University of Chicago Press: New Titles in Architecture: Middle Eastern, African, and Asian Architecture

Guide for Design, Installation, and Assessment of Post-installed Reinforcements

Ray K. L. Su; Daniel T. W. Looi; Yanlong Zhang — Wed, 26 May 2021 05:00:00 GMT

The frequent use of post-installed reinforcements to rehabilitate and strengthen existing buildings and other structures have made this technology increasingly important. The technology, which connects new structural components to existing concrete structures, offers flexibility in design and construction. The international market, however, has a paucity of guides for the design, installation, and quality control of post-installed reinforcements. Guide for Design, Installation, and Assessment of Post-Installed Reinforcements aims to address this gap by proposing an innovative approach to post-installed reinforcements combined with local design provisions, revealing the possibilities for post-installed reinforcements to designers, contractors, and building control bodies alike.

Singapore’s Building Stock

Sat, 15 May 2021 05:00:00 GMT

Singapore is undergoing rapid urbanization, including the construction of new buildings and infrastructure and the renovation of existing structures. These physical changes become interwoven within the “built fabric” of the evolving city, reflecting an ever-changing social and cultural landscape. At the same time, the ecological systems of the city interact with these changes and themselves change over time.
A thorough and visually compelling account of Singapore’s rapid urban development, Singapore’s Building Stock analyzes the city’s transformation, drawing on a wealth of sources, including historic maps and surveys, aerial photographs, planning documents, and contemporary building surveys. The book offers three perspectives in the form of different spatial scales—the territory, the district, and the building—and insightful contributions by the books editors, Uta Hassler and Iris Belle, and other renowned experts on art, architecture, and urbanization.

Irúsan

Nicholas Drofiak — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 06:00:00 GMT

In 1931, architect Ivan Il’ic Leonidov was sent 2,800 kilometers northeast of Moscow to assist in constructing the new Soviet arctic port of Igarka. The city stood in the traditional territory of speakers of the indigenous language of Ket. Today spoken fluently by fewer than twenty people, the language isolate offers a grammatical model of reality unrelated to Indo-European language structures. By employing the Ket language as a medium of academic architectural discussion, this text creates an encounter between Leonidov’s fantastical architectural drawings and native Ket speaker and linguist Dr. Zoâ Vasil’evna Maksunova to pose hybridization, fiction-making and translation as means of performing research. The work’s graphical elements and lyrical prose challenge conventional ways in which the history and knowledge of architecture are constructed.