AD - Typological Urbanism: Projective Cities

Christopher CM Lee, "Typological Urbanism: Projective Cities: Architectural Design"
Publisher: Wiley | 2011 | ISBN: 047074720X | PDF | 136 pages | 71.1 MB

How can architecture today be simultaneously relevant to its urban context and at the very forefront of design? For a decade or so, iconic architecture has been fuelled by the market economy and consumers' insatiable appetite for the novel and the different. The relentless speed and scale of urbanisation, with its ruptured, decentralised and fast-changing context, though, demands a rethink of the role of the designer and the function of architecture. This title of 2 confronts and questions the profession's and academia's current inability to confidently and comprehensively describe, conceptualise, theorise and ultimately project new ideas for architecture in relation to the city. In so doing, it provides a potent alternative for projective cities: Typological Urbanism. This pursues and develops the strategies of typological reasoning in order to re-engage architecture with the city in both a critical and speculative manner. Architecture and urbanism are no longer seen as separate domains, or subservient to each other, but as synthesising disciplines and processes that allow an integrating and controlling effect on both the city and its built environment.

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AD - Ecoredux

Ecoredux: Design Remedies for an Ailing Planet
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd | ISBN: 0470746629 | edition 2010

This issue of AD explores the remarkable resurgence of ecological strategies in architectural imagination. As a symptom of a new sociopolitical reality inundated with environmental catastrophes, sudden climatic changes, garbage-packed metropolises and para-economies of non-recyclable e-waste, environmental consciousness and the image of the earth re-emerges, after the 1960s, as an inevitable cultural armature for architects; now faced with the urgency to heal an ill-managed planet that is headed towards evolutionary bankruptcy. At present though, in a world that has suffered severe loss of resources, the new wave of ecological architecture is not solely directed to the ethics of the world's salvation, yet rather upraises as a psycho-spatial or mental position, fuelling a reality of change, motion and action. Coined as ‘EcoRedux', this position differs from utopia in that it does not explicitly seek to be right; it recognises pollution and waste as generative potentials for design. In this sense, projects that may appear at first sight as science-fictional are not part of a foreign sphere, unassociated with the real, but an extrusion of our own realms and operations.

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AD - The New Structuralism

"The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies" 
Rivka Oxman, Robert Oxman, 

W--y | 2010 | ISBN: 0470742275 | 136 pages

Today the convergence of design, engineering and architectural technologies are breeding a new material practice in experimental architecture. In this pioneering publication, this important shift is fully defined as a highly dynamic synthesis of emerging principles of spatial, structural and material ordering integrated through the application of materialization and fabrication technologies. Providing the foundations for a new theory of structuring in architecture, The New Structuralism has broad implications for the way we both conceive and undertake architectural design, as its impact starts to emanate not only across education internationally, but also through architectural research and practice.

Features premier research and design-oriented engineering practices:
Bollinger + Grohmann
Buro Happold
Hanif Kara (AKT)
Werner Sobek

Focuses on design and fabrication technologies in the recent work of:
Martin Bechthold
Barkow Leibinger
EMBT (Enric Miralles,
Benedetta Tagliabue)
Gramazio & Kohler
Fabian Scheurer (designtoproduction)
Yves Weinand and Markus Hudert

Contributors include:
John Chilton
Dominik Holzer and Steven Downing
Neri Oxman
Helmut Pottmann
Nina Rappaport

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