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In this illustrated volume about nomadic homes, Philip Jodidio explores some of the most remarkable examples of homes on the move, from revamped Airstreams and clever luxury houseboats to refugee housing by Shigeru Ban. In an abundance of shapes, sizes, and extremes, each abode is presented with interior and exterior photography and a profile of its concept, designer, and(...)
Nomadic Homes: Architecture on the move
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In this illustrated volume about nomadic homes, Philip Jodidio explores some of the most remarkable examples of homes on the move, from revamped Airstreams and clever luxury houseboats to refugee housing by Shigeru Ban. In an abundance of shapes, sizes, and extremes, each abode is presented with interior and exterior photography and a profile of its concept, designer, and inhabitants.
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Niemeyer (ed. français)
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Jusqu'à sa mort, à l'âge de 104 ans, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) fut animé d'une force irrésistible en matière d'architecture. Durant plus de soixante-dix ans de carrière, il a conçu près de 600 bâtiments, des gratte-ciel en mouvement de Bab-Ezzouar en Algérie au chef-d'oeuvre qu'il réalisa pour son pays, Brasília. Le travail de Niemeyer emprunte aux formes simplifiées du(...)
Niemeyer (ed. français)
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Jusqu'à sa mort, à l'âge de 104 ans, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) fut animé d'une force irrésistible en matière d'architecture. Durant plus de soixante-dix ans de carrière, il a conçu près de 600 bâtiments, des gratte-ciel en mouvement de Bab-Ezzouar en Algérie au chef-d'oeuvre qu'il réalisa pour son pays, Brasília. Le travail de Niemeyer emprunte aux formes simplifiées du modernisme pour leur insuffler une grâce fluide. Loin de toute sévérité austère, ses constructions ondulent sous l'effet de leurs lignes sinueuses et envoûtantes. À l'image de bâtiments tels que le musée d'art contemporain Niterói, l'Edifício Copan ou la cathédrale de Brasília, il a apporté cambrure et rondeur à la jungle bétonnée des villes. Pour Brasília, la capitale fédérale futuriste, il a réalisé près de la totalité des édifices publics et est ainsi devenu inséparable de l'image du Brésil dans le monde. À travers de riches illustrations et des mises en lumière de certains moments de sa prolifique carrière, cet ouvrage présente la vision unique de Niemeyer et sa profonde influence sur les bâtiments d'affaires, les édifices religieux ou culturels, et sur l'image du Brésil dans l'inconscient collectif.
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Architecture Monographs
Richard Meier
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Cet ouvrage introductif retrace l’ensemble de la carrière de Richard Meier à la découverte des secrets de cet architecte culte. Au fil des nombreuses illustrations, il se penche sur ses projets les plus célèbres, tel le Getty Center à Los Angeles, mais aussi sur ses réalisations les plus récentes, comme le OCT Shenzhen Clubhouse à Shenzhen, en Chine, et le musée Frieder(...)
Richard Meier
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Cet ouvrage introductif retrace l’ensemble de la carrière de Richard Meier à la découverte des secrets de cet architecte culte. Au fil des nombreuses illustrations, il se penche sur ses projets les plus célèbres, tel le Getty Center à Los Angeles, mais aussi sur ses réalisations les plus récentes, comme le OCT Shenzhen Clubhouse à Shenzhen, en Chine, et le musée Frieder Burda à Baden-Baden, en Allemagne.
Architecture Monographs
Renzo Piano
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A la différence de nombre d'architectes qui possèdent leur propre style comme signature, Renzo Piano cherche avant tout à appliquer des idées cohérentes à des projets remarquablement différents. Ses constructions impressionnent autant par leur impact que par la diversité de leur taille, de leurs matériaux et de leurs formes. Piano a acquis une renommée internationale en(...)
Renzo Piano
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A la différence de nombre d'architectes qui possèdent leur propre style comme signature, Renzo Piano cherche avant tout à appliquer des idées cohérentes à des projets remarquablement différents. Ses constructions impressionnent autant par leur impact que par la diversité de leur taille, de leurs matériaux et de leurs formes. Piano a acquis une renommée internationale en participant à la création du Centre Pompidou à Paris, bâtiment décrit par le New York Times comme "ayant bouleversé l'architecture à l'échelle mondiale".
Architecture Monographs
Discovering architecture: how the world's great buildings were designed and built. 2nd edition.
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Including such works as the Tower of London, Notre-Dame de Paris, and the Taj Mahal in India, the book is organized chronologically and presents buildings from all genres, covering more than two millennia of architectural history. In addition to the clever die-cut captions, each building is featured in an essay filled with essential information on the construction, as(...)
Discovering architecture: how the world's great buildings were designed and built. 2nd edition.
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Including such works as the Tower of London, Notre-Dame de Paris, and the Taj Mahal in India, the book is organized chronologically and presents buildings from all genres, covering more than two millennia of architectural history. In addition to the clever die-cut captions, each building is featured in an essay filled with essential information on the construction, as well as the social, political, cultural, and geographical considerations of the architect. Photographs allow the reader to appreciate the technical feats and aesthetic brilliance of both the buildings and architects past and present.
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The new pavilions
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Tents, bandstands, displays, places for sitting, listening, seeing and being seen … Pavilions have myriad forms and functions. For architects and designers, they offer unique opportunities to experiment with form, construction, material, structure, surface and texture, often as prototypes for larger buildings or as purely artistic pursuits. A pavilion’s location also(...)
The new pavilions
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Tents, bandstands, displays, places for sitting, listening, seeing and being seen … Pavilions have myriad forms and functions. For architects and designers, they offer unique opportunities to experiment with form, construction, material, structure, surface and texture, often as prototypes for larger buildings or as purely artistic pursuits. A pavilion’s location also offers rich possibilities for interaction with the landscapes, streetscapes and peoplescapes around it. Pavilions can be temples to digital interaction or provide oases of surreal calm and isolation.''The New Pavilions'' presents a selection of the best and most exciting examples produced in recent years.
Contemporary Architecture
Steven Holl: Seven houses
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This book takes a close look at seven houses designed by Steven Holl, considered one of America's most influential architects. It offers the reader access to the thought processes and work of this groundbreaking, cutting-edge architect through his own words and watercolors--and more than 100 photographs.
Steven Holl: Seven houses
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This book takes a close look at seven houses designed by Steven Holl, considered one of America's most influential architects. It offers the reader access to the thought processes and work of this groundbreaking, cutting-edge architect through his own words and watercolors--and more than 100 photographs.
Architecture Monographs
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Tadao Ando is the only architect ever to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. His designs have been described as haiku crafted from concrete, water, light, and space. But to Ando, true architecture is not expressed in metaphysics or beauty, but rather through space that embodies physical(...)
Ando: complete works, 1975-today
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Tadao Ando is the only architect ever to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. His designs have been described as haiku crafted from concrete, water, light, and space. But to Ando, true architecture is not expressed in metaphysics or beauty, but rather through space that embodies physical wisdom. This thoroughly updated edition spans the breadth of his entire career, including such stunning new projects as the Shanghai Poly Theater and the Clark Center at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Each project is profiled through photographs and architectural drawings to explore Ando's unprecedented use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and natural forms.
Architecture Monographs
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Concrete is a name applied to a remarkably wide range of building substances, and, when properly handled, is one of the noble materials of contemporary architecture. A kind of “liquid stone” at the outset, it is malleable, durable, and capable of prodigious feats of engineering. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition highlights the best work done in concrete of recent(...)
Contemporary concrete buildings
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Concrete is a name applied to a remarkably wide range of building substances, and, when properly handled, is one of the noble materials of contemporary architecture. A kind of “liquid stone” at the outset, it is malleable, durable, and capable of prodigious feats of engineering. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition highlights the best work done in concrete of recent years. It includes such stars as Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, and Steven Holl, but also surprising new architects like the Russians SPEECH and artists such as James Turrell, who turned the famous concrete spiral of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim in New York into the setting of one of his most remarkable pieces.
Materials and Lighting
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This volume presents the ArtLab project, which highlights the intersection of science, art, and the public at the Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Switzerland. Designed by the renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, ArtLab is a symbolic place of art, culture, and technology. The project combines three structures: the first is a welcome area to learn(...)
Kengo Kuma: Under one roof, EPFL Artlab in Lausanne
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This volume presents the ArtLab project, which highlights the intersection of science, art, and the public at the Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Switzerland. Designed by the renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, ArtLab is a symbolic place of art, culture, and technology. The project combines three structures: the first is a welcome area to learn about the university's research, the second structure is an exhibition space that hosts art installations, while the third pavilion houses the newly digitized Montreux Jazz Festival archives and a café. The three pavilions are connected, constituting a single building with a folded roof, a topographical flow, and a hybrid steel and wood frame. ArtLab is located near buildings by SANAA and Dominique Perrault, forming a new heart for the EPFL campus.
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