Self Sufficient City: Envisioning the Habitat of the Future: 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8492861339 ISBN 13 : 9788492861330

Editeur : Actar, 2011

Synopsis

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and the technology company HP have developed an international contest with the idea of self-sufficient city". It is an invitation to reflect on how we will live in the near future in the light of the social, cultural and technological changes in which we are immersed. This publication presents the projects of the 107 finalists between 708 participant proposals. From connected metropolises, eco neighbourhoods, self-sufficient buildings, intelligent homes or any other proposal for a short-, medium or long-term project such as the winning ones: HURBS proposed by Sergio Castillo Tello and Mara Hernndez Enrquez from Spain and WATER FUEL by Rychiee Espinosa and Seth Mcdowell from the United States Look inside: http://issuu.com/ACTAR/docs/self-sufficient-city

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Biographie de l'auteur

Vicente Guallart works in the confluence of Architecture, artificial nature and technologies. Some of his more relevant projects are the Denia Mountain (reconstruction of an old quarry, in an environment that hold and old Arab castle, selected for the Venice Biennale 2004), 3 ports in the North of Taiwan that will improve the tourism in the island (winners of 2 international competitions), or the Sharing Tower in the neighborhood of la Torre (Valencia). He spent part of his time with research and educational projects as former director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC), in Barcelona, that holds an international postgraduate program on Architecture and Urbanism working in many scales from Bits to geography. In 2000 he co-directed with MIT s Media Lab and another research Center, the Media House Project, the prototype of an informational house, based for the first time, in distributed computation. He is author of the master Plan of the project Sociópolis, a housing project in Valencia that allows the urban development and the protection of the agriculture environment. He coordinates a group of international architects that will build different equipments and housing projects in this neighborhood. This project was shown in the Valencia Biennale, or the Arkitertur Zentrum in Vienna. It will be built for the year 2007. He is co-author of the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture Actar, HiperCatalonia or Media House Project. He has given lectures in different Universities and Cities around the world as Princeton University, Upenn, Architectural Association, UCLA, MIT, Space (Seoul), Woodbury University, Taipei and others. His work has been exhibit in the Biennale di Venezia 2002, 2004 and 2008, Archilab, Graz, and others. He is currently Chief Architect of the Barcelona City Council, Spain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Actar
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8492861339
• ISBN 13: 9788492861330
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Éditeur: IAAC Institute For Advanced Architecture Of Catalonia-, Capelli Lucas, Guallart Vicente
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