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This monograph is the first to document all of the built work by Morphosis, a Los Angeles-based practice headed by Thom Mayne and one of the most influential architecture firms of the past twenty years. Morphosis's unconventional geometries, sculptural models and complex, computer-generated drawings helped to usher in a new era of architectural experimentation in the(...)
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This monograph is the first to document all of the built work by Morphosis, a Los Angeles-based practice headed by Thom Mayne and one of the most influential architecture firms of the past twenty years. Morphosis's unconventional geometries, sculptural models and complex, computer-generated drawings helped to usher in a new era of architectural experimentation in the early 1980's. This book is comprised of bold, documentary-style colour photographs of thirty-five completed buildings presented in an almost cinematic layout, and publishes for the first time together all of Morphosis's completed work, from the early residential and restaurant projects in Los Angeles to the most recent large-scale work beyond California and the United States in Canada, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Austria. Thom Mayne founded Morphosis in 1972 in partnership with Michael Rotondi, who now has his own firm. Over the past twenty years, Mayne's academic posts have included teaching positions at Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.
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The book looks at the cultural and architectural context in which Behrens worked, his early career, and the relation of his own house in Darmstadt to his ideal of a society where life is formed as art. It also looks at his directorship of the School of Arts and Crafts in Düsseldorf, where he drew on the work of such brilliant historiographers of art and architecture as(...)
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October 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Peter Behrens and a new architecture for the twentieth century
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The book looks at the cultural and architectural context in which Behrens worked, his early career, and the relation of his own house in Darmstadt to his ideal of a society where life is formed as art. It also looks at his directorship of the School of Arts and Crafts in Düsseldorf, where he drew on the work of such brilliant historiographers of art and architecture as Alois Riegl and August Schmarsow. In his conclusion, Anderson considers Behrens' melancholy in the face of modern industrial society and his avoidance of a direct address of life, despite, or rather because of, his professed commitment to express life as art.
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Ce livre est composé de témoignages adressés à l'architecte Claude Parent à l'occasion de son anniversaire et publié au moment de son entrée à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts. / This book comprises a collection of tributes to the architect Claude Parent on the occasion of his birthday and is published to coincide with his induction into the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
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October 2006, Paris
Claude Parent vu par . . . : 50 témoignages du monde entier
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Ce livre est composé de témoignages adressés à l'architecte Claude Parent à l'occasion de son anniversaire et publié au moment de son entrée à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts. / This book comprises a collection of tributes to the architect Claude Parent on the occasion of his birthday and is published to coincide with his induction into the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
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Architecte, urbaniste et design d'origine polonaise, Constantin Brodzki, né à Rome en 1924, a fait ses études d'architecture à Bruxelles et s'est formé à New York, après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Il a réalisé en Belgique une œuvre significative qui se distingue dans la production du Modernisme des années' 50 à 90, par sa rigueur et son caractère anticipateur. Le(...)
Constantin Brodzki : architecte
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Architecte, urbaniste et design d'origine polonaise, Constantin Brodzki, né à Rome en 1924, a fait ses études d'architecture à Bruxelles et s'est formé à New York, après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Il a réalisé en Belgique une œuvre significative qui se distingue dans la production du Modernisme des années' 50 à 90, par sa rigueur et son caractère anticipateur. Le présent ouvrage est le fruit d'une thèse universitaire réalisée par Gertjan Hoste et complétée par le regard et les commentaires de deux éminents architectes et critiques d'architecture : Albert Bontridder et Pierre Loze.
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April 2004, Sprimont
Architecture Monographs
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For many architects he is a landmark - Jean Prouvé, creator of the metal curtain wall, pioneer in its application and early initiator of industrialised building techniques. His unfailing ability to combine functional engineering achievements with artistic sensitivity commands recognition. The period covered in this latest volume is significant in many respects. The(...)
Jean Prouvé : oeuvres complete /complete works, Volume 3 : 1944-1954
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For many architects he is a landmark - Jean Prouvé, creator of the metal curtain wall, pioneer in its application and early initiator of industrialised building techniques. His unfailing ability to combine functional engineering achievements with artistic sensitivity commands recognition. The period covered in this latest volume is significant in many respects. The post-war years placed enormous demands on housing and school construction. In his Maxéville factory Prouvé developed pre-fabricated housing, facade panelling, light filtering and other systems on a large scale. He was inspired by the works of the automobile and aeronautics industry, developing new applications for aluminium, which he presented in the 1954 Aluminium Centenary Pavilion. Moreover, Prouvé's furnitures of this period have become valuable collectors' items, some of which are now being reissued under licence.
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September 2004, Basel
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Herzog & de Meuron 1978-2002
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This "Special Edition" from a+u includes essays by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron as well as Toyo Ito. Projects illustrated include: Prada, Tokyo; Walker Art Center, Expansion of the Museum and Cultural Center; new de Young Museum; Schaulager for the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation; Cottbus University Library; Centro Cultural - Museum and Cultural Centre;(...)
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January 1900, Tokyo
Herzog & de Meuron 1978-2002
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This "Special Edition" from a+u includes essays by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron as well as Toyo Ito. Projects illustrated include: Prada, Tokyo; Walker Art Center, Expansion of the Museum and Cultural Center; new de Young Museum; Schaulager for the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation; Cottbus University Library; Centro Cultural - Museum and Cultural Centre; The New Link Quai in Santa Cruz de Tenerife/Plaza de Espana; Kramlich Residence and Media Collection; The Virtual House; St. Jakob Park Basel; Football Stadium, Commercial Centre and Residence for Elderly People; Wood House; Greek Orthodox Church. Completed works include the following: Blue House; Stone House; Apartment and Commercial Building, Schutzenmattstrasse; Apartment Building along a Party Wall, Hebelstrasse; E,D,E,N, Pavilion; Ricola Storage Building; Railway Engine Depot, Auf dem Wolf; Signal Box, Auf dem Wolf; Gallery for a Private Collection of Modern Art, Goetz Collection; Ricola-Europe SA. Production and Storage Building; Roche Pharma-Research Building; Library of the Eberswalde Technical School; Central Signal Tower; Tate Modern; House in Leymen; Caricature and Cartoon Museum - conversion and new building; Institute for Hospital Pharmaceuticals, Rossetti Grounds; Studio Rémy Zaugg; Dominus Winery; Apartment Buildings, Rue des Suisses; Küppersmühle Museum - Grothe Collection; Ricola Marketing Building.
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January 1900, Tokyo
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This publication offers a view of Steven Holl's spectacular buildings, with a particular eye to their sculptural expressiveness, the materials used, compositional elements, and the way light is handled. Essays by Dietmar Steiner (director of the Architekturzentrum in Vienna), Yehuda Safran (professor at Columbia University, New York) and Wolf Prix (architect, Vienna) shed(...)
Steven Holl : idea and phenomena
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This publication offers a view of Steven Holl's spectacular buildings, with a particular eye to their sculptural expressiveness, the materials used, compositional elements, and the way light is handled. Essays by Dietmar Steiner (director of the Architekturzentrum in Vienna), Yehuda Safran (professor at Columbia University, New York) and Wolf Prix (architect, Vienna) shed light on the process of moving from idea to phenomenon, from the first sketch - in this case from Steven Holl's water-colour drawings - to construction.
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Photographer Fi McGhee’s record of the conversion of a Dutch barn in Essex by architect, John Pawson. A five year project which incorporated eighteenth-century solidity with 21st century design.
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Luis Barragan
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Extensive monograph on the Mexican architect Luis Barragan. This book presents a large number of remaining works by Barragan photographed in colour. Ahead of his time, Barragan is said to have renovated the ’Mediterranean-Spanish style’ where colour and texture play a very important part, as do the gardens that accompany the architecture.
Luis Barragan
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Extensive monograph on the Mexican architect Luis Barragan. This book presents a large number of remaining works by Barragan photographed in colour. Ahead of his time, Barragan is said to have renovated the ’Mediterranean-Spanish style’ where colour and texture play a very important part, as do the gardens that accompany the architecture.
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January 1900, Tokyo
Architecture Monographs
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Henri Sauvage (1873-1932) s’affirme comme comme l’un des rares architectes à avoir parcouru l’arc créatif qui va de l’Art nouveau au Style international. Déterminé dans sa vocation d’architecte et de décorateur par la lecture de Viollet-le-Duc et par son amitié avec le sculpteur Alexandre Charpentier et l’architecte Frantz Jourdain, Sauvage réalise plusieurs œuvres dont(...)
Henri Sauvage ou l'exercice du renouvellement
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Henri Sauvage (1873-1932) s’affirme comme comme l’un des rares architectes à avoir parcouru l’arc créatif qui va de l’Art nouveau au Style international. Déterminé dans sa vocation d’architecte et de décorateur par la lecture de Viollet-le-Duc et par son amitié avec le sculpteur Alexandre Charpentier et l’architecte Frantz Jourdain, Sauvage réalise plusieurs œuvres dont la Villa Majorelle à Nancy, qui le consacre dès 1904 comme un des maîtres de l’Art nouveau. Associé de 1902 à 1916 à Charles Sarazin (1873-1950), il réalise des groupes d’habitations à bon marché ainsi que des immeubles de rapport et plusieurs établissements hôteliers. Les deux architectes ouvrent des succursales en France, en Espagne et au Mexique. Le célèbre immeuble revêtu de carrelages “métro” du 26 rue Vavin est réalisé selon un brevet déposé en 1912. Il sera suivi de la construction des nouveaux magasins de La Samaritaine et des grands magasins Decré à Nantes, un tour de force architectural en verre et métal érigé en trois mois.
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