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Poetic spaces, surreal structures and dramatic visions. The extraordinary career of Ricardo Bofill is collected in this monograph, which reveals his inspiring approach to architecture, and to life. Ricardo Bofill is one of the 20th century’s most unique architects and radical visionaries. His visions for urban and communal life challenged preconceived notions of shared(...)
Ricardo Bofill: Visions of architecture
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Poetic spaces, surreal structures and dramatic visions. The extraordinary career of Ricardo Bofill is collected in this monograph, which reveals his inspiring approach to architecture, and to life. Ricardo Bofill is one of the 20th century’s most unique architects and radical visionaries. His visions for urban and communal life challenged preconceived notions of shared space and proposed alternative styles of living. This monograph explores his revolutionary approach by profiling his greatest projects like La Fábrica, Walden 7, La Muralla Roja or Abraxas. New photography by Salva López, texts by experts like Nacho Alegre and Douglas Murphy as well as by Bofill himself are complemented with sketches and floor plans. Bofill’s fantastic creations satisfy a longing for originality, personality and progressive ideals.
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Lautner A-Z
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Through no fault of his own, John Lautner's contributions to Modern architecture have been widely recognized only in the last ten or fifteen years. Even so, he still remains an enigma for some critics. We still have more to learn – and understand – about how he expanded the boundaries of Modern architecture. After years of research, Tycho Saariste and Jan-Richard(...)
Lautner A-Z
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Through no fault of his own, John Lautner's contributions to Modern architecture have been widely recognized only in the last ten or fifteen years. Even so, he still remains an enigma for some critics. We still have more to learn – and understand – about how he expanded the boundaries of Modern architecture. After years of research, Tycho Saariste and Jan-Richard Kikkert's book adds an invaluable resource for our understanding of Lautner. This book contains a description of the research and the travels to all built Lautner houses. It also contains a description of these houses and photographs the authors made during their visits. With an introduction by American architecture expert Alan Hess.
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Je te ressers un pastis ?
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Considéré comme un des plus grands architectes français et européens ce virtuose du béton à qui l'on doit le Mucem de Marseille est également un amoureux des mots qu'il puise en Méditerranée. Débateur infatigable, il aime surprendre et désarmer, esquiver, rebondir d'un sujet à un autre.
Je te ressers un pastis ?
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Considéré comme un des plus grands architectes français et européens ce virtuose du béton à qui l'on doit le Mucem de Marseille est également un amoureux des mots qu'il puise en Méditerranée. Débateur infatigable, il aime surprendre et désarmer, esquiver, rebondir d'un sujet à un autre.
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'Buildings and Almost Buildings' explores the work of nARCHITECTS as a single project – an anti-monograph with a subtle manifesto about the open-ended, incomplete, and ambiguous in architecture.
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January 2019
nARCHITECTS: Buildings and almost buildings
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'Buildings and Almost Buildings' explores the work of nARCHITECTS as a single project – an anti-monograph with a subtle manifesto about the open-ended, incomplete, and ambiguous in architecture.
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Boris Iofan is best known as the architect behind the Palace of the Soviets. Yet his style was not limited to the Socialist Classicism that flourished under Stalin. Rather, Iofan’s architectural language evolved throughout his lifetime, from his eclecticist beginnings in Rome, to the grandeur of the wedding-cake style in the 1930s, to his incorporation of concrete panels(...)
Boris Iofan: architect behind the Palace of the Soviets
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Boris Iofan is best known as the architect behind the Palace of the Soviets. Yet his style was not limited to the Socialist Classicism that flourished under Stalin. Rather, Iofan’s architectural language evolved throughout his lifetime, from his eclecticist beginnings in Rome, to the grandeur of the wedding-cake style in the 1930s, to his incorporation of concrete panels under Khrushchev. This book presents a collection of essays that chart the development of the architect’s variegated career that spanned nearly six decades.
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On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the worldwide leading architectural practice Herzog & de Meuron, the first three volumes of the "Complete Works" have been published as an accessible paperback edition. The reprints, in original format, comprehensively present all buildings and designs from its beginnings in 1978 up to the year 1996. The development of the(...)
Herzog & de Meuron: the complete works Vol. 1-3
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On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the worldwide leading architectural practice Herzog & de Meuron, the first three volumes of the "Complete Works" have been published as an accessible paperback edition. The reprints, in original format, comprehensively present all buildings and designs from its beginnings in 1978 up to the year 1996. The development of the practice over the first two decades can be tracked in documents of the time: from the completion of local projects like the Blue House and Ricola Storage Building to world-famous icons such as the Tate Modern and the Dominus Winery.
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It is impossible to imagine Austrian architecture and contemporary history without Karl Schwanzer, who would have marked his hundredth birthday in 2018. His buildings, like the BMW administration building in Munich, caused quite a furor domestically and abroad; his institute at the Technical University of Vienna influenced offices like Coop Himmelb(l)au, Haus-Rucker-Co,(...)
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February 2019
Schwanzer: architect, visionary, maestro.
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It is impossible to imagine Austrian architecture and contemporary history without Karl Schwanzer, who would have marked his hundredth birthday in 2018. His buildings, like the BMW administration building in Munich, caused quite a furor domestically and abroad; his institute at the Technical University of Vienna influenced offices like Coop Himmelb(l)au, Haus-Rucker-Co, Missing Link and ZUEND-UP. Posthumously, Schwanzer rose to cult status among his staff, students and clients, conferred especially for his passionate way of working, sparing no effort or expense, and for his relentless search for the optimum solution. In every sense, his life and work were unconventional. The idea to relate them in the form of a graphic novel is also quite unconventional, but certainly a logical consequence!
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Ces huit petits essais à partir de l'oeuvre construite et écrite de Fernand Pouillon peuvent être lus comme autant de pistes, de chemins oubliés, hors de la grand-route toute droite du "progrès moderne". Car cette route —qui n'est droite que pour ceux qui n'ont jamais eu d'autre perspective—, nous a menés dans l'impasse, et ces chemins effacés par la table rase moderne,(...)
Pouillon, une architecture durable et autres brefs essais
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Ces huit petits essais à partir de l'oeuvre construite et écrite de Fernand Pouillon peuvent être lus comme autant de pistes, de chemins oubliés, hors de la grand-route toute droite du "progrès moderne". Car cette route —qui n'est droite que pour ceux qui n'ont jamais eu d'autre perspective—, nous a menés dans l'impasse, et ces chemins effacés par la table rase moderne, pourraient bien nous ouvrir à une réconciliation avec la nature et avec notre humanité même.
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Cet ouvrage examine comment Peter Eisenman soutient une lecture critique des oeuvres d’architecture, qui diffère des approches traditionnelles basées sur le type, le style et la fonction d’un bâtiment. À travers l’étude de projets issus de la linguistique structurale, des formalistes (littéraires et artistiques) et de la pensée déconstructiviste, nous découvrons comment(...)
Peter Eisenman : machine critique de l'architecture
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Cet ouvrage examine comment Peter Eisenman soutient une lecture critique des oeuvres d’architecture, qui diffère des approches traditionnelles basées sur le type, le style et la fonction d’un bâtiment. À travers l’étude de projets issus de la linguistique structurale, des formalistes (littéraires et artistiques) et de la pensée déconstructiviste, nous découvrons comment Peter Eisenman met au point des syntaxes formelles qui permettent d’organiser l’environnement spatial, de façon plus abstraite et plus fondamentale. Cette réflexion pose également la question de la constitution de la forme architecturale aujourd’hui, sa structure, sa généalogie, ses discours et sa légitimité sur le plan expressif et conceptuel.
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Achevée en 1957, la Nouvelle buvette de la Source Cachat à Évian-les-Bains est à classer parmi les icônes du XXe siècle. Le bâtiment est issu de la collaboration fructueuse entre un architecte expérimenté, Maurice Novarina, un constructeur, Jean Prouvé, et un ingénieur-architecte, Serge Ketoff. Le résultat de cette aventure collective est un 'objet technique' de valeur(...)
La buvette d'Evian : Maurice Novarina, Jean Prouvé, Serge Ketoff (1955-2018)
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Achevée en 1957, la Nouvelle buvette de la Source Cachat à Évian-les-Bains est à classer parmi les icônes du XXe siècle. Le bâtiment est issu de la collaboration fructueuse entre un architecte expérimenté, Maurice Novarina, un constructeur, Jean Prouvé, et un ingénieur-architecte, Serge Ketoff. Le résultat de cette aventure collective est un 'objet technique' de valeur exceptionnelle. Issue d’une étude historique et matérielle conduite par le laboratoire TSAM de l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne sur la base de documents inédits, cette première monographie illustrée de la buvette d’Évian témoigne de son importance dans l’architecture des années 1950.
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