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Part of a series of project notebooks accompanying the exhibition “Absent architectures of the 20th century” which examines architectural projects from the last century that were never built, have been drastically altered or demolished. Coderch's Torre Valentina project was never realised but is reconstructed here with the aid of documents, models, sketches and plans.
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January 2004, Madrid
Coderch : Torre Valentina : une proyecto de paisaje 1959
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Part of a series of project notebooks accompanying the exhibition “Absent architectures of the 20th century” which examines architectural projects from the last century that were never built, have been drastically altered or demolished. Coderch's Torre Valentina project was never realised but is reconstructed here with the aid of documents, models, sketches and plans.
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Part of a series of project notebooks accompanying the exhibition “Absent Architectures of the 20th Century” which examines architectural projects from the last century that were never built, have been drastically altered or demolished. Oiza's competition entry for a Chapel on St. James Way was never realised but is reconstructed here with the aid of documents, models,(...)
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October 2004, Madrid
Oiza : a chapel on St. James Way 1954
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Part of a series of project notebooks accompanying the exhibition “Absent Architectures of the 20th Century” which examines architectural projects from the last century that were never built, have been drastically altered or demolished. Oiza's competition entry for a Chapel on St. James Way was never realised but is reconstructed here with the aid of documents, models, sketches and plans.
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Montecito, California is home to some of America's most spectacular private residences. Most amazing perhaps is Val Verde, the house built in 1915 on a breathtaking seventeen-and-one-half-acre coastal plot by American architect Bertram Goodhue. Besides its status as the most preserved of the great early-twentieth-century Southern California estate properties, Val Verde(...)
Austin Val Verde : a Montecito masterpiece
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Montecito, California is home to some of America's most spectacular private residences. Most amazing perhaps is Val Verde, the house built in 1915 on a breathtaking seventeen-and-one-half-acre coastal plot by American architect Bertram Goodhue. Besides its status as the most preserved of the great early-twentieth-century Southern California estate properties, Val Verde also bears the distinction of being the earliest American free-standing single-family house in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Austin Val Verde: A Montecito Masterpiece is the first book to reveal the full extent and richness of Val Verde's architecture, interiors, and gardens. The book includes never-before-published color photographs of the house and its gardens by the late Berge Aran
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Tom Kundig : houses
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This monograph on Seattle-based architect Tom Kundig presents five projects, from their early conceptual sketches to their final wrought, intimate details. Kundig's houses reflect a sustained and active collaborative process between designer, craftsmen, and owners, resulting in houses that bring to life the architect's intentions, the materials used, and lines of beauty.(...)
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November 2006, New York
Tom Kundig : houses
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This monograph on Seattle-based architect Tom Kundig presents five projects, from their early conceptual sketches to their final wrought, intimate details. Kundig's houses reflect a sustained and active collaborative process between designer, craftsmen, and owners, resulting in houses that bring to life the architect's intentions, the materials used, and lines of beauty. Kundig's work is inspired by both the industrial structures with which he grew up in the Pacific Northwest and the craft cultures that are fostered there. His buildings meld industrial sensibilities and materials such as Cor-ten steel and concrete with an intuitive understanding of scale.
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Among the critical adulation that follows VJAA wherever they build, you'll find words like graceful, beautiful, sublime, quiet, classic, disciplined, and light—all suggesting the kind of alchemy that makes the work of this Minnesota-based firm so highly regarded. The magic they perform—marrying the simple forms of modernism with the rich materials of their sites in a(...)
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December 2006, New York
VJAA : Vincent James associates archtects
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Among the critical adulation that follows VJAA wherever they build, you'll find words like graceful, beautiful, sublime, quiet, classic, disciplined, and light—all suggesting the kind of alchemy that makes the work of this Minnesota-based firm so highly regarded. The magic they perform—marrying the simple forms of modernism with the rich materials of their sites in a thoughtful framework that encourages social interaction and environmental responsibility—is carefully illustrated and explained in this monograph, which evokes the very qualities that make their work so seductive and compelling. A former furniture maker, principal Vincent James brings the woodworker's appreciation of materials, details, joinery, and structure to the firm's work, which here includes both their award-winning houses such as the Dayton and Type/Variant houses and institutional projects, such as the Minneapolis Rowing Club, Tulane University Center, and St. John's Abbey and Monastery Guesthouse. Along with an introductory essay by Hashim Sarkis, partners Vincent James and Jennifer Yoos provide a captivating and insightful portrait of their talented young firm.
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Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complex—the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion.(...)
Zaha Hadid : BMW central building
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Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complex—the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion. With an audacious and abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the BMW Central Building challenges the notion of building as static and is definitive evidence of architecture as art. Zaha Hadid: BMW Central Building, the seventh volume in the Source Books in Architecture series, provides a comprehensive look at this instant modern masterpiece.
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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(...)
Architecture Monographs
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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