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The projects in Young Architects 14 investigate what it takes to create something without precedent and how this influences the way designers work and what they produce.
Young architects 14 : No precedent
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The projects in Young Architects 14 investigate what it takes to create something without precedent and how this influences the way designers work and what they produce.
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Site Specific
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An investigation into how place and context affects critical design development in an architectural site related programme. Architects were shortlisted for this project for their particular (and sometimes contrasting) modes of working with site specificity within European and American contemporary architectural practice. All the architects selected are working at an(...)
Site Specific
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An investigation into how place and context affects critical design development in an architectural site related programme. Architects were shortlisted for this project for their particular (and sometimes contrasting) modes of working with site specificity within European and American contemporary architectural practice. All the architects selected are working at an international level within their field and display a high level of intelligence and sensibility within their designs. This book offers the reader a chance to understand the deeper thinking of the individual interviewees.
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Carpe Diem est une opération de démolition/reconstruction. En lieu et place d'un immeuble obsolète qui fermait toutes vues, toutes communications, Carpe Diem s'est définie dès la phase de conception comme un projet d'ouverture. Ce choix valorisant et utile à l'environnement immédiat a permis de requalifier l'espace public en pied de tour, de créer des percées visuelles et(...)
Carpe diem : La tour Carpe diem par A.M. Stern architects
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Carpe Diem est une opération de démolition/reconstruction. En lieu et place d'un immeuble obsolète qui fermait toutes vues, toutes communications, Carpe Diem s'est définie dès la phase de conception comme un projet d'ouverture. Ce choix valorisant et utile à l'environnement immédiat a permis de requalifier l'espace public en pied de tour, de créer des percées visuelles et d'installer des cheminements entre l'esplanade de La Défense et la ville de Courbevoie.
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In past years, architects have been confronted with a changed market, changed sets of tasks and also new requirements. Which strategies can they adopt to get commissions or spark interest in their projects? With selected examples, the author analyses the processes of individual architects since the 1950s. Beginning with the commencement of marketing in the North American(...)
Function follows strategy: architects' strategies from the fifties to the present
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In past years, architects have been confronted with a changed market, changed sets of tasks and also new requirements. Which strategies can they adopt to get commissions or spark interest in their projects? With selected examples, the author analyses the processes of individual architects since the 1950s. Beginning with the commencement of marketing in the North American post-war era he proceeds to then cast his view to contemporary times. Transformations in society and politics, the changed requirements of clients, and also the crisis in the economy and financial circles all influence the professional existence of architects.
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Young Architects 15: range
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Young architects often stand out more for their design approach than their realized work. This year's theme, Range, echoes the committee's perception of young architects' careers as explorations of the discipline's boundaries. Architects were challenged to demonstrate how the range they operate within evolves as they encounter the perceived limits of the profession.(...)
Young Architects 15: range
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Young architects often stand out more for their design approach than their realized work. This year's theme, Range, echoes the committee's perception of young architects' careers as explorations of the discipline's boundaries. Architects were challenged to demonstrate how the range they operate within evolves as they encounter the perceived limits of the profession. Competition entries reflect a diversity of approaches from formal treatments and construction to material experimentation and applications.
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In 2012, 36 students gathered in Cairo to work with professors and experts from various fields to realize two new playgrounds in public primary schools. This book documents the process and the designs, which are simple, low-cost and easy to install.
Learn move play ground: how to improve playgrounds through participation
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In 2012, 36 students gathered in Cairo to work with professors and experts from various fields to realize two new playgrounds in public primary schools. This book documents the process and the designs, which are simple, low-cost and easy to install.
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OfficeUS Atlas
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The OfficeUS Atlas collects the exhibition research in an archive of nearly 1000 architectural projects. Organized according to individual firm histories, the Atlas documents the development of U.S. architectural offices working abroad from 1914 to the present.
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July 2014
OfficeUS Atlas
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The OfficeUS Atlas collects the exhibition research in an archive of nearly 1000 architectural projects. Organized according to individual firm histories, the Atlas documents the development of U.S. architectural offices working abroad from 1914 to the present.
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AA Diploma honors 2013
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Since the founding of the AA Diploma degree almost a century ago, the AA has awarded a special prize each year to the student or students whose graduating project offers work of an exceptionally high standard. The resulting Diploma Honours projects are then traditionally exhibited at the AA at the start of the following academic year. To commemorate this ritual, this new(...)
AA Diploma honors 2013
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Since the founding of the AA Diploma degree almost a century ago, the AA has awarded a special prize each year to the student or students whose graduating project offers work of an exceptionally high standard. The resulting Diploma Honours projects are then traditionally exhibited at the AA at the start of the following academic year. To commemorate this ritual, this new annual series will be published in tandem with the AA exhibition, and in addition to the design projects themselves (this year by four students: Friedrich Grafling, Ja Kyung Kim, Mond Qu and Antoine Vaxelaire), the book contains a short commentary by each of the students' AA tutors.
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Abstract: 2012-2013
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Abstract is the yearly publication of student work from Columbia University's GSAPP. The catalog is produced through the office of Dean Mark Wigley. The archive of student work, containing documentation of projects selected by faculty at the conclusion of each semester, is utilized in the making of Abstract.
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November 2014
Abstract: 2012-2013
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Abstract is the yearly publication of student work from Columbia University's GSAPP. The catalog is produced through the office of Dean Mark Wigley. The archive of student work, containing documentation of projects selected by faculty at the conclusion of each semester, is utilized in the making of Abstract.
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Abstract: 2010-2011
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Abstract is the yearly publication of student work from Columbia University's GSAPP. The catalog is produced through the office of Dean Mark Wigley. The archive of student work, containing documentation of projects selected by faculty at the conclusion of each semester, is utilized in the making of Abstract.
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November 2014
Abstract: 2010-2011
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Abstract is the yearly publication of student work from Columbia University's GSAPP. The catalog is produced through the office of Dean Mark Wigley. The archive of student work, containing documentation of projects selected by faculty at the conclusion of each semester, is utilized in the making of Abstract.
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