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Hernán Díaz Alonso (Buenos Aires, 1969) is an Argentine-American architect. He is Director/Chief Executive Officer of SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, and Founder and Principal of Los Angeles–based design practice HDA-X(formerly Xefirotarch). [ 1 ]
Hernan Diaz (born 1973) is an Argentine-American writer. [1] His 2023 novel, Trust , was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction . His 2017 novel In the Distance was a finalist for the same Pulitzer Prize, [ 2 ] as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction . [ 3 ]
Human Scale Development is basically community development and is "focused and based on the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, on the generation of growing levels of self-reliance, and on the construction of organic articulations of people with nature and technology, of global processes with local activity, of the personal with the social, of planning with autonomy and of civil society ...
Each urbmon is divided into "neighborhoods" of 40 or so floors. All the needs of the inhabitants are provided inside the building – food is grown outside and brought into the building – so the idea of going outside is heretical and can be a sign of madness. [20] The book examines human life when the population density is extremely high. [21]
The term ‘critical spatial practice’ refers to forms of practice between art and architecture.Jane Rendell introduced the term in 2003. [1] Rendell later consolidated and developed the term as one that defined practices located at a three-way intersection: between theory and practice, public and private, and art and architecture.
Modernist architecture is an architecture style based on modern construction materials, particularly glass, steel, and reinforced concrete, and the idea that form should follow function (functionalism). When applied to architecture intended for human residence, it is called modernist housing.
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is a private architecture school in Los Angeles, California. [1] SCI-Arc was founded in 1972 when it was initially regarded as both institutionally and artistically avant-garde. [2] It consists of approximately 500 students and 80 faculty members, some of whom are practicing architects.
The phenomenology of architecture is the philosophical study of architecture employing the methods of phenomenology. David Seamon defines it as "the descriptive and interpretive explication of architectural experiences, situations, and meanings as constituted by qualities and features of both the built environment and human life".