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Published to mark the 800th anniversary in 2007 of the founding of modern Liverpool by King John, Liverpool 800 is the definitive biography of this magnificent world city. Contributors explore the life of Liverpool over eight centuries, looking at the town’s early development, the eighteenth-century foundations of its mercantile economy, the golden period of the(...)
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September 2006, Liverpool
Liverpool 800 : culture, character & history
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Published to mark the 800th anniversary in 2007 of the founding of modern Liverpool by King John, Liverpool 800 is the definitive biography of this magnificent world city. Contributors explore the life of Liverpool over eight centuries, looking at the town’s early development, the eighteenth-century foundations of its mercantile economy, the golden period of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the difficult inter-war years, the fifties boom and the subsequent disastrous and seemingly irreversible decline – seemingly, because the winning of European Capital of Culture status for 2008 reflects Liverpool’s contemporary renaissance, an aspect of current history which is also reflected upon by the contributors. Ranging widely over politics and government, famous and infamous personalities, domestic lives and global connections, and culture both high and low, "Liverpool 800" offers a warts and all portrait of a city which has inspired contempt (‘a black spot on the Mersey’) and adulation (‘the centre of consciousness of the human universe’) but rarely indifference. This publication includes over 300 illustrations, many of which have never been published before.
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How can the different strands of modern architecture in Britain be understood? For many British people, it remains an alien cultural import and minority taste, yet British architecture has never stood higher in world esteem than at the close of the twentieth century. In this book Alan Powers shows how beneath today’s achievements in architecture, past conflicts have not(...)
Britain : modern architecture in history
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How can the different strands of modern architecture in Britain be understood? For many British people, it remains an alien cultural import and minority taste, yet British architecture has never stood higher in world esteem than at the close of the twentieth century. In this book Alan Powers shows how beneath today’s achievements in architecture, past conflicts have not been resolved, as the country that invented industrial civilization has struggled to control its effect on cities and countryside. He examines developments and changes from 1900 to the present day in a series of thematic chapters, giving equal weight to technical, economic and moral aspects and demonstrating how architecture has responded to specific social needs and political pressures. Rather than giving a conventional account of stylistic tendencies, Powers listens to the arguments and conversations of the time in order to recapture the dominating issues of each decade, and locate the moments of transition in architecture and in the wider culture. Featuring more than 220 images, including both recent and historical photographs, "Britain" is an authoritative yet highly accessible account of twentieth-century British architecture. Giving due regard to the separate identities of England, Scotland and Wales, the book also adds a new and original dimension to the perennial problem of defining ‘Britain’ in the modern world.
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July 2006, London
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Beuk Peroviæ Architects, Dekleva Gregoriè Architectsi, Elastik, Maechtig Vrhunc Architects, Ofis and Sadar Vuga Architects are the architectural practices introduced here. Some 80 projects are briefly examined, accompanied by photographs, models, texts and plans in this useful survey of a new generation who are defining the current state of contemporary Slovenian architecture.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
April 2006, Ljubljana
6ix pack : contemporary Slovenian architecture, 2005
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Beuk Peroviæ Architects, Dekleva Gregoriè Architectsi, Elastik, Maechtig Vrhunc Architects, Ofis and Sadar Vuga Architects are the architectural practices introduced here. Some 80 projects are briefly examined, accompanied by photographs, models, texts and plans in this useful survey of a new generation who are defining the current state of contemporary Slovenian architecture.
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April 2006, Ljubljana
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TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in(...)
Architecture in the united states
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TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects' or firms' most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series celebrates the richly hued architectural personality of each nation featured.
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Looking at European architecture: a critical view is the outcome of a process which brings together architects, historians and curators to provide an overview of European architectural criticism. Its objective is to encompass the concerns of writers and practicioners within the 27 Member States of the European Union at the start if this millennium. For each country, there(...)
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February 2008, Brussels
Looking at European architecture: a critical view
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Looking at European architecture: a critical view is the outcome of a process which brings together architects, historians and curators to provide an overview of European architectural criticism. Its objective is to encompass the concerns of writers and practicioners within the 27 Member States of the European Union at the start if this millennium. For each country, there is a text published in the original language and translated into English.
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Proof is the ninth in an annual series of publications that feature exceptional work by the talented winners of the Architectural League's annual Young Architects competition. The winning firms exemplify a new generation of architects and designers who actively probe, provoke, and expand traditional concepts of architectural design and practice. Each company is(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
May 2008, New York
Young architects 9: proof. ludens, productora, para, jinhee park, araanda/aasch, uni
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Proof is the ninth in an annual series of publications that feature exceptional work by the talented winners of the Architectural League's annual Young Architects competition. The winning firms exemplify a new generation of architects and designers who actively probe, provoke, and expand traditional concepts of architectural design and practice. Each company is represented in this handy pocket book through their projects, which are documented by rich picture material, accompanied b y explaining texts.
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What does it mean to practice architecture today? Does Italian architecture exist? What characterizes it? What values and objectives do you refer to when designing your architecture, and why? These are the questions recently put to 20 cutting-edge architectural firms working in Italy today. The answers come together in "Italy Now? Country Positions in Architecture",(...)
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March 2008, Ithaca, London
Italy now? : country positions in architecture
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What does it mean to practice architecture today? Does Italian architecture exist? What characterizes it? What values and objectives do you refer to when designing your architecture, and why? These are the questions recently put to 20 cutting-edge architectural firms working in Italy today. The answers come together in "Italy Now? Country Positions in Architecture", which presents the architects’written responses in parallel with their design work. Edited by Alberto Alessi, this bilingual book also contains critical essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Gabriele Mastrigli. Noted Italian photographers Gabriele Basilico, Francesco Jodice, Armin Linke, and Alberto Muciaccia have contributed their visions of Italy - the land and people as well as the architecture - to deepen the context of this book. Based on an exhibit held at Cornell University as well as on two related conferences, one in Ithaca and the other in New York City, "Italy Now?" offers an intriguing look at contemporary Italian architecture - its physical expression and the thinking behind it.
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Nineteen buildings across Scandinavia are analysed in this book. The contemporary work, which ranges from the domestic residence to the church, the industrial building, the library and the hall also includes experimental projects. Architects include Juha Leiviska, Sverre Fehn, Niels Torp, Monark Group, and Tegnestuen Vankunsten.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
May 1997, Basel
New wood architecture in Scandinavia
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Nineteen buildings across Scandinavia are analysed in this book. The contemporary work, which ranges from the domestic residence to the church, the industrial building, the library and the hall also includes experimental projects. Architects include Juha Leiviska, Sverre Fehn, Niels Torp, Monark Group, and Tegnestuen Vankunsten.
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May 1997, Basel
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations. He explores the Modernist movements of the early twentieth century – Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Purism – and concludes with the ‘post-modernist’ experiments of the 1980s and 1990s. He shows how the ‘tradition of the new’ became the(...)
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In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations. He explores the Modernist movements of the early twentieth century – Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Purism – and concludes with the ‘post-modernist’ experiments of the 1980s and 1990s. He shows how the ‘tradition of the new’ became the creative credo of a small group of progressive artists and how, with the emigration of leading German modernists to Britain and the USA in the 1930s, the theory and practice of Modernism became widespread. What had begun as a cluster of loosely related artistic movements scattered across Europe emerged as the dominant style of the twentieth century.
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April 2001, London
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Ce premier volume traite deux périodes : la période des prémisses de la modernité (de 1889 à 1914) ; la période des expériences (de 1919 à 1940). Le second volume, de 1940 à nos jours, rédigé par Joseph Abram et Gérard Monnier, sera publié en 1998.
L'architecture moderne en France, tome I : 1889-1940
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Ce premier volume traite deux périodes : la période des prémisses de la modernité (de 1889 à 1914) ; la période des expériences (de 1919 à 1940). Le second volume, de 1940 à nos jours, rédigé par Joseph Abram et Gérard Monnier, sera publié en 1998.
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February 1998, Paris
Architecture since 1900, Europe