Architecture Asia - ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2018

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RADICAL TECHNOLOGIES: THE
DESIGN OF EVERYDAY LIFE
ADAM GREENFIELD VERSO
Everywhere we turn, a startling new device
promises to transfigure our lives. But at what
cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of
our Information Age, leading technology thinker
Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our
relationship with the networked objects, services
and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate
the Silicon Valley consensus determining the
future.
We already depend on the smartphone to
navigate every aspect of our existence. We’re
told that innovations—from augmented-reality
interfaces and virtual assistants to autonomous
delivery drones and self-driving cars—will make
life easier, more convenient and more productive.
3D printing promises unprecedented control over
the form and distribution of matter, while the
blockchain stands to revolutionise everything
from the recording and exchange of value to the
way we organise the mundane realities of the
day to day. And, all the while, fiendishly complex
algorithms are operating quietly in the background,
reshaping the economy, transforming
the fundamental terms of our politics and even
redefining what it means to be human.
Having successfully colonised everyday life,
these radical technologies are now conditioning
the choices available to us in the years to come.
How do they work? What challenges do they
present to us, as individuals and societies? Who
benefits from their adoption? In answering these
questions, Greenfield’s timely guide clarifies the
scale and nature of the crisis we now confront
—and offers ways to reclaim our stake in the
future.
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MODERN TROPICAL:
HOUSES IN THE SUN
BYRON HAWES RIZZOLI
Contemporary tropical residential architecture
has risen from a geographically specific homegrown
aesthetic to a source of inspiration for the
world’s great modern architects and designers.
Set in exotic locales, with pools, lush foliage,
colorful gardens, these homes define a way of
life. Frequently elegant and uncluttered, the
houses serve as models of smart and beautiful
design with lots of ideas for homeowners who do
not necessarily live in a tropical or subtropical
climate, but who wish to have something of that
appeal and sensitivity in their own home.
This book presents some of the most innovative
interpretations of the genre from the past five
years by internationally recognised architects and
interior decorators, such as Tadao Ando, as well
the work of young up-and-comers of great talent,
including German-born, Bali-based Alexis
Dornier, and Mexico’s Roof Arquitectos. Selected
residences span the globe, from the southern
United States, the Caribbean, and tropical regions
of Latin America, to Southeast Asia, northern
Australasia, and Africa. Modern Tropical explores
the exotic material, color, cultural, environmental,
and aesthetic choices of some of contemporary
architecture’s most beautiful residential
properties.
Each house is introduced with breathtaking
interior and exterior photography and orientation
plans, giving readers an in-depth glimpse of the
rapidly evolving symbiosis between nature and
shelter, indoor and outdoor, and rustic and polished,
in a definitive examination of tropical modern
living.
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THE FUTURE OF MUSEUM AND
GALLERY DESIGN: PURPOSE,
PROCESS, PERCEPTION
(MUSEUM MEANINGS)
SUZANNE MACLEOD, TRICIA AUSTIN, JONATHAN HALE,
OSCAR HO HING-KAY ROUTLEDGE
The Future of Museum and Gallery Design explores
new research and practice in museum
design. Placing a specific emphasis on social
responsibility, in its broadest sense, the book
emphasises the need for a greater understanding
of the impact of museum design in the experiences
of visitors, in the manifestation of the vision
and values of museums and galleries, and in the
shaping of civic spaces for culture in our shared
social world.
The chapters included in the book propose a
number of innovative approaches to museum
design and museum-design research. Collectively,
contributors plead for more open and creative
ways of making museums, and ask that
museums recognize design as a resource to be
harnessed towards a form of museum-making
that is culturally located and makes a significant
contribution to our personal, social, environmental,
and economic sustainability. Such an approach
demands new ways of conceptualising
museum and gallery design, new ways of acknowledging
the potential of design, and new,
experimental, and research-led approaches to
the shaping of cultural institutions internationally.
The Future of Museum and Gallery Design
should be of great interest to academics and
postgraduate students in the fields of museum
studies, gallery studies, and heritage studies, as
well as architecture and design, who are interested
in understanding more about design as a
resource in museums. It should also be of great
interest to museum and design practitioners and
museum leaders.
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MARCEL BREUER: BUILDING
GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS
BARRY BERGDOLL, JONATHAN MASSEY, LUCIA ALLAIS, KENNY
CUPERS, GUY NORDENSON, TIMOTHY M. ROHAN, TERESA M.
HARRIS, JOHN HARWOOD, LAURA MARTINEZ DE GUERENU
LARS MULLER PUBLISHERS
Marcel Breuer (1902–81) is celebrated as a furniture
designer, teacher and architect who
changed the American house after his emigration
from Hungary to the US in 1937. More recently
historians, architects and—with the reopening in
New York of the great megalith of his Whitney
Museum as the Met Breuer—a larger public are
gaining new insights into the cities and largescale
buildings Breuer planned.
Often seen as a pioneer of a “Brutalist mod-
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