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Un nouveau regard sur la période de la guerre froide au sein du bloc communiste, à travers l'étude des styles architecturaux parfois divergents qui se sont succédé durant cette période, témoignant de l'évolution du projet communiste au fil du temps : nouvel éclectisme stalinien, modernisme socialiste sous Khrouchtchev puis repli sur l'universalisme d'une architecture archaïque.
Ruine de l'universel : Communisme et nationalisme dans l'architecture du Bloc de l'Est
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Un nouveau regard sur la période de la guerre froide au sein du bloc communiste, à travers l'étude des styles architecturaux parfois divergents qui se sont succédé durant cette période, témoignant de l'évolution du projet communiste au fil du temps : nouvel éclectisme stalinien, modernisme socialiste sous Khrouchtchev puis repli sur l'universalisme d'une architecture archaïque.
Architectural Theory
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This monograph discusses the role that ruins play in urban centers in terms of their meaning, testimony, and value, and the opportunities they provide. After an outline of historical and contemporary of approaches, with a special analysis of British and Italian approaches, Elisa Pilia puts forward a methodology for the investigation of the strategic values of such(...)
Urban ruins: memorial value and contemporary role
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This monograph discusses the role that ruins play in urban centers in terms of their meaning, testimony, and value, and the opportunities they provide. After an outline of historical and contemporary of approaches, with a special analysis of British and Italian approaches, Elisa Pilia puts forward a methodology for the investigation of the strategic values of such artifacts, and ideas for their potential contribution to a sustainable requalification of historic urban cores. The protocol is tested on the historical center of Cagliari, a mid-sized port city on the southern coast of the island of Sardinia, Italy, where the remains left by aerial bombardment during the Second World War are still a dramatic part of the controversial European debate on how to reuse ruins.
Architectural Theory
Kengo Kuma recent project
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Guided by three interviews with this master Japanese architect which allow for a substantially better understanding of his architectural approach and method, this survey examines a total of 38 different recent works, projects and competition entries, many of which are yet to be realised. Chronologically presented, the survey begins in 2003 with Kuma’s competition entry(...)
Kengo Kuma recent project
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Guided by three interviews with this master Japanese architect which allow for a substantially better understanding of his architectural approach and method, this survey examines a total of 38 different recent works, projects and competition entries, many of which are yet to be realised. Chronologically presented, the survey begins in 2003 with Kuma’s competition entry for the Nam June Paik Museum, South Korea and subsequently features such projects as: the Museum of Kanayama Castle Ruin and Kumonoueno Gallery, Japan; the Spiritual Centre of Chengdu and Sanlitun Soho, China; the Besançon City Arts and Cultural Center and the Marseille Regional Foundation of Contemporary Art, France and his competition entry for the Munch Museum and Sternersen Museum Collections in Norway. Illustrated throughout with a generous blend of models, sketches, plans and elevations, the publication also includes a summary survey of ‘side’ projects for small pavilions, tea houses and industrial product design.
Architecture Monographs
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Designed by architects Jan Duiker and Bernard Bijvoet in 1925, the former Zonnestraal Sanatorium is an icon of the Nieuwe Bouwen style, the Dutch branch of the International Style of modernism: as one of the genuine highlights of twentieth-century architecture, it has been considered for the UNESCO World Heritage List. The complex, whose name means "ray of sunshine," was(...)
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Zonnestraal Sanatorium: the history and restotation of a moderne monument
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Designed by architects Jan Duiker and Bernard Bijvoet in 1925, the former Zonnestraal Sanatorium is an icon of the Nieuwe Bouwen style, the Dutch branch of the International Style of modernism: as one of the genuine highlights of twentieth-century architecture, it has been considered for the UNESCO World Heritage List. The complex, whose name means "ray of sunshine," was originally created as a treatment center for tuberculosis patients. By the early 1960s, the buildings, which had been constructed for limited use in concrete, steel and glass, were in ruin. After four decades of research and planning, its restoration is nearing completion under the supervision of the architects Hubert-Jan Henket and Wessel de Jonge. This publication traces the former sanatorium's past, emphasizing the battle for recognition of the Zonnestraal site's importance, its complex restoration process and providing a critical dossier on the general management of modern monuments.
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At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material,(...)
Rubble: the afterlife of destruction
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At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material, historical, and affective ruptures embodied in debris. His exploration of the significance of rubble encompasses lost cities, derelict train stations, overgrown Jesuit missions and Spanish forts, stranded steamships, mass graves, and razed forests. Examining the effects of these and other forms of debris on the people living on nearby ranches and farms, and in towns, Gordillo emphasizes that for the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material manifestation of the violence and dislocation that created it.
Architecture ecologies
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From his images of the Chateau of Versailles under restoration to the faded grandeur of Havana, to scenes of devastation from Chernobyl after the nuclear explosion and a New Orleans ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, Robert Polidori is drawn to detritus, shattered worlds and elegant ruin. Often considered an architectural photographer, Polidori captures more than buildings:(...)
Robert Polidori: chronophagia
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From his images of the Chateau of Versailles under restoration to the faded grandeur of Havana, to scenes of devastation from Chernobyl after the nuclear explosion and a New Orleans ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, Robert Polidori is drawn to detritus, shattered worlds and elegant ruin. Often considered an architectural photographer, Polidori captures more than buildings: his highly detailed views of interiors evoke both the intimate and the mysterious, where in the humanity of these photos is felt in its very absence, in the traces left behind in vacant spaces once inhabited. Chronophagia is a sampling of Polidori's many famous projects. This volume contains the artist's own selection of more than 100 photographs, from the classics to several rarely seen images. The result is a beautifully edited compendium of Polidori's 28-year career and a visual exploration of the liminal space between past and present, of worlds on the brink of disappearance.
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117 pages illustrations, 8 color plates 31 cm
London] Phaidon [1956]
Rome of the Caesars Frédérique Duran, [with an introduction by Pierre Grimal; English translation by Lucy Norton.
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London] Phaidon [1956]
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Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, everything is falling apart. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. In Ruins, the author delivers a detailed assessment of ruins as a phenomenon in architecture, landscape design, fine(...)
Ruins: reflexions about violence, chaos and transience
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Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, everything is falling apart. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. In Ruins, the author delivers a detailed assessment of ruins as a phenomenon in architecture, landscape design, fine art, film and the media. The result is an extraordinarily intense contribution to the theme of transience.
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20 unnumbered pages : illustrations, genealogical table, map, plan ; 22 cm
[Wrexham, Wales?] : R.S. Hewett, 1977 (Wrexham : Printed by Gwynedd Graphics)
A history of Castell Dinas Bran with notes on Valle Crucis Abbey / written and published by R.S. Hewitt.
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[Wrexham, Wales?] : R.S. Hewett, 1977 (Wrexham : Printed by Gwynedd Graphics)
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Temple of Isis
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1 pair of models : metal, rubber ; each 11 x 16 x 6 cm
[approximately 1930 (U.S.] : B & H)
Temple of Isis
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[approximately 1930 (U.S.] : B & H)