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Ai in modern architecture and design

This volume of Emerald Studies in Sustainable Architecture and Design examines the intersection of AI and architecture and provides a comprehensive exploration of AI-based tools and their role in shaping contemporary architectural practice.

Architecture and ekphrasis

This well-illustrated, accessibly written book examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Combining original archival material with cultural theory, the book considers the idea of the past and the role of space and time in t...

Building metabolism

How can we design the architecture of metabolism? How can architecture redefine resources, produce nutrients and contribute to regenerate land and protect communities at risk? Building Metabolism aims to reveal how architecture constructs, distributes, and leverages power via material recycli...

Common spaces of urban emancipation

This is an exciting book, which explores the cultural meaning and politics of common spaces in conjunction with ideas connected with neighbourhood and community, justice and resistance, in order to trace elements of a different emancipating future.

Conscious community

This book of three Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale School of Architecture includes the projects of Chris T Cornelius focusing on “Decolonizing Indigenous Housing”; Abeer Seikaly “Conscious Skins” on materiality, making, and place; and Rodney Leon for a concept for a National Slavery Me...

Dispositional intelligence in architecture

Dispositional Intelligence proposes a contemporary theory of spatial organization in architecture through original research into a particular kind of hybrid design production—inherently architectural yet strongly driven by modes of intellection traditionally associated with engineering—which surf...

Essays on thermodynamics

Future real

Future tempos

I, like many things

In a world of change we cling to constants that comfort us while catastrophes lure behind cut corners. We compartmentalize and channel our focus into cones of concentration when confronted with choices. Many might decide to do so with intention while others simply try to cope with the complexitie...

New york global

Framed by the period of the Great Acceleration, these writings and projects represent a critical commentary on the state of architecture and urbanism and their causal role in global metamorphosis. On the eve of Plunz’s status as Emeritus at Columbia University, New York Global bridges five decade...

Platform 11

Spatial infrastructure

Spatial Infrastructure is a collection of essays crafting a self-consistent project that recasts architectural thinking as a form of knowledge by addressing a number of fundamental questions relevant to the reading of works across styles, time-periods, and geographic boundaries. José Aragüez's se...

Sustainability, resilience, and inclusiveness through human-centred architecture and design

This edited collection examines the profound ways in which architecture and design can contribute to global imperatives framed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those focused on sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11), affordable and clean energy (SDG 7)...

The particular and the public

The Particular and the Public focuses on three Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors’ architecture studios at Yale including Bangkok architect Rachapoorn Choochuey, in “Going Home Again”; Carrie Norman and Thomas Kelley (Norman Kelley) of Chicago, in “A Particular (New England) Building”; a...