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Designing Lightness
Structures for Saving Energy
2020 || Hardcover || Ed van Hinte e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers
For Dutch see below.
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This book is an appeal to start designing minimum weight applications to seriously save energy. It also offers practical advice for doing so. Designing Lightness entertains the reader with its free associations, creating unexpected crosslinks between the world of composite materials and structural solutions. It therefore precedes the conventional approach to sustainability, which focuses on symptoms rather than causes of environmental overload. The book is o...
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Spacematrix, revised edition
Space, Density and Urban Form
2021 || Hardcover || Meta Berghauser Pont e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers
For English see below.
Spacematrix introduceert stedelijke dichtheid als instrument voor stadsontwikkeling en stadsontwerp. Berghauser Pont en Haupt ontrafelen op beelden gebaseerde termen als ‘urbaniteit’, ‘compacte stad’ en ‘parkstad’ door vraagtekens te plaatsen bij de betrouwbaarheid van zulke begrippen en door kritisch na te gaan of het mogelijk is om die te herdefiniëren met behulp van het begrip dichtheid. De belangstelling van de auteurs voor dichtheid is niet in de eerst...
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Philipp Fürhofer
2020 || Hardcover || Sir Norman Rosenthal e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers
For Dutch see below.
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Combining painting, sculpture, installation and set design, Philipp Fürhofer’s multidisciplinary artistic practice is a blend of modern materials, mixed with historical elements.
After graduating from the Universität der Künste Berlin, Fürhofer spent months in hospital with heart issues, culminating in a partial transplant. Inspired by his own chest X-rays and their transparency, he created acrylic glass boxes filled with structured objects, giving th...
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Habitat. Ecology Thinking in Architecture
Ecology Thinking in Architecture
2020 || Hardcover || Dirk van den Heuvel e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
For Dutch see below.
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Today, under the pressure of climate change and ecological catastrophe, environmentalism has become a key driver to rethink the architectural discipline. The publication Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture aims to highlight some of the historical sources of ecological approaches that are currently reshaping the architectural field. The book will point out the paradigmatic shift in thinking about the built environment as something inherently contextual ...