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Bennetts associates : four commentaries

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Since its foundation in 1987, Bennetts Associates has won numerous awards for its work and has established itself in the UK as one of the leading architecture practices of its generation. This is the first book to examine the firm's ethos and the themes behind its buildings. Four aspects of Bennetts Associates’ work are considered in depth-perception, form, construction and process-drawing on over 30 built projects in detail, as well as many others in various stages of design and construction. These projects, include Hampstead Theatre, the Wessex Water Headquarters, Brighton Central Library and the New Street Square development in the City of London. Each of the underlying themes is examined in turn by four well-known writers or commentators - academics Richard Weston and Peter Carolin, design process theorist Frank Duffy and art consultant Vivien Lovell.

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Maisons du XXe siècle

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Pour les architectes modernes, la maison individuelle a toujours été un lieu d'expérimentation et d'innovation, un moyen de mettre en application leurs idées, de tester des matériaux nouveaux. «Maisons du XXe siècle» rend compte en détail de ces évolutions, passant en revue les exemples les plus fameux de notre siècle ainsi que d'autres moins connus mais tout aussi représentatifs. Cet ouvrage s'organise de façon semi-chronologique autour de plusieurs grands thèmes : la maison comme œuvre d'art; maison moderne; les «machines à habiter»; lieux, climats, cultures; le rêve américain; modernisme scandinave; l'habitat post-moderne; continuité et mutations. À travers ces thèmes, l'auteur retrace l'histoire de l'architecture domestique contemporaine, du mouvement Arts & Crafts né dans les pays anglo-saxons à la fin du XXe siècle, jusqu'à nos jours. Chaque chapitre passe en revue un grand nombre de constructions, les plus importantes sont analysées en détail et illustrées par de nombreux dessins d'architectes, de plans, à travers plus de 400 photographies. Au-delà d'une analyse formelle, l'auteur propose ici une réflexion sur la façon dont l'architecture domestique reflète et influence l'évolution des modes de vie.

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Materials, form and architecture

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After a century largely dominated by discussions of space and form, there is now renewed interest in the material and tectonic aspects of architecture. This illustrated book takes a detailed and timely look at the importance of materials in architecture, focusing particularly on modern and contemporary buildings. Richard Weston begins with a brief cultural history of major building materials--such as timber, earth, stone, steel, and glass--exploring how they have been produced, considered, worked, and used in a variety of buildings and cultures. He then explores the ways that architects, theorists, and critics have articulated the relationship between materials and architectural forms and spaces throughout modern history. Other featured topics include the importance of place, time, junctions, finish, and meaning; the proposition that in an increasingly global and virtual world, many architects emphasize the material qualities of buildings to ensure a heightened sense of reality; and a comprehensive survey of current and prospective developments in materials, from refinements of such familiar materials as fiber-reinforced concrete and “intelligent” glass to new synthetic compounds and working methods. Together, these varied perspectives on the material art of building offer insights into the impact that the type and treatment of materials has on how buildings can be constructed and designed, how they function, and how they fare over time.

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Key buildings of the twentieth century : plans, sections and elevations

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"Key buildings of the twentieth century : plans, sections and elevations" features 106 of the most significant and influential buildings of the twentieth century, including classic works by such seminal architects such as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, as well as those by more recent masters, such as Norman Foster, Frank Ghery and Rem Koolhaas. Includes a CD-Rom (PC and Mac compatible)

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Formes et matériaux dans l'architecture

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L’architecture est, concrètement, l’« art de construire ». Pourtant on ne la considère souvent que sous son aspect abstrait d’art du design ou de la composition. Les architectes, anciennement « chef charpentiers » ou maçons, sont peu à peu devenus des designers. Cette évolution a vu grandir le fossé entre les idées et leur réalisation, malgré d’occasionnelles tentatives pour renverser la tendance, notamment avec le mouvement des Arts and Crafts au XIXe siècle. Après un siècle consacré pour l’essentiel aux débats sur la forme et l’espace, le monde de l’architecture connaît aujourd’hui un intérêt renouvelé pour les matériaux, alors même que les progrès technologiques semblent renforcer la tendance à l’abstraction. Par compensation, ce phénomène entraîne une amélioration des qualités matérielles des bâtiments. L’architecte possède aujourd’hui un contrôle direct sur l’atelier et le site de construction, ce qui lui permet de rapprocher les processus d’imagination et de construction. Après une brève introduction, le livre s’ouvre sur trois chapitres historiques et critiques : « matériaux de construction », « surfaces et forme » et « nature des matériaux ». Six chapitres plus courts suivent : « les matériaux en place », « les matériaux dans le temps », « les jonctions », « la finition », « le sens », « les surfaces ». Un débat sur le futur des différents matériaux de l’architecture contemporaine clôt l’ouvrage.

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Twentieth-century residential architecture

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A detailed history of the international modern house, illustrated with 400 photographs and architectural drawings. As the basic building block of the human environment, the house has served as an inexhaustible playground where architects experiment with theories, styles, forms, and materials. Arguably, the best and most innovative residential architecture has been conceived and realized over the past 100 yearsÑfrom the cantileveral serenity of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater to the spectacular Chemosphere, which resembles a UFO that has planted its landing gear in the Hollywood Hills. This book examines major shifts in international domestic design over the past century as it highlights a superb selection of extraordinary homes. Author Richard Weston engagingly tells the story of the twentieth-century house through eight semi-chronological design themes. From the Arts and Crafts period to the present, he covers a wide range of homes exemplifying each period and presents more than 100 benchmark dwellings with detailed architectural drawings. Weston also addresses the fascinating ways in which domestic design has both reflected and influenced the changing social climates and lifestyles of the past century, making this a book that will appeal to anthropologists, as well as architects, designers, and homeowners.

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100 bâtiments majeurs du XXe siècle: plans, coupes et élévations

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Cet ouvrage présente plus d'une centaine de bâtiments célèbres du XXe siècle, dont certaines oeuvres emblématiques des grands maîtres comme Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe ou Alvar Aalto, et celle d'architectes contemporains tels Norman Foster, Frank Ghery ou Rem Koolhaas. L'introduction offre une rapide vue d'ensemble de l'évolution de l'architecture au XXe siècle, avec une attention particulière aux questions d'organisation spactiale.

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Town Hall, Saynatsalo : Saynatsalo 1951, Alvar Aalto

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Architecture in Detail series.

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Modernism

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In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations. He explores the Modernist movements of the early twentieth century – Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Purism – and concludes with the ‘post-modernist’ experiments of the 1980s and 1990s. He shows how the ‘tradition of the new’ became the creative credo of a small group of progressive artists and how, with the emigration of leading German modernists to Britain and the USA in the 1930s, the theory and practice of Modernism became widespread. What had begun as a cluster of loosely related artistic movements scattered across Europe emerged as the dominant style of the twentieth century.

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Villa Mairea : Noormarkku 1938-9, Alvar Aalto

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Architecture in Detail series.