Natural Architecture

Alessandro Rocca "Natural Architecture"
Princeton Architectural Press | English | August 30, 2007 | ISBN: 1568987218

Never has the relationship between art and nature been more complicated and more fragile, but also richer and more fascinating. The artists and architects in Natural Architecture have transformed the act of building into an art form capable of sparking new relationships with nature, landscape, and the environment. Though far from basic or primitive, these creations are built from humble elements branches, twigs, pebbles, straw, stone found at their site. Fulfilling a wide variety of intentions sometimes structural, sometimes sculptural, sometimes sacred the works presented here inspire a sense of awe and reverence for the forces of nature. From a bridge in Tibet connecting an orphanage and a nearby village, to a hut fit for mythical creatures, to a pavilion in Iceland with a roof made of water perpetually frozen in an exuberant shape, each project resonates with a sense of purpose and innate beauty.

Natural Architecture presents sixty-six site-specific installations that use raw materials, manual labor, and natural stimuli to create truly green architecture that is as organic as the materials with which it is created. Projects by Olafur Eliasson, Patrick Dougherty, Nils-Udo, Ex. Studio, Edward Ng, nArchitects, and many others are shown together for the first time. Selected for their commitment to the use of raw materials, manual labor, and natural inspiration, these works are vividly displayed in photographs, drawings, and models. These fantastical creations allow the changing landscape to naturally overtake each structure until it finally decomposes. Each project is accompanied by a series of photographs, drawings, and models. The rugged and surreal beauty of the projects in Natural Architecture question the wisdom of our ever accelerating construction processes and point a way forward, toward a new organic simplicity of structure and form.

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Architecture and Community

Architecture and Community
Islamic Publications Ltd | 1983 | ISBN: 0893811238 | English | 265 Pages
To many Westerners, the Taj Mahal in all its splendor typifies Islamic architecture. Yet, the overwhelming majority of Muslims live on the very margin of human existence, far from such grandeur. The merging of Islam's rich cultural heritage with modern technology to help solve problems of individual survival in the contemporary world forms the heart of Architecture and Community. The fifteen projects celebrated in this volume are the winners of the first Aga Khan Award for Architecture, a series of prizes honoring the successful creation within the Islamic world of a modern architectural idiom that preserves indigenous forms at the same time it provides for the future. This is architecture of and for the people, meeting their needs and concerns locally, providing a setting for health and for life.

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Architecture in Continuity

Architecture in Continuity
Islamic Publications Ltd | 1985 | ISBN: 0893811963 | English | 194 Pages
Architecture in Continuity has been produced to present the contemporary architectural projects that were honored in the second cycle (1981-1983) of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and to make manifest their symbolic, social, and cultural contexts. The introductory chapter, the survey of contemporary Turkish architecture, the essays on the mosque and the diary of a technical reviewer were all specially prepared for this volume. The Awards were presented in September 1983 and theTopkapi Palace in Istanbul at the gracious invitation of President Evren of Turkey.

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Building Change: Architecture, Politics and Cultural Agency

Building Change: Architecture, Politics and Cultural Agency
By Lisa Findley
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415318769 | edition 2005

Building Change provides a vision of a revitalized role for architecture as a critical cultural and spatial practice. It discusses the dynamic between power and building and lays out the spatial strategies those in power use to manipulate and control the physical world. These include segregation, marginalization, construction of hierachies, and the spatial transformations of mechanisms like colonialism and globalization. In the past fifty years, with the shifting of power throughout the world, the motivations behind such strategies have been vigorously challenged. Resistance has come in part through the reassertion of agency by subject peoples: through political and economic action as well as cultural production. However, the reallocation of power alone cannot erase the spatial imprint of previous attitudes. Altering the organization of space, and opening up access to those represented in it, is a long-term endeavor. Lisa Findley argues that architecture, as a primary participant in the production of space, has an important role to play in supporting these changes. The question is how, within the scope of the design and making of buildings, can this be done.

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Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity (Architext)

Anthony King "Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity (Architext)"
Routledge | English | September 1, 2004 | ISBN: 0415196205 | 280 pages | PDF | 21,9 MB

This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological, geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a critical account of the development of three key concepts: global culture, post colonialism, and modernity. Subsequent case studies examine how global economic, political and cultural forces shape the forms of architectural and urban modernity in globalized suburbs and spaces in major cities worldwide.

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Space For Freedom

Space For Freedom
Butterworth Architecture | 1989 | ISBN: 0408500492 | English | 305 Pages | 105MB | PDF

This book chronicles the first decade and the achievements of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA), with special reference to the activities of the third cycle (1984-1986), and presents the winning projects of the 1986 Award. The title Space for Freedom was chosen to underline the commitment of the Award, in all its activities, to create an intellectual space where imagination can soar and the pursuit of relevance and architectural excellence can proceed in myriad ways, transcending a single architectural style or school of thought.

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Legacies for the Future: Contemporary Architecture in Islamic Societies

Legacies for the Future: Contemporary Architecture in Islamic Societies
Thames & Hudson | 1998 | ISBN: 0500280878 | English | 177 Pages | 104MB | PDF

In the rapidly changing tastes and styles of Western culture, the most highly acclaimed designs in contemporary architecture are often unconnected to the social and cultural contexts from which they spring. In contrast, in Islamic societies around the world, architecture often plays a far more responsible role, responding to the immediate needs of local and personal exigencies. As a result, some of the most humanist contemporary architecture is overlooked by the fashions of today's international design periodicals.

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Aesthetics and Architecture

Edward Winters, "Aesthetics and Architecture (Continuum Aesthetics)"
Continuum | 2007-08 | ISBN: 0826486320 |

The Continuum Aesthetics Series looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating, engaging and highly readable, the series offers food for thought not only for students of aesthetics, but also for anyone with an interest in philosophy and the arts. Aesthetics and Architecture places analytical philosophical aesthetics at the heart of thinking about, and looking at, architecture. The book looks at classic and contemporary aesthetic and philosophical views of architecture. It considers, with stimulating insight and great clarity, how Classicism, Modernism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism and Situationism have influenced architectural aesthetics and shaped our view of the built environment. It also explores the challenges to the various intellectual and cultural movements that inform how people create and look at buildings. The book moves on to investigate the aesthetic qualities, demands and approaches specific to architecture and architectural thinking, concluding with 'a programme for contemporary architecture'. Anyone studying or interested in architecture or philosophical aesthetics will find this book a rich source of ideas, insight and information. Combining a clear and engaging style with a sophisticated treatment of a fascinating subject, Aesthetics and Architecture is a valuable contribution to contemporary aesthetics - one that revitalises the way we look at the form, purpose and meaning of our built environment.

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Writing Art and Architecture

Andrew Benjamin, "Writing Art and Architecture"
re.press | 2010 | ISBN: 0980819709 | 186 pages


In his new book, the eminent philosopher Andrew Benjamin turns his attention to architecture, design, sculpture, painting and writing. Drawing predominantly on a European tradition of modern philosophical criticism running from the German Romantics through Walter Benjamin and beyond, he offers a sequence of strong meditations on a diverse ensemble of works and themes: on the library and the house, on architectural theory, on Rachel Whiteread, Peter Eisenman, Anselm Kiefer, Peter Nielson, David Hawley, Terri Bird, Elizabeth Presa and others. In Benjamin's hands, criticism is bound up with judgment. Objects of criticism always become more than mere documents. These essays dissolve the prejudices that have determined our relation to aesthetic objects and to thought, releasing in their very care and attentiveness to the 'objects themselves' the unexpected potentialities such objects harbour. In his sensitivity to what he calls 'the particularity of material events', Benjamin's writing comes to exemplify new possibilities for the contemporary practice of criticism itself. These essays are a major contribution to critical thought about art and architecture today, and a genuine work of what Benjamin himself identifies as a 'materialist aesthetics'.


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Analysing Architecture

Simon Unwin "Analysing Architecture"
Routledge | 2001 | ISBN: 041548927X | 296 pages | PDF | 34.4 MB
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Clear and accessible, "Analysing Architecture" opens a fresh way to understanding architecture. It offers a unique 'notebook' of architectural strategies to present an engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. Beautifully illustrated throughout with the author's original drawings, examples are drawn from across the world and many periods of architectural history (from prehistoric times to the recent past) to illustrate analytical themes and to show how drawing can be used to study architecture. Since its first edition appeared in 1997, "Analysing Architecture" has established itself internationally as one of the key texts in architectural education. This third edition includes a new section discussing the ways analyzing examples cultivates a capacity for design. Original chapters have been expanded, new case studies added, and the format rearranged for additional clarity. The bibliography of recommended supplementary reading has also been extended. In "Analysing Architecture", Simon Unwin clearly identifies the key elements of architecture and conceptual themes apparent in buildings and relevant to other works of architecture such as gardens and cities. He describes ideas for use in the active process of design. Breaking down the grammar of architecture into themes and 'moves', Unwin exposes its underlying patterns to reveal the organizational strategies that lie beneath the superficial appearances of buildings. Exploring buildings as results of the interaction of people with the world around them, "Analysing Architecture" offers a definition of architecture as 'identification of place' and provides a greater understanding of architecture as a creative discipline. This book presents a powerful impetus for readers to develop their own capacities for architectural design. It will also be of use to all those with an interest in the human occupation of and involvement with space - anthropologists, archaeologists, film-makers, installation artists, planners, urban designers, politicians. A companion website will be available.

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