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The book offers a survey of the work of Carlos Ferrater, Spanish architect. His originality lies in his art of combining modernism with particular features of local architecture. Ferrater's buildings, contrasting with urban realities, highlight the Mediterranean lifestyle.
Carlos Ferrater : work and projects
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The book offers a survey of the work of Carlos Ferrater, Spanish architect. His originality lies in his art of combining modernism with particular features of local architecture. Ferrater's buildings, contrasting with urban realities, highlight the Mediterranean lifestyle.
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A series of scholarly essays form the basis for discussion of Berlage's career and productions. A chronological catalogue of his work is provided with descriptions and photographs, and a comprehensive a bibliography lists all writing by or about Berlage up to the present day.
Hendrik Petrus Berlage : complete works
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A series of scholarly essays form the basis for discussion of Berlage's career and productions. A chronological catalogue of his work is provided with descriptions and photographs, and a comprehensive a bibliography lists all writing by or about Berlage up to the present day.
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The work of British architects ABK is characterised by the founding partners' belief that buildings should address far more than purely functional needs. Key issues for this practice since it was founded 40 years ago have become central concerns for architecture in the early 21st century: energy and the environment, historic context and the importance of user(...)
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April 2002, London / Basel / Boston /Berlin
Collaborations : the architecture of ABK
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The work of British architects ABK is characterised by the founding partners' belief that buildings should address far more than purely functional needs. Key issues for this practice since it was founded 40 years ago have become central concerns for architecture in the early 21st century: energy and the environment, historic context and the importance of user participation. Peter Ahrends, Richard Burton and Paul Koralek are particularly interested in the integration of art, architecture and landscape, an approach which has resulted in a series of collaborative partnerships over the course of their careers. This book traces the practice's development, from early landmark projects like the Berkeley Library at Trinity College, Dublin to the highly acclaimed British Embassy in Moscow, which opened in 2000. It also tells the full story, for the first time, behind the most notorious British architectural episode of the 1980s - how ABK won the commission to design an extension to the National Gallery in London, only to have it taken away from them when Prince Charles described the scheme as a 'monstrous carbuncle'.
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Building - for all its simplicity the title of this book speaks volumes about the work of Claus and Kaan. It reduces architecture to what they see as the essence of their profession. Kees Kaan and Felix Claus once claimed that their ambition was to extinguish the schism between low practice and high theory, between architecture that serves its immediate objective and(...)
Claus en Kaan building
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Building - for all its simplicity the title of this book speaks volumes about the work of Claus and Kaan. It reduces architecture to what they see as the essence of their profession. Kees Kaan and Felix Claus once claimed that their ambition was to extinguish the schism between low practice and high theory, between architecture that serves its immediate objective and architecture that speaks over the heads of its users to colleagues and critics. Severity and repose are hallmarks of Claus and Kaan's oeuvre and these qualities are often found in it simultaneously. For even at its most Spartan, their architecture is never harsh. Although one can hardly describe Claus and Kaan's architecture as postmodern, their stance does owe something to postmodernism. This can be seen in their free handling of references, such as Marcel Breuer's Whitney Museum or Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion, and in their undogmatically broad range of interest, spanning from Heinrich Tessenow to Gordon Bunshaft and from Auguste Perret to I.M. Pei. For them there is no essential contradiction between modernity and classical values. This first comprehensive monograph on Claus and Kaan gives a complete overview of all their projects (250 or so), including those yet to be realized. Of this total, fifty are exhaustively documented and illustrated. With essays by Rafael Moneo, David Chipperfield, Andrea Deplazes, Christoph Grafe, Han Michel, and Felix Claus and Kees Kaan themselves. The book is designed by Karel Martens and Jaap van Triest.
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May 2002, Rotterdam
Architecture Monographs
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This book looks at the spatial themes that preoccupy John Pawson’s work through a close examination of a range of different projects. It examines how light, mass and structure inform the architecture, the role of ritual and order, as well as the integration of internal and external spaces. Six new projects, ‘When Objects Work’, Calvin Klein Store, Paris, Vacherin(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2002, London
John Pawson - themes and projects
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This book looks at the spatial themes that preoccupy John Pawson’s work through a close examination of a range of different projects. It examines how light, mass and structure inform the architecture, the role of ritual and order, as well as the integration of internal and external spaces. Six new projects, ‘When Objects Work’, Calvin Klein Store, Paris, Vacherin Constantin, the Marketmuseum, a private house in Germany, and the Novy Dvur monastery are featured. There are eight essays on the effect of the work by Deyan Sudjic, Sam Hecht, Michael Craig-Martin, Phoebe Greenwood, Robert Winder, Kate Bucknell, Bruce Chatwin, and Father Samuel.
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This monograph is the first to document all of the built work by Morphosis, a Los Angeles-based practice headed by Thom Mayne and one of the most influential architecture firms of the past twenty years. Morphosis's unconventional geometries, sculptural models and complex, computer-generated drawings helped to usher in a new era of architectural experimentation in the(...)
Morphosis
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This monograph is the first to document all of the built work by Morphosis, a Los Angeles-based practice headed by Thom Mayne and one of the most influential architecture firms of the past twenty years. Morphosis's unconventional geometries, sculptural models and complex, computer-generated drawings helped to usher in a new era of architectural experimentation in the early 1980's. This book is comprised of bold, documentary-style colour photographs of thirty-five completed buildings presented in an almost cinematic layout, and publishes for the first time together all of Morphosis's completed work, from the early residential and restaurant projects in Los Angeles to the most recent large-scale work beyond California and the United States in Canada, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Austria. Thom Mayne founded Morphosis in 1972 in partnership with Michael Rotondi, who now has his own firm. Over the past twenty years, Mayne's academic posts have included teaching positions at Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.
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The book looks at the cultural and architectural context in which Behrens worked, his early career, and the relation of his own house in Darmstadt to his ideal of a society where life is formed as art. It also looks at his directorship of the School of Arts and Crafts in Düsseldorf, where he drew on the work of such brilliant historiographers of art and architecture as(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Peter Behrens and a new architecture for the twentieth century
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The book looks at the cultural and architectural context in which Behrens worked, his early career, and the relation of his own house in Darmstadt to his ideal of a society where life is formed as art. It also looks at his directorship of the School of Arts and Crafts in Düsseldorf, where he drew on the work of such brilliant historiographers of art and architecture as Alois Riegl and August Schmarsow. In his conclusion, Anderson considers Behrens' melancholy in the face of modern industrial society and his avoidance of a direct address of life, despite, or rather because of, his professed commitment to express life as art.
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Ce livre est composé de témoignages adressés à l'architecte Claude Parent à l'occasion de son anniversaire et publié au moment de son entrée à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts. / This book comprises a collection of tributes to the architect Claude Parent on the occasion of his birthday and is published to coincide with his induction into the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Architecture Monographs
October 2006, Paris
Claude Parent vu par . . . : 50 témoignages du monde entier
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Ce livre est composé de témoignages adressés à l'architecte Claude Parent à l'occasion de son anniversaire et publié au moment de son entrée à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts. / This book comprises a collection of tributes to the architect Claude Parent on the occasion of his birthday and is published to coincide with his induction into the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
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Architecte, urbaniste et design d'origine polonaise, Constantin Brodzki, né à Rome en 1924, a fait ses études d'architecture à Bruxelles et s'est formé à New York, après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Il a réalisé en Belgique une œuvre significative qui se distingue dans la production du Modernisme des années' 50 à 90, par sa rigueur et son caractère anticipateur. Le(...)
Constantin Brodzki : architecte
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Architecte, urbaniste et design d'origine polonaise, Constantin Brodzki, né à Rome en 1924, a fait ses études d'architecture à Bruxelles et s'est formé à New York, après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Il a réalisé en Belgique une œuvre significative qui se distingue dans la production du Modernisme des années' 50 à 90, par sa rigueur et son caractère anticipateur. Le présent ouvrage est le fruit d'une thèse universitaire réalisée par Gertjan Hoste et complétée par le regard et les commentaires de deux éminents architectes et critiques d'architecture : Albert Bontridder et Pierre Loze.
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April 2004, Sprimont
Architecture Monographs
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For many architects he is a landmark - Jean Prouvé, creator of the metal curtain wall, pioneer in its application and early initiator of industrialised building techniques. His unfailing ability to combine functional engineering achievements with artistic sensitivity commands recognition. The period covered in this latest volume is significant in many respects. The(...)
Jean Prouvé : oeuvres complete /complete works, Volume 3 : 1944-1954
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For many architects he is a landmark - Jean Prouvé, creator of the metal curtain wall, pioneer in its application and early initiator of industrialised building techniques. His unfailing ability to combine functional engineering achievements with artistic sensitivity commands recognition. The period covered in this latest volume is significant in many respects. The post-war years placed enormous demands on housing and school construction. In his Maxéville factory Prouvé developed pre-fabricated housing, facade panelling, light filtering and other systems on a large scale. He was inspired by the works of the automobile and aeronautics industry, developing new applications for aluminium, which he presented in the 1954 Aluminium Centenary Pavilion. Moreover, Prouvé's furnitures of this period have become valuable collectors' items, some of which are now being reissued under licence.
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September 2004, Basel
Architecture Monographs