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La médiocrité esthétique et le fonctionnalisme primaire de la reconstruction post 1945 sécrète une crise durable qui affecte l’architecture et l’urbanisme dans l’ensemble du monde occidental. A la "Cité radieuse" des années 1930 succède, au milieu du siècle, une nouvelle utopie la "Mégastructure". Hybride colossal traversant des territoires sans frontières, elle règle du(...)
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La médiocrité esthétique et le fonctionnalisme primaire de la reconstruction post 1945 sécrète une crise durable qui affecte l’architecture et l’urbanisme dans l’ensemble du monde occidental. A la "Cité radieuse" des années 1930 succède, au milieu du siècle, une nouvelle utopie la "Mégastructure". Hybride colossal traversant des territoires sans frontières, elle règle du(...)
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October 2004, Paris
October 2004, Paris
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Superarchitecture : le futur de l'architecture 1950-1970
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La médiocrité esthétique et le fonctionnalisme primaire de la reconstruction post 1945 sécrète une crise durable qui affecte l’architecture et l’urbanisme dans l’ensemble du monde occidental. A la "Cité radieuse" des années 1930 succède, au milieu du siècle, une nouvelle utopie la "Mégastructure". Hybride colossal traversant des territoires sans frontières, elle règle du même élan, et l’architecture, et l’urbanisme, et les infrastructures. Mais l’engouement pour ces grandes machines sensées résoudre les problèmes à l’échelle planétaire s’émousse durant les sixties. La "Mégastructure" cède le pas à l’"Architecture radicale", ce faisant on assiste au basculement d’une approche de l’architecture dont les références sont le besoin et la construction à une autre dont les références sont l’immédiateté et la consommation, les objets mobiles et le plaisir du corps. Cette transformation correspond au passage d’une architecture conçue en terme de progrès social et de bonheur humain, à une architecture de la révélation du monde existant. Première monographie exhaustive sur la période, Superarchitecture est abondamment illustrée à l’aide d’une iconographie originale issue des archives des Smithson, d’Hollein, de Fuller, Friedman, Archigram, Price, Archizoom, Superstudio, etc. De l’utopie critique qui se dégage des projets de ces acteurs et de la puissance évocatrice de leurs dessins, les architectes contemporains comme Koolhaas, Tschumi ou MRDV se sont fortement inspirés pour construire leur univers conceptuel.
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La médiocrité esthétique et le fonctionnalisme primaire de la reconstruction post 1945 sécrète une crise durable qui affecte l’architecture et l’urbanisme dans l’ensemble du monde occidental. A la "Cité radieuse" des années 1930 succède, au milieu du siècle, une nouvelle utopie la "Mégastructure". Hybride colossal traversant des territoires sans frontières, elle règle du même élan, et l’architecture, et l’urbanisme, et les infrastructures. Mais l’engouement pour ces grandes machines sensées résoudre les problèmes à l’échelle planétaire s’émousse durant les sixties. La "Mégastructure" cède le pas à l’"Architecture radicale", ce faisant on assiste au basculement d’une approche de l’architecture dont les références sont le besoin et la construction à une autre dont les références sont l’immédiateté et la consommation, les objets mobiles et le plaisir du corps. Cette transformation correspond au passage d’une architecture conçue en terme de progrès social et de bonheur humain, à une architecture de la révélation du monde existant. Première monographie exhaustive sur la période, Superarchitecture est abondamment illustrée à l’aide d’une iconographie originale issue des archives des Smithson, d’Hollein, de Fuller, Friedman, Archigram, Price, Archizoom, Superstudio, etc. De l’utopie critique qui se dégage des projets de ces acteurs et de la puissance évocatrice de leurs dessins, les architectes contemporains comme Koolhaas, Tschumi ou MRDV se sont fortement inspirés pour construire leur univers conceptuel.
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October 2004, Paris
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London : bread and circuses
London : bread and circuses
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Wherever and whenever state and church, state and autocracy, political and architectural ambition have met and loved one another hungrily, domes have raised their imperious, lofty heads. At once magnificent and messy, old-fashioned and ultra-modern, opulent and squalid, London is something of a mongrel city, cross-bred over the centuries from cut-throat commerce, high(...)
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Wherever and whenever state and church, state and autocracy, political and architectural ambition have met and loved one another hungrily, domes have raised their imperious, lofty heads. At once magnificent and messy, old-fashioned and ultra-modern, opulent and squalid, London is something of a mongrel city, cross-bred over the centuries from cut-throat commerce, high(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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November 2001, London
November 2001, London
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London : bread and circuses
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Wherever and whenever state and church, state and autocracy, political and architectural ambition have met and loved one another hungrily, domes have raised their imperious, lofty heads. At once magnificent and messy, old-fashioned and ultra-modern, opulent and squalid, London is something of a mongrel city, cross-bred over the centuries from cut-throat commerce, high finance and unrestrained creativity. For all its inventiveness, however, it is now also a city unable to provide its citizens with decent public transport, housing or services, beset and betrayed by governments who take from it but refuse to give back. In the lead-up to the much-hyped Millennium, a fortune was spent on lavish building projects—giant wheels, great courts, titanic art galleries, ambitious museums, a Brobdingnagian dome—but little in the way of public services, intelligent urban planning and infrastructure except by default. Has the right kind of money been spent on the wrong sort of projects? Who, in this pluralistic age, will cut through the layers of bureaucracy to restore some of the city’s unruly splendour? In this elegant and polemical book, the architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explores London’s Millennial follies and asks how and where London might now channel its energies. Combining anecdote and analysis with a sustained critique of the way the city is governed and financed, he draws a detailed picture of the state London’s in and speculates on how it might be transformed.
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Wherever and whenever state and church, state and autocracy, political and architectural ambition have met and loved one another hungrily, domes have raised their imperious, lofty heads. At once magnificent and messy, old-fashioned and ultra-modern, opulent and squalid, London is something of a mongrel city, cross-bred over the centuries from cut-throat commerce, high finance and unrestrained creativity. For all its inventiveness, however, it is now also a city unable to provide its citizens with decent public transport, housing or services, beset and betrayed by governments who take from it but refuse to give back. In the lead-up to the much-hyped Millennium, a fortune was spent on lavish building projects—giant wheels, great courts, titanic art galleries, ambitious museums, a Brobdingnagian dome—but little in the way of public services, intelligent urban planning and infrastructure except by default. Has the right kind of money been spent on the wrong sort of projects? Who, in this pluralistic age, will cut through the layers of bureaucracy to restore some of the city’s unruly splendour? In this elegant and polemical book, the architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explores London’s Millennial follies and asks how and where London might now channel its energies. Combining anecdote and analysis with a sustained critique of the way the city is governed and financed, he draws a detailed picture of the state London’s in and speculates on how it might be transformed.
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November 2001, London
November 2001, London
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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This publication attempts to critically present and interpret the urbanisation processes of the contemporary Greek city-- a product of post-War modernisation-- through five fields/constituent conditions: poly-katoikia, poli(s)-katoikia, form-less, border-less, place-less. These are conditions of indeterminacy that seem to establish the difference and, simultaneously, the(...)
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This publication attempts to critically present and interpret the urbanisation processes of the contemporary Greek city-- a product of post-War modernisation-- through five fields/constituent conditions: poly-katoikia, poli(s)-katoikia, form-less, border-less, place-less. These are conditions of indeterminacy that seem to establish the difference and, simultaneously, the(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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January 1900, Athens
January 1900, Athens
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The contemporary (Greek) city
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This publication attempts to critically present and interpret the urbanisation processes of the contemporary Greek city-- a product of post-War modernisation-- through five fields/constituent conditions: poly-katoikia, poli(s)-katoikia, form-less, border-less, place-less. These are conditions of indeterminacy that seem to establish the difference and, simultaneously, the challenge within the new metropolitan landscape. Bilingual publication: Greek-English.
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This publication attempts to critically present and interpret the urbanisation processes of the contemporary Greek city-- a product of post-War modernisation-- through five fields/constituent conditions: poly-katoikia, poli(s)-katoikia, form-less, border-less, place-less. These are conditions of indeterminacy that seem to establish the difference and, simultaneously, the challenge within the new metropolitan landscape. Bilingual publication: Greek-English.
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January 1900, Athens
January 1900, Athens
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Perfect Acts of Architecture
Perfect Acts of Architecture
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Between 1977 and 1987, a sluggish world economy that all but curtailed new building moved the most talented architects into teaching positions. In the academic environment, graphic experimentation proliferated and architects encountered an intellectual scene filled with passionate debates about philosophy, criticism, and social thought. This set the stage for an eruption(...)
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Between 1977 and 1987, a sluggish world economy that all but curtailed new building moved the most talented architects into teaching positions. In the academic environment, graphic experimentation proliferated and architects encountered an intellectual scene filled with passionate debates about philosophy, criticism, and social thought. This set the stage for an eruption(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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September 2001, New York
September 2001, New York
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Perfect Acts of Architecture
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Between 1977 and 1987, a sluggish world economy that all but curtailed new building moved the most talented architects into teaching positions. In the academic environment, graphic experimentation proliferated and architects encountered an intellectual scene filled with passionate debates about philosophy, criticism, and social thought. This set the stage for an eruption of "paper architecture" of incomparable beauty and depth. Perfect Acts of Architecture identifies the preeminent achievements of five architects working during that turbulent period: Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Bernard Tschumi. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
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Between 1977 and 1987, a sluggish world economy that all but curtailed new building moved the most talented architects into teaching positions. In the academic environment, graphic experimentation proliferated and architects encountered an intellectual scene filled with passionate debates about philosophy, criticism, and social thought. This set the stage for an eruption of "paper architecture" of incomparable beauty and depth. Perfect Acts of Architecture identifies the preeminent achievements of five architects working during that turbulent period: Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Bernard Tschumi. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
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September 2001, New York
September 2001, New York
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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In-Ex 02 : customize
In-Ex 02 : customize
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Everywhere we see evidence of standardisation, the serial production of goods and services, uniformity across the globe, and people are beginning to react against this trend. The wish to alter, modify, improve, and distort the standard model is becoming increasingly apparent, and it applies as much to products, building components or plans for town development, as to(...)
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Everywhere we see evidence of standardisation, the serial production of goods and services, uniformity across the globe, and people are beginning to react against this trend. The wish to alter, modify, improve, and distort the standard model is becoming increasingly apparent, and it applies as much to products, building components or plans for town development, as to(...)
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In-Ex 02 : customize
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Everywhere we see evidence of standardisation, the serial production of goods and services, uniformity across the globe, and people are beginning to react against this trend. The wish to alter, modify, improve, and distort the standard model is becoming increasingly apparent, and it applies as much to products, building components or plans for town development, as to cultural commonplaces and rituals. This publication provides reports on some of the rebellious strategies that have been discovered in Paris, Wuppertal, Seoul, and London. Includes interviews with architects in Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Spain, France, and the USA.
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Everywhere we see evidence of standardisation, the serial production of goods and services, uniformity across the globe, and people are beginning to react against this trend. The wish to alter, modify, improve, and distort the standard model is becoming increasingly apparent, and it applies as much to products, building components or plans for town development, as to cultural commonplaces and rituals. This publication provides reports on some of the rebellious strategies that have been discovered in Paris, Wuppertal, Seoul, and London. Includes interviews with architects in Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Spain, France, and the USA.
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December 2001, Basel
December 2001, Basel
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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At last architects have discovered the free form shape – multiple curved surfaces, which do not exist in Cartesian geometry. What has long been usual in product design is now being adopted in architecture, these shapes are being generated by special software, and then they are subsequently built. Some young and innovative architectural firms have seized the(...)
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At last architects have discovered the free form shape – multiple curved surfaces, which do not exist in Cartesian geometry. What has long been usual in product design is now being adopted in architecture, these shapes are being generated by special software, and then they are subsequently built. Some young and innovative architectural firms have seized the(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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August 2001, Basel
August 2001, Basel
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digital / real – blobmeister, first built projects
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At last architects have discovered the free form shape – multiple curved surfaces, which do not exist in Cartesian geometry. What has long been usual in product design is now being adopted in architecture, these shapes are being generated by special software, and then they are subsequently built. Some young and innovative architectural firms have seized the opportunity to expand the boundaries of architectural space, showing a willingness to experiment with the new technology, and these young architects, or "blobmeister" as Wes Jones rather negatively called them, are now moving on to built examples. In this book, 11 examples from Europe, the USA and Japan are presented, showing that far from being out of touch with reality, cyber-architects do transform their dreams into actual buildings, thus concluding the endless alternatives and possibilities implicit in every design. For it is only built architecture which shows true mastery. This volume extensively documents the complex design process, from the digital conception of the designs, the creation of models, to the final photographs of the building sites and the finished structures. Thematic essays give the reader an insight into the history of the digital scene, assessing its influence on architectural culture to date and evaluating its future potential. The accompanying CD-ROM shows dynamic animations.
digital / real – blobmeister, first built projects
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At last architects have discovered the free form shape – multiple curved surfaces, which do not exist in Cartesian geometry. What has long been usual in product design is now being adopted in architecture, these shapes are being generated by special software, and then they are subsequently built. Some young and innovative architectural firms have seized the opportunity to expand the boundaries of architectural space, showing a willingness to experiment with the new technology, and these young architects, or "blobmeister" as Wes Jones rather negatively called them, are now moving on to built examples. In this book, 11 examples from Europe, the USA and Japan are presented, showing that far from being out of touch with reality, cyber-architects do transform their dreams into actual buildings, thus concluding the endless alternatives and possibilities implicit in every design. For it is only built architecture which shows true mastery. This volume extensively documents the complex design process, from the digital conception of the designs, the creation of models, to the final photographs of the building sites and the finished structures. Thematic essays give the reader an insight into the history of the digital scene, assessing its influence on architectural culture to date and evaluating its future potential. The accompanying CD-ROM shows dynamic animations.
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August 2001, Basel
August 2001, Basel
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Nordic architecture
Nordic architecture
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Updated edition of this 1993 book that depicts some of the most important thoughts that have influenced Nordic architecture from the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930 through 2000. English.
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Updated edition of this 1993 book that depicts some of the most important thoughts that have influenced Nordic architecture from the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930 through 2000. English.
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Nordic architecture
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Updated edition of this 1993 book that depicts some of the most important thoughts that have influenced Nordic architecture from the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930 through 2000. English.
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Updated edition of this 1993 book that depicts some of the most important thoughts that have influenced Nordic architecture from the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930 through 2000. English.
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January 2008
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This book considers the roles of primitivism and nationalsim in Belgian Art Nouveau architecture and design. It contextualizes the architecture and and decorative arts produced between 1880 and 1910 within contemporary discussions on solutions to housing and living in the modern era, and examines how the image of the country was tied to a patrimony of handmade goods, the(...)
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This book considers the roles of primitivism and nationalsim in Belgian Art Nouveau architecture and design. It contextualizes the architecture and and decorative arts produced between 1880 and 1910 within contemporary discussions on solutions to housing and living in the modern era, and examines how the image of the country was tied to a patrimony of handmade goods, the(...)
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Art nouveau and the social vision of modern living : Belgian artists in a European context
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This book considers the roles of primitivism and nationalsim in Belgian Art Nouveau architecture and design. It contextualizes the architecture and and decorative arts produced between 1880 and 1910 within contemporary discussions on solutions to housing and living in the modern era, and examines how the image of the country was tied to a patrimony of handmade goods, the housing tradition of the peasant, and the modernity of the garden city.
Art nouveau and the social vision of modern living : Belgian artists in a European context
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This book considers the roles of primitivism and nationalsim in Belgian Art Nouveau architecture and design. It contextualizes the architecture and and decorative arts produced between 1880 and 1910 within contemporary discussions on solutions to housing and living in the modern era, and examines how the image of the country was tied to a patrimony of handmade goods, the housing tradition of the peasant, and the modernity of the garden city.
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January 1900, Cambridge
January 1900, Cambridge
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Flux structure
Flux structure
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In the international field of contemporary structural design, the theme has now become the creation of new three-dimensional architectural structures that possess free, complex, mutable, fluid and organic characteristics. Here Mutsuro Sasaki provides an introduction to the work and challenges that structural engineers face through an examination of six collaborative(...)
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In the international field of contemporary structural design, the theme has now become the creation of new three-dimensional architectural structures that possess free, complex, mutable, fluid and organic characteristics. Here Mutsuro Sasaki provides an introduction to the work and challenges that structural engineers face through an examination of six collaborative(...)
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Flux structure
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In the international field of contemporary structural design, the theme has now become the creation of new three-dimensional architectural structures that possess free, complex, mutable, fluid and organic characteristics. Here Mutsuro Sasaki provides an introduction to the work and challenges that structural engineers face through an examination of six collaborative projects with three exemplary Japanese architects – Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito and SANAA.
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In the international field of contemporary structural design, the theme has now become the creation of new three-dimensional architectural structures that possess free, complex, mutable, fluid and organic characteristics. Here Mutsuro Sasaki provides an introduction to the work and challenges that structural engineers face through an examination of six collaborative projects with three exemplary Japanese architects – Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito and SANAA.
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September 2005, Tokyo
September 2005, Tokyo
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Exhaustive guide book providing a systemized overview of more than 630 residential and commercial architectural projects made over the last 30 years. Buildings are divided into different regions, with each being allocated one page, and are accompanied by a short description, external and interior photographs and site plans.
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Exhaustive guide book providing a systemized overview of more than 630 residential and commercial architectural projects made over the last 30 years. Buildings are divided into different regions, with each being allocated one page, and are accompanied by a short description, external and interior photographs and site plans.
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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September 2005, Lisboa
September 2005, Lisboa
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Architecture in Lisbon and the south of Portugal since 1974
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Exhaustive guide book providing a systemized overview of more than 630 residential and commercial architectural projects made over the last 30 years. Buildings are divided into different regions, with each being allocated one page, and are accompanied by a short description, external and interior photographs and site plans.
Architecture in Lisbon and the south of Portugal since 1974
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September 2005, Lisboa
September 2005, Lisboa
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