Where is Abuela's Prenda? (Little Big Moments Books)

Children's Books

Armstrong, Rachel

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Little Big Moments Publishing LLC

The Art of Experiment: Post-pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st Century Architecture and Design

Rolf Hughes' new book explores the central roles of experiment and artistic research to experimental architecture. Using artefacts, performances, storytelling, and rituals to devise new immersive experiences, experimental architecture connects forms of research expertise which have traditionally been kept apart by convention. Enlightenment metaphors are displaced by alternative, even radical, knowledge structures, value systems, and cultural impacts. Knowledge making becomes sensory, embodied, and experiential, using 'messy' laboratories for disruptive, innovative inquiry through spaces such as storytelling, prose poems, contemporary circus arts and magic. These methods suggest radical juxtapositions but are rooted in bodies, materials and choreography, leading to design synthesis and new theoretical insights. The Art of Experimentcelebrates curiosity, fascination and enchantment, demonstrating ways in which these help us to discover new ways in which to think, feel, and design. Featuring a wide range of experimental case studies, this innovative and unusual book is destined to inspire students and researchers in architecture, design, and art and visual culture.

Arts & Photography

Hughes, Rolf

Architecture

Routledge

A handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times intended to help readers imagine and make their world anew. 
In search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across time―from the deep past to the unfolding future. The authors search beyond human knowledge to establish negotiated partnerships with forms of knowledge within the planet itself, examining how we have manipulated these historically through an anthropocentric focus. The book explores the many different kinds of knowledge, and the diversity of instruments needed to invoke and actuate the potency of human and nonhuman agencies. Four key phases in our ways of knowing are identified: material, strengthening, reconfiguring and extending, which are exemplified through case studies that take the form of worlding experiments. 
This pioneering work will inspire architects, artists and designers as well as students, teachers and researchers across arts and design disciplines.

Experimental Architecture: Designing the Unknown

In this ground-breaking book, the first to provide an overview of the theory and practice of experimental architecture, Rachel Armstrong explores how interdisciplinary, design-led research practices are beginning to redefine the possibilities of architecture as a profession. Drawing on experts from disciplines as varied as information technology, mathematics, poetry, graphic design, scenography, bacteriology, marine applied science and robotics, Professor Armstrong delineates original, cutting-edge architectural experiments through essays, quotes, poetry, equations and stories. Written by an acknowledged pioneer of architectural experiment, this visionary book is ideal for students and researchers wishing to engage in experimental, practice-based architectural and artistic research. It introduces radical new ideas about architecture and provides ideas and inspiration which students and researchers can apply in their own work and proposals, while practitioners can draw on it to transform their creative assumptions and develop thereby a distinctive "edge" to stand out in a highly competitive profession.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Soft Living Architecture explores the invention of new architectures based on living processes. It crafts a unique intersection between two fast-developing disciplines: biomimicry and biodesign in architecture, and bioinformatics and natural computing in the natural sciences.
This is the first book to examine both the theory and methodology of architecture and design working directly with the natural world. It explores a range of approaches from the use of life-like systems in building design to the employment of actual growing and living cell and tissue cultures as architectural materials - creating architecture that can change, learn and grow with us. The use of 'living architecture' is cutting-edge and speculative, yet it is also inspiring a growing number of designers worldwide to adopt alternative perspectives on sustainability and environmental design. The book examines the ethical and theoretical issues arising alongside case-studies of experimental practice, to explore what we mean by 'natural' in the Anthropocene, and raise deep questions about the nature of design and the design of nature. 
This provocative and at times controversial book shows why it will become ever more necessary to embrace living processes in architecture if we are to thrive in a sustainable future.

Soft Living Architecture

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

About the Author\nRachel Armstrong is Professor of Experimental Architecture at The Department of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.\nSoft Living Architecture explores the invention of new architectures based on living processes. It crafts a unique intersection between two fast-developing disciplines: biomimicry and biodesign in architecture, and bioinformatics and natural computing in the natural sciences.\nThis is the first book to examine both the theory and methodology of architecture and design working directly with the natural world. It explores a range of approaches from the use of life-like systems in building design to the employment of actual growing and living cell and tissue cultures as architectural materials - creating architecture that can change, learn and grow with us. The use of 'living architecture' is cutting-edge and speculative, yet it is also inspiring a growing number of designers worldwide to adopt alternative perspectives on sustainability and environmental design. The book examines the ethical and theoretical issues arising alongside case-studies of experimental practice, to explore what we mean by 'natural' in the Anthropocene, and raise deep questions about the nature of design and the design of nature.\nThis provocative and at times controversial book shows why it will become ever more necessary to embrace living processes in architecture if we are to thrive in a sustainable future.

Soft Living Architecture: An Alternative View of Bio-informed Practice

Just start walking! That’s the word from internationally competitive athlete and fitness pro Rachel Armstrong, who has created an easy-to-follow program for walking your way to better health. Walking is perfect for anyone looking to lower blood pressure, increase cardiovascular fitness and bone density, assist with weight control, or simply enjoy a healthier lifestyle. This complete illustrated guide provides training tips for optimizing technique and features regimens for everyone from beginners through elite athletes. Plus, there’s loads of advice for keeping motivation high, finding others to share your workout and choosing the right footwear and accessories.

You Can Walk to Fitness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

New Holland Pub Ltd

This book examines the notion of the home in the context of the pandemic and lockdown, as they relate to environmental concerns and how we live with viruses and bacteria. It argues that, in order to decrease our vulnerability to infective agents, we need to acknowledge the link between people, space, daily routines, and microbes and explore how the predominantly benign microbial world might be harnessed to combat and boost out immunity to future pathogens. Suggesting more than environmental home improvements, it explores new innovations and new materials which incorporate microbes for more ecological designs, such as ceramic tiles, concrete bio-receptive surfaces, building skins, fabrics, waste management, and alternative energy supplies. A series of drawings which reveal the evolution of microbial technologies, infrastructures, spaces, dwellings, and architectures sets out a prototype for an ecological home for post pandemic times. Identifying the lessons that COVID-19 has brought us, the book highlights the need for humans to consider and take microbes into account in future built environments.

Safe as Houses: The More-Than-Human Home (Designing Now)

Lund Humphries

On a distant planet, Rune 66, an experimental biologist called the Chronicler fortuitously makes contact with humankind. All kinds of trouble break out. The Grays' exploratory encounters with Earthlings lean towards the blatantly sexual. Broadcast live on the alien planet's "Anatomy Channel" these assorted bouts of interplanetary perversion become a ratings phenomenon. In time, senior Grays start to worry that the humanoids' way of living and loving poses a serious threat to the identity of a species that prides itself on intellectual prowess and the denial of carnal ways. "This is a wildly oscillating, engrossing exploration of future human bodies in a time of alien contact, of extra-ordinary space travel and in a climate of suppressed terror"-Stelarc Dr Rachel Armstrong lives in London. She lectures and writes about the future. She is the author of Sci/Fi Aesthetics and Space Architecture.

The Gray's Anatomy

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Serpent's Tail

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Where is Abuela's Prenda? (Little Big Moments Books)

The Art of Experiment: Post-pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st Century Architecture and Design

The Art of Experiment: Post-pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st Century Architecture and Design

Experimental Architecture: Designing the Unknown

Experimental Architecture: Designing the Unknown

Soft Living Architecture

Soft Living Architecture: An Alternative View of Bio-informed Practice

You Can Walk to Fitness

Safe as Houses: The More-Than-Human Home (Designing Now)

The Gray's Anatomy