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Gary Chang : suitcase house
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Casting a question mark upon the proverbial image of home, Gary Chang's Suitcase House attempts to rethink the nature of intimacy, privacy, spontaneity, and flexibility. Chang's uncanny prototype proposes a 40-meter long empty rectangular space built on wood strata, flexibly divisible by a series of sliding and folding partitions. That in and of itself is hardly(...)
Architecture Monographs
August 2004, Hong Kong
Gary Chang : suitcase house
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Casting a question mark upon the proverbial image of home, Gary Chang's Suitcase House attempts to rethink the nature of intimacy, privacy, spontaneity, and flexibility. Chang's uncanny prototype proposes a 40-meter long empty rectangular space built on wood strata, flexibly divisible by a series of sliding and folding partitions. That in and of itself is hardly earth-shattering. But lift a pneumatic panel in the floor and up pops a bathroom, a kitchen, a bedroom, cabinets. It's pop-up book meets designer living, and all in 250 square meters of space. A playful game for homeowners, the Suitcase House was designed along with 11 other radical houses for the Artists Commune project near the Great Wall in Beijing. Foreword by Liane Lefaivre.
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August 2004, Hong Kong
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Since 1974, when his very first built house, which he designed as a student, was honored with the most important Belgian architecture award, Jo Crepain has developed an impressive body of work. Most of these structures can be found in Belgium, especially the earlier ones; later assignments have ranged throughout the Netherlands. The large diversity and continuous(...)
Architecture Monographs
August 2004, Oostkamp
Jo Crepain : architect '73 - '03
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Since 1974, when his very first built house, which he designed as a student, was honored with the most important Belgian architecture award, Jo Crepain has developed an impressive body of work. Most of these structures can be found in Belgium, especially the earlier ones; later assignments have ranged throughout the Netherlands. The large diversity and continuous innovation evident in his architectural oeuvre can be understood as a consequence of an incessant search--and one which has yielded some of the most striking structures in recent Belgian architectural history. For Crepain, building is in the first place a psychological phenomenon, and a house is the last place left on earth where we can hope to recover a piece of paradise lost--not only for an elite few, but for as many people as possible. This hefty monograph considers a lifetime of work, from 1973 to 2003, presenting dozens of individual projects through textual descriptions, photographs, and floor plans, as well as extended essays on different periods of Crepain's output.
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August 2004, Oostkamp
Architecture Monographs
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Books have to share attention with other media of potent performance and attraction. A parallel exists between the vast proliferation and incredible intricacy of program in the new library, and the equally explosive multiplication of information media and social obligations that have to be accommodated with. Our ambition is to redefine the Library as an institution no(...)
Seattle public library : OMA/LMN
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Books have to share attention with other media of potent performance and attraction. A parallel exists between the vast proliferation and incredible intricacy of program in the new library, and the equally explosive multiplication of information media and social obligations that have to be accommodated with. Our ambition is to redefine the Library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store where all potent form of media - new and old - are presented equally and legibly. -OMA/LMN
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Yoshio Taniguchi was selected from among an elite field of international architects to design The Museum of Modern Art's new building - his first commission outside his native Japan. This volume, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name highlights the project and eight others. Designed by Massimo Vignelli, the book features an essay by Terence Riley, The Philip(...)
Yoshio Taniguchi : nine museums
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Yoshio Taniguchi was selected from among an elite field of international architects to design The Museum of Modern Art's new building - his first commission outside his native Japan. This volume, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name highlights the project and eight others. Designed by Massimo Vignelli, the book features an essay by Terence Riley, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, that examines the many overlapping contexts that inform Taniguchi's approach to architecture and the art of building, with an emphasis on The Museum of Modern Art's new building.
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November 2004, New York
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Sylvia Lavin's “Form Follows Libido” argues that by the 1950s, some architects felt an urge to steer the cool abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the production of more erotic, affective environments. Lavin turns to the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970) to explore the genesis of these new mood-inducing environments. In a series of(...)
Form follows libido : architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture
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Sylvia Lavin's “Form Follows Libido” argues that by the 1950s, some architects felt an urge to steer the cool abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the production of more erotic, affective environments. Lavin turns to the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970) to explore the genesis of these new mood-inducing environments. In a series of engaging essays weaving through the designs and writings of this Vienna-born, California-based architect, Lavin discovers in Neutra a sustained and poignant psychoanalytic reflection set in the context of a burgeoning psychoanalytic culture in America. Lavin shows that Neutra's redirection of modernism constituted not a lyrical regression to sentimentality but a deliberate advance of architectural theory and technique to engage the unconscious mind, fuelled by the ideas of psychoanalysis that were being rapidly disseminated at the time. In Neutra's responses to a vivid range of issues, from psychoanalysis proper to the popular psychology of tele-evangelical prayer, Lavin uncovers a radical reconstitution of the architectural discipline. Arguing persuasively that the received historical views of both psychoanalysis and architecture have led to a suppression of their compelling coincidences and unorthodoxies, Lavin sets out to unleash mid-century architecture's hidden libido. Neither Neutra nor psychoanalysis emerges unscathed from her investigation of how architecture came to be saturated by the intrigues of affect, often against its will. If Reyner Banham sought to put architecture "on the couch," then Lavin, through Neutra, leaps beyond Banham's ameliorative aim to lure contemporary architecture into the lush and dangerous liaisons of environmental design.
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January 2005, Cambridge, Mass.
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Gehry draws
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Everyone knows what the distinctive curves and lines of Frank Gehry's buildings look like. But where do they come from? Gehry has described drawing as his way of "thinking aloud"; Gehry Draws traces that thinking through 32 major projects (both built and unbuilt) with more than 500 drawings (many of which have never before been published) and more than 400 additional(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2004, Cambridge, Mass.
Gehry draws
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Everyone knows what the distinctive curves and lines of Frank Gehry's buildings look like. But where do they come from? Gehry has described drawing as his way of "thinking aloud"; Gehry Draws traces that thinking through 32 major projects (both built and unbuilt) with more than 500 drawings (many of which have never before been published) and more than 400 additional illustrations -- providing a privileged view of the creative practice of a master architect. Horst Bredekamp's introduction relates Gehry's drawing methods to the concept of "disegno," as practiced by Leonardo and Durer -- not only the act of drawing and modeling but also the dynamics of creative thinking -- and shows how Gehry thinks through the curving movements of his hand on paper. Gehry himself describes for Bredekamp his method in several explanatory sketches, and Bredekamp applies this to a study of drawings made for specific Gehry commissions. Gehry Draws is produced in collaboration with Frank Gehry and his team at Gehry Partners. Project synopses and commentary by Gehry and two of his Partners and Project Designers, Edwin Chan and Craig Webb, guide us through the full range of Gehry production, from the small details of furniture design to such large-scale undertakings as the Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The drawings, illustrations, and text in Gehry Draws definitively place drawing at the heart of Frank Gehry's creative process.
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October 2004, Cambridge, Mass.
Architecture Monographs
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The Frank Lloyd Wright field guide provides the first complete visitors' guide to all of Wright's buildings in the United States and around the world. This new, single-volume edition is written and compiled by architect and Frank Lloyd Wright expert Thomas A. Heinz, AIA. In a highly readable and informative style, Heinz presents each building page by page, providing brief(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2004, Evanston
Frank Lloyd Wright field guide
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The Frank Lloyd Wright field guide provides the first complete visitors' guide to all of Wright's buildings in the United States and around the world. This new, single-volume edition is written and compiled by architect and Frank Lloyd Wright expert Thomas A. Heinz, AIA. In a highly readable and informative style, Heinz presents each building page by page, providing brief histories and background details, information on accessibility and viewing, and driving directions.
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Alvar Aalto apartments
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Alvar Aalto Apartments opens views into Aalto’s ideals about dwelling. The internal organisation of an apartment, the relationship of the home to the outside world, the movement from one space to another and the “city on the hill” were all issues of importance in Aalto’s deliberations, as he tried to solve the problematics of dwelling. The book presents ten apartment(...)
Architecture Monographs
June 2004, Helsinki
Alvar Aalto apartments
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Alvar Aalto Apartments opens views into Aalto’s ideals about dwelling. The internal organisation of an apartment, the relationship of the home to the outside world, the movement from one space to another and the “city on the hill” were all issues of importance in Aalto’s deliberations, as he tried to solve the problematics of dwelling. The book presents ten apartment blocks and two student dormitories by Aalto built in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and the United States, from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s: Aira Building Railway officials’ housing, Jyväskylä, Finland, ROT houses, ‘Slope-door houses’, Sunila, Finland Standard terrace housing, Kauttua, Finland, Baker House, Senior Dormitory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, National Pensions Institute employee housing, Helsinki, Finland, Hansaviertel apartment building, Berlin, Germany, Housing and business complex, ‘Sundh Centre’, Avesta, Sweden, Korkalovaara apartment buildings, Rovaniemi, Finland, Neue Vahr apartment building, Bremen, Germany, Harjuviita apartment buildings, Tapiola, Espoo, Finland, Student housing, Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland, Schönbühl apartment building, Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Frédéric Borel
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Frédéric Borel, diplômé de l'Ecole spéciale d'architecture en 1982 et lauréat du concours Programme architecture nouvelle l'année suivante, ouvre son agence à Paris en 1984. Il réalise ensuite en 1986, rue Ramponeau et boulevard de Belleville, deux immeubles de logements très sculpturaux qui, en offrant aux passants l'espace habituellement privatisé des cours, deviennent(...)
Frédéric Borel
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Frédéric Borel, diplômé de l'Ecole spéciale d'architecture en 1982 et lauréat du concours Programme architecture nouvelle l'année suivante, ouvre son agence à Paris en 1984. Il réalise ensuite en 1986, rue Ramponeau et boulevard de Belleville, deux immeubles de logements très sculpturaux qui, en offrant aux passants l'espace habituellement privatisé des cours, deviennent emblématiques d'un nouvel hédonisme architectural. Les projets suivants, plus radicaux, notamment les immeubles de la rue Oberkampf (1993) et de la rue Pelleport (1999), l'université d'Agen (2001) ou la future école d'architecture de Paris Val-de-Seine, proposent de véritables récits de formes toujours soucieux de révéler le caractère onirique de tout paysage, du plus banal au plus bouleversé, du plus homogène au plus acculturé. Au-delà du pur plaisir visuel que ces œuvres raffinées peuvent susciter, Richard Scoffier s'est attaché à reconstituer le cheminement d'une pensée cohérente qu'il traduit sous la forme d'une succession de manifestes.
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June 2004, Paris
Architecture Monographs
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From the stainless steel curves of its striking exterior to the state-of-the-art acoustics of the hardwood-paneled main auditorium, Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will be one of the most acoustically sophisticated concert halls in the world. Opening in fall 2003, the hall is destined to be a new architectural landmark,(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2003, New York
Symphony : Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall
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From the stainless steel curves of its striking exterior to the state-of-the-art acoustics of the hardwood-paneled main auditorium, Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will be one of the most acoustically sophisticated concert halls in the world. Opening in fall 2003, the hall is destined to be a new architectural landmark, generating as much excitement as Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which its design predates. This book, which includes an introduction by Gehry, traces the history of the hall from its inception through the architect selection process, construction, and completion of the building, which is recorded by architectural photographer Grant Mudford. Esa-Pekka Salonen, music director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recounts his first impressions of Gehry and the models for the new building in an essay that also defines what makes a great orchestra and a great concert hall.
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