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Shanghai, c’est la ville mythique par excellence. Capable de se renouveler cycliquement, de se rebâtir continuellement, on pourrait la croire dans un présent absolu, comme absente à son histoire, récente ou non, comme sans mémoire. Mais ce qui était vrai au début des années 2000 ne l’est peut-être plus aujourd’hui. Ville à l’avant-garde, ville laboratoire, elle a connu(...)
Shangaï: l'ordinaire et l'exceptionnel
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Shanghai, c’est la ville mythique par excellence. Capable de se renouveler cycliquement, de se rebâtir continuellement, on pourrait la croire dans un présent absolu, comme absente à son histoire, récente ou non, comme sans mémoire. Mais ce qui était vrai au début des années 2000 ne l’est peut-être plus aujourd’hui. Ville à l’avant-garde, ville laboratoire, elle a connu des bouleversements majeurs. Au cours de cette traversée des années 1980 à nos jours, Françoise Ged nous guide dans cette ville où l’ordinaire et l’exceptionnel sans cesse se côtoient.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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The projects by ten Korean architects highlighted in this exhibition catalogue satisfied briefs that mostly called for modest and human buildings, in opposition to the large housing sectors currently being built in Seoul and many other Asian cities. Particular attentiveness to the surroundings is seen in a number of the projects, especially when inserted into a mixed(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
May 2014
Point - Counterpoint: trajectories of ten korean architects / Point - Contrepoint: trajectoires de dix architectes coréens
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The projects by ten Korean architects highlighted in this exhibition catalogue satisfied briefs that mostly called for modest and human buildings, in opposition to the large housing sectors currently being built in Seoul and many other Asian cities. Particular attentiveness to the surroundings is seen in a number of the projects, especially when inserted into a mixed urban context of old and new. The high quality of traditional workmanship is readily apparent, along with close attention to detail and specific cultural qualities. In addition to an essay by Inha Jung on correlative architecture and new urban realities, the book includes detailed project data, images and drawings.
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Japan House
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A double-volume compendium of homes by Japanese architects, this publication profiles more than 50 diverse residential projects by 29 architects and offices. Each example is presented through diverse, full-colour photographs and architectural drawings, plus technical data and an explanatory text. Brief biographies of the architects also accompany the projects, which(...)
Japan House
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A double-volume compendium of homes by Japanese architects, this publication profiles more than 50 diverse residential projects by 29 architects and offices. Each example is presented through diverse, full-colour photographs and architectural drawings, plus technical data and an explanatory text. Brief biographies of the architects also accompany the projects, which represent a wide spectrum of approaches, contexts and solutions involving both the contemporary Japanese urban environment and its important socio-cultural aspects.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Authored by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, Naoya Hatakeyama, and others, this book gives a comprehensive look at the process of catastrophe and response which followed the Great East Japan Earthquake, as presented in the Japan Pavilion Exhibition at the 13th Biennale of Architecture in Venice. By posing this question, an assertion that architecture(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
February 2013
Architecture. Possible here? home-for-all
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Authored by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, Naoya Hatakeyama, and others, this book gives a comprehensive look at the process of catastrophe and response which followed the Great East Japan Earthquake, as presented in the Japan Pavilion Exhibition at the 13th Biennale of Architecture in Venice. By posing this question, an assertion that architecture can only recover its essential character under such conditions is made, enabling a re-examination of its essential meaning. Through texts, photographs, sketches and models, the book is a both a timeline of events and a reaffirmation of the energy, creativity and dedication of its participants.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Histoires du Mékong,ce sont d'abord des histoires, celles des habitants du delta et de leurs territoires, de paysages sauvages ou urbains qui portent parfois encore les stigmates d'une époque glorieuse mais aussi tourmentée.C’est aussi une histoire, celle des auteurs de ce livre : durant trois semaines, aux mois de mars et avril, Florian Chavanon, et David Dibilio, ont(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
April 2013
Histoire du Mekong/ Mekong stories
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Histoires du Mékong,ce sont d'abord des histoires, celles des habitants du delta et de leurs territoires, de paysages sauvages ou urbains qui portent parfois encore les stigmates d'une époque glorieuse mais aussi tourmentée.C’est aussi une histoire, celle des auteurs de ce livre : durant trois semaines, aux mois de mars et avril, Florian Chavanon, et David Dibilio, ont remonté le Mékong depuis Saigon, explorant les neuf bras qui composent le delta au ViêtNam, jusqu’à Chau Doc puis Phnom Penh au Cambodge. Ils ont ensuite emprunté la route le long du Tonlé Sap pour finir à Siem Reap où se trouvent les majestueux temples d’Angkor. Au fil des textes et des photographies en couleurs et noir & blanc, Histoire)s( du Mékong nous montre toutes les facettes et les richesses de ce fleuve, entre histoire et modernité.
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Chapitres: Anatomie de la rue japonaise, La ville comme personnage : regards d’auteurs, La topographie fantasmée de Tôkyô, Chaos urbain : Scènes de destruction, Le manga dans la ville, Vertiginosités nippones, À la lueur de l’orient, Densha, Mon Amour, Visions of neo-tôkyô, Yûichi Yokoyama, bâtisseur de monde, L’architecture japonaise, entre le dedans et dehors
Mangapolis : la ville japonaise contemporaine dans le Manga
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Chapitres: Anatomie de la rue japonaise, La ville comme personnage : regards d’auteurs, La topographie fantasmée de Tôkyô, Chaos urbain : Scènes de destruction, Le manga dans la ville, Vertiginosités nippones, À la lueur de l’orient, Densha, Mon Amour, Visions of neo-tôkyô, Yûichi Yokoyama, bâtisseur de monde, L’architecture japonaise, entre le dedans et dehors
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents(...)
Tokyo vernacular : common spaces, local histories, found objects
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Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents an illuminating case of the emergence of a new sense of history in the city’s physical environment, since it required both a shift in perceptions of value and a search for history in the margins and interstices of a rapidly modernizing cityscape.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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A new trend in contemporary architecture is emerging from the East Asian countries of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan. This volume introduces more than 60 architectural projects throughout East Asia.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
October 2013
Eastern promises: contemporary architecture and spatial practices in East Asia
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A new trend in contemporary architecture is emerging from the East Asian countries of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan. This volume introduces more than 60 architectural projects throughout East Asia.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Forced to thrust skywards by the constraints of its position on a narrow strip of land between the sea and high mountains, Hong Kong has developed a breath-taking skyline. One of the most densely populated areas in the world, it has a greater number of high-rise structures than any other major international city: more than 2,300 buildings at over 100 metres high – and(...)
Hong Kong architectural guide
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Forced to thrust skywards by the constraints of its position on a narrow strip of land between the sea and high mountains, Hong Kong has developed a breath-taking skyline. One of the most densely populated areas in the world, it has a greater number of high-rise structures than any other major international city: more than 2,300 buildings at over 100 metres high – and more are completed almost daily. The originally wild and now largely domesticated topography of the island seems exhausted, fully restricted and there is no more land to be taken from the sea. Mainly European and American architects have played a role in creating the buildings of Hong Kong, but local architects maintain their hold with confidence on this hotly contested market. This guide to architecture presents 100 characteristic buildings that define the urban landscape of the former British Crown Colony.
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China's Vanishing Worlds is a documentation in images and text of modernization's effect on traditional ways of life, and a sympathetic portrait of lives burdened by hardship but blessed by simplicity and tranquility
August 2013
China's vanishing worlds : countryside, traditions, and cultural spaces
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China's Vanishing Worlds is a documentation in images and text of modernization's effect on traditional ways of life, and a sympathetic portrait of lives burdened by hardship but blessed by simplicity and tranquility