Barozzi Veiga
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This monograph on the Barcelona-based architectural firm Barozzi Veiga presents about 30 projects from 2004 to the present—a selection of the most important works developed around the world in places such as Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, China and more. ''Barozzi Veiga'' contains digital and handmade drawings, images of finished works and texts.
Barozzi Veiga
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This monograph on the Barcelona-based architectural firm Barozzi Veiga presents about 30 projects from 2004 to the present—a selection of the most important works developed around the world in places such as Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, China and more. ''Barozzi Veiga'' contains digital and handmade drawings, images of finished works and texts.
Architecture Monographs
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In the South of France, sited on a hill of olive trees, pinus pinea, and a vineyard, a family retreat was designed with a key mission of maintaining the vitality of the site. A small agricultural plot, the site offered the possibility of amplification. With the introduction of a garden and many outdoor living spaces, the family had the intention of cultivating the(...)
NADAA: My house is better than your house
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In the South of France, sited on a hill of olive trees, pinus pinea, and a vineyard, a family retreat was designed with a key mission of maintaining the vitality of the site. A small agricultural plot, the site offered the possibility of amplification. With the introduction of a garden and many outdoor living spaces, the family had the intention of cultivating the landscape as part of their stewardship. In part a response to a programmatic brief, but moreover, a discursive response to architectural predicaments of geometry, typology, and anomaly, the house is also a response to Preston Scott Cohen’s pedagogies on architecture.
Architecture Monographs
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À travers le récit de 16 projets remarquables de la production architecturale contemporaine, cet ouvrage brosse le portrait d’une agence d’architecture multiple et héritière d’un savoir-faire qu’elle a su développer et diversifier. Initialement positionnée dans l’accompagnement sur sol français d’agences d’architecture internationales sur des projets de grande hauteur,(...)
Architecture Monographs
April 2022
Gigot Bitume : récits d'une pratique architecturale. SRA architectes
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À travers le récit de 16 projets remarquables de la production architecturale contemporaine, cet ouvrage brosse le portrait d’une agence d’architecture multiple et héritière d’un savoir-faire qu’elle a su développer et diversifier. Initialement positionnée dans l’accompagnement sur sol français d’agences d’architecture internationales sur des projets de grande hauteur, l’agence SRA a par la suite su apporter son expertise en programme complexe sur les problématiques prégnantes de réhabilitation du parc bâti du XXe siècle et élevé par leurs pairs, mais également sur la sortie de terre de programme culturel important. Forte de ces partenariats inter-agences, position singulière dans un milieu où l’étiquette de l’architecte solitaire colle à la peau, SRA s’inscrit dans une pratique collective de l’architecture et toujours attachée à la pluridisciplinarité des métiers que la construction rassemble.
Architecture Monographs
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Mies van der Rohe established himself as the visionary architect of New Building, a modernist architectural movement that emphasized geometric form. An architectural approach also permeated the fine art of the time, while a scientific understanding of nature influenced art and architecture equally. This book and exhibition are among the first to bring sculpture and nature(...)
Lehmbruck- Kolbe- Mies van der Rohe. Artificial biotopes
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Mies van der Rohe established himself as the visionary architect of New Building, a modernist architectural movement that emphasized geometric form. An architectural approach also permeated the fine art of the time, while a scientific understanding of nature influenced art and architecture equally. This book and exhibition are among the first to bring sculpture and nature together in an examination of Mies van der Rohe’s work. Highlighting eight sculptures by Lehmbruck and seven by Kolbe, the volume features more than one hundred color illustrations.
Architecture Monographs
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Following two previous volumes on Kunsthaus Zürich’s architectural history and the design used to turn it into an art museum for the twenty-first century, this book documents the genesis of Chipperfield’s extension from proposal through political debates about the entire project to the completed structure. It features a foreword by Chipperfield and an essay by Christoph(...)
David Chipperfield Architects Berlin and the Kunsthaus Zürich
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Following two previous volumes on Kunsthaus Zürich’s architectural history and the design used to turn it into an art museum for the twenty-first century, this book documents the genesis of Chipperfield’s extension from proposal through political debates about the entire project to the completed structure. It features a foreword by Chipperfield and an essay by Christoph Felger, executive architect for the project at David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, that discusses the design concept, the promise made with it, and its fulfillment. A conversation between Felger, director of the City of Zurich’s Building Surveyor’s Office Wiebke Rösler, Kunsthaus Zürich’s director Christoph Becker, and architecture critic Sabine von Fischer, as well as numerous illustrations and plans round out this new volume.
Architecture Monographs
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Swiss-American architectural studio agps, with offices in Zurich and Los Angeles, has delved deep into their archive and woven a visual thread of some 160 illustrations that guides readers through this new book. The images are organized according to thirteen keywords, spatial configurations that characterize agps’s core design concepts and summarize central elements of(...)
Architecture Monographs
April 2022
agps Out of the box: 13 spatial configurations
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Swiss-American architectural studio agps, with offices in Zurich and Los Angeles, has delved deep into their archive and woven a visual thread of some 160 illustrations that guides readers through this new book. The images are organized according to thirteen keywords, spatial configurations that characterize agps’s core design concepts and summarize central elements of their ideas. At the same time, they are terms that define the formal presence of their designs. The result offers multifaceted and inspiring insight into the work of an international firm that proves just how important spatial constellations are for the formulation of good architecture.
Architecture Monographs
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Basel-based architects Daniel Buchner and Andreas Bründler established their studio in 1997 and soon gained wide recognition for their designs. Today, Buchner Bründler Architects ranks among the leading Swiss firms of the younger generation. This book, their second major monograph, features around fifteen completed projects from 2010 to 2020. The selection comprises new(...)
Buchner Brundler: Buildings II
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Basel-based architects Daniel Buchner and Andreas Bründler established their studio in 1997 and soon gained wide recognition for their designs. Today, Buchner Bründler Architects ranks among the leading Swiss firms of the younger generation. This book, their second major monograph, features around fifteen completed projects from 2010 to 2020. The selection comprises new buildings as well as significant reconstructions, with a focus on housing designs of various sizes and types in Switzerland and Germany. This is supplemented by a heavily illustrated survey of another fifty buildings and unrealized projects. In total, this volume features some 1,500 photographs, sketches, plans, and visualizations. Yet ''Buchner Bründler: Buildings II'' does not merely bring together images of individual buildings. Instead, it places them in a larger context with concise texts that explore as well historic, social, and economical aspects of the specific location. Moreover, the renowned Swiss book designer Ludovic Balland and his collaborator Annina Schepping have experimented with a range of photographic methods and techniques.
Architecture Monographs
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In this new series of books, ChartierDalix present their entire body of work, beginning with two volumes covering the years 2008 to 2022. It showcases 28 designs the firm has realized in Paris and the surrounding area, all described in detail with texts, photographs and plans. This is supplemented by a complete illustrated catalogue of ChartierDalix’s projects since 2008.
ChartierDalix: Built work 2008-2021
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In this new series of books, ChartierDalix present their entire body of work, beginning with two volumes covering the years 2008 to 2022. It showcases 28 designs the firm has realized in Paris and the surrounding area, all described in detail with texts, photographs and plans. This is supplemented by a complete illustrated catalogue of ChartierDalix’s projects since 2008.
Architecture Monographs
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This book tells the story of a prime example of bottom-up development-aid based on pragmatism and with the goal of self-empowerment in construction. The new education center of Advan FC on the island of Madagascar is a prime example of a bottom-up development-aid project based on pragmatism and with the goal of self-empowerment. When Viktor Bänziger, who runs a bar in(...)
A home for Advan FC: Handbook for a Madagascan Building
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This book tells the story of a prime example of bottom-up development-aid based on pragmatism and with the goal of self-empowerment in construction. The new education center of Advan FC on the island of Madagascar is a prime example of a bottom-up development-aid project based on pragmatism and with the goal of self-empowerment. When Viktor Bänziger, who runs a bar in the heart of Zurich, visited Madagascar as a tourist in 2015, he was struck by the severe poverty and difficult living conditions of the local population and decided to act. In close collaboration with Zurich-based architect Nele Dechmann and the president of Advan FC, Titus Solohery Andriamananjara, the project for a new soccer field and surrounding buildings was developed. The complex, which is soundly based on local building knowledge and construction methods, gives local children the opportunity to develop their soccer skills and, more importantly, to receive minimal reading and writing lessons after training and to have meals together. The remote location in Madagascar’s mountains and the tight budget suggested a simple typology that conveys a common architectural language despite the different uses of individual buildings. A key part of the entire concept is a simple manual for the actual construction that leaves many decisions and responsibilities to the local community. Documenting the architecture of Advan FC’s education center and its construction process in rich detail through photographs and plans, this book tells the story of an extraordinary participative undertaking of people originating from deeply differing cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. It introduces a model of potentially universal usage anywhere in the world in which the continuous exchange of knowledge between a project’s participants demonstrates an inspiring alternative to conventional international collaborations.
Architecture Monographs
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Julia Morgan was a lifelong trailblazer. She was the first woman admitted to study architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first licensed to practice architecture in California. Over the first half of the 20th century, she left an indelible mark on the American West. Of her remarkable 700 creations, the most iconic is Hearst Castle. Morgan spent thirty(...)
February 2022
Julia Morgan: An intimate biography of the trailblazing architect
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Julia Morgan was a lifelong trailblazer. She was the first woman admitted to study architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first licensed to practice architecture in California. Over the first half of the 20th century, she left an indelible mark on the American West. Of her remarkable 700 creations, the most iconic is Hearst Castle. Morgan spent thirty years constructing this opulent estate on the California coast for the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst—forging a lifelong friendship and creative partnership with him. Together, they built a spectacular and unequalled residence that once hosted the biggest stars of Hollywood's golden age, and that now welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. This compelling biography draws on interviews, letters, and Morgan's diaries, including never-before-seen reflections on faith, art, and her life experiences.