Sport and Architecture

Sport and Architecture
Author: Benjamin S. Flowers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2017-05-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317756320

Sport and architecture are two elements of contemporary life that have a broad and profound impact on the world around us. The role architecture plays in shaping buildings and societies has occupied historians for centuries. Likewise, the cultural, economic, and political importance of sport is the subject of sustained academic inquiry. When sport and architecture converge, as in the 2012 London Olympics or the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, then the impact of these two forms of social activity is redoubled. This book presents a new and dynamic study of the complex relationship between sport and architecture. It explores the history of sport architecture and examines the buildings and events that create sites where sport and architecture converge in particularly telling ways. Its chapters discuss the following topics: sport architecture and urban redevelopment sport architecture and technology sport architecture and nationalism sport architecture as social activism sport architecture and global capitalism. By considering the importance of architectural form alongside these key themes, this book represents a landmark study for anybody interested in the social and cultural significance of architecture or sport.

Architecture for Sport

Architecture for Sport
Author: Peter Stürzebecher
Publisher: Academy Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2002-09-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

* Includes the work of such leading architects as Enric Miralles, Tadao Ando, David Chipperfield, and Massimiliano Fuksas. * Features projects from around the world. * Comprehensively illustrated with plans, drawings, and photographs. * This is an English language co-edition of an existing German work.

Sport Architecture. Design Construction Management of Sport Infrastructure

Sport Architecture. Design Construction Management of Sport Infrastructure
Author: Emilio Faroldi
Publisher: LetteraVentidue Edizioni
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2021-11-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 8862426224

The history of civilisations and places conveys the importance of the role the culture of sport and a cultivated management of leisure play in the definition of the identity of peoples and communities. Elevating such realms to the status of cultural assets to be shared and enhanced by analysing the dynamics of transformation of the city and territory related to them is a sensible, necessary and ethically correct action. The context of European architecture shows an increasing number of plans that both transform existing facilities and create new ones with a defining and strategic role in the development of urban and landscape fabrics. Activating a basic and permanent theoretical discussion is a fundamental and strategic action for the credibility and professional values of a sector that powerfully conveys the need to update and retrain its technical, executive and managerial personnel through a renewed cultural approach. The goal of this book is promoting awareness about the design enhancement of sport infrastructures as collective assets capable of developing identity and citizenship, through the analysis of both physical and immaterial factors and of the personnel charged with their conception, construction and management. Within contemporary architecture, the design of facilities for sport practice provides an extraordinary opportunity for the adaptation and strategic re-evaluation of the environment and its paradigmatic places. At the same time, sport infrastructures provide a crucial opportunity for architectural, design and technological experimentation – exploring their core features and enhance their potential is the main goal of this book.

Sports Architecture

Sports Architecture
Author: Rod Sheard
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2014-04-04
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136743812

This book offers a rare chance to understand how sport and architecture come together to create an outstanding building type - a symbol of our times. Rod Sheard shares the experience and expertise of HOK LOBB in this beautifully illustrated book, offering practical advice and guidance on commissioning, designing and managing sports venues around the world. The award-winning work of this firm includes the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, the Wembley National Stadium, London and the Stadium Australia in Sydney, commissioned for the Olympic Games 2000.

Sports Fields

Sports Fields
Author: Jim Puhalla
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 482
Release: 1999-08-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781575040707

A definitive how-to book for every practitoner of sports turf -- from football to baseball to soccer and everything in between. Sports Fields covers every important aspect of planning, design, construction, and turfgrass maintenance with hundreds of illustrations and step-by-step procedures to help you get the job done right -- first time, every time. No other book provides such intricate detail, combined with easy-to-understand guidance.

Stadia

Stadia
Author: Geraint John
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 075066844X

A practical guide to stadia design for designers, managers, investors and all those who have an interest in one of the most exciting and rewarding building types of today. It includes the very latest projects in a wealth of international case studies.

Taveira Sports Architecture

Taveira Sports Architecture
Author: Tomás Taveira
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2004
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

This title contains 11 projects of the architect's work in the sphere of sport. A number of the stadia have been built especially for the European Football Championships in 2004.

A Companion to Sport

A Companion to Sport
Author: David L. Andrews
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2013-06-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1118325281

A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture. Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular culture Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itself Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory, gender, violence, race, disability and politics

High-Tech Heritage

High-Tech Heritage
Author: Matthias Brenner
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 303562786X

High-tech Architecture - Preserving the Heritage of Innovative Construction The high-tech architecture of the 1970s–1990s is typically characterized by the use and exhibition of advanced technologies. In terms of appearance, these buildings often have innovative façades, supporting structures accentuated in color, and expressively displayed technology systems. Unfortunately, however, the rapid obsolescence of technology has often led to the complete replacement of the very systems that defined the architectural form. In 2023, an international conference at ETH Zurich in collaboration with Bauhaus-Universität Weimar explored the question of how best to deal with the structural legacy of technologically innovative architecture. This book summarizes the results and provides an overview of the current state of research. Current state of research on high-tech architecture and its conservation Overview of the opportunities and challenges of high-tech buildings New findings on the topic of building within existing structures Also available as a set with the congress volume Denkmal Postmoderne 978-3-0356-2783-1

Landscapes for Sport

Landscapes for Sport
Author: Sonja Dümpelmann
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2022
Genre: Landscape architecture
ISBN: 9780884024903

Landscapes for Sport explores the intersection of place, body cultures, and politics. With a focus on outdoor spaces designed and used for exercise and sports since the early modern period, this volume uncovers the relevance and meanings of the overlooked landscapes that often constitute significant areas of open space in and outside our cities.