books by Actar     books:       Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and Society in the Information Age3 reviews Eduard Bru, Jose Alfonso Ballesteros, ... Actar, 2003 excellent conceptual development As an architecture student, I have found this book to be a valuable resource in terms of idea generation and development of design concepts. My professor, who practices architecture and makes use of the book on a professional level, recommended it to my classmates and I - I have used it ever since. Not only does it link terms with architectural concepts developed by well known and celebrated ...             The Function of Ornament6 reviews Actar, 2006 Function of Ornament THis book is very helpful for a studio that focus' on facade elements and how to express identity. Has lots of precedent studies and is full of inspiration for designing your own facade systems. It is mostly line drawings with some text where needed. I think it is a very well put together book and I definitely recommend it to any architecture student who is studying facade systems.             Office for Metropolitan Architecture: Seattle Public Library1 review Actar, 2004 Fantastic Fantastic book on one of the worlds leading comtemporary buildings. All Architectural offices should follow the lead of OMA in publishing literature on all significant contemporary architecture so the public can get an understanding about why their public buildings are the way they are.             From Control to Design: Parametric/Algorithmic Architecture Actar, 2008 Along with the new architectural freedoms offered by contemporary technologies come new questions. increasing importance has been given to the role of parametric design, a process based not on fixed metric quantities but on consistent relationships between objects, allowing changes in a single element to propagate corresponding changes throughout the system. In parallel, recent developments in algorithmic design processes have opened the way to ...             Mvrdv: Km3: Excursions on Capacity2 reviews MVRDV mvrdv Actar, 2006 KM3 is 2Heavy "Three-dimensionality can be seen as architecture's fundamental existence, the profession's acclaimed domain. In times of globalizations and scale enlargement, an update of this definition seems needed: meters turn into kilometers, M3 becomes KM3." KM3 is the newest tome brought to us by the group at MVRDV. Similar to FARMAX and its explorations of densities, this publication is loaded ...             Mutations9 reviews Stefano Boeri, Harvard Project on the City, ... Actar, 2001 Outstanding This book is to be considered a piece of historical evidence of the tendencies of thought of the new era. Whether you may find the concepts proposed not suitable, every prospective or practicing architect, designer or urban planner must be aware of the latest tendencies of thought in order to be the best-educated he/she can be. The Pearl River Delta investigation is impecable. For the ...             Phylogenesis foa's ark: foreign office architects2 reviews Bernard Cache, Manuel De Landa, ... Actar, 2004 Encyclopedia of FOA Very good book with an interesting structure/classification system for their projects. Projects are well described in text and graphics, and the essays that are inserted between 'sections' add an interesting perspective towards architecture and artistic/cultural theory in contemporary practice from several authors viewpoints, not just the firms. This is FOA's S,M,L,XL (with less bulk) with all ...             Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture1 review Sanford Kwinter Actar, 2008 Far from Equilibrium offers a compelling and engaging set of brilliant, but mildly egotistic explications of technology's place With a refreshing sense of urgency and vigor, Kwinter launches a series of polemical expositions against the cold and sterilizing tenets of a dehumanized establishment. With a radical subversiveness befitting the guerilla orators of some underground movement, the book decries a slew of outdated practices and fallacious world-views from neoconservative fundamentalism to empty formalism. It ...             Mad Dinner: A Monograph on the Beijing-Based MAD Office Ma Yansong Actar, 2008 MAD DINNER is the first book by MAD office, Beijing-based architectural office. Organized around the metaphor of dinner table conversation, the book is a collection of ideas and opinions about topics ranging from politics to ecology to fame to the future. The dinner's guests include people from all levels of Chinese society: a government official, hairdresser, migrant laborers, a doctor, a taxi driver, and a developer are all brought together to ...             Verb Natures: Architectural Boogazine (Actar's Boogazine) (Actar's Boogazine) (Actar's Boogazine)1 review Actar, 2007 Some interesting approaches to the 'organic' in architecture Fifth in the Actar 'boogazine' series, Verb Natures is a search for the natural or the organic in architecture. The selected works are as varied as the approaches or design methodologies demonstrated. Certain projects strive for that 'simple' complexity that is often found in genuine natural conditions. Manuel Gausa's 'Land-Arch' project, for instance, explores the ease in which natural systems ...             Blue Monday: Stories of Absurd Realities and Natural Philosophies Robert Sumrell, Kazys Varnelis Actar, 2007 Blue Monday features three moments in modern culture that offer glimpses into our increasingly perverse relationship to architecture, cities, and objects through a lively mix of philosophy, photography, architectural drawings and models, as well as new media. The first section, Ether, explores a Los Angeles telecom hotel, One Wilshire, a 39 story building of utter banality and complete mystery. The second, the Stimulus Progression, looks at the ...             Fotografia Publica: Photography in Print 192 reviews Horacio Fernandez Actar, 2000 A PRECEDENT SETTING COLLECTION Fotografia Publica set's a precedent and standard in its unparalleled collection of layout/graphic design culled from turn of the century print media. No serious visual communication, new media or art student should be without it! This book takes you into the "modern past" as you will see...what is contemporary is actually rather old. If you want an education in layout design BUY THIS BOOK!             Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz Ben Van Berkel, Caroline Bos Actar, 2006 Complete overview of the design and construction process of the Mercedes-Benz Museum, project by UN Studio. More than the document of a remarkable project: Buy Me A Mercedes-Benz shows how various forms of expert knowledge have been combined and interwoven to finally generate an unconventional, breakthrough museum design. Providing insight into the various ideas, experiences and ambitions behind the project, this book allows visitors to take the ...             Self-Sufficient Housing: 1st Advanced Architecture Contest1 review Lucas Capelli, Vicente Guallart Actar, 2006 Nicely executed This hand-sized publication chronicles the results of the 1st Advanced Architecture Contest sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). With the goal of stimulating social, technical and cultural progress, the international competition's intention was to be a precursor to more extensive research to be performed at the IAAC on the theme of the Self-Sufficient House. ...             Verb Crisis (Verb)1 review Actar, 2008 An excellent testimony to experimentation with a purpose The latest in the avant-garde Verb series, Verb Crisis explores potential architectural solutions to the problems of an increasingly dense and interdependent world. Offering a diverse assortment of projects and investigations complemented with full color photography, essays, and exclusive interviews with experts in architecture, urban planning, and environmental, economic, or global affairs, Verb ...              search for books advanced, algorithmic, architects, architectural, architecture, beijing-based, boogazine, capacity, dictionary, equilibrium, excursions, fotografia, function, information, mercedes, mercedes-benz, metapolis, metropolitan, monograph, mutations, ornament, parametric, philosophies, photography, phylogenesis, realities, self-sufficient, stories, sufficient, technology books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen gourmet food: Shrimp Scampi Sauce leave a comment home  impressum - about us