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A clear and comprehensive portrait of the practice of Tokyo-based architect. Hiroshi Kikuchi spans more than 130 pages of anecdotal texts, architectural drawings and full-colour photographs of both buildings and nature.
Hiroshi Kikuchi : Basso Continuo
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A clear and comprehensive portrait of the practice of Tokyo-based architect. Hiroshi Kikuchi spans more than 130 pages of anecdotal texts, architectural drawings and full-colour photographs of both buildings and nature.
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Never Modern: 6a architects
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In Never Modern, Irenee Scalbert explores the role of narrative, history, and appropriation in the works of the London-based firm 6a Architects, whose recent projects include the South London Gallery, Raven Row, and the new fashion galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Never Modern: 6a architects
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In Never Modern, Irenee Scalbert explores the role of narrative, history, and appropriation in the works of the London-based firm 6a Architects, whose recent projects include the South London Gallery, Raven Row, and the new fashion galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Rising dramatically above the Swiss landscape surrounding the well-known resort Flims - Laax - Falera, Jurg Conzett's unique mountain trail contains seven bridges crossing a wild stream. An internationally renowned civil engineer, Conzett has brought his considerable talent and experience to this project and the results are groundbreaking and visually appealing. Each(...)
Trutg dil Flem: Seven Bridges by Jurg Conzett
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Rising dramatically above the Swiss landscape surrounding the well-known resort Flims - Laax - Falera, Jurg Conzett's unique mountain trail contains seven bridges crossing a wild stream. An internationally renowned civil engineer, Conzett has brought his considerable talent and experience to this project and the results are groundbreaking and visually appealing. Each bridge uses a different type of construction and building method depending on the specific geographic features of its location.Wilfried Dechau has catalogued the project with over one-hundred previously unpublished images of the bridges and their surrounding landscape.
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This monograph sheds light on the little-known work of the idiosyncratic Dutch architect Gert Boon (1921 – 2009), who throughout his career sought coherence through geometry. Boon, who belonged to the same Forum generation as Aldo van Eyck, Herman Hertzberger and Piet Blom, had quite definite views on architecture, but he rarely gave voice to them other than in his(...)
Gert Boon
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This monograph sheds light on the little-known work of the idiosyncratic Dutch architect Gert Boon (1921 – 2009), who throughout his career sought coherence through geometry. Boon, who belonged to the same Forum generation as Aldo van Eyck, Herman Hertzberger and Piet Blom, had quite definite views on architecture, but he rarely gave voice to them other than in his designs and his buildings.
Architecture Monographs
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This publication looks at the concept of appropriation and how Johnson's style was influenced first by his mentor, Mies van der Rohe, and then by post-modern ideas and artists. Charting his career through the 1980s and beyond, this title serves to review Johnson's body of work and show that, far from being a weakness, his use of appropriation was a major part of his(...)
Philip Johnson and his mischief: appropriation in art and architecture
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This publication looks at the concept of appropriation and how Johnson's style was influenced first by his mentor, Mies van der Rohe, and then by post-modern ideas and artists. Charting his career through the 1980s and beyond, this title serves to review Johnson's body of work and show that, far from being a weakness, his use of appropriation was a major part of his innovative success.
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This book shapes a thick network of experiences and crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years in the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo. In its pages there are mixed reflections, anecdotes and creations that shape an exciting cocktail between living, thinking and creating.Topics like the origin and the memory, the soul and the precision, the(...)
Create!
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This book shapes a thick network of experiences and crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years in the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo. In its pages there are mixed reflections, anecdotes and creations that shape an exciting cocktail between living, thinking and creating.Topics like the origin and the memory, the soul and the precision, the random and the instability, the empathy, the instants and the choice, the hybridization and the blurry systems, the cloning, the invisible orders and the essential complexity or the combination of matter and energy turn out to be here interlaced.
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Barkow Leibinger
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The works presented in this volume by American/German architectural team Barkow Leibinger range from prototypes and installations to buildings such as the recently completed Tour Total, in which form and space evolve by means of the handling of material and new technologies and tools.
Barkow Leibinger
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The works presented in this volume by American/German architectural team Barkow Leibinger range from prototypes and installations to buildings such as the recently completed Tour Total, in which form and space evolve by means of the handling of material and new technologies and tools.
Architecture Monographs
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A l'âge de vingt-quatre ans, Le Corbusier entreprend son mythique "voyage d'Orient". Parti de Berlin, il traverse les Balkans, la Turquie, la Grèce et l'Italie avant de terminer son parcours à La Chaux-de-Fonds. Son itinérance le conduit vers les sites et les monuments les plus célèbres et lui permet de découvrir les traditions et folklores des régions traversées. Au(...)
L'invention d'un architecte: le voyage en Orient de Le Corbusier
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A l'âge de vingt-quatre ans, Le Corbusier entreprend son mythique "voyage d'Orient". Parti de Berlin, il traverse les Balkans, la Turquie, la Grèce et l'Italie avant de terminer son parcours à La Chaux-de-Fonds. Son itinérance le conduit vers les sites et les monuments les plus célèbres et lui permet de découvrir les traditions et folklores des régions traversées. Au cours du voyage, il réalise plus de trois cents dessins, remplit six carnets de croquis, prend plus de quatre cents photographies et écrit des centaines de lettres à ses parents et à ses amis. Il en rédige le récit qui ne sera finalement publié qu'en 1966, sous le titre Le voyage d'Orient.
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This monograph documents the holistic nature of the design philosophy established by Tel Aviv-based architects Irene Kronenberg and Alon Baranowitz, where space, form and materials are expressly employed to enhance human experience and social interaction. Incorporating culture, time and place in the design process is fundamental to their approach. In this book, the(...)
Baranowitz Kronenberg Architecture: the practice
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This monograph documents the holistic nature of the design philosophy established by Tel Aviv-based architects Irene Kronenberg and Alon Baranowitz, where space, form and materials are expressly employed to enhance human experience and social interaction. Incorporating culture, time and place in the design process is fundamental to their approach. In this book, the architects offer a personal analysis of the thinking behind seven of their projects, illustrated by extensive plans, models and photos. Included are the Tel Aviv restaurants Jaffa Tel Aviv and Deca, the Israel Museum shop, Amsterdam’s Palace Hotel and Sir Albert Hotel and Izakaya, and Villa Pi.
Architecture Monographs
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This monograph covers more than a decade of work by Japanese architect Hiroshi Naito, known especially for the Toba Sea-Folk Museum. The book details fifteen projects through photos, drawings, texts and a complete chronology. Naito contributes an insightful, personal essay about his search over the years and in times of crisis to become inspired; to give value to people(...)
Hiroshi Naito (1992-2004): from protoform to protoscape 1
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This monograph covers more than a decade of work by Japanese architect Hiroshi Naito, known especially for the Toba Sea-Folk Museum. The book details fifteen projects through photos, drawings, texts and a complete chronology. Naito contributes an insightful, personal essay about his search over the years and in times of crisis to become inspired; to give value to people through the creation of meaningful architecture able to serve society long into the future. Valuable perspectives on his outlook and craft emerge. Other featured works include private houses, Tokamachi Public Library, Makina Museum of Plants and People, and Chihiro Art Museum in Tokyo.
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