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In this book, Neil Jackson presents a vibrant profile of the Los Angeles architect Pierre Koenig, who Time magazine said lived long enough to become “cool twice.” From the influences of Koenig’s youth in San Francisco and his military service during World War II to the Case Study Houses and his later award-laden years, Jackson’s study plots the evolution of Koenig’s(...)
Pierre Koenig: a view from the archive
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In this book, Neil Jackson presents a vibrant profile of the Los Angeles architect Pierre Koenig, who Time magazine said lived long enough to become “cool twice.” From the influences of Koenig’s youth in San Francisco and his military service during World War II to the Case Study Houses and his later award-laden years, Jackson’s study plots the evolution of Koenig’s oeuvre against the backdrop of Los Angeles—a city that both shaped and was shaped by his architecture.
Architecture Monographs
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Curated illustrations of hand sketches, study models, design sessions, and site visits pull back the curtain on the creative collaboration behind the scenes at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. Nearly 100 pages of photographs of finished work, including academic buildings, museums, houses, apartment houses, and office towers, demonstrate the firm's ability to realize modern(...)
Open Studio: The work of Robert A. M. Stern
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Curated illustrations of hand sketches, study models, design sessions, and site visits pull back the curtain on the creative collaboration behind the scenes at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. Nearly 100 pages of photographs of finished work, including academic buildings, museums, houses, apartment houses, and office towers, demonstrate the firm's ability to realize modern buildings in a wide variety of stylistic vocabularies through a commitment to fundamental principles of architecture and a respect for context and history.
Architecture Monographs
Steven Holl: Seven houses
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This book takes a close look at seven houses designed by Steven Holl, considered one of America's most influential architects. It offers the reader access to the thought processes and work of this groundbreaking, cutting-edge architect through his own words and watercolors--and more than 100 photographs.
Steven Holl: Seven houses
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This book takes a close look at seven houses designed by Steven Holl, considered one of America's most influential architects. It offers the reader access to the thought processes and work of this groundbreaking, cutting-edge architect through his own words and watercolors--and more than 100 photographs.
Architecture Monographs
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This volume is a close analysis of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, the revolutionary $600 million project designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano and donated by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to the city of Athens for the construction of the National Library, Opera House, and a public park set in grounds covering 170,000 square meters. A truly urban(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2018
Renzo Piano: The last agora. Stavros Niarchos foundation cultural center Athens
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This volume is a close analysis of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, the revolutionary $600 million project designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano and donated by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to the city of Athens for the construction of the National Library, Opera House, and a public park set in grounds covering 170,000 square meters. A truly urban design dedicated to the citizens of Athens that marks the recovery and revitalization of a derelict site on the edge of the inner city. A downloadable app for Apple and Android provides access to additional multimedia content, including virtual tours, drone videos, and photo galleries.
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Aravena: Elemental
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Elemental, based in Santiago, Chile, epitomizes a new generation of pioneering, socially engaged architects. The firm specializes in innovative, powerful, and humane public-interest projects, working on both large and small scales across Chile, the United States, Mexico, Switzerland, and China. Featuring images by renowned architectural photographers together with(...)
Aravena: Elemental
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Elemental, based in Santiago, Chile, epitomizes a new generation of pioneering, socially engaged architects. The firm specializes in innovative, powerful, and humane public-interest projects, working on both large and small scales across Chile, the United States, Mexico, Switzerland, and China. Featuring images by renowned architectural photographers together with sketches and drawings from Aravena's personal notebooks, this book displays Elemental's unique working methods and philosophy. Each project - from iconic structures like the Anacleto Angelini UC Innovation Centre to seaside residences and pioneering reconstruction plans - is accompanied by Aravena's texts, bringing to life his understanding of civil society and the built environment.
Architecture Monographs
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Catalogue édité à l'occasion de l'exposition "Alain Capeillères, la piscine, Six-Fours-les-Plages", organisée par la villa Noailles du 10 février au 18 mars 2018.
February 2018
Alain Capeillères, la piscine : Six-Fours-les-Plages
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Catalogue édité à l'occasion de l'exposition "Alain Capeillères, la piscine, Six-Fours-les-Plages", organisée par la villa Noailles du 10 février au 18 mars 2018.
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"Architecture Can!" is a journey through the works and projects of the groundbreaking architecture firm Hollwich Kushner, based in New York. Partners Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner design projects at every scale: intimate, awe-inspiring, and everything inbetween; from residences to universities, museums, and urban plans.
Architecture can! Hollwich Kushner 2008-2018
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"Architecture Can!" is a journey through the works and projects of the groundbreaking architecture firm Hollwich Kushner, based in New York. Partners Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner design projects at every scale: intimate, awe-inspiring, and everything inbetween; from residences to universities, museums, and urban plans.
Architecture Monographs
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This book narrates the complete detailed history of the New Rome Convention centre in Rome and its construction through numerous and evocative images of the work site showing the complexity of the construction stages and the special techniques that were necessary. There are photos of the completed building, by internationally renowned photographers and an essay by Joseph(...)
Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas: the cloud. New Rome-Eur Convention centre
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This book narrates the complete detailed history of the New Rome Convention centre in Rome and its construction through numerous and evocative images of the work site showing the complexity of the construction stages and the special techniques that were necessary. There are photos of the completed building, by internationally renowned photographers and an essay by Joseph Giovannini, and is completed with very rich iconographic material composed of technical drawings on various scales, and sketches by the Massimiliano Fuksas, author of the work together with Doriana Fuksas.
Architecture Monographs
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Kazuo Shinohara: 3 Houses analyses three major works, House in White (1966), House in Uehara (1976) and House in Yokohama (1984), by the late Kazuo Shinohara (1925 2006), one of the most important and influential Japanese architects of the twentieth century. The reader will discover a comprehensive selection of plans redrawn to commensurate scale from original working(...)
Kazuo Shinohara: House in white, house in Uehara, house in Yokohama
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Kazuo Shinohara: 3 Houses analyses three major works, House in White (1966), House in Uehara (1976) and House in Yokohama (1984), by the late Kazuo Shinohara (1925 2006), one of the most important and influential Japanese architects of the twentieth century. The reader will discover a comprehensive selection of plans redrawn to commensurate scale from original working drawings, unpublished holograph sketches, and archival photographs. Contributions from Shinohara's teaching colleagues David B. Stewart and Shin-ichi Okuyama situate the three houses within Shinohara's oeuvre and afford new insight into the architect's distinctive working methods.
Architecture Monographs
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Publication regroupant un ensemble photographique complet retraçant la pratique architecturale de Rifat Chadirji à Bagdad, de 1952 au début des années 1980. L'ouvrage fournit un témoignage unique sur la façon dont l'architecte a documenté, organisé et référencé son propre travail à travers la photographie.
Rifat Chadirji: building index
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Publication regroupant un ensemble photographique complet retraçant la pratique architecturale de Rifat Chadirji à Bagdad, de 1952 au début des années 1980. L'ouvrage fournit un témoignage unique sur la façon dont l'architecte a documenté, organisé et référencé son propre travail à travers la photographie.
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