Урбанизм

A stone-garden fountain where children are invited to play...a striking landscape created by the "flying floors" of an airport...in the midst of the most crowded, most intense cities and buildings, open spaces provide visual and emotional relief. Twenty exciting examples of the best in urban design, each thoroughly illustrated and documented, make Urban Spaces: Plazas and Squares an invaluable resource for architects, urban planners, and students seeking out the latest trends in public space design.

* Exciting projects by top design firms from around the world
* Innovative, unusual, unexpected projects

Migration from the countryside to cities is a global phenomenon, placing increased population and transport pressures on cities around the world. And yet there are precious few great transit developments, little variety in the ones we do have, only rare examples of development profitability, and consequently, minimal motivation for our industry and our communities.

Urban Transformation is really about providing the critical inspiration to change this situation. It is about restocking our weak architectural portfolio of transit facilities with dynamic new models. It is about recognizing the potential value and longevity of these projects, and making them exceptional rather than forgettable.

The powerful cases in this book remove the excuses for mediocrity and mundane functionality, and show us how to excel. The text introduces an understandable typology of development around transit, and uses that to illustrate different strategies and design techniques. There is a broad range and scale of projects represented—large and small, domestic and global, big markets and modest communities—and each an excellent example of what can be realized.

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In the first publication of the URBANITY project, readers can see thoughts of upcoming architects about the city and it’s potential.

Urbanity Twenty Years Later is a long term regional research project which is rediscovering Central European urban values and aiming to find answers for the future of our cities as such.

In the book, readers will find out why guest critic Elia Zenghelis pointed out that “Urbanity Twenty Years Later is going beyond official education where political awareness is treated like a hot potato”.

Research partners were Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Berlin Institute of Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technical University of Budapest, University of Ljubljana and Warsaw University of Technology.

An inspirational exploration of utopias and radical approaches to city planning.

Whether created by established architects and artists or new talents, the examples in Utopia Forever are important catalysts for fundamental change and are radically shaping our notions of life in the future. The current projects and concepts from architecture, city planning, urbanism, and art collected here point beyond the restrictions of the factual to unleash the potential of creative visions. This inspiring work explores how current challenges for architecture, mobility, and energy as well as the logistics of food consumption and waste removal can be met. Text features by both architects and theorists give added insight.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.- Oscar Wilde

The cities in which we live today are unfortunately not the cities that we need for a humane and sustainable tomorrow. Societies and politicians are desperately looking for solutions and ideas for the urban areas of the future. That is why the development and discussion of utopias are - next to sustainability - the most current topics in contemporary architecture.

We have learned from the 1960s and 1970s that utopian visions are one of the most important catalysts for fundamental change. Modern wind farms for generating energy, for example, were initially contemplated at that time and are now permanent fixtures in our landscapes.

Utopia Forever is a collection of current projects and concepts from architecture, city planning, urbanism, and art that point beyond the restrictions of the factual to unleash the potential of creative visions. In contrast to the largely ideal-theoretic approaches of the past, today’s utopias take the necessity for societal changes into account. The projects in this book explore how current challenges for architecture, mobility, and energy as well as the logistics of food consumption and waste removal can be met.

Whether created by established architects and artists or new talents, the projects in Utopia Forever are radically shaping our notions of life in the future.

Ecoinfrastructure is the continuous 'green' subculture which runs throughout a building integrating inorganic mass with the organic content of the green ecoinfrastructure, imitating the balance of biotic with the abiotic constituents present in an ecosy

Bringing nature into urban environments has always been a challenge; one of the most spectacular solutions to this problem is the vertical garden. Far more than just an unusual decoration attached to a wall, these gardens are an exciting means of bringing life and greenery to a bleak courtyard, a gray city street or a cold modern building.

Vertical Gardens is the first publication to present a collection of the most important examples of this emerging trend. Not content with projecting gardens and cultivating plants on horizontal terrain, those who create vertical gardens apply the principles of hydroponics (a technique of growing plants in water containing dissolved nutrients) and use ingenious framing systems that allow luxuriant compositions of plant life to colonize the exteriors of buildings.

Overshadowing the traditional band of less versatile climbing plants, the extraordinary array of botanical species that thrive with hydroponic cultivation allows for the creation of a limitless variety of living compositions with different textures, patterns, chromatic effects, and aromas.

The aesthetic result is truly stunning and has attracted the attention of architects and designers such as Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, and Andrée Putman who, in collaboration with Patrick Blanc, have added the vertical garden to their design vocabularies. There are also projects where entire buildings have been imagined as biological organisms, or as a landscape, like the apartment building by Edouard François in Montpellier, constructed out of a mix of stone, wood, metal, and plants.

Vertical Gardens explores this phenomenon in thematic sections, which are enriched by the reflections of its most innovative practitioners.

This richly illustrated book is essential reading for all professionals or anyone interested in this fertile new area of design.

Vertical gardens are an exciting means of bringing life and greenery to a bleak courtyard, a grey city street or a cold modern building. This is the first book to present a collection of the most important examples of this emerging trend.

Those who create vertical gardens apply the principles of hydroponics (a technique of growing plants in water containing dissolved nutrients) and use ingenious framing systems that allow luxuriant plant life to colonize the exteriors of buildings.

The extraordinary array of botanical species that thrive with hydroponic cultivation allows for the creation of a limitless variety of textures, patterns, colours and scents. The result is truly stunning and has attracted the attention of architects and designers such as Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano and Andrée Putman who, in collaboration with Patrick Blanc, have added the vertical garden to their design vocabularies.

Vertical Gardens explores this phenomenon in thematic sections, enriched by the reflections of innovative practitioners. This richly illustrated book will be essential reading for all professionals or anyone interested in this fertile new area of landscape design.

This is a monograph by the well-known American company Charles Anderson Landscape. Charles Anderson is an experienced professional landscape architect. The projects in this collection present his design concepts and characteristics. It is an inspiring reference for landscape designers worldwide.

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The book explains how to win landscapes through excellent real estate landscape analysis. It expounds brand-new design concept and shows new design effect with the characterization of large numbers of pictures, novel design, unique classification, and high reference value, etc

Project Introduction:

Winning Ideas
Winning Techniques
Winning Practices

«АСС-ватерпас» - профессиональный журнал для архитекторов, дизайнеров и проектировщиков, освещающий наиболее прогрессивные тенденции современных зарубежной и отечественной архитектуры и дизайна.

Журнал не пересказывает достижения мировых звезд архитектуры и дизайна, но ориентирован на архитектуру с точки зрения планировочных решений, методик проектирования и технологий, на, так называемый, второй эшелон молодых европейских архитекторов. По мнению редакции, этот слой архитектуры более интересен и близок отечественному читателю, и кроме того,  именно здесь заложен потенциал будущего развития архитектуры в целом.

Энциклопедия воссоздана по изданию 1902–1908 годов, впервые печатается в 7 томах (8 книгах), в оригинальном формате и в полном объеме.

Автор энциклопедии Барановский Гавриил Васильевич (1860–1920), архитектор, историк архитектуры, издатель.

В издание включены лучшие на тот период времени образцы художественно-архитектурного творчества мастеров всего мира. В энциклопедию включены графические таблицы с подробными изображениями фасадов зданий, их фрагментов; планы, различные проекции, перспективы, разрезы и пр., иллюстрирующие все богатство мировой культуры, явленное в самых различных темах и сюжетах, где архитектура и зодчество так или иначе проявляют себя. Ничего подобного ни до, ни после этого издания не было ни в России, ни в мире.

Богатство и количество представленного на страницах томов материала позволяет архитекторам, художникам, застройщикам, а также всем, кто интересуется архитектурой, найти ответы на интересующие вопросы, получить необходимые идеи для дальнейшего творчества.

Курс лекций Я.В. Косицкого «Архитектурно-планировочное развитие городов» охватывает историческую и современную глобальную урбанизацию в ее теоретическом, творческом и практическом выражении, выявляет обязательную причинную непрерывность реальных изменений пространственной структуры города, его возникновения, роста, расцвета или упадка. В лекциях прослеживается необходимость гармонического равновесия идеального и материального подхода к оценке градостроительных решений. Книга рассчитана не только на студентов и аспирантов архитектурной специализации, но и на широкий круг искусствоведов, историков и географов.

Книга Аллана Джейкобса рассказывает о лучших улицах и их характеристиках, поддающихся расчету и проектированию. Главная цель исследования — дать проектировщикам и специалистам, ответственным за принятие решений в сфере планирования городов, информацию, которой они могли бы пользоваться в работе. Книга снабжена рисунками, чертежами и планами. Издание предназначено для специалистов и тех, кто интересуется проблемами урбанистики.

Несмотря на то, что Джекобс написал ее еще в 1995 году, именно сейчас тема улицы как полноценной городской институции злободневна и актуальна.

Модернистская концепция улицы – отрезка от А до Б – изжила себя. Тенденция к созданию комфортной городской среды – прежде всего в мегаполисах – требует вернуть пешеходам те сформированные в традиционной парадигме пространства, которые служат средством коммуникации.

«Если мы будем проектировать наши улицы так, чтобы они становились более комфортными и способствовали объединению населения микрорайонов, превращаясь в общественные пространства, привлекательные для всех жителей города и его окрестностей, то треть городского пространства будет вовлечена в процесс совершенствования напрямую, а другие две трети окажутся под сильным его воздействием», – пишет Джекобс.

На примере Рамблы в Барселоне, улицы Строгет в Копенгагене, Пятой авеню в Нью-Йорке, бульвара Сан-Мишель в Париже – улиц, сформировавшихся преимущественно до 1930-х годов – автор живым, понятным даже непрофессиональному читателю языком анализирует наиболее «успешные» и привлекательные городские «артерии» по всему миру.