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In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title “Southeast of the Island : travel notes.” Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through(...)
Brooklyn is : southeast of the island, travel notes
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In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title “Southeast of the Island : travel notes.” Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay that roll silently to the sea, Agee captured in 10,000 remarkable words the essence of a place and its people.
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In "Tower and Office", Spanish architects Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros look at the role and impact of advanced building technologies in American architecture since World War II. The war, they claim, marked the end of the first cycle of modernism, challenging the belief that technological progress alone could produce a perpetually better future. At the same time, the war(...)
October 2005, Cambridge
Tower and office : from Modernist theory to contemporary practice
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In "Tower and Office", Spanish architects Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros look at the role and impact of advanced building technologies in American architecture since World War II. The war, they claim, marked the end of the first cycle of modernism, challenging the belief that technological progress alone could produce a perpetually better future. At the same time, the war was the source of powerful new structural models and construction methods. The authors examine the ways these technologies have been inflected over the last half century by more subjective and integrated processes of spatial organization. In the first part of the book, Abalos and Herreros focus on the work of Le Corbusier, revealing the degree of complexity achieved in his interpretation of the modern skyscraper. In the second part, they look at the intersection of technical and cultural determinants in the design of high-rise structures since World War II. Among the issues they consider are the evolution of the load-bearing frame, the impact of high-tech systems on tall buildings, and the transparent building skin. In the third part, they address developments in office design and planning, tracing an evolution from the repetitive and homogeneous office skyscraper to the present-day mixed-use structure. Overall they demonstrate how the objective technical analysis associated with modernist architectural theory has given way in recent building practice to a variety of flexible, pragmatic, and environmental approaches. These, they suggest, have opened the way to new urban and architectural forms.
Unseen Europe : a survey of EU politics and its impact on spatial development in the Netherlands
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The EU is involved, either directly or indirectly, in the most vital issues of national spatial policy. The indirect - and therefore usually unseen - consequences are often more significant, and will become increasingly so in the future. These are the most important findings in "Unseen Europe : a survey of EU politics and its impact on spatial development in the(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 2004, Rotterdam
Unseen Europe : a survey of EU politics and its impact on spatial development in the Netherlands
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The EU is involved, either directly or indirectly, in the most vital issues of national spatial policy. The indirect - and therefore usually unseen - consequences are often more significant, and will become increasingly so in the future. These are the most important findings in "Unseen Europe : a survey of EU politics and its impact on spatial development in the Netherlands". This study by the Netherlands Institute for Spatial Planning (Ruimtelijk Planbureau) was presented to the Dutch minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Sybilla M. Dekker. This study surveys a selected number of spatially relevant EU policy fields and their potential impacts in the Netherlands. Given this growing importance of European policy, those involved in spatial policy should keep abreast of developments to avoid being caught off-guard by new EU directives or initiatives. Where necessary position should be taken against the too uniform a character of European policy. Otherwise, the Dutch government should more actively anticipate the chances offered by the European context. Without this European perspective it is more and more difficult to conduct spatial policy. Instead of considering the EU as restrictive only, policy should therefore be formulated from a European perspective. In this respect the Netherlands still turns its back on Brussels too much.
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This book is based on two assumptions : the first is the will to identify and describe a network of existing relationship in a culture of new disciplinary connections ranging from the city to architecture to design. The other is that, in a difficult country like Italy, challenging the problem of conveying and promoting contemporary architectural projects is a somewhat(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
June 2005, Barcelone
Net.it : a snapshot of contemporary architecture, design and photography in Italy
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This book is based on two assumptions : the first is the will to identify and describe a network of existing relationship in a culture of new disciplinary connections ranging from the city to architecture to design. The other is that, in a difficult country like Italy, challenging the problem of conveying and promoting contemporary architectural projects is a somewhat slippery task.
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From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of “America” and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadway stage designers and directors who turned their prodigious talents to other projects, becoming mavericks first in(...)
November 2005, New Haven
Designing modern America : Broadway to Main Street
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From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of “America” and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadway stage designers and directors who turned their prodigious talents to other projects, becoming mavericks first in industrial design and then in commercial design, fashion, architecture, and more. The two men gave shape to the most quintessential symbols of the modern American lifestyle, including movies, cars, department stores, and nightclubs, along with private homes, kitchens, stoves, fridges, magazines, and numerous household furnishings.
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Vol. 1: Introduction - Vol. 2: Frontières, communes : brève histoire du territoire - Vol. 3: Matériaux.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
November 2005, Basel
La Suisse, portrait urbain (3 volumes)
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Vol. 1: Introduction - Vol. 2: Frontières, communes : brève histoire du territoire - Vol. 3: Matériaux.
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"Caracas litoral, Venezuela" looks at the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities facing the reconstruction of coastal communities near Caracas, after mudslides devastated these areas in December 1999. Already in the midst of informal land development, affluent weekend residents from Caracas had awkwardly occupied this dramatic and precarious strip of coastland between(...)
September 2005, New York
New urbanism 6 : Caracas litoral, Venezuela / El litoral de Caracas, Venezuela
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"Caracas litoral, Venezuela" looks at the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities facing the reconstruction of coastal communities near Caracas, after mudslides devastated these areas in December 1999. Already in the midst of informal land development, affluent weekend residents from Caracas had awkwardly occupied this dramatic and precarious strip of coastland between the Gulf of Mexico and the Avila Mountain - also shared with the national airport and second largest seaport. In a city where most of the urban population lives in informal housing, the contested nature of redevelopment - emergent social, economic, and cultural patterns confronting traditional patterns of settlement - could easily be predicted. Fully bilingual, in English and Spanish, this book explores opportunities that unite the various constituencies through innovative programming, sustainable geological/hydrological infrastructure, and economically viable housing and commercial development.
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'Lesurator' provides a reconfigurable field that engenders a variety of leisure, sport and improvisational activities. This field is programmed with a set of variable configurations, the transformations of which offer emergent conditions suggestive of alternate social organization and cultural dimensions of game-like activities.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
October 2004, Bari
Leisurator : performative and adaptive leisure generator field for metropolitan areas
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'Lesurator' provides a reconfigurable field that engenders a variety of leisure, sport and improvisational activities. This field is programmed with a set of variable configurations, the transformations of which offer emergent conditions suggestive of alternate social organization and cultural dimensions of game-like activities.
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Les architectes et mai 68
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Drôle d’époque ces années 68 où vices et vertus nocèrent dans la ferveur des Trente Glorieuses, avant de se figer dans l’opportunisme médiatique et comptable des années 80 d’hiver. Et pour une fois l’architecture en était, de ce vaste Mouvement dont la majuscule traduisait l’effervescence autant que la diffusion des idées de Mai. Entre mémoire et histoire, à l’écoute des(...)
Les architectes et mai 68
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Drôle d’époque ces années 68 où vices et vertus nocèrent dans la ferveur des Trente Glorieuses, avant de se figer dans l’opportunisme médiatique et comptable des années 80 d’hiver. Et pour une fois l’architecture en était, de ce vaste Mouvement dont la majuscule traduisait l’effervescence autant que la diffusion des idées de Mai. Entre mémoire et histoire, à l’écoute des acteurs à défaut d’avoir pu rassembler ses propres souvenirs, l’auteur met à nu les racines de la scène architecturale française contemporaine en retraçant les dernières années de l’École des Beaux-Arts. S’y croisent les univers et les réseaux, les affiliations politiques et les jeux d’acteurs, entre une administration d’abord conciliante puis dépassée par les événements et des architectes en herbe aux allures de « jeunes turcs », au moment où les méthodes deviennent des méthodologies ; la forme, un signe ; l’architecture, une syntaxe ; et un courant architectural, un code. Alors que l’enseignement de l’architecture se sépare brutalement de la profession sans gagner tout à fait les rivages de l’Université, alors que s’effondre le système des Beaux-Arts remplacé bientôt par celui des concours, l’élite encore fragile des architectes français emboîte le pas du vaste mouvement de libéralisation et de décentralisation qui allait si profondément modifier la société française.
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In the next few years, emerging practices in interactive architecture are set to transform the built environment. Whereas 'smart' design was once regarded as the preserve of museum exhibit or Jumbotrom advertising screens, 'multi-mediated' interactive design has now entered every domain of public and private life. As a spatial medium, interactive design is(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 2005, Chichester
4dspace : interactive architecture
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In the next few years, emerging practices in interactive architecture are set to transform the built environment. Whereas 'smart' design was once regarded as the preserve of museum exhibit or Jumbotrom advertising screens, 'multi-mediated' interactive design has now entered every domain of public and private life. As a spatial medium, interactive design is revolutionising and reinventing our homes, as well as our work and leisure spaces. Essays and interviews by international commentators Lucy Bullivant, guest editor of the issue, Ole Bouman, Antonino Saggio, Stefano Mirti and Walter Aprile and Mike Weinstock on the cultural issues raised by the emergence of interactive architecture will be complemented with features on acclaimed practitioners Christian Moller, Tobi Schneidler, Ron Arad and Jason Bruges. Benchmark interactive projects in this issue evolving new models of interdisciplinary teamwork include The Media House, led by Metapolis, IaaC and the MIT Media Lab and projects conceived at the Interactive Institute, Ivrea, Italy. New work is also featured by KDa/Toshio Iwai; realities: united, Usman Haque, Adam Somlai-Fischer, Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen, Lars Spuybroek and the Institute of Neuro-Informatics, ETH, Zurich, Kitchen Rogers Design; IDEO, and Tom Barker, b consultants/SmartSlab.
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