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This structure is Piano’s largest art museum building to date. The museum’s director, James Cuno, discusses the history of the commission, and Paul Goldberger writes on how this building fits into the larger context of Piano's work, as well as considers its positioning in a city celebrated for its architecture. Judith Turner provides architectural photographs, showing(...)
The modern wing: Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago
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This structure is Piano’s largest art museum building to date. The museum’s director, James Cuno, discusses the history of the commission, and Paul Goldberger writes on how this building fits into the larger context of Piano's work, as well as considers its positioning in a city celebrated for its architecture. Judith Turner provides architectural photographs, showing many nuanced details and views of the structure, while Joseph Rosa comments on her images and how they convey the beauty and sophistication of the building. Also includes photographs by New York-based architectural photographer Paul Warchol.
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This volume paints that picture by taking a broader historical view, discussing Fuller and his work in the context of larger social and cultural patterns. Fuller is a common thread in a critical cultural history that will show him to be both a participant in and a product of his times.
New views on R. Buckminster Fuller
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This volume paints that picture by taking a broader historical view, discussing Fuller and his work in the context of larger social and cultural patterns. Fuller is a common thread in a critical cultural history that will show him to be both a participant in and a product of his times.
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n!studio : sense of matter
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A survey of the most important works produced by n!studio, in all its various configurations, between 1990 and 2006. Critical writings and essays are accompanied by extensive colour photographs, plans and models of thirty works, projects and competition entries. The vast majority of the studio's works are yet to be realised or remain at a conceptual level – including(...)
n!studio : sense of matter
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A survey of the most important works produced by n!studio, in all its various configurations, between 1990 and 2006. Critical writings and essays are accompanied by extensive colour photographs, plans and models of thirty works, projects and competition entries. The vast majority of the studio's works are yet to be realised or remain at a conceptual level – including designs for Ecoromabuilding – a sustainable residential building in Vigna Murata, Italy, the New School, Rome; The Museum of Urbanism, Salamanca and the Piezometric Water Tower, in the Po Valley, Codigoro. Realised projects featured include the Castel San Vincenzo Archaeological Museum, the Bari Archaeological Museum, and their library refit for the Ss. Quattro Coronati Library, Rome. text in Chinese / English
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Published on the occasion of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's fiftieth anniversary, and in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, this volume is the first to fully explore the process behind one of the most iconic Modern buildings in America. This publication examines the history, design and construction of Wright's masterwork with preliminary drawings,(...)
The Guggenheim : Frank Lloyd Wright and the making of the moderm museum
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Published on the occasion of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's fiftieth anniversary, and in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, this volume is the first to fully explore the process behind one of the most iconic Modern buildings in America. This publication examines the history, design and construction of Wright's masterwork with preliminary drawings, models and photographs, as well as three major essays that consider the building in three important contexts. The book also traces the relationship between the architect and his clients during the 16-year construction process.
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January 2009
Architecture Monographs
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In 1955, just as the world was pigeonholing him as the high priest of modernism, Le Corbusier shocked the architecture world with – of all things – weekend houses. Built of brick, concrete, stone, and timber, the Maisons Jaoul are the antithesis of everything commonly referred to as “Corbusian.” Le Corbusier and the Maisons Jaoul, now in english translation, is the first(...)
Le Corbusier and the Maisons Jaoul
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In 1955, just as the world was pigeonholing him as the high priest of modernism, Le Corbusier shocked the architecture world with – of all things – weekend houses. Built of brick, concrete, stone, and timber, the Maisons Jaoul are the antithesis of everything commonly referred to as “Corbusian.” Le Corbusier and the Maisons Jaoul, now in english translation, is the first book-length, detailed examination of these lesser-known, yet architecturally significant houses. Using previously unpublished sources, the author thoroughly captures Le Corbusier’s extraordinary journey of discovery.
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Five houses, ten details
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Five Houses, Ten Details presents five designs—all by Ford, all for himself, all for the same site—only one of which was built. Each unbuilt design evolved or was abandoned for a variety of reasons. Many simply cost too much; others were based on presumptions that proved inaccurate or unproductive. All, to some degree, are present in the final design. Each of the five(...)
Five houses, ten details
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Five Houses, Ten Details presents five designs—all by Ford, all for himself, all for the same site—only one of which was built. Each unbuilt design evolved or was abandoned for a variety of reasons. Many simply cost too much; others were based on presumptions that proved inaccurate or unproductive. All, to some degree, are present in the final design. Each of the five designs explores a different aspect of architectural detail: how it acts to connect to or disconnect from a site; how it is expressive of material; how it acts to reveal structure; how it articulates the act of construction; and how it can be inconsistent, in a beneficial way, with the remainder of the building. Detail for Ford is not an accessory to architecture but its essence.
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Each project in this publication covers both aspects of Della Valle Bernheimer's creative process, often demonstrating that they think both with their minds and their hands; the process is cerebral as well as physical. Thinking about the larger contexts of site and program, as well as about historical precedents, linguistics, and correlations to natural forms and(...)
Think / Make : Della Valle Bernheimer
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Each project in this publication covers both aspects of Della Valle Bernheimer's creative process, often demonstrating that they think both with their minds and their hands; the process is cerebral as well as physical. Thinking about the larger contexts of site and program, as well as about historical precedents, linguistics, and correlations to natural forms and phenomena, Della Valle Bernheimer creates thoughtful, structurally innovative architecture. For the Artreehouse in New Fairfield, Connecticut — designed in collaboration with structural engineer Guy Nordenson — they observed patterns of light filtered through canopies of native tree species and scoured the history of building techniques in the region to design a 5,400-square-foot, locally inspired house. This monograph illustrates how personal, associative, and often highly poetic thoughts are made legible in architecture.
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January 2009
Architecture Monographs
Peter Rose Houses
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Cambridge, Massachusetts–based architect Peter Rose has built on every scale during the first three decades of his practice. High-profile projects, such as his master plan for the Montreal waterfront and the award-winning Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal have brought him both public recognition and the respect of his peers. Besides being known for his(...)
Peter Rose Houses
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Cambridge, Massachusetts–based architect Peter Rose has built on every scale during the first three decades of his practice. High-profile projects, such as his master plan for the Montreal waterfront and the award-winning Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal have brought him both public recognition and the respect of his peers. Besides being known for his artisan's love of solid building materials, craftsmanship, and old-fashioned building methods, it is perhaps no surprise that his residential projects function as laboratories for new ideas. This book presents five such houses in complete detail from client collaboration and site evaluation to construction. Rose draws inspiration from the outward simplicity and order of houses of the past but recognizes that their quiet strength depends on a complexity that comes only from thoughtful consideration of site, plan, exterior, and details.
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Hyperbody, initiated by Kas Oosterhuis and headquartered at the Delft University of Technology, is a think tank on new ways of designing and creating non standard and interactive architecture. This huge book is the first time Hyperbody has published it collaborative projects and experiments within the real world of design and construction. The designers of the paradigm(...)
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Hyperbody : first decade of interactive architecture
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Hyperbody, initiated by Kas Oosterhuis and headquartered at the Delft University of Technology, is a think tank on new ways of designing and creating non standard and interactive architecture. This huge book is the first time Hyperbody has published it collaborative projects and experiments within the real world of design and construction. The designers of the paradigm changing MCAT system of architectural software, Hyperbody continues to play with software design and futurism, creating a broad and influential new dialog. This collection of writings looks at new software tools for real time interaction and parametric design and application of new production techniques file to factory production and mass customization, among other projects, applying cutting edge design methods and theories.
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The concept of ¨generosity¨ is explored through a selection of architectural works contributing to the city. These “generous” projects give new value to urban density, public space, and architectural ethics, creating new and unexpected uses for buildings and creating a base for cultural transformation. The featured French architects and collectives are known for their(...)
GénéroCité :généreux versus générique
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The concept of ¨generosity¨ is explored through a selection of architectural works contributing to the city. These “generous” projects give new value to urban density, public space, and architectural ethics, creating new and unexpected uses for buildings and creating a base for cultural transformation. The featured French architects and collectives are known for their rich exchange of ideas and for creating innovative interfaces between buildings and city.
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Architecture Monographs