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The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture: Travel Edition, presents all of the best works of architecture completed in the last five years in a convenient mini format. Each of the 1,052 projects from the comprehensive edition included a single image per building and a short text to describe it. The project entry gives the name of each building and its(...)
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The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture: Travel Edition, presents all of the best works of architecture completed in the last five years in a convenient mini format. Each of the 1,052 projects from the comprehensive edition included a single image per building and a short text to describe it. The project entry gives the name of each building and its(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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May 2005, London
May 2005, London
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The Phaidon atlas of contemporary world architecture : travel edition
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The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture: Travel Edition, presents all of the best works of architecture completed in the last five years in a convenient mini format. Each of the 1,052 projects from the comprehensive edition included a single image per building and a short text to describe it. The project entry gives the name of each building and its architect, the location, address and contact details, and potential visiting hours. There is also a system to indicate which projects are open to the public. In addition to the forty two regional maps from the comprehensive edition, there are 27 new city maps which locate the buildings in more built up areas. The book provides a unique opportunity to visit 1,052 works of contemporary architecture in all parts of the world, from the Arctic Circle to African deserts. The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, Travel Edition is an essential companion on the travels of all those interested in gaining a first hand understanding of contemporary architecture around the world.
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The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture: Travel Edition, presents all of the best works of architecture completed in the last five years in a convenient mini format. Each of the 1,052 projects from the comprehensive edition included a single image per building and a short text to describe it. The project entry gives the name of each building and its architect, the location, address and contact details, and potential visiting hours. There is also a system to indicate which projects are open to the public. In addition to the forty two regional maps from the comprehensive edition, there are 27 new city maps which locate the buildings in more built up areas. The book provides a unique opportunity to visit 1,052 works of contemporary architecture in all parts of the world, from the Arctic Circle to African deserts. The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, Travel Edition is an essential companion on the travels of all those interested in gaining a first hand understanding of contemporary architecture around the world.
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May 2005, London
May 2005, London
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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100 Copenhagen typologies
100 Copenhagen typologies
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"100 Copenhagen typologies" presents 100 examples of re-use, adaptation and mixed-use architecture. In this book, Martin Marker and his students from The Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation at the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape - BA Programme investigate Copenhagen as a Wunderkammer of architectural typologies. Leaving the focus on(...)
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"100 Copenhagen typologies" presents 100 examples of re-use, adaptation and mixed-use architecture. In this book, Martin Marker and his students from The Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation at the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape - BA Programme investigate Copenhagen as a Wunderkammer of architectural typologies. Leaving the focus on(...)
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"100 Copenhagen typologies" presents 100 examples of re-use, adaptation and mixed-use architecture. In this book, Martin Marker and his students from The Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation at the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape - BA Programme investigate Copenhagen as a Wunderkammer of architectural typologies. Leaving the focus on materiality and visual aesthetics aside, the book explores how programmatic complexities and existing structures can form foundations for future urbanism in a rapidly changing world with a growing population, climate changes, and limited resources. This book extends a welcoming invitation to explore and examine our urban structures, sparking a vital conversation that encourage a fresh perspective on our existing typologies, ensuring their continued relevance for the people who inhabit them.
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"100 Copenhagen typologies" presents 100 examples of re-use, adaptation and mixed-use architecture. In this book, Martin Marker and his students from The Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation at the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape - BA Programme investigate Copenhagen as a Wunderkammer of architectural typologies. Leaving the focus on materiality and visual aesthetics aside, the book explores how programmatic complexities and existing structures can form foundations for future urbanism in a rapidly changing world with a growing population, climate changes, and limited resources. This book extends a welcoming invitation to explore and examine our urban structures, sparking a vital conversation that encourage a fresh perspective on our existing typologies, ensuring their continued relevance for the people who inhabit them.
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June 2023
June 2023
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Prishtina in 53 buildings
Prishtina in 53 buildings
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"Prishtina in 53 Buildings" draws a multifaceted portrait of Kosovo’s capital city by using architecture as a prism to understand political, cultural and economic processes. Essays on fifty-three built structures, written by different authors with different geographical background and different professional perspective, add up to multilayered account of the city’s history(...)
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"Prishtina in 53 Buildings" draws a multifaceted portrait of Kosovo’s capital city by using architecture as a prism to understand political, cultural and economic processes. Essays on fifty-three built structures, written by different authors with different geographical background and different professional perspective, add up to multilayered account of the city’s history(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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October 2023
October 2023
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Prishtina in 53 buildings
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"Prishtina in 53 Buildings" draws a multifaceted portrait of Kosovo’s capital city by using architecture as a prism to understand political, cultural and economic processes. Essays on fifty-three built structures, written by different authors with different geographical background and different professional perspective, add up to multilayered account of the city’s history and present. "Prishtina in 53 Buildings" is more than a guide book for visitors or residents of the city. Buildings are not only the materialization of design principles or architectonic ideas, but the outcome of socio-economic processes. The built environment is constantly re-appropriated, re-interpreted and re-valuated as architects do not have the final say as to the meaning and the function of an edifice. By conceptualizing architecture as materialization of societal processes, "Prishtina in 53 Buildings" pushes beyond notions that assume an intrinsic and coherent "logic" of cities. The editors Donika Luzhnica and Jonas König show that a polyphonic approach is more apposite to depict the often-contradictory trajectories of urban development.
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"Prishtina in 53 Buildings" draws a multifaceted portrait of Kosovo’s capital city by using architecture as a prism to understand political, cultural and economic processes. Essays on fifty-three built structures, written by different authors with different geographical background and different professional perspective, add up to multilayered account of the city’s history and present. "Prishtina in 53 Buildings" is more than a guide book for visitors or residents of the city. Buildings are not only the materialization of design principles or architectonic ideas, but the outcome of socio-economic processes. The built environment is constantly re-appropriated, re-interpreted and re-valuated as architects do not have the final say as to the meaning and the function of an edifice. By conceptualizing architecture as materialization of societal processes, "Prishtina in 53 Buildings" pushes beyond notions that assume an intrinsic and coherent "logic" of cities. The editors Donika Luzhnica and Jonas König show that a polyphonic approach is more apposite to depict the often-contradictory trajectories of urban development.
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October 2023
October 2023
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Développant certains des thèmes abordés au cours des sept premières années des « Swiss Talks », nés en 2017 d'un partenariat culturel entre l'Istituto Svizzero et la revue d'architecture Casabella, cette publication témoigne de la richesse des échanges culturels entre l'Italie et la Suisse dans le champ de l'architecture.
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Développant certains des thèmes abordés au cours des sept premières années des « Swiss Talks », nés en 2017 d'un partenariat culturel entre l'Istituto Svizzero et la revue d'architecture Casabella, cette publication témoigne de la richesse des échanges culturels entre l'Italie et la Suisse dans le champ de l'architecture.
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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November 2024
November 2024
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Conversations on architecture: Swiss talks, about and beyond
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Développant certains des thèmes abordés au cours des sept premières années des « Swiss Talks », nés en 2017 d'un partenariat culturel entre l'Istituto Svizzero et la revue d'architecture Casabella, cette publication témoigne de la richesse des échanges culturels entre l'Italie et la Suisse dans le champ de l'architecture.
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Développant certains des thèmes abordés au cours des sept premières années des « Swiss Talks », nés en 2017 d'un partenariat culturel entre l'Istituto Svizzero et la revue d'architecture Casabella, cette publication témoigne de la richesse des échanges culturels entre l'Italie et la Suisse dans le champ de l'architecture.
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November 2024
November 2024
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Ceci n'est pas un portrait.
Ceci n'est pas un portrait.
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"Ceci n'est pas un portrait" is a possible comprehensive depiction of the production of a new generation of Portuguese practices. The publication brings together a collection of more than 300 photographs by Francisco Ascensão illustrating about 70 projects made by young architecture offices in Portugal."Today, it is nearly impossible to distinguish architectural schools(...)
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"Ceci n'est pas un portrait" is a possible comprehensive depiction of the production of a new generation of Portuguese practices. The publication brings together a collection of more than 300 photographs by Francisco Ascensão illustrating about 70 projects made by young architecture offices in Portugal."Today, it is nearly impossible to distinguish architectural schools(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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December 2024
December 2024
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Ceci n'est pas un portrait.
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"Ceci n'est pas un portrait" is a possible comprehensive depiction of the production of a new generation of Portuguese practices. The publication brings together a collection of more than 300 photographs by Francisco Ascensão illustrating about 70 projects made by young architecture offices in Portugal."Today, it is nearly impossible to distinguish architectural schools or styles. Regional schools are homogenized by a universal system of education and references, temporal periodization is absorbed by the ‘contemporary’. In the book there is no claim about a certain tendency. The absence of captions is programmatic. Rather than competing for clients and attention the images show a culture of generosity and mutual curiosity, a culture of openness and collectivity, immediacy and care, optimism and liveliness. A new beginning." - Philip Ursprung, 2024
Ceci n'est pas un portrait.
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"Ceci n'est pas un portrait" is a possible comprehensive depiction of the production of a new generation of Portuguese practices. The publication brings together a collection of more than 300 photographs by Francisco Ascensão illustrating about 70 projects made by young architecture offices in Portugal."Today, it is nearly impossible to distinguish architectural schools or styles. Regional schools are homogenized by a universal system of education and references, temporal periodization is absorbed by the ‘contemporary’. In the book there is no claim about a certain tendency. The absence of captions is programmatic. Rather than competing for clients and attention the images show a culture of generosity and mutual curiosity, a culture of openness and collectivity, immediacy and care, optimism and liveliness. A new beginning." - Philip Ursprung, 2024
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December 2024
December 2024
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Hansaviertel portraits
Hansaviertel portraits
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A former debris-strewn wasteland in the inner city—some 300 out of 343 residential buildings were destroyed during the Second World War—the Hansaviertel is one of the most defining architecture projects of the postwar period in Berlin. In 1952, an international ideas competition was held under the title die stadt von morgen (the city of tomorrow); more than fifty(...)
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A former debris-strewn wasteland in the inner city—some 300 out of 343 residential buildings were destroyed during the Second World War—the Hansaviertel is one of the most defining architecture projects of the postwar period in Berlin. In 1952, an international ideas competition was held under the title die stadt von morgen (the city of tomorrow); more than fifty(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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October 2024
October 2024
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Hansaviertel portraits
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A former debris-strewn wasteland in the inner city—some 300 out of 343 residential buildings were destroyed during the Second World War—the Hansaviertel is one of the most defining architecture projects of the postwar period in Berlin. In 1952, an international ideas competition was held under the title die stadt von morgen (the city of tomorrow); more than fifty architects presented plans for the rebuilding of West Berlin, including leading practitioners of Western modernist architecture like Alvar Aalto, Werner Düttmann, Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, Arne Jacobsen, Oscar Niemeyer, and Max Taut. Construction based on their designs in the redevelopment area began in 1956. The result was a neighborhood designed for people and their needs—largely without predetermined paths, with lots of greenery, flexible floor plans, space for small businesses, and facilities for everyday needs. Visiting the area and its people today, one can still feel the designers’ visionary resolve to establish new ways of residential living. Locals are united by their fascination with architecture and design and their love for their neighborhood, which over the decades has developed an authentic patina and now stands as witness to a key chapter in the city’s more recent history.
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A former debris-strewn wasteland in the inner city—some 300 out of 343 residential buildings were destroyed during the Second World War—the Hansaviertel is one of the most defining architecture projects of the postwar period in Berlin. In 1952, an international ideas competition was held under the title die stadt von morgen (the city of tomorrow); more than fifty architects presented plans for the rebuilding of West Berlin, including leading practitioners of Western modernist architecture like Alvar Aalto, Werner Düttmann, Egon Eiermann, Walter Gropius, Arne Jacobsen, Oscar Niemeyer, and Max Taut. Construction based on their designs in the redevelopment area began in 1956. The result was a neighborhood designed for people and their needs—largely without predetermined paths, with lots of greenery, flexible floor plans, space for small businesses, and facilities for everyday needs. Visiting the area and its people today, one can still feel the designers’ visionary resolve to establish new ways of residential living. Locals are united by their fascination with architecture and design and their love for their neighborhood, which over the decades has developed an authentic patina and now stands as witness to a key chapter in the city’s more recent history.
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October 2024
October 2024
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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"Inhabiting Identity" is the fifth in an annual series of publications featuring the best young architects as selected by The Architectural League of New York. For this year's competition, architects were asked to explore how technology has altered our sense of space. Their answers not only challenge our sense of habitation but teach us to think beyond the normal and the(...)
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"Inhabiting Identity" is the fifth in an annual series of publications featuring the best young architects as selected by The Architectural League of New York. For this year's competition, architects were asked to explore how technology has altered our sense of space. Their answers not only challenge our sense of habitation but teach us to think beyond the normal and the(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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May 2004, New York
May 2004, New York
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Young architects 5 : Inhabiting Identity
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"Inhabiting Identity" is the fifth in an annual series of publications featuring the best young architects as selected by The Architectural League of New York. For this year's competition, architects were asked to explore how technology has altered our sense of space. Their answers not only challenge our sense of habitation but teach us to think beyond the normal and the mundane. This year's winners of the competition—Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen, Steven Mankouche, Ben Checkwitch, Stella Betts, Lisa Hsieh, and Mike Latham—make use of unusual materials (wooden shipping pallets) while maintaining creative ideas (mobile rooms) in their investigations of the role of modern technology in our daily lives.
Young architects 5 : Inhabiting Identity
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"Inhabiting Identity" is the fifth in an annual series of publications featuring the best young architects as selected by The Architectural League of New York. For this year's competition, architects were asked to explore how technology has altered our sense of space. Their answers not only challenge our sense of habitation but teach us to think beyond the normal and the mundane. This year's winners of the competition—Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen, Steven Mankouche, Ben Checkwitch, Stella Betts, Lisa Hsieh, and Mike Latham—make use of unusual materials (wooden shipping pallets) while maintaining creative ideas (mobile rooms) in their investigations of the role of modern technology in our daily lives.
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May 2004, New York
May 2004, New York
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"HiperCatalunya" is a territorial analysis and research project promoted by the Government of Catalonia, directed by Metàpolis and undertaken at the Institute of advanced aof Catalonia (IaaC). "HiperCatalunya" is a reflection, and seeks to stimulate reflection, on the true territorial dimension of Catalonia, establishing through theoretical and practical approaches four(...)
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"HiperCatalunya" is a territorial analysis and research project promoted by the Government of Catalonia, directed by Metàpolis and undertaken at the Institute of advanced aof Catalonia (IaaC). "HiperCatalunya" is a reflection, and seeks to stimulate reflection, on the true territorial dimension of Catalonia, establishing through theoretical and practical approaches four(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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January 1900, Barcelona
January 1900, Barcelona
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HiperCatalunya : research territories
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"HiperCatalunya" is a territorial analysis and research project promoted by the Government of Catalonia, directed by Metàpolis and undertaken at the Institute of advanced aof Catalonia (IaaC). "HiperCatalunya" is a reflection, and seeks to stimulate reflection, on the true territorial dimension of Catalonia, establishing through theoretical and practical approaches four main reals of analysis, reflection and proposal, understood as operative frameworks as well as strategic layers of action, aimed at anticiping and visualizing possible key questions in the future development of the territory. Two volumes joined together by magnets. With dvd.
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"HiperCatalunya" is a territorial analysis and research project promoted by the Government of Catalonia, directed by Metàpolis and undertaken at the Institute of advanced aof Catalonia (IaaC). "HiperCatalunya" is a reflection, and seeks to stimulate reflection, on the true territorial dimension of Catalonia, establishing through theoretical and practical approaches four main reals of analysis, reflection and proposal, understood as operative frameworks as well as strategic layers of action, aimed at anticiping and visualizing possible key questions in the future development of the territory. Two volumes joined together by magnets. With dvd.
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January 1900, Barcelona
January 1900, Barcelona
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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The award-winning city
The award-winning city
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For 100 years, the City of Copenhagen has granted awards to its best architecture. This book presents all of these buildings and projects. It serves as a comprehensive architectural guide to Copenhagen and discusses architectural views during different historical periods. What has stood the test of time; what was overlooked; what is yet to come? The former Chief City(...)
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For 100 years, the City of Copenhagen has granted awards to its best architecture. This book presents all of these buildings and projects. It serves as a comprehensive architectural guide to Copenhagen and discusses architectural views during different historical periods. What has stood the test of time; what was overlooked; what is yet to come? The former Chief City(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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October 2003, Copenhagen
October 2003, Copenhagen
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The award-winning city
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For 100 years, the City of Copenhagen has granted awards to its best architecture. This book presents all of these buildings and projects. It serves as a comprehensive architectural guide to Copenhagen and discusses architectural views during different historical periods. What has stood the test of time; what was overlooked; what is yet to come? The former Chief City Architect discusses criteria, including opportunities and obstacles, for urban development on a human scale.
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For 100 years, the City of Copenhagen has granted awards to its best architecture. This book presents all of these buildings and projects. It serves as a comprehensive architectural guide to Copenhagen and discusses architectural views during different historical periods. What has stood the test of time; what was overlooked; what is yet to come? The former Chief City Architect discusses criteria, including opportunities and obstacles, for urban development on a human scale.
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October 2003, Copenhagen
October 2003, Copenhagen
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Après deux volumes consacrés l'un au lointain passé, l'autre à cette période du XXe siècle, 1940-1975, qui a vu se construire le paysage de la modernité, les Éditions du Moniteur publient aujourd'hui, avec le concours de l'AMO, le troisième volet d'une autre histoire de l'architecture, celle de sa maîtrise d'ouvrage. Les Bâtisseurs du présent traitent des vingt-cinq(...)
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Après deux volumes consacrés l'un au lointain passé, l'autre à cette période du XXe siècle, 1940-1975, qui a vu se construire le paysage de la modernité, les Éditions du Moniteur publient aujourd'hui, avec le concours de l'AMO, le troisième volet d'une autre histoire de l'architecture, celle de sa maîtrise d'ouvrage. Les Bâtisseurs du présent traitent des vingt-cinq(...)
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Les bâtisseurs du présent : histoire de la maîtrise d'ouvrage 1975-2000
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Après deux volumes consacrés l'un au lointain passé, l'autre à cette période du XXe siècle, 1940-1975, qui a vu se construire le paysage de la modernité, les Éditions du Moniteur publient aujourd'hui, avec le concours de l'AMO, le troisième volet d'une autre histoire de l'architecture, celle de sa maîtrise d'ouvrage. Les Bâtisseurs du présent traitent des vingt-cinq dernières années, 1975-2000, une période qui nous est si contemporaine qu'elle interdit toute approche proprement historique, par manque de distance suffisante. C'est pourquoi ce livre est une série de regards, appuyés sur des enquêtes: six essais suivis chacun de reportages sur les exemples ayant marqué notre époque. Le choix de ces exemples n'est pas tant celui de la simple qualité architecturale, bien sûr requise, que celui d'une réussite dans le déroulé de l'édification, dans l'accomplissement de la relation entre architectes et maîtres d'ouvrage. Quant aux essais, ils suivent le temps passé selon les fils des différents domaines de la construction, chacun d'entre eux ayant eu sa logique propre et ses acteurs particuliers : le grand territoire, l'espace urbain, le logement, les équipements publics, le monde du travail. Le tout constitue un panorama du présent, à la fois de l'architecture et des réflexions qu'elle suscite quand on examine les manières de conduire un projet. Que se passe-t-il aujourd'hui de l'idée à sa réalisation ? Quel est le juste rôle de chacun dans le processus ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles ce livre a tenté de répondre, à l'aube du XXIe siècle.
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Après deux volumes consacrés l'un au lointain passé, l'autre à cette période du XXe siècle, 1940-1975, qui a vu se construire le paysage de la modernité, les Éditions du Moniteur publient aujourd'hui, avec le concours de l'AMO, le troisième volet d'une autre histoire de l'architecture, celle de sa maîtrise d'ouvrage. Les Bâtisseurs du présent traitent des vingt-cinq dernières années, 1975-2000, une période qui nous est si contemporaine qu'elle interdit toute approche proprement historique, par manque de distance suffisante. C'est pourquoi ce livre est une série de regards, appuyés sur des enquêtes: six essais suivis chacun de reportages sur les exemples ayant marqué notre époque. Le choix de ces exemples n'est pas tant celui de la simple qualité architecturale, bien sûr requise, que celui d'une réussite dans le déroulé de l'édification, dans l'accomplissement de la relation entre architectes et maîtres d'ouvrage. Quant aux essais, ils suivent le temps passé selon les fils des différents domaines de la construction, chacun d'entre eux ayant eu sa logique propre et ses acteurs particuliers : le grand territoire, l'espace urbain, le logement, les équipements publics, le monde du travail. Le tout constitue un panorama du présent, à la fois de l'architecture et des réflexions qu'elle suscite quand on examine les manières de conduire un projet. Que se passe-t-il aujourd'hui de l'idée à sa réalisation ? Quel est le juste rôle de chacun dans le processus ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles ce livre a tenté de répondre, à l'aube du XXIe siècle.
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October 2003, Paris
October 2003, Paris
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
