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Kenneth Frampton: Conversations with Daniel Talesnik

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This book presents seven interviews with the architectural historian reflecting on the long arc of his rich and influential career in the discipline. Spanning Frampton’s early years as an architecture student at the Guildford School of Art to his nearly fifty years as a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, the interviews trace not only the development and implications of his work but also the cultural, political, and discursive terrain surrounding it. Here Frampton outlines the formation of his seminal ideas of "critical regionalism" and "tectonic culture," and also ruminates on how he understands his own role as a writer on architecture. The book includes an essay by Mary McLeod, which takes stock of Frampton’s "criticality" and his enduring impact on architectural practice. As a whole, this volume is as much a portrait of a thinker as a record of the books, buildings, and ideas that have inspired such profound architectural thought.

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What about vernacular ?

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Cet un ouvrage est issu d’un roadtrip d’étude de trois mois, mené par trois jeunes femmes architectes, dans l’Est américain. Il rend compte de leur périple et présente douze thématiques qui regroupent constructions traditionnelles et contemporaines, témoignant toutes d’un «bon sens» constructif et écologique. Le livre rend compte de leur découverte in situ de modèles architecturaux redevenus inspirants par les savoir-faire artisanaux convoqués, la beauté naturelle des matériaux utilisés et l’absence de défi technologique. Leur travail fait ressortir d’une part la nécessité de prendre le temps de regarder pour comprendre et sentir les lieux, et celle de se constituer une sorte de «bibliothèque» de sensations, et d’autre part les vertus formatrices des voyages, sources de rencontres, d’échanges et d’expériences dynamisantes.

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Studies in tectonic culture: the poetics of construction in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture

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Studies in Tectonic Culture is nothing less than a rethinking of the entire modern architectural tradition. The notion of tectonics as employed by Frampton -- the focus on architecture as a constructional craft -- constitutes a direct challenge to current mainstream thinking on the artistic limits of postmodernism, and suggests a convincing alternative. Indeed, Frampton argues, modern architecture is invariably as much about structure and construction as it is about space and abstract form. Composed of ten essays and an epilogue that trace the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure and construction, the book's analytical framework rests on Frampton's close readings of key French and German, and English sources from the eighteenth century to the present. He clarifies the various turns that structural engineering and tectonic imagination have taken in the work of such architects as Perret, Wright, Kahn, Scarpa, and Mies, and shows how both constructional form and material character were integral to an evolving architectural expression of their work. Frampton also demonstrates that the way in which these elements are articulated from one work to the next provides a basis upon which to evaluate the works as a whole. This is especially evident in his consideration of the work of Perret, Mies, and Kahn and the continuities in their thought and attitudes that linked them to the past. Frampton considers the conscious cultivation of the tectonic tradition in architecture as an essential element in the future development of architectural form, casting a critical new light on the entire issue of modernity and on the place of much work that has passed as "avant-garde."

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Architecture and the public world

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This book brings together Kenneth Frampton's essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical–theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and the political question of the “predicament” of architecture in the new Millennium. The essays explore Frampton's contention that architecture's imperative is to assume a significant responsibility for the edification and stewardship of the Arendtian ''public world.'' One of the most theoretically sophisticated and politically committed architectural thinkers, Frampton's work breaks emphatically with the limits and norms of much contemporary practice and restores a sense of richness and social consequence of architecture's 'unfinished project,' while offering abiding lessons not only for architecture but for social, cultural, and design criticism alike.

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Le projet tectonique

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La tectonique s'offre aujourd'hui comme une façon d'interroger le dialogue culturel entre conception et construction. Cet ouvrage rassemble les contributions d'architectes, d'artistes, d'historiens, de philosophes et de pédagogues autour du «projet tectonique» dont ils tirent une quintessence troublante et enrichissante: la fonction constructive est aussi une fiction constructive. Ce premier volume issu des Grands Ateliers se veut également l'acte inaugural d'une production durable relative aux questionnements engendrés par la rencontre, encore peu sensible il y a dix ans, entre l'art de contruire - qui appartient à un secteur de production encore traditionnel - et les nouvelles technologies de conception et de communication.

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Le mur : Concept essentiel dans le projet architectonique

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Jesús María Aparicio Guisado expounds here his conception of architecture by exploring the notion of the wall in four major buildings through drawing and words.

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Patkau architects

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The firm of Patkau architects, founded in 1978 and based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has achieved international renown for work that draws on the principles of modern architecture and is simultaneously inspired by the traditions and often spectacular landscape of the Pacific Northwest. The office is known for a straightforward, multifaceted expression of material and detail as well as a focus on the sculpture that is inherent in architecture. This monograph includes cultural and institutional projects, such as the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, the National Library of Quebec in Montreal, and a major addition to the Winnipeg Centennial Library; schools, notably the Seabird Island School and the Strawberry Vale School; and a series of residences, including the Shaw house, with a dramatic elevated lap pool, and the inventive Petite Maison du Weekend (Small Weekend House), a prototype for a self-sufficient holiday house for two.

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Le Corbusier

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Une monographie attendue, celle de l'un des grands critiques et historiens de l'architecture, sur l'un des architectes les plus influents de notre siècle.

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Concrete : the vision of a new architecture, second edition

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Collins provides a thorough history of the new 19th century material and goes on to examine the theories on its architectural expression, focussing on determining role of the reinforced concrete frame. He argues that Perret provides the first rational and effective expression of classical principles in modern construction. Published in 1959 and out of print since 1975, this new edition of "Concrete" includes a foreword by Kenneth Frampton, a scholarly introduction by Réjean Legault, and several additional essays on Perret by Peter Collins.

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Richard Meier

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This complete monograph presents 89 of Richard Meier's buildings, documenting the principal stages of Meier's career in chronological order, from his early private homes and residential buildings - such as the two large complexes of Twin Parks, Bronx, New York, and the Bronx Development Center - to recent major projects in the United States and in several European countries. Among the well-known works in this volume are the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Church of Dives in Misericordia, Rome. In the early 1970s, Meier was one of the "New York Five," an informal group of East Coast architects who shared a preference for new and original contributions to the modern tradition and shaped an alternative to the "gray" architecture that dominated highrise East Coast buildings at the time.