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Bâtiment manifeste, monument historique, icône noire et blanche se détachant sur le ciel de Paris, architecture métallique remarquable, prouesse technologique, résidence universitaire et lieu de culture, la Fondation Avicenne (anciennement Maison de l’Iran) est tout cela. Inscrite dans l’histoire, parfois tumultueuse, de deux pays, et située sur un site riche en(...)
Fondation Avicenne : Réhabilitation d'une icône architectural
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Bâtiment manifeste, monument historique, icône noire et blanche se détachant sur le ciel de Paris, architecture métallique remarquable, prouesse technologique, résidence universitaire et lieu de culture, la Fondation Avicenne (anciennement Maison de l’Iran) est tout cela. Inscrite dans l’histoire, parfois tumultueuse, de deux pays, et située sur un site riche en architecture, cette œuvre majeure de Claude Parent devait être entièrement réhabilitée afin de revivre aprés son quasi-abandon. De nombreux acteurs, sous la maîtrise d’œuvre de l’agence Béguin & Macchini, récompensée par le trophée Eiffel d’architecture en acier, ont gagné le pari de lui donner une nouvelle pérennité. Ce livre raconte l’aventure de cette renaissance et des défis et surprises d’une réhabilitation fidèle, aussi complexe que réussie.
Architecture Monographs
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**OUT OF PRINT / EPUISÉ** Urban places can only be considered a success if they are being used. Here an overview of thriving squares and urban spaces in European architecture. What would a town be without squares? It is precisely these open spaces which give the built areas their meaning, function and character. Squares provide a breathing space within the structure(...)
Plätze - urban squares : recent European promenades, squares and city centres
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**OUT OF PRINT / EPUISÉ** Urban places can only be considered a success if they are being used. Here an overview of thriving squares and urban spaces in European architecture. What would a town be without squares? It is precisely these open spaces which give the built areas their meaning, function and character. Squares provide a breathing space within the structure of the city, separating and joining. They are the stage for urban actors, the heart of the political and social life of an urban community, and as such designing new squares or redesigning existing ones is one of the most delightful tasks for architects, urban planners and landscape architects. Open-air and multi-functional, squares are always unique and more strongly defined by their surroundings than buildings. This book presents the best and most attractive squares which have been presented in individual Topos magazines since 1993. It contains successful examples from Barcelona, Lyon, Reykjavik, Verona, Dublin and Vienna. Some of the examples, for instance, the Schouwerburgplein in Rotterdam, the Place des Terraux in Lyon or the Gustav-Adolf-Torg in Malmö were much discussed even criticized. Yet they bear the confident signature of their designer and a distinctive interplay of material and form, art and commerce, work and fun.
Urban Theory
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New ideas and concepts for urban architecture and landscape architecture from the Netherlands: this survey takes stock of the current situation. In any discussion on contemporary landscape architecture, visionary urban development or revolutionary building, it is impossible to overlook the Netherlands. The experts look to this small, flat country which constantly(...)
The Netherlands in focus : exemplary ideas and concepts for town and landscape
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New ideas and concepts for urban architecture and landscape architecture from the Netherlands: this survey takes stock of the current situation. In any discussion on contemporary landscape architecture, visionary urban development or revolutionary building, it is impossible to overlook the Netherlands. The experts look to this small, flat country which constantly seeks to exceed its narrow boundaries by creating new space. The Netherlands is crowded and so it is hardly surprising that architects endeavour to "stack" landscapes and functions as the Dutch pavilion in the Expo 2000, designed by MVRDV demonstrated. Here, new ideas and concepts in architecture and landscape design fall on the fertile ground. Rem Koolhaas had prepared the way: nothing must stay as it is, even the open countryside and the towns can be changed, moulded, shaped. The Dutch are experts at building in the sea, on polders, on man-made islands, and on former harbour areas as in Rotterdam Kop van Zuid. Architecture and landscape architecture are not only a matter of public interest but they are ongoing processes in the Netherlands, and this is reflected in many of the projects in this book which include the gardens and squares of West 8, the Museumsplein in Amsterdam, the town planning in Zutphen or Apeldoorn. The examples have all been published in different contexts in Topos, but this is the first time that they have been collated to provide an illuminating overview of contemporary Dutch landscape architecture.
Gardens
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Buildings and cities grow, are transformed and dissolve. How can this evolution be generated, controlled, enhanced or imagined? Is our environment programmable? How does the fusion of natural and artificial materials produce new architectural organisms, new environments, new natures? How does technology animate space and how do users and programs animate matter? Because(...)
Verb : Natures -architecture boogazine
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Buildings and cities grow, are transformed and dissolve. How can this evolution be generated, controlled, enhanced or imagined? Is our environment programmable? How does the fusion of natural and artificial materials produce new architectural organisms, new environments, new natures? How does technology animate space and how do users and programs animate matter? Because everything grows, especially cities, the fifth volume of Actarís Verb series looks for a new definition of the organic through architecture, graphics, and photography as well as visual and digital art. Verb Natures follows Verb 1, Verb Matters, Verb Connection and Verb Conditioning.
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Reading like a who’s who of the world’s most important players in contemporary art, "Press play" makes a fascinating stand-alone introduction to the current art scene and those associated with it. Comprising 50 personal encounters with the world’s most significant contemporary artists, interviewed by 50 of today’s key art thinkers, it is a survey of contemporary art in(...)
Press play : contemporary artists in conversation
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Reading like a who’s who of the world’s most important players in contemporary art, "Press play" makes a fascinating stand-alone introduction to the current art scene and those associated with it. Comprising 50 personal encounters with the world’s most significant contemporary artists, interviewed by 50 of today’s key art thinkers, it is a survey of contemporary art in the artists’ own words. It includes established artists like Louise Bourgeois and Alex Katz, midcareer masters Richard Prince and Raymond Pettibon and the most exciting artists of the current generation.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Chaumont 2005
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En 2005, la 16è édition du Festival international de l’affiche et des arts graphiques de Chaumont (France) présente un large panoramique du travail du maître moderniste A.M. Cassandre, les créations récentes, entre imprimé et écran, du graphiste français Christophe Jacquet dit Toffe et invite l'école néerlandaise Werplaats Typografie. Sur les 1800 nouvelles affiches(...)
Chaumont 2005
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En 2005, la 16è édition du Festival international de l’affiche et des arts graphiques de Chaumont (France) présente un large panoramique du travail du maître moderniste A.M. Cassandre, les créations récentes, entre imprimé et écran, du graphiste français Christophe Jacquet dit Toffe et invite l'école néerlandaise Werplaats Typografie. Sur les 1800 nouvelles affiches reçues pour le Concours International qui viennent enrichir le fonds contemporain, 100 affiches ont été sélectionnées et sont présentées dans ce catalogue. Le Festival propose également une relecture critique du fonds historique d’affiches Dutailly par le jeune amstellodamois Harmen Liemburg. Les “A-ce-qu’on-dit”, locutions ordinaires de David Poullard envahissent et viennent questionner l’espace public.
Graphic Design and Typography
Paris passages
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Cet ouvrage présente un ensemble de photographies à caractère historique, principalement des clichés d'Eugène Atget ou Charles Melville, ou de photographes moins connus tels que Charles Lansiaux. Des photographies postérieures aux années 20 d'artiste réputés comme les frères Seeberg, Marcel Bovis ou Robert Doisneau, donnent une vision plus humaine du monde des passages.
Paris passages
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Cet ouvrage présente un ensemble de photographies à caractère historique, principalement des clichés d'Eugène Atget ou Charles Melville, ou de photographes moins connus tels que Charles Lansiaux. Des photographies postérieures aux années 20 d'artiste réputés comme les frères Seeberg, Marcel Bovis ou Robert Doisneau, donnent une vision plus humaine du monde des passages.
History until 1900
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DD Design Document, a form of Mook magazine, is a monograph of young architects of the world. Architecture is now a multinational field of study, and this series provides a channel of communication between young architects across the world who desire to share architectural knowledge. The series carry a list of experimental architectural works which represent the(...)
DD Design document series_24: Happy architecture in a real world
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DD Design Document, a form of Mook magazine, is a monograph of young architects of the world. Architecture is now a multinational field of study, and this series provides a channel of communication between young architects across the world who desire to share architectural knowledge. The series carry a list of experimental architectural works which represent the philosophy and know-how of architecture and all the brilliant ideas of young architects. The book also gives a general glimpse of recent architectural trends among the world young architects. -This issue Peripheriques architectes
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Fukt & D : drunk on dreams
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Drawings, drawings and more drawings. This collaborative issue of FUKT and D (Drunk on Dreams) contains a collection of line drawings that address issues of sustainability and necessity. Artists include: Jesse Ash, Gaku Tsutaya, Melissa Gorman, Chris Warrington, Richard Torchia, Laura Bruce, Charlotte McGowan-Griffin and others.
Fukt & D : drunk on dreams
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Drawings, drawings and more drawings. This collaborative issue of FUKT and D (Drunk on Dreams) contains a collection of line drawings that address issues of sustainability and necessity. Artists include: Jesse Ash, Gaku Tsutaya, Melissa Gorman, Chris Warrington, Richard Torchia, Laura Bruce, Charlotte McGowan-Griffin and others.
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March 2008, Berlin
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Gentrifications
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Hipsters, bobos, yuppies, gentrifieurs… Les termes ne manquent pas pour qualifier les nouvelles populations qui s’approprient les quartiers centraux anciens de certaines métropoles au détriment des habitants populaires. Mais cette profusion empêche de comprendre le phénomène : comment dépasser les oppositions binaires entre gentrifieurs et gentrifiés ? Quels sont les(...)
Gentrifications
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Hipsters, bobos, yuppies, gentrifieurs… Les termes ne manquent pas pour qualifier les nouvelles populations qui s’approprient les quartiers centraux anciens de certaines métropoles au détriment des habitants populaires. Mais cette profusion empêche de comprendre le phénomène : comment dépasser les oppositions binaires entre gentrifieurs et gentrifiés ? Quels sont les moteurs, les logiques et les enjeux de la gentrification ? Est-elle vraiment inéluctable ? Ancrée dans des contextes précis – historiques et géographiques, économiques et politiques –, elle s’incarne dans des bâtiments, des commerces, des groupes sociaux, des pratiques et des esthétiques propres aux lieux dans lesquels elle se déroule. Pour cette raison, elle est irréductible à une mécanique simple et identique d’une ville à l’autre, d’un quartier à l’autre. À travers l’exploration de la diversité des formes, des lieux et des acteurs de la gentrification dans une dizaine de villes européennes (parmi lesquelles Paris, Montreuil, Lyon, Grenoble, Roubaix, Barcelone, Lisbonne, Sheffield) cet ouvrage se propose donc de définir l’« ADN » de la gentrification : un rapport social d’appropriation de l’espace urbain, mettant aux prises des acteurs et des groupes inégalement dotés.
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