AD Architectural design. Manmade modular megastructures
Language: English
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Londra, 2006
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cm 22x29 pag. 128 ill. c.a 200 col e b/n Architectural Design vol 76 N° 1 Gennaio/Febbraio 2006 Inglese.
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- Title
- AD Architectural design. Manmade modular megastructures
- Author
- Abley, Schwinge
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Londra
- Publication year
- 2006
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 047001623X
- ISBN 13
- 9780470016237
- Seller catalogs
- Esauriti/Antichi
Humanity has come a long way since the first modular mega-structure was built at Ur, on land that is now Iraq. There, four millennia ago, and by hand, the Sumerians built a mud-brick ziggurat to their Gods. Today, the green deities of Nature we have invented for ourselves are worshipped with humility. Eco-zealots argue against the mechanised megaforming of landscape and the modularised production of megastructures.
The guest editors, Jonathan Schwinge and Ian Abley of the London based research organisation audacity, call for development on a bold scale. They argue that by rapidly super-sizing the built environment society is not made vulnerable to natural or man-made hazards, and that design innovation surpasses bio-mimicry. Designers can learn from materials scientists working at the smallest of scales, and from systems manufacturers with ambitions at the largest. This issue calls for creative thinking about typologies and topologies, and considers what that also means for Africa, China, and Russia. Megacities everywhere demand integration of global systems of transport, utilities and IT in gigantic structures, constantly upgraded, scraping both the sky and the ground, outward into the sea.
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About the Author
Jonathan Schwinge was a scholarship student at the Architectural Association. His fourth-year diploma project ‘Airlander’ was exhibited at Imagination’s Ford Journey Zone in the Greenwich Millennium Dome. His final-year project ‘Lost-Exchange’ won the Grand Prize and Category Prize for the Bentley Systems Student Design Competition, USA 2000. Jonathan currently works at Allies and Morrison architects. Jonathan is working with Ian to turn www.audacity.org into a commercial website – a portal for architectural ideas.
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