URBANbuild: Local global
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Documents the work of URBANbuild, a comprehensive two-year program at Tulane University School of Architecture initiated to actively support the rehabilitation of the city of New Orleans in the aftermath of the storm of August 2005. URBANbuild-quite literally a double-sided book-reconnects local research, analysis and design for New Orleans with a broader framework that(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
December 2009
URBANbuild: Local global
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Documents the work of URBANbuild, a comprehensive two-year program at Tulane University School of Architecture initiated to actively support the rehabilitation of the city of New Orleans in the aftermath of the storm of August 2005. URBANbuild-quite literally a double-sided book-reconnects local research, analysis and design for New Orleans with a broader framework that embraces knowledge and experience drawn from comparable world cities.
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Phase de transition entre tradition et modernité, la période du Mandat (1920-1940), après la disparition de l'Empire ottoman, place le Liban sous l'administration de la France. Cette influence occidentale, tant politique que culturelle, laisse son empreinte sur l'architecture et le paysage urbain, en particulier à Beyrouth qui devient alors le siège du pouvoir français(...)
Beyrouth, architectures aux sources de la modernité, 1920-1940
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Phase de transition entre tradition et modernité, la période du Mandat (1920-1940), après la disparition de l'Empire ottoman, place le Liban sous l'administration de la France. Cette influence occidentale, tant politique que culturelle, laisse son empreinte sur l'architecture et le paysage urbain, en particulier à Beyrouth qui devient alors le siège du pouvoir français en Orient. Les analyses socio-historiques et typologiques dévoilent la richesse architecturale de cet héritage en étudiant les débuts de l'occidentalisation à Beyrouth dans l'architecture domestique, processus qui s'étend des dernières années du XIXe siècle jusqu'aux années trente. Un des modèles emblématiques est notamment révélé par le développement des bâtiments construits autour d'un hall central évoluant depuis la maison de banlieue jusqu'à l'appartement urbain type. Une abondante documentation inédite répertorie une trentaine de bâtiments caractéristiques, avec relevés détaillés de façade, éléments de modénature et photographies. Ce recensement est désormais d'autant plus précieux que nombre de bâtiments ont aujourd'hui disparu.
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This volume inaugurates a new series of publications edited by three leading authors on the world's architectural and artistic scene: H.U.Obrist, Rem Koolhaas and Stefano Boeri. This series of dialogues conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas is dedicated to the most topical subjects on the international scene. Protagonists of the British architectural,(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
February 2011
London a portrait of a city: Serpentine Gallery 24-hour interview marathon
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This volume inaugurates a new series of publications edited by three leading authors on the world's architectural and artistic scene: H.U.Obrist, Rem Koolhaas and Stefano Boeri. This series of dialogues conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas is dedicated to the most topical subjects on the international scene. Protagonists of the British architectural, political, and artistic scene, including Brian Eno, Zaha Hadid, Doris Lessing, Damien Hirst, and Gilbert and George, amongst others, have been invited to speak about the near future
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In this work, architectural historian Alice Friedman draws on a vast range of sources to argue that the aesthetics of mid-century modern architecture reflect an increasing fascination with “glamour,” a term widely used in those years to characterize objects, people, and experiences as luxurious, expressive, and even magical. Featuring assessments of architectural(...)
American glamour and the evolution of Modern architecture
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In this work, architectural historian Alice Friedman draws on a vast range of sources to argue that the aesthetics of mid-century modern architecture reflect an increasing fascination with “glamour,” a term widely used in those years to characterize objects, people, and experiences as luxurious, expressive, and even magical. Featuring assessments of architectural examples ranging from Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building to Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate, as well as vintage photographs, advertisements, and posters, this book argues that new audiences and client groups with tastes rooted in popular entertainment made their presence felt in the cultural marketplace during the postwar period.
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For this book, the Netherlands Architecture Institute selected 22 Dutch architecture firms with genuinely innovative ideas on these seven imperatives and the will to do something about them. The result is an agenda for the future of our living environment and a proof that designers have the creative power to make it happen. Architecture of Consequence proves that any(...)
Architecture of consequence, dutch designs on the future
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For this book, the Netherlands Architecture Institute selected 22 Dutch architecture firms with genuinely innovative ideas on these seven imperatives and the will to do something about them. The result is an agenda for the future of our living environment and a proof that designers have the creative power to make it happen. Architecture of Consequence proves that any notion that architecture should be an “expression of its time,” or should do no more than express the vanity of its commissioners, pales into insignificance when compared to its tremendous potential for resolving urgent societal problems.
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True North takes a look at contemporary Alaskan architecture. The architectural uniqueness of this part of the world is exemplified by carefully selected projects from different areas. Extreme climatic and geographic conditions like the cold, the strong winds and earthquakes set very challenging conditions for sustainable solutions. The featured projects respond(...)
True North: New Alaskan architecture
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True North takes a look at contemporary Alaskan architecture. The architectural uniqueness of this part of the world is exemplified by carefully selected projects from different areas. Extreme climatic and geographic conditions like the cold, the strong winds and earthquakes set very challenging conditions for sustainable solutions. The featured projects respond intelligently to their locations and the northern environment. They illustrate innovative and sensitive material palettes and sophisticated forms, whilst also considering functionality.
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Unbuildable Tatlin?!
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Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument for the III. International (1919) is certainly one of the most significant projects of Soviet Constructivism. It is, however, not at all certain whether “Tatlin’s Tower” could even be built at all at the time it was originally planned. And whether it would be constructed today with the presently available means and possibilities of planning,(...)
Unbuildable Tatlin?!
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Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument for the III. International (1919) is certainly one of the most significant projects of Soviet Constructivism. It is, however, not at all certain whether “Tatlin’s Tower” could even be built at all at the time it was originally planned. And whether it would be constructed today with the presently available means and possibilities of planning, calculating and processing materials is equally uncertain. The seminar on Structural Design 3 (Prof. Klaus Bollinger) focused on these reflections at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The preliminary answers and assumptions are summed up in the present volume. Complementing the works by students, texts by Klaus Bollinger, Frank Werner, Florian Medicus, Gabriele Werner, Georg Glaeser and Frank Gruber provide an overview of the theoretical, historical, constructive and geometric relevance of Vladimir Tatlin’s work and the architect’s intentions.
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Villa Sovietica
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Cette publication nous introduit à la culture matérielle de la vie quotidienne soviétique de manière inattendue, à la fois avec des pratiques familières à l’anthropologie culturelle et avec des outils issus du champ artistique. La première partie du livre est conçue comme un essai visuel, un voyage à travers différents contextes dans lesquels les objets soviétiques(...)
Villa Sovietica
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Cette publication nous introduit à la culture matérielle de la vie quotidienne soviétique de manière inattendue, à la fois avec des pratiques familières à l’anthropologie culturelle et avec des outils issus du champ artistique. La première partie du livre est conçue comme un essai visuel, un voyage à travers différents contextes dans lesquels les objets soviétiques apparaissent. Le lecteur est invité à découvrir certains échantillons de la culture matérielle (post)soviétique en posant l’acte délibéré de découper les pages qui les cachent sous une forme sublimée, dispersés parmi une centaine de photos de terrain prises en Roumanie, Slovaquie, Ukraine et Suisse.Dans une deuxième partie, une quinzaine d’auteurs, universitaires de différentes disciplines et traditions intellectuelles issus du monde post-soviétique et occidental, confrontent leurs points de vues sur les questions de la matérialité et de la spatialité, sur les rapports Est-Ouest, sur l’histoire de l’objet soviétique, sur le regard photographique, sur la mémoire, sur le fait de collectionner, en particulier sur la pratique muséale d’acquérir et de montrer des objets de l’autre, et mettent en évidence finalement la complémentarité entre anthropologie et art.
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Le littoral en projets
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Ce livre présente les premiers résultats d'une démarche expérimentale "d'ateliers" menés sur trois territoires du littoral français métropolitain.Les ateliers proposent d'explorer les conditions d'un partenariat renouvelé entre l'Etat et les collectivités, permettant de dépasser l'opposition récurrente entre protection et développement, à travers la mise en oeuvre d'une(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 2009
Le littoral en projets
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Ce livre présente les premiers résultats d'une démarche expérimentale "d'ateliers" menés sur trois territoires du littoral français métropolitain.Les ateliers proposent d'explorer les conditions d'un partenariat renouvelé entre l'Etat et les collectivités, permettant de dépasser l'opposition récurrente entre protection et développement, à travers la mise en oeuvre d'une démarche de projet : comment concilier, dans un espace aussi sensible et convoité que le littoral, les intérêts des différents acteurs tout en respectant le cadre légal déterminé par la loi Littoral ?
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This book describes the remarkable qualitative inprovements which have taken place in central Copenhagen over the past 34 years, and how they have been accomplished. It presents a method of assessing urban quality and gives a thorough insight into how people use urban spaces. A handbook on how to create human qualities in the city.
Public spaces public life: Copenhagen
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This book describes the remarkable qualitative inprovements which have taken place in central Copenhagen over the past 34 years, and how they have been accomplished. It presents a method of assessing urban quality and gives a thorough insight into how people use urban spaces. A handbook on how to create human qualities in the city.
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