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Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully. First published in 1966, this book has become a reference in architectural literature. "Complexity and contradiction in architecture" expresses the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's(...)
Complexity and contradiction in architecture
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Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully. First published in 1966, this book has become a reference in architectural literature. "Complexity and contradiction in architecture" expresses the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture.
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Architectural Theory
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A serious effort to document the changing landscape in the design professions and to make this information available to various constituencies and stakeholder groups as part of an effort to educate as well as bridge the gap between academia and practice.
Reconfiguration in the study and practice of design and architecture
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A serious effort to document the changing landscape in the design professions and to make this information available to various constituencies and stakeholder groups as part of an effort to educate as well as bridge the gap between academia and practice.
Architectural Theory
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According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture -- every bit as much as buildings are. In his writings, Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the(...)
Artificial love : a story of machines and architecture
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According to Paul Shepheard, architecture is the rearranging of the world for human purposes. Sculpture, machines, and landscapes are all architecture -- every bit as much as buildings are. In his writings, Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the world around him. Artificial Love weaves together three stories about architecture into one. The first, about machines as architecture, leads to speculations about technology and the human condition and to the assertion that machines are the sculptures of today. The second story is about the ways that architecture reflects the tribal and personal desires of those who make it. In the West, ideas of community, multiculturalism, and globalization compete furiously, leaving architecture to exist as it always has, as the past in the present. The third story features individual people experiencing their lives in the context of architecture. Here, Shepheard borrows the rhetorical device of Shakespeare's seven ages of man to propose that each person's life imitates the accumulating history of the human species. Shepheard's version of the history of humans is a technological one, in which machines become sculpture and sculpture becomes architecture. For Shepheard, our machines do not separate us from nature. Rather, our technology is our nature, and we cannot but be in harmony with nature. The change that we have wrought in the world, he says, is a wonderful and powerful thing.
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« Bien que l’expression “l’architecture de survie” ait un sens à peu près inverse de celui de “la survie de l’architecte”, mon but dans ce livre, est de reconsidérer le rôle de l’architecture dans la simple survie de l’espèce, sans pour autant utiliser des slogans grandiloquents, sans surestimer ce rôle et sans faire de propositions utopiques, donc irréalisables. Il va me(...)
L'architecture de survie : une philosophie de la pauvreté
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« Bien que l’expression “l’architecture de survie” ait un sens à peu près inverse de celui de “la survie de l’architecte”, mon but dans ce livre, est de reconsidérer le rôle de l’architecture dans la simple survie de l’espèce, sans pour autant utiliser des slogans grandiloquents, sans surestimer ce rôle et sans faire de propositions utopiques, donc irréalisables. Il va me falloir, de nouveau, poser certaines questions (sur lesquelles je travaille depuis plus de quarante ans), les analyser et enfin, et surtout, mentionner, à titre d’exemples, quelques solutions que j’ai proposées durant ces quarante ans. Les questions sont fort simples : à qui revient le droit de décision en matière d’architecture? Comment assurer ce droit à celui auquel il revient? Comment le faire dans un monde qui va vers une pauvreté croissante? Comment survivre dans un tel monde? Qu’est-ce que ce “monde pauvre”? Comment agir face à ces perspectives? »
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Diplômé de l’École polytechnique, journaliste, éditeur et homme politique, Victor Considerant (1808-1893) consacra l'essentiel de sa vie à résumer et à présenter l'œuvre de Charles Fourier – dont le phalanstère. Néologisme inventé en 1822 combinant «phalange» et «monastère», son économat, esquissé dès 1808 mais dont la description architecturale restera toujours sommaire,(...)
Description du phalanstère et considérations sociales sur l'architectonique
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Diplômé de l’École polytechnique, journaliste, éditeur et homme politique, Victor Considerant (1808-1893) consacra l'essentiel de sa vie à résumer et à présenter l'œuvre de Charles Fourier – dont le phalanstère. Néologisme inventé en 1822 combinant «phalange» et «monastère», son économat, esquissé dès 1808 mais dont la description architecturale restera toujours sommaire, entend reprogrammer l’édifice social en un «palais des familles» voué à la mécanique des passions. Devenu chef de file du fouriérisme après la mort du fondateur en 1837, Victor Considerant, six mois après la Révolution de Février (1848), fait paraître à la Librairie phalanstérienne de Paris le présent opuscule, alors que souffle dans toute l'Europe un vent de socialismes...
Architectural Theory
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''Drawing Matter Extracts 2: Women writing architecture'' is edited by Helen Thomas and collects together 24 texts written by women in architectural practice and connected disciplines. The anthology is published to coincide with the launch of the Women Writing Architecture website (www. womenwritingarchitecture.org), an annotated bibliography of writing about(...)
Drawing Matter Extracts 2: Women writing architecture
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''Drawing Matter Extracts 2: Women writing architecture'' is edited by Helen Thomas and collects together 24 texts written by women in architectural practice and connected disciplines. The anthology is published to coincide with the launch of the Women Writing Architecture website (www. womenwritingarchitecture.org), an annotated bibliography of writing about architecture by women. ''Women writing architecture'' includes texts by Helen Thomas, Sheila O’Donnell, Stephanie Macdonald, Philippa Lewis, Caroline Voet, Iris Moon, Desley Luscombe, Zoe Zenghelis, Mari Lending, Maria Conen, Deanna Petherbridge, Marie-José van Hee, Roz Barr, Asli Çiçek, Ana Araujo, Sarah Handelman, Emma Letizia Jones, Anahat Chandra, Emily Priest, Angharad Davies, Deepiga Kameswaran and Emerald Liu.
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Lurking under the surface of our modern world lies an unseen architecture—or anarchitecture. It is a possible architecture, an analogous architecture, an architecture of anarchy, which haunts in the form of monsters that are humans and machines and cities all at once; or takes the form of explosions, veils, queer, playful spaces, or visions from artwork and video games.(...)
The monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture
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Lurking under the surface of our modern world lies an unseen architecture—or anarchitecture. It is a possible architecture, an analogous architecture, an architecture of anarchy, which haunts in the form of monsters that are humans and machines and cities all at once; or takes the form of explosions, veils, queer, playful spaces, or visions from artwork and video games. In The Monster Leviathan, Aaron Betsky traces anarchitecture through texts, design, and art of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, and suggests that these ephemeral evocations are concrete proposals in and of themselves. Neither working models nor suggestions for new forms, they are scenes just believable enough to convince us they exist, or just fantastical enough to open our eyes.
Architectural Theory
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In ''The City in the City'', Amy Thomas offers the first in-depth architectural and urban history of London's financial district, the City of London, from the period of rebuilding after World War II to the explosive climax of financial deregulation in the 1980s and its long aftermath. Thomas examines abstract financial ideas, political ideology, and invisible markets as(...)
The city in the city: Architecture and change in London's Financial District
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In ''The City in the City'', Amy Thomas offers the first in-depth architectural and urban history of London's financial district, the City of London, from the period of rebuilding after World War II to the explosive climax of financial deregulation in the 1980s and its long aftermath. Thomas examines abstract financial ideas, political ideology, and invisible markets as concrete realities; working on four spatial scales—city, street, facade, and interior—the book explores the grand plans, hidden alleys, neo-Georgian elevations, and sweaty dealing floors that have made the financial center work.
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Ce manifeste, à la croisée de l’architecture, de l’esthétique et de l’ingénierie, appelle à réactiver le sens pratique de la décoration d'intérieur, tel qu’il existait avant le XXe siècle. Les fonctions climatiques des tapis, tapisseries, rideaux, miroirs ou paravents ont été oubliées avec la modernité. Ces objets ont été réduits à leur seule dimension symbolique par(...)
Manifestes 6 : Le style anthropocene
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Ce manifeste, à la croisée de l’architecture, de l’esthétique et de l’ingénierie, appelle à réactiver le sens pratique de la décoration d'intérieur, tel qu’il existait avant le XXe siècle. Les fonctions climatiques des tapis, tapisseries, rideaux, miroirs ou paravents ont été oubliées avec la modernité. Ces objets ont été réduits à leur seule dimension symbolique par l’efficacité des dispositifs énergivores de chauffage ou de climatisation. La nécessité de réduire aujourd’hui les émissions de CO2 et l’énergie consommée, ainsi que la lutte contre les canicules appellent à reprendre en compte la valeur thermique de l’art décoratif du passé, à repenser les modes d’aménagement intérieur, leurs configurations spatiales, formelles et matérielles dans une nouvelle optique de performance climatique : une esthétique décorative propre au XXIe siècle que nous proposons de nommer le « style anthropocène ».
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Shedding critical light on how the pressures of dislocation irrevocably altered the course of modernism, "Objects in exile" shows how artists and designers, forced into exile by circumstances beyond their control, changed in unexpected ways to meet the needs and contexts of an uncertain world.
Objects in exile: modern art and design across borders 1930-1960
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Shedding critical light on how the pressures of dislocation irrevocably altered the course of modernism, "Objects in exile" shows how artists and designers, forced into exile by circumstances beyond their control, changed in unexpected ways to meet the needs and contexts of an uncertain world.
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