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This compendium of essays and projects presents a confrontation of radically dissimilar projects which underscores the exploration of architectural empowerment at the core of the office’s work. Four themes are presented in four volumes: Cultural Resistance, Occupying Earth, Public Prerogatives, and Territory and Transgressions. Architects build in and for a system that(...)
Oualalou +Choi: Territories of disobedience
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This compendium of essays and projects presents a confrontation of radically dissimilar projects which underscores the exploration of architectural empowerment at the core of the office’s work. Four themes are presented in four volumes: Cultural Resistance, Occupying Earth, Public Prerogatives, and Territory and Transgressions. Architects build in and for a system that is not only pathological, but toxic. It is ruining the only planet we have, and we are clearly at the end of what is still possible within this ecology. The architecture presented in this book is a form of resistance – one which actively engages in the societies and territories it is inscribed in and which presents an antidote to the accelerating banalization of our everyday environments. The search for singularity is not a search for formal distinction or a fetishism of the architectural object, but instead the desire to inscribe oneself into a unique territory and moment in time.
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This book concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi’s late adaptive reuse projects and works from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting her themes, technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury as sustainability.The edited collection charts how Lina Bo Bardi “invented” her own version of sustainability,(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2016
Sustainable Lina: Lina Bo Bardi's adative reuse projects
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This book concentrates on the social dimensions relating to Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi’s late adaptive reuse projects and works from the 1960s to the early 1990s, interpreting her themes, technical sources and design strategies of the creation of luxury as sustainability.The edited collection charts how Lina Bo Bardi “invented” her own version of sustainability, introduced this concept through her landscape and adaptive reuse designs and through ideas about cross-cultures in Brazil. The book offers critical reflection, exploration and demonstration of the importance of adaptive reuse in the landscape .
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The work of Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961) allows a deeper understanding of post-war German architecture, representing the product of a continuous European architectural and intellectual practice that bridged the Second World War. Known especially for his churches, Schwarz is perhaps best remembered for his significant contributions to the reconstruction of Cologne. This book(...)
Rudolf Schwarz and the monumental order of things
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The work of Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961) allows a deeper understanding of post-war German architecture, representing the product of a continuous European architectural and intellectual practice that bridged the Second World War. Known especially for his churches, Schwarz is perhaps best remembered for his significant contributions to the reconstruction of Cologne. This book examines nine of his religious and secular buildings in the Rhineland, which are presented through new survey drawings and photographs. These are accompanied by Schwarz’s project descriptions and his lecture “Architecture of Our Times” from 1958, which contextualizes his approach. Essays by Wolfgang Pehnt and an interview with Schwarz’s wife, the architect Maria Schwarz, provide further insight into this complex oeuvre.
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«Pour Aldo Rossi l’architecture se déploie comme un rite: les signes architecturaux qui se répètent, les différents types qui sont repris d’un projet à l’autre, reproduisent la corporalité qui est à leur origine. Dans ce rituel, le monde des sensations et des impulsions obscures que la rationalité moderne avait rejeté refont surface de manière inattendue. À travers(...)
Aldo Rossi architecte du suspens
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«Pour Aldo Rossi l’architecture se déploie comme un rite: les signes architecturaux qui se répètent, les différents types qui sont repris d’un projet à l’autre, reproduisent la corporalité qui est à leur origine. Dans ce rituel, le monde des sensations et des impulsions obscures que la rationalité moderne avait rejeté refont surface de manière inattendue. À travers l’identification de l’architecture au corps animal ou humain, le désir qui était mis à l’écart de toute création est réintroduit dans l’architecture. Il s’agit d’un désir latent, inquiet de sa propre mort, un désir qui ne saurait s’exprimer autrement qu’à travers la répétition d’une typologie architecturale invariable. Parler de suspens en architecture revient ainsi, dans un premier temps, à évoquer un état de figement dont la finalité serait d’accéder à une temporalité anhistorique où la fixité domine. Toutefois, parler de suspens c’est aussi suggérer qu’il existe une attente et une latence au sein de cette fixité. C’est dire que le temps du suspens est corporel et inquiet.» Nous entraînant dans une enquête subtile qui traverse les écrits, projets et dessins réalisés entre 1959 et 1982 par l’architecte italien, l’ouvrage de Can Onaner permet de dévoiler sous un jour nouveau les notions et thèmes fondamentaux de l’œuvre d’Aldo Rossi: le type, la répétition, la permanence. Mais aussi de fonder le concept de suspens comme une nouvelle approche théorique de l’architecture, emblème de tout projet architectural inquiet de sa pérennité et mythe nécessaire, sinon fondateur, de toute urbanité.
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GRAFT: architecture activism
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Founded in Los Angeles in 1998, GRAFT is a global architectural practice which now maintains branches in Berlin and Beijing. The international practice, which is involved in architectural, urban, and product design – as well as branding – is known for its experimental and interdisciplinary designs as well as for its strong social commitment. The publication will document(...)
GRAFT: architecture activism
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Founded in Los Angeles in 1998, GRAFT is a global architectural practice which now maintains branches in Berlin and Beijing. The international practice, which is involved in architectural, urban, and product design – as well as branding – is known for its experimental and interdisciplinary designs as well as for its strong social commitment. The publication will document only projects characteristic of this social responsibility – it portrays architecture as an active tool for driving, in a global context, the development of places worth living in. One key project is the Solar Kiosk developed in 2012, a high-output, solar-based unit which is already used by many communities in Sub-Saharan Africa to secure their power supply.
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Presented here are some of the devices used by Ken Yeang in his endeavors to take his theoretical work on eco-architecture into the real world of building. The fundamental underlying premise is that eco-architecture, if it is to fully embrace the natural world, must be designed to be ‘living constructed ecosystems’ and not inert denatured structures.
Architecture Monographs
June 2016
Constructed ecosystems: ideas and subsystems in the work of Ken Yeang
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Presented here are some of the devices used by Ken Yeang in his endeavors to take his theoretical work on eco-architecture into the real world of building. The fundamental underlying premise is that eco-architecture, if it is to fully embrace the natural world, must be designed to be ‘living constructed ecosystems’ and not inert denatured structures.
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UrbanLab: bowling
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As populations steadily increase in cities, the world's natural resources are consumed at ever-faster rates. The majority of the world's populations live in countries where clean water supplies are dwindling, and these water shortages are also quickly translating into food shortages. What can designers do to avert looming water-related realities? "UrbanLab: Bowling" views(...)
UrbanLab: bowling
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As populations steadily increase in cities, the world's natural resources are consumed at ever-faster rates. The majority of the world's populations live in countries where clean water supplies are dwindling, and these water shortages are also quickly translating into food shortages. What can designers do to avert looming water-related realities? "UrbanLab: Bowling" views potential water crises as opportunities to speculate on future urban design possibilities, especially in cities. Several projects are presented that take an ecological approach to re-thinking received urban design methodologies of addressing the design of water-related infrastructures in existing and new cities.
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Tadao Ando: Château La Coste
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Cet ouvrage est le récit de l’aventure architecturale qui repose avant tout sur la richesse du dialogue engagé entre Tadao Ando et le château La Coste, site aux multiples facettes. Philip Jodidio commente cette rencontre en s’appuyant sur un foisonnement iconographique incluant les esquisses, les maquettes et les photos des réalisations.
Tadao Ando: Château La Coste
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Cet ouvrage est le récit de l’aventure architecturale qui repose avant tout sur la richesse du dialogue engagé entre Tadao Ando et le château La Coste, site aux multiples facettes. Philip Jodidio commente cette rencontre en s’appuyant sur un foisonnement iconographique incluant les esquisses, les maquettes et les photos des réalisations.
Architecture Monographs
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Dans les années 1980, le Centre Georges Pompidou confia à Véra Cardot et Pierre Joly un ultime reportage avant que la famille Cavrois ne disperse le mobilier et ne vende son "château moderne". Suivirent 10 ans d’abandon et de vandalisme au cours desquels maints photographes et artistes se glissèrent derrière les palissades pour rapporter des clichés qui, pour être souvent(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2016
Un château moderne: Villa Cavrois
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Dans les années 1980, le Centre Georges Pompidou confia à Véra Cardot et Pierre Joly un ultime reportage avant que la famille Cavrois ne disperse le mobilier et ne vende son "château moderne". Suivirent 10 ans d’abandon et de vandalisme au cours desquels maints photographes et artistes se glissèrent derrière les palissades pour rapporter des clichés qui, pour être souvent d’une grande beauté plastique, n’en témoignent pas moins de l’extrême dégradation de la villa. En 2015, la villa enfin restaurée et restituée dans son état de 1932 fut sans doute la construction moderne la plus photographiée et la plus publiée de l’année. Aujourd’hui, cette monographie en images entraîne le lecteur à travers plus de 80 ans d’une aventure architecturale unique.
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In this richly illustrated book, French architect Dominique Perrault offers his thoughts on the architecture of the “Groundscape”, a subterranean form of architecture. Although the concept does not entail actually living underground, it does suggest an approach to revealing and marking places for the activities of daily life in the earth itself. Based on exchanges and(...)
Dominique Perrault. Groundscapes: other topographies
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In this richly illustrated book, French architect Dominique Perrault offers his thoughts on the architecture of the “Groundscape”, a subterranean form of architecture. Although the concept does not entail actually living underground, it does suggest an approach to revealing and marking places for the activities of daily life in the earth itself. Based on exchanges and interviews between Perrault and Frédéric Migayrou, the publication offers an engaging overview of the architect’s aesthetic vision, its acknowledgement of (and place within) this threshold between earth and sky, and his most emblematic buildings, including Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Ewha Womans University.
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