New wood architecture
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A detailed and timely look at the resourceful ways wood is being used in some of the world’s most innovative new buildings. Despite its legacy as a traditional building material, timber is experiencing a renaissance as contemporary architects and designers increasingly come to appreciate its sustainability, versatility, and beauty. Lavishly illustrated with over 300(...)
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April 2005, New
New wood architecture
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A detailed and timely look at the resourceful ways wood is being used in some of the world’s most innovative new buildings. Despite its legacy as a traditional building material, timber is experiencing a renaissance as contemporary architects and designers increasingly come to appreciate its sustainability, versatility, and beauty. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs and drawings, "New Wood Architecture" features over 40 contemporary projects from around the world by leading architects including Shigeru Ban, Roberto Briccola, Santiago Calatrava, Steven Holl, Herzog + Partner, Herzog and de Meuron, Peter Hübner, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and Peter Zumthor. Ruth Slavid examines the innovative ways timber is currently being handled and how its use has been expanded by new technologies and experiments with traditional building methods. Featured topics include wood’s natural properties in rural landscapes; its heritage as a vernacular building material; its pragmatic and cost-efficient properties; its versatility; current technological innovations such as the uses of engineered products, laminates, plywoods, and chipboards; the ways wood can be combined with other materials to enhance its structural properties; and its use as a recycled or “green” material in some of the most beautiful and experimental plans being constructed today.
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Filled with comprehensive case studies selected from over thirty-five of Red Feather's completed housing and community-based building projects, this book documents the organization's collaboration with reservation communities and provides a step-by-step, bale-by-bale construction handbook-from initial site selection to finished product. Complete with information on(...)
Building a straw bale house : the Red Feather construction handbook
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Filled with comprehensive case studies selected from over thirty-five of Red Feather's completed housing and community-based building projects, this book documents the organization's collaboration with reservation communities and provides a step-by-step, bale-by-bale construction handbook-from initial site selection to finished product. Complete with information on safety, design, tools, and materials, it is an inspiring lesson for anybody interested in this technique of constructing a house and a hopeful redefinition of the fundamental ideas of architecture and the home. Foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall
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"Les choses changent. Les rêves et les visions d'aujourd'hui seront peut-être la réalité de demain. Nous pourrions faire un usage plus simple des technologies modernes. L'architecture et les installations climatiques devront changer, tout autant qu'évoluent nos idées sur l'utilisation de l'énergie. Les possibilités de capter les énergies passives naturelles pour(...)
Manuel d'architecture naturelle
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"Les choses changent. Les rêves et les visions d'aujourd'hui seront peut-être la réalité de demain. Nous pourrions faire un usage plus simple des technologies modernes. L'architecture et les installations climatiques devront changer, tout autant qu'évoluent nos idées sur l'utilisation de l'énergie. Les possibilités de capter les énergies passives naturelles pour alimenter notre cadre de vie sont immenses. " David Wright
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January 2005, Marseille
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The face of human rights
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There is a remarkable paucity of pictorial material to draw on when discussing human rights and the way they are respected or infringed. This publication captures injustice and evokes feeling, inviting the reader to interact. But is also risks presenting images of normality in a peaceful world. A visual interpretations of individual legal aspects is supported by textual(...)
October 2004, Baden
The face of human rights
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There is a remarkable paucity of pictorial material to draw on when discussing human rights and the way they are respected or infringed. This publication captures injustice and evokes feeling, inviting the reader to interact. But is also risks presenting images of normality in a peaceful world. A visual interpretations of individual legal aspects is supported by textual collages from historical and current human rights discussions. It also offers facts and figures, and acknowledges the efforts governmental and non-governmental organizations are making to defend human rights and stamp out their infringement.
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October 2004, Baden
Construire en bois
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Ce nouveau volume de "Construire en bois" propose une mise à jour complète, remaniée et augmentée des précédents volumes ("Construire en bois", "Construire en bois 2"), et se pose comme nouvel ouvrage de référence de la construction en bois pour les architectes et les ingénieurs. Les avantages de la construction en bois demeurent sous-estimés de nos jours. Peu de procédés(...)
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November 2004, Lausanne
Construire en bois
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Ce nouveau volume de "Construire en bois" propose une mise à jour complète, remaniée et augmentée des précédents volumes ("Construire en bois", "Construire en bois 2"), et se pose comme nouvel ouvrage de référence de la construction en bois pour les architectes et les ingénieurs. Les avantages de la construction en bois demeurent sous-estimés de nos jours. Peu de procédés subissent autant de préjugés négatifs et infondés de la part des maîtres d'ouvrage, des assureurs et des planificateurs. Mais les avantages offerts part ce matériaux sont nombreux, tant d'un point de vue technologique qu'économique ou écologique. Fruit de l'expérience de deux ingénieurs et trois architectes, "Construire en bois" privilégie cette double approche dans le but d'améliorer sans cesse la conception des ouvrages en bois. Riche de centaines de photos noir et blanc et couleurs ainsi que de milliers de dessins au trait, il présente une vaste gamme de formes, de moyens et de techniques d'assemblage, de conceptions d'appui et de systèmes porteurs, et rassemble ainsi en un seul manuel toutes les informations relatives aux propriétés du matériau bois et ses possibilités d'utilisation dans le domaine de la construction. Illustré de plus de 3000 dessins et 700 photographies au travers de près de 200 exemples, imprimé en quadrichromie, cet ouvrage offre un panorama complet des dernières technologies à la base des grandes constructions en bois du monde actuel.
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This volume proposes radical ideas for the future of sustainability in the construction and architectural industries. It asks how, rather than continuing to erect new buildings, we can instead harness the construction industry to make a positive contribution to the environment.
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Building with a positive footprint
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This volume proposes radical ideas for the future of sustainability in the construction and architectural industries. It asks how, rather than continuing to erect new buildings, we can instead harness the construction industry to make a positive contribution to the environment.
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Comment continuer d’habiter ce monde étrange, accéléré, qui préfère le jetable au durable, le virtuel au réel, la nouveauté à la pérennité ? L’architecture peut-elle encore faire sens, à l’heure où se multiplient les villes aseptisées, et où nous vivons toujours plus déconnectés des milieux qui nous accueillent ? Dans ce texte engagé et incarné, l’architecte et philosophe(...)
Les territoires du vivant : Un manifeste biorégionaliste
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Comment continuer d’habiter ce monde étrange, accéléré, qui préfère le jetable au durable, le virtuel au réel, la nouveauté à la pérennité ? L’architecture peut-elle encore faire sens, à l’heure où se multiplient les villes aseptisées, et où nous vivons toujours plus déconnectés des milieux qui nous accueillent ? Dans ce texte engagé et incarné, l’architecte et philosophe Mathias Rollot invite à redéfinir l’architecture à partir des idées du mouvement biorégionaliste. L’éthique biorégionaliste déplace nos manières de voir le monde et ouvre des pistes radicales, pour remettre l’architecture au service du vivant et de ses territoires, et d’une société plus juste. Entre architecture et philosophie, entre aménagement et animalisme, entre militantisme et recherche, ce texte connecte des mondes et ouvre de nombreuses pistes d’action.
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''Towards territorial transition'' presents new spatial strategies, concepts, and approaches for shaping large-scale and transnational developments in architecture and urban design towards decarbonization and ecological transition. The contributions investigate interactions between ecological and resource-related systems and landscapes. They also explore potential(...)
Towards territorial transition: A plea to large scale decarbonizing
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''Towards territorial transition'' presents new spatial strategies, concepts, and approaches for shaping large-scale and transnational developments in architecture and urban design towards decarbonization and ecological transition. The contributions investigate interactions between ecological and resource-related systems and landscapes. They also explore potential solutions to address and deal with the dramatic threats posed by climate change and the emerging social crisis. The book introduces six basic terms of territorial transition—territory, scale, transition, resource, platform, and uncertainty—and visualizes them with spatial strategies elaborated at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture Versailles and at Graz University of Technology. Moreover, it presents a selection of transnational projects of territorial transition, such as Luxembourg in Transition (Luxembourg / France), Grand Genève (Switzerland / France), and Top Noordrand (Belgium).
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Le visiteur no. 28
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Le dernier numéro de la revue est maintenant en vente à la librairie.
Le visiteur no. 28
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Le dernier numéro de la revue est maintenant en vente à la librairie.
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Visible Invisible
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This bilingual French-English publication retraces the "Visible, Invisible" exhibition, curated by Nicolas Dorval-Bory and Guillaume Ramillien, held in 2022 at the Versailles School of Architecture, as part of the second edition of the Île-de-France Architecture and Landscape Biennale (BAP!2). In the image of the eponymous exhibition, the editorial project presents a(...)
Visible Invisible
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This bilingual French-English publication retraces the "Visible, Invisible" exhibition, curated by Nicolas Dorval-Bory and Guillaume Ramillien, held in 2022 at the Versailles School of Architecture, as part of the second edition of the Île-de-France Architecture and Landscape Biennale (BAP!2). In the image of the eponymous exhibition, the editorial project presents a series of inspiring opportunities, via the display and analysis of international contemporary practices, aiming to rethink the act of inhabiting the world in the era of the Anthropocene and the crises that are shaking it. These recent reflections draw upon architectural experimentation from the 1960s, symbols of an ecological awakening within the discipline and a reassessment of the precepts of Modernism. "In the face of ecological emergency, how can new architectural forms emerge from locally available materials and energy?"
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