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Over connectiviteit : a2o-architecten
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ISBN: 9789490693688 Year: 2013 Publisher: Gent MER. Paper Kunsthalle


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Sustainable design II : vers une nouvelle éthique pour l'architecture et la ville
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ISBN: 9782330000523 9782072543371 2330000529 2072543371 9782072659751 Year: 2011 Publisher: Arles Actes Sud

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L'architecte a un rôle majeur à jouer dans la résolution des crises écologiques et sociales qui pèsent sur ce début de siècle. Les fondamentaux de l'architecture - depuis la nature même des matériaux utilisés jusqu'à la structure et la fonctionnalité des bâtiments - doivent être radicalement repensés. L'architecture de l'avenir s'organise autour du concept de "soutenabilité" (sustainability), mettant en avant à la fois l'impératif de durabilité des projets dans le temps, et celui d'acceptabilité sociale et environnementale.


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The Wasted City : Approaches to Circular City Making
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ISBN: 9789492095312 9492095319 Year: 2017 Publisher: Haarlem Trancity*valiz

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The Wasted City—Approaches to Circular City Making turns our thinking about our urban habits around, asking how we can approach systemic circularity and integrate waste in our daily systems. Looking at the city as an ecosystem, urban planning, design and architecture practices adapt the built environment in which people and materials interact within a complex system. This book explores how different approaches to circularity connect and what is needed to make circular urban development the new sustainable standard. It is designed as a toolkit to kick-start new dialogue and action around circular city making. It can be used to inform, advance, integrate and establish support for circular approaches. The conclusion provides a series of statements that help citizens, designers, architects, city makers, politicians and academics ignite and instill circularity as the undeniable common denominator for systemic change.


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Coupling : strategies for infrastructural opportunism
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ISBN: 9781568989853 1568989857 Year: 2011 Volume: 30 Publisher: New York Princeton Architectural Press

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Mason White, Lola Sheppard, Neeraj Bhatia, and Maya Przybylski collaborate as a nonprofit research collective, called InfraNet Lab / Lateral Office, whose purpose is to probe the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics. Coupling locates new, small-scale potentials for infrastructure in unexpected places and illustrates a collection of projects with strong graphics, design, and thematic organization. The twentieth century witnessed both an infrastructure boom and bust. It is the twenty-first century that will need to project not only how to address crumbling and insufficient infrastructure, but also how to position new infrastructures that confront urgent issues of climate change, sustenance inequality, and our increasingly urbanized world. Twenty-firstcentury infrastructure should create a new public realm, enrich political policy, and embed productive processes. Coupling strategizes new formats for the physical infrastructure required. Coupling argues, through a body of design and research proposals, that infrastructures behave as artificially maintained natural systems. Future models of infrastructure lie in bundling processes with spatial experiences. The intention is to counter the usual deployment of infrastructures as hard systems, instead seeking the performance of soft, multivalent systems. Rather than a New Deal approach of massive engineering or iconic infrastructure, Coupling employs adaptable, responsive, small-scale interventions whose impacts are global in scale. Easily upgraded, this vision for infrastructure creates new sites for production, recreation, and civic life. The ambition is to supplement human and natural ecologies at risk rather than overhaul them. Shifting away from monofunctional infrastructure, the proposed visions meld existing landscapes with emergent infrastructures in order to catalyze new ecologies, economies, and most significantly, a new social infrastructure.


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Critical care : architecture and urbanism for a broken planet
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ISBN: 9780262536837 0262536838 9780262352871 0262352877 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press,

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How architecture and urbanism can help to care for and repair a broken planet: essays and illustrated case studies. Today, architecture and urbanism are capital-centric, speculation-driven, and investment-dominated. Many cannot afford housing. Austerity measures have taken a disastrous toll on public infrastructures. The climate crisis has rendered the planet vulnerable, even uninhabitable. This book offers an alternative vision in architecture and urbanism that focuses on caring for a broken planet. Rooted in a radical care perspective that always starts from the given, in the midst of things, this edited collection of essays and illustrated case studies documents ideas and practices from an extraordinarily diverse group of contributors. Focusing on the three crisis areas of economy, ecology, and labor, the book describes projects including village reconstruction in China; irrigation in Spain; community land trust in Puerto Rico; revitalization of modernist public housing in France; new alliances in informal settlements in Nairobi; and the redevelopment of traditional building methods in flood areas in Pakistan. Essays consider such topics as ethical architecture, land policy, creative ecologies, diverse economies, caring communities, and the exploitation of labor. Taken together, these case studies and essays provide evidence that architecture and urbanism have the capacity to make the planet livable, again.


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Merging city and nature : 30 commitments to combat climate change
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ISBN: 9781638400097 1638400091 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York Actar Publishers

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Batlleiroig Arquitectura, a Barcelona-based practice set up in 1981 by Enric Batlle and Joan Roig, talk about city and nature. Throughout its history, this discourse has materialized in a firm commitment to the envi- ronment, where nature is always the answer. With a holistic approach that seeks to link the definition of the urban to the logics of the landscape, a visionary commitment to inno- vation, and a stable, diverse team invested in ongoing training, Batlleiroig propose 30 commitments that are and will continue to be the backbone of this discourse as trans- forming agents of the city and the territory. With the motto “Merging City and Nature”, Batlleiroig propose and illustrate by means of projects developed in the three disciplines in which the practice works – landscaping, architecture and urban planning – solutions that seek the well-being and health of people, promote actions to combat climate emer- gency and are linked to the future develop- ment of cities. The book includes three conversations between Joan Busquets and Enric Batlle, Clara Olariz and Joan Batlle, and Marta Thorne and Joan Roig.


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Architecture and sustainability : critical perspectives for integrated design : generating sustainability concepts from architectural perspectives.
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ISBN: 9789462920880 9462920885 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leuven Acco

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Architecture in its classical meaning is understood as a meaningful integration of the use (utilitas), stability (firmitas) and aesthetic beauty (venustas) through design for (re)making and (re)shaping of buildings, urban spaces and the built environment. Sustainability understood as a development paradigm aspires an integrative attitude towards the social, the economic and the environmental concerns to unfold development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." While fully acknowledging the diversity of perspectives in both domains, this book focuses upon the integrative potential of architecture and highlights the ways in which it can contribute to the further development of the sustainability paradigm.With ‘architecture and sustainability’ in the title, and not ‘sustainable architecture’, the importance of the dialectics between the two is acknowledged as a more productive approach: What is the value of sustainability for architecture, and vice versa? In what ways the emergence of sustainability paradigm has influenced architecture? What are the architectural perspectives on sustainability? While taking stock of these dialectics as a broader framework for advancing integrated design, the book is centered on one particular question: How to generate sustainability concepts from architectural perspectives? The book makes the case for sustainability as an integrative framework with design as the most appropriate (synthesis) field for exploring and dealing with this integrative endeavor. For such exploration, sustainable design should begin with change of ‘attitude’, followed by ‘rethinking’ of existing paradigms and the development of new strategies. This implies using issues of sustainability, ecology and energy as catalyst for creatively ‘rethinking’ conventional notions of ‘enclosure’, ‘tectonics’ and ‘program’, and thereby, generate new or alternative conceptions and expressions of sustainability. The book presents, and takes stock of, recent developments in research, theory and practice of architecture that demonstrate such rethinking. Forty-four contributions by over a hundred authors (researchers, practitioners and academics) from around the world are assembled in this book as chapters. They offer critical perspectives on architecture and sustainability relationships, and in the process, unfold integrative pathways for addressing the issues and challenges of the ecological age.


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Habitat : ecology thinking in architecture
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ISBN: 9789462085565 9462085560 9789462085664 Year: 2020 Publisher: Rotterdam Nai010 uitgevers

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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 and relational. By demonstrating the continuities, disruptions and transformations at stake, the book will deepen the ongoing conversations, while suggesting directions for future research. Based on selections from the archival resources of the national collection of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, and with additional materials from international archives, the book presents a lavish documentation of design proposals and research projects that map key positions since the 1950s, when the idea of 'habitat' was first investigated to reconceptualize architecture and its larger purpose, especially in the circles of the CIAM and Team 10.

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