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Michael Clark and Jill Thomas-Clark examine each brother's work and its relation to the quest for an Amerian style, placing particular emphasis on the early years and transitional moments. The authors draw a definitive conclusion, and it is an answer certainly worth reading, seeing, and thinking about.
Architecture Monographs
September 2002, Salt Lake City
The Stickley brothers : the quest for an American voice
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Michael Clark and Jill Thomas-Clark examine each brother's work and its relation to the quest for an Amerian style, placing particular emphasis on the early years and transitional moments. The authors draw a definitive conclusion, and it is an answer certainly worth reading, seeing, and thinking about.
Architecture Monographs
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This book explores buildings and projects drawn from a wide variety of contexts: coastal, mountainous, tropical and desert, not to mention urban. Full-colour photography, much of it supplied from the architect’s private collection, and a selection of drawings and concept sketches, are complemented by Glenn’s own notes, and the commentary of internationally recognised(...)
Architecture Monographs
June 2002, Mulgrave, Victoria
Glenn Murcutt : a singular architectural practice
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This book explores buildings and projects drawn from a wide variety of contexts: coastal, mountainous, tropical and desert, not to mention urban. Full-colour photography, much of it supplied from the architect’s private collection, and a selection of drawings and concept sketches, are complemented by Glenn’s own notes, and the commentary of internationally recognised architectural editors, Professor Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper.
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Celebrating Chandigarh
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This book documents the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the conception of Chandigarh, an important architectural and urban planning experiment of the twentieth century. Inaugurated by the President of India and attended by eminent architects, planners, and critics, the events focused on the impact of Chandigarh and Le Corbusier's work on the direction of(...)
Celebrating Chandigarh
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This book documents the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the conception of Chandigarh, an important architectural and urban planning experiment of the twentieth century. Inaugurated by the President of India and attended by eminent architects, planners, and critics, the events focused on the impact of Chandigarh and Le Corbusier's work on the direction of architecture, planning theory and practice; the process of conceptualization, design and realization of the city plan; the contribution of other architects and engineers who worked on the project; an analysis of Corbusier's architecture; the socio-economic realities of urban spaces in a developing nation and of Chandigargh in particular; future options for structuring the growth of Chandigargh and defining the direction of its development and expansion; the legacy and the transformation of Corbusier's ideas over the last decades; the issues that arise from the planning of Chandigargh; and what we have learnt.
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Richard Meier accepted the Sikkens Group invitation to show his view on color and share his reflexions on white.
Richard Meier : thirty colors
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Richard Meier accepted the Sikkens Group invitation to show his view on color and share his reflexions on white.
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From 1938 to 1958 Mies van der Rohe planned and built the new campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Limited funding demanded extreme financial prudence and the imagination of the architect was fired by this challenge. With load-bearing brick walls, skeletal structures constructed out of visible reinforced concrete and steel, Mies created a(...)
Mies van der Rohe : IIT Campus
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From 1938 to 1958 Mies van der Rohe planned and built the new campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Limited funding demanded extreme financial prudence and the imagination of the architect was fired by this challenge. With load-bearing brick walls, skeletal structures constructed out of visible reinforced concrete and steel, Mies created a masterpiece of simple elegance. The clarity and structure of the basic form has proved to be an enduring solution for the various classrooms and laboratories over the years. With concise texts and expressive images, this book captures the essence of these institute buildings which together with the book on Crown Hall, the Department of Architecture at ITT, presents an indispensable documentation of these epoch-making buildings.
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Richter and Dahl Rocha architects : a modern move - transforming Nestlé headquarters in Vevey
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The building which houses the international headquarters of Nestle SA in Vevey, Switzerland succeeds in conveying the fascination of Swiss post-war modernization like no other. Located on Lake Geneva, set in a landscaped park, this masterpiece from the architect Jean Tschumi combines the essential features of modern architecture with spaciousness and elegance. Jacques(...)
Richter and Dahl Rocha architects : a modern move - transforming Nestlé headquarters in Vevey
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The building which houses the international headquarters of Nestle SA in Vevey, Switzerland succeeds in conveying the fascination of Swiss post-war modernization like no other. Located on Lake Geneva, set in a landscaped park, this masterpiece from the architect Jean Tschumi combines the essential features of modern architecture with spaciousness and elegance. Jacques Richter and Ignacio Dahl Rocha have spent many years renovating, modernizing and extending this building. Their transformation has become a manifesto for an intuitive and creative approach to working with historical monuments.
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Catalogue of the exhibition 'Adam Caruso & Peter St. John : knitting weaving wrapping pressing' at the Architekturgalerie Luzern.
Caruso St. John Architects : knitting weaving wrapping pressing
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Catalogue of the exhibition 'Adam Caruso & Peter St. John : knitting weaving wrapping pressing' at the Architekturgalerie Luzern.
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Helmut Jahn´s latest buildings are the result of interdisciplinary thinking taken a step further: they represent a symbiotic collaboration between architecture, engineering and building technology. The credo of this form of architecture engineering is transparency, openness and inner flexibility, and instrumental in its development are among others, Helmut Jahn, Werner(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2002, Basel
Helmut Jahn : architecture engineering
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Helmut Jahn´s latest buildings are the result of interdisciplinary thinking taken a step further: they represent a symbiotic collaboration between architecture, engineering and building technology. The credo of this form of architecture engineering is transparency, openness and inner flexibility, and instrumental in its development are among others, Helmut Jahn, Werner Sobek and Matthias Schuler. This innovative team has taken up the challenge of turning optimum technical solutions into intelligent and resource-saving constructions, creating internationally acclaimed architecture of the very highest technical and aesthetical quality: "Modern buildings make the highest demands of technology. And it is not the architect who fulfils them but the engineer" (Helmut Jahn) This volume documents in detail a large number of recent projects in Europe, the USA and Asia by Helmut Jahn, Werner Sobek and Matthias Schuler including the European Union Headquarters in Charlemagne, Munich Airport Center, the Sony Centre in Berlin, the airport Cologne/Bonn, office buildings for the Deutsch Post in Bonn, Shanghai International Expo Centre, Bishopsgate (London), MANN (Chicago), New Bangkok International Airport, Illinois Institute of Technology Campus Center, and Shenzhen Convention and Exhibit Center.
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Images of the Mediatheque have widely circulated in architectural media since 1995, when Toyo Ito's competition project revealed a new structural prototype (or archi-type) which expressed the will to incorporate the notions of mobility and fluidity into space and structure. Second in the series of "Verb monographs", this book presents the process of design and(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2002, Barcelona
Toyo Ito : Sendai Mediatheque
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Images of the Mediatheque have widely circulated in architectural media since 1995, when Toyo Ito's competition project revealed a new structural prototype (or archi-type) which expressed the will to incorporate the notions of mobility and fluidity into space and structure. Second in the series of "Verb monographs", this book presents the process of design and construction of this prototype throughout these years, leading to the building's use as of the beginning of 2001, and reflects on the project's ambition to integrate the real and the virtual worlds - or, in Ito's words, the primitive body of natural flow and the virtual body of electronic flow. Long after its completion, the Mediatheque is still under construction.
Architecture Monographs
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Zhang Pengju’s buildings explore the intersection of architecture and landscape as topographical art. His architectural practice is deeply rooted in the terrain and local history of China’s Inner Mongolia region and at the same time embodies contemporary architecture at its best. He engages in defining and cultivating topographical order and demonstrates how creative(...)
Genuine construction: Zhang Pengju’s new regionalism in inner Mongolia
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Zhang Pengju’s buildings explore the intersection of architecture and landscape as topographical art. His architectural practice is deeply rooted in the terrain and local history of China’s Inner Mongolia region and at the same time embodies contemporary architecture at its best. He engages in defining and cultivating topographical order and demonstrates how creative thinking can transform the fragments of our living conditions and our lives into images of a unified world. The seventeen realized designs featured in "Genuine construction" exemplify the architect’s approach. Each project is introduced by a concise text and presented through color photographs, plans, drawings, and sketches showing the use of natural materials, smooth lines, and humble models that skillfully blend these buildings into their surroundings. A foreword by David Leatherbarrow, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design, and essays by Chem Zhao, professor at Nanjing University’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Yonggao Shin, associate professor at Southeast University’s School of Architecture in Nanjing, round out this monograph.
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