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This global examination of boundary-pushing architecture challenges our perceptions of how buildings ought to look--and reveals how even the most unusual constructions can achieve iconic status. In this exploration of 100 controversial buildings, readers will discover not only how each building was constructed, but also the motivation behind its design, and the ensuing debates.
Why on earth did we built that: modern architecture explained
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This global examination of boundary-pushing architecture challenges our perceptions of how buildings ought to look--and reveals how even the most unusual constructions can achieve iconic status. In this exploration of 100 controversial buildings, readers will discover not only how each building was constructed, but also the motivation behind its design, and the ensuing debates.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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À partir de trois projets conçus par Farra Zoumboulakis & associés, cet ouvrage propose une exploration du principe selon lequel tout bâti crée un lieu établissant du lien dans un milieu. Ainsi, sont examinés les immeubles de logement Lausanne-Provence pour le milieu, la gare de Renens pour le lien et l'écoquartier du Stand à Nyon pour le lieu.
Farra Zoumboulakis & Associés : Milieu lien lieu
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À partir de trois projets conçus par Farra Zoumboulakis & associés, cet ouvrage propose une exploration du principe selon lequel tout bâti crée un lieu établissant du lien dans un milieu. Ainsi, sont examinés les immeubles de logement Lausanne-Provence pour le milieu, la gare de Renens pour le lien et l'écoquartier du Stand à Nyon pour le lieu.
Architecture Monographs
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In 1988, Josef Koudelka published what was to become one of his most famous and canonical series: Exiles. These black-and-white images described the travels and everyday life of the peoples he encountered while roaming Europe. Josef Koudelka: The Making of Exiles is an exploration of the genesis and the making of this photographic journey.
Josef Koudelka: The making of exiles
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In 1988, Josef Koudelka published what was to become one of his most famous and canonical series: Exiles. These black-and-white images described the travels and everyday life of the peoples he encountered while roaming Europe. Josef Koudelka: The Making of Exiles is an exploration of the genesis and the making of this photographic journey.
Photography monographs
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Form precedes function in this visual archive of nearly 200 images of modern architecture by award-winning photographer Nicolas Grospierre. At once a reference work and a personal exploration of modernist architecture, this fascinating collection of Nicolas Grospierre’s photography covers structures built between 1920 and 1989 in Europe, North and South America, the(...)
Modern forms: a subjective atlas of 20th-Century architecture
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Form precedes function in this visual archive of nearly 200 images of modern architecture by award-winning photographer Nicolas Grospierre. At once a reference work and a personal exploration of modernist architecture, this fascinating collection of Nicolas Grospierre’s photography covers structures built between 1920 and 1989 in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia.
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Regard sur l'architecture de Tadao Andô / Yann Nussaume ; présenté par Augustin Berque.
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207 pages ; 21 cm.
London : Whitechapel ; Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2006], ©2006
The archive / edited by Charles Merewether.
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London : Whitechapel ; Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2006], ©2006
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Searching for Utopia surveys the influence of the idea of utopia on history, literature, art, architecture, and religious and political thought. Central to his exploration of ideal worlds are creation myths; archetypes of heaven and the afterlife; new worlds and voyages of discovery; ages of revolution and technological progress; model communities and kibbutzim; political(...)
Searching for utopia: The history of an idea
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Searching for Utopia surveys the influence of the idea of utopia on history, literature, art, architecture, and religious and political thought. Central to his exploration of ideal worlds are creation myths; archetypes of heaven and the afterlife; new worlds and voyages of discovery; ages of revolution and technological progress; model communities and kibbutzim; political and ecological dystopias; space travel and science fiction.
Architecture and the imaginary
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This publication is the firm's first monograph. Their practice has built a reputation for its ability to meet building challenges with uncommon design clarity, elegance, and refinement. They approach highly constrained and technically demanding design problems with a clear set of modernist core principles, a passion for material and detail exploration, and a desire to(...)
Made to measure: the architecture of Leers Weizapel associates
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This publication is the firm's first monograph. Their practice has built a reputation for its ability to meet building challenges with uncommon design clarity, elegance, and refinement. They approach highly constrained and technically demanding design problems with a clear set of modernist core principles, a passion for material and detail exploration, and a desire to create meaningful places for social interaction.
Architecture Monographs
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In 1987 Aperture published Lynne Cohen's first monograph, Occupied Territory , an exploration of space as simulated experience--a sham reality, idealized and standardized. Now, Aperture is publishing a newly expanded and updated reissue of this classic monograph, making Cohen's pioneering work available to a contemporary audience and situating her within the lineage(...)
Lynne Cohen: Occupied territory
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In 1987 Aperture published Lynne Cohen's first monograph, Occupied Territory , an exploration of space as simulated experience--a sham reality, idealized and standardized. Now, Aperture is publishing a newly expanded and updated reissue of this classic monograph, making Cohen's pioneering work available to a contemporary audience and situating her within the lineage of Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore and other celebrated New Topographics photographers.
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ABC de la nature
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Bernadette Gervais nous offre un magnifique abécédaire grand format. Idéal pour les plus jeunes, pour l'apprentissage de l'alphabet et découvrir les beautés de la nature.Bernadette Gervais à longtemps collaboré avec francesco Pittau (le duo Pittau-Gervais) et continue son exploration du monde jeunesse en solo. Son travail pictural est ici particulièrement remarquable,(...)
ABC de la nature
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Bernadette Gervais nous offre un magnifique abécédaire grand format. Idéal pour les plus jeunes, pour l'apprentissage de l'alphabet et découvrir les beautés de la nature.Bernadette Gervais à longtemps collaboré avec francesco Pittau (le duo Pittau-Gervais) et continue son exploration du monde jeunesse en solo. Son travail pictural est ici particulièrement remarquable, mélange de pochoirs et de travail à l'éponge.
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