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"Groundswell : constructing the contemporary landscape" presents 23 projects that reveal the surge of creativity and discussion surrounding the designed landscape in a broad, principally urban, international context. In the last 20 years, many significant new public spaces have been created for sites that have been reclaimed from conflict, environmental degradation, and(...)
Groundswell : constructing the contemporary landscape
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"Groundswell : constructing the contemporary landscape" presents 23 projects that reveal the surge of creativity and discussion surrounding the designed landscape in a broad, principally urban, international context. In the last 20 years, many significant new public spaces have been created for sites that have been reclaimed from conflict, environmental degradation, and abandonment. The projects, found throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, were selected for their design, and for their variety of contexts, materials, scale, and types of spaces. This fully illustrated volume includes an essay by Peter Reed, Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, that demonstrates how these innovative projects expand the definition of the modernist landscape while responding to a variety of conditions such as program, social function, and the transformation and reclamation previously industrial areas. The essay is followed by a full-color plate section featuring the selected projects. Catalogue entries for each project provide a succinct description of the site, its transformation, and design concepts illustrated by photographs, drawings, and models.
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L'appel à projets Parckdesign est né en 2006 d'une rencontre entre les promoteurs de l'asbl "Designed in Brussels". A titre d d'essai et de projet pilote, un appel était lancé aux architectes et designers pour concevoir des pièces de mobilier urbain à installer dans des espaces verts. Ce mobilier prototype devait pouvoir être réalisé grandeur nature et être utilisé par(...)
Parckdesign: let's hug trees, embrassons les arbres
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L'appel à projets Parckdesign est né en 2006 d'une rencontre entre les promoteurs de l'asbl "Designed in Brussels". A titre d d'essai et de projet pilote, un appel était lancé aux architectes et designers pour concevoir des pièces de mobilier urbain à installer dans des espaces verts. Ce mobilier prototype devait pouvoir être réalisé grandeur nature et être utilisé par les visiteurs du parc. Chaque des 52 projets qui ont participé est documenté en texte et image sur une page du livre, les cinq lauréats sur au moins une double-page.
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BosBus mobile nature reserve
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The last place anyone would look for Nature would probably be inside a bus. Yet, as this charming book proves, that’s where you could find it - at least during the International Architecture Biennale 2003. The BosBus, an ordinary city bus with a growing forest inside it, traveled the streets of Rotterdam, hosting debates and dialogues en route, as architects, city(...)
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BosBus mobile nature reserve
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The last place anyone would look for Nature would probably be inside a bus. Yet, as this charming book proves, that’s where you could find it - at least during the International Architecture Biennale 2003. The BosBus, an ordinary city bus with a growing forest inside it, traveled the streets of Rotterdam, hosting debates and dialogues en route, as architects, city planners, ecologists and biologists hammered out the relationship between culture and nature in and around the city.
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L'ouvrage s'inscrit dans la continuité du titre paru au début des années 1980, Maisons creusées, maisons enterrées. Il propose un tour d'horizon des maisons creusées, puis de leur interprétation par une architecture contemporaine intimement intégrée au paysage. Aujourd'hui, toutes ces réalisations "semi-enterrées", parfois cataloguées marginales à l'époque de leur(...)
Habiter le paysage : Maisons creusées, maisons végétales
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L'ouvrage s'inscrit dans la continuité du titre paru au début des années 1980, Maisons creusées, maisons enterrées. Il propose un tour d'horizon des maisons creusées, puis de leur interprétation par une architecture contemporaine intimement intégrée au paysage. Aujourd'hui, toutes ces réalisations "semi-enterrées", parfois cataloguées marginales à l'époque de leur construction, servent de références avec l'émergence d'attentes nouvelles pour l'habitat de demain : vivre autrement, dans le respect des éléments. Ces maisons utilisent à la fois les savoir-faire vernaculaires, le bio-climatisme naturel, les recherches formelles du siècle dernier ou les tentatives de ces dernières décennies pour exploiter les bio-technologies et l'informatique. En abordant l'ensemble de ces aspects dans le monde entier, l'ouvrage en offre surtout une vue synthétique ; il voudrait être à l'origine de nouvelles découvertes pour chacun, susciter plaisir et passion pour un habitat naturel au milieu de la roche et du végétal, un habitat dans le paysage. Bibliographie et mots clés supplémentaires en bas de page invitent à approfondir l'un ou l'autre des domaines abordés.
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Nightscapes
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This book shows how night redefines the framework of thought and action in the realm of the imaginary, of territorial planning and of the practice of landscape, the aim being to arrive at a contemporary urbanism based on perceptual experience. The book is structured in three parts: the first covers the originality and value of the experience of the nocturnal landscape(...)
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This book shows how night redefines the framework of thought and action in the realm of the imaginary, of territorial planning and of the practice of landscape, the aim being to arrive at a contemporary urbanism based on perceptual experience. The book is structured in three parts: the first covers the originality and value of the experience of the nocturnal landscape for thought and creativity, the second defines infrastructure as the nocturnal landscape’s real scale and strategy, while the third illustrates examples of nocturnal contemporary architecture and landscape.
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Latinscapes tries to display an attitude common to various countries: that of landscape understood as raw material, as a search procedure for successfully defining a group portrait made up of different faces that have certain common origins and histories.
Latinscapes: Landscape as raw material
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Latinscapes tries to display an attitude common to various countries: that of landscape understood as raw material, as a search procedure for successfully defining a group portrait made up of different faces that have certain common origins and histories.
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"Landscape + 100 words to inhabit it" is a title that intends to present a condition of contemporary landscape by measuring it through a direct and immediate form : terms, definitions, ideas, microstories, short texts, notes. It is a collection of instant snaps rather than a complete critical and theoretical look at the subject. It is a group of terms asked for and(...)
Landscape + 100 words to inhabit it
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"Landscape + 100 words to inhabit it" is a title that intends to present a condition of contemporary landscape by measuring it through a direct and immediate form : terms, definitions, ideas, microstories, short texts, notes. It is a collection of instant snaps rather than a complete critical and theoretical look at the subject. It is a group of terms asked for and formulated by authors that are not only architects and landscape architects, but also urbanists, philosophers, critics, poets, geographers and writers. It is a collection of reflections that underlie aesthetic and cultural categories as much as technical-professional values and practices. It is a Tower of Babel of meanings, each having its specific characteristics, which, far from exhausting all the issues of a particular point, propose 'listening' to it from various multifaceted standpoints. These concepts do not guide this book towards a definition of landscape but towards a search for the most suitable instruments for dealing with it.
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La campagne est vivante, comme lieu de vie et comme imaginaire. La pandémie de Covid-19 a encore accéléré ces tendances?: vivre à la campagne serait «?la?» solution face aux crises sanitaires, écologiques, économiques ou sociales de nos vies citadines contemporaines. Pour aller au-delà d’un certain fantasme, Valérie Jousseaume réalise un état des lieux et remet la(...)
Un nouveau récit pour les campagnes
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La campagne est vivante, comme lieu de vie et comme imaginaire. La pandémie de Covid-19 a encore accéléré ces tendances?: vivre à la campagne serait «?la?» solution face aux crises sanitaires, écologiques, économiques ou sociales de nos vies citadines contemporaines. Pour aller au-delà d’un certain fantasme, Valérie Jousseaume réalise un état des lieux et remet la campagne en perspective. Elle interroge le rôle et les atouts des territoires dans la transition sociétale. Et, surtout, elle redonne aux ruraux une place d’acteurs dans ce changement de civilisation en cours. Le livre déconstruit les cadres de pensée et les vocabulaires, pour sortir la «?France périphérique?» du cul-de-sac intellectuel où elle se trouve.
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Cet ouvrage propose de construire une histoire animale de Paris en articulant deux principaux objectifs. D’une part, il s’agit de rendre visibles le rôle et la place des bêtes dans l’histoire de la ville et de révéler que ce sont aussi les vaches, les mésanges, les loups, les fouines, les faucons, les girafes, les chevaux, les brochets et les cerfs qui ont fait le Paris(...)
Paris animal : Histoire et récits d'une ville vivante
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Cet ouvrage propose de construire une histoire animale de Paris en articulant deux principaux objectifs. D’une part, il s’agit de rendre visibles le rôle et la place des bêtes dans l’histoire de la ville et de révéler que ce sont aussi les vaches, les mésanges, les loups, les fouines, les faucons, les girafes, les chevaux, les brochets et les cerfs qui ont fait le Paris d’aujourd’hui. Alors que les animaux ont longtemps été effacés ou minorés des récits dominants, l’histoire que nous campons tente de mettre en lumière ce que la présence animale a généré dans la capitale. D’autre part, en menant cette enquête sur le temps long, en observant les lieux de partage entre l’humain et l’animal, qu’ils soient l’expression de tension, de collaboration ou de domination, il s’agit de dégager des indices pour imaginer ce que pourrait être un Paris à même de créer une altérité avec l’animal ; pour reprendre les mots de la philosophe Donna Haraway : « Nous devons apprendre ainsi, au coeur d’un présent épais, à bien vivre et à bien mourir, ensemble. »
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Loving the High Line
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As an elevated rail line, designed to lift freight trains serving the Hudson River docks above street level circulation, The High Line was originally constructed as material infrastructure for an industrial city. It was closed in 1960s and stood abandoned for the next forty years. In this time organic debris accumulated and decayed, and seeds landed on the newly forming(...)
Loving the High Line
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As an elevated rail line, designed to lift freight trains serving the Hudson River docks above street level circulation, The High Line was originally constructed as material infrastructure for an industrial city. It was closed in 1960s and stood abandoned for the next forty years. In this time organic debris accumulated and decayed, and seeds landed on the newly forming soil creating a meadow on the derelict railbed. This microcosmic biome then also became a heterotopic, other space, in the social ecology of the city as an efflorescence of new art forms and underground subcultures flourished in the evacuated post-industrial spaces of Chelsea. These processes would unfold as New York City was being transformed into a global center in an emerging political-economy defined by the integration of finance capital with media and information industries. In this, marginal spaces of the kind that developed in Chelsea, and the cultures that create them, became important sources of new aesthetic and cultural innovation, that offer an exploitable social ground from which to extract semiotic value. As the Bloomberg administration gave shape to this new regime, a project was initiated to convert the High Line into a publicly accessible, linear park. This would be realized through a convoluted process in which the manifold tensions and contradictions of the postmodern city would be dramatically played out and the disjunctions between ideal image regimes and the reality of the material substrates that support them would be brought to light, if only to be newly obscured. The High Line urban park has been both heralded as a definitive model for new urban development, and denounced as a driver, or at least a morbid symptom, of devastating gentrification, and the destructive financialization of urban space. This text, originally published in 2015 as part of the Deconstructing the High Line anthology, edited by Mark Linder and Brian Rosa, tracks a collection of interconnected historical treads that converge in the reconstruction of the High Line, and situates the project within architectural discourse and practice, and social and material conditions with which it struggles to engage.
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