Paul Rudolph : the late work
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The light- and breeze-filled modern houses in Florida of the 1950s -- featured in Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses -- and the hard-lined silhouette of Yale's Art and Architecture Building (1962) are the two images that come to mind when one thinks of Paul Rudolph. Yet few people know the work of the last decades of his life, from the 1970s through the 90s. Published here(...)
Paul Rudolph : the late work
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The light- and breeze-filled modern houses in Florida of the 1950s -- featured in Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses -- and the hard-lined silhouette of Yale's Art and Architecture Building (1962) are the two images that come to mind when one thinks of Paul Rudolph. Yet few people know the work of the last decades of his life, from the 1970s through the 90s. Published here for the first time, Rudolph's final works are explored through his masterful pencil drawings, models, and photographs, as well as the last interview of his life with architect Peter Blake. In a book that considers these projects in the context of his early success, Roberto de Alba explores the architect's buildings designed from 1969 to 1996 and includes an astonishing variety of projects, many built, such as houses, towers, bungalows, chapels, corporate buildings, and urban plans of a monumental scale. All show the complicated interplay of space, light, and mass that are the trademarks of Rudolph's genius. Through de Alba's close contact with the architect before his death, Rudolph's own vision is conveyed in descriptive texts and accompanying images. Paul Rudolph: The Late Work is designed as a companion volume to The Florida Houses, and is the second in a planned three-volume set of the complete works of this legendary architect.
Architecture Monographs
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The process of investigation, analysis, and testing makes architecture research office (ARO) as much a laboratory as a design firm. Extensive photography of the completed works is coupled with thorough documentation of the design process to illustrate the interdependence between ARO's rigorous design method and their innovative designs. Critical essays by Stan Allen,(...)
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February 2003, New York / Chicago
ARO : architecture research office
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The process of investigation, analysis, and testing makes architecture research office (ARO) as much a laboratory as a design firm. Extensive photography of the completed works is coupled with thorough documentation of the design process to illustrate the interdependence between ARO's rigorous design method and their innovative designs. Critical essays by Stan Allen, Sheila Kennedy, Philip Nobel, Guy Nordensen, and Sarah Whiting discuss various aspects of ARO's work.
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Josef Frank : life and work
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Educated in Vienna just after the turn of the century, Frank became the leader of the younger generation of architects in Austria after the First World War. But Frank fell from grace when he emerged as a forceful critic of the extremes of modern architecture and design during the early 1930s. Dismissing the demands for a unified modern style, Frank insisted that it was(...)
Josef Frank : life and work
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Educated in Vienna just after the turn of the century, Frank became the leader of the younger generation of architects in Austria after the First World War. But Frank fell from grace when he emerged as a forceful critic of the extremes of modern architecture and design during the early 1930s. Dismissing the demands for a unified modern style, Frank insisted that it was pluralism, not uniformity, that most characterized life in the new machine age. He called instead for a more humane modernism, one that responded to people's everyday needs and left room for sentimentality and historical influences. He was able to put these ideas into practice when, in 1933, he was forced to leave Vienna for Sweden. There his work came to define Swedish (or Scandinavian) modern design. For more than thirty years he was the chief designer for the Stockholm furnishings firm Svenskt Tenn, producing colorful, cozy, and eclectic designs that provided a refreshing alternative to the architectural mainstream of the day and presaged the coming revolt against modernism in the 1960s.
Architecture Monographs
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Chandigarh, destinée lors de l'indépendence de l'Inde à devenir la capitale du Punjab, permet à Le Corbusier de matérialiser ses théories : créer une ville où l'on peut harmonieusement vivre, travailler, développer son corps et son esprit. Actes d'un colloque entièrement consacré à la ville indienne, cette ouvrage invite à une large réflexion sur la question encore non(...)
Chandigarh : la ville indienne de Le Corbusier
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Chandigarh, destinée lors de l'indépendence de l'Inde à devenir la capitale du Punjab, permet à Le Corbusier de matérialiser ses théories : créer une ville où l'on peut harmonieusement vivre, travailler, développer son corps et son esprit. Actes d'un colloque entièrement consacré à la ville indienne, cette ouvrage invite à une large réflexion sur la question encore non résolue de l'achèvement de la place administrative du Capitole. Maquettes, dessins, plans, mais aussi peintures, sculptures et tapisseries rendent compte de cette épopée.
Architecture Monographs
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Succédant à une première monographie publiée en 1988, cet ouvrage fait le point sur l'oeuvre d'Adrien Fainsilber entre 1986 et 2002. Au cours de cette période, l'agence amorce une nouvelle étape avec la création d'AFA, Adrien Fainsilber et associés. Elle s'ouvre sur les images de la Géode et s'achève par la bibliothèque municipale à vocation régionale de Marseille(...)
Adrien Fainsilber & associés / 1986-2002
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Succédant à une première monographie publiée en 1988, cet ouvrage fait le point sur l'oeuvre d'Adrien Fainsilber entre 1986 et 2002. Au cours de cette période, l'agence amorce une nouvelle étape avec la création d'AFA, Adrien Fainsilber et associés. Elle s'ouvre sur les images de la Géode et s'achève par la bibliothèque municipale à vocation régionale de Marseille terminée au printemps 2003. Au total, seize réalisations représentatives des récents travaux de l'architecte sont présentées ici. Leur variété - musées, hôpitaux, bâtiments scolaires et universitaires, logements, bureaux ou schémas d'urbanisme - permet de dégager les principes déterminants de l'oeuvre. Une introduction critique, une bibliographie et une chronologie plus exhaustive complètent l'ouvrage.
Architecture Monographs
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Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan. Masterfully framed by the author's photographs of Sullivanesque buildings in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, Ronald E. Schmitt's in-depth exploration of the Sullivanesque tells the story of its evolution from Sullivan's intellectual and(...)
Architecture Monographs
August 2002, Champaign, Illinois
Sullivanesque : urban architecture and ornamentation
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Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan. Masterfully framed by the author's photographs of Sullivanesque buildings in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, Ronald E. Schmitt's in-depth exploration of the Sullivanesque tells the story of its evolution from Sullivan's intellectual and aesthetic foundations to its place as a form of commercial vernacular. The book also includes an inventory of Sullivanesque buildings.
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Hans Zwimpfer : Peter Meriam Haus Basel - at the interface between art, technology and architecture
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Designed by Zwimpfer Partner Architects in cooperation with the American artist Donald Judd, the Peter Merian house in Basel Switzerland involved artists Hans Danuser, Brigitte Kowanz, Roni Horn, François Morellet, Ursula Mumenthaler, Pipilotti Rist. Beat Zoderer also participated in the project. When architects incorporate art into their projects, when artists involve(...)
Hans Zwimpfer : Peter Meriam Haus Basel - at the interface between art, technology and architecture
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Designed by Zwimpfer Partner Architects in cooperation with the American artist Donald Judd, the Peter Merian house in Basel Switzerland involved artists Hans Danuser, Brigitte Kowanz, Roni Horn, François Morellet, Ursula Mumenthaler, Pipilotti Rist. Beat Zoderer also participated in the project. When architects incorporate art into their projects, when artists involve themselves in the constraints of the construction industry, the results can be immensely fruitful as this striking new building in the Basel cityscape goes to prove.
Architecture Monographs
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In Arlesheim near Basel, Switzerland, the architects Klaus Schuldt and Andreas Scheiwiller have constructed five two-storey villas on a communal plot of land - it is no coincidence that their minimalist appearances are reminiscent of the style developed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the 1920s. Yet it is not just the variation of architectonic elements but also the(...)
Ensemble Habitat : five villas by Klaus Schuldt and Andreas Scheiwiller
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In Arlesheim near Basel, Switzerland, the architects Klaus Schuldt and Andreas Scheiwiller have constructed five two-storey villas on a communal plot of land - it is no coincidence that their minimalist appearances are reminiscent of the style developed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the 1920s. Yet it is not just the variation of architectonic elements but also the arrangement of these houses on this rural site which make "Ensemble Habitat" so interesting. Striking a careful balance between the individual and the general, between diversity and simplicity, this small group of houses can be justifiably considered exemplary.
Architecture Monographs
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Daniel Marques was born in 1950 in Aarau, Switzerland. He studied under Aldo Rossi and Dolf Schnebli at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and went on to found his own office in Lucerne in 1977. Besides working as an architect he has taught at various schools of architecture and in 2000 he became professor at the Technical University in Graz. This(...)
Architecture Monographs
April 2002, Luzern / Basel
Daniele Marques : 2 x 2 +3 wohnhäuser, houses
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Daniel Marques was born in 1950 in Aarau, Switzerland. He studied under Aldo Rossi and Dolf Schnebli at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and went on to found his own office in Lucerne in 1977. Besides working as an architect he has taught at various schools of architecture and in 2000 he became professor at the Technical University in Graz. This publication accompanies an exhibition on Daniel Marques' work at the Architecture Gallery Lucerne. Along with photographs by Hannes Henz, Zurich, it documents and provides in-depth analyses of five residential buildings, all of which have been realised in the last few years. Martin Steinmann commented "The reduction that determines the architecture of Daniele Marques - at least in these houses - turns out to be a method of providing the things -with intensity: by postponing the moment in which they transform into specific meanings."
Architecture Monographs
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Pritzker prize winners Herzog & de Meuron and Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg join forces to create a striking yet functional building. From 1996-2000, architects Herzog & de Meuron built a new research centre together with a library, auditorium and cafeteria for the pharmaceutical company Roche in Basel. Situated on the outskirts of the town on the edge of the industrial area,(...)
Architecture by Herzog & de Meuron, wall painting by Rémy Zaugg, a work for Roche Basel
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Pritzker prize winners Herzog & de Meuron and Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg join forces to create a striking yet functional building. From 1996-2000, architects Herzog & de Meuron built a new research centre together with a library, auditorium and cafeteria for the pharmaceutical company Roche in Basel. Situated on the outskirts of the town on the edge of the industrial area, the building was to include a closed section for laboratories yet should also be publicly accessible: the ideal starting point for an interdisciplinary solution. Artist Rémy Zaugg worked together with the architects developing the colours used. He created a dramatic blue wall which separates public and closed areas. This publication documents the entire project from its genesis to the completed construction using texts, sketches, plans, and photographs. More than a mere monograph, this book provides a glimpse into the creative collaboration occuring between architects and artists.
Architecture Monographs