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“À propos de Rem Koolhaas” offre une vision claire du rôle de l'architecte et de son agence, l'Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Des auteurs de réputation internationale, dont les compétences dépassent celles de l'architecture, revisitent le travail de l'OMA à la lumière des développements sociaux et économiques récents. Toutes les facettes de Koolhaas sont passées en(...)
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October 2004, Paris
Qu'est-ce que l'OMA : à propos de Rem Koolhaas et de l'Office for Metropolitan Architecture
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“À propos de Rem Koolhaas” offre une vision claire du rôle de l'architecte et de son agence, l'Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Des auteurs de réputation internationale, dont les compétences dépassent celles de l'architecture, revisitent le travail de l'OMA à la lumière des développements sociaux et économiques récents. Toutes les facettes de Koolhaas sont passées en revue : sa prise de position sur la théorie architecturale et son dispositif conceptuel, sa vision de l'urbanisme et de la ville contemporaine, les conceptions mises en pratique par l'OMA et les projets de recherches de l'AMO, cellule de réflexion qui navigue en dehors des frontières immédiates de l'architecture. Ce livre brosse un tableau complet de la portée des réalisations de l'OMA et de l'influence grandissante de Rem Koolhaas.
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This first monograph on the young Berlin architects Armand Grüntuch and Almut Ernst presents more than a decade's worth of buildings and projects. With a diversity in style, Grüntuch Ernst Architects of Berlin have already established an international presence. This visually stunning overview of their work reflects the firm's experimental leanings and focuses on recent(...)
Grüntuch Ernst Architects : points of access
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This first monograph on the young Berlin architects Armand Grüntuch and Almut Ernst presents more than a decade's worth of buildings and projects. With a diversity in style, Grüntuch Ernst Architects of Berlin have already established an international presence. This visually stunning overview of their work reflects the firm's experimental leanings and focuses on recent works in Berlin such as their new building at Hackescher Markt, a school, and an office building in Hamburg. The architects are currently working on a school and a police station and on prototypes of their so-called "floating homes."
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The recent works of the acclaimed Swiss architect are presented in this monograph on his world-renowned work and previously unpublished plans. Mario Botta's buildings are characterized by simple, geometric shapes that juxtapose lightness and weight. This richly illustrated monograph examines Botta's most recent examples on this theme, as seen in the Kyobo Tower in Seoul,(...)
Mario Botta : light and gravity, architecture 1993-2003
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The recent works of the acclaimed Swiss architect are presented in this monograph on his world-renowned work and previously unpublished plans. Mario Botta's buildings are characterized by simple, geometric shapes that juxtapose lightness and weight. This richly illustrated monograph examines Botta's most recent examples on this theme, as seen in the Kyobo Tower in Seoul, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel, and the Cymbalista Synagogue in Tel Aviv. Hundreds of photographs, sketches, and plans illustrate the architect's desire to create structures that adhere to and complement their locations, and show how his choice of materials emphasizes craftsmanship and geometric order. Botta's finished buildings are examined alongside plans which never saw completion, demonstrating the extraordinary creative process of this modern visionary.
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October 2004, Munich
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Norman Foster : works 2
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Featuring unparalleled depth of detail and insightful commentary, this latest addition to the comprehensive survey on Norman Foster, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, focuses on works from the 1980s to the early 1990s. "Norman Foster : works 2" explores several of the architect's most recognizable buildings, including the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters in(...)
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February 2005, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
Norman Foster : works 2
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Featuring unparalleled depth of detail and insightful commentary, this latest addition to the comprehensive survey on Norman Foster, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, focuses on works from the 1980s to the early 1990s. "Norman Foster : works 2" explores several of the architect's most recognizable buildings, including the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters in Hong Kong, which virtually reinvented the office tower; the Sackler Galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, a project that epitomizes the effective intervention of contemporary design within historical buildings; and the Carré d'Art in Nîmes, which unified architecture and urbanism to create a vibrant new cultural core at the heart of the city. Bringing together contributions from noted commentators alongside essays and observations by Norman Foster and his colleagues, this overview reveals the key characteristics of Foster's design philosophy, showing how a commitment to social and environmental concerns.
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Curated by noted architect and theorist Greg Lynn, 'Intricacy' gathers work by artists, designers, and architects that reflects an emerging sensibility characterized by "highly complex compositions of an almost organic intricacy with macroscopic holism, coherence, and synthesis, and microscopic variation and diversity." Participants include: Peter Eisenman and Preston(...)
Intricacy : a project by Greg Lynn FORM
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Curated by noted architect and theorist Greg Lynn, 'Intricacy' gathers work by artists, designers, and architects that reflects an emerging sensibility characterized by "highly complex compositions of an almost organic intricacy with macroscopic holism, coherence, and synthesis, and microscopic variation and diversity." Participants include: Peter Eisenman and Preston Scott Cohen, David Reed, Hussein Chalayan, Jesse Reiser, Nanako Umemoto, Karl Chu, Preston Scott Cohen, Farshid Moussavi, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Chris Cunningham, Tom Friedman, Nader Tehrani, Greg Lynn, Peter Eisenman and Fabian Marcaccio amongst others.
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This exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp offer us exceptional insights into what it was that made this Renaissance man so special, and the 'real' meaning behind such masterpieces as(...)
Leonardo
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This exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp offer us exceptional insights into what it was that made this Renaissance man so special, and the 'real' meaning behind such masterpieces as The Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Tracing Leonardo's career in all its variety, we learn of his unfulfilled dreams, relationships with powerful patrons, and the truth about his religious views. Kemp cuts through the dense veil of legend, challenges the myths, and offers an unparalleled portrait of this extraordinary man.
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Some of us love and feel simple architecture which we have achieved at great cost, because it can be achieved only through great sacrifice and discipline. -Alejandro de la Sota
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September 2004, Munich
Alejandro de la Sota
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Some of us love and feel simple architecture which we have achieved at great cost, because it can be achieved only through great sacrifice and discipline. -Alejandro de la Sota
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September 2004, Munich
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Gunnar Asplund
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Although a contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Asplund pursued an architecture that does not fit easily into their view of Modernism as a movement that rejected the applied styles and ornamentation of the nineteenth century. Instead, Asplund was at ease with classical or vernacular elements blending with modernist ideals, and displayed a sensitive(...)
Gunnar Asplund
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Although a contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Asplund pursued an architecture that does not fit easily into their view of Modernism as a movement that rejected the applied styles and ornamentation of the nineteenth century. Instead, Asplund was at ease with classical or vernacular elements blending with modernist ideals, and displayed a sensitive understanding of the relationship between architecture and its surrounding landscape. His abilities are amply demonstrated in masterpieces like the Woodland Cemetery. In 1915 Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz won the competition to plan a new cemetery for Stockholm. Their romantic plan, in which a symbolically straight, narrow pathway abruptly curves blindly away into the forest, and with open fields capped by burial-mound-like hillocks, earned both of them further commissions for buildings within the cemetery. Asplund’s Woodland Chapel of 1920 is tucked into the forest and uses classical elements such as Doric columns, but sparingly and in unusual ways, while manipulating scale in ways that further the spiritual and contemplative nature of the building. The Crematorium and Monument Hall of 1935 are dignified and powerful, unornamented but not austere, to offer comfort to those who use them. The Gothenburg Law Courts, another critical work which was finally completed in 1937, shows how Asplund relates the architecture of Modernism to a historical plan and façade. Buildings such as the architect’s own summer house at Stennäs and the crematoria at Kviberg and Skövde, dating from the later part of his life when he had begun to embrace Modernism, still show traditional classical and vernacular influences and are evidence that not all forms of Modernism constituted a fresh start.
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Renzo Piano – winner of the Pritzker Prize, 1998 – is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Always challenging and surprising, each new design never fails to be innovative and exciting and to capture the imagination of his admirers. One of the few architects to be intimately involved in each stage of a building’s development, from its concept(...)
Renzo Piano on tour
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Renzo Piano – winner of the Pritzker Prize, 1998 – is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Always challenging and surprising, each new design never fails to be innovative and exciting and to capture the imagination of his admirers. One of the few architects to be intimately involved in each stage of a building’s development, from its concept and masterplan to its construction and detailing, Renzo’s insights into his own projects are revealing and insightful. In this new publication, the reader is offered the rare opportunity to experience the key buildings of the Workshop with Renzo Piano himself. Featuring approximately 25 built projects, Renzo Piano introduces each building through personal text, followed by a photographic guide which takes the reader from the external to the internal of each project on a frame by frame tour. Projects featured range from urban works such as the Potsdamer Platz masterplan, to the acclaimed Beyeler Foundation and the Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre in New Caledonia. The Renzo Piano Building Workshop is characterized by its sensitivity to site and local tradition as well as by its combination of traditional materials and techniques with those from the cutting edge of technology.
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November 2004, London
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"Emilio Ambasz" is a monograph devoted to the internationally celebrated architect and designer who is known for designs that skilfully unite architecture and city landscapes and showcase spatial and urbanistic proposals of an absolute originality. Ambasz creates urban complexes that rise like volcanoes of glass-works of architecture that are natural landscapes and(...)
Emilio Ambasz : a technological Arcadia
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"Emilio Ambasz" is a monograph devoted to the internationally celebrated architect and designer who is known for designs that skilfully unite architecture and city landscapes and showcase spatial and urbanistic proposals of an absolute originality. Ambasz creates urban complexes that rise like volcanoes of glass-works of architecture that are natural landscapes and gardens that turn into artificial mechanisms. This monograph documents the creative world of this New York-based architect-designer in both large- and small-scale designs: from the crystalline complex of the San Antonio Botanical Center in Texas (1982) to the Aqua Dove Mineral Water Bottle and an opaque and granite office tower in Phoenix (1998). Ambasz is a master designer at the height of his genius and this book focuses on his more recent works throughout North America.
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