Procuring Innovative Architecture

The case studies in this book describe how clients’ promotion of innovative communities of practice has led to important collections of architectural works. The book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of their approaches. Architects and clients will understand what to look for as they construct their careers and their portfolios with innovation as a goal. It is taken for granted nowadays that supporting innovative architecture benefits society. In countries as diverse as Austria, Australia, Belgium, England, Japan, South East Asia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the USA, retailers, institutions, local and regional government and transport authorities have established substantial bodies of work by new and emerging architects. This books looks at what their goals are and how they have achieved them. Is it possible to promote sustainable communities of innovative practice through such patronage? Can innovation be ‘kick-started’ by importing visionary works?

Arts & Photography

London, Geoffrey

Van Schaik, Leon

Architecture

Routledge

Design City Melbourne (Interior Angles)

Melbourne is now coming to the fore as a design hotspot.  With three and a  half million inhabitants, it is on a scale that is livable and diverse.  Its rich and varied cultural intimacy has enabled it to build up a unique  dynamism, which is set to shift the entire design agenda of the world  -   much like Barcelona did in the 1980s and Antwerp did in the 1990s.  Melbourne is to be the city of the noughties. The intense plurality of Melbourne's recent design culture is due to have a  vast impact on the way in which we think about city regions and living in  them. This is a story of wonderful spaces: in civic and institutional  buildings; in galleries, bars, clubs and restaurants; in one of the world's  tallest residential apartment buildings; in beach houses and mountain  shacks; in workshops and studios; and in international sports venues. As Melbourne hosts the Commonwealth games in 2006, a vast influx of  visitors will be experiencing these spaces for the first time. Through  luscious photography and an accessible text, Design City Melbourne is  devised not only to illustrate a wide range of fascinating interiors and their architecural matrices, but  also to describe the people behind them  and how these spaces support the  vital culture of this uniquely mixed and cosmopolitan city.  A metropolis that is situated in the same time zone as China, and which is pioneering in its European colonial matrix the admixture of new Asian urban forms.

History

Australia & Oceania

Academy Press

wiley

It is easy for even the most accomplished of designers to lose sight of their higher creative goals, once they are in ensconced in practice and burdened by the everyday concerns of running an office and overseeing complex projects. However, it is essential for any architect aspiring to achieve a mastery of their profession to retain an ongoing awareness and understanding of their creative development. This book is a touchstone for architects who want to get back to a creative form of practice, in order to continue progressing and evolving their work. 
Mastering Architecture draws on the research of approximately fifty architects who have taken a close look at the nature of their own mastery. This research into mastery reveals things that every practitioner should know about their creative practice – things which most architects are only aware of at an intuitive level. The book flags up personal attributes, such as stamina, creative energy and intellectual capital, which are intrinsic to dynamic practice. It also suggests ways in which practitioners can self-curate their positions within the triangle of their creativity, evolving not only the cultural structure of their profession but the wider world in which they operate.

Mastering Architecture: Becoming a Creative Innovator in Practice

The book is organised into three distinct sections that in turn highlight the significance of spatial intelligence for architecture: the first section provides an overview of spatial intelligence as a human capability; the second section argues how the acknowledgement of this capability in architectural education and the profession should enable the demystification of the practice of design, forming the basis of a more democratic interface between society and practice; the final section explores exciting new opportunities for practice in the linking of real and virtual environments in the information age.

Spatial Intelligence: New Futures for Architecture (Architectural Design Primer)

The book is organised into three distinct sections that in turn highlight the significance of spatial intelligence for architecture: the first section provides an overview of spatial intelligence as a human capability; the second section argues how the acknowledgement of this capability in architectural education and the profession should enable the demystification of the practice of design, forming the basis of a more democratic interface between society and practice; the final section explores exciting new opportunities for practice in the linking of real and virtual environments in the information age.

Spatial Intelligence: New Futures for Architecture

The ecocell is a vertical integrating device to bring landscape elements, daylight, rainwater, natural ventilation and sewage recycling vertically across all levels of the builtform. The concept is explained in two masterplan projects by Hamzah & Yeang (registered T. R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd.) the Amsterdam Center of Science & Technology and the West Kowloon Waterfront Development.

Ecocells: Landscapes and Masterplans

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Academy Editions Ltd

Volume: John Wardle Architects is a complex and intricate monograph that pays homage to the incredible architecture and fastidious detail of John Wardle Architects.

John Wardle Architects - Volume /anglais

Reference

Thames&Hudson

Architecture In Its Continuum

URO Publications

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Procuring Innovative Architecture

Procuring Innovative Architecture

Design City Melbourne (Interior Angles)

Design City Melbourne (Interior Angles)

Mastering Architecture: Becoming a Creative Innovator in Practice

Spatial Intelligence: New Futures for Architecture (Architectural Design Primer)

Spatial Intelligence: New Futures for Architecture

Ecocells: Landscapes and Masterplans

John Wardle Architects - Volume /anglais

Architecture In Its Continuum