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  • Off The Shelf: Projects Surrounding the Chair Collection at the Faculty of Architecture

    Chair Collection TU Delft

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    This book discusses projects around the unique collection of over 300 chairs at TU Delft's Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. The chair collection served as a test case for possible new approaches in research and education.

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  • BK 10-15: Research Portfolio TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment

    Research Portfolio TU Delft Bouwkunde

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    Presented in this book is an overview of research data and policies, together with a selection of our finest research results: activities, organisations, facilities/assets, output, including indications of their use and recognition.

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  • The Ecological Turn: Design, Architecture and Aesthetics beyond “Anthropocene”

    The Ecological Turn

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    How does the ecological thinking affect architects, designers and the design culture itself? The Anthropocene is a geological event, but also a political one that lies in overcoming the idea of crisis. Acknowledging this change means rethinking the very ecology of the project in environmental and atmospheric terms. The changes we face don’t depend on missing balances, but on compromises reached between conservation and exploitation. The Anthropocene is in our suggested reading the time of the end of our representations and the time of the...

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