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This exhibition catalog explores the remarkable theatrical designs of Italy’s influential Bibiena family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For nearly a century, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most highly sought theater designers in Europe. Their elaborate stage designs were used for operas, festivals, and courtly performances across(...)
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July 2021
Architecture, theater and fantasy: Bibena drawings from the Jules Fisher collection
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This exhibition catalog explores the remarkable theatrical designs of Italy’s influential Bibiena family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For nearly a century, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most highly sought theater designers in Europe. Their elaborate stage designs were used for operas, festivals, and courtly performances across Europe, from their native Italy to cities as far afield as Vienna, Prague, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, and Lisbon. Beyond these performances, the distinctive Bibiena style survives through their remarkable drawings. "Architecture, theater, and fantasy" commemorates a group of Bibiena drawings from the collection of Jules Fisher, the Tony Award–winning lighting designer, gifted to the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Accompanying the first US exhibition of these works in more than thirty years, these drawings demonstrate the range of the Bibienas’ output, from energetic sketches to detailed watercolors. Representations of imagined palace interiors and lavish illusionistic architecture illuminate the visual splendor of the Baroque period.
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This publication unfolds an inside view of the installation by Elizabeth Hatz at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. It shows how the installation has been made using 133 pigmented prints of original drawings from Drawing Matter in Somerset, ArkDes in Stockholm, the architects' private archives and a large hand drawing by Hatz on a(...)
Biennial
May 2018
Line, light, locus: Elizabeth Hatz
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This publication unfolds an inside view of the installation by Elizabeth Hatz at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. It shows how the installation has been made using 133 pigmented prints of original drawings from Drawing Matter in Somerset, ArkDes in Stockholm, the architects' private archives and a large hand drawing by Hatz on a specially designed table-bench. The fold-out cover illustrates the room's four walls, each of which organise four concept-sets relating to the Biennale theme of Freespace: Ground–Floor, Temple–Shed, Niche–Stoa and Mind–Space. The full-sized colour plates inside show in more detail the collage of drawings on each wall, illustrating how the printing process allowed Hatz to orchestrate the size as well as position of each drawing within these exploratory fields. Hatz's accompanying essay invokes the spatial experience created by the room-drawings and the rich conversations they capture.
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¨Depuis 1997, nous avons parcouru et photographié, par intermittence, la vieille et la nouvelle Europe. Nous tentions de capter ce qui passait de Bordeaux, où jadis s'essayait Montaigne, à Bilbao. Ou de Rotterdam à Stockholm. Ou de Sarajevo à Sarapoul. Ou de Prague à Kiev. Nous revenions pourtant en Grèce, en Crète, à Chypre, au Maroc ou au Liban... Ce retour aux sources(...)
Valérie Frey et Yves Laplace: archipel des passants
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¨Depuis 1997, nous avons parcouru et photographié, par intermittence, la vieille et la nouvelle Europe. Nous tentions de capter ce qui passait de Bordeaux, où jadis s'essayait Montaigne, à Bilbao. Ou de Rotterdam à Stockholm. Ou de Sarajevo à Sarapoul. Ou de Prague à Kiev. Nous revenions pourtant en Grèce, en Crète, à Chypre, au Maroc ou au Liban... Ce retour aux sources nous aura encore entraînés vers les territoires d'outre-mer. Partout, nous avons croisé les témoins fugitifs d'une géographie et d'une histoire éclatées, mais aussi partagées. Comme s'ils habitaient à leur insu l'archipel des passants : un archipel né, tels nous tous, d'une rencontre ou d'un conflit entre la mer et la terre, entre le signe et l'horizon, entre la langue et l'esprit, entre la contrainte et la liberté. Sans les passants, qui témoignent par leur présence même de ce que nous appelons la réalité, le monde nous resterait invisible.¨ Valérie Frey et Yves Laplace
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The book collects five vacation homes in Sweden designed by Stockholm-based architect Mikael Bergquist. Realized over more than two decades, they are all located in the Swedish countryside and rooted in the Nordic tradition of timber construction and the simplicity and economy of Sweden’s historic farm buildings. Bergquist’s great care for detail and choice of materials(...)
Center and periphery: Five houses by Mikael Bergquist
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The book collects five vacation homes in Sweden designed by Stockholm-based architect Mikael Bergquist. Realized over more than two decades, they are all located in the Swedish countryside and rooted in the Nordic tradition of timber construction and the simplicity and economy of Sweden’s historic farm buildings. Bergquist’s great care for detail and choice of materials characterize these houses. They are united also by a close relationship to the surrounding nature, the experience of which is enhanced by the concepts of movement and the placement of passages between the outside and inside. The houses are documented with photographs as well as with plans and sections. In his supplementary essay, Bergquist writes about the special position of working as an architect on the periphery of Europe. He draws a picture of Swedish architecture that is marked by what he calls "fruitful misunderstandings" of current movements, and in which poverty of the rural population has been a major factor in the evolution of the design and construction of dwellings.
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Josef Frank : life and work
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Educated in Vienna just after the turn of the century, Frank became the leader of the younger generation of architects in Austria after the First World War. But Frank fell from grace when he emerged as a forceful critic of the extremes of modern architecture and design during the early 1930s. Dismissing the demands for a unified modern style, Frank insisted that it was(...)
Josef Frank : life and work
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Educated in Vienna just after the turn of the century, Frank became the leader of the younger generation of architects in Austria after the First World War. But Frank fell from grace when he emerged as a forceful critic of the extremes of modern architecture and design during the early 1930s. Dismissing the demands for a unified modern style, Frank insisted that it was pluralism, not uniformity, that most characterized life in the new machine age. He called instead for a more humane modernism, one that responded to people's everyday needs and left room for sentimentality and historical influences. He was able to put these ideas into practice when, in 1933, he was forced to leave Vienna for Sweden. There his work came to define Swedish (or Scandinavian) modern design. For more than thirty years he was the chief designer for the Stockholm furnishings firm Svenskt Tenn, producing colorful, cozy, and eclectic designs that provided a refreshing alternative to the architectural mainstream of the day and presaged the coming revolt against modernism in the 1960s.
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Best defined as the art of shaping the built environment, urban design seeks to understand and analyze the variety of forces—social, economic, cultural, legal, ecological, and aesthetic—that affect how we live. The complex challenges facing cities today—scarcity of resources, growing economic divisions, and rampant sprawl, among others—are forcing a reconsideration of(...)
New urbanism and beyond: designing cities for the future
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Best defined as the art of shaping the built environment, urban design seeks to understand and analyze the variety of forces—social, economic, cultural, legal, ecological, and aesthetic—that affect how we live. The complex challenges facing cities today—scarcity of resources, growing economic divisions, and rampant sprawl, among others—are forcing a reconsideration of urban design. New Urbanism, a leading movement within urban design, advocates a return to small-town urban forms: human-scale, pedestrian-friendly streets, a reinvigoration of cities, and a stop to suburban sprawl. This new volume, drawing on a conference and debates at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, comprehensively examines New Urbanism today and speculates about it’s future. With contributions from Christopher Alexander, Leon Krier, Peter Hall, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck, William McDonough, Peter Calthorpe, Jan Gehl, Lars Lerup, Edward Soja, and Saskia Sassen, among others, New Urbanism and Beyond is both a comprehensive primer on urban design and a provocation for practitioners, historians, and citizens everywhere.
Urban Theory
Desire lines
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Un trajet en métro, en taxi, un moment à la table d’un café : chaque instant libre, chaque pause ou temps mort est l’occasion pour l'auteur de tracer, au feutre ou au stylo, une impression fugitive, une scène captée sur le vif, un paysage qui évolue… Si desire lines désigne en anglais le plus court chemin, l’expression est ici synonyme d’instants capturés puis restitués,(...)
Desire lines
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Un trajet en métro, en taxi, un moment à la table d’un café : chaque instant libre, chaque pause ou temps mort est l’occasion pour l'auteur de tracer, au feutre ou au stylo, une impression fugitive, une scène captée sur le vif, un paysage qui évolue… Si desire lines désigne en anglais le plus court chemin, l’expression est ici synonyme d’instants capturés puis restitués, dans des carnets, en autant de croquis au trait rapide, urgent. Au gré de ces esquisses se révèlent des parcours, des itinéraires, des empreintes de voyages : chemins buissonniers, tracés au fil des pas, chemins hors plan, chemins pressés qui parlent de la ville et disent la campagne. De la manière dont elles se font et se défont, de Sébastopol à Hong Kong, de la Volga à New York, de Ras el-Barr sur le delta du Nil au Cap Ferret entre bassin d’Arcachon et océan, du Cambodge à la Finlande, de SaintLouis à Stockholm, de Jaipur à Paris, et en Italie bien sûr ; vues du ciel, vues du sol.
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Kertész : made in USA
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André Kertész fait partie de ces photographes cultes tout comme le sont Doisneau, Corbeau et Cartier Bresson. Né en 1894 à Budapest, André Kertész a inspiré un grand nombre de nos photographes contemporains par la qualité et la diversité de son travail. Après quelques années passées en France, c’est à New-York qu’il va s’installer pour travailler pour plusieurs magazines.(...)
Kertész : made in USA
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André Kertész fait partie de ces photographes cultes tout comme le sont Doisneau, Corbeau et Cartier Bresson. Né en 1894 à Budapest, André Kertész a inspiré un grand nombre de nos photographes contemporains par la qualité et la diversité de son travail. Après quelques années passées en France, c’est à New-York qu’il va s’installer pour travailler pour plusieurs magazines. Son regard sur l’architecture, l’ombre et les distorsions le font se distinguer dans de nombreuses expositions à Paris, au Museum of Modern Art de New-York (1964), Tokyo (1965), Stockholm (1967), Invité d’honneur à Arles (1974), Centre Georges Pompidou (1977), University of Salford (1980), Jérusalem, Musée Israël (1980), Norfolk Chrysler Museum (1982), New-York Susan Halder Gallery (1982), Grand international de la photographie (1982), Art Institute of Chicago (1985), Metropolitan Museum of Art of New-York (1985). André Kertész est de ces grands qui ont su travailler sans cesse pour contribuer à donner à la photographie ses lettres de noblesse dans le domaine de l’art et inspirer toute une génération de grands photographes qui témoignent dans cet ouvrage de tout le talent d’André Kertész et de son incontournable influence.
Photography monographs
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Cet ouvrage exauce enfin le vœu de Le Corbusier de voir éditées les six conférences qu'il prononça à Rio de Janeiro en août 1936. Après les dix conférences de Buenos Aires, en 1929, publiées dans Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme (1930), cet inédit est le deuxième recueil de conférences de l'architecte. Et, comme ce fut le cas à Alger,(...)
Le Corbusier : conférences de Rio - 1936
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Cet ouvrage exauce enfin le vœu de Le Corbusier de voir éditées les six conférences qu'il prononça à Rio de Janeiro en août 1936. Après les dix conférences de Buenos Aires, en 1929, publiées dans Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme (1930), cet inédit est le deuxième recueil de conférences de l'architecte. Et, comme ce fut le cas à Alger, Moscou, Bruxelles, Athènes, Paris, Stockholm, Rome, Buenos Aires, São Paulo ou Montevideo, ces conférences jouèrent un rôle central dans la propagation de ses idées sur l'architecture et l'urbanisme. L'importance de ce recueil tient au fait qu'il permet de mesurer le chemin parcouru par Le Corbusier entre 1929 et 1936, l'évolution de sa " technique " de conférencier - comme il la nomme - et celle de ses idées au cours de ces années particulièrement critiques pour l'Europe et pour le monde. Enfin, à travers les propos transcrits, la reproduction des dessins et des projections, on peut non seulement suivre la manière dont Le Corbusier transmettait son message, mais aussi reconstituer le temps et le rythme des conférences, les commentaires qu'il improvisait en restituent l'ambiance et les moments d'intensité.
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September 2006, Paris
Architectural Theory
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Far from passive containers or neutral fields where particular objects are to be desired, bought, and sold, department stores constitute spaces formative for both shopping behaviour and culture. In the constantly changing environment, in an interplay between retail strategies and responses to customer behaviour, a negotiation is going on of what and who is of importance,(...)
Structuring fashion: department stores as situating practice
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Far from passive containers or neutral fields where particular objects are to be desired, bought, and sold, department stores constitute spaces formative for both shopping behaviour and culture. In the constantly changing environment, in an interplay between retail strategies and responses to customer behaviour, a negotiation is going on of what and who is of importance, who is to be given exposure, and what needs to be hidden. As such, department stores form intricate examples of how shopping spaces are sites of negotiation of public culture, and of reproducing or creating norms and ideas in society. Inspired by the work of Baudrillard and Butler, Wigley, and Williamson, this book investigates how department stores work as situating structures, in which we not only find what we want, but what we should want, who we are, how our society is arranged, and our role in it - an investigation that challenges our understanding of architecture and planning as well as of society in general. Daniel Koch is a researcher and teacher at the School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Structural Fashion is his doctoral dissertation that develops and improves the theories of his former work on spatial systems as producers of meaning, refocusing the main inquiry onto departement stores.
Fashion Design