Herzog & de Meuron
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Renowned for such prominent buildings as London’s Tate Modern, Beijing’s Bird’s Nest National Stadium and 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Herzog & de Meuron sits at the cutting edge of contemporary design. Founded in Basel over 40 years ago, the Swiss architectural practice is now an international partnership with projects across the globe – among them museums,(...)
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October 2023
Herzog & de Meuron
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Renowned for such prominent buildings as London’s Tate Modern, Beijing’s Bird’s Nest National Stadium and 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Herzog & de Meuron sits at the cutting edge of contemporary design. Founded in Basel over 40 years ago, the Swiss architectural practice is now an international partnership with projects across the globe – among them museums, hospitals, skyscrapers, arenas, and private and civic buildings. Produced in close collaboration with the architects, and comprising new texts by leading writers, practitioners and thinkers, this exciting new publication is an authoritative account of what the New York Times dubbed ‘one of the most admired architecture firms in the world’.
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Specializing in the design of museum and gallery spaces, hospitality, commercial retail and residential projects, Miami-based Rene Gonzalez Architects also endeavors to develop solutions to rising sea levels in coastal communities. This volume compiles drawings and photographs of a residence on Prairie Avenue in Miami designed by the firm in 2018. Inspired by red mangrove(...)
Architecture Monographs
July 2023
Rene Gonzalez Architects: Not the little house on the Prairie
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Specializing in the design of museum and gallery spaces, hospitality, commercial retail and residential projects, Miami-based Rene Gonzalez Architects also endeavors to develop solutions to rising sea levels in coastal communities. This volume compiles drawings and photographs of a residence on Prairie Avenue in Miami designed by the firm in 2018. Inspired by red mangrove trees, the dwelling hovers entirely above the ground plane. A lush garden covers most of the site and absorbs enormous quantities of water. Charles Renfro celebrates the building thus: "Is this blown-up modernism, a house made of fragments and gaps, also a new gay architecture? If so, it is but one of the many ways this compact complex house performs, one that in so many ways pulls modernism forward into a brave new world of sensuality, sexuality and lifestyle. Within it, social progress has found a new architecture."
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This fifth volume in Lars Müller’s Architect’s Studio series is dedicated to the Nairobi-based architects Cave_bureau. This acclaimed collective of architects and researchers-- the first Kenyan firm to appear at the Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2021-- explores the synergy between architecture, urbanism and nature, and curates performative events of resistance within(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2023
Cave bureau: The architect's studio
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This fifth volume in Lars Müller’s Architect’s Studio series is dedicated to the Nairobi-based architects Cave_bureau. This acclaimed collective of architects and researchers-- the first Kenyan firm to appear at the Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2021-- explores the synergy between architecture, urbanism and nature, and curates performative events of resistance within caves along the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. The cave, as physical space and as metaphor, is seen by the collective as a provocation to test the limits of contemporary architecture. Here, Cave_bureau’s Stella Mutegi and Kabage Karanja describe eight of their projects. Photographs are accompanied by essays posing questions about the future of architecture in the age of the Anthropocene, the effects of colonial extraction and erasure on African architecture, as well as the specificity of each continent and each geographic space.
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Based in Osaka, dot architects is an interdisciplinary practice with a portfolio that spans architecture, research, art, and more. This volume features five of the studio’s completed projects. Images which portray the projects in their current state are complemented by texts outlining the history and background of each structure and the surrounding town. As a whole, it(...)
Dot Architects: Politics of living
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Based in Osaka, dot architects is an interdisciplinary practice with a portfolio that spans architecture, research, art, and more. This volume features five of the studio’s completed projects. Images which portray the projects in their current state are complemented by texts outlining the history and background of each structure and the surrounding town. As a whole, it gives a detailed insight into the properties which acutely reflect the “politics of living” – critical faculties needed to create small autonomous spaces through design, construction, and involvement, which in turn shapes the principle the architects describe in this book and adhere to in their daily practice.
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Tadao Ando 5: Dialogues
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The fifth volume of a monographic series on Japanese architect Tadao Ando features photographs, plans, and sketches illustrating 19 projects which he designed while battling illness between 2014 and 2022. These include the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, Aurora Museum in Hangzhou, and Valley Gallery in Naoshima. The concept of 'dialogue' took on significant meaning for the(...)
Tadao Ando 5: Dialogues
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The fifth volume of a monographic series on Japanese architect Tadao Ando features photographs, plans, and sketches illustrating 19 projects which he designed while battling illness between 2014 and 2022. These include the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, Aurora Museum in Hangzhou, and Valley Gallery in Naoshima. The concept of 'dialogue' took on significant meaning for the architect as he confronted the major changes which occurred in his life and for society as a whole during this tumultuous period.
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Since its establishment in 2003, the architectural practice SUEP. has been engaged in design activities based on the theme of “symbiosis with nature”. Led by Hirokazu Suemitsu and Yoko Suemitsu, the practice’s focus lies in not only bringing happiness to people or to the Earth, but to both. This book presents ten architectural projects undertaken by the SUEP. team,(...)
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July 2022
SUEP: 10 stories of architecture on earth
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Since its establishment in 2003, the architectural practice SUEP. has been engaged in design activities based on the theme of “symbiosis with nature”. Led by Hirokazu Suemitsu and Yoko Suemitsu, the practice’s focus lies in not only bringing happiness to people or to the Earth, but to both. This book presents ten architectural projects undertaken by the SUEP. team, introduced as a series of stories in order to highlight the trajectory of their thinking. In addition to these works, numerous investigations and studies conducted during the process of design and creation provide clues for thinking about the future of our planet.
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La Villa Cavrois
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Achevée en juin 1932, la villa Cavrois constitue un véritable choc esthétique moderne, dont les effets sont toujours perceptibles aujourd'hui. L'architecte Robert Mallet-Stevens accomplit là sa création la plus aboutie, grâce à la grande liberté que lui laissa son commanditaire, Paul Cavrois. Le concept de la villa est en soi passionnant car il s'agit d'une oeuvre de(...)
La Villa Cavrois
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Achevée en juin 1932, la villa Cavrois constitue un véritable choc esthétique moderne, dont les effets sont toujours perceptibles aujourd'hui. L'architecte Robert Mallet-Stevens accomplit là sa création la plus aboutie, grâce à la grande liberté que lui laissa son commanditaire, Paul Cavrois. Le concept de la villa est en soi passionnant car il s'agit d'une oeuvre de transition entre l'architecture résidentielle traditionnelle et l'architecture moderne. C'est un véritable programme de " château moderne ". Ses proportions sont imposantes - près de 60 m de long, 3 000 m de surface - organisées selon les principes d'axialité et de symétrie des châteaux du XVIIe siècle. Si son concept reste traditionnel, tout est néanmoins conçu pour offrir le plus grand confort moderne. Cet album raconte l'histoire tourmentée de la villa et présente, dans un portfolio d'une cinquantaine d'images, ses transformations et vicissitudes, depuis son inauguration jusqu'à sa réouverture en 2015.
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One of the most acclaimed architects working in Brazil since the mid-twentieth century, Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928–2021) began building in the 1950s, championing an approach often associated with "Brutalism" but expanding well beyond it. This retrospective catalogue is the first major publication on Mendes da Rocha since the establishment of his archive at the Casa da(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2024
Constructed geographies: Paulo Mendes da Rocha
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One of the most acclaimed architects working in Brazil since the mid-twentieth century, Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928–2021) began building in the 1950s, championing an approach often associated with "Brutalism" but expanding well beyond it. This retrospective catalogue is the first major publication on Mendes da Rocha since the establishment of his archive at the Casa da Arquitectura in 2021. A team of international scholars provides a comprehensive view of the architect’s trajectory and the collective dimension of his work, along with thematic essays. Mendes da Rocha’s identity as a South American architect interested in the geographic relation between nature and culture is underlined. The book’s contributors explore his concern with the social and anthropogenic impact of the continent’s development, as well as its colonial past and postcolonial future.
Architecture Monographs
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Minerva Parker Nichols (1862–1949) was the first American woman to practice architecture independently. Her specialty was residential spaces—though her commissions also included an iron foundry and a macaroni factory—and she was a significant figure in the design of the emerging railroad towns just outside of Philadelphia, where she was in active practice from 1883 until(...)
Minerva Parker Nichols: The search for a forgotten architect
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Minerva Parker Nichols (1862–1949) was the first American woman to practice architecture independently. Her specialty was residential spaces—though her commissions also included an iron foundry and a macaroni factory—and she was a significant figure in the design of the emerging railroad towns just outside of Philadelphia, where she was in active practice from 1883 until 1896. She was also a writer, teacher, and active participant in several reform movements of the era. Creating an archive in the absence of one, this book recovers Nichols’s forgotten story to document a career that spanned seven decades, engaging with contemporary questions about absences in the historical record, the challenges of architectural history and preservation, and the need for new tools and frameworks to address these gaps.
Architecture Monographs
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Ce volume présente des œuvres et des projets de Christoph Hesse Architects. Il s'agit de pavillons réalisés pour la documenta quinze de Kassel, de lieux ouverts, c'est-à-dire d'installations conçues comme des espaces de rencontre, de régénération de bâtiments en ruine transformés en musées ou en espaces publics. L'approche des projets est en phase avec l'esprit profond de(...)
Architecture Monographs
July 2023
Christoph Hesse Architects: Life/ Vita
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Ce volume présente des œuvres et des projets de Christoph Hesse Architects. Il s'agit de pavillons réalisés pour la documenta quinze de Kassel, de lieux ouverts, c'est-à-dire d'installations conçues comme des espaces de rencontre, de régénération de bâtiments en ruine transformés en musées ou en espaces publics. L'approche des projets est en phase avec l'esprit profond de la communauté, désireuse d'essayer de nouvelles choses et de les mettre en œuvre. Le studio aime penser à des projets qui, d'une manière ou d'une autre, déclenchent un processus pour construire différemment, toujours envisager de nouvelles perspectives, sortir des sentiers battus. L'intégration dans un processus de collaboration avec des personnes créatives de professions et de compétences différentes, la recherche d'une identité profonde, d'une construction écologique et autosuffisante sont des aspects présents dans le travail du studio, ainsi que la nécessité de rétablir un lien entre les individus, l'environnement et l'architecture.
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