Architecture Asia - ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2018

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ernism” of reinforced concrete, Breuer might best
be understood through the lens of the changing
institutional structures in and for which he
worked, a vantage developed in the fresh approaches
gathered here in essays by a group of
younger scholars. These essays draw on an
abundance of newly available documents held in
the Breuer Archive at Syracuse University, now
accessible online.
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REGENERATIVE URBAN DESIGN
AND ECOSYSTEM BIOMIMICRY
(ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH IN
SUSTAINABLE URBANISM)
MAIBRITT PEDERSEN ZARI ROUTLEDGE
It is clear that the climate is changing and ecosystems
are becoming severely degraded. Humans
must mitigate the causes of, and adapt to, climate
change and the loss of biodiversity, as the
impacts of these changes become more apparent
and demand urgent responses. These pressures,
combined with rapid global urbanisation and population
growth mean that new ways of designing,
retrofitting and living in cities are critically needed.
Incorporating an understanding of how the
living world works and what ecosystems do into
architectural and urban design is a step towards
the creation and evolution of cities that are radically
more sustainable and potentially regenerative.
Can cities produce their own food, energy,
and water? Can they be designed to regulate
climate, provide habitat, cycle nutrients, and purify
water, air and soil?
This book examines and defines the field of
biomimicry for sustainable built environment design
and goes on to translate ecological knowledge
into practical methodologies for architectural
and urban design that can proactively respond
to climate change and biodiversity loss.
These methods are tested and exemplified
through a series of case studies of existing cities
in a variety of climates.
Regenerative Urban Design and Ecosystem
Biomimicry will be of great interest to students,
professionals and researchers of architecture,
urban design, ecology, and environmental studies,
as well as those interested in the interdisciplinary
study of sustainability, ecology and urbanism.
scape. Principals Bernardo Fort-Brescia and
Laurinda Spear continue to this day exploring
and pushing the limits of materials and design
with their innovative use of geometry, pattern,
and color.
The first book on this major international architectural
design firm since Rizzoli’s own Arquitectonica
(2004), this volume is a retrospective of
the firm’s forty-year history, considering its earliest
projects—the archetypal and hugely influential
Pink House and Babylon Apartments—to Regalia
Condominium tower, its twenty-first-century masterwork
of undulant glass and steel.
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FROM OBJECT TO EXPERIENCE:
THE NEW CULTURE OF
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
HARRY FRANCIS MALLGRAVE BLOOMSBURY VISUAL ARTS
Harry Francis Mallgrave combines a history of
ideas about architectural experience with the
latest insights from the fields of neuroscience,
cognitive science and evolutionary biology to
make a powerful argument about the nature and
future of architectural design.
Today, the sciences have granted us the tools
to help us understand better than ever before the
precise ways in which the built environment can
affect the building user’s individual experience.
Through an understanding of these tools, architects
should be able to become better designers,
prioritising the experience of space — the emotional
and aesthetic responses, and the sense of
homeostatic well-being, of those who will occupy
any designed environment. In From Object to
Experience, Mallgrave goes further, arguing that it
should also be possible to build an effective new
cultural ethos for architectural practice.
Drawing upon a range of humanistic and biological
sources, and emphasizing the far-reaching
implications of new neuroscientific discoveries
and models, this book brings up-to-date insights
and theoretical clarity to a position that was once
considered revolutionary but is fast becoming
accepted in architecture.
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THE ART OF ARCHITECTURAL
DAYLIGHTING
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ARQUITECTONICA
ALASTAIR GORDON RIZZOLI
A major new evaluation of the trailblazing Miamibased
architecture firm upon the advent of its
fortieth anniversary. Arquitectonica is the design
firm that put Miami on the map for the cool, hip,
very now architecture that was first celebrated on
TV in Miami Vice. Since their founding four decades
ago, the firm has grown exponentially in
stature, and its energies have only increased.
Arquitectonica is a major presence on the
world architectural stage, with offices in New
York, Los Angeles, Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai,
Manila, Dubai, Lima, and São Paulo. Founded in
1977, the firm received critical and popular attention
and acclaim almost from its inception, thanks
to a bold modernism that was immediately identified
with a renaissance in Miami’s urban land-
MARY GUZOWSKI LAURENCE KING PUBLISHING
During the past decade there has been a tremendous
growth in daylighting analysis methods,
allowing designers to meet ever higher standards.
But in relying too heavily on these methods,
there is a risk of reducing daylighting design
to a quantitative exercise, overlooking the qualitative,
aesthetic, and experiential aspects of design.
This book reveals how architects have
bridged the poetic and practical potential of daylighting
to create exquisitely illuminated spaces.
In the book, 12 buildings are examined, using
photographs, drawings, and plans. Each case
study also includes technical analysis diagrams,
specially created using specialist software. Featured
architects include Renzo Piano, David
Chipperfield, and Steven Holl.
The Art of Architectural Daylighting will be
invaluable for professionals and students alike.
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ARCHITECTURE ASIA ISSUE 3 2018