Más allá de una crítica específica al deconstructivismo, este libro recoge una compilación heterogénea de textos donde Nikos A. Salíngaros desvela las claves de su propio pensamiento. Como discípulo de Christopher Alexander, el autor defiende el uso de criterios científicos en la teoría y práctica de la arquitectura. Para ello estudia empíricamente las reacciones fisiológicas que la experiencia arquitectónica produce sobre el ser humano y las traduce en estados anímicos como el...

Cities around the world are working to build more livable environments, better-quality public spaces, more resilient and sustainable urban economies, lower resource impacts, greater social equity, and other goals of a “new urban agenda.” In this process, the American movement advanced by the Congress for the New Urbanism has been unquestionably influential, if sometimes controversial. This volume presents a distillation of key essays by CNU proponents in their own words, as well as perspe...

The PowerSKIN Conference aims to address the role of building skins to accomplish a carbon neutral building stock. Topics such as building operation, embodied energy, energy generation and storage in context of envelope, energy and environment are considered.

The focus of the PowerSKIN issue 2021 deals with the question of whether simplicity and robustness stay in contradiction to good performance of buildings skins or whether they even complement each other: simplicity vs. performance?

As an...

Deze dissertatie is het resultaat van een lang onderzoekstraject naar het waarom en het hoe vrijevormarchitectuur ontworpen, getekend en gemaakt wordt en wat de filosofische en fenomenologische betekenis is van vrijevormarchitectuur. Het antwoord op deze waarom en hoe vragen wordt in vier delen behandeld:

In de eerste twee delen - het ontwerpen en het tekenen - wordt antwoord gegeven op de vragen: hoe worden de gebouwen ontworpen? Hoe worden ze getekend? Wat is het aandeel van de ontwerper e...

This booklet presents the work of fourth-year students from Delft University of Technology, Faculty of

Architecture and the Built Environment, Chair of Heritage & Architecture, Section Heritage & Architecture.

What you see is the result of one semester’s work (20 weeks) to study together the conservation and

redesign of De Zonnehof in Amersfoort. The international group of students worked all on the architectural

relation to de Zonnehof, on different ways to exhibit, on climate control and ...