'Reuse to Reduce. Architecture within a Carbon Budget. The Case of BioPartner 5'is a plea by Popma ter Steege Architects to embrace the circular transition as a chance for a more meaningful architecture. An architecture that employs the necessary reuse of building materials to rethink our needs, way of building and aesthetics. It is a plea for design shaped by planetary boundaries and the use of a carbon budget as a tool for this. It wants to help shift the discourse on circularity towards de...

Noesis should not be mistakenly identified with cognition. It is essential to steer clear of conflating cognition with re-cognition, which involves a stagnant affirmation of sameness or a repetitive process lacking in heterogeneity. In contrast, noetics shares a common root with noema, translating literally as ‘meaning’ or, in a broader sense, as ‘sense.’ However, it is important to note that sense is not pre-existing; its production is inherently embodied, embedded, enactive, extende...

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture. This work explores such questions as:How and why is it that museums select and arrange artefacts, shape knowledge, construct a view?How do museums produce values? How do active audiences make meaning from what they experience in museums?This stimulating book provokes debate and discussion on t...

Tells the fascinating story of the journey taken by the Bauhaus - both the concept behind the school and some of the individuals who represented it - from Germany to Britain and the USA.

A collection of nine contemporary homes by architect Celeste Robbins, who imbues her modern designs with warmth and emotion

Die Vorfertigung von Bauteilen, Räumen oder ganzen Bauten ist eine attraktive Option für Bauherren, die eine schnellere, kostengünstigere und qualitativ hochwertige Wohnlösung suchen. Die Gestaltungsfreiheit moderner Systembauweisen steht konventionellen Baumethoden inzwischen in nichts nach. Ermöglicht durch technologische Fortschritte erfahren modulare Bauweisen einen bemerkenswerten Boom überall auf der Welt.

Neben industriell arbeitenden Firmen sind es zunehmend auch innovative Arch...

Amerikaanse architectuur is al eeuwenlang een symbool van vooruitgang en identiteit. Terwijl moderne ontwerptrends de skyline van de Verenigde Staten blijven transformeren, biedt het koffietafelboek American Icons Vol. 2 een diepgaande blik op de evolutie van de Amerikaanse architectuur. Dit indrukwekkende fotoboek presenteert 50 iconische projecten en bevat vier essays die zich richten op de International Style en het modernisme van de midden twintigste eeuw.

Met adembenemende foto’s en ge...