2011
Roberto Burle Marx (São Paulo, 1909-Rio de Janeiro, 1994) is known as a landscape architect, but also as a painter, plantsman, gardener, and jewellery designer, tapestry designer, in short, a multitalented artist. He considered the garden to be one of the fine arts, as “the adaptation of the biome to
Hrsg: Francis Rambert, Lauro Cavalcanti, Farès el-Dahdah
Verlag: Actar Press
2011
This book is an account of the peripheral moment, a highly productive decade of architectural experimentation in Croatia lodged between the violent break-up of Yugoslavia and that countries slow integration into the European Union. With the total collapse of existing urban planning regulations, severely
Hrsg: Ivan Rupnik
Verlag: Actar Press
2011
With the publication of the book „Synchronizing Geometry“, in 2006 the baseline of a typical OAB theoretical discourse was established in which a series of projects under development or construction stressed the importance of a theoretical background in the professional practice of architecture.
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Hrsg: Carlos Ferrater, Borja Ferrater
Verlag: Actar Press
2011
In today's turbulent times few subjects deserve a closer scrutiny than the interactions between violence and constructed environment. Modernity's contradictory histories laid bare the fact that it is impossible to consider architecture simply a benign, passive victim of humanity's violent vices. Built
Hrsg: Bechir Kenzari
Verlag: Actar Press
2010
The effect of migrations on built environments Journeys: How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment explores the subject of migrations and their impact on the built environment. The publication includes 16 stories written in a narrative form similar to historical fiction. The
Hrsg: Giovanna Borasi
Verlag: Actar Press, CCA Centre Canadien d'Architecture
2008
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
Hrsg: Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Autor: Eve Blau, Ivan Rupnik
Verlag: Actar Press