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This fourth book in a series of monographs on projects by h2o architectes looks back at the Chapelle Charbon urban development project in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, part of a major transformation of north-eastern Paris and, in particular, the area around Porte de la Chapelle. The project proposed by h2o aims to transform a former indus- trial and rail logistics(...)
h2o architectes 4: Sustainable Building at Chapelle Charbon
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This fourth book in a series of monographs on projects by h2o architectes looks back at the Chapelle Charbon urban development project in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, part of a major transformation of north-eastern Paris and, in particular, the area around Porte de la Chapelle. The project proposed by h2o aims to transform a former indus- trial and rail logistics site perceived as a nuisance into a new destination, in particular by connecting all the former dead-end roads to open up the site. The project is based on the creation of a large park of over 6 hectares, delivered in advance of the construction of new housing and roads.
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In Bangladesh, climate change causes frequent flooding, forcing countless people to find new homes. In response, Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum (born 1968) and her team have developed the Khudi Bari (small house): a low-cost structure that can be assembled, disassembled, transported and reassembled in another location by the inhabitants themselves. This publication(...)
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September 2025
Khudi Barri: A Social Project by Marina Tabassum Architects from Dhaka to Weil am Rhein
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In Bangladesh, climate change causes frequent flooding, forcing countless people to find new homes. In response, Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum (born 1968) and her team have developed the Khudi Bari (small house): a low-cost structure that can be assembled, disassembled, transported and reassembled in another location by the inhabitants themselves. This publication contains texts, photographs and illustrations of a Khudi Bari erected on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, as an example of a concrete response to problems exacerbated by the climate crisis. Says Tabassum: "Inspiration for this mobile house is rooted in the vernacular style of dwelling that can be found in Bangladesh. These structures are created in the manner of a flatpack system and are generally built along the majestic Padma, Jamuna and Meghna rivers. The houses have a wooden frame structure and corrugated metal facades and roofs, which can be dismantled and relocated in the aftermath of riverbank erosion and reassembled by their owners once they have found a new place to build."
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This volume presents a new collection of Takada’s most recent projects, pushing further his continuing reflections on reconnecting the natural world with the built environment. Featuring breathtaking photography of his buildings and interiors, along with sketches and nature-inspired imagery, the book guides readers through Takada’s global work and innovations. The climate(...)
Koichi Takada: Naturalizing architecture
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This volume presents a new collection of Takada’s most recent projects, pushing further his continuing reflections on reconnecting the natural world with the built environment. Featuring breathtaking photography of his buildings and interiors, along with sketches and nature-inspired imagery, the book guides readers through Takada’s global work and innovations. The climate positive residence Sunflower House in Italy has a rotating roof and floors to manage sun exposure and heat gain; the Landmark by Lexus pavilion in Melbourne has 1,000 native Australian plants growing on its facade that granted it a carbon neutral certification; the Palm Frond Retreat at Balmoral Beach in Australia is designed for the inhabitants to use different parts of the house depending on the season and time of day, creating positive impact within homes. Each project illustrates Takada’s study of how the present ecological constrains weigh on the architectural design processes and how the reality of our densely built habitats changes the perception we have of buildings and cities, offering a compelling look at environmentally conscious architecture today and to the future evolution of the practice.
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Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect" Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special volume of 2G revisits this(...)
2G essays: Sigurd Lewerentz and Bernt Nyberg: In dialogue
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Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect" Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special volume of 2G revisits this unfinished project that ultimately views the reclusive architect through a curious and experimental lens.
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Kengo Kuma: Substance
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Kengo Kuma’s work masterfully engages experimentation, traditional Japanese design, and advanced technology. This results in highly innovative yet beautifully simple, evocative, and human-scaled structures. ''Kengo Kuma: Substance'' features thirty-five ambitious, small-scall projects, from around the world, ranging from captivating wood pavilions, ethereal metal(...)
Kengo Kuma: Substance
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Kengo Kuma’s work masterfully engages experimentation, traditional Japanese design, and advanced technology. This results in highly innovative yet beautifully simple, evocative, and human-scaled structures. ''Kengo Kuma: Substance'' features thirty-five ambitious, small-scall projects, from around the world, ranging from captivating wood pavilions, ethereal metal installations, and sculptural woven structures to experiential stone monuments, intricate bamboo tea houses, and luminous shape-shifting domes.
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Georg Rauh (1906–1965) enhanced the Eastern Swiss architectural landscape with his work. His oeuvre, comprising around 100 buildings, is characterized by the considered placement of volumes, sensible floor plans and a subtle choice of materials. A clear programme is discernible: reduction and functionality, fully in the spirit of Bauhaus teaching. The trained carpenter(...)
Georg Rauh: Das Bauhaus in der Schweiz
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Georg Rauh (1906–1965) enhanced the Eastern Swiss architectural landscape with his work. His oeuvre, comprising around 100 buildings, is characterized by the considered placement of volumes, sensible floor plans and a subtle choice of materials. A clear programme is discernible: reduction and functionality, fully in the spirit of Bauhaus teaching. The trained carpenter studied at the Bauhaus Dessau under Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer, before graduating in 1932 under Mies van der Rohe. After returning to Switzerland, he worked as a teacher at a vocational school and subsequently as an architect for social housing. This catalogue of works documents his architectural heritage and its key buildings, which are portrayed by comparing the original plans, as well as in images and photographs by Ladina Bischof.
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Erling Viksjø's buildings challenge our notions about what constitutes good architecture. His extensive use of concrete, modules and repetitive shapes has caused many to describe him as Norway's foremost Brutalist architect. Viksjø also went furthest in collaborating with visual artists. "Concrete in transition" examines the encounter between art and architecture in(...)
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November 2025
Concrete in transition: The architect Erling Viksjø and his artist collaborators
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Erling Viksjø's buildings challenge our notions about what constitutes good architecture. His extensive use of concrete, modules and repetitive shapes has caused many to describe him as Norway's foremost Brutalist architect. Viksjø also went furthest in collaborating with visual artists. "Concrete in transition" examines the encounter between art and architecture in Viksjø's projects. How could one attain a unified design where art was no longer an addition to, or in competition with, the architecture? This publication discusses Viksjø's collaborations with well-established artists such as Hannah Ryggen and Kai Fjell, and young Modernists including Odd Tandberg, Carl Nesjar and Inger Sitter. In addition, it discusses the projects in which he collaborated with Pablo Picasso.
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Entre lignes tendues et volumes généreux, le mobilier de Jean-Louis Avril occupe une place singulière dans le paysage du design français des années 1960-1970. Inspiré par l'architecture brutaliste, Jean-Louis Avril développe des meubles d'avant-garde, façonnés dans un matériau inédit : le celloderme. Son fauteuil Éléphant et sa lampe Lune comptent aujourd'hui parmi ses(...)
Jean-Louis Avril : Un architecte du carton
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Entre lignes tendues et volumes généreux, le mobilier de Jean-Louis Avril occupe une place singulière dans le paysage du design français des années 1960-1970. Inspiré par l'architecture brutaliste, Jean-Louis Avril développe des meubles d'avant-garde, façonnés dans un matériau inédit : le celloderme. Son fauteuil Éléphant et sa lampe Lune comptent aujourd'hui parmi ses pièces emblématiques. Visionnaire dans son approche éthique, il milite pour un design responsable, et ses œuvres qui sont à la frontière du fonctionnel et du manifeste artistique séduisent toujours les collectionneurs et amateurs. Cet ouvrage rend hommage à ce créateur fondamental, dont l'approche audacieuse évoque une autre histoire du design du XXe siècle.
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Designer, architecte, théoricien, professeur, auteur de nombreux ouvrages, Andrea Branzi a accompli une oeuvre considérable, tournée vers une expérimentation radicale du design, qui interroge la société post-industrielle des XXe et XXIe siècles. Membre du groupe Archizoom Associati de 1964 à 1974, il participe à la création du Studio Alchimia en 1977 avant de rejoindre le(...)
Andrea Branzi : Le règne des vivants
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Designer, architecte, théoricien, professeur, auteur de nombreux ouvrages, Andrea Branzi a accompli une oeuvre considérable, tournée vers une expérimentation radicale du design, qui interroge la société post-industrielle des XXe et XXIe siècles. Membre du groupe Archizoom Associati de 1964 à 1974, il participe à la création du Studio Alchimia en 1977 avant de rejoindre le collectif Memphis en 1981. À travers dessins, objets de design, projets d'architecture, peintures ou encore installations, Branzi s'intéresse au rapport entre le design industriel et la notion de « nature », qui n'existe plus en tant que telle, mais devient une « seconde nature » artificielle. Pour Branzi, le design est avant tout émotionnel. Son oeuvre protéiforme questionne l'environnement domestique et les objets qui nous accompagnent : comment donner « un monde hospitalier » aux hommes, aux vivants ? Quel est le sens de notre appartenance au « règne des vivants » ?
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Le 18 septembre 1924, Le Corbusier s'installe au 35, rue de Sèvres, à Paris, au premier étage de l'aile désaffectée d'un couvent occupé par des Jésuites. Il y bénéficie de "la disposition de murs très importants pour l'étude des dessins", pour achever son pavillon de l'Esprit nouveau à l'Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes de 1925. Le(...)
Le 35 S. L'Atelier de Le Corbusier
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Le 18 septembre 1924, Le Corbusier s'installe au 35, rue de Sèvres, à Paris, au premier étage de l'aile désaffectée d'un couvent occupé par des Jésuites. Il y bénéficie de "la disposition de murs très importants pour l'étude des dessins", pour achever son pavillon de l'Esprit nouveau à l'Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes de 1925. Le plus emblématique des architectes du XXe siècle y restera quarante ans, jusqu'à sa mort en 1965. Quarante années pendant lesquelles défileront dans ce couloir de 40m de long, 3,50 m de large et 4 m de haut, plus de deux cents architectes venant d'une quarantaine de pays, au premier rang desquels Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret, Iannis Xenakis, Josep Lluis Sert, André Wogenscky, Roger Aujame, José Oubrerie, Junzo Sakakura...
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