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In Detail: Small Structures. Compact dwellings, temporary structures, room modules
Christian Schittich
 Designs and examples of small constructions with everyday and special functions. Waiting shelters, kiosks, market stalls, bus stops, call boxes, toilets, advertising columns, ticket booths, portable tents or housing units, emergency housing, tourist information – the list of small, self-contained, functional constructions has almost no end. One finds them on the nearest street corner, yet rarely awake architectural interest. Instead of gazing at the big, architectural attractions, a lot of potential for architects is hidden in the quality assurance of the everyday design of these small and sometimes positively charming necessities. Because these small constructions often stand directly in the area of conflict between architecture and product design, this addition to the in DETAIL series was created to span the gap between both professions.
Hardcover / 176 pagina's / tekst Engels / augustus 2010
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Container Atlas: A Practical Guide to Container Architecture
H. Slawik, J. Bergmann, M. Buchmeier, S. Tinneyi
 Shipping containers are modular, affordable, and virtually indestructible. More and more often they are being used to build temporary structures such as pavilions, offices, galleries, and bars that can be easily moved if necessary. This phenomenon has a name: container architecture. Container Atlas presents a wide range of contemporary projects along with an in-depth investigation into the background and evolution of this topical field. The book illustrates how containers are being used as building blocks to accommodate the daily lives and special events of urban nomads. Because the structures that containers are used to build are not meant to be permanent, their architecture has a more short-term and playful character that often references current trends. Container Atlas features advertising, pop-up stores, and temporary exhibits that are built using this approach as well as sophisticated housing and office spaces. Found in both urban and rural settings, these container structures provoke and inspire while setting new standards in functionality and aesthetics. Including detailed reports by experts in the field, Container Atlas explains the historical development of container use in architecture, documents plans, describes associated costs, and suggests concrete solutions for common problems. The book also introduces the various types of containers currently in use today, from standard shipping models to modular pieces made to order out of various materials or with customized cutouts. Container Atlas is a practical and inspirational reference for architects, planners, and cultural activists as well as event and marketing managers, to guide them in deciding what types of containers are best suited to their upcoming projects.
Hardcover / 256 pagina's / tekst Engels / april 2010
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De Polderatlas van Nederland. Pantheon der Lage Landen
Clemens Steenbergen, Wouter Reh, Steffen Nijhuis, Michiel Pouderoijen
 De Polderatlas van Nederland is een mijlpaal in het onderzoek naar het polderlandschap van het Nederlandse laagland. Met meer dan 500 kaarten, tekeningen en luchtfoto's wordt de overweldigende rijkdom van het polderlandschap blootgelegd.
De meer dan 4.000 polders van het Nederlandse laagland zijn alle in deze atlas systematisch getekend, zowel in hun waterstaatkundige bepalingen als in hun ruimtelijke vorm. In één landsdekkende en gedigitaliseerde kaart zijn alle polders terug te vinden met behulp van coördinaten en bijbehorende registers. Aan de hand van 17 voorbeelden worden de vormkenmerken van de verschillende typen polders blootgelegd en typologisch geduid. Hiermee levert de atlas een landschappelijke bouwdoos voor het begrijpen en ontwikkelen van het polderlandschap.
In deze baanbrekende studie van de gehele polderreeks, vanaf het ontstaan van de eerste polders tot aan Zuidelijk Flevoland, staat de landschapsarchitectuur centraal. De scheppende arbeid die nodig was om van het nieuwe land, verkregen door ontginning, bedijking en drainage, een bewoonbaar, eigen en mooi cultuurlandschap te maken. De atlas is in die zin ook een weergave van de state of the art in het vakgebied.
Hardcover / 512 pagina's / tekst Nederlands / december 2009
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Ecological Urbanism
Mohsen Mostafavi
 While climate change, sustainable architecture, and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed. The premise of the book is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities. “Ecological Urbanism” approaches the city without any one set of instruments and with a worldview that is fluid in scale and disciplinary approach. Design provides the synthetic key to connect ecology with an urbanism that is not in contradiction with its environment. The book brings together design practitioners and theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policy makers, environmental scientists, and public health specialists, with the goal of reaching a more robust understanding of ecological urbanism and what it might be in the future.
With contributions by Homi Bhabha, Stefano Boeri, Chuck Hoberman, Rem Koolhaas, Sanford Kwinter, Bruno Latour, Nina-Marie Lister, Mohsen Mostafavi, Matthias Schuler, Sissel Tolaas, Charles Waldheim, among others.
Hardcover / 640 pagina's / tekst Engels / juli 2010
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Spacematrix. Space, Density and Urban Form
Meta Berghauser Pont, Per Haupt
 Spacematrix introduceert stedelijke dichtheid als instrument voor stadsontwikkeling en stadsontwerp. Berghauser Pont en Haupt ontrafelen op beelden gebaseerde termen als ‘urbaniteit’, ‘compacte stad’ en ‘parkstad’ door vraagtekens te plaatsen bij de betrouwbaarheid van zulke begrippen en door kritisch na te gaan of het mogelijk is om die te herdefiniëren met behulp van het begrip dichtheid. De belangstelling van de auteurs voor dichtheid is niet in de eerste plaats normatief van aard. Zij beweren niet dat zij weten welke dichtheid optimaal is, maar worden gedreven door het verlangen om inzicht te krijgen in de logische verhouding tussen dichtheid, stedelijke vorm en prestatie. Juist met dit inzicht kunnen de effecten van specifieke ontwerpen en plannen beter worden begrepen en voorspeld.
Paperback / 280 pagina's / tekst Engels / augustus 2010
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Zakboek parkeren voor de woonomgeving
Frederique van Andel
 Het parkeren is met een autobezit van een auto per twee Nederlanders steeds meer als maatgevend te beschouwen binnen de hedendaagse woningbouw. Het Zakboek parkeren voor de woonomgeving geeft een handzaam overzicht van verschillende parkeeroplossingen in de Nederlandse woningbouw, van de parkeerboxen van Parkflat Marlot van Co Brandes uit 1934 en de drive-inwoningen van Mart Stam uit 1937 tot en met recente voorbeelden uit vinexwijken als Nieuw Terbregge en Leidsche Rijn. Een selectie van zowel alledaagse als onverwachte projecten laat de kansen zien die het parkeren biedt voor de woningtypologie en de openbare ruimte. Elk plan is voorzien van foto’s en tekeningen van de stedenbouwkundige context, plattegronden en doorsneden, afmetingen en kengetallen. Het Zakboek parkeren voor de woonomgeving is een handig naslagwerk en een inspiratiebron voor architecten en stedenbouwkundigen. De publicatie, een initiatief van STAWON en tot stand gekomen als coproductie met de TU Delft, is een vervolg op het succesvolle Zakboek voor de Woonomgeving.
Hardcover / 560 pagina's / tekst Nederlands / juli 2010
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SeARCH
Bjarne Mastenbroek
 The work of SeARCH (Urban Planning & Architecture), established in 2002 by Bjarne Mastenbroek and partnered by Uda Visser, is marked by a continuous research into the most intimate meaning of the sites. This book brings together a number of their recent projects. Included are the Dutch Embassy in Addis Ababa, the Villa KBWW in Utrecht, a residential development on an artificial island near Hoofddorp (the Netherlands), the “Wolzak” farmhouse in Zutphen (the Netherlands), the Museum at the Site of Fireworks Explosion in the Roombeek area in Enschede, and a tree-top observation platform near Putten (the Netherlands). Introductory essay by Silvio Carta.
Paperback / 272 pagina's / tekst Engels, Koreaans / 2010
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Urban Interventions. Personal projects in public spaces
R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, M. Huebner
 Evolving from graffiti and street art, urban interventions are the next generation of artwork to hit public space. Using any and all of the components that make up urban and rural landscapes, these mostly spatial interventions bring art to the masses. They turn the street into a studio, laboratory, club, and gallery. Modified traffic signs, swings at bus stops, and images created out of sand or snow challenge us to rediscover
our environment and interact with it in new ways. The work is an intelligent and critical commentary on the planning, use, and commercialization of public space. With a rich visual selection of projects and methods, Urban Interventions documents this new artistic approach to urban art that is currently making a profound mark on our contemporary visual language. The book shows the growing connections and interplay of this scene with art, architecture, performance, and installation.
Propagators of urban intervention surprise and provoke with work in cities including New York and London, but also in countries such as China, Columbia, and Turkey. Everywhere the work appears it turns public spaces into individual experiences. Urban Interventions is the first book to document these very current, personal art projects in a comprehensive way.
Hardcover / 256 pagina's / tekst Engels / maart 2010
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New Architecture in Japan
Yuki Sumner, Naomi Pollock, David Littlefield
 This informative and beautifully illustrated book showcases projects of all types, sizes and budgets from the last decade in Japan, and includes museums, private houses, schools, shops, hospitals, airports and chapels. Both cutting-edge, emerging young practices - such as Sou Fijimoto and Junya Ishigami - and established, internationally known architects - among them Toyo Ito, Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma and SANAA - are featured, as are international practices working in Japan (such as Rogers Stirk Harbour, Foster + Partners and Herzog & de Meuron). Stunning images by leading architectural photographer Edmund Sumner are accompanied by accessible critical texts and drawings. This illuminating survey is essential not just for architects and designers but also for anyone fascinated by Japan's unique - and increasing - influence on architecture worldwide.
Profiles more than 100 architectural projects from the last decade. A compelling reference for architects, urban planners, designers and anyone interested in contemporary Japanese architecture.
Hardcover / 272 pagina's / tekst Engels / april 2010
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The Chinese Dream. A Society under Construction
Neville Mars, Adrian Hornsby
 China is in the midst of breakneck transformation. The last 30 years of astonishing economic growth and political and cultural reform have been driven by the world’s biggest ever urban boom. The new China is now halfway built. Within the next 30 years China will most likely take centre-stage as a global superpower, with hundreds of millions of new urbanites flooding into the rapidly swelling cities. But this process - presenting no less than the construction of a new society - is taking place almost without time to think.
Taking as its starting point the goal announced in China in 2001 to build 400 new cities of 1 million inhabitants each by 2020, or 20 new cities a year for 20 years, the book explores the hopes and hazards of dreaming on such a scale. The question being asked is in fact no less than how to build a new utopia. But is China mortgaging its present for a promised future, and doing so at the same time that current speeds of construction eclipse any real forward planning?
The Chinese Dream is a visual tour de force, both encyclopedic in scope and holistic in approach. Cutting across all levels of scale - from individual to nation - and backed by a truly multi-disciplinary team (encompassing architecture & urban planning, politics, economics, arts & culture, environmental concerns, and sociology) the book synthesizes a vast body of research to tackle the big contemporary questions, and to unpack the paradoxes at the heart of China’s struggle for change.
Hardcover / 784 pagina's / tekst Engels / 2008
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