Alvar Aalto: sunila 1936-54
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Among the main sources of Aalto's extensive output were commissions he obtained from Finnish industrialists, especially people in the wood and paper industries. These projects were extensive and multi-faceted, involving not only factories but office and residential buildings. Aalto's industrial architecture ranged from extensive neighbourhood planning to villas for upper(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2007, Helsinki
Alvar Aalto: sunila 1936-54
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Among the main sources of Aalto's extensive output were commissions he obtained from Finnish industrialists, especially people in the wood and paper industries. These projects were extensive and multi-faceted, involving not only factories but office and residential buildings. Aalto's industrial architecture ranged from extensive neighbourhood planning to villas for upper management and modest wooden houses for workers. This volume examines Aalto's role in the service of Finnish industry with particular emphasis on the industrial and residential aspects of the Sunila project.
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This book presents an overview of the work of Le Corbusier, considered by many to be the most important architect of the twentieth century. Incorporating the most recent scholarly research, it illuminates aspects of his work that are particularly relevant to today's discourse.
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October 2007, Rotterdam
Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture
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This book presents an overview of the work of Le Corbusier, considered by many to be the most important architect of the twentieth century. Incorporating the most recent scholarly research, it illuminates aspects of his work that are particularly relevant to today's discourse.
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Antoni Gaudi's unique naturalistic style has made him one of the most famous architects of all time. But even with that high level of reknown, the impulse behind the Catalan architect/artist s well-known works remains shrouded in mystery. Eminent Dutch architectural historian Jan Molema lifts that veil through an exploration of Gaudi's transformation from architect(...)
Gaudi: the construction of dreams
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Antoni Gaudi's unique naturalistic style has made him one of the most famous architects of all time. But even with that high level of reknown, the impulse behind the Catalan architect/artist s well-known works remains shrouded in mystery. Eminent Dutch architectural historian Jan Molema lifts that veil through an exploration of Gaudi's transformation from architect to self-willed artist. By shedding light on Gaudi's artistic influences such as Art Nouveau, his pioneering use of organic shapes and materials, as well as his all-important structural ingenuity, we come to understand not only what made Gaudi so revolutionary but also what his many buildings mean symbolically.
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December 2007
Architecture Monographs
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Ant Farm manifesto No. 853 bears the title 'Allegorical Time Warp': '... AMERICA, IN AN ALLEGORICAL TIME WARP / USING PRE ELECTRONIC, PRINT AGE TECHNIQUES / WELCOMES RETURNING SPACE HEROES / TICKER TAPE PARADE DOWN FIFTH AVENUE. / ALL I WANT TO DO IS EXPAND MY MIND ...' This book brings together two books bound within a single cover: 'Ant Farm Timeline' and 'Allegorical(...)
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January 2008, New York/Barcelona
Living archive 7: Ant Farm: allegorical time warp: the media fallout of July 21, 1969
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Ant Farm manifesto No. 853 bears the title 'Allegorical Time Warp': '... AMERICA, IN AN ALLEGORICAL TIME WARP / USING PRE ELECTRONIC, PRINT AGE TECHNIQUES / WELCOMES RETURNING SPACE HEROES / TICKER TAPE PARADE DOWN FIFTH AVENUE. / ALL I WANT TO DO IS EXPAND MY MIND ...' This book brings together two books bound within a single cover: 'Ant Farm Timeline' and 'Allegorical Time Warp: The Media Fallout of July 21, 1969'. In addition, the publication includes a small dossier of archival material related to Ant Farm's Truckstop Network project (1970-72). Introduced by Chip Lord, the timeline tells the story of Ant Farm's multifaceted experimental work over 114 pages, in as many full page illustrations of original material. The 'Allegorical Time Warp' by Felicity D. Scott, focused on the period from 1969 to 1972, tracks the transformations of an architectural project articulated simultaneously in open-ended media systems and closed life-support systems. The work of Ant Farm has been an archetype for a younger generation of artist's collectives. This publication offers to be the long awaited source for the material that surviced the fire of the collective's studio in august 1978.
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The Mercedes-Benz Museum makes everyone forget that they are in a museum. None of the problems that make the traditional museum less and less sustainable occur. The works around you belong to no other culture than your own. They are much closer to you and speak more clearly to you than most of today's art.
Architecture Monographs
October 2006, Barcelona
Unstudio: buy me a Mercedes-benz, the book of the museum
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The Mercedes-Benz Museum makes everyone forget that they are in a museum. None of the problems that make the traditional museum less and less sustainable occur. The works around you belong to no other culture than your own. They are much closer to you and speak more clearly to you than most of today's art.
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Chandigarh, destinée lors de l'indépendence de l'Inde à devenir la capitale du Punjab, permet à Le Corbusier de matérialiser ses théories : créer une ville où l'on peut harmonieusement vivre, travailler, développer son corps et son esprit. Actes d'un colloque entièrement consacré à la ville indienne, cette ouvrage invite à une large réflexion sur la question encore non(...)
Chandigarh : la ville indienne de Le Corbusier
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Chandigarh, destinée lors de l'indépendence de l'Inde à devenir la capitale du Punjab, permet à Le Corbusier de matérialiser ses théories : créer une ville où l'on peut harmonieusement vivre, travailler, développer son corps et son esprit. Actes d'un colloque entièrement consacré à la ville indienne, cette ouvrage invite à une large réflexion sur la question encore non résolue de l'achèvement de la place administrative du Capitole. Maquettes, dessins, plans, mais aussi peintures, sculptures et tapisseries rendent compte de cette épopée.
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Succédant à une première monographie publiée en 1988, cet ouvrage fait le point sur l'oeuvre d'Adrien Fainsilber entre 1986 et 2002. Au cours de cette période, l'agence amorce une nouvelle étape avec la création d'AFA, Adrien Fainsilber et associés. Elle s'ouvre sur les images de la Géode et s'achève par la bibliothèque municipale à vocation régionale de Marseille(...)
Adrien Fainsilber & associés / 1986-2002
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Succédant à une première monographie publiée en 1988, cet ouvrage fait le point sur l'oeuvre d'Adrien Fainsilber entre 1986 et 2002. Au cours de cette période, l'agence amorce une nouvelle étape avec la création d'AFA, Adrien Fainsilber et associés. Elle s'ouvre sur les images de la Géode et s'achève par la bibliothèque municipale à vocation régionale de Marseille terminée au printemps 2003. Au total, seize réalisations représentatives des récents travaux de l'architecte sont présentées ici. Leur variété - musées, hôpitaux, bâtiments scolaires et universitaires, logements, bureaux ou schémas d'urbanisme - permet de dégager les principes déterminants de l'oeuvre. Une introduction critique, une bibliographie et une chronologie plus exhaustive complètent l'ouvrage.
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Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan. Masterfully framed by the author's photographs of Sullivanesque buildings in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, Ronald E. Schmitt's in-depth exploration of the Sullivanesque tells the story of its evolution from Sullivan's intellectual and(...)
Architecture Monographs
August 2002, Champaign, Illinois
Sullivanesque : urban architecture and ornamentation
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Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan. Masterfully framed by the author's photographs of Sullivanesque buildings in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, Ronald E. Schmitt's in-depth exploration of the Sullivanesque tells the story of its evolution from Sullivan's intellectual and aesthetic foundations to its place as a form of commercial vernacular. The book also includes an inventory of Sullivanesque buildings.
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Hans Zwimpfer : Peter Meriam Haus Basel - at the interface between art, technology and architecture
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Designed by Zwimpfer Partner Architects in cooperation with the American artist Donald Judd, the Peter Merian house in Basel Switzerland involved artists Hans Danuser, Brigitte Kowanz, Roni Horn, François Morellet, Ursula Mumenthaler, Pipilotti Rist. Beat Zoderer also participated in the project. When architects incorporate art into their projects, when artists involve(...)
Hans Zwimpfer : Peter Meriam Haus Basel - at the interface between art, technology and architecture
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Designed by Zwimpfer Partner Architects in cooperation with the American artist Donald Judd, the Peter Merian house in Basel Switzerland involved artists Hans Danuser, Brigitte Kowanz, Roni Horn, François Morellet, Ursula Mumenthaler, Pipilotti Rist. Beat Zoderer also participated in the project. When architects incorporate art into their projects, when artists involve themselves in the constraints of the construction industry, the results can be immensely fruitful as this striking new building in the Basel cityscape goes to prove.
Architecture Monographs
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In Arlesheim near Basel, Switzerland, the architects Klaus Schuldt and Andreas Scheiwiller have constructed five two-storey villas on a communal plot of land - it is no coincidence that their minimalist appearances are reminiscent of the style developed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the 1920s. Yet it is not just the variation of architectonic elements but also the(...)
Ensemble Habitat : five villas by Klaus Schuldt and Andreas Scheiwiller
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In Arlesheim near Basel, Switzerland, the architects Klaus Schuldt and Andreas Scheiwiller have constructed five two-storey villas on a communal plot of land - it is no coincidence that their minimalist appearances are reminiscent of the style developed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the 1920s. Yet it is not just the variation of architectonic elements but also the arrangement of these houses on this rural site which make "Ensemble Habitat" so interesting. Striking a careful balance between the individual and the general, between diversity and simplicity, this small group of houses can be justifiably considered exemplary.
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