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| Author | : Stella Papanicolaou |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2019-06 |
| Genre | : Architecture, Modern |
| ISBN | : 9781864708257 |
The transformation and reuse of old buildings is by no means only a kind of renovation in the simple sense, but it's about adjusting a certain site to accommodate new functions. The key is to find the proper use for the building's architectural heritage. This book provides an in-depth analysis of a selection of thirty building types: looking closely at the property's background, the transformation of the motivation, the transformation strategy, as well as the problems encountered in the transformation. The pages within are filled with practical insights, including information on the latest features of contemporary renovations and adaptations of older buildings (some up to 300 years old), including some previous designs by revered practitioners, such as Antoni Gaudí and Zaha Hadid. Internationally renowned architects discuss in detail about key problems they've encountered when renovating an old building or conducting an urban renewal project, and provide readers with helpful outlines of a range of projects, what to look out for, and useful, practical approaches in each scenario. AUTHORS: Michael Louw is the director of CMAI Architects and senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town's School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics. His research interests include architectural history and temporality, technology, craft, and design-build practices. Michael co-convenes a design-research studio in the Architectural Master's and Honors programs called Adapt, which focuses on adaptive reuse. Stella Papanicolaou is senior lecturer of the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town. She teaches History and Theory of Architecture to undergraduate students and co-convenes the Adapt! Design Research Studio in the BAS Honours and MArch (Prof) programmes with Michael Louw. SELLING POINTS: * A comprehesive toolkit for architectural transformation grounded in practical examples * Practical insights into the latest features of contemporary renovations and adaptations of older buildings * Rich technical drawings to show internationally renowned architects' experiences 400 colour, 100 b/w images
| Author | : Dan Barasch |
| Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019-04-17 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780714878027 |
Lost, forgotten, reimagined, and transformed: the compelling beauty of abandoned, reinvented, and rescued architecture This book captures the awe-inspiring drama of abandoned, forgotten, and ruined spaces, as well as the extraordinary designs that can bring them back to life – demonstrating that reimagined, repurposed, and abandoned architecture has the beauty and power to change lives, communities, and cities the world over. The scale and diversity of abandoned buildings is shown through examples from all around the world, demonstrating the extraordinary ingenuity of their transformation by some of the greatest architectural designers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
| Author | : Arlo Voss |
| Publisher | : eBookIt.com |
| Total Pages | : 105 |
| Release | : 2024-11-08 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1456657844 |
Discover How Today's Innovations Will Shape Tomorrow's World In an era where technology's rapid evolution is reshaping every facet of human existence, a compelling journey awaits those who seek to understand the forces at play. The Future We're Building: How Today's Innovations Will Shape Tomorrow's World invites readers to explore a mosaic of breakthroughs that are set to redefine the human experience. Step into the future with Chapter 1, where the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence is poised to tackle modern challenges and revamp the societal landscape. As you dive deeper, uncover how renewable energy innovations are overcoming the globe's most pressing energy conundrums in Chapter 2, while biotechnology heralds a new era of genetic and healthcare advancements in Chapter 3. Venture beyond Earth in Chapter 4, where space exploration unveils its secrets, promising benefits that extend back to our home planet. Feel the urgency as technological solutions rally against climate change in Chapter 5, emphasizing the crucial role of collaborative innovation. Learn how transportation is on the brink of a cleaner, smarter transformation in Chapter 6, and embrace the concept of smart cities in Chapter 7. Explore the potential of tech-driven agricultural innovations in Chapter 8 and the transformative impact of digital learning solutions in Chapter 9. Discover the future of personalized medicine and global health improvements in Chapter 10, while Chapter 11 delves into how technology can foster an equitable society for all. Lastly, Chapter 12 navigates the ethical complexities of these advances, underscoring the necessity of responsible technological development. This book is more than just a chronicle of innovation; it's a call to action for all dreamers, thinkers, and doers to engage with the future unfolding before us. Prepare to be inspired and equipped with the knowledge to shape a world that's on the horizon.
| Author | : David Judge |
| Publisher | : Policy Press |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2024-05-22 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 152922702X |
With trust in Parliament and politicians at a seriously low level, there is an increasing need to rebuild our public institutions. This innovative book questions what Parliament should be in the 21st century and how it can be reimagined. It shows how a new democratic parliamentary space can be created to better represent and engage with citizens; to furnish a safe, inclusive and fair working environment for all staff and members; and to secure greater responsiveness and accountability of government. Bringing together a vibrant group of parliamentary scholars and practitioners, it proposes an institutional world of possibilities beyond the present Westminster village, to help restore faith in democracy. .
| Author | : Richard Bower |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2016-06-10 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 131739030X |
As with so many facets of contemporary western life, architecture and space are often experienced and understood as a commodity or product. The premise of this book is to offer alternatives to the practices and values of such westernised space and Architecture (with a capital A), by exploring the participatory and grass-roots practices used in alternative development models in the Global South. This process re-contextualises the spaces, values, and relationships produced by such alternative methods of development and social agency. It asks whether such spatial practices provide concrete realisations of some key concepts of Western spatial theory, questioning whether we might challenge the space and architectures of capitalist development by learning from the places and practices of others. Exploring these themes offers a critical examination of alternative development practices methods in the Global South, re-contextualising them as architectural engagements with socio-political space. The comparison of such interdisciplinary contexts and discourses reveals the political, social, and economic resonances inherent between these previously unconnected spatial protagonists. The interdependence of spatial issues of choice, value, and identity are revealed through a comparative study of the discourses of Henri Lefebvre, John Turner, Doreen Massey, and Nabeel Hamdi. These key protagonists offer a critical framework of discourses from which further connections to socio-spatial discourses and concepts are made, including post-marxist theory, orientalism, post-structural pluralism, development anthropology, post-colonial theory, hybridity, difference and subalterneity. By looking to the spaces and practices of alternative development in the Global South this book offers a critical reflection upon the working practices of Westernised architecture and other spatial and political practices. In exploring the methodologies, implications and values of such participatory development practices this book ultimately seeks to articulate the positive potential and political of learning from the difference, multiplicity, and otherness of development practice in order to re-imagine architecture and space. .
| Author | : Tia Powell |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2020-09-01 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 0735210918 |
Now in paperback, the cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care. Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when her grandmother, and then her mother, were diagnosed with dementia--not to mention confronting the hard truth that her own odds aren't great. In the U.S., 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day; by the time a person reaches 85, their chances of having dementia approach 50 percent. And the truth is, there is no cure, and none coming soon, despite the perpetual promises by pharmaceutical companies that they are just one more expensive study away from a pill. Dr. Powell's goal is to move the conversation away from an exclusive focus on cure to a genuine appreciation of care--what we can do for those who have dementia, and how to keep life meaningful and even joyful. Reimagining Dementia is a moving combination of medicine and memoir, peeling back the untold history of dementia, from the story of Solomon Fuller, a black doctor whose research at the turn of the twentieth century anticipated important aspects of what we know about dementia today, to what has been gained and lost with the recent bonanza of funding for Alzheimer's at the expense of other forms of the disease. In demystifying dementia, Dr. Powell helps us understand it with clearer eyes, from the point of view of both physician and caregiver. Ultimately, she wants us all to know that dementia is not only about loss--it's also about the preservation of dignity and hope.
| Author | : Barbara Bradley Hagerty |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2016-03-15 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1101622970 |
A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good. There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody. In fact, midlife can be a great new adventure, when you can embrace fresh possibilities, purposes, and pleasures. In Life Reimagined, Hagerty explains that midlife is about renewal: It’s the time to renegotiate your purpose, refocus your relationships, and transform the way you think about the world and yourself. Drawing from emerging information in neurology, psychology, biology, genetics, and sociology—as well as her own story of midlife transformation—Hagerty redraws the map for people in midlife and plots a new course forward in understanding our health, our relationships, even our futures.
| Author | : Jay Pridmore |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2013-07-22 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 022610737X |
Many books have been written about the University of Chicago over its 120-year history, but most of them focus on the intellectual environment, favoring its great thinkers and their many breakthroughs. Yet for the students and scholars who live and work here, the physical university—its stately buildings and beautiful grounds—forms an important part of its character. Building Ideas: An Architectural Guide to the University of Chicago explores the environment that has supported more than a century of exceptional thinkers. This photographic guide traces the evolution of campus architecture from the university’s founding in 1890 to its plans for the twenty-first century. When William Rainey Harper, the university’s first president, and the trustees decided to build a set of Gothic quadrangles, they created a visual link to European precursors and made a bold statement about the future of higher education in the United States. Since then the university has regularly commissioned forward-thinking architects to design buildings that expand—or explode—traditional ideals while redefining the contemporary campus. Full of panoramic photographs and exquisite details, Building Ideas features the work of architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Ives Cobb, Holabird & Roche, Eero Saarinen, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Netsch, Ricardo Legorreta, Rafael Viñoly, César Pelli, Helmut Jahn, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The guide also includes guest commentaries by prominent architects and other notable public figures. It is the perfect collection for Chicago alumni and students, Hyde Park residents and visitors, and anyone inspired by the institutional ideas and aspirations of architecture.
| Author | : Ronald Rael |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2017-04-04 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0520283945 |
Borderwall as public space / Teddy Cruz -- Ronald Rael -- Pilgrims at the wall / Marcello Di Cintio -- Borderwall as architecture / Ronald rael -- Transborderisms / Norma Iglesias-Prieto -- Recuerdos / Ronald Rael -- Why walls don't work / Michael Dear -- Afterwards / Ronald Rael
| Author | : Catherine Heatherington |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2017-12-06 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1315393166 |
The discourse around derelict, former industrial and military sites has grown in recent years. This interest is not only theoretical, and landscape professionals are taking new approaches to the design and development of these sites. This book examines the varied ways in which the histories and qualities of these derelict sites are reimagined in the transformed landscape and considers how such approaches can reveal the dramatic changes that have been wrought on these places over a relatively short time scale. It discusses these issues with reference to eleven sites from the UK, Germany, the USA, Australia and China, focusing specifically on how designers incorporate evidence of landscape change, both cultural and natural. There has been little research into how these developed landscapes are perceived by visitors and local residents. This book examines how the tangible material traces of pastness are interpreted by the visitor and the impact of the intangible elements - hidden traces, experiences and memories. The book draws together theory in the field and implications for practice in landscape architecture and concludes with an examination of how different approaches to revealing and reimagining change can affect the future management of the site.
