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Shenzhen - From Factory of the World to World City

nai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082373 Acqn 25344
Pb 14x24cm 240pp 140ills 130col 15.75
The story of Shenzhen is well-known: the former fishing village became a "New Town" in 1980
when the Chinese government gave it the status of "Special Economic Zone". Shenzhen soon
became a metropolis and a prototype for both economic and urban reform within China. Now
Shenzhen has to explore its own identity anew and define the next phase of development.
Shenzhen has been raising eyebrows for years: its fast urbanisation causes many social and
ecological problems such as a massive floating population, a shortage of land and water
resources, and deterioration of the environment. This book provides both a detailed overview of
Shenzhens current planning issues and illustrates viable solutions.

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Footprint 18 - Delft Architecture Theory Journal. Volume 10 No. 1

Jap Sam 2016 ISBN 9789490322649 Acqn 26468
Pb 19x26cm 144pp 40ills 21
Patrick Healy, Andrej Radman (introduction), Stefan Koller, Lutz Robbers, Jolien Paeleman,
Frances Hsu, Ross Lipton, Sarah K. Stanley, Rodrigo Rieiro Daz, Stphane Symons, Stephen
Michael Witherford
In Das Passagen-Werk Benjamin cites a letter from Marx to Ruge, 'the reform of consciousness
consists solely in [...] the awakening of the world from its dream about itself.' This idea of
awakening recurs in Benjamin's methodological considerations and his many metaphors during
the final thirteen years of his life. Benjamin set himself the pedagogical task of awakening 'the
image-making medium within us, raising it to a stereoscopic and dimensional seeing into the
depths of historical shadows.' His ambition was to develop the art of citing without quotation
marks, a concept intimately related to that of montage.
The importance of architectural theory for Benjamin is most evident in his last work. From his
writings on Berlin childhood, his essay on Moscow and Naples, Benjamin's interest in urban
topography can be seen to develop into a full analysis of the city, by developing a method which
he refers to as physiognomic and in which, inspired by contemporary surrealist practise, the
method of montage becomes critical for his showing how the 'now of recognition' in the image
opens the historical to awareness, and constitutes the reality of history. He cites Giedion and
sees his own work as engaged in a similar task: 'just as Giedion teaches us to read off the basic
features of today's architecture in the buildings erected around 1850,' Benjamin writes, 'we in turn
would recognise today's forms, in the life and in the apparently secondary lost forms of that
epoch.'

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Archiprix 2016 - The Best Dutch Graduation Projects

nai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082953 Acqn 26471
Pb 24x30cm 112pp 300ills 150col 26
Each year the Dutch institutions teaching architecture, urban design and landscape architecture
select their best final-year projects. The crop is unfailingly rich and varied and reflects the
ambitions of a new generation of designers ready to take on every imaginable design task that
comes their way. The book Archiprix 2016 introduces the latest wave of fledgling design talent.

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Oase 96 - Social Poetics. The Architecture Of Use And Appropriation

nai010 publishers 2016 ISBN 9789462082809 Acqn 26508
Pb 17x24cm 128pp 80ills 21
'OASE 96' examines the remarkable revival of architectural practices that focus on reuse and
appropriation of buildings, environments and materials. To what extent can and will designers
engage in this process, and what is the possible positive or negative social impact of these
interventions? This issue focuses on case studies, practical experience, critical reflection and
ideas that show how architects and urban planners proactively deploy reuse in view of future user
opportunities and/or applications.

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Log 37
Anyone Corporation 2016 ISBN 9780990735250 Acqn 26552
Pb 17x24cm 240pp 200ills 160col 17.50
'Log 37: cataLog' takes readers inside 'The Architectural Imagination,' the exhibition curated by
Log editor Cynthia Davidson and architect Mnica Ponce de Len for the United States Pavilion
at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. This special 240-page colour issue features 12 new
speculative projects designed for four sites in Detroit by visionary American architectural teams.
The cataLog also presents writing by the curators, an interview with Detroit planning director
Maurice Cox, and essays exploring Detroits past and present, as well as the role of imagination
in architecture, by critics, theorists, and historians.

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El Croquis 185 - Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen

El Croquis 2016 ISBN 9788488386908 Acqn 26542
Pb 25x34cm 262pp 275ills 200col 53
This monographic issue spotlights the rise of Belgian architects Kersten Geers and David Van
Severen. Prior to establishing their own practice in 2002, the duo honed their skills in offices in
Rotterdam, Ghent, and Brussels. An economy of means is a prominent feature of their work, and
they display a strong proclivity for precision. Their interest in materials, as well as their attitude
towards past and present, are likewise ubiquitous qualities that are reflected in their work.
Besides an in-depth interview, the issue features several projects, including private homes, an
office refurbishment in Kortrijk, Campus RTS in Lausanne, and the Centre for Traditional Music in
Bahrain.

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