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The Tukanoan Maloca

Peter Blundell Jones

Peter Blundell Jones is Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Architecture And Ritual : How Buildings Shape Society

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Book chapter

...With this chapter we move on to a permanent house, the sole home of a particular group and centre of their world. Tukanoans are Native South Americans living in the Amazonian rainforest, and this case study draws largely on the accounts...

Project 02 MuBE – Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1988

Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Paulo Mendes da Rocha

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Grounds and Envelopes : Reshaping Architecture and the Built Environment

Routledge, 2015

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... MUBE – BRAZILIAN MUSEUM OF SCULPTURE Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1988 Paulo Mendes da Rocha Museums are typically designed as entirely discrete and of this project that it was ‘conceived as a garden’ (da Rocha prominent buildings of heightened...

The New Vernacular of Severiano Porto in the Amazon

Leticia Neves

Leticia Neves studied architecture at the University of São Paulo, Brazil and completed a Masters thesis on the work of the architect Severiano Porto. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Lessons from Vernacular Architecture

Routledge, 2014

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... THE NEW VERNACULAR OF SEVERIANO PORTO IN THE AMAZON Leticia Neves Manaus BRASIL The architect Severiano Porto Severiano Porto was the pioneer architect who actuated these principles in the Amazonian region by using new ideas of space...

AECOM

Pavel Hladik

Pavel Hladik is an architect and researcher. In his professional career he specialized in stadium design in the international design and consultancy firm AECOM (Global Sports). He worked on stadium concepts and on-site projects in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America. Among current on-site projects is Singapore National Stadium, where his focus was mainly on the large-span shell roof structure. He also worked on the Aquatics Centre for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Pavel Hladik is a member and board member of the OCEAN Design Research Association. His research focuses on complex systems and advanced computing methods in architectural design, with an interest in close collaboration with teams across building design disciplines. He has participated in projects where fast data communication was established, especially with lighting, environmental and structural designers. His interest in design of architectural form is always connected with real-time feedback and performative concepts. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Changing Shape of Practice : Integrating research and design in architechure

Routledge, 2016

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... AECOM AECOM global sports: Rio Olympic Games Barra Park Pavel Hladik AECOM GLOBAL SPORTS such as the Olympic Games and FIFA World CupTM – sports is a catalyst to renewal and is as much about place-making With nearly 100,000 employees –...

Contra Band

Leah Lovett

Leah Lovett

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Engaged Urbanism : Cities & Methodologies

I.B. Tauris, 2016

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...As host cities to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and 2014 World Cup, both London and Rio de Janeiro witnessed an intensification in performance practices and urban interventions. While in sporting stadia, the bodies of athletes...

Project 01 Brazilian Pavilion, Osaka World Expo 1970, Osaka, Japan, 1969

Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Paulo Mendes da Rocha

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Grounds and Envelopes : Reshaping Architecture and the Built Environment

Routledge, 2015

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... PROJECT 1 BRAZILIAN PAVILION Osaka World Expo 1970, Osaka, Japan, 1969 Paulo Mendes da Rocha World Expos and similar high-profile venues appear not to be shelter and burrow and the spatial transition and fusion via the the first places...

Urban Design Procedural Types and Processes

Jon Lang

Jon Lang, B.Arch (Rand), MRP, PhD (Cornell), is an Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he has been since 1990. Prior to that he taught for 20 years at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. He has published extensively on architectural theory, urban design, and architecture in India. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Urban Design : A Typology of Procedures and Products

Routledge, 2017

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... Many urban design schemes have been brought from the glimmer of an idea in somebody’s head to being a completed development. Thousands of proposals remain unimplemented. Some were simply explorations of possibilities. Many were...

Factory, Street and Theatre in Brazil: Two Theatres by Lina Bo Bardi

Evelyn Furquim

Evelyn Furquim

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Werneck Lima

Werneck Lima

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Performing Architectures : Projects, Practices, Pedagogies

Methuen Drama, 2018

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...This chapter discusses two innovative theatres designed by the Italian-born architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), reading them in the context of twentieth-century Brazilian culture and politics, and providing a sense of how they operate...