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  • Planning on the Edge

    More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises 'urban fringe': the countryside around towns that has been called 'planning's last frontier'. One of the key challenges facing spatial planners is the land-use management of this area, regarded by many as fit only for locating sewage works, essential service functions and other un-neighbourly uses. However, to others it is a dynamic area where ... Read more

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  • Digital Draw Connections

    Representing Complexity and Contradiction in Landscape

    Series series History (R0)
    This book stems from the seminal work of Robert Venturi and aims at re-projecting it in the current cultural debate by extending it to the scale of landscape and placing it in connection with representative issues. It brings out the transdisciplinary synthesis of a necessarily interdisciplinary approach to the theme, aimed at creating new models which are able to represent the complexity of a ... Read more

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  • Digital Wood Design

    Innovative Techniques of Representation in Architectural Design

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book explores various digital representation strategies that could change the future of wooden architectures by blending tradition and innovation. Composed of 61 chapters, written by 153 authors hailing from 5 continents, 24 countries and 69 research centers, it addresses advanced digital modeling, with a particular focus on solutions involving generative models and dynamic value, inherent to ... Read more

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  • Landscape Lab

    Drawing, Perception and Design for the Next Landscape Models

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores the relationship between the sciences of representation and the strategy of landscape valorisation. The topic is connected to the theme of the image of the city, which is extended to the territory scale and applied to case studies in Italy’s Umbria region, where the goal is to strike a dynamic balance between cultural heritage and nature. The studies demonstrate how landscape ... Read more

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    This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject – such as tectonics, use, and site – as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a philosophical text. He also introduces each chapter by highlighting key ideas and asking you a set of ... Read more

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  • Visual Notes for Architects and Designers

    The completely updated step-by-step guide to¿capturing experiences in sketch format—regardless of artistic abilityRecording your ideas and observations primarily in pictures instead of words can help you become more creative and constructive on the job, no matter what your level of artistic ability. Featuring completely new coverage of visual note-taking in a digital world, Visual Notes for ... Read more

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  • The Art of Understanding Art

    A Behind the Scenes Story

    The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence.Offers an inquiry—unique among introductory art texts—into the learning process of understanding and appreciating artExamines the multiple issues and processes essential to making, analyzing and evaluating artUses ... Read more

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  • Notes on Participatory Art

    Toward a Manifesto Differentiating It from Open Work, Interactive Art and Relational Art.

    We are living in the Age of Participation. Social media are exploding, customer cooperation is sought in product development, and customer content is even built into media. But where is the art reflecting our times? Where are the artists making this kind of art? Who were their predecessors?In this book the author traces the roots of Participatory Art from Duchamp, Mondrian and Moholy-Nagy via less ... Read more

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  • Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing

    Slow Food for the Architect's Imagination

    This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture.Organized around eleven exercises, the book does not emphasize speed, nor incorporate many timesaving tricks typical of drawing books, but rather proposes a slow, meditative process for construing ... Read more

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  • Design Languages

    Most of the people who work in the field attain an implicit knowledge of design languages through exposure to design discourse, that is to say, to the ecosystem comprised of products, companies, showrooms, trade shows, events, exhibitions, magazines, and blogs that deal with design. And just as there is no need to study grammar in order to speak effectively, so too can one learn to “speak” design ... Read more

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  • Palladio's Children

    Essays on Everyday Environment and the Architect

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    Based on many years of personal observation, Palladio's Children critically examines the role of the architect as a professional descendent of Palladio, and as an heir to his architectural legacy. Seven innovative and carefully crafted essays explore the widening ideological schism between today’s architects whose core values, identity and education remain rooted in the Renaissance legacy of ... Read more

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  • The Second Digital Turn

    Design Beyond Intelligence

    by Mario Carpo ...
    Series series Writing Architecture
    The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the first digital age, and left an indelible mark on contemporary architecture. But today's digitally ... Read more

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