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Actions: Comment s'approprier la ville

This publication will explore how the design of contemporary cities can be described and informed by four key human actions: gardening, recycling, playing, walking. These are crucial actions determining the character of the contemporary urban ...

ISBN: 9789085067252
Giovanna Borasi, Mirko Zardini Ed(s)
Paperback, 256 pages
2008
€35,38 (excl. VAT)

Actions: What you can do with the City

ISBN: 9789085067245
Giovanna Borasi, Mirko Zardini Ed(s)
Paperback, 256 pages
2008
€35,38 (excl. VAT)

Artscapes

Artscapes attempts to show how the artificial landscape produced by artists in collaboration with architects and landscape architects can alter the nature of a place, transforming it into a location capable of establishing a more intense dialogue ...

ISBN: 9788425218439
Luca Galofaro
Paperback, 192 pages
June 2003
€28,37 (excl. VAT)

Behnisch Architekten

Behnisch Architekten have a current international reputation as one of the most successful architectural offices in Germany. Taking up the formal tradition of the “Stuttgart School” with its open, transparent and atmospherically convivial buildings, ...

ISBN: 9783939633839
Falk Jaeger
Flexocover, 144 pages
January 2009
€28,11 (excl. VAT)

Beyond Shelter: Architecture for Crisis

Across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States, groundbreaking work is being done by small teams of outstanding professionals who are helping communities to recover from disaster and rebuild, bridging the gap that separates short-term ...

ISBN: 9780500289150
Marie J. Aquiliono
Hardcover, 304 pages
July 2011
€25,42 (excl. VAT)

BLU

BLUE: ecological water projects. Regaining possession of the water cycle while bringing it back to the anthropologic sphere is a complex challenge. Correct design and good management of water resources means lower economic and environmental costs ...

ISBN: 9788838752575
Elvira Pensa
Paperback, 241 pages
October 2009
€37,50 (excl. VAT)

City Building

City Building is organized into three parts. Part 1 examines the past and defines the current practice of city building, addressing its shortcomings and proposing a comprehensive framework for rethinking the approach to cities in the future. ...

ISBN: 9781568988818
John Lund Kriken, Philip Enquist, Richard Rapaport
Paperback, 304 pages
May 2010
€30,00 (excl. VAT)

Culture/Nature

Currently, big cities all over the world are attempting to respond to the challenges of global warming and seeking new perspectives for improved urban life. Possible strategies are often conceived by urban planners and implemented according to a ...

ISBN: 9783939633938
Anke Haarmann, Harald Lemke Ed(s)
Double paperback volume with slipcase, 392 pages
June 2009
€18,87 (excl. VAT)

Earth Architecture

Author Ronald Rael, founder of Eartharchitecture.org provides a history of building with earth in the modern era, focusing particularly on projects constructed in the last few decades that use rammed earth, mud brick, compressed earth, cob, and ...

ISBN: 9781568989457
Ronald Rael
Paperback, 208 pages
July 2010
€19,00 (excl. VAT)

Ecological Architecture

Ecological Architecture charts the ascendancy of an ecological approach to building over the past century, assessing as it does so the situation as it stands today, and identifying where we might go next. As a decisive step in the rewriting of the ...