Title & Author:

Explorations in architecture : teaching, design, research / issued by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Urs Staub ; edited by Reto Geiser.

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2008.

Description:

216 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 33 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the official Swiss contribution to the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Reto Geiser -- Performative modernities: Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York as inductive research / Deane Simpson -- Stop making sense / Angelus Eisinger -- Alternative educational programs in architecture: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies / Kim Forster -- Methodology -- A discourse on method(for proper conduct of reason and the search for efficacy in design / Sanford Kwinter -- The invention of the urban research studio: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour's Learning from Las Vegas, 1972 / Martino Stierli -- From city to detail: the sphere of the architect/ Harry Gugger, Caroline Stapenhorst -- LAPA Laboratoire de la production d'architectue [EPFL] -- Networks -- Critical practice between science and art: Lucius Burckhardt and the Emergence of Planning theory / Martin Josephy -- "Give me a gun and I will make all the buildings move" :an ant's view of architecture / Bruno Latour, Albena Yaneva -- The oracle of Athens: constantinos doxiadis and the study of human settlements / Jeannie Kim -- Urban transformation in developong territories / Marc Angelil -- Addis throught the looking-glass /Marc Angelil, Cary Siress -- MAS UD master of advanced studies in urban design [ETHZ] -- A web of research on socio-plastics: team 10 and the critical framing of everyday urban environment / Tom Avermaete -- Didacticts -- Notes on the analysis of form: Christopher Alexander and the Language of Patterns / Andri Gerber -- Understanding by design: the synthetic approach of intelligence / Daniel Bisig, Rolf Pfeifer -- The city as architecture: Aldo Rossi's didactic legacy / Filip Geerts -- Exploring uncommon territories: A synthetic approach to teaching architecure / Dieter Dietz -- ALICE Atelier de la conception l'espace [EPFL] -- Structure and content for the human environment: Hochschule Fur Gectaltung Ulm, 1953-1968 / Tilo Richter -- Technology -- Architecture as membrane / Georges Teyssot -- World game New York 1969: Buckminsters Fuller's global switchboard / Mark Wasiuta -- Digital materiality in architecture: bridging the realms of the virtual and the physical / Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler -- DFAB, Gramazio and Kohler, architecture and digital fabrication [ETHZ] -- R and D: the Eames offics at work / John Harwood.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9783764389215
3764389214

Subject:

Architecture Study and teaching.
Architecture Research Case studies.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture Étude et enseignement.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Research.
Architektur Ausstellung Venedig <2008>

Form/genre:

Exhibition Publications.
Case studies.

Added entries:

Staub, Urs.
Geiser, Reto.
Bundesamt für Kultur (Bern)
Switzerland. Bundesamt für Kultur.
International Architectural Exhibition (11th : 2008 : Venice, Italy)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259805
Call No.: NA2750 .E97 2008
Status: Available