Architecture

This multi-disciplinary books considers how to create design which is at once aesthetically pleasing and also ethically considered, with contributions from fields as diverse as architecture, fashion, urban design and philosophy. The authors also address how to teach design based subjects while instilling a desire in the student to develop ethical work practices, both inside and outside the studio.
 

This book is the first step along the path for rural design to emerge as an important new design discipline. Rural Design: A New Design Discipline establishes the theoretical base for rural design and the importance of looking at connecting issues to create synergy and optimal solutions from a global, national, state, region, and local perspective.

This book brings together an international group of scholars from architecture, design, urban planning, and interior design to reappraise mid-twentieth century modern life, offering a timely reassessment of culture and the economic and political effects on civilian life.

Architect, Randy Deutsch “highly recommend(s)” Andrew Pressman’s new book, "Designing Architecture: The Elements of Process" (published December 2011) on his blog, architects2zebras.com, describing Pressman’s writing as “top-rate” and his books as “all extremely readable, entertaining and especially important in our field, accessible”. Please click here to read the full review.

The book investigates the subject of urban ecology from the perspective of architectural design, engaging its definition at multiple levels, the biological, the informational and the social. The book has two main goals – to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to describe the city as a territory of self-organization, a new kind of emergent "real-time world-city". Structured in the form of a manual, the authors draw on nearly a decade of design experiments from their ecoLogicStudio practice.
 

The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape.

This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme ‘dwelling and the land’. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of the landscape to live on.

A comprehensive study of the sacred buildings built and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this book offers scholarly discussion with analytical drawings and photographs.

Roberto Gargiani, author of Le Corbusier: Beton Brut and Ineffable Space (1940 – 1965): Surface Materials and Psychophysiology of Vision, has been interviewed about his 2011 book, about Switzerland's most famous architect.
 

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Friday 27th April 2012  - 10am-1pm

A panel discussion around the publication of Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis, Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World (London/New York: Routledge, 2012)

This half-day symposium will debate some key ideas around the issues of globalization and regionalism, using the presence of Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis to discuss their latest book about the subject. The event will be chaired by Murray Fraser, Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, and among the other contributors will be Dr Yat Ming Loo and Dr Tania Sengupta, both of whom also teach at the Bartlett, and Ricardo Agarez, PhD candidate >>> http://bit.ly/JXuE6M

To book, please send an email to Nadia O’Hare on: n.ohare@ucl.ac.uk  

Entry is free, but tickets must be booked in advance.

G.04, Wates House
22 Gordon Street
London
WC1H 0QB

Take a look at the Rural Futures Lab blog, where author, Dewey Thorbeck, writes about his new book, Rural Design: A New Design Discipline (Routledge, 2012).