Megastructure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Megastructure write by Reyner Banham. This book was released on 2020-06-16. Megastructure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A long-sought reprint of this classic of architectural history and criticism, surveying a movement that would inspire architects, fantasists, and filmmakers alike. It is an architectural concept as alluring as it is elusive, as futuristic as it is primordial. Megastructure is what it sounds like: a vastly scaled edifice that can contain potentially countless uses, contexts, and adaptations. Theorized and briefly experimented with in built form in the 1960s, megastructures almost as quickly went out of fashion in the profession. But Reyner Banham's 1976 book compiled the origin stories and ongoing mythos of this visionary movement, seeking to chart its lively rise, rapid fall, and ongoing meaning. Now back in print after decades and with original editions fetching well over $100 on the secondary market, Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past is part of the recent surge in attention to this quixotic form, of which some examples were built but to this day remains--decades after its codification--more of a poetic idea than a real architectural type. Banham, among the most gifted and incisive architectural critics and historians of his time, sought connections between theoretical origins in Le Corbusier's more starry-eyed drawings to the flurry of theories by the Japanese Metabolist architects, to less intentional examples in military architecture, industry, infrastructure, and the emerging instances in pop culture and art. Had he written the book a few years later he would find an abundance of examples in speculative art and science fiction cinema, mediums where it continues to provoke wonder to this day. A long-sought study by an author who combined imagination, wit, and pioneering scholarship, the republication of Megastructure is an opportunity for scholars and laypeople alike to return to the origins of this fantastic urban idea.
Megastructure
Megastructure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Megastructure write by Jon Frater. This book was released on 2021-07-26. Megastructure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ends justify the means... Technical Specialist Simon Brooks was no soldier. More suited for the academy than combat, his assignment to a rear echelon support squadron seemed a good fit. Everything changed when the Sleer attacked Earth's newly salvaged spacecraft, UEF Ascension. In a flash, Brooks goes from fleeing a burning transport plane to piloting a broken mech and learning the habits of a fighter pilot from Lt Sara Rosenski, the terror of Nightmare Squadron. But his rising star takes a hit when he learns to talk to the Sleer AI, Genukh...and suddenly the UEF doesn't know whose side he's on. Now Brooks and Rosenski are stuck aboard Earth's Sleer weapon-the Battle Ring--and they may be all that stands between Earth and its induction into the Sleer Empire... Experience the start of a Military Science Fiction Series perfect for fans of Rick Partlow, Jamie McFarlane, and Joshua Dalzelle.
Mountains and Megastructures
Mountains and Megastructures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mountains and Megastructures write by Martin Beattie. This book was released on 2020-12-21. Mountains and Megastructures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the shared qualities of mountains as naturally-formed landscapes, and of megastructures as manmade landscapes, seeking to unravel how each can be understood as an open system of complex network relationships (human, natural and artificial). By looking at mountains and megastructures in an interchangeable way, the book negotiates the fixed boundaries of natural and artificial worlds, to suggest a more complex relationship between landscape and architecture. It suggests an ecological understanding of the interconnectedness of architecture and landscape, and an entangled network of relations. Urban, colonialist, fictional, rural and historical landscapes are interwoven into this fabric that also involves discontinuities, tensions and conflicts as parts of a system that is never linear, but rather fluid and organic as driven by human endeavor.
Megastructure Schiphol
Megastructure Schiphol - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Megastructure Schiphol write by Marieke Berkers. This book was released on 2013. Megastructure Schiphol available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Airports look alike all over the world. Schiphol has conformed to the patterns of the airport, but its unique design makes it stand out. The book Megastructure Schiphol looks into the history of the Netherlands' most famous national airport and its sophisticated appearance. Schiphol has grown in fits and starts as a result of ever-expanding traffic in freight and passengers. The area around Schiphol is constantly evolving, yet there is great consistency in the visual aspect of this airport, which can rightly be called a 'megastructure'. This is not merely due to the efforts of its designers, who have strived to achieve a spectacular simplicity. Other factors, such as its location in a polder and the local planning culture, have also played a role. In Megastructure Schiphol an analysis of its metamorphoses over the past century demonstrates Schiphol's unique character and its function as a model for other airports. The question of how Schiphol and the surrounding metropolis can be tailored to one another is examined from the standpoint of economics, infrastructure, design and image-making."--Publisher's description.
Megastructures
Megastructures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Megastructures write by Ian Graham. This book was released on 2012. Megastructures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores some of the world's mightiest man-made structures, and how they were designed and built.
