a+u 668: Spaces for Play looks at how architects build play into cities and buildings, in public and residential spaces for children and adults alike.
About This Book
The issue opens with a photo essay on Aldo van Eyck's postwar Amsterdam playgrounds, few of which survive. From there it moves through recent projects that range from quick, flexible installations in housing estates to reused heritage sites, a former wastewater plant and a park made with 3D printing.
Some projects revive ageing public facilities; others set out to repair neglected parts of the city. Together they present play spaces as places that inspire both the people who use them and the designers who make them. Essays by Sara Brunelle and Vincent Romagny frame the selection.
Key Features
- Photo essay revisiting Aldo van Eyck's Amsterdam playgrounds
- Projects by ELEMENTAL, EMBT Architects, Ecomimesis and expandstudio among many others
- Essays by Sara Brunelle and Vincent Romagny
- Play spaces for children and adults in public and residential settings
- Bilingual English and Japanese text
What You'll Discover
- How play can be designed into housing, parks and civic buildings
- Adaptive reuse of heritage and industrial sites for play
- ELEMENTAL's Bicentennial Children's Park and EMBT's Parc dels Colors
- Temporary and flexible play installations
- Play as a tool for urban repair
About the Journal
a+u (Architecture and Urbanism) is a monthly architecture journal published in Tokyo since 1971, known for its bilingual monographic and thematic issues on international practice.
Specifications
- Format: TBC
- Dimensions: 219 × 292 mm
- Pages: 160
- Language: English and Japanese
- ISBN: 4912019730563
- Publisher: Shinkenchiku-sha
Perfect For: Architects, landscape and urban designers, students and readers who follow international practice through a+u's thematic issues.