Bob Van Reeth Architect
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One of the most important post-war Belgian architects, bOb Van Reeth became the first Flemish Master Architect in 1999. Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, this richly illustrated book compiles 40 designs produced over the past 50 years. With numerous sketches, drawings, models and photos, it presents a(...)
Bob Van Reeth Architect
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One of the most important post-war Belgian architects, bOb Van Reeth became the first Flemish Master Architect in 1999. Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, this richly illustrated book compiles 40 designs produced over the past 50 years. With numerous sketches, drawings, models and photos, it presents a cross-section of his oeuvre, a collection of notable projects spanning an entire career, from competition entries to realised works. Each is accompanied by an existing text, from draft proposals to interviews, essays, newspaper articles, student theses, and more, to reflect the broad cultural presence of his work.
Architecture Monographs
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For Norman Foster, the drawing is a significant analytical and working tool, a way of relating to reality and an expression of his belief that design can improve our environment and quality of life. Within this multimedia publication are emblematic projects such as the Hearst Building in New York, the Beijing Airport and 30 St Mary Axe in London. Arranged chronologically,(...)
How much does your building weigh, Mr. Foster? Book and DVD.
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For Norman Foster, the drawing is a significant analytical and working tool, a way of relating to reality and an expression of his belief that design can improve our environment and quality of life. Within this multimedia publication are emblematic projects such as the Hearst Building in New York, the Beijing Airport and 30 St Mary Axe in London. Arranged chronologically, the drawings offer a concise history of work by Foster spanning 50 years and supplement a DVD of the award-winning documentary film directed by Norberto López Amado and Carlos Carcas, plus a second DVD with more than 100 minutes of interviews and images and an audio CD of the film’s original soundtrack.
Architecture Monographs
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Graphic Autobiography by Italo Lupi is a complex, comprehensive book on the work of the architect and master of graphics, images and design who, over the course of his career, worked with some of the biggest names in publishing, fashion, design and architecture. The book is divided into sections featuring the author's creations divided by thematic areas, each presented(...)
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Italo Lupi: graphic autobiography
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Graphic Autobiography by Italo Lupi is a complex, comprehensive book on the work of the architect and master of graphics, images and design who, over the course of his career, worked with some of the biggest names in publishing, fashion, design and architecture. The book is divided into sections featuring the author's creations divided by thematic areas, each presented through rich iconographic and textual apparatus – new and old – bearing the signature of critics, journalists, graphic designers, architects and friends who has shown their appreciation for Lupi's work.
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A clear and comprehensive portrait of the practice of Tokyo-based architect. Hiroshi Kikuchi spans more than 130 pages of anecdotal texts, architectural drawings and full-colour photographs of both buildings and nature.
Hiroshi Kikuchi : Basso Continuo
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A clear and comprehensive portrait of the practice of Tokyo-based architect. Hiroshi Kikuchi spans more than 130 pages of anecdotal texts, architectural drawings and full-colour photographs of both buildings and nature.
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Never Modern: 6a architects
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In Never Modern, Irenee Scalbert explores the role of narrative, history, and appropriation in the works of the London-based firm 6a Architects, whose recent projects include the South London Gallery, Raven Row, and the new fashion galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Never Modern: 6a architects
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In Never Modern, Irenee Scalbert explores the role of narrative, history, and appropriation in the works of the London-based firm 6a Architects, whose recent projects include the South London Gallery, Raven Row, and the new fashion galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Architecture Monographs
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Rising dramatically above the Swiss landscape surrounding the well-known resort Flims - Laax - Falera, Jurg Conzett's unique mountain trail contains seven bridges crossing a wild stream. An internationally renowned civil engineer, Conzett has brought his considerable talent and experience to this project and the results are groundbreaking and visually appealing. Each(...)
Trutg dil Flem: Seven Bridges by Jurg Conzett
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Rising dramatically above the Swiss landscape surrounding the well-known resort Flims - Laax - Falera, Jurg Conzett's unique mountain trail contains seven bridges crossing a wild stream. An internationally renowned civil engineer, Conzett has brought his considerable talent and experience to this project and the results are groundbreaking and visually appealing. Each bridge uses a different type of construction and building method depending on the specific geographic features of its location.Wilfried Dechau has catalogued the project with over one-hundred previously unpublished images of the bridges and their surrounding landscape.
Architecture Monographs
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This monograph sheds light on the little-known work of the idiosyncratic Dutch architect Gert Boon (1921 – 2009), who throughout his career sought coherence through geometry. Boon, who belonged to the same Forum generation as Aldo van Eyck, Herman Hertzberger and Piet Blom, had quite definite views on architecture, but he rarely gave voice to them other than in his(...)
Gert Boon
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This monograph sheds light on the little-known work of the idiosyncratic Dutch architect Gert Boon (1921 – 2009), who throughout his career sought coherence through geometry. Boon, who belonged to the same Forum generation as Aldo van Eyck, Herman Hertzberger and Piet Blom, had quite definite views on architecture, but he rarely gave voice to them other than in his designs and his buildings.
Architecture Monographs
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This publication looks at the concept of appropriation and how Johnson's style was influenced first by his mentor, Mies van der Rohe, and then by post-modern ideas and artists. Charting his career through the 1980s and beyond, this title serves to review Johnson's body of work and show that, far from being a weakness, his use of appropriation was a major part of his(...)
Philip Johnson and his mischief: appropriation in art and architecture
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This publication looks at the concept of appropriation and how Johnson's style was influenced first by his mentor, Mies van der Rohe, and then by post-modern ideas and artists. Charting his career through the 1980s and beyond, this title serves to review Johnson's body of work and show that, far from being a weakness, his use of appropriation was a major part of his innovative success.
Architecture Monographs
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This book shapes a thick network of experiences and crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years in the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo. In its pages there are mixed reflections, anecdotes and creations that shape an exciting cocktail between living, thinking and creating.Topics like the origin and the memory, the soul and the precision, the(...)
Create!
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This book shapes a thick network of experiences and crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years in the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo. In its pages there are mixed reflections, anecdotes and creations that shape an exciting cocktail between living, thinking and creating.Topics like the origin and the memory, the soul and the precision, the random and the instability, the empathy, the instants and the choice, the hybridization and the blurry systems, the cloning, the invisible orders and the essential complexity or the combination of matter and energy turn out to be here interlaced.
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Barkow Leibinger
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The works presented in this volume by American/German architectural team Barkow Leibinger range from prototypes and installations to buildings such as the recently completed Tour Total, in which form and space evolve by means of the handling of material and new technologies and tools.
Barkow Leibinger
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The works presented in this volume by American/German architectural team Barkow Leibinger range from prototypes and installations to buildings such as the recently completed Tour Total, in which form and space evolve by means of the handling of material and new technologies and tools.
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