Snøhetta works
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Snøhetta is a leading team of architects in Norway with offices in Oslo and New York. This first-ever publication to document their work presents and illustrates the most important current and completed projects of these architects, who have been active internationally for fifteen years, and contains texts by various authors. Projects include the Library of Alexandria(...)
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Snøhetta is a leading team of architects in Norway with offices in Oslo and New York. This first-ever publication to document their work presents and illustrates the most important current and completed projects of these architects, who have been active internationally for fifteen years, and contains texts by various authors. Projects include the Library of Alexandria (2002), the New Opera House in Oslo (2008), and the Gateway Project in Ras Al-Khaimah, Dubai. Snøhetta’s works and projects revolve around a collaboration and interchange between various disciplines.
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Each summer, London's Serpentine Gallery commissions an internationally acclaimed architect to design a temporary pavilion for its lawn. This volume documents the 2006 Serpentine Pavilion, co-designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and structural designer Cecil Balmond.
July 2008, Köln
Serpentine Gallery Pavillion 2006 : Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond with Arup
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Each summer, London's Serpentine Gallery commissions an internationally acclaimed architect to design a temporary pavilion for its lawn. This volume documents the 2006 Serpentine Pavilion, co-designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and structural designer Cecil Balmond.
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Adam Caruso studied architecture at McGill University in Montreal. He worked for Florian Beigel and Arup Associates before establishing his own practice with Peter St John in 1990. This first and surprising collection of his writings includes the texts "The Emotional City", 2001, "Towards a Canadian Architecture", 2006, and an interview with Mark Francis from the year(...)
Adam Caruso: the feelings of things
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Adam Caruso studied architecture at McGill University in Montreal. He worked for Florian Beigel and Arup Associates before establishing his own practice with Peter St John in 1990. This first and surprising collection of his writings includes the texts "The Emotional City", 2001, "Towards a Canadian Architecture", 2006, and an interview with Mark Francis from the year 2000. "I think that the most significant writing by architects has been developed in parallel to their work in practice. Neither polemical justification nor theoretical engine."
Architecture Monographs
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Mies van der Rohe's renowned Tugendhat House was designed and built in Brno, Czech Republic in 1928-30 at precisely the same time as van der Rohe's visionary (but sadly temporary) Barcelona Pavilion. Here, this masterpiece of domestic Modernism is brought to life in three exquisite photo essays.
Mies van der Rohe: Vila Tugendhat Brno
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Mies van der Rohe's renowned Tugendhat House was designed and built in Brno, Czech Republic in 1928-30 at precisely the same time as van der Rohe's visionary (but sadly temporary) Barcelona Pavilion. Here, this masterpiece of domestic Modernism is brought to life in three exquisite photo essays.
Architecture Monographs
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Based on the most recent scholarship and taking new material into consideration, this publication devotes itself to these modern classics and in doing so, discusses the progressive concepts of interior space developed by Mies van der Rohe, who invariably understood the interior-design aspect as part of an overall archtiectural plan.
Architecture Monographs
January 2009, Ostfildern
Mies and modern living interiors, furniture, photography
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Based on the most recent scholarship and taking new material into consideration, this publication devotes itself to these modern classics and in doing so, discusses the progressive concepts of interior space developed by Mies van der Rohe, who invariably understood the interior-design aspect as part of an overall archtiectural plan.
Architecture Monographs
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The complete designs of Joseph Esherick, one of San Francisco's foremost architects from the 1960s through his death in the late 1990s. Esherick is best known for high-profile public buildings, such as The Cannery at Fisherman's Wharf, the 1968 re-imagining of the old Del Monte cannery that is one of the earliest examples of adaptive re-use of industrial buildings, and(...)
Appropriate: the houses of Joseph Esherick
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The complete designs of Joseph Esherick, one of San Francisco's foremost architects from the 1960s through his death in the late 1990s. Esherick is best known for high-profile public buildings, such as The Cannery at Fisherman's Wharf, the 1968 re-imagining of the old Del Monte cannery that is one of the earliest examples of adaptive re-use of industrial buildings, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. He also produced a laudable stream of truly classic California homes, influenced less by fashion than by the demands of climate, social structure and suitable technology. A beautifully illustrated book from the distinguished UC Berkeley Landscape Design series.
Architecture Monographs
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A great deal of Aalto-related research has been conducted over the years in different parts of the world. Some of these contributions have appeared in compendiums, seminar and congress publications and similar works. Many studies, however, have remained unpublished or known inly to a small circle of experts. 'Aalto Studies' is the Alvar Aalto Museum's new scholarly(...)
Aino and Alvar Aalto - a shared journey, interpretations of an everyday modernism
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A great deal of Aalto-related research has been conducted over the years in different parts of the world. Some of these contributions have appeared in compendiums, seminar and congress publications and similar works. Many studies, however, have remained unpublished or known inly to a small circle of experts. 'Aalto Studies' is the Alvar Aalto Museum's new scholarly series. It seeks to compile existing research while also providing a channel of publication for new international Aalto research that is continuously growing in extent. This is the first number of 'Aalto studies' a collection of seven studies by Renja Suominen-Kokkonen PhD. Over the cours of several years, the author's research has particularly focused on the role of Aino Aalto alongside her maestro husband, thus expanding our understanding of Aalto and his works. Adjunct Professor Renja Suominen-Kokkonen PhD is at present acting professor of art history at the University of Helsinki.
Architecture Monographs
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The latest addition to the authoritative monograph series documenting each of Alvar Aalto's architectural projects focuses on the house Aalto and his second wife Elissa designed for the Parisian art dealer Louis Carré in the mid-1950s. This profusely illustrated volume describes the architecture of the building, the exceptional interiors and life in the house. It also(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2008, Helsinki
Alvar Aalto architect vol. 20 maison louis carré 1956-63
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The latest addition to the authoritative monograph series documenting each of Alvar Aalto's architectural projects focuses on the house Aalto and his second wife Elissa designed for the Parisian art dealer Louis Carré in the mid-1950s. This profusely illustrated volume describes the architecture of the building, the exceptional interiors and life in the house. It also includes a biographical sketch of Carré, who met Aalto at the opening of the pavilion Aalto had designed for the 1956 Venice Biennale. The friendship between Aalto, the radical experimenter, and Carré, the perfectionist patron of the arts, lasted the rest of their lives, and Maison LC became one of the most exceptional collaborations between architect and client ever built.
Architecture Monographs
Guy Rottier Architecte
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Imaginer des maisons paysages, suspendues ou volantes, une cit� solaire �clair�e par lumiducs, un pont fl�te, un �chiquier pour cosmonautes, mais aussi dialoguer avec la reine des termites ou imotep comme avec ses contemporains: artchitectes, plasticiens, hommes de lettres, critiques. Guy Rottier ne s'est rien interdit... derri�re les plans, croquis, photos,(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 1900, Paris
Guy Rottier Architecte
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Imaginer des maisons paysages, suspendues ou volantes, une cit� solaire �clair�e par lumiducs, un pont fl�te, un �chiquier pour cosmonautes, mais aussi dialoguer avec la reine des termites ou imotep comme avec ses contemporains: artchitectes, plasticiens, hommes de lettres, critiques. Guy Rottier ne s'est rien interdit... derri�re les plans, croquis, photos, dessins humoristiques, t�moignages et textes librement tress�s qui jalonnent un parcours audacieux et sans concessions, se dessine avec s�rieux et dr�lerie le portrait par lui-m�me, d'un prospecteur hors norme pour aujourd'hui et pour demain.
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Architecture de l'imaginaire
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Ce livre est la biographie fictionnelle de l'architecte Jean-François-Thérèse Prieur. L'ouvrage comprend un texte nous racontant la vie de Jean-François-Thérèse Prieur, né en 1778, et de nombreuses illustrations : dessins d'architecte, esquisses, photographies d'époque... Il imagine des bâtiments qui n'ont aucune fonction sociale ni utilitaire et ne construit aucun de ses(...)
Architecture de l'imaginaire
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Ce livre est la biographie fictionnelle de l'architecte Jean-François-Thérèse Prieur. L'ouvrage comprend un texte nous racontant la vie de Jean-François-Thérèse Prieur, né en 1778, et de nombreuses illustrations : dessins d'architecte, esquisses, photographies d'époque... Il imagine des bâtiments qui n'ont aucune fonction sociale ni utilitaire et ne construit aucun de ses projets. Pour lui, le dessin est une fin en soi. L'inutile, l'absurde et le non-constructible sont les principaux caractères des architectures inventées par Jean-François-Thérèse Prieur.
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June 2008, La Rochelle
Architecture Monographs