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Re-inventing Construction - excerpts from table of contents

Introduction

Excerpt of Introduction: Toward a Gay Science of Construction (PDF, 410 KB)

Ilka & Andreas Ruby

Reduce CO2

Excerpt of Introduction: Reduce CO2 (PDF, 419 KB)

Forrest Meggers

Excerpt of Saving the Climate Saves You Money (PDF, 426 KB)

Amory B. Lovins

Excerpt of Architecture Isn’t Here to Stay (PDF, 426 KB)

Excerpt of Going SOFT (PDF, 1575 KB)

Sheila Kennedy / KVA

Excerpt of The Joys of Ecolomy (PDF, 426 KB)

Bjarke Ingels / BIG

Excerpt of EOL, COP, PVT, TABS and LowEx (PDF, 416 KB)

Forrest Meggers, Hansjürg Leibundgut

Excerpt of Conditioning the Desert (PDF, 431 KB)

Tobias Wallisser / LAVA

Excerpt of An Illustrated Index of Re-inventing Construction A - H (PDF, 221 KB)

Something Fantastic

Take on complexity

Excerpt of Introduction: Take on Complexity (PDF, 410 KB)

Hans-Rudolf Schalcher

Excerpt of In Favor of Flow (PDF, 420 KB)

Kazuhiro Kojima / C+A

Excerpt of Building on Speed (PDF, 420 KB)

Michel Rojkind / Rojkind Arquitectos

Excerpt of Challenge the Standard (PDF, 415 KB)

Francisco Pardo / at103

Excerpt of The Cook, the Prospector, the Nomad and their Architect (PDF, 416 KB)

Jeanne Gang / Studio Gang Architects

Excerpt of Buy One, Get One Free (PDF, 427 KB)

Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal / Lacaton & Vassal Architects

Excerpt of Squaring the Circle (PDF, 427 KB)

Peter Swinnen, Johan Anrys / 51N4E

Excerpt of Best Used Before (PDF, 416 KB)

Minsuk Cho / Mass Studies

Excerpt of An Illustrated Index of Re-inventing Construction H - P (PDF, 198 KB)

Something Fantastic

Mine the City

Excerpt of Introduction: Mine the City (PDF, 410 KB)

Ilka & Andreas Ruby

Excerpt of Re: Going Around in Circles (PDF, 426 KB)

Marc Angélil, Cary Siress

Excerpt of Architecture to Take Away (PDF, 414 KB)

Keller Easterling

Excerpt of Big Apple, Homegrown (PDF, 415 KB)

Excerpt of The Hanging Gardens of the 21st Century (PDF, 426 KB)

Dickson Despommier

Excerpt of Pimp my World (PDF, 426 KB)

Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano / LOT-EK

Excerpt of The Vernacular Rediscovered (PDF, 426 KB)

Dirk Hebel

Excerpt of An Illustrated Index of Re-inventing Construction P - Z (PDF, 230 KB)

Something Fantastic

Stimulate Stakeholders

Excerpt of Introduction: Stimulate Stakeholders (PDF, 410 KB)

Chrisna du Plessis, Holger Wallbaum

Excerpt of The Empathy Principle (PDF, 420 KB)

Excerpt of The Settler is King (PDF, 1797 KB)

Anne-Julchen Bernhardt, Jörg Leeser / BeL Associates

Excerpt of Governing the Commons in the New Millennium (PDF, 426 KB)

Elinor Ostrom, Harini Nagendra

Excerpt of The Promise of Neza (PDF, 416 KB)

Excerpt of The Mexican Dream (PDF, 3129 KB)

Livia Corona

Excerpt of Architecture without Developers (PDF, 520 KB)

Christian Roth, Sascha Zander / Zanderroth Architects

Excerpt of Sustaining what? (PDF, 426 KB)

Bibliographic details
Re-inventing Construction
Edited by Ilka Ruby & Andreas Ruby, with an illustrated index by Something Fantastic
Price: €48
Binding/Format: Hardcover, English, 440 pages, 23.5 x 17.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-9813436-2-5
Imprint: Ruby Press: Berlin, 2010

Ordering instructions
Re-inventing Construction may be purchased directly from the publisher, Ruby Press, for €48 per copy (excl. handling charges): www.ruby-press.com

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