Oro editions 2021 (55 résultats)

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Frank L. Wright and the Architects of Steinway Hall: A Study of Collaboration. Book.

Paperback. Etat : New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 7-8 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Landscape Architecture Frontiers 49: Urban Wilderness and Planting Design. Book.

Trade Paperback. Etat : New. 20x14, Reflections on Studying Architecture Abroad: twenty suggestions (or paternal exhortations, if you will) for the fourteen weeks of a regular academic semester. Twenty reflections (written during the 2020 lockdown in Firenze) that I have drawn from twenty years of teaching architecture students abroad. As an outreach from one person under lockdown to another, this book will help enrich the experience in architecture for those who cannot observe them in actual proximity, for the time being.…

Trade Paperback. Etat : New. In SkyRoom, novelist Larry Gaudet tells the Shobac story in a new genre that he calls magic architectural realism, blending fact with historical fiction in presenting the lives of early inhabitants and visitors to the area, including Champlain, a Mi'kmaq mystic, an Acadian carpenter and other lively characters whose ghostly presence swirl in the untold myths of this coastal Shangri-La. More provocatively, Gaudet orchestrates imaginary conversations between Mackay-Lyons and legendary figures in architecture - Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore and others - all towards providing a novel perspective on what goes into building communities and homes worth living in. SkyRoom also addresses an undiagnosed problem of consequence in our culture: widespread architectural illiteracy, the impact of which seeds the landscape in ugliness, consumes resources unsustainably, and ultimately degrades community and individual wellbeing.…

4to, 304pp. A new hardback copy in shrink wrap. In 1986, the New York Times called William Zeckendorf Jr. "Manhattan's most active real-estate developer", a judgment borne out by Zeckendorf's fascinating memoir.

Paperback. Etat : New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Trade Paperback. Etat : New. As the number and distinctiveness of design directions in contemporary architecture expands an outcome has emerged of a contradictory nature. While many of these directions hold great intrigue, a troubling aspect arises in that in their realization an 'incompleteness' is often exhibited, one expressing a less developed architectural richness expressed an under-utilized nature of the architectural language itself. Internal addresses this issue with a focus on topics underlying the creation of architectural languages. Concentrating on strategies and concepts that inform the creation of cohering architectural languages versus 'external' issues affecting design, such as those necessary to accommodate site or program, Internal focuses on design considerations with the authority grounded in 'internal' language-based architectural issues. Identifying underlying themes and strategies necessary to create coherent and informed architectural languages constitutes the effort underlying this book.…

Hardcover. Etat : New. Emerging from the vivid landscape of California's Central Valley, architect Maria Ogrydziak's iconic, light-filled houses reflect a region where growth abounds, rich soil runs deep, and blue sky goes on and on. She designs for a new California dream, outside the hustle of the big cities, far from the deep turquoise of the Pacific. Framing the Valley follows eight case study houses where everyday people find extraordinary lives through architecture. Written in an approachable style by Maria, it is full of design wisdom from over 40 years of 400 built projects. Projects include Art Barn, a steel horse barn transformed into an art gallery, overlooking picturesque fields dotted with California poppies; Flight house, a budget-friendly remote-work homestead just outside town; two remodels of California's classic ranch-style and mid-century modern tract homes; and a 15,000-square-foot luxury homestead clad completely in iridescent glass.…

Hardcover. Etat : Like New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. New, unopened and in original shrinkwrap. Trivial bumping to some corners. Otherwise in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

4to, 348pp. A new hardback copy in shrink wrap. This compilation of buildings spans diverse typologies to illustrate how the firm's ideas on public space, outdoor environments, evolving working and learning models, and contextual sensitivity are universal to creating meaningful architecture.

4to, 120pp. A near fine paperback copy.

Hardcover. Etat : New.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's, 2006-2020 monograph showcases the spectacular work of the firm from the first 15 years of its practice through drawings, renderings, model photography, photography of built work, competition entries, exhibition materials, master plans, interiors, and special research projects and publications. The projects featured in the monograph cover a wide variety of AS+GG's high-performance, energy-efficient, aesthetically striking architecture on an international scale in a wide range of typologies and scales, from low- and mid-rise residential, commercial, and cultural buildings to mixed-use supertall towers. Projects explored include supertall towers, large-scale mixed-use complexes, corporate offices, exhibition facilities, cultural facilities and museums, civic and public spaces, hotels and residential complexes, institutional projects, and high-tech laboratory facilities.…

Hardcover. Etat : New. Drawing from the unique design experience at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) as architects of the next world's tallest tower and several others under construction, Supertall Megatall: How High Can We Go? highlights the design, sustainability, innovative technology, programming, and contextualism that defines supertall and megatall towers. The book is a mixture of under construction and design-only projects divided into several chapters that are organized according to their special characteristics: Innovative Systems, Harnessing Energies, Designing an Icon, Extending Ecologies, and Achieving Megatall. Each project, completed between 2007-2020 at AS+GG, is discovered through context, program, form, research and development, and performance, highlighting the stories, challenges, and lessons learned.…

Hardcover. Etat : New. The general reading public is likely to think of architecture as buildings. But, with this book, Robert Steinberg would like to help readers understand that architecture shapes lives. Architecture can help communities integrate and thrive. Architecture can touch us, influencing how we feel, and how we interact with others. In short, architecture can fundamentally improve our quality of life. As a young graduate architect fresh from Berkeley, Steinberg began to discover the potential of architecture to shape communities. Working with his father, an architect who had studied with Mies van der Roe (and whose father was also an architect), one of Steinberg's first projects was to draft and redraft a parking garage in downtown Silicon Valley, CA. As he mediated between the two architects in charge of the project--his father and the city architect--he noticed that with each evolution, the garage became more beautiful and refined. And with each improvement, this garage became more able to succeed in the goal of reviving the dying downtown core of Silicon Valley. The garage was a huge success, and Steinberg began to codify what he had learned. Thanks to the garage, he wrote the first of what would become the 9 Realities of Architecture: Architecture is the Pursuit of Perfection--a magnificent take-away from a humble parking garage project. As Steinberg eventually rose to become CEO of his firm and grew it into a global practice with six regional offices including Austin and New York, and a major office in Shanghai, he used his drive for creating thriving communities to eventually touch the lives of countless people around the world. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Shaped Places of Carroll County New Hampshire takes a polemic conversation around architectural influence and environments to evaluate how these two factors create our most inspired work in the modern day.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - GEO-Earth-is a word that simultaneously signifies something vast and elemental. It refers to both the planet on which we live and the soil that sustains us. GEO is the physical and representational bedrock of landscape architecture-the foundation of many disciplines from which we draw our knowledge. Geography, Geology, and Geometry, in particular, are fundamental to our discipline's intellectual core. And now, we seem ever more entangled in GEO as some scholars across the sciences and humanities argue that humans should be recognized as agents of change at geologic time scales. . Guest editors Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys explore site surveying and sensing technologies as part of an expanded toolkit for landscape architects to bring environmental patterns down to earth and into view. . Designer Robert Gerard Pietrusko reveals the covert militaristic agendas of early aerial land cover interpretation. Geographer Matthew W. Wilson revisits the rise of critical cartography within geography in the 1980s and '90s. Media scholar Lisa Parks describes the politics of vertical mediation by recounting the importance of activists' use of drone-captured video to document both the protests against the construction of an oil pipeline through tribal lands, as well as the aggressive countermeasures taken by law enforcement to squelch the protests. . Jeffrey S. Nesbit and David Salomon, rocket launch pads provide a vehicle to unpack the relationship between terrestrial and extraterrestrial territories. Geographers Douglas Robb and Karen Bakker caution against the voyeuristic tendencies enabled by the satellite gaze. Through illustrated 'Geostories,' Rania Ghosn imaginatively engages the 'global commons' of outer space and oceans. Designer Matthew Ransom examines the tension between grassroots organizations and fracking industries in Pennsylvania. Author and activist Lucy R. Lippard takes us on an aerial journey across the United States. Historian and geographer B.W. Higman traces our modern predilections towards flatness. Through a remaking of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's Mont Blanc studies, landscape architect Aisling O'Carroll exposes the imposition of geometric rationalization on nature. . Noah Heringman revisits the sublime in 18th-century landscape design, offering parallels to today's Anthropocene discourses about environmental depletion. Shannon Mattern examines how rocks are collected, examined, and displayed as objects of spectacular brilliance - objects that ultimately reflect back on us by illuminating the histories of oppression embedded in their extraction. LA+ GEO also includes interviews with the celebrated author of After the Map, William Rankin, author and citizen-sensing visionary Jennifer Gabrys, and New Zealand-based media artist and author Janine Randerson.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Almost everything that landscape architects design is ultimately for a community. Community can be the boon or bane of a project, and oftentimes both. LA+ COMMUNITY aims to explore how, over time, each of us moves in and out of multiple communities, shaping them as they shape us, and in turn shaping our landscapes and cities. We ask how different disciplines construct different ideas of community and how those communities are anchored in space and time, whose interests they serve, and what traces they leave. And we examine how--in this pluralistic, fragmented, and fluid world--designers can meaningfully engage with communities.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Issue 14 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ CREATURE international design ideas competition, which explored how we can use design to achieve a more symbiotic existence with other creatures. The competition brief asked entrants to choose a nonhuman client and design something--a place, a structure, a product, a process, a system--to improve its life and increase human-nonhuman empathy. As well as showcasing the award-winning designs and a comprehensive Salon des Refusés, LA+ CREATURE features an essay by Lori Gruen (author of Critical Terms for Animal Studies) and interviews with jurors Timothy Morton, Kate Orff, Jennifer Wolch, Andrew Grant, Chris Reed, and Farre Nixon.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 20x14, Reflections on Studying Architecture Abroad: twenty suggestions (or paternal exhortations, if you will) for the fourteen weeks of a regular academic semester. Twenty reflections (written during the 2020 lockdown in Firenze) that I have drawn from twenty years of teaching architecture students abroad. As an outreach from one person under lockdown to another, this book will help enrich the experience in architecture for those who cannot observe them in actual proximity, for the time being.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - .This series of biographies is for young adult readers interested in the history of photography, particularly the lives and works of women photographers.Photographers range from pioneers of the mid to late-nineteenth century to present.An immersive perspective on the impact of women photographers whose various works remain an influence on modern art culture and more.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - . The book includes three essays from the authors to elaborate the essential ideas of rethinking architectural design and pedagogy in association with digital technology. It also includes detailed materials of the studio teaching process and presents the design results as the proof of the concept. The potential readers of this book are instructors and students who are interested in digital design and robotic fabrication in architecture.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - What Kind of Architect Are You offers a glimpse into a vast array of professional possibilities and points out meaningful alternatives to the prevailing myth of the 'starchitect'. It provides those in search of an architect with insights into how we work and helps them to formulate expectations.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In this book, we review a set of Plan:b projects in Colombia through the environmental, social, and voluntary constraints we faced, and the interim agreements we built around them. We carry out a reconstruction of the central facts behind these buildings through an 'inverse' exercise-explaining each project based on contextual constraints and not on singular architectural ideas. We review the work of other authors and the way they understand limitations and difficulties that are part of their creative activity and attempt to generate a broad reflective base to approach our architectural projects and the predominant role that restrictions have played in them.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This is the dumbest smart book on contemporary architecture. What really is this 'technology' that we speak of How do we define 'intelligence' These are just two of the questions that this book attempts to answer through the unconventional (and seemingly ironic) lens of 'dumbness.' Historical examples in science, art, and architecture ground 'dumbness' as a means to convey a trajectory to practice 'smarter.' Instead of a singular authoritative vision, over fifty contributors answer the question, 'What is the dumbest, but smartest thing you've done ' These unique responses provide a vivid lens into the culture of contemporary architecture and the rigor behind it.With contributions by:- Jonah Ross-Marrs- Carl Lostritto- Ju¿rgen Mayer H.- Robert Silance- Ted Krueger- Joseph Choma- Mark West- M. Wesam Al Asali- Coy Howard- Catie Newell- Siobhan Rockcastle- Joyce Hwang- Fabio Gramazio- Brandon Clifford- Michael Ramage- Julia Watson- Philippe Rahm- Rahul Mehrotra- Curtis Roth- Stefan Behnisch- Winy Maas- Marc Manack- Herb Greene- Jae Kyung Kim- Nader Tehrani- Ben van Berkel- Patrick Harrop- Patrik Schumacher- Mark Foster Gage- Gilles Retsin- Masoud Akbarzadeh- Cecil Balmond- Chris Williams- Joseph Tanney- David Riebe- Allison Dring- Bruce Danziger- Hitoshi Abe- Marlon Blackwell- Sean Godsell- Brian MacKay-Lyons- Roberto de Leon- Ross Primmer- Michael Boucher- William O'Brien Jr.- Michelle Chang- Hilary Sample- Michael Meredith- Caroline O'Donnell- Anthony Ames- Jeannette Kuo- Kivi Sotamaa- Dominique Jakob- Brendan MacFarlane- Steven Holl- Dimitra Tsachrelia- Florian Idenburg- Jing Liu. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Drawing on the history of architecture, media theory, cultural anthropology, and urban studies, Best Practices pairs photographic documentation with extensive captions and citations to define a territory within the margins between the sanctioned and unsanctioned, the regulated and unregulated, the tasteful and tacky, the novel and the nonsense. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - .The book makes an important contribution to the understanding of architectural education in the US and its historical cross-fertilization with German educational concepts at large, with research outcomes responding directly to current and future educational and societal challenges. .A great study on how Bauhaus shaped more than just design and architecture around the world. This book examines the post-Bauhaus influence on German-born educators today and how the Bauhaus model has evolved over the last fifty years. .Influenced and crafted by over thirty German-born professors of architecture active in shaping architectural and design educationin the US.The book features conversations with selected educators, and explores how the Bauhaus legacy of Gropius and Mies van der Rohe is still relevant for their educational strategies and design teaching today.…