Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards Leonard J. Hopper Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards is an entirely new, definitive reference work for everyone involved with landscape architecture, design, and construction. Based on the 70-year success of Architectural Graphic Standards, this new book is destined to become the “bible” for the landscape field. Edited by an educator and former president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, it provides immediate access to rules-of-thumb and standards used throughout the planning, design, construction and management… Read More »
Reweaving the Urban Fabric: Approaches to Infill Housing Ghislaine Hermanuz, Marta Gutman Affordable housing is a hot topic in New York City these days, especially as housing costs increase to the point of pricing out lower- and middle-income residents from Manhattan and parts of the other boroughs. All too often affordable housing this century is part of larger, market-rate developments rather than standalone projects. Yet 25 years ago concerns over affordable housing focused on infill housing, as a means of knitting the city’s punctured blocks together and creating housing… Read More »
Designing Modern Childhoods History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children Marta Gutman With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Unregulated public spaces for children were no longer acceptable; and the cultural landscapes of children’s private lives were changed, with modifications in architecture and the objects of… Read More »
Detroit Interrupted Tracing the Fragile Edges of Development Andrea Hansen, Toni Griffin From Introduction: “…what is to become of a regional urban center that currently is too large for its local government to manage, has too much land to return to near term economic value, and is too spread out to maintain sustainable systems of infrastructure, service delivery, neighborhood and community? What must Detroit do over the next 5, 10, or 20 years to reposition itself as a new form of American city? If Detroit was known for its innovation in the auto industry in the 20th century,… Read More »
Campus Finding the Place of Architecture in the Landscape Peter Gisolfi Peter Gisolfi is an architect, landscape architect and educator whose substantial design practice extends over 20 years. Most of his work consists of carefully crafted buildings that relate to a larger setting. A variety of public and private projects completed throughout the United States are featured in this first monograph. The projects in this book are organised thematically as landscapes and buildings, gardens and houses, campuses, townscapes, and transformations. The common thread in these projects… Read More »
City for City Achva Benzinberg Stein City for City presents examples of the work of The City College Architectural Center over the past fifteen years. The projects selected are grouped under the categories of exhibitions, visioning exercises, planning and urban design studies, and also include a few examples of assignments for implementation. The work was developed at the request of the affected communities and undertaken with their full participation. The projects were financed in various ways, from pro-bono studies to grant-supported efforts. These grants and the special… Read More »
Autogenic Structures Evan Douglis Autogenic Structures offers an alternative vision for the future of architecture, a timely and invaluable contribution to the debate concerning emergent surfaces and the next generation of building membranes in this era of extreme computational control. An esteemed group of architects and educators discuss a range of cultural perspectives surrounding Evan Douglis’ innovative pedagogical research. Topics considered include: the future relationship between structure and ornament; the value of mass customization for the next generation of modular… Read More »
Displaced: Llonch + Vidalle Architecture Fabian Llonch, Gisela Vidalle The work of Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle – presented here in an eye – opening survey – is marvelous for its imaginative seamlessness, and the way in which the artist’s truth always shines through the circumstances of its articulation. Here is architecture of inseparable form and thought. The thirteen projects in this book are filled with the fervor and energy of an architect who also teaches young architects. Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle are part of a small group of architects who understand the… Read More »
City Sink Carbon Cycle Infrastructure For Our Built Enviroments Denise Hoffman Brandt & Michael Sorkin City Sink is a design research proposal for a meta-park of dispersed landscape infrastructure to boost carbon stocks in biomass and through formation of long-term sequestration reservoirs for soil organic carbon in New York City and Long Island. City Sink research merges urban land-use lifecycles and the carbon cycle to describe a systemic response to the elevated atmospheric carbon levels provoking climate change. The project is a model for reimagining urban landscapes as… Read More »
Found Space : A Therapeutic Journey to Urban Resurrection Mi Tsung Chang FOUND SPACE: A THERAPUTIC JOURNEY TO URBAN RESURRECTION is a book that addresses the issue of urban deterioration and seeking methods to halt the dissolution of our urban fabric in a creative way. Perspective readers of this book will find that it responds well to the many challenges of urban resurrection, factors required for the rebuilding the lower Manhattan after September 11th, and creative approaches to restoration of old mills or railroad yards. Found space is seeking answers for resurrecting N.Y.C… Read More »
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