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8 | Architecture | Theory Lukas Feireiss (Ed.) Space Matters Exploring Spatial Theory and Practice Today Pages Approx. 190 Ills. 50 Format 15,5 × 23,5 cm Binding Softcover Price Approx. € 27.16 | $ 32.56 | £ 21.35 ISBN 978-3-99043-563-2, English Available June 2013 Available in the US July 2013 An inspiring expansion of the contemporary discourse on space A2— ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG & HUBERT KLUMPNER GRAN HORIZONTE: CURRICULUM FOR A NEW CITY closely. In the favelas, the bulk of the population is disadvantaged in one way or another. The lives of children with autism or Down’s syndrome are particularly difficult, as few public and private spaces are designed or adapted to fit their needs. In locating the school for autistic children, known as FAVA, on a sloping site, it was important for us to leave open as large an area as possible for a park, which is something rare in the center of the city. Therefore, we designed the building as a compact volume and set it in one corner of the site. As a result, the spatial program extended to a five-story structure. In Caracas, however, lifts are service-intensive installations and would make a building of this kind unsuitable for the students, many of whom experience increased anxiety in elevators. Our solution was to build a long ramp around the outside of the building. Access to the first two floors is via the sloped topography. The development was financed from a new tax conceived to flow into structures with a social role. Companies can donate up to 100 percent of their annual tax to finance such schemes. We work in a complex environment that calls for simple solutions. That means using available local materials and labor. Most people believe that low-cost construction must be inferior to expensive forms of building. We wish to overcome prejudices of this kind as well as outdated ideas regarding how a project should be developed. Only if we shift our expectations away from a product, to a process, and reconsider traditional development strategies, will we be able to find economically feasible solutions for the masses of people in the slums. And only if we do that will we have vibrant cities for every stratum of society that lives in them. Looking at our Earth as a whole, we find a new vision for our urban planet, and for all of us who live within it.○ THE CITIES ON OUR PLANET NEED MORE THAN OFFICE TOWER BLOCKS, MUSEUMS, OPERA HOUSES, AIRPORTS, STA- DIUMS, ETC. Interdisciplinary contributions on the timeless architectural theme of “space” With pieces by Elsa Prochazka, Hubert Klumpner &amp, Alfredo Brillembourg, Markus Miessen, Michael Obrist, Lilli Hollein and many others Writen for cultural researchers and those in creative professions, such as architects, artists and curators 54 A EDUCATION: As the subject of earnest discussion, the meaning of space reaches far beyond the horizon of a single discipline. Lukas Feiriss has assembled a collection of international contributions for Space Matters, a publication of the space & design strategies study program of the Univeristy of Art and Design, Linz, Austria to create an inspiring expansion of the contemporary discourse on space. The publication addresses cultural resarchers and readers in creative professions – architects, artists, curators, scientists and students in all the related fields as well as those members of a broader audience that are interested in the incorporation of space and the pratices with which it is designed in cultural, social and humanities-oriented contexts. Related Titles: Moravánszky (Ed.): Architekturtheorie im 20. Jahrhundert, 978-3-99043-258-7
Architecture | Theory | 9 Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Bühlmann (Eds.) Sheafs When Things are Whatever Can be the Case Pages Approx. 585 Ills. 800 Format 15,5 × 21 cm Binding Softcover Price Approx. € 64.19 | $ 89.99 | £ 53.99 ISBN 978-3-99043-557-1, English Applied Virtuality Book Series Available December 2013 Available in the US January 2014 Let yourself be inspired by the intellectual wealth of our world Inspirational Book A wealth of topics and illustration material Build your own inspiring storyboard by combining the book and the internet “Sheafs” will not describe anything. It will not judge. It will inspire. There are no continuous texts, but a wide range of topics. How to read this book? Take the notions seriously. Search the Internet and they will lose their generalness. They will begin to speak to you vividly. Bundle these riches with the riches of other notions and they will activate each other. Also take the pictures seriously. Photograph or scan them. Use them as an index, while searching the Internet. Again, you will find rich stories. Bundle those riches, concentrate them into new identities that are interesting to you. Let yourself be inspired by the intellectual wealth of our world. You can expand it. It is an exciting adventure, demanding and optimistic. Related Titles: Hovestadt, Bühlmann (Eds.): Printed Physics Metalithikum I, 978-3-99043-540-3
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