Leading practitioners of parametric and algorithmic design profile the most radical technologies reshaping architecture today, offering insight into their differences, potential and influence on desig
A "recipe book" of tips for creating typography includes 22 recommendations for designing workable, legible typography while simultaneously identifying 22 common mistakes to avoid, in a guide that als
This overview of some major topics that affect the dialogue and pedagogy of housing originates from the 2006 course on Collective Housing at the Escuela Tecnica de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM). Base
Documents the design and manufacturing processes involved in updating the sixteen porcelain figures of the Commedia dell'Arte, originally created by Franz Anton Bustelli in 1760, for their limited rei
Gardens inside buildings represent a sustainable vehicle for a host of ecological and economic advantages: factors such as improving the indoor climate and the workplace situation and hence increasing
In order to build successfully today, careful consideration of energy efficiency has to be included in the design of a building. The second volume of the SCALE series, Heat/Cool, illustrates strategie
Old and New provides a comprehensive overview of intelligent approaches for working with existing building stock. Presented in this volume are everyday projects such as the revitalizing of structures
Landscape architecture meets art in Munich. The new and extremely playful park in Munich covers a three-hundred meter section of railroad tracks and creates urgently needed open space for the neighbor
High quality residential structures are much more than merely a series of different floor plans. First and foremost, the urban apartment house mediates between the private refuge and the public space
Depicts the addition of a plant-carrying netting to the faecade of an arts center in Barcelona as an environmental measure, and describes how making buildings more sustainable will help to solve the w
Journeys: How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment explores the subject of migrations and their impact on the built environment. The publication includes 16 stories written
Currently, the various departments of justice of Barcelona and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat are scattered in 17 buildings distributed between the two cities, with functional frustrations for both users a
Beyond a design school, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is an immersive environment--a dense atmosphere saturated with creative and intellectual activity. Platform 4 represents a selective
From soft politics, soft power and soft spaces to fluid territories, software and soft programming, Bracket 2 unpacks the use and role of responsive, indeterminate, flexible, and immaterial systems in
Sketches is a highly personal and intimate volume. It embraces sketches, idea outlines, notebook pages Nothing in this book has been selected by chance, even if it does not follow any specific timelin
