BFDO Architects
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1908967994 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
At the heart of the practice is a long-term investigation into how materials, structures and systems inform, reshape and blur this distinction. BFDO Architects principal Alexandra Barker is currently an associate professor and the coordinator of the MArch programme at the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Department (GAUD) in the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, New York, where she has taug
At the heart of the practice is a long-term investigation into how materials, structures and systems inform, reshape and blur this distinction. BFDO Architects principal Alexandra Barker is currently an associate professor and the coordinator of the MArch programme at the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Department (GAUD) in the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, New York, where she has taught since 2001. . About the Author Founded in 2007 and led by its principal Alexandra Barker, BFDO Architects works across sectors to probe the division between public and private space
The result is a seamless web of built work and propositions that escape easy categorisation, and are as much a lesson in practice as in theory.. By delving into a cross section of projects??from acclaimed single and multifamily residencies in Brooklyn, to institutional and retail projects like the Maple Street School and the Body Factory Midtown, to propositions like Chromatic Energy Landscape that fuse engineered technologies with ecological processes like photosynthesis and algae production??this eponymous publication highlights the diversity and ingenuity of BDFO Architects? practice. This publication situates BFDO Architects? work in the context of topical discussions including ecology and the landscape, multigenerational architecture and design, and the role of fabrication technologies in producing new relationships to space and place. This publication charts the multidisciplinary practice of Brooklyn-based architecture and design firm BFDO Architects. Emblematic of a new generation of architects and designers that work across typologies and scales to answer the stakes of architecture and design within the twenty-first century, BFDO Architects navigate topics of public space and circulation, technology, sustainability and materiality. Flowing through a thematic structure that is