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Bartlett Designs: Speculating with Architecture communicates a new message about the importance of inventive and well–designed architecture and its relevance to the wider public. Highly visual, this unique resource features full–color images showcasing the newest generation of designers. Visually stunning, the text is richly illustrated with drawings and both computer–aided and hand–crafted models. It demonstrates to both professionals and the interested public the Bartlett School of Architecture′s continued interest in cutting–edge aesthetics, while also engaging with core issues, such as sustainability, housing, and the design of public urban space.
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The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL is one of the world’s leading places at which to study and teach architecture. Every year it attracts hundreds of students from around to world to come and participate in its highly experimental and rigorous range of architecture programmes. Its graduates have won an extraordinary range of prizes on the international stage, and are highly sought after by architectural practices globally.
Bartlett Designs: Speculating With Architecture is a collection of the very best of this student work from the last decade. Through a detailed presentation of over 170 student projects, each succinctly explained by the individual tutors concerned, the book shows how architectural designs and ideas can creatively address some of the world’s most pressing urban and social problems through buildings and other forms of architectural invention. The wide range of projects on show deal inventively with such important issues as cultural identity, housing, climate change, health and public space, as well as architectural concerns with the imagination of exciting forms and aesthetic languages.
Complementing the student projects is a series of short and provocative essays written by tutors at the school. Ranging from landscape to buildings, from urbanism to interaction, from making to advanced technology, these essays postulate a series of manifestoes and agendas – and so both create a conceptual framework around the incredible variety of student work on display, and suggest some of the most current and pertinent agendas for architecture today
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It is very difficult to review, or even describe this book. It is very much like an architectural degree show, in book form, with all that that implies. There is a plethora of ideas tumbling over each other, a complete lack of anything approaching practicality and a frustrating lack of depth to the projects. This is not a criticism of the students whose work is included, but reducing projects to a short paragraph with some illustrations requires the deployment of considerable imagination on the part of the reader. The stalwarts of lumpen collages and over-elaborate CGI fill the pages, while more conventional plans are generally so shrunken as to be illegible.
I suspect that practical architects would find this a frustrating read. Those with a more literary bent, will find much here that is evocative of JG Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges, China Mieville, etc etc. Many of the projects seem to sketch out a setting for some as yet unwritten science fiction.
I do wonder about students putting so much work into such fantastical projects, projects even more speculative than unbuilt Zaha Hadid projects. Creating some parallel universe of unbuildable constructions. Is it a better or worse universe than ours?
Overall I think that if you approach this book in the right frame of mind, then you will find it stimulating and annoying in equal measure. I think that that is a recommendation of sorts. Though I would recommend Bldgblog Book: Architectural Conjecture, Urban Speculation, Landscape Futures over this.
I suspect that practical architects would find this a frustrating read. Those with a more literary bent, will find much here that is evocative of JG Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges, China Mieville, etc etc. Many of the projects seem to sketch out a setting for some as yet unwritten science fiction.
I do wonder about students putting so much work into such fantastical projects, projects even more speculative than unbuilt Zaha Hadid projects. Creating some parallel universe of unbuildable constructions. Is it a better or worse universe than ours?
Overall I think that if you approach this book in the right frame of mind, then you will find it stimulating and annoying in equal measure. I think that that is a recommendation of sorts. Though I would recommend Bldgblog Book: Architectural Conjecture, Urban Speculation, Landscape Futures over this.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book on a whim thinking the cover was nice, and I have not regretted it! If you do anything resembling architecture or spatial design this book is a must have. It has given me invaluable inspiration as to how to do beautiful architectural drawings, so far it has been my most read and reread book, I can spend hours flicking through it and just look at the stunning images. This is a book definitely worth the money, and as for delivery I had no problems and the book was in good condition when it arrived. I hope you will have as much use of this book as I have.
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Amazing work done at the Bartlett, way out there and theoretical but amazing and beautifully done. I recommend it for architects who are interested in theoretical works and new concepts in architecture.
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