Reconnecting Cities, People, and Nature is a call to action for urban designers to deeply engage with the living fabric of the city. By working together with humans, non-humans, and allied disciplines, designers can spark a transformation that reshapes cities into thriving, sustainable social and natural ecosystems. Twenty thought-provoking design exercises explore what the city as a complex biotope could be like, inspiring action and creating change.

• Foreword by Rahul Mehrotra
• Twenty exercises based on practice and teaching
• Hand-drawn illustrations

What do designers, scientists, entrepreneurs and politicians have in common? They want to shape the future. But how can you make the future - that which does not yet exist - tangible for others?

In this book, over 40 thought leaders from the worlds of business, politics, art and science address the question of ‘futurecasting’. It includes texts by Alex McDowell, the award-winning creative director who successfully stages Steven Spielberg's future films; Angela Wilkinson, who reports on her work as Secretary General of the World Energy Council; and, last but not least, David Kirby, who writes about the useful collaboration between industry and science fiction.

A reader by and for all those who want to shape the future.

• Why futurecasting is of central importance
• Which methods are effective
• How the future can be shaped

The maelstrom of change takes us with it - but instead of fearing it, we can learn to shape it. Heraclitus' wisdom - Panta rhei - is more relevant today than ever: security, food, digitalization, power - all these cornerstones of our lives are in a state of upheaval. But change does not have to be a threat, it can be an opportunity!

In this volume, 15 creative minds have their say and show how they are tackling the changes of our time - with art, new narratives and innovative economic models. Their ideas inspire us not only to accept change, but to actively shape it.

• 15 creative minds show how change can be used as an opportunity
• Inspiration for upheaval
• Insight into creative strategies for shaping change yourself

Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) has today made its way into Architecture. The pace of AI’s deployment in our field, evermore bolstered by the speed of this technology's development by the tech industry, has surpassed in many ways what practitioners expected just a few years ago. Halfway between full scale adoption and hampered usage due to the obvious remaining limitations of this technology, AI’s presence in Architecture stands today at a crossroad.
This new, updated edition of Artificial Intelligence & Architecture offers to examine this typing point.This book provides an introduction to the topic through the triple lens of history, application, and theory. A chronology of Architecture’s technological evolution first puts AI back in the context of the discipline. It then presents an up-to-date collection of AI’s applications in Architecture. The book finally gives the stage to contributors working at the forefront of this revolution. Their perspectives provide a panorama of the discourse surrounding AI’s presence in the field. Halfway between research and practice, this book offers to unveil the promise and challenges AI holds for Architecture.

• Fully revised edition of an earlier introduction to AI and architecture
• Topic viewed through triple lenses of history, practice, and theory
• This book unveils the promise and challenges of AI in architecture

Contemporary vernacular architecture today - and what we can learn from temporary infrastructures

Temporary Tecture is a fundamental statement on the impact and significance of temporary infrastructures in the city: not only do they ensure the functioning of numerous processes - from construction and dismantling to orientation and protection - but they also shape the cityscape significantly as an overarching structure. Despite their omnipresence, these structures of necessity continue to lead a shadowy existence in both professional discourse and public perception.

This book opens up a new perspective on what is described here for the first time as contemporary vernacular architecture. It shows that it even offers an architectural language from which architects can learn in terms of adaptability, use of local resources, circular economy and conceptual radicalism.

•     A new perspective on temporary infrastructures
•     An illustrated and inspiring publication
•     With contributions by Charlotte Maltere-Barthes, Jan De Vylder and Philip Ursprung