Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of…
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Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Phenomenology of Perception is Merleau-Ponty's most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first…
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The Urban Design Toolkit is a compendium of tools that can be used to facilitate high-quality urban design. The Toolkit supports the implementation of the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol. Whats new in the third edition? The third edition of the…
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This article has become one of the classic references in the literature of the built environment and associated fields, having been cited in articles over 40 times since 1980 (25 years after publication) and an unrecorded number of times in books or…
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Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots? Where do the limits of the human mind lie? How does ambiguity enter the deterministic world of computation? Who was Parmenides and why is his philosophy still puzzling today? This…
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The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought
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An isovist, or viewshed, is the area in a spatial environment directly visible from a location within the space. Here we show how a set of isovists can be used to generate a graph of mutual visibility between locations. We demonstrate that this…
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An introduction to architectural thought, this text is a thorough and accessible discussion in search of the principles of the design process. Documenting the non-verbal processes and decisions that architects and designers make is a difficult task,…
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What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles,…
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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961,…
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Rethinking Architecture offers a refreshing take on the statement of architecture - what we mean by what we build. Brought together for the first time, this collection of core writings on architecture by many of the key philosophers and cultural…
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Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of…
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A practical guide to research-just for architectsFrom searching for the best glass to prevent glare to determining how clients might react to color choice for restaurant walls, research is a crucial tool that architects must master in order to…
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It is a well established fact that the urban landscape creates a climate which influences, for example, human comfort, air quality and energy consumption. However, in spite of this knowledge, it has been recognised that climate issues often have low…
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The paper introduces and discusses current developments in architectural discourse, design theory, digital design models and techniques and their relations to design pedagogy. The evolution of design knowledge in architectural theory and praxis is…
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This is the third paper in a series being published in Design Studies, which aims to establish the theoretical bases for treating design as a coherent discipline of study. The first contribution in the series was from Bruce Archer, in the very first…
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This article identifies sustainable urban forms and their design concepts. In addition, it addresses the question of whether certain urban forms contribute more than others to sustainability. A thematic analysis has been used to coop with the vast…
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Electronic version of An Evolutionary Architecture An Evolutionary Architecture was published in January 1995 to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at the Architectural Association. It concentrates on the work of Diploma Unit 11 run by…
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We are constantly surrounded by talk of networks. Every third message, article, and advertisement seems to be about one network or another. We are surrounded, that is, by talk on networks about networks. It is as if our technologies feed on a kind…
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Architecture as Critique of Modernity 148 Avant-Garde versus Modernism 151 New Babylon: The Antinomies of Utopia Unitary Urbanism and the Critique of Functionalism New Babylon: The Antithesis of the Society of Lies The Tragedy of Utopia 174 No Way…
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