books by Actar     books:     Actar      Mutations Stefano Boeri, Harvard Project on the City, ... Actar, 2001 Outstanding This book is to be considered a piece of historical evidence of the tendencies of thought of the new era. Whether you may find the concepts proposed not suitable, every prospective or practicing architect, designer or urban planner must be aware of the latest ...             Mad Dinner: A Monograph on the Beijing-Based MAD Office Ma Yansong Actar, 2008 MAD DINNER is the first book by MAD office, Beijing-based architectural office. Organized around the metaphor of dinner table conversation, the book is a collection of ideas and opinions about topics ranging from politics to ecology to fame to the future. The dinner's guests include people from all levels of Chinese society: a government official, ...             Phylogenesis foa's ark: foreign office architects Bernard Cache, Manuel De Landa, ... Actar, 2004 Encyclopedia of FOA Very good book with an interesting structure/classification system for their projects. Projects are well described in text and graphics, and the essays that are inserted between 'sections' add an interesting perspective towards architecture and artistic/cultural ...             The Function of Ornament Actar, 2006 Function of Ornament THis book is very helpful for a studio that focus' on facade elements and how to express identity. Has lots of precedent studies and is full of inspiration for designing your own facade systems. It is mostly line drawings with some text where needed. I think it is a ...             Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture Sanford Kwinter Actar, 2008 Sanford Kwinter ponders the complex encounters between technology, culture, and architecture. Critical essays offer an extended meditation on infrastructure, war, computation, mechanical and material intelligence, and other multivariate facets of modernity. Far-reaching in scope, Far from Equilibrium amounts to a performance in writing of what ...             Verb Crisis (Verb) (Verb) Actar, 2008 An excellent testimony to experimentation with a purpose The latest in the avant-garde Verb series, Verb Crisis explores potential architectural solutions to the problems of an increasingly dense and interdependent world. Offering a diverse assortment of projects and investigations complemented with full color photography, ...             Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and Society in the Information Age Eduard Bru, Jose Alfonso Ballesteros, ... Actar, 2003 excellent conceptual development As an architecture student, I have found this book to be a valuable resource in terms of idea generation and development of design concepts. My professor, who practices architecture and makes use of the book on a professional level, recommended it to my classmates and ...             The Yokohama Project Actar, 2003 The Edge of the Amateur The book is an inspiring and surprisingly honest account of the design and the construction of the Yokohama Terminal. The most optimistic part about it is the rather obvious fact that it was conceived and managed by a few academically rigorous but professionally ...             Project Zagreb: Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice Eve Blau, Ivan Rupnik Actar, 2007 Zagreb is the perfect site for examining the generative dynamic of transition: currently preparing for Croatia's entry into the European Union and negotiating the rocky shoals of the "transition economy," but also a city in which political and economic transition has been the status quo for the last century and a half. Practicing in conditions of ...             Mvrdv: Km3: Excursions on Capacity MVRDV mvrdv Actar, 2006 KM3 is 2Heavy "Three-dimensionality can be seen as architecture's fundamental existence, the profession's acclaimed domain. In times of globalizations and scale enlargement, an update of this definition seems needed: meters turn into kilometers, M3 becomes KM3." KM3 is the ...             Blue Monday: Stories of Absurd Realities and Natural Philosophies Robert Sumrell, Kazys Varnelis Actar, 2007 Blue Monday features three moments in modern culture that offer glimpses into our increasingly perverse relationship to architecture, cities, and objects through a lively mix of philosophy, photography, architectural drawings and models, as well as new media. The first section, Ether, explores a Los Angeles telecom hotel, One Wilshire, a 39 story ...             Office for Metropolitan Architecture: Seattle Public Library Actar, 2004 Fantastic Fantastic book on one of the worlds leading comtemporary buildings. All Architectural offices should follow the lead of OMA in publishing literature on all significant contemporary architecture so the public can get an understanding about why their public buildings ...             Verb Natures: Architectural Boogazine (Actar's Boogazine) (Actar's Boogazine) (Actar's Boogazine) Actar, 2007 Some interesting approaches to the 'organic' in architecture Fifth in the Actar 'boogazine' series, Verb Natures is a search for the natural or the organic in architecture. The selected works are as varied as the approaches or design methodologies demonstrated. Certain projects strive for that 'simple' complexity that is often ...             From Control to Design: Parametric/Algorithmic Architecture Actar, 2008 Along with the new architectural freedoms offered by contemporary technologies come new questions. increasing importance has been given to the role of parametric design, a process based not on fixed metric quantities but on consistent relationships between objects, allowing changes in a single element to propagate corresponding changes throughout ...             Twenty-Two Tips on Typography Enric Jardi Actar, 2007 Handy little refresher guide This a beautiful handy little book... One of those basic guides of "Though shall do, though shall not" commandments you may tend to dismiss based on its sheer straightforwardness, but that once overcame the initial moment of pride and prejudice spurred by poorly-masked ...          products you might be interested in search for books architectural, architecture, beijing-based, metropolitan, philosophies, phylogenesis      toavi.com    web we recommend Encyclopedia of FOA randomly chosen book: Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right