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The City Reader / 7th Edition
2020 || Paperback || Richard T. LeGates || Taylor & Francis
The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city. Sixty-three selections are included: forty-five from the sixth edition and eighteen new selections, including three newly written exclusively for The City Reader. The anthology features a Prologue essay on "How to Study Cities", eight part introductions as well as individual introductions to each of the selected articles.
The new edition has been extensively upd...
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CMF Design
The Fundamental Principles of Colour, Material and Finish Design
2016 || Paperback || Liliana Becerra || Frame Publishers BV
In this first book about the rather young discipline, the author consolidated its key principles, so that they can be consulted, referenced and utilised by both design students and professionals.
Only when the perfect balance between visual beauty and functional performance is achieved, can a product provide a consistent and successful user experience. The discipline of CMF design focuses on designing and specifying colours, materials and finishes to support both functional and emotional attr...
Designing Design Education
Whitebook
2021 || Paperback || Christoph Boeninger e.a. || Avedition
How must design studies be structured in order to not only keep pace with the changes in the economy and society but also to shape them? How much artificial intelligence and coding must be conveyed during studies? This book documents five years of international research on these questions, which 250 designers participated in worldwide. Text in English and German.
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The Housing Project
discourses, ideals, models and politics in 20th century exhibitions
2020 || Paperback || Gaia Caramellino e.a. || Leuven University Press
Throughout the twentieth century housing displays have proven to be a singular genre of architectural and design exhibitions. By crossing geographies and adopting multiple scales of observation – from domestic space to urban visions – this volume investigates a set of unexplored events devoted to housing and dwelling, organised by technical, professional, cultural or governmental institutions from the interwar years to the Cold War. The book offers a first critical assessment of twentieth...
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Mei architecten
Mei Architects and Planners
2022 || Paperback || Robert Winkel e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers
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The fiercely social and vigorously innovative Mei realizes trend-setting buildings in the Netherlands and abroad. This Rotterdam-based architecture firm has built up an idiosyncratic oeuvre in which respect for the environment is central.
This first overview shows works of the past 25 years. From the 1995 modular Smarthouse to the wooden residential building Sawa that is currently being developed: they all display a fascination with intelligent building...
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Building Urban Nature
2023 || Paperback || Niels de Zwarte e.a. || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
The city is not only the habitat of people, but also of plants and animals. Building Urban Nature is a plea for nature-inclusive, bioreceptive architecture that inspires designers to give nature a place in their work.
Through the presentation of realized projects, the book shows how the values of nature can be incorporated into our buildings. It discusses the conditions under which flora and fauna settle on and around our buildings, and the design methods, strategies and techniques that can h...
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Footprint 31 / Druk 31
Open Architecture. Tradition, Possibilities and Shortcomings
2023 || Paperback || Jorge Meija Hernández e.a. || Jap Sam Books / TU Delft
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Situating more-than-human Ecologies of Extended Urbanisation
Footprint #33
2024 || Paperback || Nikos Katsikis e.a. || Jap Sam Books / TU Delft OPEN
The Figure of Knowledge
Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s
2020 || Paperback || Sebastiaan Loosen e.a. || Leuven University Press
It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism.
Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of ...
Special Issue Multifunctional Façades for Renovation through Industrialization
2024 || Paperback || Maria Founti e.a. || Stichting OpenAccess