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Since 1955, when they were first standardized, shipping containers have had a radical effect on our physical reality. Seven million of these steel containers are now moving around the world, and their measurements have defined the design of ships, railroad cars, trucks, and cargo airplanes, as well as the landscape of ports, airports, and trucking yards. And that doesn't(...)
Architecture Monographs
June 2003, New York
Lot-ek : mobile dwelling unit
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Since 1955, when they were first standardized, shipping containers have had a radical effect on our physical reality. Seven million of these steel containers are now moving around the world, and their measurements have defined the design of ships, railroad cars, trucks, and cargo airplanes, as well as the landscape of ports, airports, and trucking yards. And that doesn't even begin to touch on the wider and much more invisible system of distribution, of just-in-time-inventory, of information networks in which the container moves. LOT/EK, the New York-based studio with a reputation for creating architecture and environments using industrial objects, here takes on the standard shipping container as medium. The Mobile DwellingUnit (MDU) is "a shipping container transformed into a dwelling that nevertheless retains the attributes of a shipping container, i.e. it remains shippable." It is a "discreet mobile element" that can be moved around the globe, to anywhere with that can receive standard shipping containers. It's full-service interior includes push-out elements with space for sleeping, storage, eating, bathing, and cooking; these elements can be pushed smoothly back into the container when the occupant moves and needs to ship his or her living space along. Consider the MDU a trailer home for travelling between global villages. LOT/EK: Mobile Dwelling Unit, the book, will not only document the MDU concept but will provide greater understanding of the work’s cultural and social context with essays by leading architectural critics, theorists, historians, and practitioners. An interview with the designers by Chris Scoates will illuminate LOT/EK’s process in the creation and development of the MDU as well as their unique approach to architecture. Henry Urbach will place the MDU project in the context of LOT/EK’s larger body of work. Professor Robert Kronenberg, a leading expert on portable architecture, will consider the project within the history of the genre. Aaron Betsky, a leading design critic and Director of NAi, will explore the meaning of the MDU within a larger contemporary cultural and social context of mobility and habitation. A visual essay by Andrew Blauvelt and LOT/EK will explore the territories of the MDU’s inspiration and related themes of nomadic travel and industrial systems of transportation.
Architecture Monographs
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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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At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern is that which is always new, which is to say, always changing and already old by the time it has appeared. Modernism is always a retrospective act, one of documenting or trying(...)
Making it modern: the history of modernism in architecture and design
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At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern is that which is always new, which is to say, always changing and already old by the time it has appeared. Modernism is always a retrospective act, one of documenting or trying to catch what has already appeared - an attempt to fix life as it is being lived. Modernity is just the very fact that we as human beings are continually remaking the world around us through our actions, and are doing so consciously. Modernism is a monument to or memory of that act, which in its own making tries to remake the world it is pretending to represent.
Modernism
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''50 Lessons to learn from Frank Lloyd Wright'' presents the work and imaginings of this beloved architect in an accessible and compelling form. Here we may glean insight from an American master and find inspiration for the thoughtful design of our own homes. By means of succinct examples, text and visuals, the authors share fifty lessons, or 'learning points,' with an(...)
50 lessons to learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
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''50 Lessons to learn from Frank Lloyd Wright'' presents the work and imaginings of this beloved architect in an accessible and compelling form. Here we may glean insight from an American master and find inspiration for the thoughtful design of our own homes. By means of succinct examples, text and visuals, the authors share fifty lessons, or 'learning points,' with an eye to Wright-designed houses and interiors, ranging from 'Inspired by nature,' 'Make a room flexible with screens,' and 'Creating liveable interiors with textiles,' to 'Learning from the East,' 'Green design' and 'Seeking harmony and balance.' Each lesson is accompanied by pearls of wisdom gathered from the master's trove of writings on architecture and design.
Architecture Monographs
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Cofounder of the Droog Design collective, the Dutch designer, art historian, critic and curator Renny Ramakers (born 1946) has championed the notion of furniture and industrial design as a reimagination of today's world for more than three decades, combining virtual technologies and social media with the craft of design to develop new social relations. When Droog first(...)
Renny Ramakers: rethinking design, curator of change. Droog design collective
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Cofounder of the Droog Design collective, the Dutch designer, art historian, critic and curator Renny Ramakers (born 1946) has championed the notion of furniture and industrial design as a reimagination of today's world for more than three decades, combining virtual technologies and social media with the craft of design to develop new social relations. When Droog first exhibited at the Milan furniture fair in 1993, its assemblies of found materials and witty forms instantly changed the landscape of design. Since then, Ramakers has worked with makers and creators to move beyond slick objects and toward critical projects that open our eyes to our multifaceted realities while bringing great access and joy to users.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
Blox by OMA Architects
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BLOX opened its doors on the Copenhagen waterfront in 2018. Funded and built by the philanthropic association Realdania and designed by Dutch architects OMA, the building is a programmatic mix of functions that creates a new destination in this very central and challenging location. BLOX hosts the Danish Architecture Centre and also BLOXHUB, an interdisciplinary(...)
Blox by OMA Architects
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BLOX opened its doors on the Copenhagen waterfront in 2018. Funded and built by the philanthropic association Realdania and designed by Dutch architects OMA, the building is a programmatic mix of functions that creates a new destination in this very central and challenging location. BLOX hosts the Danish Architecture Centre and also BLOXHUB, an interdisciplinary environment promoting innovation and sustainable urban development. This monograph offers an in-depth look at the project and its context, and includes essays by Aaron Betsky and Carsten Thau, plus conversations with representatives of OMA, Realdania, and the Danish Architecture Centre.
Architecture Monographs
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Zaha Hadid is one of the most innovative and celebrated architects working today. Born in Iraq, raised in London, and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Hadid has transformed our experience of space and architecture.This comprehensive, updated monograph of more than two hundred projects?from Hadid’s earliest experimentations and product design to follies and(...)
The complete Zaha Hadid, expanded and uptaded
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Zaha Hadid is one of the most innovative and celebrated architects working today. Born in Iraq, raised in London, and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Hadid has transformed our experience of space and architecture.This comprehensive, updated monograph of more than two hundred projects?from Hadid’s earliest experimentations and product design to follies and large-scale built works, including the recently completed London 2012 Aquatics Centre, Guangzhou Opera House in China, and Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan?is a testament to her innovative, wide-ranging, and exhilarating vision.
Architecture Monographs
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Studio 44 Architects is one of the largest private architectural firms in St Petersburg and in Russia. Founded in 1991 and led by Nikita Yavein, the company now employs over 140 highly qualified specialists, including architects, restoration experts, structural designers and engineers. Studio 44 has won over sixty prestigious awards and implemented over twenty-five public(...)
Architecture Monographs
July 2016
Studio 44
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Studio 44 Architects is one of the largest private architectural firms in St Petersburg and in Russia. Founded in 1991 and led by Nikita Yavein, the company now employs over 140 highly qualified specialists, including architects, restoration experts, structural designers and engineers. Studio 44 has won over sixty prestigious awards and implemented over twenty-five public and residential building projects, including Ladozhsky Railway Station, the Atrium Business Centre at Nevsky 25, Nevsky 38 and Linkor business centres, the Grand Palace shopping gallery, the Novy Peterhof hotel and the Boris Eifman Dance Academy in St Petersburg; the Palace of Schoolchildren in Astana (Kazakhstan); and the Olympic Park Railway Station in Sochi. Studio 44 designed the new museum complex of the State Hermitage Museum in the General Staff Building (Stage 1, 2010) that was profiled in the book 'The Hermitage XXI' (Thames & Hudson, 2014).
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.
Architecture since 1900, Europe