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Récipiendaire du Prix de Rome, l'architecte québécois Pierre Thibault présente dans ce livre son itinéraire singulier, qui va de la construction de plusieurs musées, dont le Centre d'exposition de Baie-St-Paul, à la construction de laboratoires et centre de recherche, en plus de salles de spectacles, telle que Le Théâtre de la Dame de Coeur et divers(...)
Architecture de Montréal
October 1997, Québec
Temps et matérialité: Pierre Thibault
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Récipiendaire du Prix de Rome, l'architecte québécois Pierre Thibault présente dans ce livre son itinéraire singulier, qui va de la construction de plusieurs musées, dont le Centre d'exposition de Baie-St-Paul, à la construction de laboratoires et centre de recherche, en plus de salles de spectacles, telle que Le Théâtre de la Dame de Coeur et divers projets d'habitats, du chalet au cabanon. Ce livre contient aussi quelques photos de son exposition au Centre Canadien d'Architecture. Les textes sont de Pierre Thibault, Gilles Pellerin, Sophie Gironnay, Alexis Ligoune et Ricardo L. Castro.
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October 1997, Québec
Architecture de Montréal
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Sur les pentes escarpées des collines dominant la baie d’Alger, s’échelonnent des architectures constituant le plus bel ensemble préservé de la rive sud de la Méditerranée. Éclectisme, art déco, néomauresque… les édifices rivalisent de fantaisie et les styles se libèrent. A travers neuf promenades, c’est à la découverte d’un siècle d’architecture que nous sommes conviés.(...)
Vernacular Architecture
December 2016
Alger
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Sur les pentes escarpées des collines dominant la baie d’Alger, s’échelonnent des architectures constituant le plus bel ensemble préservé de la rive sud de la Méditerranée. Éclectisme, art déco, néomauresque… les édifices rivalisent de fantaisie et les styles se libèrent. A travers neuf promenades, c’est à la découverte d’un siècle d’architecture que nous sommes conviés. Un répertoire de 100 biographies d’architectes, dont la moitié inédites, ainsi qu’une importante bibliographie offrent une synthèse renouvelée des connaissances.
Vernacular Architecture
Scandinavian architecture
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''Scandinavian architecture'' presents the most complete survey of Nordic architecture available today. Showcasing examples of public, domestic and commercial buildings, this beautiful volume exhibits how Scandinavian architects use their own resources and traditions, as well as adapting the styles of medieval, Renaissance, baroque and modern Europe. With more than 500(...)
Scandinavian architecture
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''Scandinavian architecture'' presents the most complete survey of Nordic architecture available today. Showcasing examples of public, domestic and commercial buildings, this beautiful volume exhibits how Scandinavian architects use their own resources and traditions, as well as adapting the styles of medieval, Renaissance, baroque and modern Europe. With more than 500 illustrations providing a visual explanation of this region's architecture, this unique look into Scandinavia’s new generation of architects is an endlessly rich resource for anyone with a passion for architecture and interior design.
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Queering architecture
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Featuring contributions from a range of significant voices in the field, this volume renews the conversation around what it means to speak of the "queer" in the context of architecture, and offers a fresh take on the methodological and epistemological challenges this poses to the discipline of architectural theory. Architecture as a discipline, a profession and an applied(...)
Queering architecture
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Featuring contributions from a range of significant voices in the field, this volume renews the conversation around what it means to speak of the "queer" in the context of architecture, and offers a fresh take on the methodological and epistemological challenges this poses to the discipline of architectural theory. Architecture as a discipline, a profession and an applied practice, is always subordinate to its own conceptual framework, which is one of orderliness. It refers to buildings, but also to infrastructures of thought and knowledge, to conventions and taxonomies, to structures of governance, hierarchies of power and systems of administration. How, then, can one look at queering architectural discourse when the very term "queer", celebrated for its elusive, slippery nature, resists and attacks such order? Divided into four subsections, the essays in this anthology each purse a distinct line of inquiry - methods, practices, spaces, and pedagogies - in order to help particularize the proposed queering of architecture. They demonstrate the paradoxical nature of the endeavour from a diverse range of perspectives – from the questions of mapping queer theory in architecture; to the issues of queer architectural archives, or lack thereof; to the non-Western linguistic challenges to the very term queer alongside decolonial approaches to architecture via indigeneity and landscape.
Gender Theory in Architecture
Eating architecture
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The contributors to this collection of essays explore the relationship between food and architecture, asking what can be learned by examining the (often metaphorical) intersection of the preparation of meals and the production of space. In a culture that includes the Food Channel and the knife-juggling chefs of Benihana, food has become not only an obsession but an(...)
Eating architecture
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The contributors to this collection of essays explore the relationship between food and architecture, asking what can be learned by examining the (often metaphorical) intersection of the preparation of meals and the production of space. In a culture that includes the Food Channel and the knife-juggling chefs of Benihana, food has become not only an obsession but an alternative art form. The nineteen essays and "Gallery of Recipes" in "Eating architecture" seize this moment to investigate how art and architecture engage issues of identity, ideology, conviviality, memory, and loss that cookery evokes. The essays are organized into four sections that lead the reader from the landscape to the kitchen, the table, and finally the mouth. The essays in "Place settings" examine the relationships between food and location that arise in culinary colonialism and the global economy of tourism. "Philosophy in the kitchen" traces the routines that create a site for aesthetic experimentation, including an examination of gingerbread houses as art, food, and architectural space. The essays in "Table rules" consider the spatial and performative aspects of eating and the ways in which shared meals are among the most perishable and preserved cultural artifacts. Finally, "Embodied taste" considers the sensual apprehension of food and what it means to consume a work of art. The "Gallery of recipes" contains images by contemporary architects on the subject of eating architecture.
TerraFibra Architectures
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Face au défi climatique et à la nécessaire adaptation des systèmes constructifs, l’utilisation de matériaux biosourcés et géosourcés offre des solutions techniques vertueuses. Certaines sont éprouvées depuis des siècles, d’autres s’inventent aujourd’hui. Ce livre témoigne du potentiel de ces modes constructifs en analysant les 40 bâtiments finalistes du TERRAFIBRA Award,(...)
TerraFibra Architectures
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Face au défi climatique et à la nécessaire adaptation des systèmes constructifs, l’utilisation de matériaux biosourcés et géosourcés offre des solutions techniques vertueuses. Certaines sont éprouvées depuis des siècles, d’autres s’inventent aujourd’hui. Ce livre témoigne du potentiel de ces modes constructifs en analysant les 40 bâtiments finalistes du TERRAFIBRA Award, premier prix mondial des architectures contemporaines en terre crue et fibres végétales. Classés en fonction des techniques (pisé, terre coulée, bauge, adobe, bloc de terre comprimée, torchis et enduit) ou des matériaux utilisés (chanvre, paille, roseau, bambou), les projets témoignent de l’engagement d’équipes pionnières réunissant architectes, ingénieurs, constructeurs et maîtres d’ouvrage. Ils démontrent qu’il est possible de bâtir autrement, en s’appuyant sur des ressources et des savoir-faire locaux sans renoncer à l’innovation. Ancrées dans leur territoire, ces architectures frugales et créatives ouvrent de nouveaux horizons pour la construction et la rénovation. Face au défi climatique et à la nécessaire adaptation des systèmes constructifs, l’utilisation de matériaux biosourcés et géosourcés offre des solutions techniques vertueuses. Certaines sont éprouvées depuis des siècles, d’autres s’inventent aujourd’hui. Ce livre témoigne du potentiel de ces modes constructifs en analysant les 40 bâtiments finalistes du TERRAFIBRA Award, premier prix mondial des architectures contemporaines en terre crue et fibres végétales. Classés en fonction des techniques (pisé, terre coulée, bauge, adobe, bloc de terre comprimée, torchis et enduit) ou des matériaux utilisés (chanvre, paille, roseau, bambou), les projets témoignent de l’engagement d’équipes pionnières réunissant architectes, ingénieurs, constructeurs et maîtres d’ouvrage. Ils démontrent qu’il est possible de bâtir autrement, en s’appuyant sur des ressources et des savoir-faire locaux sans renoncer à l’innovation. Ancrées dans leur territoire, ces architectures frugales et créatives ouvrent de nouveaux horizons pour la construction et la rénovation.
Green Architecture
Index architecture
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"Index architecture" documents the extensive cross-fertilization of ideas that can occur between architectural practice and education. Through work developed by students and faculty at Columbia University's School of Architecture, it offers not only an archive of avant-garde work but a record of architectural discourse at a time when the design studio has been radically(...)
Architectural Theory
May 2003, Cambridge / London
Index architecture
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"Index architecture" documents the extensive cross-fertilization of ideas that can occur between architectural practice and education. Through work developed by students and faculty at Columbia University's School of Architecture, it offers not only an archive of avant-garde work but a record of architectural discourse at a time when the design studio has been radically altered by digital technology. Writings, interviews, and images are organized according to an alphabetical "index" of key terms. Cross-referencing allows for a rich reading of concepts currently discussed in the field. The contributing critics and theorists include Stan Allen, Karen Bausman, Lise Anne Couture, Kathryn Dean, Evan Douglis, Kenneth Frampton, Leslie Gill, Thomas Hanrahan, Laurie Hawkinson, Steven Holl, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sulan Kolatan, Greg Lynn, William MacDonald, Reinhold Martin, Mary Mcleod, Victoria Meyers, Hani Rashid, Jesse Reiser, Bernard Tschumi, Nanako Umemoto, and Mark Wigley.
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Power / architecture
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Power and architecture are fundamental to the question of how contemporary society and architecture work together. Since power lacks a comprehensive logic, coherence and instrumentalization capability, the question refers both to the autonomous powers of the architectural forms and to a set of external powers represented through architecture. Through eight essays by(...)
Architectural Theory
March 2018
Power / architecture
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Power and architecture are fundamental to the question of how contemporary society and architecture work together. Since power lacks a comprehensive logic, coherence and instrumentalization capability, the question refers both to the autonomous powers of the architectural forms and to a set of external powers represented through architecture. Through eight essays by contributors, along with images, drawings and documents, the book renders visible a set of entities, informal conventions, stakeholders and means involved in the creation of architecture; that is, the dynamics of the collective that ceaselessly tests the architectural composition of the common world. With selected projects by Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Eduardo Souto de Moura and many more.
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L'architecture au corps
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Dans cette rencontre entre philosophes et architectes autour de la question du corps, il s'agit de penser l'architecture dans sa réalité anthropologique, éthique et esthétique et non pas uniquement à partir d'une vision formelle, structurale et fonctionnaliste. Ce livre contient une vingtaine d'essais écrits par des auteurs tels que Marc Perelman, Alberto(...)
Architectural Theory
October 1997, Bruxelles
L'architecture au corps
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Dans cette rencontre entre philosophes et architectes autour de la question du corps, il s'agit de penser l'architecture dans sa réalité anthropologique, éthique et esthétique et non pas uniquement à partir d'une vision formelle, structurale et fonctionnaliste. Ce livre contient une vingtaine d'essais écrits par des auteurs tels que Marc Perelman, Alberto Pérez-Gomez et Chris Younès.
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October 1997, Bruxelles
Architectural Theory
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Today, it is hard to imagine the everyday work in an architectural practice without computers. Bits and bytes play an important role in the design and presentation of architecture. This book, which is published in the context of an exhibition of the same name of the Architekturmuseum der TUM at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (October 14, 2020 to January 10, 2021),(...)
The architecture machine: the role of computers in architecture
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Today, it is hard to imagine the everyday work in an architectural practice without computers. Bits and bytes play an important role in the design and presentation of architecture. This book, which is published in the context of an exhibition of the same name of the Architekturmuseum der TUM at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (October 14, 2020 to January 10, 2021), considers the development of the digital in architecture. In four chapters, it recounts this intriguing history from its beginnings in the 1950s through to today and presents the computer as a drawing machine, as a design tool, as a medium for telling stories, and as an interactive communication platform. The basic underlying question is simple: Has the computer changed architecture? And if so, by how much?
Digital Architecture