Surfing is a way of life. A life dominated by the waves and the tide with a cozy place to pause in between. Creative personalities crafting bold homes, Surf Shacks illustrates how surfers live both on and off shore.

Many abodes can fall under the label of surf shack: New York City apartments, cabins nestled next to national parks, or tiny Hawaiian huts. Surfing communities are overflowing with creativity, innovation, and rich personas. Surf Shacks takes a deeper look at surfers' home...

Modulares Bauen und Fertigbauten weisen auf die Zukunft moderner Architektur.

Prefab and Modular zeigt sorgfältig ausgewählte Projekte von vorgefertigten und modularen Wohnhäusern, Kultureinrichtungen, Büroräumen und öffentlichen Gebäuden und erkundet die grenzenlosen Möglichkeiten der Fertigteil- und Modulbauweise.

Dieses Buch ist eine Quelle für Konzepte und Technologien, die herkömmliche Ideen des Bauens neu denken. Von modularen Strukturen bis zu intelligenten Raumoptimierungen ...

After its golden age in the last decades of the 20th century, diagramming is still an experimental practice today, but it focuses on the synthesis of complexity and on new disciplinary territories on the edge between humanities, art, architecture, urban planning and landscape. This manual presents experimental diagrams through sensing, analysing and transforming space. The contributions critically delineate diagrammatic behaviours in architectural history, present the design practices of offi...

Wood is one of the best materials for construction on account of its versatility; this book presents the work of thirty international architects who work with wood.

In 2011 the RMIT-department of the Faculty of Architecture of TU

Delft formulated the ambition to be structurally involved in the

transformation of urban neighbourhoods in both research and education.

This was decided upon because of the complex social, spatial

and physical issues that many districts in large cities are facing

and the urge to react on these issues with research based design

within the awareness of the cultural significance of those threatened

areas.

The mentioned complexity f...

The fantastic works of Antoni Gaudí and the Amsterdam School still appeal to the imagination. And although the architects never met each other, they were children of the same period. They looked for beauty and individuality in a world which was becoming increasingly functional and impersonal.

At the heart of their designs are nature and its organic forms, craftsmanship and traditional materials. At the same time, though, they did not turn their backs on modernity, embracing new techniques an...

Tom Avermaete, Klaske Havik, Hans Teerds (Red.)

Architectural Positions

On Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere

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De publieke ruimte verandert. Waar mensen elkaar vroeger bij voorkeur op het stadsplein troffen, lijkt nu de hotellobby de aangewezen plaats. Architecten van wereldfaam, zoals Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Rossi en Daniel Liebeskind, spreken zich uit over de consequenties hiervan voor de architectuur.

De verandering van de publieke sfeer is een van de cruciale thema’s in het huidige...

The world loves Paris for its beauty. But Paris is in peril. Despite polls and lawsuits showing that residents oppose skyscrapers, the city’s leaders have started developing colossal skyscraper projects at the old gates of the city. They destroy the traditional street furniture that adds to the charm of Paris. The city is becoming filthy. In this book, forty-nine experts, many of them Parisians, show that Paris City Hall threatens to damage Paris irreparably. They call on the world to aid P...