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L’architecture est, concrètement, l’« art de construire ». Pourtant on ne la considère souvent que sous son aspect abstrait d’art du design ou de la composition. Les architectes, anciennement « chef charpentiers » ou maçons, sont peu à peu devenus des designers. Cette évolution a vu grandir le fossé entre les idées et leur réalisation, malgré d’occasionnelles tentatives(...)
Formes et matériaux dans l'architecture
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L’architecture est, concrètement, l’« art de construire ». Pourtant on ne la considère souvent que sous son aspect abstrait d’art du design ou de la composition. Les architectes, anciennement « chef charpentiers » ou maçons, sont peu à peu devenus des designers. Cette évolution a vu grandir le fossé entre les idées et leur réalisation, malgré d’occasionnelles tentatives pour renverser la tendance, notamment avec le mouvement des Arts and Crafts au XIXe siècle. Après un siècle consacré pour l’essentiel aux débats sur la forme et l’espace, le monde de l’architecture connaît aujourd’hui un intérêt renouvelé pour les matériaux, alors même que les progrès technologiques semblent renforcer la tendance à l’abstraction. Par compensation, ce phénomène entraîne une amélioration des qualités matérielles des bâtiments. L’architecte possède aujourd’hui un contrôle direct sur l’atelier et le site de construction, ce qui lui permet de rapprocher les processus d’imagination et de construction. Après une brève introduction, le livre s’ouvre sur trois chapitres historiques et critiques : « matériaux de construction », « surfaces et forme » et « nature des matériaux ». Six chapitres plus courts suivent : « les matériaux en place », « les matériaux dans le temps », « les jonctions », « la finition », « le sens », « les surfaces ». Un débat sur le futur des différents matériaux de l’architecture contemporaine clôt l’ouvrage.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
The building
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For nearly fifty years “the building” has primarily been viewed as a means rather than an end within architectural history and theory. This volume presents an alternative to that trend by reconceiving it as a central discursive category in its own right. Contributors—including architects and academics from world-renowned institutions—offer insightful discussions of key(...)
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The building
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For nearly fifty years “the building” has primarily been viewed as a means rather than an end within architectural history and theory. This volume presents an alternative to that trend by reconceiving it as a central discursive category in its own right. Contributors—including architects and academics from world-renowned institutions—offer insightful discussions of key architectural structures conceived in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.A. over the last three decades. In doing so they propel architectural thinking’s importance as a domain of knowledge. Further, in exploring those structures through a number of questions both intra- and meta-disciplinary, this book suggests ways in which buildings can trigger conceptual frameworks whose influence extends well beyond architecture. A balanced text-to-image ratio caters to readers in both practice and academia.
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A travers la visite de 25 maisons conçues par des architectes et des décorateurs novateurs, on voit la maison du Sud changer peu à peu d'aspect. Si les amoureux des vieilles pierres ont appris à aménager de nouveaux espaces, très contemporains, au sein d'une vieille bastide ou d'une ferme, certains architectes proclament leur différence en construisant des villas(...)
Architectures contemporaines en Provence
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A travers la visite de 25 maisons conçues par des architectes et des décorateurs novateurs, on voit la maison du Sud changer peu à peu d'aspect. Si les amoureux des vieilles pierres ont appris à aménager de nouveaux espaces, très contemporains, au sein d'une vieille bastide ou d'une ferme, certains architectes proclament leur différence en construisant des villas radicalement contemporaines. Jardins, terrasses et patios reflètent une nouvelle approche, souvent basée sur une technologie de pointe et une meilleure connaissance de la topographie des lieux.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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L’essentiel sur les édifices contemporains (1935-2009) les plus marquants qui font la singularité architecturale de l’Inde, entre influences coloniales et recherche identitaire, entre traditions locales et technologies avancées, entre inspiration orientale et développement économique.
Architectures contemporaines: Inde
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L’essentiel sur les édifices contemporains (1935-2009) les plus marquants qui font la singularité architecturale de l’Inde, entre influences coloniales et recherche identitaire, entre traditions locales et technologies avancées, entre inspiration orientale et développement économique.
Arch Middle East
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Du déclenchement de la grève étudiante aux élections générales de septembre, en passant par l’adoption de la loi spéciale et les manifestations de casseroles, que s’est-il passé durant le Printemps québécois ? Que nous reste-t-il de cette grève étudiante et du mouvement social qui ont tant polarisé les débats publics ? Quels événements, quels mots, quelles images ont(...)
Le printemps québécois, une anthologie
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Du déclenchement de la grève étudiante aux élections générales de septembre, en passant par l’adoption de la loi spéciale et les manifestations de casseroles, que s’est-il passé durant le Printemps québécois ? Que nous reste-t-il de cette grève étudiante et du mouvement social qui ont tant polarisé les débats publics ? Quels événements, quels mots, quelles images ont marqué notre mémoire collective ? Le Printemps québécois. Une anthologie propose un retour sur ce moment particulièrement dense et animé de l’histoire contemporaine du Québec.
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Japan : dwelling houses
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A love letter to Japan’s traditional, handmade wooden houses. In this book, author and modernist architectural historian Werner Blaser pays homage to the classical Japanese dwellings of the 15th to 18th centuries. These simple but elegant structures stand today as beacons of tranquility and craftsmanship in a fragmented, throw-away world. No religious shrines or martial(...)
Japan : dwelling houses
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A love letter to Japan’s traditional, handmade wooden houses. In this book, author and modernist architectural historian Werner Blaser pays homage to the classical Japanese dwellings of the 15th to 18th centuries. These simple but elegant structures stand today as beacons of tranquility and craftsmanship in a fragmented, throw-away world. No religious shrines or martial castles here, just homes full of light, space and serenity that show how subtly man and nature can live together.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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An investigation into Shanghai’s rise from peripheral port to urban center. Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan(...)
Shanghai and the edges of empires
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An investigation into Shanghai’s rise from peripheral port to urban center. Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the overlapping cultural edges of a failing Chinese royal order and the encroachment of Western imperialists converged. Simultaneously appropriating and resisting imposing forces, Shanghai opened itself to unruly, subversive practices, becoming a crucible of creativity and modernism. Calling into question conventional ways of conceptualizing modernity, colonialism, and intercultural relations, Meng Yue examines such cultural practices as the work of the commercial press, street theater, and literary arts, and shows that what appear to be minor cultural changes often signal the presence of larger political and economic developments. Engaging theories of modernity and postcolonial and global cultural studies, Meng Yue reveals the paradoxical interdependence between imperial and imperialist histories and the retranslation of culture that characterized the most notable result of China’s urban relocation—the emergence of the international city of Shanghai.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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HK Lab 2 picks up where HK Lab left off, and extends it. It brings together artists projects and a number of theoretical and critical viewpoints on Hong Kong interior spaces. The changing nature of urban experience and inhabitation calls for new critical paradigms and interdisciplinary approaches. It is perhaps time to move on and explore the concept of the city and(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
April 2005, Hong Kong
HK Lab 2
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HK Lab 2 picks up where HK Lab left off, and extends it. It brings together artists projects and a number of theoretical and critical viewpoints on Hong Kong interior spaces. The changing nature of urban experience and inhabitation calls for new critical paradigms and interdisciplinary approaches. It is perhaps time to move on and explore the concept of the city and its urban practices, not from visual, panoptic constructions, but from opaque, poetic, lived and embodied experiences of the city.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Five-foot ways, or 'kaki-lima,' are a prominent feature of historical urban centers in tropical Southeast Asian cities. In the hot and humid urban center, these colonnades along the rows of commercial shophouses provide comfortable pedestrian walkways. It is frequently considered not only as a pathway but also as a space for transit activities in Malaysian urban settings.(...)
Kaki Lima Stories: Life in the five-foot ways of Downtown Kuala Lumpur
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Five-foot ways, or 'kaki-lima,' are a prominent feature of historical urban centers in tropical Southeast Asian cities. In the hot and humid urban center, these colonnades along the rows of commercial shophouses provide comfortable pedestrian walkways. It is frequently considered not only as a pathway but also as a space for transit activities in Malaysian urban settings. The book delves into the richness, diversity, and beauty of life along Kuala Lumpur's five-footway.
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Design city Tokyo
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As part of the second wave of books for the Interior Angles series by John Wiley, "Tokyo Style" covers brand new stylish interior design projects in Tokyo – from restaurants and bars, and hair and beauty salons to relaxation rooms and residential spaces – all completed within the last three years.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
November 2004, Chicester
Design city Tokyo
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As part of the second wave of books for the Interior Angles series by John Wiley, "Tokyo Style" covers brand new stylish interior design projects in Tokyo – from restaurants and bars, and hair and beauty salons to relaxation rooms and residential spaces – all completed within the last three years.
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November 2004, Chicester
Contemporary Asian Architecture