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"Crafting a Modern World" is the first comprehensive book in English on Antonin and Noémi Raymond, a duo that creatively transformed design from 1917 to 1966. Best known for a series of finely detailed structures built in Japan during the 1930s, the Raymonds had prolific careers that included designs for factories, office buildings, churches, and schools as well as(...)
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September 2006, New York
Crafting a modern world : the architecture and design of Antonin and Noémi Raymond
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"Crafting a Modern World" is the first comprehensive book in English on Antonin and Noémi Raymond, a duo that creatively transformed design from 1917 to 1966. Best known for a series of finely detailed structures built in Japan during the 1930s, the Raymonds had prolific careers that included designs for factories, office buildings, churches, and schools as well as furniture, fabrics, and graphic design. The Raymonds combined their European modern roots with the vernacular craft traditions they discovered in regions as diverse as Japan, India, and rural Pennsylvania. They also collaborated with some of the twentieth century's leading thinkers and artists, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Cass Gilbert, Isamu Noguchi, George Nakashima, and Fernand Léger. Inspired by the conventions of traditional Japanese buildings, they brought a high level of attention to craft to all their work, from churches in Chicago and Karuizawa to the Tokyo Tennis Club, the Pacific Cable Company Station in Guam, the Golconde Dormitory in India, and houses throughout the northeastern U.S., including their own modernist interventions at a rural farmhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Four essays round out this examination of the Raymonds' careers.
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James Carpenter is an artist and sculptor whose work focuses on developing new glass and material technologies. His interest in architecture has evolved into a unique design practice that ranges from technical glass and materials consulting to designing curtain walls, roofing systems, bridges, and sculptures. In "James Carpenter: environmental refractions", the artist's(...)
James carpenter : environmental refractions
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James Carpenter is an artist and sculptor whose work focuses on developing new glass and material technologies. His interest in architecture has evolved into a unique design practice that ranges from technical glass and materials consulting to designing curtain walls, roofing systems, bridges, and sculptures. In "James Carpenter: environmental refractions", the artist's first monograph, author Sandro Marpillero explores the unique opportunities afforded by the transparency, reflectivity, and compressive strength of glass. With over 300 images, this book brings to light the work of an exciting designer crossing the boundaries between architecture, engineering, and fine arts. James Carpenter Design Associates, founded in 1978, has worked collaboratively with architects and engineers in the United States and abroad—including Norman Foster, Richard Meier, SOM, and Michael Van Valkenburgh — creating the artistic complement to many significant buildings. James Carpenter, in collaboration with Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, have been chosen to design and build an undulating glass dome for the new Penn Station.
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La publication, en un seul volume, des actes de deux colloques consacrés à une approche contextuelle de l'œuvre de Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) et Etienne Louis Boullée (1728-1799) célèbre le souvenir de deux des plus grands architectes français de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. a peu près oubliés au XIXe siècle (on détruisit alors les quatre cinquièmes des(...)
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August 2006, Tours
Claude Nicolas Ledoux et le livre d'architecture en français / Etienne Louis Boullée : l'utopie et la poésie de l'art
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La publication, en un seul volume, des actes de deux colloques consacrés à une approche contextuelle de l'œuvre de Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) et Etienne Louis Boullée (1728-1799) célèbre le souvenir de deux des plus grands architectes français de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. a peu près oubliés au XIXe siècle (on détruisit alors les quatre cinquièmes des édifices de Ledoux), ils ne furent vraiment redécouverts que dans les années 1930. dans l'historiographie de l'art dit " néoclassique ", enfin apprécié depuis un demi-siècle, l'œuvre de Ledoux et de Boullée symbolise désormais la part la plus révolutionnaire de l'architecture inspirée par la pensée, progressiste et libertaire, des lumières. La publication des écrits sur l'art, inédits, et des magnifiques dessins de Boullée, les rééditions en fac-similé, réduits, du grand livre théorique et poétique que Ledoux avait fait paraître, comme un testament, peu avant sa mort (l'architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art des meurs et de la législation, 1804, sont devenues des ouvrages classiques de la culture architecturale, d'une manière quasi trans-historique. L'utopie, la poésie des formes, l'iconographie parlante et le caractère moralisateur - politique et social - des réalisations et des projets de ces artistes sont souvent compris selon un idéal universel qui fait leur force. Mais en s'intéressant ici aux publications anciennes ou diffusées de leur temps, avec lesquelles ils se sont trouvés en émulation, en rétablissant leur influence européenne, tant en Russie qu'en Angleterre, par exemple, tandis que s'étend l'espace des lumières, les communications de ces actes tentent de restituer le climat architectural dans lequel Ledoux et Boullée se sont exprimés.
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Le travail de l'Atelier d'architecture Chaix & Morel et associés présenté à travers une trentaine de projets et réalisations dévoile une architecture à l'élégance sobre qui s'installe avec légèreté dans des sites dont elle révèle les qualités contrastées : une écriture subtile, au plus près de la vérité des matériaux et des concepts structurels, un travail constant sur la(...)
Chaix & Morel : années lumière
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Le travail de l'Atelier d'architecture Chaix & Morel et associés présenté à travers une trentaine de projets et réalisations dévoile une architecture à l'élégance sobre qui s'installe avec légèreté dans des sites dont elle révèle les qualités contrastées : une écriture subtile, au plus près de la vérité des matériaux et des concepts structurels, un travail constant sur la lumière perçus comme matière révélatrice et constitutive de l'espace...
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Survey of the new building for the Police Headquarters which brings all the services and functions of the Frankfurt police together in a single location. Designed by Kalmbacher & Ludwig, the building was built in a planning consortium with KSP Engel und Zimmermann Architekten.
Kalmbacher & Ludwig : police headquarters Frankfurt/Main
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Survey of the new building for the Police Headquarters which brings all the services and functions of the Frankfurt police together in a single location. Designed by Kalmbacher & Ludwig, the building was built in a planning consortium with KSP Engel und Zimmermann Architekten.
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In 1962 the young photographer René Burri, on the staff of the renowned photo agency MAGNUM, and known for his reportage and portraits, presented the architect, Le Corbusier, with a fold-out book, made with his own hands, containing photographs, dating back to 1953, that he had taken of the architect in various situations. The photographs it contains show Corbusier at the(...)
Für Le Corbusier / Pour Le Corbusier
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In 1962 the young photographer René Burri, on the staff of the renowned photo agency MAGNUM, and known for his reportage and portraits, presented the architect, Le Corbusier, with a fold-out book, made with his own hands, containing photographs, dating back to 1953, that he had taken of the architect in various situations. The photographs it contains show Corbusier at the height of his creativity – in conversation, alone in his studio, at the construction site. They also convey the unmistakable atmosphere of his designs. This scrupulous facsimile reproduction comes with a text by René Burri and commentaries by the Corbusier connoisseur and editor Arthur Rüegg.
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Le catalogue présente l'exposition et sa scénographie, un dossier regroupant 20 projets (réalisés, en cours d'élaboration ou présentés lors de concours) accompagnés de photographies ou d'images 3D, une interview de Thom Mayne par Frédéric Migayrou et la traduction de l'un de ses textes fondateurs Connected Isolation. Enfin, Frédéric Migayrou met ici en parallèle le(...)
Morphosis : continuities of the incomplete
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Le catalogue présente l'exposition et sa scénographie, un dossier regroupant 20 projets (réalisés, en cours d'élaboration ou présentés lors de concours) accompagnés de photographies ou d'images 3D, une interview de Thom Mayne par Frédéric Migayrou et la traduction de l'un de ses textes fondateurs Connected Isolation. Enfin, Frédéric Migayrou met ici en parallèle le travail de Morphosis et une analyse de tout le corpus de textes s'y rattachant fournie par deux logiciels de recherche et de traitement de l'information, Tropes et Zoom, pour mettre en lumière les principaux thèmes et concepts qui sous-tendent le travail de l'agence.
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A masterpiece of 20th-century architecture designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens between 1929 and 1932, the Villa Cavrois had an eventful history before its restoration and opening to the public in 2015. The man who commissioned it, Paul Cavrois, a well-established industrialist from Northern France, wanted a residence large enough to house his family and servants. His(...)
The Villa Cavrois
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A masterpiece of 20th-century architecture designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens between 1929 and 1932, the Villa Cavrois had an eventful history before its restoration and opening to the public in 2015. The man who commissioned it, Paul Cavrois, a well-established industrialist from Northern France, wanted a residence large enough to house his family and servants. His meeting with Robert Mallet-Stevens was to make his project an object-manifesto, an ocean liner rising on the heights of Roubaix, in a striking contrast with the neighbouring traditional bourgeois houses. Mallet-Stevens mastered all aspects of the design: the silhouette and geometry of the villa; the simple, yet luxurious furniture, and the materials chosen specifically for each room – marble and precious woods in the reception areas and tiles in sober colours in the bathrooms and kitchen – the lighting fixtures, the heating and sound systems.
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Comprised of two steel and concrete towers outfitted with 140 prefabricated living capsules, the ''Nakagin Capsule Tower'' in Tokyo is one of the most iconic and influential architectural marvels of the postwar period. A touchstone of the Metabolist movement, the tower was designed by the office of Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa (1934–2007) and completed between 1970(...)
Kisho Kurokawa: Nakagin Capsule Tower. MoMA one on one series
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Comprised of two steel and concrete towers outfitted with 140 prefabricated living capsules, the ''Nakagin Capsule Tower'' in Tokyo is one of the most iconic and influential architectural marvels of the postwar period. A touchstone of the Metabolist movement, the tower was designed by the office of Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa (1934–2007) and completed between 1970 and 1972. Each capsule was intended for single occupancy and came outfitted with its own ensuite bathroom, a foldout desk, a telephone, a reel-to-reel tape player, a Sony color television and a "porthole" window overlooking the city. In this volume of the MoMA ''One on One'' series, curator Evangelos Kotsioris delves into the groundbreaking design, construction, evolution and ultimate need for the demolition of this remarkable structure in 2022. It is published in advance of MoMA's exhibition of one of the original capsules, the first to be publicly shown in the United States.
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Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac is a thoughtfully curated architectural exploration by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, the New York-based design firm’s co-founders. The compelling volume, featuring ten of WORKac’s most recent projects, such as the North Boulder Library, the Rhode Island School of Design’s Student Success Center, and the Miami Museum Garage,(...)
Buildings for people and plants by WORKac: Architecture of WORKac
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Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac is a thoughtfully curated architectural exploration by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, the New York-based design firm’s co-founders. The compelling volume, featuring ten of WORKac’s most recent projects, such as the North Boulder Library, the Rhode Island School of Design’s Student Success Center, and the Miami Museum Garage, navigates through the interconnected realms of architecture, environment, and social sustainability.
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