architects, has been combining professional practice and academia for most of his career. In addition to creating many internationally recognized buildings all over the world, he has written extensively about the history and theory of architecture. Like his built work, his writings also reflect his profound personal philosophy.

‘Architecture of Defeat’ is no exception. Now available in English for the first time, the book explores events and architectural trends in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in both Japan and beyond. It brings together a collection of essays which Kuma wrote after disasters such as the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11 and the earthquake and tsunami that obliterated much of the built landscape on Japan’s northern shore in a matter of minutes in 2011. Asking if we have been building in a manner that is too self-confident or arrogant, he examines architecture’s intrinsic―and often problematic―relationship to the powerful forces of contemporary politics, economics, consumerism, and technology, as well as its vital ties to society.

Despite the title, ‘Architecture of Defeat’ is an optimistic and hopeful book. Rather than anticipating the demise of architecture, Kuma envisages a different mode of conceiving architecture: guided and shaped by more modesty and with greater respect for the forces of our natural world.

Beautifully designed and illustrated, this is a fascinating insight into the thinking of one of the world’s most influential architects.

#libros #arquitectura #urbanismo | Cómo diseñar ciudades humanas : manual de construcción y diseño : espacios públicos y urbanización

Cómo diseñar ciudades humanas : manual de construcción y diseño : espacios públicos y urbanización / Karsten Pålsson.
Berlin : DOM publishers, 2019.
272 p. : il.
ISBN 9783869226781
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectura – Factores humanos / Ciudades – Europa / Urbanismo – Europa
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4(4) COM
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1121254902

Con ejemplos de las principales ciudades europeas, este libro es una guía práctica que muestra cómo el desarrollo urbano podría tener una cara más humana. El libro sigue la tradición establecida por Jan Gehl, quien considera el espacio urbano como un marco donde las personas pueden vivir y socializar. La tradición europea de la ciudad clásica densa marca el punto de partida de este libro. Se hace especial hincapié en los parámetros físicos y espaciales, en los patrones de crecimiento urbano y tipologías constructivas, en los principios que rigen la accesibilidad y las conexiones con vías públicas y caminos; todos ellos parámetros que crean los cimientos de la vida urbana y dan lugar a ciudades que brindan seguridad y protección. El libro está dividido en diez capítulos, cada uno con una temática diferente, en los que se proporciona una definición y un esbozo general de los principales desafíos, así como propuestas para llevarlos a cabo. Esta subdivisión temática, acompañada de un repaso histórico del desarrollo urbano, mejora la comprensión de los ejemplos proporcionados y permite ampliar en gran medida el conocimiento en torno a estos temas.

#books #graphics | History of information graphics

History of information graphics / Sandra Rengden ; edited by Julius Wiedemann.
Köln : Taschen, 2019.
462 p. . il.
ISBN 9783836567671
/ EN / Libros / Artes gráficas / Comunicación visual / Informática gráfica
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-(0.021)B HIS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126314268

From cosmic charts and da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’ to the New York subway map: trace the history of visual data from the Middle Ages to the digital era in this XL compendium. Featuring some 400 infographic milestones across technology, cartography, zoology, and more, this is an unprecedented reference work for designers, history buffs, and anyone thirsty for knowledge.

In the age of big data and digital distribution, when news travel ever further and faster and media outlets compete for a fleeting slice of online attention, information graphics have swept center stage. At once nuanced and neat, they distill abstract ideas, complex statistics, and cutting-edge discoveries into succinct, compelling, and masterful designs. Cartographers, programmers, statisticians, designers, scientists, and journalists have developed a new field of expertise in visualizing knowledge.

This XL-sized compendium explores the history of data graphics from the Middle Ages right through to the digital era. Curated by Sandra Rendgen, some 400 milestones span astronomy, cartography, zoology, technology, and beyond. Across medieval manuscripts and parchment rolls, elaborate maps, splendid popular atlasses, and early computer-based information design, we systematically break down each work’s historical context, including such highlights as Martin Waldseemüller’s famous world map, the meticulous nature studies of Ernst Haeckel, and many unknown treasures.

Hot on the heels of the best-selling ‘Information Graphics’ and ‘Understanding the World’, this third volume fills the gap as an unprecedented reference book for data freaks, designers, historians, and anyone thirsty for knowledge. An enthralling exploration into the teachings, research, and lives of generations past.

#libros #arte #diseño | El ABC de ... : la Bauhaus y la teoría del diseño

El ABC de ... : la Bauhaus y la teoría del diseño / Ellen Lupton y J. Abbott Miller (eds.).
Barcelona : Gustavo Gili, 2019 / [3ª ed.].
69 p. : il.
ISBN 9788425232640
/ ES / Libros / Arte – Siglo XX – Alemania / Artes gráficas / Bauhaus / Diseño
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-7.036 ABC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1123190736

Publicado por primera vez en 1991, 'El ABC de la Bauhaus' se ha convertido en una referencia ineludible y un verdadero clásico entre los diseñadores. El libro nos cuenta los orígenes y el florecimiento de uno de los fenómenos más ampliamente debatidos, diseccionados, imitados y difundidos del diseño moderno, la Bauhaus, y el impacto creativo que su experimento pedagógico supuso para el diseño, el psicoanálisis, la geometría, la educación infantil y la cultura popular. Mientras que los textos, a cargo de diversos especialistas, desarrollan una exploración teórica y provocativa de los fundamentos de la famosa escuela, el libro en sí —diseñado por Ellen Lupton y Abbott Miller— es un auténtico manifiesto visual de sus ideales materializados a través de la tipografía y la composición visual de los editores. Un manual extraordinario, en definitiva, que seguirá siendo fuente de inspiración ineludible entre los profesionales del diseño y una revelación para todas aquellas personas interesadas en la cultura del siglo XX.

#libros #construccion | Arquitectura con madera

Arquitectura con madera / David Andreu.
Madrid : Librero IBP, 2019.
336 p. : il.
ISBN 9789463591768
/ ES / Libros /  Construcción de madera
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-694 ARQ
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/112319072

Este libro selecciona 31 de los arquitectos contemporáneos más relevantes de la esfera internacional que utilizan este material tradicional de modos novedosos e inspiradores. En estas páginas tiene cabida un amplio espectro de proyectos que abarcan desde casas y cabañas hasta escuelas y capillas, todos ellos potenciados por el uso de la madera tanto en entornos arquitectónicos como decorativos. Diversos arquitectos y despachos de arquitecturas, entre ellos los portugueses Tiago do Vale y Plano Humano Archuitects, el noruego Lund Hagem, los alemanes Landau + Kindelbacher o los fineses Lukkaroinen Architects, muestran su trabajo en esta inspiradora recopilación.

#libros #construccion | Arquitecturas de tierra : el arte de construir con tierra : pasado, presente y porvenir

Arquitecturas de tierra : el arte de construir con tierra : pasado, presente y porvenir / Jean Dethier ; con la amable complicidad de Patrice Doat, Hubert Guillaud y Hugo Houben.
Vallvidrera : Blume, 2019.
511 p. : il.
ISBN 9788417757656
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectura popular / Construcción de adobe / Construcción de tierra
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-693.3 ARQ
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1129118717

Con sus fascinantes imágenes, este libro demuestra con brillantez que, desde hace un tiempo, el renacimiento de las arquitecturas de tierra ha dejado de ser un anhelo para convertirse en una realidad ecológica palpable. Después de la memorable exposición sobre este tema, a la que Jean Dethier se ha dedicado desde 1981 en el Centre Pompidou, la obra amplía y actualiza -con un equipo que incluye a los estudiosos más comprometidos- este panorama de creaciones específicas en los cinco continentes. Una visión transhistórica desde la antigüedad hasta nuestros días, en la que se desvela un gran número de viviendas, edificios y ciudades asombrosas erigidos con la misma materia del suelo en el que están anclados.

El objetivo principal de este libro es la lucha contra una enfermedad social, una deficiencia cultural tenaz: la amnesia. Aquella que relega al olvido a un patrimonio transhistórico universal destacado: la inmensa familia de viviendas, arquitecturas y aglomeraciones urbanas construidas con tierra. La arquitectura es un componente importante de nuestro modo de vida. Sin embargo, casi nunca se la tiene en cuenta en el contexto de las políticas de transición ecológica, salvo para reclamar el incremento del aislamiento térmico de los edificios para que consuman menos energía. Pero esto solo es una parcela, por supuesto esencial, de las mejoras que puede conseguir la renovación de la construcción. Una arquitectura auténticamente ecológica puede, y debe, contribuir al cambio de paradigma social. Y el arte de construir con tierra permitirá habitar la tierra de una manera mejor.