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Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmental technologies in building design from the late nineteenth century. He shows how architects appropriated and subsumed the work of engineers as thermostats, air handlers, and refrigeration proliferated. He argues that this change was closely connected(...)
Modernism's visible hand: architecture and regulation in America
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Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmental technologies in building design from the late nineteenth century. He shows how architects appropriated and subsumed the work of engineers as thermostats, air handlers, and refrigeration proliferated. He argues that this change was closely connected to broader cultural and economic trends in management and the regulation of risk. The transformation shaped the evolution of architectural modernism and the development of the building as a machine. Rather than assume the preexisting natural order of things, participants in regulation—including architects, scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, economists, government employees, and domestic reformers—became entangled in managing the errors, crises, and risks stemming from the nation’s unprecedented growth.
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Widely known for his award-winning design work, the Los Angeles-based architect Craig Hodgetts has distinguished himself as one of the key voices of his generation through trenchant commentary and visionary speculation on architecture and design. This volume gathers an array of theoretical polemics on buildings and cities, critical assessments of major projects and(...)
Swimming to suburbia and other essays
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Widely known for his award-winning design work, the Los Angeles-based architect Craig Hodgetts has distinguished himself as one of the key voices of his generation through trenchant commentary and visionary speculation on architecture and design. This volume gathers an array of theoretical polemics on buildings and cities, critical assessments of major projects and personalities, and other writings that showcase Hodgetts' unique position as both a central figure in the discipline of architecture and a tireless advocate of technological opportunities developed at the fringes of the field.
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L'oeuvre des matières
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« L’œuvre des matières » est le reflet d’une pensée qui tente de lier le corps et l’esprit. Une exploration poétique des mécanismes de la pensée dans l'acte de construire. Ivry Serres est un architecte et un promeneur attentif qui cultive un regard singulier sur le monde. De ces instants naissent une culture. Une culture empreinte de réalité, à la fois concrète et sensible.
L'oeuvre des matières
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« L’œuvre des matières » est le reflet d’une pensée qui tente de lier le corps et l’esprit. Une exploration poétique des mécanismes de la pensée dans l'acte de construire. Ivry Serres est un architecte et un promeneur attentif qui cultive un regard singulier sur le monde. De ces instants naissent une culture. Une culture empreinte de réalité, à la fois concrète et sensible.
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L'architecture inefficiente
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Dialogue entre l’architecte suisse Luigi Snozzi et le philosophe Fabio Merlini. Cette confrontation entre un architecte parvenu à maturité et le philosophe qui le pousse à préciser la pensée d’une vie, est riche d’enseignements.
L'architecture inefficiente
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Dialogue entre l’architecte suisse Luigi Snozzi et le philosophe Fabio Merlini. Cette confrontation entre un architecte parvenu à maturité et le philosophe qui le pousse à préciser la pensée d’une vie, est riche d’enseignements.
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Le mythe de Pierre
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« Le Mythe de Pierre » est avant tout une histoire. Ce premier numéro de Classeur va raconter cette histoire. Pour cela il va en traquer les traces : rassembler, décrire, dessiner, narrer, photographier ; puis les faire se rencontrer, s’embrasser, s’affronter.
Le mythe de Pierre
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« Le Mythe de Pierre » est avant tout une histoire. Ce premier numéro de Classeur va raconter cette histoire. Pour cela il va en traquer les traces : rassembler, décrire, dessiner, narrer, photographier ; puis les faire se rencontrer, s’embrasser, s’affronter.
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Mare Nostrum
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Espace-temps, espace-mouvement, la mer Méditerranée comme continuité nous positionne face l’histoire, à notre histoire commune. Ses contours, son paysage architectural nous la raconte et nous offre alors une grille de lecture du présent. Ce numéro de Classeur offre un panorama de cette sédimentation qui prend chaque jour passé plus de sens et d’importance. Plus de(...)
Mare Nostrum
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Espace-temps, espace-mouvement, la mer Méditerranée comme continuité nous positionne face l’histoire, à notre histoire commune. Ses contours, son paysage architectural nous la raconte et nous offre alors une grille de lecture du présent. Ce numéro de Classeur offre un panorama de cette sédimentation qui prend chaque jour passé plus de sens et d’importance. Plus de soixante contributions passionnantes nous ont été proposées pour nourrir sur ce thème. La France, l’Italie, la Grèce, Israël, le Liban, la Palestine, l’Egypte, la Libye, l’Algérie, l’ Espagne dessinent les contours de cette compilation de Récits.
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L'architecture et l'urbanisme ont toujours été considérés par Ulrich Conrads comme relevant de la "politique appliquée". A ce titre, tout discours porté sur de tels sujets peut se permettre d'être vif, mordant, voire agressif. Cette virulence de propos habite les textes des architectes et artistes du début du XXe siècle jusqu'aux années 1960. Leurs écrits témoignent de(...)
Programmes et manifestes de l'architecture du XXe siècle
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L'architecture et l'urbanisme ont toujours été considérés par Ulrich Conrads comme relevant de la "politique appliquée". A ce titre, tout discours porté sur de tels sujets peut se permettre d'être vif, mordant, voire agressif. Cette virulence de propos habite les textes des architectes et artistes du début du XXe siècle jusqu'aux années 1960. Leurs écrits témoignent de leur engagement social et philosophique en vue de changer la destinée du monde.
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Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought about cities and their architecture has never been adequately explored. In this new work, Martino Stierli charts the history of montage in late 19th-century urban and architectural contexts, its application by the early 20th-century(...)
Montage and the metropolis: architecture, modernity, and the representation of space
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Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought about cities and their architecture has never been adequately explored. In this new work, Martino Stierli charts the history of montage in late 19th-century urban and architectural contexts, its application by the early 20th-century avant-gardes, and its eventual appropriation in the postmodern period. With chapters focusing on photomontage, the film theories of Sergei Eisenstein, Mies van der Rohe’s spatial experiments, and Rem Koolhaas’s use of literary montage in his seminal manifesto Delirious New York (1978), Stierli demonstrates the centrality of montage in modern explorations of space, and in conceiving and representing the contemporary city.
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"Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling" is the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Treating his own experience of exile as emblematic of late modern life, Adorno observed that twentieth-century dwelling had been rendered “impossible” by nativism, by the decimations of war, and, in the postwar period, by housing’s increasingly(...)
Unhoused: Adorno and the problem of dwelling
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"Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling" is the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Treating his own experience of exile as emblematic of late modern life, Adorno observed that twentieth-century dwelling had been rendered “impossible” by nativism, by the decimations of war, and, in the postwar period, by housing’s increasingly thorough assimilation into private property. Adorno’s position on the meaning and prospects for adequate dwelling—a concept he never wrote about systematically but nevertheless returned to frequently—was not that some invulnerable state of home or dwelling should be revived. Rather, Adorno believed that the only responsible approach to housing was to cultivate an ethic of displacement, to learn “how not to be at home in one’s home.”
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In Flintstone Modernism, Jeffrey Lieber investigates transformations in postwar American architecture and culture. He considers sword-and-sandal films of the 1950s and 1960s—including forgotten gems such as Land of the Pharaohs, Helen of Troy, and The Egyptian—and their protean, ideologically charged representations of totalitarianism and democracy. He connects(...)
Flintstone modernism: or the crisis in postwar American culture
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In Flintstone Modernism, Jeffrey Lieber investigates transformations in postwar American architecture and culture. He considers sword-and-sandal films of the 1950s and 1960s—including forgotten gems such as Land of the Pharaohs, Helen of Troy, and The Egyptian—and their protean, ideologically charged representations of totalitarianism and democracy. He connects Cinemascope and other widescreen technologies to the architectural “glass curtain wall,” arguing that both represented the all-encompassing eye of American Enterprise. Lieber reminds us that until recently midcentury modern American architecture was reviled by architectural historians but celebrated by design enthusiasts, just as sword-and-sandal epics are alternately hailed as cult classics or derided as camp.
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