Crafting Character

Name: Crafting Character
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9789492311603
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The Architectural Practice of CHYBIK + KRISTOF

By Adrian Madlener

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Crafting Character explores architecture as a human-centred practice through a series of fourteen cinematic vignettes. These vignettes personify architectural projects as characters with their own histories, dreams, and stories, emphasising the relational culture within spaces. The book focuses on the collaborative practice of Chybik + Kristof and their approach to creating buildings that engage in dialogue with their audience and surroundings, highlighting common bonds over divisions.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in architecture, spatial design, and human-centred creative practices. It appeals to students, professionals, and enthusiasts seeking an innovative and thoughtful perspective on the relationship between buildings and people.

Description

How can the discipline of architecture be used as a human-centred practice? Crafting Character presents architecture as a spatial dialogue and an exchange between character and audience, book and reader, building and city in a series of fourteen cinematic vignettes.

Fourteen cinematic vignettes highlight projects as personified characters that have their own histories, dreams, secrets, and stories to tell. Each vignette emphasises this relational culture and the practice of Chybik + Kristof in working with the common bonds within a space as being more important than any individual arguments and divisions within it.

The first monograph of the Brno-based studio, this volume marks an exciting collaboration between Chybik + Kristof, Lukas Kijonka and ExLovers Studio, Adrian Madlener, and Frame Publishers. With a passion for experimentation from all parties, the resulting pages stand apart from traditional monographs. From the design to the prose, the values of relationality and human-centric approaches are imbued in the pages, creating a cinematic reference guide to the practice of Chybik + Kristof.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789492311603

Publisher: Frame Publishers BV

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 December 2023

Country: Netherlands

Imprint: Frame Publishers BV

Illustration: 500 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by François-Luc Giraldeau
Foreword by Aaron Betsky
Afterword by Noor Al Qayem

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 1650g

Pages: 272

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Adrian Madlener Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

François-Luc Giraldeau is a Canadian editor who trained as an architect before moving away from the conventional practice of architecture to indulge in a variety of editorial and curatorial pursuits. Upon completing his graduate studies, he has continued to gain both practical experience and substantive knowledge through placements, projects, and programs spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He currently oversees the development of a diverse collection of cultural publications, managing all aspects of their creation, from commissioning through to publishing. His work is often credited with successfully breaking down complex notions for a general audience, thus creating accessible content that upholds the integrity of each discipline.