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How Did We Get Here? : BLAF Architecten Houses 2003--2023.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
BLAF architecten, Blaf.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Vanden Driessche, Bart.
Nijs, Lieven.
Sustainable architecture.
Architectural design.
Local Subjects:
Vanden Driessche, Bart.
Nijs, Lieven.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2026.
Summary:
Can a house simultaneously be a home, a prototype, and a critical response to reality?How Did We Get Here?reveals how BLAF architecten's residential projects navigate tensions between suburban sprawl, energy regulations, conventional construction systems, and clients' housing aspirations.
Contents:
Intro
How Did We Get Here?
Contents
Learning from Building: The Importance of Practice-Based Research in Architecture
This is a Book About Houses.
The Waiting Time
The Elegance of Wood Construction
Designing with Energy: Criteria and Principles
Trias Thinking
EPB(D)
The Passive House
abA House
But Why the Same House?!
Hybrid Construction and Practices of Cladding
The Agency of Geometry
Post-Insulation Dilemmas
dnA House
The Future Ruin
Old Bricks, New Bricks
Big Brick Hybrids
The Habitable Cavity
jtB House
Interior
Houses 2003-2023
jsL house 03-0121
jaL house 06-0261
mgL house 06-0268
siL house 07-0274
abA house 08-0303
gbL house 08-0315
tlSN house 08-0353
dnA house 10-0412
boW house 11-0433
saL house 11-0443
gjG house 11-0452
tkD house 12-0455
jmO house 13-0496
lbSN house 13-0506
wsT house 14-0512
ksSA house 14-0515
tmEK house 14-0526
btL house 04-0122
psW house 15-0544
tmSN house 15-0547
tlG house 15-0566
fmM house 16-0590
hkZ house 17-0618
jtB house 19-0651
Where Do We Go from Here?
Bibliography
Learning from Building
How did we get here?
Where do we go from here?
BLAF architecten
Awards
Photo Credits.
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ISBN:
3-0356-2826-2
OCLC:
1581077896

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