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Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture/Astrology considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs. Originally published as a column for Domus magazine, Graham and Russell's book integrates critical analysis with astrology and mythology to offer alternative(...)
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Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture/Astrology considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs. Originally published as a column for Domus magazine, Graham and Russell's book integrates critical analysis with astrology and mythology to offer alternative(...)
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Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture/Astrology considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs. Originally published as a column for Domus magazine, Graham and Russell's book integrates critical analysis with astrology and mythology to offer alternative perspectives on the work and personalities of artist/architects including Frank Gehry (a restless, dreamy Pisces), Frank Lloyd Wright (a romantic Gemini with one foot in the past and the other in the future), Eero Saarinen (a dynamic, dramatic Leo) and Le Corbusier (a logical, balanced Libra). With accompanying illustrations by Mieko Meguro.
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Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture/Astrology considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs. Originally published as a column for Domus magazine, Graham and Russell's book integrates critical analysis with astrology and mythology to offer alternative perspectives on the work and personalities of artist/architects including Frank Gehry (a restless, dreamy Pisces), Frank Lloyd Wright (a romantic Gemini with one foot in the past and the other in the future), Eero Saarinen (a dynamic, dramatic Leo) and Le Corbusier (a logical, balanced Libra). With accompanying illustrations by Mieko Meguro.
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February 2015
February 2015
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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« Détailler, formuler, construire » présente les travaux des étudiant·es de 1e année de la formation architecte-ingénieur à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles et à CY Tech, réalisés entre 2022 et 2024. Sous la direction de l’architecte et enseignant Nicolas Dorval-Bory, le cours s’appuie sur l’analyse et le dessin de détails constructifs et s’achève(...)
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« Détailler, formuler, construire » présente les travaux des étudiant·es de 1e année de la formation architecte-ingénieur à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles et à CY Tech, réalisés entre 2022 et 2024. Sous la direction de l’architecte et enseignant Nicolas Dorval-Bory, le cours s’appuie sur l’analyse et le dessin de détails constructifs et s’achève par la construction à l’échelle 1 de pavillons en bois.
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« Détailler, formuler, construire » présente les travaux des étudiant·es de 1e année de la formation architecte-ingénieur à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles et à CY Tech, réalisés entre 2022 et 2024. Sous la direction de l’architecte et enseignant Nicolas Dorval-Bory, le cours s’appuie sur l’analyse et le dessin de détails constructifs et s’achève par la construction à l’échelle 1 de pavillons en bois.
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January 2026
January 2026
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Contemporary Architecture
Contemporary Architecture
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Drawing for architecture
Drawing for architecture
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Architect Léon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of(...)
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Architect Léon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of(...)
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September 2009
September 2009
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Drawing for architecture
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Architect Léon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of contemporary architecture. In an age of energy crisis, he writes (and his drawings show), we "build in the wrong places, in the wrong patterns, materials, densities, and heights, and for the wrong number of dwellers"; a return to traditional architectures and building and settlement techniques can be the means of ecological reconstruction. Each of Krier's provocative and entertaining images is worth more than a thousand words of theoretical abstraction.
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Architect Léon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of contemporary architecture. In an age of energy crisis, he writes (and his drawings show), we "build in the wrong places, in the wrong patterns, materials, densities, and heights, and for the wrong number of dwellers"; a return to traditional architectures and building and settlement techniques can be the means of ecological reconstruction. Each of Krier's provocative and entertaining images is worth more than a thousand words of theoretical abstraction.
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September 2009
September 2009
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Architecture: inspirations
Architecture: inspirations
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L'architecture résidentielle contemporaine reflète les mutations de notre société, sur les plans sociaux, économiques comme environnementaux. Cet ouvrage très richement illustré fait le choix de l'originalité, en montrant d'autres façons de construire aujourd'hui : de nouvelles formes, de nouveaux matériaux et technologies, tant pour la structure extérieure que pour le(...)
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L'architecture résidentielle contemporaine reflète les mutations de notre société, sur les plans sociaux, économiques comme environnementaux. Cet ouvrage très richement illustré fait le choix de l'originalité, en montrant d'autres façons de construire aujourd'hui : de nouvelles formes, de nouveaux matériaux et technologies, tant pour la structure extérieure que pour le(...)
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L'architecture résidentielle contemporaine reflète les mutations de notre société, sur les plans sociaux, économiques comme environnementaux. Cet ouvrage très richement illustré fait le choix de l'originalité, en montrant d'autres façons de construire aujourd'hui : de nouvelles formes, de nouveaux matériaux et technologies, tant pour la structure extérieure que pour le design intérieur. Les maisons présentées sont classées selon leur emplacement géographique : en ville, à la montagne, dans un village, à la campagne, en banlieue, sur la côte, afin de permettre au lecteur une rapide identification à sa problématique.
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L'architecture résidentielle contemporaine reflète les mutations de notre société, sur les plans sociaux, économiques comme environnementaux. Cet ouvrage très richement illustré fait le choix de l'originalité, en montrant d'autres façons de construire aujourd'hui : de nouvelles formes, de nouveaux matériaux et technologies, tant pour la structure extérieure que pour le design intérieur. Les maisons présentées sont classées selon leur emplacement géographique : en ville, à la montagne, dans un village, à la campagne, en banlieue, sur la côte, afin de permettre au lecteur une rapide identification à sa problématique.
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December 2009
December 2009
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History since 1900, Reference Books
History since 1900, Reference Books
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Histoire de l'architecture
Histoire de l'architecture
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Cette encyclopédie couvre l'histoire de l'architecture, des abris préhistoriques aux bâtiments les plus novateurs du XXe siècle, et s'adresse aussi bien aux amateurs d'art et de tourisme urbain qu'au grand public.
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Cette encyclopédie couvre l'histoire de l'architecture, des abris préhistoriques aux bâtiments les plus novateurs du XXe siècle, et s'adresse aussi bien aux amateurs d'art et de tourisme urbain qu'au grand public.
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Histoire de l'architecture
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Cette encyclopédie couvre l'histoire de l'architecture, des abris préhistoriques aux bâtiments les plus novateurs du XXe siècle, et s'adresse aussi bien aux amateurs d'art et de tourisme urbain qu'au grand public.
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June 2015
June 2015
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History since 1900, Reference Books
History since 1900, Reference Books
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CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne), founded in Switzerland in 1928, was an avant-garde association of architects intended to advance both modernism and internationalism in architecture. CIAM saw itself as an elite group revolutionizing architecture to serve the interests of society. Its members included some of the best-known architects of the twentieth(...)
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CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne), founded in Switzerland in 1928, was an avant-garde association of architects intended to advance both modernism and internationalism in architecture. CIAM saw itself as an elite group revolutionizing architecture to serve the interests of society. Its members included some of the best-known architects of the twentieth(...)
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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October 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts
October 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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The CIAM discourse on urbanism, 1928-1960
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CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne), founded in Switzerland in 1928, was an avant-garde association of architects intended to advance both modernism and internationalism in architecture. CIAM saw itself as an elite group revolutionizing architecture to serve the interests of society. Its members included some of the best-known architects of the twentieth century, such as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Richard Neutra, but also hundreds of others who looked to it for doctrines on how to shape the urban environment in a rapidly changing world. In this first book-length history of the organization, architectural historian Eric Mumford focuses on CIAM's discourse to trace the development and promotion of its influential concept of the "Functional City." He views official doctrines and pronouncements in relation to the changing circumstances of the members, revealing how CIAM in the 1930s began to resemble a kind of syndicalist party oriented toward winning over any suitable authority, regardless of political orientation. Mumford also looks at CIAM's efforts after World War II to find a new basis for a socially engaged architecture and describes the attempts by the group of younger members called Team 10 to radically revise CIAM's mission in the 1950s, efforts that led to the organization's dissolution in 1959.
The CIAM discourse on urbanism, 1928-1960
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CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne), founded in Switzerland in 1928, was an avant-garde association of architects intended to advance both modernism and internationalism in architecture. CIAM saw itself as an elite group revolutionizing architecture to serve the interests of society. Its members included some of the best-known architects of the twentieth century, such as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Richard Neutra, but also hundreds of others who looked to it for doctrines on how to shape the urban environment in a rapidly changing world. In this first book-length history of the organization, architectural historian Eric Mumford focuses on CIAM's discourse to trace the development and promotion of its influential concept of the "Functional City." He views official doctrines and pronouncements in relation to the changing circumstances of the members, revealing how CIAM in the 1930s began to resemble a kind of syndicalist party oriented toward winning over any suitable authority, regardless of political orientation. Mumford also looks at CIAM's efforts after World War II to find a new basis for a socially engaged architecture and describes the attempts by the group of younger members called Team 10 to radically revise CIAM's mission in the 1950s, efforts that led to the organization's dissolution in 1959.
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October 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts
October 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Cinema architecture
Cinema architecture
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Cinema Architecture explores different types of movie theatres. These range from self-contained buildings to cinemas that are components of entertainment or cultural centres, cinemas that are outside of their usual context, for instance in hotels, as well as multi-functional mobile screening constructions. The volume also focusses on the interior design which spans from(...)
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Cinema Architecture explores different types of movie theatres. These range from self-contained buildings to cinemas that are components of entertainment or cultural centres, cinemas that are outside of their usual context, for instance in hotels, as well as multi-functional mobile screening constructions. The volume also focusses on the interior design which spans from(...)
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Cinema architecture
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Cinema Architecture explores different types of movie theatres. These range from self-contained buildings to cinemas that are components of entertainment or cultural centres, cinemas that are outside of their usual context, for instance in hotels, as well as multi-functional mobile screening constructions. The volume also focusses on the interior design which spans from flamboyant, luxurious and opulent to minimalist, modern and refined.
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Cinema Architecture explores different types of movie theatres. These range from self-contained buildings to cinemas that are components of entertainment or cultural centres, cinemas that are outside of their usual context, for instance in hotels, as well as multi-functional mobile screening constructions. The volume also focusses on the interior design which spans from flamboyant, luxurious and opulent to minimalist, modern and refined.
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December 2009
December 2009
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Architecture and Film, Set Design
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Architecture : art
Architecture : art
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This illustrated collection features designers and projects that push the boundaries of art and architecture. "Architecture : art" explores the disparate ways in which contemporary artists and architects handle the blurring lines between their disciplines. Contemporary art often oversteps the limits of its traditional concepts and modes of presentation, increasingly(...)
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This illustrated collection features designers and projects that push the boundaries of art and architecture. "Architecture : art" explores the disparate ways in which contemporary artists and architects handle the blurring lines between their disciplines. Contemporary art often oversteps the limits of its traditional concepts and modes of presentation, increasingly(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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September 2005, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
September 2005, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
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Architecture : art
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This illustrated collection features designers and projects that push the boundaries of art and architecture. "Architecture : art" explores the disparate ways in which contemporary artists and architects handle the blurring lines between their disciplines. Contemporary art often oversteps the limits of its traditional concepts and modes of presentation, increasingly moving into virtual and actual spaces. Similarly, many of today's architects depart from the principles of classical modernism and historical models to integrate artistic concepts into the design and construction of their buildings. The book highlights the most exciting examples of these interdisciplinary activities, from Zaha Hadid's Guggenheim Museum in Taichung, Taiwan to Richard Meier's Jubilee Church in Rome, Italy, and from Hiroshi Sugimoto's Go'o Shrine to Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses. Profiles of the featured artists and architects are included, along with an introductory essay elucidating the historical foundations from which architecture and art have coevolved to the present day.
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This illustrated collection features designers and projects that push the boundaries of art and architecture. "Architecture : art" explores the disparate ways in which contemporary artists and architects handle the blurring lines between their disciplines. Contemporary art often oversteps the limits of its traditional concepts and modes of presentation, increasingly moving into virtual and actual spaces. Similarly, many of today's architects depart from the principles of classical modernism and historical models to integrate artistic concepts into the design and construction of their buildings. The book highlights the most exciting examples of these interdisciplinary activities, from Zaha Hadid's Guggenheim Museum in Taichung, Taiwan to Richard Meier's Jubilee Church in Rome, Italy, and from Hiroshi Sugimoto's Go'o Shrine to Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses. Profiles of the featured artists and architects are included, along with an introductory essay elucidating the historical foundations from which architecture and art have coevolved to the present day.
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September 2005, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
September 2005, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Architecture : nature
Architecture : nature
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Philip Jodidio has collected numerous examples of the partnership between architecture and nature from throughout history and the world and presents them in one illustrated volume. From Frank Lloyd Wright's residential house Fallingwater in Bear Run, Philadelphia, to the Miho Museum in Japan built by I.M. Pei, and from the Olympic Stadium built for the 1972 games in(...)
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Philip Jodidio has collected numerous examples of the partnership between architecture and nature from throughout history and the world and presents them in one illustrated volume. From Frank Lloyd Wright's residential house Fallingwater in Bear Run, Philadelphia, to the Miho Museum in Japan built by I.M. Pei, and from the Olympic Stadium built for the 1972 games in(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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October 2006, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
October 2006, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
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Architecture : nature
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Philip Jodidio has collected numerous examples of the partnership between architecture and nature from throughout history and the world and presents them in one illustrated volume. From Frank Lloyd Wright's residential house Fallingwater in Bear Run, Philadelphia, to the Miho Museum in Japan built by I.M. Pei, and from the Olympic Stadium built for the 1972 games in Munich to the MoMA roof top garden in New York by Ken Smith, Jodidio demonstrates the many forms that the interplay between built structures and their environment can take. He examines aspects of the relationship between nature and architecture such as nature as inspiration; the imitation and mimicking of natural patterns; landscape design; ecologically sensitive structures; and artificial realities, among others.
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Philip Jodidio has collected numerous examples of the partnership between architecture and nature from throughout history and the world and presents them in one illustrated volume. From Frank Lloyd Wright's residential house Fallingwater in Bear Run, Philadelphia, to the Miho Museum in Japan built by I.M. Pei, and from the Olympic Stadium built for the 1972 games in Munich to the MoMA roof top garden in New York by Ken Smith, Jodidio demonstrates the many forms that the interplay between built structures and their environment can take. He examines aspects of the relationship between nature and architecture such as nature as inspiration; the imitation and mimicking of natural patterns; landscape design; ecologically sensitive structures; and artificial realities, among others.
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October 2006, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
October 2006, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Architecture tomorrow
Architecture tomorrow
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En Europe, les trois quarts de la population vivent en milieu urbain : en Asie, c'est de l'ordre de 40 %. Mais de quoi la ville de demain sera-t-elle faite ? Quelles architectures, quels espaces publics ? Quelle pensée, quels concepts domineront les deux décennies à venir ? Autant de questions soulevées par "Architecture tomorrow", un livre sur l'évolution du cadre de(...)
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En Europe, les trois quarts de la population vivent en milieu urbain : en Asie, c'est de l'ordre de 40 %. Mais de quoi la ville de demain sera-t-elle faite ? Quelles architectures, quels espaces publics ? Quelle pensée, quels concepts domineront les deux décennies à venir ? Autant de questions soulevées par "Architecture tomorrow", un livre sur l'évolution du cadre de(...)
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En Europe, les trois quarts de la population vivent en milieu urbain : en Asie, c'est de l'ordre de 40 %. Mais de quoi la ville de demain sera-t-elle faite ? Quelles architectures, quels espaces publics ? Quelle pensée, quels concepts domineront les deux décennies à venir ? Autant de questions soulevées par "Architecture tomorrow", un livre sur l'évolution du cadre de vie contemporain aux prises avec la mondialisation. Qu'ils soient dédiés au travail ou aux loisirs, à l'habitat ou au commerce, à la santé ou à l'éducation, les lieux deviennent de plus en plus hybrides. Mais au-delà de la complexité inhérente à cette nouvelle génération de programmes, les bâtiments se doivent d'intégrer la démarche planétaire de " développement durable ". Parallèlement, l'heure n'est plus à l'utopie mais à l'expérimentation dans trois domaines en perpétuel croisement : architecture, social et culturel. En ce XXI° siècle placé sous le signe de la transversalité, l'architecture se nourrit des emprunts aux autres disciplines - l'art contemporain notamment - mais s'enrichit aussi des transferts de technologie. Manipulations informatiques aidant, les architectes peuvent explorer de nouveaux champs et donner corps à leur rêve d'espace. Le musée Guggenheim de Bilbao, icône de la modernité s'il en est, a ouvert l'autoroute de possibilités infinies ; et la gare maritime de Yokohama a déjà pris le relais... Ainsi apparaissent de nouvelles formes, de nouvelles matières, de nouveaux lieux dans ces bâtiments parfois singuliers, mais toujours spécifiques. Car on ne se risquerait plus aujourd'hui à parler d'" avant-garde ". Dans cet esprit de prospective, "Architecture tomorrow" propose plus qu'une revue des tendances : c'est l'analyse, au bout du compte, des " attitudes " des architectes en réponse aux questionnements d'une société envahie par l'image. Ils se montrent en phase avec cette mutation accélérée ; beaucoup anticipent les usages, les modes de vie. Sculpturaux ou immatériels, générateurs d'urbanité ou catalyseurs de flux, les œuvres et projets présentés dans ce livre s'attachent à réaffirmer l'architecture comme un véritable acte culturel. En paysage urbain comme dans le grand paysage naturel. Une rue sous une immense voile de verre à Milan, une ambassade conçue comme une promenade à Berlin, des logements suspendus au-dessus de l'eau à Cordoue, une immense plaque perforée jouant l'interface avec le patrimoine de Saint-Etienne... L'architecture contemporaine d'offre à nous dans une prodigieuse ingéniosité où le poétique sait le disputer à la technique, le social au monumental, l'éphémère au pérenne.
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En Europe, les trois quarts de la population vivent en milieu urbain : en Asie, c'est de l'ordre de 40 %. Mais de quoi la ville de demain sera-t-elle faite ? Quelles architectures, quels espaces publics ? Quelle pensée, quels concepts domineront les deux décennies à venir ? Autant de questions soulevées par "Architecture tomorrow", un livre sur l'évolution du cadre de vie contemporain aux prises avec la mondialisation. Qu'ils soient dédiés au travail ou aux loisirs, à l'habitat ou au commerce, à la santé ou à l'éducation, les lieux deviennent de plus en plus hybrides. Mais au-delà de la complexité inhérente à cette nouvelle génération de programmes, les bâtiments se doivent d'intégrer la démarche planétaire de " développement durable ". Parallèlement, l'heure n'est plus à l'utopie mais à l'expérimentation dans trois domaines en perpétuel croisement : architecture, social et culturel. En ce XXI° siècle placé sous le signe de la transversalité, l'architecture se nourrit des emprunts aux autres disciplines - l'art contemporain notamment - mais s'enrichit aussi des transferts de technologie. Manipulations informatiques aidant, les architectes peuvent explorer de nouveaux champs et donner corps à leur rêve d'espace. Le musée Guggenheim de Bilbao, icône de la modernité s'il en est, a ouvert l'autoroute de possibilités infinies ; et la gare maritime de Yokohama a déjà pris le relais... Ainsi apparaissent de nouvelles formes, de nouvelles matières, de nouveaux lieux dans ces bâtiments parfois singuliers, mais toujours spécifiques. Car on ne se risquerait plus aujourd'hui à parler d'" avant-garde ". Dans cet esprit de prospective, "Architecture tomorrow" propose plus qu'une revue des tendances : c'est l'analyse, au bout du compte, des " attitudes " des architectes en réponse aux questionnements d'une société envahie par l'image. Ils se montrent en phase avec cette mutation accélérée ; beaucoup anticipent les usages, les modes de vie. Sculpturaux ou immatériels, générateurs d'urbanité ou catalyseurs de flux, les œuvres et projets présentés dans ce livre s'attachent à réaffirmer l'architecture comme un véritable acte culturel. En paysage urbain comme dans le grand paysage naturel. Une rue sous une immense voile de verre à Milan, une ambassade conçue comme une promenade à Berlin, des logements suspendus au-dessus de l'eau à Cordoue, une immense plaque perforée jouant l'interface avec le patrimoine de Saint-Etienne... L'architecture contemporaine d'offre à nous dans une prodigieuse ingéniosité où le poétique sait le disputer à la technique, le social au monumental, l'éphémère au pérenne.
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October 2004, Paris
October 2004, Paris
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
