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Gert Wingårdh is one of Sweden’s leading architects. His clever and imaginative spatial creations are remarkable in economic as well as ecological and sociological terms. The focus of his designs is always on the needs of the future users. This monograph analyzes the principal aspects of his work in seminal essays by renowned architecture critics and uses text and(...)
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March 2008, Basel, Boston, Berlin
Gert Wingardh : thirty years of architecture through four decades
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Gert Wingårdh is one of Sweden’s leading architects. His clever and imaginative spatial creations are remarkable in economic as well as ecological and sociological terms. The focus of his designs is always on the needs of the future users. This monograph analyzes the principal aspects of his work in seminal essays by renowned architecture critics and uses text and images to document all the important buildings of his thirty-year career. Editor Mikael Nanfeldt is curator of the Röhss Museum of Design and Applied Arts in Göteborg, the opening venue for a large exhibition of Wingårdh’s work that then moves on to the Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm before going on to tour internationally. Wingårdh’s most remarkable projects include prizewinning laboratory buildings in Sweden and the United States, the Swedish embassies in Berlin and Washington, numerous villas, and the recently opened visitor center Waren in Deutschland (Products in Germany).
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Bernard Tschumi
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Bernard Tschumi is a border crosser in the field of contemporary architecture. Equally present in Europe and the United States, he laid the cornerstone for his influential body of work two decades ago with a project that combines architecture and landscape architecture, theory and practice: the Parc de la Villette in Paris. Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of(...)
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August 2008, Paris, Berlin, Boston
Bernard Tschumi
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Bernard Tschumi is a border crosser in the field of contemporary architecture. Equally present in Europe and the United States, he laid the cornerstone for his influential body of work two decades ago with a project that combines architecture and landscape architecture, theory and practice: the Parc de la Villette in Paris. Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture in New York for many years and the author of numerous books on architectural theory, Tschumi possesses a body of work that is presented here in overview for the first time. His current projects include a high-rise apartment building in New York, the Zénith Concert Hall in Limoges, and the new Acropolis Museum in Athens. Gilles de Bure, the author of numerous architectural publications on Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Christian de Portzamparc, and others, presents an in-depth analysis of Tschumi’s work.
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Tadao Ando: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is a must-have for those who would understand this seminal figure in contemporary world architecture. This book thoroughly and luxuriously documents Ando's materpiece in Fort Worth, Texas, with glorious new color photography of the museum, the reflecting pool, the grand interior spaces, and the art installed in the galleries.(...)
Tadao Ando: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
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Tadao Ando: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is a must-have for those who would understand this seminal figure in contemporary world architecture. This book thoroughly and luxuriously documents Ando's materpiece in Fort Worth, Texas, with glorious new color photography of the museum, the reflecting pool, the grand interior spaces, and the art installed in the galleries. Among the handful of living, world-class architects. Ando elegantly combines the sensuous and ethereal, the pragmatic and poetic.
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Alvar Aalto: summer homes
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This book presents the intimate and personal houses and saunas designed by Aalto � his early works, as well as the later ones, including many that have rarely been published. Included are two summerhouses that Aalto designed and built for himself: Villa Flora and the world-famous Experimental House in Muuratsalo. The summerhouses featured in this book were all(...)
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November 2007, Helsinki
Alvar Aalto: summer homes
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This book presents the intimate and personal houses and saunas designed by Aalto � his early works, as well as the later ones, including many that have rarely been published. Included are two summerhouses that Aalto designed and built for himself: Villa Flora and the world-famous Experimental House in Muuratsalo. The summerhouses featured in this book were all personally designed by Aalto for his relatives and friends.
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Designed by Zak Kyes "The work, in full-colour words, pictures, drawings, films and wonderings, has been carried out from 1958 until this morning. Alongside Greene's own texts there are essays by Samantha Hardingham, Sand Helsel, Sam Jacob and Robin Middleton. 'The brink of a conceptual abyss - not a bad place to be?' David Greene (founding member of the legendary(...)
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April 2008, London
David Greene: L.A.W.U.N Project #19
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Designed by Zak Kyes "The work, in full-colour words, pictures, drawings, films and wonderings, has been carried out from 1958 until this morning. Alongside Greene's own texts there are essays by Samantha Hardingham, Sand Helsel, Sam Jacob and Robin Middleton. 'The brink of a conceptual abyss - not a bad place to be?' David Greene (founding member of the legendary 'Archigram', this is the first monograph on his solo work) and his collaborators invite you to view projects that chart a peripatetic drift from form to invisibility, in the process illuminating the possibilities for architecture in a culture dominated by information technology. Accepted definitions and applications of new technologies are doggedly raised and questioned."
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Qui était véritablement le polytechnicien et ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées Auguste Choisy ? Son Histoire de l'architecture a fasciné architectes et artistes du XXe siècle. Pour l'architecte Le Corbusier, Choisy a écrit l'histoire comme personne. Pour le cinéaste Eisenstein, l'ingénieur a conçu le premier montage de l'histoire du cinéma. Pour beaucoup d'autres, Choisy a(...)
Entre raison et utopie: L'Histoire de l'architecture d'Auguste Choisy
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Qui était véritablement le polytechnicien et ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées Auguste Choisy ? Son Histoire de l'architecture a fasciné architectes et artistes du XXe siècle. Pour l'architecte Le Corbusier, Choisy a écrit l'histoire comme personne. Pour le cinéaste Eisenstein, l'ingénieur a conçu le premier montage de l'histoire du cinéma. Pour beaucoup d'autres, Choisy a révolutionné les modes de figuration graphique de l'architecture en représentant des édifices vus par en dessous en état d'apesanteur. Pourquoi Choisy a-t-il fait un tel usage de l'axonométrie pour illustrer ses publications historiques ? Quelle est réellement la nature du récit historique de l'ingénieur? Quels sont les éléments exemplaires qui forment la trame de son interprétation historique ? Correspondent-ils aux règles de la production architecturale ? Quelles idées l'ouvrage recèle-t-il concernant la forme, son rapport à la construction, à l'esthétique ? Existait-il, pour cette œuvre, un projet social et politique sous-jacent ? En élargissant son investigation à une histoire culturelle, Thierry Mandoul montre comment l'Histoire a été soumise à l'épistémè de son temps. portée par les sciences naturelles et la science de l'ingénieur, traversée tout aussi bien par des idéologies techniques et scientifiques que par des utopies sociales et politiques.
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The life of Bernini
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Initially published by Penn State Press in 1965, Catherine Enggass's translation of Filippo Baldinucci's Life of Bernini was the first English-language edition of this historic biography. Out of print many years, The life of Bernini is now available in a new paperback edition with an introduction by Maarten Delbeke, Evonne Levy, and Steven F. Ostrow, the editors of(...)
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March 2008, University Park
The life of Bernini
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Initially published by Penn State Press in 1965, Catherine Enggass's translation of Filippo Baldinucci's Life of Bernini was the first English-language edition of this historic biography. Out of print many years, The life of Bernini is now available in a new paperback edition with an introduction by Maarten Delbeke, Evonne Levy, and Steven F. Ostrow, the editors of Bernini's biographies. Baldinucci's unusual stand-alone biography of Bernini, begun while his subject was still alive, offers important insights into contemporary perceptions of the artist, the motivations of its author, and the nature of literary biography in seventeeth-century Italy.
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A cloth edition of this book has been published by Yale University Press at $ 90,00. This engaging book presents the first critical retrospective look at the extraordinary architectural achievement of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and their firm. Known for such prominent buildings as the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London and the Seattle Art Museum as(...)
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June 2001, Philadelphia
Venturi, Brown and associates: out of the ordinary
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A cloth edition of this book has been published by Yale University Press at $ 90,00. This engaging book presents the first critical retrospective look at the extraordinary architectural achievement of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and their firm. Known for such prominent buildings as the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London and the Seattle Art Museum as well as such major urban revitalization plans as Washington Avenue in Miami and South Street in Philadelphia, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates changed the face of architectural history. This husband and wife team rejected the universality of modernist design for a particularized contextual and associational approach to building, lauding the “complexity and contradictions” in the historic cityscape and “learning from Las Vegas” the value and vitality of the everyday environment. The book, which combines both biography and critical analysis, includes essays on the firm’s early and later architectural works and on their lesser-known decorative arts. It also features handsome color plates of the firm’s buildings, architectural drawings, and furniture and other decorative arts, as well as a checklist of all their buildings and projects.
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June 2001, Philadelphia
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Depuis les années 1980 et la célébration du centenaire de la naissance de Le Corbusier, l'ensemble de son œuvre a été l'objet d'une reconnaissance grandissante à l'échelle nationale et internationale. Firminy n'a pas été exclue de ce mouvement. Le récent achèvement de l'église Saint Pierre de Firminy-Vert et le projet d'inscription au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO du "(...)
Firminy Le Corbusier en héritage
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Depuis les années 1980 et la célébration du centenaire de la naissance de Le Corbusier, l'ensemble de son œuvre a été l'objet d'une reconnaissance grandissante à l'échelle nationale et internationale. Firminy n'a pas été exclue de ce mouvement. Le récent achèvement de l'église Saint Pierre de Firminy-Vert et le projet d'inscription au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO du " Site Le Corbusier à Firminy ", constituent le couronnement d'un processus de reconnaissance sans précédent. Ce mouvement de reconnaissance est aujourd'hui à Firminy au cœur d'un vaste projet de requalification économique et identitaire dont le tourisme culturel constitue un des axes principaux. Comprendre les mécanismes et les conséquences de ce mouvement, en intégrant l'histoire et le changement de statut de ce bâti, constitue l'objet central de cet ouvrage. Fruit d'un travail commun entre chercheurs et praticiens mené sur le terrain pendant trois ans, cet ouvrage offre un éclairage spécifique sur le sens que l'on doit donner aujourd'hui à l'héritage corbuséen à Firminy, héritage dont la postérité est désormais liée aux transformations économiques, sociales et culturelles de notre époque.
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Le Corbusier conférencier
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On connait Le Corbusier architecte, peintre, designer, théoricien... Ce livre aborde un aspect sans doute moins connu de sa personnalité, celui de conférencier, qui eut une importance capitale dans sa carrière. Tout au long de sa vie, des années 1920 jusqu'aux années 1960, Le Corbusier prononce des conférences dans le monde entier: en Europe bien sûr, à Paris, Madrid,(...)
Le Corbusier conférencier
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On connait Le Corbusier architecte, peintre, designer, théoricien... Ce livre aborde un aspect sans doute moins connu de sa personnalité, celui de conférencier, qui eut une importance capitale dans sa carrière. Tout au long de sa vie, des années 1920 jusqu'aux années 1960, Le Corbusier prononce des conférences dans le monde entier: en Europe bien sûr, à Paris, Madrid, Barcelone, Genève, Zurich, Stockholm, Oslo, Anvers, Rome, Prague, Moscou, mais aussi à Alger, aux États-Unis et en Amérique Latine.
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