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What do you do as an architect when it is as if your profession has been abolished and you would like to know whether what you have built is actually any good? Marlies Rohmer bought a van, pasted big letters saying "What Happened To?" on it and revisited 25 buildings of which she once had great expectations. She talked with commissioners, residents and users. This(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
December 2016
What happened to my buildings? Learning from 30 years of architecture with Marlies Rohmer
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What do you do as an architect when it is as if your profession has been abolished and you would like to know whether what you have built is actually any good? Marlies Rohmer bought a van, pasted big letters saying "What Happened To?" on it and revisited 25 buildings of which she once had great expectations. She talked with commissioners, residents and users. This resulted in a sometimes moving, often hilarious and always informative exploration of what really counts in architecture.
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Cet ouvrage présente 25 bâtiments conçus et construits en Suisse par 15 architectes suisses importants : de la construction en milieu urbain à haute densité au site rural en contexte alpin. Quatre auteurs, avec un regard intérieur ou extérieur selon le cas, analysent la culture suisse de la construction. De plus, une interview détaillée de Peter Zumthor, qui présente son(...)
Sensibilité suisse : la culture de l'architecture en suisse
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Cet ouvrage présente 25 bâtiments conçus et construits en Suisse par 15 architectes suisses importants : de la construction en milieu urbain à haute densité au site rural en contexte alpin. Quatre auteurs, avec un regard intérieur ou extérieur selon le cas, analysent la culture suisse de la construction. De plus, une interview détaillée de Peter Zumthor, qui présente son approche de la conception architecturale.
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In 2015, the storied fashion house Fendi moved its headquarters into the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome, a stark white cube perforated by symmetrical arches. Originally commissioned as part of an exhibition on Roman civilization for the 1942 world’s fair, the architects took their cues from ancient history to create a building that was quintessentially Roman yet(...)
Fendi: Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome
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In 2015, the storied fashion house Fendi moved its headquarters into the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome, a stark white cube perforated by symmetrical arches. Originally commissioned as part of an exhibition on Roman civilization for the 1942 world’s fair, the architects took their cues from ancient history to create a building that was quintessentially Roman yet decidedly modern, earning its nickname “the Square Colosseum.” Because of its striking appearance and iconic status, the palazzo subsequently made appearances in a number of films by directors such as Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, and Peter Greenaway. The building remained relatively abandoned throughout much of its existence, until its recent inhabitance by the always forward-thinking house of Fendi, an experience which Karl Lagerfeld has likened to being “on a spaceship transported into the future.” Featuring photographs by famous artists such as Gabriele Basilico, Franco Fontana, and Lagerfeld, this gorgeously illustrated volume takes the reader on a fascinating tour through art, architecture, culture, and history.
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Une réflexion sur la construction de la mémoire historique et de ses formes multiples à travers les images inédites rassemblées par Emanuel Ringelblum et le groupe Oyneg Shabes entre 1939 et 1943 dans le ghetto de Varsovie, afin de constituer un fond d'archives. Dessins, affiches, journaux intimes, poèmes, lettres et chansons témoignent à la fois des tourments et de(...)
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Une réflexion sur la construction de la mémoire historique et de ses formes multiples à travers les images inédites rassemblées par Emanuel Ringelblum et le groupe Oyneg Shabes entre 1939 et 1943 dans le ghetto de Varsovie, afin de constituer un fond d'archives. Dessins, affiches, journaux intimes, poèmes, lettres et chansons témoignent à la fois des tourments et de l'espérance de la population.
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This book reveals Copenhagen's quality of life using the example of built spaces. It leads its readers on a tour of exploration, visiting exciting architecture projects and surprising districts between Ørestadt and Nordhavn. A total of over 25 buildings, urban squares and public spaces created in the past 10 years are presented. Documented with photos, general plans and(...)
Kobenhavn: Urban architecture and public spaces
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This book reveals Copenhagen's quality of life using the example of built spaces. It leads its readers on a tour of exploration, visiting exciting architecture projects and surprising districts between Ørestadt and Nordhavn. A total of over 25 buildings, urban squares and public spaces created in the past 10 years are presented. Documented with photos, general plans and texts, these projects paint an image of a generation of architects and planners who are not afraid to employ novel solutions. On display are daring typologies such as Amager Bakke, a ski slope on a waste incineration plant by BIG, iconic buildings, including the Royal Danish Aquarium by 3XN or popular public spaces for the urban community.
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This book is a monument to modern urban construction in Naples. It features some fifty new photos by French photographer Cyrille Weiner as well as historic images and drawings of important architectonic details, and an atlas of eighteen significant buildings dating from 1930–1960 illustrated with site and floor plans, elevations, and sections. It reveals how this(...)
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January 2021
Cyrille Weiner; Napoli super modern
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This book is a monument to modern urban construction in Naples. It features some fifty new photos by French photographer Cyrille Weiner as well as historic images and drawings of important architectonic details, and an atlas of eighteen significant buildings dating from 1930–1960 illustrated with site and floor plans, elevations, and sections. It reveals how this southern Italian metropolis developed its own form of modernism, one that combined Mediterranean culture with local materials and a strong internationalist spirit. The topical essays and concise descriptions of the documented buildings, together with the lavish illustrations make for a hugely attractive and lively portrait of Naples. This fascinating city is both famous and infamous—but its qualities and individuality in terms of architecture and urban development really should be better known.
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Similar to the rest of the world, holidays and leisure spaces emerged as a trend in Estonia in the early 20th century. During the Soviet era, holiday-making became a universal right, and the state promoted its development in various forms. This book offers a first overview of the rich legacy of Estonian holiday and summer cottage architecture. While focusing on the most(...)
Leisure spaces: holiday and architecture in 20th century Estonia
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Similar to the rest of the world, holidays and leisure spaces emerged as a trend in Estonia in the early 20th century. During the Soviet era, holiday-making became a universal right, and the state promoted its development in various forms. This book offers a first overview of the rich legacy of Estonian holiday and summer cottage architecture. While focusing on the most common building types which helped make holidays available to a large part of the population, the book also explores the meaning of leisure time in the late Soviet society. A fascinating look at how the boundaries between public and private space, austerity and material well-being, were closely interwoven.
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This book shows how architecture in Norway has been shaped by resource availability, changing social conditions and architectural style impulses through the centuries. This outline of Norwegian architectural history provides the first comprehensive presentation of architecture in Norway, from tents and housing constructions in the Stone Age until contemporary architecture(...)
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July 2019
Architecture in Norway: an architectural history from stone age to the 21st century
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This book shows how architecture in Norway has been shaped by resource availability, changing social conditions and architectural style impulses through the centuries. This outline of Norwegian architectural history provides the first comprehensive presentation of architecture in Norway, from tents and housing constructions in the Stone Age until contemporary architecture as the iconic, contemporary Opera House in Oslo. The book shows how Norwegian vernacular architecture has been shaped by natural conditions and resources, changing cultural situations and building traditions through the ages.
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Set within the cultural and political world of Vienna from the fin-de siecle to the present day, this book provides an insightful analysis of the city's extraordinarily rich architectural tradition. Beginning with Wagner’s polemical manifesto, ''Moderne Architektur'', it stresses the importance of the fraught and highly polarized cultural politics that engulfed Vienna for(...)
Rebel modernists: Viennese architecture since Otto Wagner
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Set within the cultural and political world of Vienna from the fin-de siecle to the present day, this book provides an insightful analysis of the city's extraordinarily rich architectural tradition. Beginning with Wagner’s polemical manifesto, ''Moderne Architektur'', it stresses the importance of the fraught and highly polarized cultural politics that engulfed Vienna for most of the twentieth century and ultimately produced much of what is modern in every field of culture and science. The book also places architectural history within the context of the political economy that has shaped Vienna and highlights the relatively unknown tradition of Viennese social housing, initiated by social democratic Red Vienna in the 1920s. Today, 60% of Vienna’s population lives in the most successful social housing in the world.
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"Paris Habitat. Cent ans de ville, cent ans de vie" est un ouvrage unique constitué à partir d’un siècle d’archives inédites (plans originaux, reportages photographiques, suivis de chantier, regards contemporains) pour raconter la fabrication de Paris par le logement.
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February 2015
Paris habitat: cent ans de ville, cent ans de vie
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"Paris Habitat. Cent ans de ville, cent ans de vie" est un ouvrage unique constitué à partir d’un siècle d’archives inédites (plans originaux, reportages photographiques, suivis de chantier, regards contemporains) pour raconter la fabrication de Paris par le logement.
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