Actar D Jun 2026 (5 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book puts the forest first and offers a detailed immersion into forest history, forest stand dynamics, forest ecology, forest-building carbon dynamics, and possible future forest trajectories as the pretext for thinking about timber building technics.?The specificity of regional forests suggests much about the prospect of non-extractive building design: building that tends and mends its terrestrial basis rather than takes, makes, and breaks it. How might we design and build in a non-extractive manner To address that evolutionary question this book considers the recursive relationship between forests and timber building. It puts the forest first and offers a detailed immersion into forest history, forest stand dynamics, forest ecology, forest-building carbon dynamics, and possible future forest trajectories as the pretext for thinking about timber building technics. The specificity of regional forests suggests much about the prospect of non-extractive building design: building that tends and mends its terrestrial basis rather than takes, makes, and breaks it. Building activity can augment and improve forest conditions as an instance of regenerative design and as a path towards reconciliation, but only if conceived, valued, and practiced in ways distinct from normative design and construction practices.The future should no longer be a colony of present design practices that treat building as an art and science of extraction. By putting the forest first its conception of timber building technics, this book develops a more regenerative approach to the terrestrial relations of forest-building.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A transdisciplinary journey from Virginia Tech to the Venice Biennale,this book showcases collaborative, student-led projects from the VirginiaTech Honors College addressing real-world challenges across time, sectors,and scales.UnEarthed: Scaling Transdisciplinary from Blacksburg to the Biennale is agroundbreaking chronicle highlighting Virginia Tech's commitment totransdisciplinary education while providing students international exposureand a platform for critical global conversations. It documents the processand content of the 2025 Biennale Architettura exhibit unEarthed /Second Nature / PolliNATION presented by the VT Honors College incollaboration with Cloud 9 and Joba Studio. The volume features projectsfrom VT Honors students, Cloud 9, and collaborators representing diverseviewpoints and values aligned with the event's collective intelligence theme.This book arrives at a crucial moment to discuss the permeability betweensectors and scales and the need to work across time, regions, and valuesto reestablish balance between humans and nature. Through transdisciplinaryeducation and design, it seeks to build a foundation for ecological andcultural preservation by unEarthing solutions to the planet's mostcritical challenges.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The work of Serero, through investigations of patterns found in nature, does not envision architecture to create new spaces, but rather as a strategy to unfold together patterns of cultural, social and spatial origins.Architecture, as a living organism, establishes a relationship between beings and their environment, where the notions of energy, breathing and light are the vectors for the conception of spaces. Serero's work rethinks architecture and shifts away its permanent condition towards a transient and ephemeral one, with greater spatial versatility and multiplying the potential usage to propose an open architecture.Data. Energy. Matter reveals three profound transformations of recent architecture: the digital revolution and its impact on creative work in all conceptual aspects, the emergence of an internet of energy that buildings will contribute to create to share energy, and the profusion of new usage of private and public spaces, both collaborative and connected, creating an interstitial experience of spaces between the physical and the virtual. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A visual journey through Denise Scott Brown's 1955 honeymoon in Illyria, a region of the Balkans between Albania and the former Yugoslavia, with her first husband, Robert Scott Brown.Through 50 photographs, she captures a land in transitionits people, landscapes, and architectureaccompanied by her poetic and reflective writings. Before arriving in the USA and beginning her most famous American period, Denise shared her experiences, her travels and her education with the architect Robert Scott Brown, who she married in London and whose surname she kept after her second marriage to Robert Venturi.Following the proposal from her "first Bob" to spend two weeks in Paris to celebrate their honeymoon, Denise suggested spending five weeks travelling in Illyria, a region of the Balkans between Albania and the former Yugoslavia, where the young architect-photographer shows us, through the lens of her camera, a country in transition. She portrays aspects of rural and urban life, through places, people, animals, landscapes, streets and architecture that take us on a unique and transcendental journey, her Illyrian Honeymoon.While we were developing the photographic sequencing and graphic design, we received a letter from Denise Scott Brown, in which, in addition to a few comments and recommendations regarding the book, she suggested that we include a text written by her, to accompany the selection of images. A poetic, reflective and highly personal text, but also polemical and transgressive, which we have incorporated as fragments interspersed throughout the book. The text, which can be read independently or as a complement to the images - which also have their own visual narrative structure - is full of reflections on places she visited and memories of her "first Bob", who died a few years later, in 1959, in a tragic car accident in Philadelphia, and to whom Denise has dedicated the book.Bilingual edition in English & Spanish. …

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Massimiliano Fuksas always says that he would like to be able to design an architecture without time and space; he has certainly been searching for it for fifty years.This book presents a rich collection of ideas, concepts, and intentions, stripped of any context, scale, or other details that might limit their expression. From this, we can conclude that the author has indeed succeeded. This collection features architectures that are detached from both time and space, creating a transcendent realm where his deepest concerns and sensitivities reside. He says that his projects always begin with drawing and painting, which have been his passions since childhood. When tackling a new project, he observes nature for inspiration. He continues to paint for material, differentiating it from "drawing architecture." Even when he lectures students at university, he instinctively starts painting. He prefers not to delegate the creative phase, as he wants to control the entire process to express his vision. Initially, he worked only with his signs, later adding model creation, starting with a parallelepiped and exploring its form by creating voids and studying the resulting relationships. …