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The book documents a unique accumulation of superlatives. Light is shed on two business strategies attempting to realise mankind’s pri- mordial dreams. The scene is the world’s largest self-supporting hall in a small village close to Berlin. At the end of the 1990s, the firm CargoLifter AG attracted international attention with its vision of(...)
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July 2006, Amsterdam
Making the impossible possible : the dream flying the dream of paradise
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The book documents a unique accumulation of superlatives. Light is shed on two business strategies attempting to realise mankind’s pri- mordial dreams. The scene is the world’s largest self-supporting hall in a small village close to Berlin. At the end of the 1990s, the firm CargoLifter AG attracted international attention with its vision of con- structing the world’s largest heavy-lift airship. By building an architecturally outstanding hangar, the company demonstrated pioneering spirit and gave rise to huge media response. After the enterprise failed, the hall was sold to a consortium of Asian firms that then presented the next superlative. The former hangar was converted into the Tropical Islands Dome, Europe’s largest indoor tropical paradise. The authors Gerlinde Schuller (Information Design Studio, Amsterdam) and Claudia Weber (artist, Berlin) compare these two visions on their paths to implementation, while simultaneously putting them in the context of current international events. The documentation is supplemented with text contributions by: Sam Jacob (FAT Ltd., London), Dingeman Kuilman (Premsela Design Foundation, Amsterdam), Jochen Becker (critic and curator, Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Bernd Kriegesmann (Institute for Applied Innovation Research, Bochum).
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At the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, the newly erected Eiffel Tower became one of the first icons of illuminated architecture, a nocturnal "lighthouse." It was not until decades later, in the 1920s, when a building’s evening façade became a central issue for residential and commercial architects, who began to look for avant-garde and aesthetically striking ways to light up(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2006, Stuttgart
Luminous buildings : architecture of the night
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At the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, the newly erected Eiffel Tower became one of the first icons of illuminated architecture, a nocturnal "lighthouse." It was not until decades later, in the 1920s, when a building’s evening façade became a central issue for residential and commercial architects, who began to look for avant-garde and aesthetically striking ways to light up their ever-taller works in all the major cities of the world. Both European and American architects wanted to distance their buildings from the garish electric signage that had come to dominate the street-level cityscape, so they worked with more delicately colored floodlights. Contemporary architects use many of the same techniques today, aided by technological advances that allow them to be implemented in particularly dramatic ways. "Luminous Buildings: Architecture of the NIght" opens a dialogue on the often overlooked but exciting connections between architecture, technology and light, offering points of reference in historical buildings and utopias, more recent designs, paintings and photographs of nighttime facades, and scholarly texts.
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The city of Barcelona has been known since the early twentieth century as the home of Art Nouveau. Now it has also become a centre for contemporary international architecture. This follow-up to "In Detail: Barcelona Art Nouveau" looks at the most notable buildings of the last 10 years, with detailed photographic reports on Josep Lluís Mateo’s Barcelona Convention Center,(...)
In detail : Barcelona contemporary architecture
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The city of Barcelona has been known since the early twentieth century as the home of Art Nouveau. Now it has also become a centre for contemporary international architecture. This follow-up to "In Detail: Barcelona Art Nouveau" looks at the most notable buildings of the last 10 years, with detailed photographic reports on Josep Lluís Mateo’s Barcelona Convention Center, Richard Meier’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Carles Ferrater’s Botanical Gardens and Institute, Rafael Moneo’s Barcelona Auditorium concert hall, Herzog & de Meuron’s Forum Building, Josep Llinàs’s block of buildings in the Fort Pienc neighborhood, EMBT’s Santa Caterina Market, Clotet & Paricio’s Forum-area retirement home and Jean Nouvel’s Agbar Tower.
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Architecture built for the purpose of living out a fantasy or for pure pleasure is multiplying at a breathtaking pace. The Mall of America, Dubai's The Palm, and Brandenburg's Tropical Island are all examples of architecture that do not fit into the traditional realm of buildings and function. Dream Worlds traces the idea of architecture and entertainment from its(...)
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January 1900, Munich / London
Dream worlds : architecture and entertainment
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Architecture built for the purpose of living out a fantasy or for pure pleasure is multiplying at a breathtaking pace. The Mall of America, Dubai's The Palm, and Brandenburg's Tropical Island are all examples of architecture that do not fit into the traditional realm of buildings and function. Dream Worlds traces the idea of architecture and entertainment from its earliest incarnations, such as the Colosseum, to the late twentieth century, when examples of "architainment" have proliferated. It examines the post-modern desire for escapism and considers the future of this trend. Florian Holzherr's photographs capture each site as architectural structure, while complementary photographs by the author illustrate the sites in daily use.
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Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur veut contribuer à la connaissance de la géographie urbaine de Lisbonne, ville qui apparaît à la fois petite et grande, provinciale et cosmopolite. Si Lisbonne a connu un rayonnement mondial, elle a eu aussi des périodes de déclin. Elle semblait être en perte de vitesse ces dernières années, même observée seulement dans le contexte ibérique,(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
July 2006, Paris
Lisbonne : périphérie et centralités
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Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur veut contribuer à la connaissance de la géographie urbaine de Lisbonne, ville qui apparaît à la fois petite et grande, provinciale et cosmopolite. Si Lisbonne a connu un rayonnement mondial, elle a eu aussi des périodes de déclin. Elle semblait être en perte de vitesse ces dernières années, même observée seulement dans le contexte ibérique, aujourd'hui, Lisbonne paraît renaître. L'avenir de la région de Lisbonne dépend surtout de la volonté et de la capacité que l'on aura à tirer profit des opportunités issues du jeu des tendances globales et des potentialités locales qui se présentent actuellement à la ville.
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Depuis des siècles et dans le monde entier, le rôle de l'architecte ne cesse de s'accroître. Celui-ci conçoit aussi bien des bâtiments pour s'abriter et se défendre, que des endroits pour travailler, se distraire ou se recueillir. Il est capable d'imaginer des palais grandioses, des cités étonnantes, des ponts de plus en plus longs, des tours toujours plus hautes.(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
October 2006, Toulouse
L'architecture de la hutte au gratte-ciel
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Depuis des siècles et dans le monde entier, le rôle de l'architecte ne cesse de s'accroître. Celui-ci conçoit aussi bien des bâtiments pour s'abriter et se défendre, que des endroits pour travailler, se distraire ou se recueillir. Il est capable d'imaginer des palais grandioses, des cités étonnantes, des ponts de plus en plus longs, des tours toujours plus hautes. Étroitement liée à l'évolution des techniques, l'architecture doit plus que jamais tenir compte de préoccupations écologiques et de développement durable... Ce livre te propose de découvrir les multiples facettes d'un art toujours en mouvement. Des encyclopédies thématiques, richement illustrées, qui invitent les lecteurs au pays du savoir. Une vraie collection de référence validée par des spécialistes: scientifiques, historiens, chercheurs à la pointe de l'actualité. Pour enrichir ses connaissances et s'ouvrir à un monde en perpétuel changement.
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Like a visual diary, these sketchbooks became a record of Mark Andresen's impressions of New Orleans covering the 18 years he lived there. This book is a selection of drawings taken from those rescued sketchbooks.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 2006, Corte Madera
New Orleans as it was : sketchbook drawings by Mark Andresen, 1988 - Hurricane katrina
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Like a visual diary, these sketchbooks became a record of Mark Andresen's impressions of New Orleans covering the 18 years he lived there. This book is a selection of drawings taken from those rescued sketchbooks.
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Contemporary Austrian architecture has received widespread international recognition over the last few decades. But is there really a specifically Austrian architecture? Six critics, including Walter Chramosta, Bart Lootsma and Ute Woltron present a personal selection of recent projects, mostly small buildings, in an attempt to identify typical regional qualities.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 1900, Brakel
Just! architecture from Austria, critic's choice
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Contemporary Austrian architecture has received widespread international recognition over the last few decades. But is there really a specifically Austrian architecture? Six critics, including Walter Chramosta, Bart Lootsma and Ute Woltron present a personal selection of recent projects, mostly small buildings, in an attempt to identify typical regional qualities.
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January 1900, Brakel
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This book proposes two goals: to analyze the innovations that the twenty-first century is introducing to the world of design, to the passage from the strong and concentrated modernity of the twentieth century to the weak and diffuse current one, and to investigate whether there is, in this passage, the possibility of imagining a future for non-figurative architecture. An(...)
Weak and diffuse modernity : the world of projects at the beginning of the 21st century
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This book proposes two goals: to analyze the innovations that the twenty-first century is introducing to the world of design, to the passage from the strong and concentrated modernity of the twentieth century to the weak and diffuse current one, and to investigate whether there is, in this passage, the possibility of imagining a future for non-figurative architecture. An architecture that becomes an urban semiosphere, surpassing its constructing limits and becoming a producer of immaterial qualities that change over time. […] Today’s urban condition is made up of services, information technologies networks, product systems, environmental componential practice, microclimates, commercial information, and above all perceptive structures that produce systems of sensorial and intelligent tunnels that are contained within architecture, but cannot be represented by architecture’s figurative codes. […] It’s not the first time that architecture attempts to go ‘beyond architecture’, but in the twenty-first century this utopia seems to be for the most part realized within the contemporary city.” This is a long essay comprising a decade of reflections and designs, in an attempt to reconcile conceptual reflections on architecture and the contemporary city, with a constant inclination towards a vision for the future. With this text, Andrea Branzi gives us a courageous act of faith and optimism towards an architecture that is still capable of listening to the city’s heart, while at the same time giving never-before-seen answers for the future of living together.
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New York, New York : fifty years of art, architecture, cinema, performance, photography and video
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After the second world war, New York became a laboratory for the avant-garde, a role it would maintain for decades. Despite the increasing globalisation and decentralization of the centers of artistic creativity, New York continues to embody some of the most significant artistic trends of the 20th century. Published on the occasion of the major exhibition at the Grimaldi(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
August 2006, Milano
New York, New York : fifty years of art, architecture, cinema, performance, photography and video
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After the second world war, New York became a laboratory for the avant-garde, a role it would maintain for decades. Despite the increasing globalisation and decentralization of the centers of artistic creativity, New York continues to embody some of the most significant artistic trends of the 20th century. Published on the occasion of the major exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum, the book is the first to explore this topic, broadly interpreted to encompass the fields of architecture, cinema, photography, music, performance and video. By selectively focusing on the successive arts movements of those decades (including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and Postmodernism ), it highlights the dominant role that American artists have, through their work, played in the art world; these American artists turned New York into a unique place to express themselves as fully as possible, and to become known and established on the international arts scene. The artists, photographers, architects, musicians and filmmakers included in the book: Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Carl Andre, Diane Arbus, Richard Artschwager, Richard Avedon, Matthew Barney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Cage, John Chamberlain, Gregory Crewdson, Merce Cunningham, John Currin, Bruce Davidson, Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, Elliot Erwitt, Richard Estes, Eric Fischl, Dan Flavin, Robert Frank, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Friedlander, Tom Friedman, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Eva Hesse, Hans Hoffman, Jenny Holzer, Peter Hujar, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Andrés Kertész, Franz Kline, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, Annie Leibovitz, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Longo, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Morris Louis, Robert Mapplethorpe, Brice Marden, Mary Ellen Mark, Agnes Martin, Susan Meiselas, Joel Meyerowitz, Duane Michals, Joan Mitchell, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Bruce Nauman, Barnet Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Irving Penn, Gilles Peress, Sylvia Plachy, Jackson Pollock, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Eugene Richards, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Susan Rothenberg, Robert Ryman, David Salle, Lucas Samaras, Tom Sachs, Andres Serrano, Joel Shapiro, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, David Smith, Doug and Mike Starn, Frank Stella, Haim Steinbach, Joel Sternfeld, Clyfford Still, Cy Twombly, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Tom Wesselman, Brian Weil, Sue Williams, Garry Winogrand, David Wojnarowicz, Christopher Wool.
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