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This book is based on a conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts with the Woodrow Wilson Center concerning strategies for the reuse of dead malls in America's first-ring suburbs. Originally celebrated as community centers, the substantial commercial success of the early suburban shopping center was fleeting, as subsequent generations of ever-larger(...)
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September 2002, Washington, D.C.
Sprawl and public space : redressing the mall
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This book is based on a conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts with the Woodrow Wilson Center concerning strategies for the reuse of dead malls in America's first-ring suburbs. Originally celebrated as community centers, the substantial commercial success of the early suburban shopping center was fleeting, as subsequent generations of ever-larger malls have left behind a landscape of struggling and boarded- up shells. This pervasive condition is presented in the context of the history of public space and the shopping mall. The book includes essays by Robert Fishman, Benjamin Barber and Margaret Crawford and innovative projects for the strip and mixed-use developments by such architects as RoTo, Lewis, Tsurumaki, Lewis, ShoP and Gary Handel + Associates. A roundtable with developers and bankers on obstacles to the redevelopment of failed shopping centers is also included. The review of case studies and projective work is intended to foster a more serious examination of new models for making and using public space.
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Based on a session of NEA's long running program for rural community development, Your Town, this publication describes the impact of design and heritage tourism. It documents two case studies in historically African-American communities in the Mississippi Delta, one in the town of Mound Bayou, Miss., and the other on the blues heritage corridor of Highway 61. The(...)
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September 2002, Washington, D.C.
Your town : Mississippi delta
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Based on a session of NEA's long running program for rural community development, Your Town, this publication describes the impact of design and heritage tourism. It documents two case studies in historically African-American communities in the Mississippi Delta, one in the town of Mound Bayou, Miss., and the other on the blues heritage corridor of Highway 61. The publication also includes excerpts from workshop presentations, including those by Craig Barton, University of Virginia; William Harris, professor at Jackson State University; and Shannon Criss, former director of the Small Town Center at Mississippi State.
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City planning is a concept which usually covers the wide range of events, processes and developments taking place in our cities, but individual plans and designs cannot do justice to the complex realities of the city. In "Induction Cities" the author aims to take the reader beyond our traditional understanding of city design to redefine our perception of design in this(...)
Induction design : a method for evolutionary design
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City planning is a concept which usually covers the wide range of events, processes and developments taking place in our cities, but individual plans and designs cannot do justice to the complex realities of the city. In "Induction Cities" the author aims to take the reader beyond our traditional understanding of city design to redefine our perception of design in this context. With the assistance of computers, a dynamic mechanism will be created which generates a result corresponding to the specific conditions and requirements stipulated. By this form of "meta-design" a greater degree of freedom is obtained than the conventional design methods provide. In this publication, this new theory and process is analysed, looking at the first computer-generated architecture in the world, the underground station "lidabashi" in Tokyo.
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"Flying Dutchmen" shows the way a selection of Dutch architects have incorporated the issue of movement in their buildings. The examples are drawn by OMA/Rem Koolhaas, NOX Architects, Kas Oosterhuis, UN Studio, NL Architects, Bentham Crouwel, and Herman Hertzberger. The analyses provide a glimpse into the design process and its results, from sensitive surfaces to, dynamic(...)
Flying Dutchmen : motion in architecture
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"Flying Dutchmen" shows the way a selection of Dutch architects have incorporated the issue of movement in their buildings. The examples are drawn by OMA/Rem Koolhaas, NOX Architects, Kas Oosterhuis, UN Studio, NL Architects, Bentham Crouwel, and Herman Hertzberger. The analyses provide a glimpse into the design process and its results, from sensitive surfaces to, dynamic spaces, from aerodynamic forms to interactively linked buildings.
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«(...) Une architecture active, agissant comme déclencheur ou transformateur. Nous sommes à la recherche d'une architecture qui soit capable d'une performance. Les concepts de dispositifs et d'architecture-action visent à redonner à l'architecture une performance qu'elle ne croit plus elle-même être capable de posséder. (...)»
Architecture-action : une architecture post-théorique
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«(...) Une architecture active, agissant comme déclencheur ou transformateur. Nous sommes à la recherche d'une architecture qui soit capable d'une performance. Les concepts de dispositifs et d'architecture-action visent à redonner à l'architecture une performance qu'elle ne croit plus elle-même être capable de posséder. (...)»
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Plan 01 est un collectif de quatre agences de jeunes architects qui se sont mis en concurrence pour réaliser les plans d'une maison particulière: Petit concours entre amis.
Plan 01 : petit concours entre amis
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Plan 01 est un collectif de quatre agences de jeunes architects qui se sont mis en concurrence pour réaliser les plans d'une maison particulière: Petit concours entre amis.
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January 2001, Paris
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Quatre années de travail de Ruedi Baur et son équipe sur la signalétique de Lyon, du centre ville à la zone industrielle en passant par les grands boulevards et les espaces verts. Un projet qui a tenu compte de la particularité de chaque lieu, de son histoire, de sa dimension sociologique et culturelle et de son développement futur, afin de créer un système(...)
Lyon : systèmes d'orientation pour la ville et son agglomération
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Quatre années de travail de Ruedi Baur et son équipe sur la signalétique de Lyon, du centre ville à la zone industrielle en passant par les grands boulevards et les espaces verts. Un projet qui a tenu compte de la particularité de chaque lieu, de son histoire, de sa dimension sociologique et culturelle et de son développement futur, afin de créer un système d’orientation à la fois cohérent et respectueux du site.
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January 2001, Lyon
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Essay by Otto Kapfinger. Architects include: Carlo Baumschlager, Marianne Burkhalter, Dietmar Eberle, Ernst Giselbrecht, Roland Gnaiger, Hermann Kaufmann, Christian Lenz, Wolfgang Ritsch, Bruno Spagolla, Christian Sumi, Peter Zumthor.
Architecture in Vorarlberg since 1980: a guide to 260 noteworthy buildings
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Essay by Otto Kapfinger. Architects include: Carlo Baumschlager, Marianne Burkhalter, Dietmar Eberle, Ernst Giselbrecht, Roland Gnaiger, Hermann Kaufmann, Christian Lenz, Wolfgang Ritsch, Bruno Spagolla, Christian Sumi, Peter Zumthor.
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The house of stone is the kind of project that happens only rarely : a house built to the highest standards of craftsmanship with the full support of the client, who acted as a patron of architecture in almost a Renaissance sense. This publication documents in full its making. It covers the initial phase of the project, the invited competition between Meili + Peter and(...)
Marcel Meili, Marcus Peter Architects Zurich : the house of stone
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The house of stone is the kind of project that happens only rarely : a house built to the highest standards of craftsmanship with the full support of the client, who acted as a patron of architecture in almost a Renaissance sense. This publication documents in full its making. It covers the initial phase of the project, the invited competition between Meili + Peter and Peter Zumthor, and contains a detailed description of the concepts underlying the design. A particular focus is the relation between the structural and the technical aspects of the project, which is described through engineering and working drawings as well as photographs of the house under construction.
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Given an ideal situation to work with, the Zurich architects Marcel Meili and Markus Peter designed and built a new training and meeting center for Swiss Re in Rüschlikon. Backed by an ambitious client and a substantial budget, they developed an expansive park complex overlooking Lake Zurich and the Bodmer mansion, a protected historical monument, into a setting in which(...)
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February 2002, Ostfildern
Swiss Re Rüschilkon : centre for global dialogue
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Given an ideal situation to work with, the Zurich architects Marcel Meili and Markus Peter designed and built a new training and meeting center for Swiss Re in Rüschlikon. Backed by an ambitious client and a substantial budget, they developed an expansive park complex overlooking Lake Zurich and the Bodmer mansion, a protected historical monument, into a setting in which architecture and art, landscape and interior space, old and new combine to form a complex whole. The result is not a manifesto of a particular style but the equally perfect and subtle interpretation of a real place and the programmatic vision it inspires. The Art Commission of Swiss Re chose a "strategy of systematic artistic interventions in existing space". The design of all furniture and interiors was entrusted to the hands of renowned artists and architects. Adolf Krischanitz and Hermann Czech designed the furniture and the "Red Bar" in the Gardener's Lodge. Gilbert Bretterbauer supervised the design and selection of textiles. Artist Günther Förg handled the color design for all of the interiors in the old mansion. The old grounds had been preserved almost entirely in their original condition. The existing stands of trees served as a framework for the detailed design of the park complex by landscape architects Kienast Vogt and Partner. With photographs by Margherita Spiluttini
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February 2002, Ostfildern
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