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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(...)
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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(...)
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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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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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May 2025
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Josef Frank : life and work
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(...)
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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(...)
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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 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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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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November 2002, Chicago
November 2002, Chicago
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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.
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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.
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April 2008, New York
April 2008, New York
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Urban Theory
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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,(...)
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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,(...)
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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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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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April 2015
April 2015
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Architectural Drawing
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Kertész : made in USA
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.(...)
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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.(...)
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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. 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.
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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.
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January 2004, Paris
January 2004, Paris
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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,(...)
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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,(...)
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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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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
September 2006, Paris
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The author, Gerhard Mack, explores the architecture of each individual museum in detail, and highlights current tendencies in museum building in his seminal essay "Time Rediscovered". This is complemented by an introduction by Harald Szeemann, who(...)
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The author, Gerhard Mack, explores the architecture of each individual museum in detail, and highlights current tendencies in museum building in his seminal essay "Time Rediscovered". This is complemented by an introduction by Harald Szeemann, who(...)
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Art museums into the 21st century
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The author, Gerhard Mack, explores the architecture of each individual museum in detail, and highlights current tendencies in museum building in his seminal essay "Time Rediscovered". This is complemented by an introduction by Harald Szeemann, who as curator of the Kunsthaus in Zürich, was appointed director for Fine Arts at the Biennale in Venice this year. The museums examined in this book are Kunsthaus in Bregenz, the Museum of the Beyeler Fondation near Basel, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Moderna und Arkitektur Museet in Stockholm all opening within a year of one another. The Tate Gallery of Modern Art which is being built by Herzog & de Meuron in a former power station on the Thames in London is to be completed in May 1999. Conversations with the architects Frank O. Gehry, Jacques Herzog, Richard Meier, Rafael Moneo, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano and Peter Zumthor reveal the wide spectrum of design concerns in contemporary museum design and building. In the Pavilion at the Beyeler Fondation, the interaction of nature, light and the presentation of art is an impressive experience. Jean Nouvel perceives the museum as a public place, bringing the various areas of 'urban chaos' into contact with each other. A total of eight projects are presented.
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The author, Gerhard Mack, explores the architecture of each individual museum in detail, and highlights current tendencies in museum building in his seminal essay "Time Rediscovered". This is complemented by an introduction by Harald Szeemann, who as curator of the Kunsthaus in Zürich, was appointed director for Fine Arts at the Biennale in Venice this year. The museums examined in this book are Kunsthaus in Bregenz, the Museum of the Beyeler Fondation near Basel, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Moderna und Arkitektur Museet in Stockholm all opening within a year of one another. The Tate Gallery of Modern Art which is being built by Herzog & de Meuron in a former power station on the Thames in London is to be completed in May 1999. Conversations with the architects Frank O. Gehry, Jacques Herzog, Richard Meier, Rafael Moneo, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano and Peter Zumthor reveal the wide spectrum of design concerns in contemporary museum design and building. In the Pavilion at the Beyeler Fondation, the interaction of nature, light and the presentation of art is an impressive experience. Jean Nouvel perceives the museum as a public place, bringing the various areas of 'urban chaos' into contact with each other. A total of eight projects are presented.
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January 1900, Basel
January 1900, Basel
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Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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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,(...)
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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,(...)
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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.
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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.
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January 1900, Stockholm
January 1900, Stockholm
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Fashion Design
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Beginning with the inception of the U.S. embassy building program in 1926, and continuing through the 1996 competition for a new embassy in Berlin, "The Architecture of Diplomacy" examines a remarkable(...)
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Beginning with the inception of the U.S. embassy building program in 1926, and continuing through the 1996 competition for a new embassy in Berlin, "The Architecture of Diplomacy" examines a remarkable(...)
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
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August 1998, New York
August 1998, New York
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The architecture of diplomacy : building America's embassies
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Beginning with the inception of the U.S. embassy building program in 1926, and continuing through the 1996 competition for a new embassy in Berlin, "The Architecture of Diplomacy" examines a remarkable yet little-known chapter in architectural history. It focuses on the 1950s, when modernism became linked with the idea of freedom and the State Department's Office of Foreign Buildings Operations began to showcase modern architecture in its embassies. Architects could build abroad in styles never sanctioned at home, resulting in unusual and sometimes outlandish designs intended to express an "open" America overseas. Indeed, the embassy building program was part of the nation's larger effort to establish and assert its superpower status following World War II. Terrorist threats and espionage scandals also shaped the worldwide building program, and continue to affect it today. "The Architecture of Diplomacy" features the stories behind the Rio de Janiero and Havana embassies by Harrison & Abramovitz, Ralph Rapson's designs for Stockholm and Copenhagen, Gordon Bunshaft's work in Germany, Eero Saarinen's constructions in London and Oslo, and Edward Durell Stone's embassy in New Delhi. Other architects involved in the program included Arquitectonica; Pietro Belluschi; Marcel Breuer; Walter Gropius; Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood; Richard Neutra; and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Author Jane C. Loeffler obtained access to original correspondence, drawings, and photographs that have never been published.
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Beginning with the inception of the U.S. embassy building program in 1926, and continuing through the 1996 competition for a new embassy in Berlin, "The Architecture of Diplomacy" examines a remarkable yet little-known chapter in architectural history. It focuses on the 1950s, when modernism became linked with the idea of freedom and the State Department's Office of Foreign Buildings Operations began to showcase modern architecture in its embassies. Architects could build abroad in styles never sanctioned at home, resulting in unusual and sometimes outlandish designs intended to express an "open" America overseas. Indeed, the embassy building program was part of the nation's larger effort to establish and assert its superpower status following World War II. Terrorist threats and espionage scandals also shaped the worldwide building program, and continue to affect it today. "The Architecture of Diplomacy" features the stories behind the Rio de Janiero and Havana embassies by Harrison & Abramovitz, Ralph Rapson's designs for Stockholm and Copenhagen, Gordon Bunshaft's work in Germany, Eero Saarinen's constructions in London and Oslo, and Edward Durell Stone's embassy in New Delhi. Other architects involved in the program included Arquitectonica; Pietro Belluschi; Marcel Breuer; Walter Gropius; Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood; Richard Neutra; and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Author Jane C. Loeffler obtained access to original correspondence, drawings, and photographs that have never been published.
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August 1998, New York
August 1998, New York
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Commercial interiors, Building types
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The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture, and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well. In this book he looks at eight of his(...)
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The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture, and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well. In this book he looks at eight of his(...)
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Theoretical anxiety and design strategies in the work of eight contemporary architects
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The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture, and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well. In this book he looks at eight of his contemporaries -- all architects of international stature -- and discusses the theoretical positions, technical innovations, and design contributions of each. Moneo's discussion of these eight architects -- James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and the partnership of Jacques Herzog and Pierre De Meuron -- has the colloquial, engaging tone of a series of lectures on modern architecture by a master architect; the reader hears not the dispassionate theorizing of an academic, but Moneo's own deeply held convictions as he considers the work of his contemporaries. Discussing each of the eight architects in turn, Moneo first gives an introductory profile, emphasizing intentions, theoretical concerns, and construction procedures. He then turns to the work, offering detailed critical analyses of the works he considers to be crucial for an informed understanding of this architect's work. The many images he uses to illustrate his points resemble the rapid-fire flash of slides in a lecture, but Moneo's perspective is unique among lecturers. These profiles are not what Moneo calls the "tacit treatises" that can be found on the shelves of a university library, but lively encounters of architectural equals. More than 500 illustrations accompany the text.
Theoretical anxiety and design strategies in the work of eight contemporary architects
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The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture, and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well. In this book he looks at eight of his contemporaries -- all architects of international stature -- and discusses the theoretical positions, technical innovations, and design contributions of each. Moneo's discussion of these eight architects -- James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and the partnership of Jacques Herzog and Pierre De Meuron -- has the colloquial, engaging tone of a series of lectures on modern architecture by a master architect; the reader hears not the dispassionate theorizing of an academic, but Moneo's own deeply held convictions as he considers the work of his contemporaries. Discussing each of the eight architects in turn, Moneo first gives an introductory profile, emphasizing intentions, theoretical concerns, and construction procedures. He then turns to the work, offering detailed critical analyses of the works he considers to be crucial for an informed understanding of this architect's work. The many images he uses to illustrate his points resemble the rapid-fire flash of slides in a lecture, but Moneo's perspective is unique among lecturers. These profiles are not what Moneo calls the "tacit treatises" that can be found on the shelves of a university library, but lively encounters of architectural equals. More than 500 illustrations accompany the text.
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May 2004, Cambridge, Mass.
May 2004, Cambridge, Mass.
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
