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The perpetual motion machine
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In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. Originally published in German in 1910, is an indefinable blend of diary, diagrams and digression that falls somewhere between memoir and reverie. The Perpetual Motion Machine is an ode to the fertility of misery(...)
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In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. Originally published in German in 1910, is an indefinable blend of diary, diagrams and digression that falls somewhere between memoir and reverie. The Perpetual Motion Machine is an ode to the fertility of misery(...)
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The perpetual motion machine
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In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. Originally published in German in 1910, is an indefinable blend of diary, diagrams and digression that falls somewhere between memoir and reverie. The Perpetual Motion Machine is an ode to the fertility of misery and a battle cry of the imagination against praxis.
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In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. Originally published in German in 1910, is an indefinable blend of diary, diagrams and digression that falls somewhere between memoir and reverie. The Perpetual Motion Machine is an ode to the fertility of misery and a battle cry of the imagination against praxis.
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Why architecture matters
Why architecture matters
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This book is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of this book is to 'come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually' - with its impact on our lives. 'Architecture begins(...)
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This book is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of this book is to 'come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually' - with its impact on our lives. 'Architecture begins(...)
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Why architecture matters
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This book is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of this book is to 'come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually' - with its impact on our lives. 'Architecture begins to matter', writes Paul Goldberger, 'when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads'.
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This book is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of this book is to 'come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually' - with its impact on our lives. 'Architecture begins to matter', writes Paul Goldberger, 'when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads'.
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In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at large:(...)
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In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at large:(...)
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The possibility of an absolute architecture
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In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at large: Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Etienne-Louis Boullée, and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The work of these architects, Aureli argues, addressed the transformations of the modern city and its urban implications through the elaboration of specific and strategic architectural forms.
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In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at large: Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Etienne-Louis Boullée, and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The work of these architects, Aureli argues, addressed the transformations of the modern city and its urban implications through the elaboration of specific and strategic architectural forms.
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In this volume, Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity: the making of identical copies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial to the shaping of architectural modernity: in the fifteenth century, Leon Battista Alberti's invention of architectural design, according to which a building is an identical copy of the architect's design; and, in the(...)
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In this volume, Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity: the making of identical copies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial to the shaping of architectural modernity: in the fifteenth century, Leon Battista Alberti's invention of architectural design, according to which a building is an identical copy of the architect's design; and, in the(...)
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The alphabet and the algorithm
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In this volume, Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity: the making of identical copies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial to the shaping of architectural modernity: in the fifteenth century, Leon Battista Alberti's invention of architectural design, according to which a building is an identical copy of the architect's design; and, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the mass production of identical copies from mechanical master models, matrixes, imprints, or molds. The modern power of the identical, Carpo argues, came to an end with the rise of digital technologies. Everything digital is variable. Carpo compares new forms of postindustrial digital craftsmanship to hand-making and the cultures and technologies of variations that existed before the coming of machine-made, identical copies. Carpo reviews the unfolding of digitally based design and construction from the early 1990s to the present, and suggests a new agenda for architecture in an age of variable objects and of generic and participatory authorship.
The alphabet and the algorithm
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In this volume, Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity: the making of identical copies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial to the shaping of architectural modernity: in the fifteenth century, Leon Battista Alberti's invention of architectural design, according to which a building is an identical copy of the architect's design; and, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the mass production of identical copies from mechanical master models, matrixes, imprints, or molds. The modern power of the identical, Carpo argues, came to an end with the rise of digital technologies. Everything digital is variable. Carpo compares new forms of postindustrial digital craftsmanship to hand-making and the cultures and technologies of variations that existed before the coming of machine-made, identical copies. Carpo reviews the unfolding of digitally based design and construction from the early 1990s to the present, and suggests a new agenda for architecture in an age of variable objects and of generic and participatory authorship.
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Designed in a facsimile format that follows the innovative graphic layouts of the journals, pamphlets, posters, and articles produced by Utopie, the volume provides an overview of the group's activities but also seeks to capture Utopie's linkage of architectural and urban theory to radical publication strategies.
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Designed in a facsimile format that follows the innovative graphic layouts of the journals, pamphlets, posters, and articles produced by Utopie, the volume provides an overview of the group's activities but also seeks to capture Utopie's linkage of architectural and urban theory to radical publication strategies.
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Utopie: Texts and projects, 1967-1978
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Designed in a facsimile format that follows the innovative graphic layouts of the journals, pamphlets, posters, and articles produced by Utopie, the volume provides an overview of the group's activities but also seeks to capture Utopie's linkage of architectural and urban theory to radical publication strategies.
Utopie: Texts and projects, 1967-1978
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Designed in a facsimile format that follows the innovative graphic layouts of the journals, pamphlets, posters, and articles produced by Utopie, the volume provides an overview of the group's activities but also seeks to capture Utopie's linkage of architectural and urban theory to radical publication strategies.
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Autobiographie d'une idée
Autobiographie d'une idée
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"Inventeur" du gratte-ciel, père de l'architecture américaine, auteur de nombreux chefs-d'oeuvre comme l'Auditorium Building de Chicago, le Guaranty Building de Buffalo, le Bayard Building à NewYork ou les banques du Midwest, et bien d'autres, Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924) a aussi donné la formule par excellence de la théorie moderne : "Form ever follows function."(...)
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"Inventeur" du gratte-ciel, père de l'architecture américaine, auteur de nombreux chefs-d'oeuvre comme l'Auditorium Building de Chicago, le Guaranty Building de Buffalo, le Bayard Building à NewYork ou les banques du Midwest, et bien d'autres, Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924) a aussi donné la formule par excellence de la théorie moderne : "Form ever follows function."(...)
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Autobiographie d'une idée
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"Inventeur" du gratte-ciel, père de l'architecture américaine, auteur de nombreux chefs-d'oeuvre comme l'Auditorium Building de Chicago, le Guaranty Building de Buffalo, le Bayard Building à NewYork ou les banques du Midwest, et bien d'autres, Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924) a aussi donné la formule par excellence de la théorie moderne : "Form ever follows function." Idée-titre du dernier livre de l'architecte, cette formule fut diversement interprétée dans son concept. Cependant, sa célèbre allitération fait aussi entendre des bruits de végétaux en mouvement, feuilles et fleurs, ou flots : motifs qui constituent la base même des formulations ornementales dont Sullivan a été le grand inventeur. La formule apparut à la maturité de Sullivan (1896), mais l'Autobiographie montre qu'elle est née plus haut, dans les mille sources dont l'enfance est témoin. Et que sa poésie relève d'une expérience sensible du monde, entreprise par un garçon qui promena son imaginaire parmi les bois, les collines, les lacs du Massachussetts, et qu'il poursuivit dans la construction des villes.
Autobiographie d'une idée
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"Inventeur" du gratte-ciel, père de l'architecture américaine, auteur de nombreux chefs-d'oeuvre comme l'Auditorium Building de Chicago, le Guaranty Building de Buffalo, le Bayard Building à NewYork ou les banques du Midwest, et bien d'autres, Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924) a aussi donné la formule par excellence de la théorie moderne : "Form ever follows function." Idée-titre du dernier livre de l'architecte, cette formule fut diversement interprétée dans son concept. Cependant, sa célèbre allitération fait aussi entendre des bruits de végétaux en mouvement, feuilles et fleurs, ou flots : motifs qui constituent la base même des formulations ornementales dont Sullivan a été le grand inventeur. La formule apparut à la maturité de Sullivan (1896), mais l'Autobiographie montre qu'elle est née plus haut, dans les mille sources dont l'enfance est témoin. Et que sa poésie relève d'une expérience sensible du monde, entreprise par un garçon qui promena son imaginaire parmi les bois, les collines, les lacs du Massachussetts, et qu'il poursuivit dans la construction des villes.
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Architecture as a craft
Architecture as a craft
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Based on a 2009 symposium at the Delft University of Technology, the fifteen essays in Architecture as a Craft present architecture as a self-contained craft discipline. Social demands upon architects are increasing, for instance that of sustainability, with strict requirements imposed before designs are even considered. The book's contributors argue that the structure(...)
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Based on a 2009 symposium at the Delft University of Technology, the fifteen essays in Architecture as a Craft present architecture as a self-contained craft discipline. Social demands upon architects are increasing, for instance that of sustainability, with strict requirements imposed before designs are even considered. The book's contributors argue that the structure(...)
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Architecture as a craft
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Based on a 2009 symposium at the Delft University of Technology, the fifteen essays in Architecture as a Craft present architecture as a self-contained craft discipline. Social demands upon architects are increasing, for instance that of sustainability, with strict requirements imposed before designs are even considered. The book's contributors argue that the structure and integrity of designs – their craft – must underlie projects before external influences play a role. The architect's craft is approached from three perspectives: the outlook and position of the architect, the composition of designs, and the choice of building materials, emphasising how architects can communicate and justify their craft-based choices.
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Based on a 2009 symposium at the Delft University of Technology, the fifteen essays in Architecture as a Craft present architecture as a self-contained craft discipline. Social demands upon architects are increasing, for instance that of sustainability, with strict requirements imposed before designs are even considered. The book's contributors argue that the structure and integrity of designs – their craft – must underlie projects before external influences play a role. The architect's craft is approached from three perspectives: the outlook and position of the architect, the composition of designs, and the choice of building materials, emphasising how architects can communicate and justify their craft-based choices.
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Written by some philosophers in the field of aesthetics as well as those in the architectural profession, essays in this book relate architecture to other artforms such as photography, literature and painting.
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Written by some philosophers in the field of aesthetics as well as those in the architectural profession, essays in this book relate architecture to other artforms such as photography, literature and painting.
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The aesthetics of architecture : philosophical inverstigations into the art of building
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Written by some philosophers in the field of aesthetics as well as those in the architectural profession, essays in this book relate architecture to other artforms such as photography, literature and painting.
The aesthetics of architecture : philosophical inverstigations into the art of building
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Written by some philosophers in the field of aesthetics as well as those in the architectural profession, essays in this book relate architecture to other artforms such as photography, literature and painting.
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La longue chaîne des évidences quotidiennes pour les architectes et urbanistes est ici transposée dans la fiction pour être ensuite appréhendée selon de nouvelles perspectives. Dans cet essai, à chaque étape du projet et de la réalisation, des perspectives imaginaires stimulent et interrogent la pratique architecturale ainsi que l'environnement social.
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La longue chaîne des évidences quotidiennes pour les architectes et urbanistes est ici transposée dans la fiction pour être ensuite appréhendée selon de nouvelles perspectives. Dans cet essai, à chaque étape du projet et de la réalisation, des perspectives imaginaires stimulent et interrogent la pratique architecturale ainsi que l'environnement social.
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Les pays des maisons longues et autres trajectoires
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La longue chaîne des évidences quotidiennes pour les architectes et urbanistes est ici transposée dans la fiction pour être ensuite appréhendée selon de nouvelles perspectives. Dans cet essai, à chaque étape du projet et de la réalisation, des perspectives imaginaires stimulent et interrogent la pratique architecturale ainsi que l'environnement social.
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La longue chaîne des évidences quotidiennes pour les architectes et urbanistes est ici transposée dans la fiction pour être ensuite appréhendée selon de nouvelles perspectives. Dans cet essai, à chaque étape du projet et de la réalisation, des perspectives imaginaires stimulent et interrogent la pratique architecturale ainsi que l'environnement social.
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Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. Consequently, it offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, ranging from the ubiquity of landmark buildings to the celebrity status of architects. It concerns the period(...)
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Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. Consequently, it offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, ranging from the ubiquity of landmark buildings to the celebrity status of architects. It concerns the period(...)
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Architecture, crisis and resuscitation
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Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. Consequently, it offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, ranging from the ubiquity of landmark buildings to the celebrity status of architects. It concerns the period spanning from 1966 to the first years of the current century – a period which saw radical change in economy, politics, and culture and a period in which architecture radically transformed, substituting the alleged dreariness of modernism with spectacle.
Architecture, crisis and resuscitation
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Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. Consequently, it offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, ranging from the ubiquity of landmark buildings to the celebrity status of architects. It concerns the period spanning from 1966 to the first years of the current century – a period which saw radical change in economy, politics, and culture and a period in which architecture radically transformed, substituting the alleged dreariness of modernism with spectacle.
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