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When we view photographs of unfurnished interiors, what we see looks almost nothing like the homes we ultimately inhabit: blank, labyrinthine spaces, featureless rooms with walls that meet at odd angles and exits that lead nowhere. These strange and seamless spaces make up a peculiar genre of representation: views of the unfurnished interior in architects’ online(...)
Contemporary Architecture
September 2018
House tour: Views of the unfurnished interior
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When we view photographs of unfurnished interiors, what we see looks almost nothing like the homes we ultimately inhabit: blank, labyrinthine spaces, featureless rooms with walls that meet at odd angles and exits that lead nowhere. These strange and seamless spaces make up a peculiar genre of representation: views of the unfurnished interior in architects’ online portfolios. 'House Tour' which accompanied Switzerland’s award-winning contribution to the 2018 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, is a playful yet thought-provoking celebration of this genre that is both familiar and not. In a series of essays, the contributors—anthropologists, art and architectural historians, and architectural theorists—consider the ubiquitous contemporary apartment, the void we inhabit with its standard measurements that reflect contemporary architecture’s key constraints. A striking visual journey, House Tour takes as its starting point almost three hundred photographs of such unfurnished interiors designed by leading Swiss architecture firms.
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Public without rhetoric
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"Public without rhetoric" brings together 12 public building projects created by Portuguese architects, whose construction was completed between 2007 and 2017, a decade ravaged by the severe financial and economic crisis. The chosen works highlight the Portuguese architects marked generalist nature and cross-generational excellence, in an affirmation of architecture as a(...)
May 2018
Public without rhetoric
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"Public without rhetoric" brings together 12 public building projects created by Portuguese architects, whose construction was completed between 2007 and 2017, a decade ravaged by the severe financial and economic crisis. The chosen works highlight the Portuguese architects marked generalist nature and cross-generational excellence, in an affirmation of architecture as a celebration of the experience of public space.
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The Netherlands has been and continues to be a testing ground where the future of labor is reimagined. Published in conjunction with the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, ''Work, Body, Leisure'' analyzes spatial arrangements and protocols molded for the interaction between humans and machines; spaces that challenge(...)
May 2018
Work, body, leisure. Dutch pavilion, 16th international Biennale di Venezia
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The Netherlands has been and continues to be a testing ground where the future of labor is reimagined. Published in conjunction with the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, ''Work, Body, Leisure'' analyzes spatial arrangements and protocols molded for the interaction between humans and machines; spaces that challenge traditional distinctions between work and leisure; the ways in which evolving notions of labor have categorized and defined bodies at particular moments in time; and the legal, cultural, and technical infrastructures that enable their exploitation, with the aim of fostering new forms of creativity and responsibility within the architectural field in response to emerging technologies of automation.
New schools of thought
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Since the late 20th century, political regulations, internationalisation, and rapid digitalisation are only a few factors that have significantly transformed the environments within which European institutions of architectural education operate. In adapting and adhering to such changes, schools of architecture strive to develop innovative, didactic, programmatic, or(...)
New schools of thought
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Since the late 20th century, political regulations, internationalisation, and rapid digitalisation are only a few factors that have significantly transformed the environments within which European institutions of architectural education operate. In adapting and adhering to such changes, schools of architecture strive to develop innovative, didactic, programmatic, or spatial models that are distinguishable. Through eighteen case studies, four of which are presented in detail, this book highlights tendencies in architectural education beyond academia, illustrating the interdependence between the educational model and its spatial disposition, and revealing potential new schools of thought.
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Ce livre regroupe une sélection de bâtiments qui en région Grand Est ont obtenu le label « patrimoine du XXe siècle », devenu depuis le 7 juillet 2016 le label « architecture contemporaine remarquable ». Dus à des architectes de renom international (Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel), à des maîtres d’œuvre plus modestes ou à des ingénieurs, les exemples proposés sont soit(...)
Contemporary Architecture
March 2018
Architecture du XXe siècle, Grand Est
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Ce livre regroupe une sélection de bâtiments qui en région Grand Est ont obtenu le label « patrimoine du XXe siècle », devenu depuis le 7 juillet 2016 le label « architecture contemporaine remarquable ». Dus à des architectes de renom international (Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel), à des maîtres d’œuvre plus modestes ou à des ingénieurs, les exemples proposés sont soit exceptionnels dans leur programme (la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme à Strasbourg ou l’attraction « Anaconda » du parc Walygator, près de Metz) soit parfaitement représentatifs d’une typologie singulière à certains moments du siècle (comme la Reconstruction post-conflits, la construction de grands sièges sociaux d’entreprises dans les années 1970 ou les piscines Tournesol) et font appel à des matériaux et des techniques de mise en œuvre variés.
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"Architecture méditerranéenne d'aujourd'hui" présente 40 projets de réhabilitation d’écoles, crèches, lycées, immeubles administratifs ou habitats individuels de la région française Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur en vue de créer un environnement bâti plus sain, plus confortable et plus écoresponsable où le bois et les matériaux biosourcés sont à l’honneur.
Contemporary Architecture
July 2018
Architecture mediterranéenne d'aujourd'hui
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"Architecture méditerranéenne d'aujourd'hui" présente 40 projets de réhabilitation d’écoles, crèches, lycées, immeubles administratifs ou habitats individuels de la région française Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur en vue de créer un environnement bâti plus sain, plus confortable et plus écoresponsable où le bois et les matériaux biosourcés sont à l’honneur.
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Building views
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The minimalist window has known a remarkable success for nearly two decades, pursuing and extending the legacy of a major icon of Modern Architecture — the horizontal sliding window and the glass window/wall. Starting from the worldwide experience of Jofebar, a thirty-year-old company in the field of metalworking, structural glass and minimalist windows, this book(...)
Building views
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The minimalist window has known a remarkable success for nearly two decades, pursuing and extending the legacy of a major icon of Modern Architecture — the horizontal sliding window and the glass window/wall. Starting from the worldwide experience of Jofebar, a thirty-year-old company in the field of metalworking, structural glass and minimalist windows, this book proposes to build different views on the contemporary window, architecture and construction. Contributors — including architects, critics, photographers, writers, entrepreneurs and academics — offer a rich and unexpected set of insightful texts and beautiful images.
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Sparked by issues raised by the Israel Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, this publication gathers architectural plans, archival documents, artistic contributions and essays considering five major holy sites and the role of architecture in the regulation of competing religious communities.
August 2018
In statu quo: architectures of negotiation
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Sparked by issues raised by the Israel Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, this publication gathers architectural plans, archival documents, artistic contributions and essays considering five major holy sites and the role of architecture in the regulation of competing religious communities.
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Reflecting daily life in Slovenia, ''Living With Water'' is the catalogue for the Slovenian Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition. From rivers, glacial lakes, and waterfalls, to bogs, karst, disappearing lakes, and thermal springs, water is one of the most potent and decisive factors determining both the country's landscapes and its supply of drinking(...)
Living with water: Slovenian Pavilion Venice Architecture 2018
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Reflecting daily life in Slovenia, ''Living With Water'' is the catalogue for the Slovenian Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition. From rivers, glacial lakes, and waterfalls, to bogs, karst, disappearing lakes, and thermal springs, water is one of the most potent and decisive factors determining both the country's landscapes and its supply of drinking water. A multidisciplinary team of thirteen architects, landscape architects, urban planners, researchers, and strategists rethink water management and the protection of water resources. From site-specific case studies to alternative models, they explore the complexity of natural and artificial water systems.
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Architects draw buildings, and the buildings they draw are usually populated by representations of the human figure — drawn, copied, collaged, or inserted — most often to suggest scale. It is impossible to represent architecture without representing the human form. This book collects more than 1,000 scale figures by 250 architects but presents them in a completely(...)
Contemporary Architecture
January 2019
An unfinished encyclopedia of scale figures without architecture
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Architects draw buildings, and the buildings they draw are usually populated by representations of the human figure — drawn, copied, collaged, or inserted — most often to suggest scale. It is impossible to represent architecture without representing the human form. This book collects more than 1,000 scale figures by 250 architects but presents them in a completely unexpected way: it removes them from their architectural context, displaying them on the page, buildingless, giving them lives of their own. They are presented not thematically or chronologically but encyclopedically, alphabetically by architect (Aalto to Zumthor). In serendipitous juxtapositions, the autonomous human figures appear and reappear, displaying endless variations of architecturally rendered human forms.
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