Architecture - Gila Walker

Cities and Forms probes the crucial issue of the shape to give to sustainable cities in the future. It unfolds a rich mosaic of two thousand years of urban history in the East and in the West through 1,200 drawings, city plans, and photographs, all of which is correlated with thousands of results of original analyses for a wide range of urban textures, from Siena and Venice to New York, Brasilia, Tokyo, Beijing, and Shanghai. Cities and Forms also features a detailed comparative study of Haussmanian Paris and Le Corbusier’s Radiant City, and an in-depth analysis of Chinese cities.
This book provides a measurable scientific dimension to such essential notions of sustainable urbanism as density, connectivity, functional mix, and accessibility, by exploring the qualities of historic urban fabrics. Readers will become familiar with organic patterns, grids, transformations, and the hidden order and fractal symmetries that connect urban scales, and endow the city with a meaningful, human order, which fosters social integration and cultural diversity, appropriable by residents but at the same time structured like an ecosystem. Morphology appears in this book as the key lever for cities to adapt to climate change. It enhances efficiency by cutting energy consumption in half. The connectivity of its networks reinforces urban re-silience, on the model of such natural structures as the hierarchic, intensely connected network of nervures in leaves. Cities and Forms develops a method of urban composition founded on perceptive qualities, and the design of public spaces, squares, streets, and visual sequences. It forms the bases of a return to the city as a place of memory and history, and of a controlled relationship between the urban fabric, urban morphology and building typology. By the abundance of its new findings, its methods and its concrete application of complexity theories, this book is of utmost importance to architects, urban planners, decision-makers, and anyone eager to understand sustainable cities and contribute to their development.

ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM

Achille Mbembe, "The Earthly Community" in Coloniality of Infrastructure (E-Flux Architecture, 2021)

Notre-Dame de Paris. From builders to restorers (February 2023 – ), exhibition texts (Cité de l'Architecture, Paris, 2023)

Deco: France - North America (2022 – 2023), exhibition texts (Cité de l'Architecture, Paris, 2023)

AJAP 2020, Album des Jeunes Architectes et Paysagistes (D'Architectures - SEA / Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine, 2020)

Otto Wagner: Master of Viennese Art Nouveau (November 13, 2019 – March 16, 2020), exhibition texts (Cité de l'Architecture, Paris 2019)

Alvar Aalto: Architect and Designer (March – July 2018), exhibition texts (Cité de l'Architecture, Paris 2018)

Margaux Darrieus, AJAP 2018, Album des Jeunes Architectes et Paysagistes (D'Architectures - SEA / Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine, 2018)

Globes: Architecture and Science Map the World (November 2017 – March 2018), exhibition texts (Cité de l'Architecture, Paris 2017-2018)

Urban Mutations, temporary exhibition (June 14, 2016 – 5 March 2017) Exhibition texts, multimedia, audiovisuals, subtitling (Cité des Sciences, Paris 2017)

Architecture and History – A tour of the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, Audioguide (2016)

Christophe Foultier, Regimes of Hospitality: Urban Citizenship between Participation and Securitization – the Case of the Multiethnic French Banlieue (Linköping University Electronic Press, 2015).

Pascal Blin, Brunet Saunier Architecture: Monospace and Simplexity (Birkhäuser, 2012)

Alberto Alessi, ed., Singular Plural: Geninasca Delefortrie Architects (Birkhäuser, 2012).

Paul Ardenne, “ECDM in ten points: Vade-mecum for an architecture of practical grace” Once Upon a Time… ECDM, France (DD series, Damdi, 2010)

Serge Salat, Françoise Labbé, Caroline Nowacki, Cities and Forms: On Sustainable Urbanism (CSTB Urban Morphology Laboratory, 2011)

Annuel optimiste d’architecture/Optimistic Architecture Yearbook 2007 (French Touch, 2008)

Bruno Marchand, Quartier Ecoparc/Ecoparc Quarter (Birkhäuser, 2009)

Antoine Picon, Marc Mimram, Hybrid: architecture, engineer (In Folio, 2007)

Paul Ardenne, Manuelle Gautrand: Architecture (Birkhäuser, 2006)

Paul Ardenne, Contacts - Philippe Gazeau architecte (Archives d'architecture moderne, 2006)

Paul Ardenne, Codex: Rudy Ricciotti (Birkhäuser, 2004)

Anne-Françoise Jumeau, News: 25 Projects by Périphériques Architects (IN-EX projects / Birkhauser, 2004)

Périphériques architects, Your House Now: 36 Propositions for a Home (Birkhäuser, 2003)

“IN-EX 02” (IN-EX projects/Birkhaüser, 2001)

Jean-Louis Guigou, France 2015: Reconstructing the Territory – A Contribution to the National Debate (Verlag Peter Lang, 1999)

“IN-EX 02” (IN-EX projects/Birkhaüser, 1999)

Paul Andreu: Fifty Airport Terminals, a project book (Aeroports de Paris: 1998)

Rem Koolhaas oma, Living. Vivre. Leben. (Birkhäuser, 1998)

Charles-de-Gaulle Airport: Module 2F, a project book (Aéroports de Paris, 1996)

The Cross-Channel Terminal and Cité Europe (Aeroports de Paris, 1995)

Charles-de-Gaulle Airport : The Exchange Module, a project book (Aéroports de Paris, 1994)