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In the Netherlands, for decades a bastion of modernism, neomodernism and supermodernism, a contemporary traditionalism has been causing a stir since the 1990s. Instead of innovation, today's traditionalists tap into what is already there, drawing from the past and preferring means that have already proved their worth. In Hans Ibelings's book contemporary traditionalism,(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
December 2003, Rotterdam
Unmodern architecture : contemporary traditionalism in the Netherlands
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In the Netherlands, for decades a bastion of modernism, neomodernism and supermodernism, a contemporary traditionalism has been causing a stir since the 1990s. Instead of innovation, today's traditionalists tap into what is already there, drawing from the past and preferring means that have already proved their worth. In Hans Ibelings's book contemporary traditionalism, stripped of all populistic and moralistic arguments for and against, is analysed from different angles. Ibelings places contemporary traditionalism in an international and historical perspective. In so doing, the book answers the question of what contemporary traditionalism has to offer a 21st-century society.
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This book takes the reader on a tour of the concept behind the Ulm School, its 15 years of life and its legacy. The look at the past also follows the long path taken by German design, starting with the Bauhaus, before emigrating to the USA and eventually returning to its roots. The authors illustrate the role the School continues to play by pointing out everyday products(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
August 2003, Berlin
The Ulm school of design : beginnings of a project of unyielding modernity
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This book takes the reader on a tour of the concept behind the Ulm School, its 15 years of life and its legacy. The look at the past also follows the long path taken by German design, starting with the Bauhaus, before emigrating to the USA and eventually returning to its roots. The authors illustrate the role the School continues to play by pointing out everyday products designed by HfG teachers and alumni, e.g the Lufthansa corporate design and the ICE train, to name but two examples. There is also a look at some visionary projects that the School never realized. On the theoretical level, the book begins and concludes with a discussion of international modernism in philosophy and design, culminating in the question of its future, especially in terms of architecture and our environment.
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In 2003, the jury which comprised Greg Lynn, William Mitchell (MIT), Gerhard Schmitt (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Nobuyuki Yoshida, (A+U), Birger Sevaldson (Ocean-north) and other distinguished architects, awarded the Far Eastern International Digital Design Award (FEIDAD) for the third time. This book presents the 80 best projects which architects,(...)
Developing digital architecture : 2002 FEIDAD award
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In 2003, the jury which comprised Greg Lynn, William Mitchell (MIT), Gerhard Schmitt (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Nobuyuki Yoshida, (A+U), Birger Sevaldson (Ocean-north) and other distinguished architects, awarded the Far Eastern International Digital Design Award (FEIDAD) for the third time. This book presents the 80 best projects which architects, students and designers coming from 25 different countries had entered in the competition.
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When it comes to matters related to architecture and urban planning, few other countries grant their population such a far-reaching democratic right of co-determination as Switzerland. The strategy facilitates both a societal acceptance of architecture and the constant prevention of projects, among which are some rather notable examples. Such projects, often painstakingly(...)
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November 2023
What if: Unbuilt architecture in Switzerland
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When it comes to matters related to architecture and urban planning, few other countries grant their population such a far-reaching democratic right of co-determination as Switzerland. The strategy facilitates both a societal acceptance of architecture and the constant prevention of projects, among which are some rather notable examples. Such projects, often painstakingly developed but ultimately not implemented, are part and parcel of the everyday life of Swiss architectural firms. Whether lost, rejected, stalled, or altered, a host of architectural designs exist that are still spoken about today, despite the fact that nothing ever came of them. This is a representative selection.
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Architecture writer Agata Toromanoff introduces Belgium's 40 most influential contemporary architects and a selection of their most celebrated buildings in full color photography. Belgian architects have been doing well for years and have international allure. This volume showcases works from the most famous Belgian architect-designers such as Vincent Van Duysen and(...)
Belgian architects today
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Architecture writer Agata Toromanoff introduces Belgium's 40 most influential contemporary architects and a selection of their most celebrated buildings in full color photography. Belgian architects have been doing well for years and have international allure. This volume showcases works from the most famous Belgian architect-designers such as Vincent Van Duysen and EPRICUM to emerging architects such as Oyo Architects. Several pages are dedicated to each architect, outlining their influences and ideas and revealing the designs that have brought them fame. With this reference work, you can discover the true extent of the creative achievements that lie within the careers of these architectural giants.
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Publié sous l'égide de l'association des Architectes français à l'export (AFEX), ce livre bilingue français-anglais donne à voir une quarantaine de réalisations dans le monde dont les architectes sont français. La sélection des oeuvres présentées provient du Grand Prix AFEX dont le jury distingue régulièrement une dizaine de réalisations (bâtiments ou ouvrages d'art).(...)
ARCHI FRANCE : Architectes français/ French architects overseas - Grand Prix AFEX 2018-2023
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Publié sous l'égide de l'association des Architectes français à l'export (AFEX), ce livre bilingue français-anglais donne à voir une quarantaine de réalisations dans le monde dont les architectes sont français. La sélection des oeuvres présentées provient du Grand Prix AFEX dont le jury distingue régulièrement une dizaine de réalisations (bâtiments ou ouvrages d'art). Publié sous l'égide de l'association des Architectes français à l'export (AFEX), ce livre bilingue français-anglais donne à voir une quarantaine de réalisations dans le monde dont les architectes sont français. Dans la lignée d'Ailleurs. Architectes français à l'export, paru en 2016 aux Editions de la Découverte, il tente d'apporter une réponse à la question : comment caractériser la culture architecturale française quand elle s'exprime ailleurs que dans l'Hexagone ? La sélection des oeuvres présentées provient du Grand Prix AFEX dont le jury distingue régulièrement une dizaine de réalisations (bâtiments ou ouvrages d'art) parmi lesquelles un Grand Prix et des Prix spéciaux.
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Very Short Introductions presents British architecture in a new light and questions long-held assumptions. By using a jargon-free, thematic approach, this book encourages readers to think about the relationship between British culture and architecture
British Architecture: a very short introduction
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Very Short Introductions presents British architecture in a new light and questions long-held assumptions. By using a jargon-free, thematic approach, this book encourages readers to think about the relationship between British culture and architecture
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With this work in the form of a book, Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot present the phenomenon of a particular pending architecture mutely present all over Athens. The concrete skeletons of polykatoikia – multi-story apartment buildings – are emblematic of the development of modern Greece throughout the second half of the twentieth century. The book deals with the(...)
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November 2023
(Un)Finished: Atlas of Athens' incomplete buildings. A story of hidden antimonuments
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With this work in the form of a book, Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot present the phenomenon of a particular pending architecture mutely present all over Athens. The concrete skeletons of polykatoikia – multi-story apartment buildings – are emblematic of the development of modern Greece throughout the second half of the twentieth century. The book deals with the politics of urban space by treating the unfinished buildings as study objects and tracing their individual histories. Through the words of current owners and by means of photographs, archival documents and found artefacts, a different chronicle of the development of modern Arthens is taking shape.
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This book traces the growth of New York from its initial settlement on the tip of Manhattan through the destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War to its rise as the nation’s premier commercial capital and industrial center and as a magnet for immigrant hopes and dreams in the 19th century to its standing as a beacon of modern culture in the 20th century and as a(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 2021
New York: An illustrated history, revised and expanded
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This book traces the growth of New York from its initial settlement on the tip of Manhattan through the destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War to its rise as the nation’s premier commercial capital and industrial center and as a magnet for immigrant hopes and dreams in the 19th century to its standing as a beacon of modern culture in the 20th century and as a worldwide symbol of resilience in the 21st century.
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Contemporary Athens is characterized by a building type that transformed the Greek capital into a modern metropolis within a few decades in the 20th century: the polykatoikia, a small-scale urban apartment block. For almost forty years the unchallenged residential ideal for all social classes, the polykatoikia by the end of the century had become synonymous with the(...)
Athens' Polykatoikia 1930-1975
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Contemporary Athens is characterized by a building type that transformed the Greek capital into a modern metropolis within a few decades in the 20th century: the polykatoikia, a small-scale urban apartment block. For almost forty years the unchallenged residential ideal for all social classes, the polykatoikia by the end of the century had become synonymous with the rushed mass production of the postwar period and inhospitable living conditions in the inner city. This book sets out to trace the architectural origins of this typology. For the first time, it provides a comprehensive examination of the architectural concepts developed by Greek architects for the polykatoikia.
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