Les Unités perdues
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Sous forme d’évocations brèves et laconiques, Henri Lefebvre dresse une liste d’œuvres inachevées, disparues, oubliées, détruites ou parfois même jamais réalisées. Cet inventaire des manques s’élève en une mélopée incantatoire qui, l’espace d’un instant, rend présentes ces « unités » perdues pour l’histoire de la création et de la pensée humaines. Mais son(...)
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Sous forme d’évocations brèves et laconiques, Henri Lefebvre dresse une liste d’œuvres inachevées, disparues, oubliées, détruites ou parfois même jamais réalisées. Cet inventaire des manques s’élève en une mélopée incantatoire qui, l’espace d’un instant, rend présentes ces « unités » perdues pour l’histoire de la création et de la pensée humaines. Mais son véritable pouvoir est de faire œuvre nouvelle, récitatif dont le rythme résonne en nous comme celui d’une unité retrouvée.
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Les restes: prototype
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Du mois d’août 2001 au mois d’août 2010, l’auteur a disposé dans un tableau les suppressions effectuées lors de la correction d’œuvres en cours d’écriture – proses (fictions, notes, essais) ou poésie. Le présent ouvrage est constitué d’extraits de ce tableau. Sont ainsi retenus en un même lieu des ponctuations, des mots, des paragraphes, lambeaux textuels(...)
September 2014
Les restes: prototype
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Du mois d’août 2001 au mois d’août 2010, l’auteur a disposé dans un tableau les suppressions effectuées lors de la correction d’œuvres en cours d’écriture – proses (fictions, notes, essais) ou poésie. Le présent ouvrage est constitué d’extraits de ce tableau. Sont ainsi retenus en un même lieu des ponctuations, des mots, des paragraphes, lambeaux textuels initialement voués à la perte. Cet amalgame compose une œuvre de nature imprécise où se maintient, autrement, ce que l’auteur voulait effacer.
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According to Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda, who founded their office in 2008, “For us, building a structure resembles the weaving of a story. A thrilling fantasy begins in the familiar world around us, but then, at some point, carries us off to another world altogether.” Eight architectural projects, both completed works and ongoing concepts, are introduced in this book.(...)
Onishimaki + Hyakudayuki architects / o + h 8 stories
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According to Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda, who founded their office in 2008, “For us, building a structure resembles the weaving of a story. A thrilling fantasy begins in the familiar world around us, but then, at some point, carries us off to another world altogether.” Eight architectural projects, both completed works and ongoing concepts, are introduced in this book. Each has a story that begins with a detailed illustration serving as an index of the diverse elements of the design process and then moves into specifics regarding some of these elements using many models, photos and text. Includes essays by the architects and a conversation with Ryue Nishizawa.
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In this large-format book, photographer Yukio Futagawa recounts his pilgrimage to Le Corbusier’s modernist villa in Ahmedabad, India, built between 1951-56. A symbol of the architect’s domestic architecture, the private residence integrates traditional features of local design, such as the double-height living room on the ground level, with key aspects like sun, wind and(...)
Le Corbusier : Sodan House, Ahmedabad, India, 1951-56
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In this large-format book, photographer Yukio Futagawa recounts his pilgrimage to Le Corbusier’s modernist villa in Ahmedabad, India, built between 1951-56. A symbol of the architect’s domestic architecture, the private residence integrates traditional features of local design, such as the double-height living room on the ground level, with key aspects like sun, wind and landscaping. The raw concrete form frames the open character of its interior spaces and the overall plan, a five-level cube divided by beams and slabs.
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Saarinen houses
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Saarinen Houses presents seventeen houses built over a span of six decades, in Finland and the United States. From Eliel's early twentieth-century Villa Pulkanranta— an eclectic mix of local Finnish design traditions and international influences—to Eero's Miller House, one of the most significant examples of modern domestic architecture in the United States, each project(...)
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October 2014
Saarinen houses
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Saarinen Houses presents seventeen houses built over a span of six decades, in Finland and the United States. From Eliel's early twentieth-century Villa Pulkanranta— an eclectic mix of local Finnish design traditions and international influences—to Eero's Miller House, one of the most significant examples of modern domestic architecture in the United States, each project features original drawings and archival photos, as well as new interior and exterior shots. Featuring carefully designed interiors—often with custom-made furniture—they effortlessly merge with the landscape, and reward residents with exciting views, inviting nooks, and opulent furnishings.
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MOS: selected works
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Their work has been described as experimental and innovative, qualities front-and-center in their previous collection Everything All at Once. In just ten years, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample have established MOS as one of the leading young architecture practices in the country. Selected Works, the first monograph on the built work of the New York–based firm, follows(...)
MOS: selected works
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Their work has been described as experimental and innovative, qualities front-and-center in their previous collection Everything All at Once. In just ten years, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample have established MOS as one of the leading young architecture practices in the country. Selected Works, the first monograph on the built work of the New York–based firm, follows the design studio's evolution from their earliest works to their most celebrated houses and institutional buildings. The thirty-two projects featured range from the sophisticated to the absurd—from the serene Floating House in Ontario, Canada, and the sustainable Kathmandu Orphanage in Nepal to the playful puppet theater at Harvard's Carpenter Center and the appropriately named Rainbow Vomit installation in New York, a digital, interactive, computational heap of building blocks in a constant state of near collapse. The collection also includes a selection of the couple's unorthodox writings, including their satirical "Office Policy" employee manual.
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Andrea Palladio is unquestionably the most important architect in the Western world: his carefully proportioned, pedimented designs are the foundations for most single-family homes and public buildings in the United States and Europe. In 1776, architect and scholar Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi began documenting and analyzing Palladio's designs, which were published in four(...)
The buildings and designs of Andrea Palladio
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Andrea Palladio is unquestionably the most important architect in the Western world: his carefully proportioned, pedimented designs are the foundations for most single-family homes and public buildings in the United States and Europe. In 1776, architect and scholar Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi began documenting and analyzing Palladio's designs, which were published in four volumes as Le fabbriche e i disegni di Andrea Palladio. Gathered together here for the first time in English in a single volume, The Buildings and Designs of Andrea Palladio is the complete works of Palladio, from his well-known villas of the Veneto to his lesser-known engineering structures, such as bridges. Featuring the highest quality printing and binding, this large-format stunner features more than two hundred reproductions and showcases Palladio's designs for villas, churches, and civic buildings, and for the first time, the English translation of Scamozzi's introduction to Palladio's remarkable oeuvre.
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Frank Lloyd Wright : The Rooms presents the interior spaces and design work of the American architect. Wright was an early proponent of "total design." Unsatisfied with what was available in designing a given space or home, he invented what was needed, developing a language of architectural detail and styling that is unique and which extended to the tables, bookcases,(...)
Frank Lloyd Wright : the rooms, interiors and decorative arts
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Frank Lloyd Wright : The Rooms presents the interior spaces and design work of the American architect. Wright was an early proponent of "total design." Unsatisfied with what was available in designing a given space or home, he invented what was needed, developing a language of architectural detail and styling that is unique and which extended to the tables, bookcases, easy chairs, sofas, and cabinets; to rugs and murals; to stonework, stained glass, and lighting.
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Bernard Khoury: local heroes
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This publication explores the distinct and specific approach of Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury. The Wrong Approach investigates the various events and personalities that shaped the context within which architect Bernard Khoury had to operate; particularly that of Beirut as it emerged from early postwar 1990s up to its present state of uncontrolled dissonance.
Bernard Khoury: local heroes
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This publication explores the distinct and specific approach of Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury. The Wrong Approach investigates the various events and personalities that shaped the context within which architect Bernard Khoury had to operate; particularly that of Beirut as it emerged from early postwar 1990s up to its present state of uncontrolled dissonance.
Architecture Monographs
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Marco Facchinetti and Marco Dellavalle have put forward incisive plans and projects built up around the two key concepts of design and feasibility, which prove truly capable of modifying reality, at least on the local scale. The reflections developed and the projects illustrated here show how planning is able, through the use of design and of correct, effective procedures(...)
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October 2014
The Blossom Avenue: for better human living
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Marco Facchinetti and Marco Dellavalle have put forward incisive plans and projects built up around the two key concepts of design and feasibility, which prove truly capable of modifying reality, at least on the local scale. The reflections developed and the projects illustrated here show how planning is able, through the use of design and of correct, effective procedures of implementation, to affect local realities by creating evolutionary scenarios in which progress ensures virtuous productions, new episodes of urban quality in often fragmented areas and new ways of making the most of what already exists. In this way, planning can always be synonymous with evolution for the contexts to which it is applied.
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