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Architecture et technologies sont étroitement liées bien qu'évoluant à des rythmes différents. Leurs relations sont donc complexes et leurs rebords ponctuent l'histoire de l'architecture. Malgré leurs discours rationalistes, les mouvements modernes n'ont jamais vraiment su ou pu conjuguer l'un et l'autre, une dichotomie qui aujourd'hui se perpétue; la pratique(...)
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Architecture et technologies sont étroitement liées bien qu'évoluant à des rythmes différents. Leurs relations sont donc complexes et leurs rebords ponctuent l'histoire de l'architecture. Malgré leurs discours rationalistes, les mouvements modernes n'ont jamais vraiment su ou pu conjuguer l'un et l'autre, une dichotomie qui aujourd'hui se perpétue; la pratique(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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October 2002, Paris / Basel / Boston / Berlin
October 2002, Paris / Basel / Boston / Berlin
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Innovations durables : une autre architecture française / Appropriate sustainabllities : new ways in architecture
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Architecture et technologies sont étroitement liées bien qu'évoluant à des rythmes différents. Leurs relations sont donc complexes et leurs rebords ponctuent l'histoire de l'architecture. Malgré leurs discours rationalistes, les mouvements modernes n'ont jamais vraiment su ou pu conjuguer l'un et l'autre, une dichotomie qui aujourd'hui se perpétue; la pratique architecturale n'intègre en effet que très ocasionnelement les acquis de technologies toujours plus performantes, celles notamment concernant les économies d'énergies, l'autosuffisance et le respect d'environnement naturels. En témoigne l'extraordinaire indigence de formulations architecturales incorporant les systèmes de capteurs solaires ou celles des projets à prétentions écologiques. Ces indigences ne sont pas rédhibitoires. Des architectes se sont intéressés à ces technologies dites douces et les ont saisies pour développer des projets d'entités autosuffisantes, de bâtiments à haute qualité environnementale. Les formulations en sont souvent hétérogènes, parfois spectaculaire mais jamais gratuites qui annoncent la maturité d'une autre génération d'architectes, l'éclosion d'une architecture susceptible de mieux répondre aux préoccupations d'une époque cherchant à préserver son avenir. C'est là le sens de cet ouvrage dont le contenu montre que si la discipline d'architecture exprime son temps, elle sait aussi anticiper. ////////////////////////////////// Whilst France’s contemporary architecture is highly regarded throughout the world, her architects have hardly been leading protagonists in the debate on ecological building. The developments featured in this book, however, should serve to correct this impression. Between 1999- 2002 Electricité de France (EDF) initiated an ambitious research programme to bring together first-class architects and innovative technologies involving renewable energy, strategies to reduce energy consumption, newly developed software programs to support ecologically oriented architectural design etc. The goal was to create sustainable and aesthetically pleasing architecture. This book documents the buildings, some of which have already been realized, resulting from this experiment which attracted participation from both established and also younger architects. Amongst those included are Jean-Yves Barrier, Gilles Bouchez, François Chochon, Adrien Fainsilber, Jacques Ferrier, Manuelle Gautrand, Christian Hauvette, Dominique Lyon & Pierre du Besset, Marc Mimram, François Roche, François Seigneur & Sylvie de la Dure, Francis Soler, Mirto Vitart & Jean-Marc Ibos. Marc Emery was Chief Editor of the magazine "Architecture d’Aujourd’hui" and is an expert on the French architectural scene.
Innovations durables : une autre architecture française / Appropriate sustainabllities : new ways in architecture
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Architecture et technologies sont étroitement liées bien qu'évoluant à des rythmes différents. Leurs relations sont donc complexes et leurs rebords ponctuent l'histoire de l'architecture. Malgré leurs discours rationalistes, les mouvements modernes n'ont jamais vraiment su ou pu conjuguer l'un et l'autre, une dichotomie qui aujourd'hui se perpétue; la pratique architecturale n'intègre en effet que très ocasionnelement les acquis de technologies toujours plus performantes, celles notamment concernant les économies d'énergies, l'autosuffisance et le respect d'environnement naturels. En témoigne l'extraordinaire indigence de formulations architecturales incorporant les systèmes de capteurs solaires ou celles des projets à prétentions écologiques. Ces indigences ne sont pas rédhibitoires. Des architectes se sont intéressés à ces technologies dites douces et les ont saisies pour développer des projets d'entités autosuffisantes, de bâtiments à haute qualité environnementale. Les formulations en sont souvent hétérogènes, parfois spectaculaire mais jamais gratuites qui annoncent la maturité d'une autre génération d'architectes, l'éclosion d'une architecture susceptible de mieux répondre aux préoccupations d'une époque cherchant à préserver son avenir. C'est là le sens de cet ouvrage dont le contenu montre que si la discipline d'architecture exprime son temps, elle sait aussi anticiper. ////////////////////////////////// Whilst France’s contemporary architecture is highly regarded throughout the world, her architects have hardly been leading protagonists in the debate on ecological building. The developments featured in this book, however, should serve to correct this impression. Between 1999- 2002 Electricité de France (EDF) initiated an ambitious research programme to bring together first-class architects and innovative technologies involving renewable energy, strategies to reduce energy consumption, newly developed software programs to support ecologically oriented architectural design etc. The goal was to create sustainable and aesthetically pleasing architecture. This book documents the buildings, some of which have already been realized, resulting from this experiment which attracted participation from both established and also younger architects. Amongst those included are Jean-Yves Barrier, Gilles Bouchez, François Chochon, Adrien Fainsilber, Jacques Ferrier, Manuelle Gautrand, Christian Hauvette, Dominique Lyon & Pierre du Besset, Marc Mimram, François Roche, François Seigneur & Sylvie de la Dure, Francis Soler, Mirto Vitart & Jean-Marc Ibos. Marc Emery was Chief Editor of the magazine "Architecture d’Aujourd’hui" and is an expert on the French architectural scene.
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What is new German architecture? What are its distinguishing features, its character? This publication presents an extensive portrait of contemporary architecture in Germany. Well-known authors in the field describe 25 state-of-the art buildings and projects by German architects from 1990 to the present, and, by means of a selection of ten architectural firms, provide an(...)
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What is new German architecture? What are its distinguishing features, its character? This publication presents an extensive portrait of contemporary architecture in Germany. Well-known authors in the field describe 25 state-of-the art buildings and projects by German architects from 1990 to the present, and, by means of a selection of ten architectural firms, provide an(...)
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October 2002, Ostfildern
October 2002, Ostfildern
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New German architecture : a reflexive modernism
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What is new German architecture? What are its distinguishing features, its character? This publication presents an extensive portrait of contemporary architecture in Germany. Well-known authors in the field describe 25 state-of-the art buildings and projects by German architects from 1990 to the present, and, by means of a selection of ten architectural firms, provide an overview of the most important movements in German architecture since 1975.
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What is new German architecture? What are its distinguishing features, its character? This publication presents an extensive portrait of contemporary architecture in Germany. Well-known authors in the field describe 25 state-of-the art buildings and projects by German architects from 1990 to the present, and, by means of a selection of ten architectural firms, provide an overview of the most important movements in German architecture since 1975.
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October 2002, Ostfildern
October 2002, Ostfildern
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"Beyond architainment" presents buildings and projects by Holz Box Tirol architecturs, riccione architects, one room, Franz Sam, Wolfgang Feyferlik, Weichlbauer/Ortis, awg, AllesWirdGut, Popelka & Poduschka, RATAPLAN, and pool. This third volume in the series complements the first two in forming an "Austrian trilogy" that succinctly delineates the varied and profound(...)
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"Beyond architainment" presents buildings and projects by Holz Box Tirol architecturs, riccione architects, one room, Franz Sam, Wolfgang Feyferlik, Weichlbauer/Ortis, awg, AllesWirdGut, Popelka & Poduschka, RATAPLAN, and pool. This third volume in the series complements the first two in forming an "Austrian trilogy" that succinctly delineates the varied and profound(...)
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Emerging architecture 3 : beyond architainment
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"Beyond architainment" presents buildings and projects by Holz Box Tirol architecturs, riccione architects, one room, Franz Sam, Wolfgang Feyferlik, Weichlbauer/Ortis, awg, AllesWirdGut, Popelka & Poduschka, RATAPLAN, and pool. This third volume in the series complements the first two in forming an "Austrian trilogy" that succinctly delineates the varied and profound production of a younger generation of architects working between Vienna and Vorarlberg, the Tyrol and Styria.
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"Beyond architainment" presents buildings and projects by Holz Box Tirol architecturs, riccione architects, one room, Franz Sam, Wolfgang Feyferlik, Weichlbauer/Ortis, awg, AllesWirdGut, Popelka & Poduschka, RATAPLAN, and pool. This third volume in the series complements the first two in forming an "Austrian trilogy" that succinctly delineates the varied and profound production of a younger generation of architects working between Vienna and Vorarlberg, the Tyrol and Styria.
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December 2002, Vienna
December 2002, Vienna
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LA's early moderns
LA's early moderns
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Galka Scheyer, Walter and Louise Arensberg, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, John Cage, Anaïs Nin, and several dozen other artists and designers - the modernist pioneers of Los Angeles art and architecture - came together as a community and changed Los Angeles forever. "LA's Early Moderns" reveals this secret Los Angeles, a Los Angeles filled with optimism about a(...)
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Galka Scheyer, Walter and Louise Arensberg, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, John Cage, Anaïs Nin, and several dozen other artists and designers - the modernist pioneers of Los Angeles art and architecture - came together as a community and changed Los Angeles forever. "LA's Early Moderns" reveals this secret Los Angeles, a Los Angeles filled with optimism about a(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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October 2002, Los Angeles
October 2002, Los Angeles
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LA's early moderns
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Galka Scheyer, Walter and Louise Arensberg, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, John Cage, Anaïs Nin, and several dozen other artists and designers - the modernist pioneers of Los Angeles art and architecture - came together as a community and changed Los Angeles forever. "LA's Early Moderns" reveals this secret Los Angeles, a Los Angeles filled with optimism about a different kind of "city of the future."
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Galka Scheyer, Walter and Louise Arensberg, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, John Cage, Anaïs Nin, and several dozen other artists and designers - the modernist pioneers of Los Angeles art and architecture - came together as a community and changed Los Angeles forever. "LA's Early Moderns" reveals this secret Los Angeles, a Los Angeles filled with optimism about a different kind of "city of the future."
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October 2002, Los Angeles
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Au travers des textes de sept grands noms de l'architecture européenne d'avant-guerre, c'est à une réflexion sur l'architecture moderne et la conception architecturale que l'auteur convie le lecteur. La plupart des textes présentés ici le sont pour la première fois en français. Nous trouvons ici des textes de Schindler, Mendelsohn, Meyer, Michelucci, Ginzburg, et Lurçat.
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Au travers des textes de sept grands noms de l'architecture européenne d'avant-guerre, c'est à une réflexion sur l'architecture moderne et la conception architecturale que l'auteur convie le lecteur. La plupart des textes présentés ici le sont pour la première fois en français. Nous trouvons ici des textes de Schindler, Mendelsohn, Meyer, Michelucci, Ginzburg, et Lurçat.
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Pionniers de l'architecture moderne, une anthologie
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Au travers des textes de sept grands noms de l'architecture européenne d'avant-guerre, c'est à une réflexion sur l'architecture moderne et la conception architecturale que l'auteur convie le lecteur. La plupart des textes présentés ici le sont pour la première fois en français. Nous trouvons ici des textes de Schindler, Mendelsohn, Meyer, Michelucci, Ginzburg, et Lurçat.
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Au travers des textes de sept grands noms de l'architecture européenne d'avant-guerre, c'est à une réflexion sur l'architecture moderne et la conception architecturale que l'auteur convie le lecteur. La plupart des textes présentés ici le sont pour la première fois en français. Nous trouvons ici des textes de Schindler, Mendelsohn, Meyer, Michelucci, Ginzburg, et Lurçat.
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June 2002, Lausanne
June 2002, Lausanne
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Dutch architects 5
Dutch architects 5
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"Dutch Architects 5" is the internationally recognized authoritative survey of recent projects by more than a hundred of Holland's most successful architects and interior designers. Each architectural firm presents its latest projects in full colour illustrations, supported by comprehensive project information and informative company profiles. Representative of a code of(...)
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"Dutch Architects 5" is the internationally recognized authoritative survey of recent projects by more than a hundred of Holland's most successful architects and interior designers. Each architectural firm presents its latest projects in full colour illustrations, supported by comprehensive project information and informative company profiles. Representative of a code of(...)
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"Dutch Architects 5" is the internationally recognized authoritative survey of recent projects by more than a hundred of Holland's most successful architects and interior designers. Each architectural firm presents its latest projects in full colour illustrations, supported by comprehensive project information and informative company profiles. Representative of a code of modern architectural ideals, the works are progressive, aesthetically pleasing, environmentally responsible, and highly functional. Projects range from low budget to highly sophisticated, special purpose constructions and cover the broadest possible spectrum of residential and commercial commissions.
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"Dutch Architects 5" is the internationally recognized authoritative survey of recent projects by more than a hundred of Holland's most successful architects and interior designers. Each architectural firm presents its latest projects in full colour illustrations, supported by comprehensive project information and informative company profiles. Representative of a code of modern architectural ideals, the works are progressive, aesthetically pleasing, environmentally responsible, and highly functional. Projects range from low budget to highly sophisticated, special purpose constructions and cover the broadest possible spectrum of residential and commercial commissions.
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May 2002, Amsterdam
May 2002, Amsterdam
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After the Second World War, talented young architects including several from Switzerland, turned to the task of promoting the ideals of Modernism. Their main interest lay in furthering the new design and construction methods which were then being made possible by industrial prefabrication and montage, eve considering and incorporating them at the design stage. The time(...)
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After the Second World War, talented young architects including several from Switzerland, turned to the task of promoting the ideals of Modernism. Their main interest lay in furthering the new design and construction methods which were then being made possible by industrial prefabrication and montage, eve considering and incorporating them at the design stage. The time(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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April 2002, Basel
April 2002, Basel
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Post-war modernity in Switzerland : architecture by Werner Frey, Franz Füeg, Jacques Schader, Jakob Zweifel
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After the Second World War, talented young architects including several from Switzerland, turned to the task of promoting the ideals of Modernism. Their main interest lay in furthering the new design and construction methods which were then being made possible by industrial prefabrication and montage, eve considering and incorporating them at the design stage. The time has now come to review this chapter of recent architectural history. This publication focuses on four architects: Werner Frey (1912-1989), Franz Füeg (born 1921), Jacques Schader (born 1917) and Jacob Zweifel (born 1921). This group of Zurich architects created buildings which can be seen to embody the typical features of the architecture emerging from the late 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s : fastidious construction methods, a structural approach to designing brought about by increased use of prefabricated parts, an awareness of different social needs of the individual and the group which were subsequently reflected in the designs. Using a wealth of historical illustrations together with photographs by Doris Fanconis and 8 documentary films by Georg Radanowicz, visually interpreting the architecture from a contemporary viewpoint, this book is an invaluable documentation and analysis of those buildings which are of consequence for today's architecture.
Post-war modernity in Switzerland : architecture by Werner Frey, Franz Füeg, Jacques Schader, Jakob Zweifel
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After the Second World War, talented young architects including several from Switzerland, turned to the task of promoting the ideals of Modernism. Their main interest lay in furthering the new design and construction methods which were then being made possible by industrial prefabrication and montage, eve considering and incorporating them at the design stage. The time has now come to review this chapter of recent architectural history. This publication focuses on four architects: Werner Frey (1912-1989), Franz Füeg (born 1921), Jacques Schader (born 1917) and Jacob Zweifel (born 1921). This group of Zurich architects created buildings which can be seen to embody the typical features of the architecture emerging from the late 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s : fastidious construction methods, a structural approach to designing brought about by increased use of prefabricated parts, an awareness of different social needs of the individual and the group which were subsequently reflected in the designs. Using a wealth of historical illustrations together with photographs by Doris Fanconis and 8 documentary films by Georg Radanowicz, visually interpreting the architecture from a contemporary viewpoint, this book is an invaluable documentation and analysis of those buildings which are of consequence for today's architecture.
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April 2002, Basel
April 2002, Basel
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Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from(...)
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Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from(...)
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Landscrapers : building with the land
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Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from around the world are building into the earth and merging man-made forms with the contours of the land. The results are at once preternatural and breathtaking. From Zaha Hadid’s Tram Terminal in France to Snøhetta’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, from Future System’s hill-burrowing house in Wales to Antoine Predock’s Spencer Theater in the United States, over fifty projects displayed here expose the breadth and depth of this new direction in architecture. Aaron Betsky first considers our historical preoccupation with communing with the land through building, then four central chapters – ‘Engineered Utopias’, ‘Caves and Caverns’, ‘Unfolding the Land’ and ‘A New Nature’ – explore the ways in which ‘geotecture’ responds to, becomes a part of and yet remains distinctive within our natural landscape.
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Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from around the world are building into the earth and merging man-made forms with the contours of the land. The results are at once preternatural and breathtaking. From Zaha Hadid’s Tram Terminal in France to Snøhetta’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, from Future System’s hill-burrowing house in Wales to Antoine Predock’s Spencer Theater in the United States, over fifty projects displayed here expose the breadth and depth of this new direction in architecture. Aaron Betsky first considers our historical preoccupation with communing with the land through building, then four central chapters – ‘Engineered Utopias’, ‘Caves and Caverns’, ‘Unfolding the Land’ and ‘A New Nature’ – explore the ways in which ‘geotecture’ responds to, becomes a part of and yet remains distinctive within our natural landscape.
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October 2002, New York
October 2002, New York
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From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal, and philosophical principles of architecture. In The "Glass state", Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1998 as part of François Mitterrand’s(...)
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From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal, and philosophical principles of architecture. In The "Glass state", Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1998 as part of François Mitterrand’s(...)
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December 2002, Cambridge / London
December 2002, Cambridge / London
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The glass state : the technology of the spectacle - Paris, 1981-1998
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From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal, and philosophical principles of architecture. In The "Glass state", Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1998 as part of François Mitterrand’s program of Grands Projets. The Grands Projets provide a rare opportunity to study a finite set of buildings constructed of similar materials, in the same time period, in a specific urban landscape, and with related ideological missions. Fierro employs a "discourse of the detail," in which the smallest architectural detail manifests the political, theoretical, and urban contexts of the building’s design and construction. She examines the paradox of the most pared down architectural configurations being used to support the most complex meanings. Intrinsic to Mitterrand’s glass buildings in Paris, for example, is a political concept: the metaphor of accessibility as a means of breaking open cultural institutions previously closed to the public. In addition to the structures of the Grands Projets--the Institut du Monde Arabe, the Grande and Petite Pyramides du Louvre, the glass greenhouses at utopian park projects at La Villette and Andre Citroën, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France--Fierro discusses the Fondation Cartier and two precedent structures, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Eiffel Tower.
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From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal, and philosophical principles of architecture. In The "Glass state", Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1998 as part of François Mitterrand’s program of Grands Projets. The Grands Projets provide a rare opportunity to study a finite set of buildings constructed of similar materials, in the same time period, in a specific urban landscape, and with related ideological missions. Fierro employs a "discourse of the detail," in which the smallest architectural detail manifests the political, theoretical, and urban contexts of the building’s design and construction. She examines the paradox of the most pared down architectural configurations being used to support the most complex meanings. Intrinsic to Mitterrand’s glass buildings in Paris, for example, is a political concept: the metaphor of accessibility as a means of breaking open cultural institutions previously closed to the public. In addition to the structures of the Grands Projets--the Institut du Monde Arabe, the Grande and Petite Pyramides du Louvre, the glass greenhouses at utopian park projects at La Villette and Andre Citroën, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France--Fierro discusses the Fondation Cartier and two precedent structures, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Eiffel Tower.
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December 2002, Cambridge / London
December 2002, Cambridge / London
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A view of contemporary Australian architecture from the past ten years is provided, featuring the work of fourteen architectural practices. Most are "young" firms with a recognisable body of built work.
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A view of contemporary Australian architecture from the past ten years is provided, featuring the work of fourteen architectural practices. Most are "young" firms with a recognisable body of built work.
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May 2001, Balmain
May 2001, Balmain
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New directions in australian architecture
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A view of contemporary Australian architecture from the past ten years is provided, featuring the work of fourteen architectural practices. Most are "young" firms with a recognisable body of built work.
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A view of contemporary Australian architecture from the past ten years is provided, featuring the work of fourteen architectural practices. Most are "young" firms with a recognisable body of built work.
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May 2001, Balmain
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