East : expressing interest
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East is an award winning architecture, landscape and urban design practice established in London since 1995. "We are interested in places, uses and the way they come about. By places we mean cities, spaces within them, buildings, and landscapes. Our work has come to be internationally recognised for a patient and innovative role in adjusting and improving the urban(...)
East : expressing interest
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East is an award winning architecture, landscape and urban design practice established in London since 1995. "We are interested in places, uses and the way they come about. By places we mean cities, spaces within them, buildings, and landscapes. Our work has come to be internationally recognised for a patient and innovative role in adjusting and improving the urban fabric and its uses. A careful understanding and documentation of places as they are found, their spatial relationships, colour, smell, materiality help our development and judgement of design." Illustrated with drawings and photographs, the 14 projects described in the book vary in many ways. Architecturally they may have little in common, but what they share is an engagement with their place, and demonstrate that our primary motivation as architects is not to design architecture, but to discover, prescribe and give shape to the need for it. With an introduction by Jonathan Sergison, the book includes essays by Kieran Long, Julian Lewis, Dann Jessen and Judith Losing. http://www.east.uk.com/
Architecture Monographs
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La prégnance de l'UFR de chimie Lavoisier tient à l'alliance subtile de ses matériaux et à sa fusion spatiale avec la Zac Masséna. Ouvert sur la future avenue de France, ce bâtiment intègre un passage public, le premier du genre sur ce campus parisien. La force architecturale de cette université oxygène et magnifie les perspectives du quartier en devenir.
L'UFR de chimie Paris VIII: Agence X-TU
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La prégnance de l'UFR de chimie Lavoisier tient à l'alliance subtile de ses matériaux et à sa fusion spatiale avec la Zac Masséna. Ouvert sur la future avenue de France, ce bâtiment intègre un passage public, le premier du genre sur ce campus parisien. La force architecturale de cette université oxygène et magnifie les perspectives du quartier en devenir.
Architecture Monographs
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Le parcours auquel nous invitent Jean Léonard et Martine Weissmann est fait de conviction et de discrétion, de simplicité des formes et du refus de la facilité, du sens du contexte et d'un étonnant plaisir de raconter. C'est à Danièle Pauly, historienne de l'architecture, qu'ils ont confiée la genèse de leur réflexion. Et c'est avec le sociologue Jean-Michel léger qu'ils(...)
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Tempo urbain: Léonard & Weissmann
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Le parcours auquel nous invitent Jean Léonard et Martine Weissmann est fait de conviction et de discrétion, de simplicité des formes et du refus de la facilité, du sens du contexte et d'un étonnant plaisir de raconter. C'est à Danièle Pauly, historienne de l'architecture, qu'ils ont confiée la genèse de leur réflexion. Et c'est avec le sociologue Jean-Michel léger qu'ils ont débattu du désir de construire et du plaisir d'habiter. Tous deux enseignants dans les écoles d'architecture, ils sont très engagés dans les réflexions environnementales en milieu urbain dense et ils ont contribué à ce titre au concours sur le Grand Paris dans l'équipe constituée autour de MVRDV.
Architecture Monographs
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Advocating nothing short of a new approach to organic architecture, Kuma’s vision that is presented here has been born out of decades of research and practice. This timely, compact edition presents a collection of works and projects, research and competition entries, both small and large scale, that consistently embrace exciting structural and material solutions in their(...)
Studies in organic Kengo Kuma & associates
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Advocating nothing short of a new approach to organic architecture, Kuma’s vision that is presented here has been born out of decades of research and practice. This timely, compact edition presents a collection of works and projects, research and competition entries, both small and large scale, that consistently embrace exciting structural and material solutions in their designs. Introduced with an essay by Kuma, the edition is clearly presented with colour images, technical drawings and explanatory texts, and features designs for the ICC in The Hague; Tiffany & Co, Tokyo; the FRAC, Marseille; the Cavamarket Headquarters, Campania; and the Granada Performing Arts Centre, Granada; alongside other museums, resorts, private residences, pavilions, tea-houses, and monuments.
Architecture Monographs
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Norman Foster is responsible for a dozen or more of the most recognisable buildings of the last thirty years. Under his driven leadership, what is now called Foster and Partners has grown to an international firm with almost 1,000 employees, building astonishing constructions all over the world. Deyan Sudjic explores the nature of the impact that he has had on(...)
Norman Foster: a life in architecture
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Norman Foster is responsible for a dozen or more of the most recognisable buildings of the last thirty years. Under his driven leadership, what is now called Foster and Partners has grown to an international firm with almost 1,000 employees, building astonishing constructions all over the world. Deyan Sudjic explores the nature of the impact that he has had on architecture, and on the contemporary city. It traces his remarkable journey from the backstreets of Manchester, the determination with which he has built a global architectural practice, and his huge creative impact on what we see around us.
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Loving Frank
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for(...)
Loving Frank
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives. In this novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America’s greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney’s profound influence on Wright.
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Architecture Monographs
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The Media-ICT building is designed to be a communications hub and meeting point for businesses and institutions in the world of information and communication technologies (ICTs), as well as for the media and audio-visual sectors.
Enric Ruiz Geli, Cloud 9: Media-ICT Building
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The Media-ICT building is designed to be a communications hub and meeting point for businesses and institutions in the world of information and communication technologies (ICTs), as well as for the media and audio-visual sectors.
Architecture Monographs
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In 20 years of practice, structural engineering firm Atelier One has gained an international reputation for specialising in challenging projects. This first volume documents the inspiring diversity of Atelier One’s work and charts the fascinating creative pursuits undertaken with artists, architects and designers, including Marc Quinn, Anish Kapoor, Will Alsop, Mark(...)
Atelier One : liquid threshold
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In 20 years of practice, structural engineering firm Atelier One has gained an international reputation for specialising in challenging projects. This first volume documents the inspiring diversity of Atelier One’s work and charts the fascinating creative pursuits undertaken with artists, architects and designers, including Marc Quinn, Anish Kapoor, Will Alsop, Mark Fisher and Softroom. The book includes appreciations of the work from an external perspective, including a previously unpublished photo essay by Magnum photographer Peter Marlow. More detailed project descriptions are provided by Atelier One directors Neil Thomas and Aran Chadwick, giving unparalleled insights into how the projects evolved and how various challenges were addressed. Contributors include Will Alsop,Patrick Bellew, Alan Brookes,Peter Cook,and Peter Marlow.
Architecture Monographs
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Cette monographie consacrée à Claude Parent, l’architecte de la fonction oblique, est éditée à l’occasion de l’exposition présentée à la Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine. Cet ouvrage retrace cinquante ans d’innovations, dans lesquelles infusent les concepts élaborés au fil d’un incessant travail de recherche.
Claude Parent: l'oeuvre construite / l'oeuvre graphique
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Cette monographie consacrée à Claude Parent, l’architecte de la fonction oblique, est éditée à l’occasion de l’exposition présentée à la Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine. Cet ouvrage retrace cinquante ans d’innovations, dans lesquelles infusent les concepts élaborés au fil d’un incessant travail de recherche.
Architecture Monographs
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This book documents David Chipperfield's most important project to date: the Neues Museum, centerpiece of the Berlin Museumsinsel. Photographs taken in natural light by Candida Hofer show the rooms after their completion and before they were furnished. Hofer's images are complemented by texts from well-known architects, architectural historians, art historians and(...)
Neues Museum Berlin, David Chipperfield architects
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This book documents David Chipperfield's most important project to date: the Neues Museum, centerpiece of the Berlin Museumsinsel. Photographs taken in natural light by Candida Hofer show the rooms after their completion and before they were furnished. Hofer's images are complemented by texts from well-known architects, architectural historians, art historians and conservation architects highlighting the fundamental principles of the project. An interview with David Chipperfield gives insight into the problems surrounding the work.
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