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This book traces Alden Dow's life and work as well as the intensely personal philosophy that governed everything he did: houses, churches, schools, business and civic structures, and even a new town in Texas. Dow changed the face of his hometown of Midland, Michigan, leaving more than one hundred buildings, including his Home and Studio, a National Historic Landmark. 185(...)
Alden B. Dow : Midwestern Modern
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This book traces Alden Dow's life and work as well as the intensely personal philosophy that governed everything he did: houses, churches, schools, business and civic structures, and even a new town in Texas. Dow changed the face of his hometown of Midland, Michigan, leaving more than one hundred buildings, including his Home and Studio, a National Historic Landmark. 185 color and 220 black-and-white illustrations.
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Jean-Marie Massaud
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This volume of a series about young but already very successful architects and designers introduces to the projects of the designer Jean Marie Massaud. As a kid he wanted to be an inventor, these days, his aim is to construct a human vision of sustainable developement in the service of life itself. Invention in order to bring form to thought. Constructing to give life(...)
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July 2007, Köln, New York, London
Jean-Marie Massaud
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This volume of a series about young but already very successful architects and designers introduces to the projects of the designer Jean Marie Massaud. As a kid he wanted to be an inventor, these days, his aim is to construct a human vision of sustainable developement in the service of life itself. Invention in order to bring form to thought. Constructing to give life substance. The book shows recent urban projects, interior design, furniture and objects, including numerous floor plans and outlines.
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Skycar city: MVRDV/ uwm
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Welcome to Skycar city. A City with 'streets' at any level, or perhaps empty of streets as we know them... A compilation of the design work produced by the inaugural Marcus Prize Studio held at the University of Wisconsin-Mailwaukee School of Architecture & Urban planning. The studio was led by Miny Maas (principal of MVRDV, Rotterdam) and Grace La (associate(...)
Skycar city: MVRDV/ uwm
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Welcome to Skycar city. A City with 'streets' at any level, or perhaps empty of streets as we know them... A compilation of the design work produced by the inaugural Marcus Prize Studio held at the University of Wisconsin-Mailwaukee School of Architecture & Urban planning. The studio was led by Miny Maas (principal of MVRDV, Rotterdam) and Grace La (associate professor at UWM) during the spring of 2006
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August 2007, Barcelona
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Julia Morgan, America's first truly independent female architect, left a legacy of over 700 buildings, many of which are now designated landmarks, in cities throughout California, as well as in Hawaii, Utah, and Illinois. Her work spanned five decades, and the total of her commissions was greater than any other major American architect, including Frank Lloyd Wright. Julia(...)
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October 2007, Salt Lake City, Charleston, Santa Fe
Julia Morgan : Architect of Beauty
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Julia Morgan, America's first truly independent female architect, left a legacy of over 700 buildings, many of which are now designated landmarks, in cities throughout California, as well as in Hawaii, Utah, and Illinois. Her work spanned five decades, and the total of her commissions was greater than any other major American architect, including Frank Lloyd Wright. Julia Morgan tells the remarkable story of this architectural pioneer, and features text, drawings, and photographs of the many buildings that still exist.
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Atelier Bow-Wow has up until now designed about twenty detached houses and holiday villas. An important part of the design process includes the production of technical drawings, which astonish with their level of detail, diversity and spatial depth. This book catalogues 24 designs accompanied by details and elevations and technical specifications.
Atelier Bow-Wow : graphic anatomy
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Atelier Bow-Wow has up until now designed about twenty detached houses and holiday villas. An important part of the design process includes the production of technical drawings, which astonish with their level of detail, diversity and spatial depth. This book catalogues 24 designs accompanied by details and elevations and technical specifications.
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Self educated as an architect, Ando has forged a distinct style which rests heavily on his preference for the use of concrete in his designs. This volume collates a selection of housing projects chosen by the architect himself which he considers to be significant turning points in his career. A total of 19 projects, some unrealized, are comprehensively surveyed through(...)
Tadao Ando : houses & housing 1
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Self educated as an architect, Ando has forged a distinct style which rests heavily on his preference for the use of concrete in his designs. This volume collates a selection of housing projects chosen by the architect himself which he considers to be significant turning points in his career. A total of 19 projects, some unrealized, are comprehensively surveyed through full page colour photographs and sketches, plans and details.
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An in-depth look at the evolution of one of the most engaging and experimental architecture studios today. The ciliary muscle reproduces the effect of a lens and allows the eye to focus or blur vision. The ciliary muscle became the emblem of the critical vision that Diller + Scofidio (+ Renfro) had of their heterogeneous fields of research and experimentation. The(...)
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November 2007, Milan
Diller + Scofidio (+Renfro) : The Ciliary function, works and projects 1979-2007
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An in-depth look at the evolution of one of the most engaging and experimental architecture studios today. The ciliary muscle reproduces the effect of a lens and allows the eye to focus or blur vision. The ciliary muscle became the emblem of the critical vision that Diller + Scofidio (+ Renfro) had of their heterogeneous fields of research and experimentation. The work of this New York studio owes its notoriety to a genre that challenges the contemporary role of both the architect and architecture. Their interdisciplinary projects range from objects, installations and performances to media and architecture. In recent years they have expanded � with a third partner joining their studio � to embrace projects on an urban scale. Their works, recognised on an international level, include the Blur Building for Swiss Expo 2002, �the brasserie� restaurant in New York, the ICA in Boston, the Lincoln Center and the High-Line, both in New York. Diller + Scofidio (+ Renfro): The Ciliary Function covers their development documenting about twenty works, from the earliest to the most recent. The volume, with a foreword by Reinhold Martin, includes essays investigating the studio�s context, influences and strategies, some interviews with the architects, dossiers on the chronology of their engagements, an itinerary, a scheme showing the evolution and growth of the studio from 1979 to today and a DVD documenting the multimedia and interdisciplinary projects by Diller + Scofidio (+ Renfro).
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Winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 2006, Paulo Mendes da Rocha is one of the most important architects of today. Paulo Mendes da Rocha : Projects 1957-2007 is the most complete monograph available on his work, spanning more than fifty years of professional activity. His is an intense oeuvre of rare amplitude, encompassing educationnal, museological,(...)
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November 2007, New York
Paulo Mendes da Rocha : Fifty years
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Winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 2006, Paulo Mendes da Rocha is one of the most important architects of today. Paulo Mendes da Rocha : Projects 1957-2007 is the most complete monograph available on his work, spanning more than fifty years of professional activity. His is an intense oeuvre of rare amplitude, encompassing educationnal, museological, residential, technical, recreational, commercial and religious buildings, as well as sports facilites and large-scale urban adaptation studies.
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Architecte et historien d'architecture, Neil Jackson a beaucoup écrit sur l'architecture moderne en Californie où il a enseigné entre 1985 et 1990. Il a reçu en 2003 le Sir Banister Fletcher Award pour son livre The Architecture of Craig Ellwood, paru en 2002. La présente étude sur Pierre Koenig est le fruit d'une longue amitié et une marque de respect pour le grand(...)
Koenig : 1925-2004, Vivre avec l'acier
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Architecte et historien d'architecture, Neil Jackson a beaucoup écrit sur l'architecture moderne en Californie où il a enseigné entre 1985 et 1990. Il a reçu en 2003 le Sir Banister Fletcher Award pour son livre The Architecture of Craig Ellwood, paru en 2002. La présente étude sur Pierre Koenig est le fruit d'une longue amitié et une marque de respect pour le grand architecte. Le professeur Jackson enseigne actuellement à l'université de Liverpool.
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In 1956, Time magazine called him one of the “form-givers of the 20th century“: with his invention of steel-tube furniture, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) has made his mark in the history of design at the tender age of 23. He started his architectural career as one of the Bauhaus’s most influential architects with the 1932 Harnischmacher House. Even Breuer’s earliest work was(...)
Breuer : 1902-1981 Createur de formes du XXe siecle
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In 1956, Time magazine called him one of the “form-givers of the 20th century“: with his invention of steel-tube furniture, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) has made his mark in the history of design at the tender age of 23. He started his architectural career as one of the Bauhaus’s most influential architects with the 1932 Harnischmacher House. Even Breuer’s earliest work was marked by the search for a symbiosis between local and global, big and small, smooth and rough. His sparse use of materials emphasized the balance among textures, colors, and shapes. In 1943, he conceived the “binuclear” house concept—the splitting of living and sleeping areas into separate wings—which he first applied to the Geller House I (1944-1946), and which would attain great popularity. After designing the UNESCO headquarters in Paris (1953-1958), reinforced concrete, with its formal plasticity und structural elasticity, continued to give monumental character to buildings such as the Abbey and Campus of St. John’s University in Minnesota (1953-1961), the IBM Research Center in France (1960-1962), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1963-1966) in New York City. With his keen sense of proportion, shape, and material, Breuer is one of the most important Modernists and is still very much central in the discussion of contemporary architecture.
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