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Depuis la découverte de la caverne, les hommes n’ont cessé d’utiliser les formations géologiques qu’offre notre planète. Il a fallu cependant attendre une date récente pour que des avancées dans le domaine de l’ingénierie structurelle permettent de considérer la surface de la terre comme un élément architectural à part entière. La prise de conscience de la raréfaction des(...)
Lignes d'horizon : l'architecture et son site
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Depuis la découverte de la caverne, les hommes n’ont cessé d’utiliser les formations géologiques qu’offre notre planète. Il a fallu cependant attendre une date récente pour que des avancées dans le domaine de l’ingénierie structurelle permettent de considérer la surface de la terre comme un élément architectural à part entière. La prise de conscience de la raréfaction des ressources naturelles et l’influence grandissante des architectes paysagistes ont également incité certains créateurs parmi les plus prestigieux à inventer des formes qui s’intègrent à la topographie naturelle d’un lieu, la déploient, la subliment et à créer ce que l’on pourrait appeler des gratteterre en opposition aux gratte-ciel. Du terminal de tramway de Zaha Hadid en France à la bibliothèque d’Alexandrie de Snøhetta en Egypte, de la maison nichée dans une colline du Pays de Galles de Future Systems au Spencer Theatre d’Antoine Predock aux Etats- Unis, les cinquante projets présentés dans ce livre révèlent l’importance de cette nouvelle voie architecturale.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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This book showcases three architecturally private residences, now owned by and home to the art collections of Max Palevsky. Each house has either been restored or reworked by a well-known contemporary architect to make a showplace for the artwork. The three houses together encapsulate the twentieth-century architectural history of Southern California. Presented in(...)
Three California houses : the homes of Max Palevsky
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This book showcases three architecturally private residences, now owned by and home to the art collections of Max Palevsky. Each house has either been restored or reworked by a well-known contemporary architect to make a showplace for the artwork. The three houses together encapsulate the twentieth-century architectural history of Southern California. Presented in detail are the Palm Spring House, by Craig Ellwood; the extravagant Malibu Spanish-style House with interior renovations Ettore Sottsass; and the opulent Beverly Hills House of the 1920s by George Washington Smith, with interiors reworked recently Coy Howard.
Residential Architecture
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Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from(...)
Landscrapers : building with the land
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Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from around the world are building into the earth and merging man-made forms with the contours of the land. The results are at once preternatural and breathtaking. From Zaha Hadid’s Tram Terminal in France to Snøhetta’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, from Future System’s hill-burrowing house in Wales to Antoine Predock’s Spencer Theater in the United States, over fifty projects displayed here expose the breadth and depth of this new direction in architecture. Aaron Betsky first considers our historical preoccupation with communing with the land through building, then four central chapters – ‘Engineered Utopias’, ‘Caves and Caverns’, ‘Unfolding the Land’ and ‘A New Nature’ – explore the ways in which ‘geotecture’ responds to, becomes a part of and yet remains distinctive within our natural landscape.
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Re-naturalisation
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As Aaron Betsky notes in his introductory essay, that while Guallart is an active member of what has been called emergent architecture, his practice goes further, generating a body of work that emerges from both physical and social – both real and digital – structures. While the architect himself suggests that the end purpose of architecture is not (solely) to build, but(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2009, Beijing
Re-naturalisation
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As Aaron Betsky notes in his introductory essay, that while Guallart is an active member of what has been called emergent architecture, his practice goes further, generating a body of work that emerges from both physical and social – both real and digital – structures. While the architect himself suggests that the end purpose of architecture is not (solely) to build, but also to define environments where human life can be organised. To support these observations, such projects as Denia Mountain, the Spanish Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010, the Keelung Maritime Plaza and Fugee Port in Taiwan, the Cambrils Sea Apartments and the Sociopolis Masterplan, Valencia are examined. Seventeen works and projects are presented in total, accompanied by essays, texts, photographs and elaborate technical drawings. Texts in English/Chinese
Architecture Monographs
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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. Atelier Bow-Wow / Aaron Betsky / Coop Himelb(l)au / Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Droog & Kesselskramer / Massimiliano Fuksas / Frank Gehry / Vincente Guallart / Greg Lynn / Winy Maas (MVRDV) / Philippe Rahm / Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos (UNStudio) and more.
Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 5: manifestos. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura
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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. Atelier Bow-Wow / Aaron Betsky / Coop Himelb(l)au / Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Droog & Kesselskramer / Massimiliano Fuksas / Frank Gehry / Vincente Guallart / Greg Lynn / Winy Maas (MVRDV) / Philippe Rahm / Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos (UNStudio) and more.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. 2012 Architecten / Ecologicstudio / Estudio Teddy Cruz / Faustino, Bureau des Mésarchitectures / Zaha Hadid Architects / Herzog & DeMeuron and Ai Weiwei / LOT-EK / Map Office / R & SIE + DS / Topotek 1 / Madelon Vriesendorp / Lebbeus Woods, and many more. Each displayed at least on a double page.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2008, Venice
Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 3: experimental architecture. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura
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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. 2012 Architecten / Ecologicstudio / Estudio Teddy Cruz / Faustino, Bureau des Mésarchitectures / Zaha Hadid Architects / Herzog & DeMeuron and Ai Weiwei / LOT-EK / Map Office / R & SIE + DS / Topotek 1 / Madelon Vriesendorp / Lebbeus Woods, and many more. Each displayed at least on a double page.
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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. This volume documents the film installation withing the exhibition, which features film excerpts of "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang, "La cité des enfants perdus" by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, "Waterworld" by Kevin Reynolds, "The Lord of the Rings" by Peter Jackson, "The Truman Show" by Peter Weir, and many more.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2008, Venice
Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 2: hall of fragments. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura
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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. This volume documents the film installation withing the exhibition, which features film excerpts of "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang, "La cité des enfants perdus" by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, "Waterworld" by Kevin Reynolds, "The Lord of the Rings" by Peter Jackson, "The Truman Show" by Peter Weir, and many more.
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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. Asymptote Architecture / Atelier Bow-Wow / Barkow Leibinger / Nigel Coates / Coop Himmelb(l)au / Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Droog & Kesselskramer / Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas / Gehry Partners, LLP, and many more, each contribution displayed on at least a double page.
Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 1: installations. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura
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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. Asymptote Architecture / Atelier Bow-Wow / Barkow Leibinger / Nigel Coates / Coop Himmelb(l)au / Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Droog & Kesselskramer / Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas / Gehry Partners, LLP, and many more, each contribution displayed on at least a double page.
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Architecture must burn
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Confronted by a world afflicted by sprawl, Aaron Betsky challenges us to see architecture as a way of understanding, experimenting with and changing our physical reality. He argues passionately for a new space of freedom and imagination, proposing an entirely new way (...)
Architecture must burn
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Confronted by a world afflicted by sprawl, Aaron Betsky challenges us to see architecture as a way of understanding, experimenting with and changing our physical reality. He argues passionately for a new space of freedom and imagination, proposing an entirely new way of undoing the indiscriminate, sometimes disorderly world we have so carelessly constructed. "Architecture Must Burn" shows us an architecture of unfolding, clothing and collage. Mixing current theories about spatiality, technology, and literature, the 28 manifestos are introduced by Erik Adigard's haunting and contorted imagery.
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Large bunk beds line the walls of a luminous all-white basement; "elephant drum" tables double as dancing podiums; a huge bed (for 45 people) fills the "Bed Baroque" room: this is the Supperclub nightclub and restaurant in Rome, designed by the Dutch design firm Concrete. The group's design concept has been a success in Amsterdam, Rome and San Francisco, and will land(...)
Architecture Monographs
July 2007, Rotterdam
The world according to concrete
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Large bunk beds line the walls of a luminous all-white basement; "elephant drum" tables double as dancing podiums; a huge bed (for 45 people) fills the "Bed Baroque" room: this is the Supperclub nightclub and restaurant in Rome, designed by the Dutch design firm Concrete. The group's design concept has been a success in Amsterdam, Rome and San Francisco, and will land soon in New York City. It has also mutated into Supperclub on Location and the Supperclub Cruise. Over the past decade, Concrete has set tongues wagging with their subtle amalgamation of architecture, advertising, fashion and product design for clients including De Lairesse Pharmacy in Amsterdam (winner, along with Supperclub, of the Lensvelt-de Architect Interior Prize), Rituals Home & Body Cosmetics, Australian Homemade, The Coffee Company, London's Laundry Industry, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. It has also made its mark with projects for Hyundai in Seoul, the UberFluss design hotel in Bremen and the recently completed designs for the restaurants and shops at the Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart (a building designed by UN Studio architects), which have already garnered much critical admiration. The World According to Concrete examines this chic young bureau's working methods and its position within the world of (interior) architecture. Featuring 300 color images and essays by esteemed design critic Timo de Rijk among others, it provides a timely appraisal of one of the boldest and most innovative design companies on the international scene.
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