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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(...)
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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(...)
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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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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(...)
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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(...)
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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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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(...)
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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(...)
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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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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?!
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,(...)
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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,(...)
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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, 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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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
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(...)
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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(...)
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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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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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December 2009
December 2009
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Le littoral en projets
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(...)
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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(...)
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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 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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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.
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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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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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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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This revisionist study explores the history of modernist architecture in Greater Los Angeles from the early twentieth century to the 1970s, focusing on both its regional and international contexts. Thomas Hines critically analyzes the concepts of modernism and regionalism and begins his exploration by contrasting the turn-of-the-century Craftsman work of Charles and Henry(...)
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This revisionist study explores the history of modernist architecture in Greater Los Angeles from the early twentieth century to the 1970s, focusing on both its regional and international contexts. Thomas Hines critically analyzes the concepts of modernism and regionalism and begins his exploration by contrasting the turn-of-the-century Craftsman work of Charles and Henry(...)
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Architecture of the sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970
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This revisionist study explores the history of modernist architecture in Greater Los Angeles from the early twentieth century to the 1970s, focusing on both its regional and international contexts. Thomas Hines critically analyzes the concepts of modernism and regionalism and begins his exploration by contrasting the turn-of-the-century Craftsman work of Charles and Henry Greene with the rationalist modernism of their contemporary Irving Gill and the expressionist modernism of Frank Lloyd Wright and his son Lloyd Wright.
Architecture of the sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970
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This revisionist study explores the history of modernist architecture in Greater Los Angeles from the early twentieth century to the 1970s, focusing on both its regional and international contexts. Thomas Hines critically analyzes the concepts of modernism and regionalism and begins his exploration by contrasting the turn-of-the-century Craftsman work of Charles and Henry Greene with the rationalist modernism of their contemporary Irving Gill and the expressionist modernism of Frank Lloyd Wright and his son Lloyd Wright.
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The new alpine 'hut' on Monte Rosa, at an altitude of 2883 meters (9458 feet) near Zermatt was opened in September 2009. This innovative building emerged from a collaborative effort between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC), and many experts and specialist manufacturers. It is also the result of pioneering technologies(...)
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The new alpine 'hut' on Monte Rosa, at an altitude of 2883 meters (9458 feet) near Zermatt was opened in September 2009. This innovative building emerged from a collaborative effort between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC), and many experts and specialist manufacturers. It is also the result of pioneering technologies(...)
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New Monte Rosa Hut SAC: self-sufficient building in the high Alps
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The new alpine 'hut' on Monte Rosa, at an altitude of 2883 meters (9458 feet) near Zermatt was opened in September 2009. This innovative building emerged from a collaborative effort between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC), and many experts and specialist manufacturers. It is also the result of pioneering technologies in design, calculation and building construction. In the form of discussions, essays on special topics, photographs and plans, this volume documents the building's genesis and planning and the construction of what is a milestone in high alpine architecture.
New Monte Rosa Hut SAC: self-sufficient building in the high Alps
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The new alpine 'hut' on Monte Rosa, at an altitude of 2883 meters (9458 feet) near Zermatt was opened in September 2009. This innovative building emerged from a collaborative effort between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC), and many experts and specialist manufacturers. It is also the result of pioneering technologies in design, calculation and building construction. In the form of discussions, essays on special topics, photographs and plans, this volume documents the building's genesis and planning and the construction of what is a milestone in high alpine architecture.
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Où trouve-t-on la salle des mariages la plus déjantée, conçue par l'artiste Hervé di Rosa ? Dans quelle ville la créatrice Nathalie Lété a-t-elle établi son atelier ? Où la maison manifeste du designer Al par Alto est-elle cachée ? Non pas au bout du monde, mais à quelques kilomètres de Paris : à Bobigny, Ivry-sur-Seine ou Bazoches-sur-Guyonne. Guillaume de Laubier et(...)
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Où trouve-t-on la salle des mariages la plus déjantée, conçue par l'artiste Hervé di Rosa ? Dans quelle ville la créatrice Nathalie Lété a-t-elle établi son atelier ? Où la maison manifeste du designer Al par Alto est-elle cachée ? Non pas au bout du monde, mais à quelques kilomètres de Paris : à Bobigny, Ivry-sur-Seine ou Bazoches-sur-Guyonne. Guillaume de Laubier et(...)
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April 2010
April 2010
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Made in banlieues: voyages innatendus aux portes de Paris
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Où trouve-t-on la salle des mariages la plus déjantée, conçue par l'artiste Hervé di Rosa ? Dans quelle ville la créatrice Nathalie Lété a-t-elle établi son atelier ? Où la maison manifeste du designer Al par Alto est-elle cachée ? Non pas au bout du monde, mais à quelques kilomètres de Paris : à Bobigny, Ivry-sur-Seine ou Bazoches-sur-Guyonne. Guillaume de Laubier et Diane Cazelles nous convient à un voyage insolite dans une banlieue multiple. Ateliers perpétuant des savoir-faire ancestraux, monuments chargés d'histoire, espaces de vie, de spectacles, pépinières d'artistes, show-rooms stylés, lieux de culte... 80 visites "outre-périphérique" qui nous ouvrent les yeux sur une banlieue synonyme de créativité, de dépaysement et de surprises.
Made in banlieues: voyages innatendus aux portes de Paris
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Où trouve-t-on la salle des mariages la plus déjantée, conçue par l'artiste Hervé di Rosa ? Dans quelle ville la créatrice Nathalie Lété a-t-elle établi son atelier ? Où la maison manifeste du designer Al par Alto est-elle cachée ? Non pas au bout du monde, mais à quelques kilomètres de Paris : à Bobigny, Ivry-sur-Seine ou Bazoches-sur-Guyonne. Guillaume de Laubier et Diane Cazelles nous convient à un voyage insolite dans une banlieue multiple. Ateliers perpétuant des savoir-faire ancestraux, monuments chargés d'histoire, espaces de vie, de spectacles, pépinières d'artistes, show-rooms stylés, lieux de culte... 80 visites "outre-périphérique" qui nous ouvrent les yeux sur une banlieue synonyme de créativité, de dépaysement et de surprises.
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