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In 1947, shortly after India gained independence, the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru initiated a vast plan of modernization throughout the country, during which Chandigarh became the administrative capital of the Punjab province. Nehru commissioned Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret to construct this capital from scratch, with the sole instruction that they should(...)
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October 2014
Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret: Chandigarh, India
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In 1947, shortly after India gained independence, the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru initiated a vast plan of modernization throughout the country, during which Chandigarh became the administrative capital of the Punjab province. Nehru commissioned Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret to construct this capital from scratch, with the sole instruction that they should be expressive and experimental and should not let themselves be hindered by tradition. Illustrated with photographs dating from the time period to the present, this book documents the architectural project and the production of the furniture, offering a definitive summary of this epic modernist enterprise. A further chapter is dedicated to the work of Lucien Hervé, the famous architectural photographer who depicted the city extensively.
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Cette monographie actualisée, illustrée de photographies, de dessins et de plans, couvre toute la carrière de Piano jusqu'à ce jour, et toutes les expressions de sa singulière esthétique. Elle comprend de nouvelles photos de l’aile moderne de l’Art Institute de Chicago, de l’extension du Kimbelle Art Museum de Fort Worth, au Texas, ainsi qu’un avant-goût des projets qui(...)
Piano: complete works, 1966-2014
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Cette monographie actualisée, illustrée de photographies, de dessins et de plans, couvre toute la carrière de Piano jusqu'à ce jour, et toutes les expressions de sa singulière esthétique. Elle comprend de nouvelles photos de l’aile moderne de l’Art Institute de Chicago, de l’extension du Kimbelle Art Museum de Fort Worth, au Texas, ainsi qu’un avant-goût des projets qui l’occupent aujourd’hui, comme le Valetta City Gate de La Valette, à Malte.
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The 2014 Serpentine Pavilion is designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radic (born 1965) as a multipurpose social space with a café. A semi-translucent, cylindrical structure that resembles a shell and rests on large quarry stones, its torus-shaped fiberglass shell resembles the cast-off chrysalis of some bulbous insect.
Architecture Monographs
November 2014
Smiljan Radic : Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2014
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The 2014 Serpentine Pavilion is designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radic (born 1965) as a multipurpose social space with a café. A semi-translucent, cylindrical structure that resembles a shell and rests on large quarry stones, its torus-shaped fiberglass shell resembles the cast-off chrysalis of some bulbous insect.
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Les Unités perdues
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Sous forme d’évocations brèves et laconiques, Henri Lefebvre dresse une liste d’œuvres inachevées, disparues, oubliées, détruites ou parfois même jamais réalisées. Cet inventaire des manques s’élève en une mélopée incantatoire qui, l’espace d’un instant, rend présentes ces « unités » perdues pour l’histoire de la création et de la pensée humaines. Mais son(...)
Les Unités perdues
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Sous forme d’évocations brèves et laconiques, Henri Lefebvre dresse une liste d’œuvres inachevées, disparues, oubliées, détruites ou parfois même jamais réalisées. Cet inventaire des manques s’élève en une mélopée incantatoire qui, l’espace d’un instant, rend présentes ces « unités » perdues pour l’histoire de la création et de la pensée humaines. Mais son véritable pouvoir est de faire œuvre nouvelle, récitatif dont le rythme résonne en nous comme celui d’une unité retrouvée.
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Les restes: prototype
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Du mois d’août 2001 au mois d’août 2010, l’auteur a disposé dans un tableau les suppressions effectuées lors de la correction d’œuvres en cours d’écriture – proses (fictions, notes, essais) ou poésie. Le présent ouvrage est constitué d’extraits de ce tableau. Sont ainsi retenus en un même lieu des ponctuations, des mots, des paragraphes, lambeaux textuels(...)
September 2014
Les restes: prototype
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Du mois d’août 2001 au mois d’août 2010, l’auteur a disposé dans un tableau les suppressions effectuées lors de la correction d’œuvres en cours d’écriture – proses (fictions, notes, essais) ou poésie. Le présent ouvrage est constitué d’extraits de ce tableau. Sont ainsi retenus en un même lieu des ponctuations, des mots, des paragraphes, lambeaux textuels initialement voués à la perte. Cet amalgame compose une œuvre de nature imprécise où se maintient, autrement, ce que l’auteur voulait effacer.
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According to Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda, who founded their office in 2008, “For us, building a structure resembles the weaving of a story. A thrilling fantasy begins in the familiar world around us, but then, at some point, carries us off to another world altogether.” Eight architectural projects, both completed works and ongoing concepts, are introduced in this book.(...)
Onishimaki + Hyakudayuki architects / o + h 8 stories
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According to Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda, who founded their office in 2008, “For us, building a structure resembles the weaving of a story. A thrilling fantasy begins in the familiar world around us, but then, at some point, carries us off to another world altogether.” Eight architectural projects, both completed works and ongoing concepts, are introduced in this book. Each has a story that begins with a detailed illustration serving as an index of the diverse elements of the design process and then moves into specifics regarding some of these elements using many models, photos and text. Includes essays by the architects and a conversation with Ryue Nishizawa.
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In this large-format book, photographer Yukio Futagawa recounts his pilgrimage to Le Corbusier’s modernist villa in Ahmedabad, India, built between 1951-56. A symbol of the architect’s domestic architecture, the private residence integrates traditional features of local design, such as the double-height living room on the ground level, with key aspects like sun, wind and(...)
Le Corbusier : Sodan House, Ahmedabad, India, 1951-56
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In this large-format book, photographer Yukio Futagawa recounts his pilgrimage to Le Corbusier’s modernist villa in Ahmedabad, India, built between 1951-56. A symbol of the architect’s domestic architecture, the private residence integrates traditional features of local design, such as the double-height living room on the ground level, with key aspects like sun, wind and landscaping. The raw concrete form frames the open character of its interior spaces and the overall plan, a five-level cube divided by beams and slabs.
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Saarinen houses
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Saarinen Houses presents seventeen houses built over a span of six decades, in Finland and the United States. From Eliel's early twentieth-century Villa Pulkanranta— an eclectic mix of local Finnish design traditions and international influences—to Eero's Miller House, one of the most significant examples of modern domestic architecture in the United States, each project(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2014
Saarinen houses
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Saarinen Houses presents seventeen houses built over a span of six decades, in Finland and the United States. From Eliel's early twentieth-century Villa Pulkanranta— an eclectic mix of local Finnish design traditions and international influences—to Eero's Miller House, one of the most significant examples of modern domestic architecture in the United States, each project features original drawings and archival photos, as well as new interior and exterior shots. Featuring carefully designed interiors—often with custom-made furniture—they effortlessly merge with the landscape, and reward residents with exciting views, inviting nooks, and opulent furnishings.
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MOS: selected works
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Their work has been described as experimental and innovative, qualities front-and-center in their previous collection Everything All at Once. In just ten years, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample have established MOS as one of the leading young architecture practices in the country. Selected Works, the first monograph on the built work of the New York–based firm, follows(...)
MOS: selected works
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Their work has been described as experimental and innovative, qualities front-and-center in their previous collection Everything All at Once. In just ten years, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample have established MOS as one of the leading young architecture practices in the country. Selected Works, the first monograph on the built work of the New York–based firm, follows the design studio's evolution from their earliest works to their most celebrated houses and institutional buildings. The thirty-two projects featured range from the sophisticated to the absurd—from the serene Floating House in Ontario, Canada, and the sustainable Kathmandu Orphanage in Nepal to the playful puppet theater at Harvard's Carpenter Center and the appropriately named Rainbow Vomit installation in New York, a digital, interactive, computational heap of building blocks in a constant state of near collapse. The collection also includes a selection of the couple's unorthodox writings, including their satirical "Office Policy" employee manual.
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Andrea Palladio is unquestionably the most important architect in the Western world: his carefully proportioned, pedimented designs are the foundations for most single-family homes and public buildings in the United States and Europe. In 1776, architect and scholar Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi began documenting and analyzing Palladio's designs, which were published in four(...)
The buildings and designs of Andrea Palladio
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Andrea Palladio is unquestionably the most important architect in the Western world: his carefully proportioned, pedimented designs are the foundations for most single-family homes and public buildings in the United States and Europe. In 1776, architect and scholar Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi began documenting and analyzing Palladio's designs, which were published in four volumes as Le fabbriche e i disegni di Andrea Palladio. Gathered together here for the first time in English in a single volume, The Buildings and Designs of Andrea Palladio is the complete works of Palladio, from his well-known villas of the Veneto to his lesser-known engineering structures, such as bridges. Featuring the highest quality printing and binding, this large-format stunner features more than two hundred reproductions and showcases Palladio's designs for villas, churches, and civic buildings, and for the first time, the English translation of Scamozzi's introduction to Palladio's remarkable oeuvre.
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