Actar D: 14 books

Cover of Open Enclosed: Donald Judd
by Gillermo Zuaznabar
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

Taking "Specific Objects," the seminal text written by Judd in the mid-sixties, as the central theme, the author analyzes the artist's main concepts and his whole career from a new perspective: "what one seeks is an object that speaks of the world in which it is moving or of the world...
Cover of Total Latin American Architecture

Total Latin American Architecture

Libretto of Modern Reflections & Contemporary Works

by Ana de Brea
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

A selected, fully open, and deep assemblage, that carries the explicit intent of outlining, conceptual and practical verifications, on critical views and specific projects, concerning the actual architecture in the Latin American territory. The book intends to communicate a targeted objective,...
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Essays On Thermodynamics

Architecture and Beauty

by Inaki Abalos, Renata Snetkiewicz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

Essays on Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty, is a book that unfolds arguments and designs around the concept of "thermodynamic beauty". This new aesthetic category opens up new and unexpected directions to the architect's work, connecting architecture and thermodynamics without giving...
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Experiments with Life Itself

Radical Domestic Architectures Between 1937 and 1959

by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

Every book relating the history of modern architecture features a large number of pages dedicated to avant-garde designs and the formation of the modern movement in the interwar years, and a similar number devoted to reconstruction and expansion after the Second World War. Meanwhile, as if owing to...
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The Sniper's Log

Architectural Chronicles of Generation-X

by Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

The book is like a sniper's log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience for future missions, be it academic or professional, trying to identify tendencies and to assess performances, rather than to establish truth. Written for different media and formats (professional magazines,...
Cover of Public Space Acupuncture
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015

As the financial crisis deepens in many European countries and the construction sector remains in a slump, many plans for urban regeneration have been shelved. Cities are cutting their spending on large public works, so the time is ripe for low-cost strategies that have a positive impact on the urban...
Cover of Beyond Patronage

Beyond Patronage

Reconsidering Models of Practice

by Joyce Hwang, Martha Bohm
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016

Essays, projects, and interviews will examine emerging forms of sponsorship, new forms of connectivity - technological or social - that produce innovative modes of collaboration, and strategies for cultivating relationships that allow us to rethink typical hierarchies between those in power and those...
Cover of The Generic Sublime
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

The Generic Sublime is the outcome of an investigation on extra-extra-large developmental typologies carried out at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Departments of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, and Landscape Architecture, between the years 2010 and 2013. The book...
Cover of The Self-Sufficient City

The Self-Sufficient City

Internet has changed our lives but it hasn't changed our cities, yet.

by Vicente Guallart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

Internet has changed our lives but it has not yet changed our cities. Any technological revolution takes paired radical transformations in the life styles. If the age of the car and the oil shaped the cities of the 20th century, the society of the information will form those of the 21st century. It...
Cover of Total Housing

Total Housing

Alternatives to Urban Sprawl

by Albert Ferre
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

This book is conceived as evidence supporting the qualities of dense, urban living, and as a hopeful antidote against sprawl. Necessity and investigation are prerequisites for the design of housing: Total Housing refers to the need to understand that social, environmental, and economic factors affect...
Cover of Projective Ecologies
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of ecological ideas and ecological thinking in discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design. The field of ecology has moved from classical determinism and a reductionist Newtonian concern with stability, certainty, and order in favor of more...
Cover of Geographies of Trash
by Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016

In the Age of Environment, the scale of waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as "matter out of place." Geographies of Trash reclaims the role of forms, technologies, economies and logistics of the waste system in the production of...
Cover of Popular Lies about Graphic Design
by Craig Ward
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

Multi award-winning designer, typographer and TED speaker, Craig Ward, presents his first self-authored book - Popular Lies About Graphic Design. An attempt to debunk the various misconceptions, half truths and, in some cases, outright lies which permeate the industry of design. Lovingly designed...
Cover of Trans Structures: Fluid Architecture and Liquid Engineering
by Matyas Gutai
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015

Architecture is based upon the misconception that strong is stable, both in sense of energy and structure, as an unchanged state of microclimate would require more material or insulation. Trans-structures are the opposite: building elements with the response-ability to change according to external...
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