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  • Emergent Technologies and Design

    Towards a Biological Paradigm for Architecture

    by Michael Hensel, Achim Menges, Michael Weinstock ...
    Emergence - the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties ‘emerge’ from within complex systemsTraditional architecture starts from the premise that architectural structures are singular and fixed, and however well integrated are separate from their environment and context. Emergence requires that the opposite is true – that those structures are complex energy and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Performance-Oriented Architecture

    Rethinking Architectural Design and the Built Environment

    by Michael Hensel ...
    Series series Architectural Design Primer
    Architecture is on the brink. It is a discipline in crisis. Over the last two decades, architectural debate has diversified to the point of fragmentation and exhaustion. What is called for is an overarching argument or set of criteria on which to approach the design and construction of the built environment. Here, the internationally renowned architect and educator Michael Hensel advocates an ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

  • Urban-Rural Dialogue in Green City Design

    Advancing Urban Social-ecological Systems

    Edited by Alessandra Battisti, Michael U. Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Urbanization and construction are primary drivers of land cover and land use change, climate change and environmental degradation. Sustainable development seeks to counteract the negative impact of cities and urbanization. Shifting away from the still prevailing human-nature dialectic, social-ecological systems view humans as part of nature, thereby linking biophysical and social factors into a ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Grounds and Envelopes

    Reshaping Architecture and the Built Environment

    by Michael U. Hensel, Jeffrey P. Turko ...
    Providing a source of vision for the revitalisation of ground and envelope as spatial elements that can inform the search for embedded locally specific architectures, this book collects essays and projects that each contributes a particular element to what might constitute an integrated and richly nuanced approach to spatial organisation. Projects include:Paulo Mendes da Rocha; Brazilian Pavilion, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Design Innovation for the Built Environment

    Research by Design and the Renovation of Practice

    Edited by Michael Hensel ...
    Today architecture and other fields in the built environment face the steep task of answering complex questions pertaining to sustainability, performance, and adaptability.How are these disciplines to accomplish these difficult tasks at such an immense pace?How might architectural practice renovate itself accordingly?Worldwide it is becoming increasingly clear that different modes of research are ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Changing Shape of Practice

    Integrating Research and Design in Architecture

    Edited by Michael U. Hensel, Fredrik Nilsson ...
    Architectural practices worldwide have to deal with increasingly complex design requirements. How do practices acquire the ability to do so?The Changing Shape of Practice provides a handbook of examples for practices that wish to integrate more research into their work and a reference book for students that seek to prepare themselves for the changing shape of practice in architecture.It addresses ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • Architecture in the Space of Flows

    Edited by Andrew Ballantyne, Christopher Smith ...
    Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form. That concern helps to make photogenic buildings, which have received a great deal of attention. This book looks instead at the idea of the flows, which connects things together and moves between things. It is more difficult to discuss, but more necessary, because it is what makes things work. Architects have to think ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Architecture, Technology and Process

    by Chris Abel ...
    This new selection of essays follows Chris Abel's previous best selling collection, Architecture and Identity. Drawing upon a wide range of knowledge and disciplines, the author argues that, underlying technological changes in the process of architectural production are fundamental changes in the way we think about machines and the world we live in. Key topics include: new patterns of urbanism in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Google SketchUp Cookbook

    Practical Recipes and Essential Techniques

    by Bonnie Roskes ...
    As the first book for intermediate and advanced users of Google SketchUp, this Cookbook goes beyond the basics to explore the complex features and tools that design professionals use. You'll get numerous step-by-step tutorials for solving common (and not so common) design problems, with detailed color graphics to guide your way, and discussions that explain additional ways to complete a task. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A City is Not a Tree

    by Christopher Alexander ...
    In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but on a structural analysis, rooted in then-emerging insights from the fields of mathematics and cognition. Here, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Material Matters

    Architecture and Material Practice

    Edited by Katie Lloyd Thomas ...
    Bringing together texts and work by theorists and practitioners who are making material central to their work, this book reflects the diverse areas of inquiry which are expanding current material discourse. Focusing on the cultural, political, economic, technological and intellectual forces which shape material practices in architecture, the contributors draw on disciplines ranging from philosophy ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Design Activism

    Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

    by Alastair Fuad-Luke ...
    Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD