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Neighbourhoods for the Future
Regular price SFr. 42.50 Save Liquid error (product-template line 127): -Infinity%
By introducing the concepts of neighbourhood arrangements and ecologies, based on examples in Europe and North America, this book provides a new perspective on the relation between participants, resources, and rules, to spark change and prepare urbanites and policymakers for realizing their own sustainable neighbourhoods for the future.
Author(s): Maarten Hajer, Peter Pelzer, Martijn van den Hurk, Chris ten Dam, Edwin Buitelaar
Design: Catalogtree
2020, trancityxvaliz with Urban Futures Studio, University Utrecht | paperback | 224 pp. | 24 x 17 cm (h x w) | English | ISBN 978-94-92095-78-7
Napoli Super Modern
Regular price SFr. 49.00 Save Liquid error (product-template line 127): -Infinity%An homage to Naples: insights into this legendary harbor city’s remarkable architecture and urban development between 1930 and 1960
This richly illustrated book is a monument to modern urban construction in Naples. It features some fifty new photos by celebrated French photographer Cyrille Weiner as well as historic images, drawings of important architectonic details, and an atlas of eighteen significant buildings dating from 1930–1960 illustrated with site and floor plans, elevations, and sections. It reveals how this Southern Italian metropolis developed its own form of modernism, one that combined Mediterranean culture with local materials and a strong internationalist spirit.
The topical essays and concise descriptions of the documented buildings, together with the lavish illustrations make for a hugely attractive and lively portrait of Naples. This fascinating city is both famous and infamous—but its qualities and individuality in terms of architecture and urban development really should be better known.
With contributions by Gianluigi Freda, Abdrea Maglio, Umberto Napolitano, and Manuel Orazi.
Benoît Jallon, born 1972, graduated from École d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette and is a founding partner of LAN – Local Architecture Network in Paris.
Umberto Napolitano, born 1975, studied architecture at Università Federico II in Neapel and at the École d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette. He is of LAN – Local Architecture Network in Paris.
1st edition, 2020
Text in English
Hardback
232 pages, 90 color illustrations and 140 floor and site plans, sections, and elevations
24 x 30 cm
ISBN 978-3-03860-218-7
Streifzüge durch die Verstädterung
Regular price SFr. 44.00 Save Liquid error (product-template line 127): -Infinity%_ Biografische Reflexionen eines Architekten
_ Selbstständige Geschichten, die an diversen Fäden zusammenhängen
_ Vom Lokalen über das Regionale zum Globalen
_ Thema der Verdichtung der Welt und was das für die Schweiz bedeutet
Ein Block mit Bleistift, ein kleiner Laptop, eine Loggia im Schatten – möglicherweise mit Blick aufs Meer: Über eineinhalb Jahrzehnte, meist in den Sommerferien, hat Architekt Markus Lüscher über seine Streifzüge durchs Leben reflektiert um herauszufinden, wie diese ihn beeinflusst und seinen Horizont erweitert haben und insbesondere sein Schweizersein prägen. Aus seinen biografisch durchsetzten Aufzeichnungen, die viel Alltägliches, Menschliches und Persönliches, aber auch Fantastisches und Groteskes beschreiben, setzt sich dieses Lesebuch zusammen.
Im Mittelpunkt stehen neben Beobachtungen und Geschichten aus der Heimat des Autors im Seetal (Kanton Aargau) und der Schweiz auch seine Erfahrungen, die er auf Reisen in andere Länder sowie im Rahmen eines längeren beruflichen Auslandaufenthaltes in Hongkong machte. Was Markus Lüscher beschreibt, ist exemplarisch für die heutige Verdichtung der globalisierten Welt, dem Wachstum von Metropolen und Agglomerationen. Er macht deutlich, dass diese Entwicklungen auch für die Schweiz in der Mitte Europas relevante Themen sind, die die Zukunft der Eidgenossenschaft maßgeblich beeinflussen.
Deutsch
864 Seiten
100 Abbildungen
12 x 18 cm
Klappenbroschur
Erscheinungsdatum: 11/2018
City Lust
Regular price SFr. 59.00 Save Liquid error (product-template line 127): -Infinity%–
Charlie Koolhaas presents a timely dialogue between words and images about a crucial moment in our recent history: the apotheosis of globalization and its current unraveling.
In her new book, Charlie Koolhaas takes us to London, Guangzhou, Lagos, Dubai and Houston, cities in which she has either lived or worked. Her personal and humorous account explores the rapid changes taking place in these culturally vastly different metropolises that are being united by the influences of global trade and the evolution of a shared global culture. A captivating combination of photographic documentary and written testimony. City Lust portrays a global landscape that contradicts the current pessimism—to reveal new creativities, unexpected possibilities and intimate connections that emerge despite huge global and economic divides.
Charlie Koolhaas, born 1977 in London, graduated in sociology from New York University and in Interactive Media from Goldsmith’s, University of London. She lives and works as an artist, photographer, and writer in Rotterdam. She has taught visual culture theory at TU Delft and Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, and has been a visiting lecturer at Strelka Institute in Moscow, ETH Zurich, HEAD Geneva, and Harvard Graduate School of Design.
1st edition, 2020
Text in English
Hardback
412 pages, 354 color illustrations
20.5 x 30 cm
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