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'Minihouse' is a showcase of more than 25 small livingspaces designed by more than 25 internationally renown architects.
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Vivre dans un château d'eau, aménager son bureau dans un silo à grains, passer ses vacances dans un ancien wagon de chemin de fer, semblent relever des rêves les plus fous d'un architecte délirant. Pourtant ces maisons existent, et bien d'autres plus insolites encore. En France, mais aussi en Belgique, en Grande-Bretagne, aux USA, des particuliers pleins d'imagination(...)
Maisons détournées : lieux de vie insolites
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Vivre dans un château d'eau, aménager son bureau dans un silo à grains, passer ses vacances dans un ancien wagon de chemin de fer, semblent relever des rêves les plus fous d'un architecte délirant. Pourtant ces maisons existent, et bien d'autres plus insolites encore. En France, mais aussi en Belgique, en Grande-Bretagne, aux USA, des particuliers pleins d'imagination ont eu l'idée de s'approprier des bâtiments industriels, agricoles ou urbains.
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"Flying Lightness" paints a heroic picture of a century of aircraft development against the background of steadily increasing travel speeds. Yet since the Wright brothers made their first brief flight over 100 years ago, aircraft construction seems to have become strangely stuck in a rut. Today, rapid advances in the field of composites are opening up new possibilities(...)
Miniature Architecture
April 2005, Rotterdam
Flying lightness : promises for structural elegance
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"Flying Lightness" paints a heroic picture of a century of aircraft development against the background of steadily increasing travel speeds. Yet since the Wright brothers made their first brief flight over 100 years ago, aircraft construction seems to have become strangely stuck in a rut. Today, rapid advances in the field of composites are opening up new possibilities for optimizing aircraft con-figurations and revising structural principles. Composites are combinations of two or more physically distinct materials that enhance each other's properties. The new modes of system integration and improved structural quality they offer may even manage to produce a 30 per cent more efficient 'blended wing' passenger plane. Flying wings, once just a footnote in the history of air transport, could well become the aircraft of the 21st century.
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Vintage and modern-day photographs and advertisements add depth to "Silver Palaces. It is historically significant for those who suffer from wanderlust, some fulfilled by owning and traveling with a "silver palace," or perhaps owning an older model that's been rebuilt and refurbished.
Silver palaces : America's streamlined trailers
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Vintage and modern-day photographs and advertisements add depth to "Silver Palaces. It is historically significant for those who suffer from wanderlust, some fulfilled by owning and traveling with a "silver palace," or perhaps owning an older model that's been rebuilt and refurbished.
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For years, architects have enjoyed the challenge of incorporating lightweight structures -- fabrics, tents, canopies, membranes, and so on -- into their designs. Such materials are a welcome boon to architectural creativity, allowing designers to envision spaces that take innovative shapes and interact with their surroundings in ways unattainable with conventional(...)
The magic of tents : transforming space
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For years, architects have enjoyed the challenge of incorporating lightweight structures -- fabrics, tents, canopies, membranes, and so on -- into their designs. Such materials are a welcome boon to architectural creativity, allowing designers to envision spaces that take innovative shapes and interact with their surroundings in ways unattainable with conventional materials. Recent years have seen an increase in the use of such structures, in part because advances in computer technology have made it easier to render and model such projects, and in part because such structures are ideally suited to today's increasing concerns about environmentalism and sustainability. The Magic of Tents showcases innovative uses of lightweight, tented structures from across the United States and around the world -- from an Arizona school to an Istanbul bank, from a Miami nightclub on the beach to a private home in Germany, from corporate headquarters in Los Angeles to offices in Oslo, and many more! The book features both residential and commercial projects, projects with both exterior and interior usages, projects where the tented element is the driving component of the design, and projects that incorporate lightweight structures to accent or address a specific need. Endlessly flexible, nurturing of creativity, cost- and energy-conscious, tented structures are an ideal means to address many concerns of modern architecture -- a creative means to not only define space, but also to transform it into something to meet all sorts of design needs, for projects both grand and small.
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May 2004, New York
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Matali Crasset, née en 1965 à Chalons-en-Champagne, est designer industriel de formation, diplômée des Ateliers. Elle travaille d'abord aux côtés de Denis Santachiara à Milan puis avec Philippe Starck pendant cinq ans au sein de l'agence et de Thomson multimédia, où elle anime le designer center, Tim Thom. Elle crée sa propre structure en 1999. Depuis matali travaille sur(...)
Le pigeonnier, capsule / the pigeon loft, capsule
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Matali Crasset, née en 1965 à Chalons-en-Champagne, est designer industriel de formation, diplômée des Ateliers. Elle travaille d'abord aux côtés de Denis Santachiara à Milan puis avec Philippe Starck pendant cinq ans au sein de l'agence et de Thomson multimédia, où elle anime le designer center, Tim Thom. Elle crée sa propre structure en 1999. Depuis matali travaille sur les rites domestiques et sur l'intégration de la technologie dans le quotidien. Son projet le plus connu, la colonne d'hospitalité, Quand Jim monte à Paris, témoigne de son intérêt pour les nouvelles typologies et de son désir de créer des propositions ouvertes basées sur des notions simples telles que l'hospitalité, la générosité, l'empathie, la flexibilité. Mtali intervient dans des domaines aussi variés que le design industriel, le mobilier, le graphisme, la scénographie, l'architecture intérieure. En 2003 elle réalise un projet global, HI, un hôtel de ville à Nice, qui propose une expérience du contemporain et Le Pigeonnier Capsule, sa première micro-architecture. Le mu. dac de Lausanne a présenté à l'automne 2002, Un pas de côté 1991/2002, la première rétrospective sur son travail. Cette exposition a été ensuite présentée au Victoria & Albert museum de Londres en février 2003 puis au Grand-Hornu en Belgique à l'été 2003.
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January 2004, Paris
Miniature Architecture
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Parasites are flexible and temporary structures, designed by artists or architects, that feed off existing infrastructure. "Parasite Paradise" documents 23 projects that offer new ways of designing the public domain outside the existing rules. Many of these parasites have settled in the government-designated 'Vinex' district of Leidsche Rijn near Utrecht. There they have(...)
Miniature Architecture
July 2004, Rotterdam
Parasite paradise : a manifesto for temporary architecture and flexible urbanism
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Parasites are flexible and temporary structures, designed by artists or architects, that feed off existing infrastructure. "Parasite Paradise" documents 23 projects that offer new ways of designing the public domain outside the existing rules. Many of these parasites have settled in the government-designated 'Vinex' district of Leidsche Rijn near Utrecht. There they have introduced new and unforeseen functions, turning a district almost exclusively concerned with dwelling into a more urban entity. What do these small, mobile architectural interventions mean for our strictly regulated society and for the planning of architecture and urbanism? What sense (or nonsense) is there in mobile architecture from a historical perspective? And how does it divide up the roles of art and architecture? Essays by Gijs van Oenen, Ivan Nio, Hans Ibelings, Jennifer Allen and Olof Koekebakker examine these issues in depth. The project descriptions and essays encourage us to consider another approach to planning, one where not everything is fixed beforehand. This makes Parasite Paradise required reading for architects, urban planners and artists whose concern is designing the public realm. "Parasite Paradise" features projects by a.o. Inge Roseboom and Mark Weemen, Shigeru Ban, Atelier van Lieshout, Exilhäuser Architekten, Hans Peter Wörndl, 2012 Architecten, Bik VanderPol with Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten, Alicia Framis, Eduard Böhtlingk, Luc Deleu, Attila Foundation (Kas Oosterhuis, Menno Rubbens, Ilona Lénárd), Daniel Milohnic & Dirk Paschke, Maurer United Architects and Dré Wapenaar.
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Petites maisons
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Dans son introduction, cet ouvrage explore en détail le contexte historique et social qui sous-tend le logement compact au XXe siècle. Puis sont étudiés 37 exemples illustrés choisis parmi les plus intéressants construits dans le monde au cours des cinq dernières années. La surface habitable y dépasse rarement 100 m2, et chaque projet incarne une approche architecturale(...)
Petites maisons
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Dans son introduction, cet ouvrage explore en détail le contexte historique et social qui sous-tend le logement compact au XXe siècle. Puis sont étudiés 37 exemples illustrés choisis parmi les plus intéressants construits dans le monde au cours des cinq dernières années. La surface habitable y dépasse rarement 100 m2, et chaque projet incarne une approche architecturale particulière des aménagements compacts. Les exemples sont divisés en trois groupes: retraites rurales, unités urbaines et banlieusardes, petits regroupements et multiplex. On retrouve ici des noms prestigieux comme Toyo Ito, Lacaton et Vassal, Herzog et de Meuron, LOT/EK.
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La tente et le chapiteau
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Le cirque aujourd'hui est à la mode. Son lieu participe à son alchimie, ici un chapiteau, là un bâtiment stable. Son histoire est inséparable de celle du voyage. Ses premiers artistes, des officiers de cavalerie qui quittent l'armée pour s'exercer à la voltige en public, appartiennent à la culture de la vie en campement. En perpétuant la tradition du nomadisme, ils en(...)
La tente et le chapiteau
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Le cirque aujourd'hui est à la mode. Son lieu participe à son alchimie, ici un chapiteau, là un bâtiment stable. Son histoire est inséparable de celle du voyage. Ses premiers artistes, des officiers de cavalerie qui quittent l'armée pour s'exercer à la voltige en public, appartiennent à la culture de la vie en campement. En perpétuant la tradition du nomadisme, ils en adoptent l'architecture, dont l'attribut est l'éphémère, le matériau la toile, la structure les mâts et les tendeurs. Tout au long de l'histoire, tentes et chapiteaux ont rivalisé en beauté, luxe et prouesses techniques. De l'Egypte, la Perse, la Turquie et l'Europe, en passant par la Russie, la Mongolie et les États-Unis, ce livre nous entraîne dans la vie trépidante d'aventuriers et de conquérants qui ont construit notre monde.
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April 2004, Paris
Miniature Architecture
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The iA, or Interactive Architecture, bookzine series will consist of 12 issues bi-annually, published over a period of six years under the supervision Kas Oosterhuis, director of Hyperbody at the Delft University of Technology and principal of ONL [Oosterhuis Lénárd]. The Interactive Architecture (iA), concept is based on the equal input (listening), process (thinking),(...)
Miniature Architecture
October 2007, Rotterdam
ia #1 Interactive architecture
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The iA, or Interactive Architecture, bookzine series will consist of 12 issues bi-annually, published over a period of six years under the supervision Kas Oosterhuis, director of Hyperbody at the Delft University of Technology and principal of ONL [Oosterhuis Lénárd]. The Interactive Architecture (iA), concept is based on the equal input (listening), process (thinking), and output (talking) of people as well as the built components of architecture. This will be one of the first publications to document in detail this groundbreaking new development in architecture. iA will undoubtedly become the premier archive of this endeavor. The publication program will consist of scientific papers on particular aspects of iA and iA-driven MSc projects, iA-inspired case studies from practice, interviews with a renowned researcher/practitioner, and blogs by Kas Oosterhuis. The inaugural issue features contributions from Cas Aalbers, Henriette Bier, Nimish Biloria, Michael Bitterman, Sven Blokker, Sander Boer, Christian Friedrich, Hans Hubers, Xin Xia, and others.
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