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architectuur 20e eeuw --- architectuurtheorie --- 72 --- architectuur algemeen, architectuurtheorie, wonen --- Architecture, Modern --- City planning.

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Fit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design. Distinguished architect and urbanist Robert Geddes argues that buildings, landscapes, and cities should be designed to fit: fit the purpose, fit the place, fit future possibilities. Fit replaces old paradigms, such as form follows function, and less is more, by recognizing that the relationship between architecture and society is a true dialogue--dynamic, complex, and, if carried out with knowledge and skill, richly rewarding. With a tip of the hat to John Dewey, Fit explores architecture as we experience it. Geddes starts with questions: Why do we design where we live and work? Why do we not just live in nature, or in chaos? Why does society care about architecture? Why does it really matter? Fit answers these questions through a fresh examination of the basic purposes and elements of architecture--beginning in nature, combining function and expression, and leaving a legacy of form. Lively, charming, and gently persuasive, the book shows brilliant examples of fit: from Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia and Louis Kahn's Exeter Library to contemporary triumphs such as the Apple Store on New York's Fifth Avenue, Chicago's Millennium Park, and Seattle's Pike Place. Fit is a book for everyone, because we all live in constructions--buildings, landscapes, and, increasingly, cities. It provokes architects and planners, humanists and scientists, civic leaders and citizens to reconsider what is at stake in architecture--and why it delights us.

Architecture --- Philosophy. --- 72.01 --- Geddes, Robert --- Philosophy --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architectuurtheorie

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Even though Vitruvius includes mobile war machines, clocks, waterworks and other moving constructions in his treatises as well as buildings, architecture has traditionally been understood as an art of space, not of time, and indeed as the very image of stability. Yet the possibility of incorporating change and motion in architecture has fascinated architects since the beginning of the modern movement, if not earlier, and reflects and age-old longing to find an architectural expression in step with the most advanced developments of the times. This book analyses the ways that contemporary Dutch architects have thematized the issue of movement in their buildings and projects. The examples, drawn from the work of OMA / Rem Koolhaas, NOX Architects, Kas Oosterhuis, UN Studio, NL Architects, Bentham Crouwel, Meyer & Van Schooten, Herman Hertzberger and others, illustrate a range of approaches from metaphorical translations of motion into aerodynamic forms to the dynamization of both the design process and its results through time-based CAAD techniques and new geometries. With a theoretical framework defined by the writings of Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze and orignal observations, Kari Jormakka charts the couse for a general theory of motion in architecture and sheds important light on the current state and future prospects of architectural design.

Architecture --- Innovations --- Philosophie --- architectuur 20e eeuw --- architectuur --- Nederland --- architectuurtheorie --- bewegen --- 72.038 --- 72 --- architectuur algemeen, architectuurtheorie, wonen --- Innovations. --- Philosophie.

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This book reviews Dante Bini’s inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction systems. Dante Bini’s double profile of architect and builder underpins the narrative of the entire book. It is used to analyse the evolution of the early reinforced-concrete Binishell patent into a variety of automated construction systems based on the use of air. Dante Bini has always been quite proactive in promoting his work and disseminating the results of his experimentations and achievements via journal articles, conference presentations and public talks; promotional brochures in multiple languages were also prepared to export and license his patents in various countries, from Italy to the Americas and Australia. Despite this, a rigorous study of Dante Bini’s work is still unavailable, and the relevance of this figure to contemporary architecture has yet to be discussed comprehensively. This book fills in this gap and arrives at the right time: during the last two decades, there has been an exponential interest in shell and spatial structures, particularly concerning the use of complex geometries and innovative construction techniques. This book will be of interest to academics in architectural design, theory and construction history, and practitioners and students interested in expanding their knowledge in the design and construction of shell and spatial structures.

Building design --- Building materials. Building technology --- Architecture --- architectuurtheorie --- bouwkunde --- architectuur --- History. --- Bini, Dante,

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Sociology of environment --- Architecture and state --- 72.01 --- 72 --- 72.03 --- 316 --- 3 --- 32 --- Architectuurtheorie ; sociologie ; politiek --- Architectuur en maatschappij --- architectuur --- architectuurtheorie --- architectuurgeschiedenis --- architectuur en politiek --- politiek --- Nederland --- negentiende eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- architectuurfilosofie --- State and architecture --- Architectuurtheorie. Bouwprincipes. Esthetica van de bouwkunst. Filosofie van de bouwkunst --- Architectuur --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurtheorie --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Sociologie --- Maatschappijwetenschappen --- Politiek --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- architectuur algemeen, architectuurtheorie, wonen --- Architecture and state. --- 72.01 Architectuurtheorie. Bouwprincipes. Esthetica van de bouwkunst. Filosofie van de bouwkunst --- 72.01 Theory and philosophy of architecture. Principles of design, proportion, optical effect --- Theory and philosophy of architecture. Principles of design, proportion, optical effect