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Peter Zumthor Therme Vals
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Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa’s majestic surroundings, Zumthor built the structure on the sharp grade of an Alpine mountain slope with grass-topped roofs to mimic Swiss meadows, captured here in a series of sumptuous(...)
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Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa’s majestic surroundings, Zumthor built the structure on the sharp grade of an Alpine mountain slope with grass-topped roofs to mimic Swiss meadows, captured here in a series of sumptuous images. Peter Zumthor Therme Vals, the only book-length study of this singular building, features the architect’s own original sketches and plans for its design as well as Hélène Binet’s striking photographs of the structure. Architectural scholar Sigrid Hauser contributes an essay on such topics as “Artemis/Diana,” “Baptism,” “Mikvah,” and “Spring”—drawing out the connections between the elemental nature of the spa and mythology, bathing, and purity. Annotations by Peter Zumthor on his design concept and the building process elucidate the structure’s symbiotic relationship to its natural surroundings, revealing, for example, why he insisted on using locally quarried stone. Therme Vals’s scenic design elements, and Zumthor’s contributions to this book, reflect the architect’s commitment to the essential and his disdain for needless architectural flourishes. This lavishly illustrated volume about the spa that catapulted a remote Swiss village onto the international architecture scene will entrance all enthusiasts of contemporary design.
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February 2007
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Andreas Horlitz: works
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The first monograph on Andreas Horlitz's work over a quarter century covers an engaging richness of artistic strategies. After beginning as a prizewinning photographer, Horlitz turned to word-and-picture constructions, experiments with Xerox reproductions, and, recently, mirror-and-light works and architecturally related, site-specific projects. Throughout his career,(...)
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The first monograph on Andreas Horlitz's work over a quarter century covers an engaging richness of artistic strategies. After beginning as a prizewinning photographer, Horlitz turned to word-and-picture constructions, experiments with Xerox reproductions, and, recently, mirror-and-light works and architecturally related, site-specific projects. Throughout his career, language, either textual or scientific, has figured large--in one case as large as a six-story installation incorporating the sleep research of Alexander Borb ly, who has recorded his daily activity patterns since 1982 using a monitor strapped permanently to his wrist. These immensely inventive images and structures are discussed in essays by Klaus Honnef, Irene Netta, Sibylle Omlin, Hans Scheurer, and Stephan Trescher.
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A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter Eisenman today stands at the center of architectural discourse and debate. This book, a companion volume to "Eisenman inside out : selected writings, 1963–1988", gathers a selection of his later writings. In these texts Eisenman undertakes theoretical analyses, close readings(...)
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April 2007, New Haven, London
Peter Eisenman : written into the void, selected writings, 1990-2004
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A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter Eisenman today stands at the center of architectural discourse and debate. This book, a companion volume to "Eisenman inside out : selected writings, 1963–1988", gathers a selection of his later writings. In these texts Eisenman undertakes theoretical analyses, close readings of his own works, and innovative assessments of the designs and writings of other architects and critics. In an introduction to the volume, Jeffrey Kipnis looks closely at Eisenman’s approach toward language and writing, a practice in which architecture itself becomes a form of written theory, as well as at his context within a critical canon that includes Jacques Derrida and Rosalind Krauss. Presenting the range of Eisenman’s important contributions to architectural theory, this collection of nineteen essays provides insight into the architect’s own understandings and methodologies and offers provocative challenges for his readers.
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April 2007, New Haven, London
Architecture Monographs
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Exclusive Montecito, California, is home to some of America's most spectacular private residences, but none is as spectacular as Val Verde. Built in 1915 by architect Bertram Goodhue, Val Verde is the most preserved of the great early-twentieth-century Southern California estate properties. Ann Mitchell's haunting photographic study of Val Verde in Austin Val Verde:(...)
Austin Val Verde : Impressions of a Montecito masterpiece
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Exclusive Montecito, California, is home to some of America's most spectacular private residences, but none is as spectacular as Val Verde. Built in 1915 by architect Bertram Goodhue, Val Verde is the most preserved of the great early-twentieth-century Southern California estate properties. Ann Mitchell's haunting photographic study of Val Verde in Austin Val Verde: Impressions of a Montecito Masterpiece reveals the stately original grandeur beneath the layers of the now-shabby elegance of this legendary California estate.
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GPAA Gaëlle Péneau architectes et associés, 1995-2005 : récréation chroniques et chronologies
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Chroniques & chronologies d’une agence d’architecture : 1995 - 2005 Ce livre n’est pas une ultime présentation de bâtiments d’architectes ayant « pignon sur rue ». Ce livre chronique une agence d’architecture compilant l’anecdotique de chaque projet pour les ré-assembler dans une tournure documentaire. L’agence GPAA documente en un carnet d’illustrations de 250 pages(...)
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October 2006, Paris
GPAA Gaëlle Péneau architectes et associés, 1995-2005 : récréation chroniques et chronologies
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Chroniques & chronologies d’une agence d’architecture : 1995 - 2005 Ce livre n’est pas une ultime présentation de bâtiments d’architectes ayant « pignon sur rue ». Ce livre chronique une agence d’architecture compilant l’anecdotique de chaque projet pour les ré-assembler dans une tournure documentaire. L’agence GPAA documente en un carnet d’illustrations de 250 pages les projets, des plans à la maquette, du chantier au bâtiment fini. Les projets sont présentés chronologiquement, les uns avec les autres. L’idée développée est que le temps d’une agence d’architecture n’est pas linéaire et que le travail sur un concours peut influencer l’évolution d’un bâtiment en chantier. L’objet de ce carnet est de suivre le processus de conception architecturale au quotidien, de suivre sa temporalité, de déplier le télescopage des idées, des influences et d’une équipe sur 10 ans d’agence. Pendant deux ans et sous influence poétique d’Emmanuel Hocquard, Gaëlle Péneau a créé des temps de discussion autour de mots-clés, puis a invité chacun à créer son photo-roman.
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October 2006, Paris
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House : black swan theory
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House brings us up-to-date on Holl's most recent residences and collects his best-known projects from the past including a total of fifteen of Holl's residential works. Rather than having an unvarying style, these houses aim at the sometimes elusive ideal of the specific. Each house tackles a different design challenge, using site as the physical and metaphysical(...)
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House brings us up-to-date on Holl's most recent residences and collects his best-known projects from the past including a total of fifteen of Holl's residential works. Rather than having an unvarying style, these houses aim at the sometimes elusive ideal of the specific. Each house tackles a different design challenge, using site as the physical and metaphysical foundation upon which to build. Fusing building and situation, Holl creates a unique expression in each home. Beautiful and innovative, the houses span the globe, ranging from a secluded location in Hawaii, to the Catskill Mountains of New York, to Martha's Vineyard, to the Hague in the Netherlands. Each project is accompanied by Holl's charming watercolor building studies as well as an insightful explanation of how he was inspired by the land upon which the house sits and how the sumptuous materials utilized reflect the spirit of the location.
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May 2007, New York
Architecture Monographs
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Although internationally known for his furniture, for his iconic Schröder House and for his relationship to the members of De Stijl, Gerrit Th. Rietveld developed a prolific career as an architect after his Neo-Plasticist phase in the 1920s. This double issue of 2G takes another look at Rietveld's domestic built work from his first Neo-Plasticist buildings of the(...)
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November 2006, Barcelona
2G 39/40 : Gerrit Th. Rietveld casas/houses
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Although internationally known for his furniture, for his iconic Schröder House and for his relationship to the members of De Stijl, Gerrit Th. Rietveld developed a prolific career as an architect after his Neo-Plasticist phase in the 1920s. This double issue of 2G takes another look at Rietveld's domestic built work from his first Neo-Plasticist buildings of the 1920s to his death in 1964. In it we discover a trajectory which, without renouncing the Neo-Plasticist precepts of his early days, gradually takes on a more domestic and everyday cast in direct rapport with his clients. Along with his endeavours as a cabinetmaker, the issue of suburban single-family housing constituted a fundamental mainstay in his trajectory, one in which the everyday is intermingled with spatial exploration. The revisit to this less-known oeuvre of Rietveld's is preceded by essays by Marijke Kuper (editor of this issue), Hans Ibelings and Wim Quist, and culminates in the nexus section with various texts by the architect himself.
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Depuis plusieurs années, je souhaitais rassembler quelques réflexions sur la notion de simplicité, telle qu'elle peut être mise en œuvre dans l'art et l'architecture et, plus généralement, dans la vie. Avec cet ouvrage, mon but est d'établir l'idée de " minimum " comme un mode de pensée, une manière de vivre et de travailler. La quête individuelle pour la liberté liée à(...)
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Depuis plusieurs années, je souhaitais rassembler quelques réflexions sur la notion de simplicité, telle qu'elle peut être mise en œuvre dans l'art et l'architecture et, plus généralement, dans la vie. Avec cet ouvrage, mon but est d'établir l'idée de " minimum " comme un mode de pensée, une manière de vivre et de travailler. La quête individuelle pour la liberté liée à l'ordre et à la quiétude a toujours existé à travers l'histoire. La plupart d'entre nous a, à un moment de son existence, ressenti le besoin de se défaire du superflu et de repartir à zéro. Pourtant, même s'ils convoitent ou collectent des biens matériels, les hommes sont souvent tentés par l'idée de voyager léger. Les grands créateurs d'œuvres, qu'elles soient artistiques, architecturales ou musicales, ont compris le principe de la présence de l'absence : en le réduisant à l'essentiel, l'objet créé gagne en clarté, en qualité et en force. Cette pensée se retrouve à travers divers pays et cultures. Bien que de nombreux ouvrages aient été consacrés à des sujets équivalents - tels que la communauté Shaker, le nomadisme bédouin et l'architecture cistercienne - aucun livre, jusqu'à présent, n'a réuni tous les aspects de ce thème. -John Pawson
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November 2006, London, Paris
Architecture Monographs
Sauerbruch Hutton : archive
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Sauerbruch hutton present for the first time a monograph covering their work over the 17 years that their practice has been in existence. This comprehensive book includes detailed descriptions of 60 works as well as 8 essays by the architects, and there is a complete register of all projects. This compendium will provide a new opportunity for insight into the work of(...)
Sauerbruch Hutton : archive
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Sauerbruch hutton present for the first time a monograph covering their work over the 17 years that their practice has been in existence. This comprehensive book includes detailed descriptions of 60 works as well as 8 essays by the architects, and there is a complete register of all projects. This compendium will provide a new opportunity for insight into the work of sauerbruch hutton: it allows one to trace the development of their architectural thinking through the vehicle of realised projects, their texts, and a considerable number of unrealised works. While providing a panoramic overview the book also shows how each project was individually developed out of its physical and social context, with its form being a result of func- tional, technical, spatial and sculptural considerations.
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The Argentine architect Ignacio Dahl Rocha and the Swiss architect Jacques Richter have been regarded as prominent champions of an elegant brand of modernity at least since their design of the Espacité Tower on Place Le Corbusier in La Chaux-de-Fonds and their renovation of Jean Tschumis Nestlé corporate headquarters on the shores of Lake Geneva. Their work in the United(...)
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October 2006, Basel, Berlin, Boston
The Architecture of Richter & Dahl Rocha
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The Argentine architect Ignacio Dahl Rocha and the Swiss architect Jacques Richter have been regarded as prominent champions of an elegant brand of modernity at least since their design of the Espacité Tower on Place Le Corbusier in La Chaux-de-Fonds and their renovation of Jean Tschumis Nestlé corporate headquarters on the shores of Lake Geneva. Their work in the United States and Canada, which began when they were students together at Yale University, is increasingly expanding to include South America as well. In the last fifteen years, they have completed numerous projects, including cultural, educational, administrative, hospital, and residential buildings, primarily in Switzerland but also in Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina. The most important are presented here, in this only current monograph on the firm.
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