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This fifth volume in Lars Müller’s Architect’s Studio series is dedicated to the Nairobi-based architects Cave_bureau. This acclaimed collective of architects and researchers-- the first Kenyan firm to appear at the Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2021-- explores the synergy between architecture, urbanism and nature, and curates performative events of resistance within(...)
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September 2023
Cave bureau: The architect's studio
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This fifth volume in Lars Müller’s Architect’s Studio series is dedicated to the Nairobi-based architects Cave_bureau. This acclaimed collective of architects and researchers-- the first Kenyan firm to appear at the Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2021-- explores the synergy between architecture, urbanism and nature, and curates performative events of resistance within caves along the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. The cave, as physical space and as metaphor, is seen by the collective as a provocation to test the limits of contemporary architecture. Here, Cave_bureau’s Stella Mutegi and Kabage Karanja describe eight of their projects. Photographs are accompanied by essays posing questions about the future of architecture in the age of the Anthropocene, the effects of colonial extraction and erasure on African architecture, as well as the specificity of each continent and each geographic space.
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287 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm
Paris : Éditions de la Villette : Fondation Le Corbusier, [2012]
Le Corbusier, visions d'Alger / sous la direction de Jean-Lucien Bonillo.
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Paris : Éditions de la Villette : Fondation Le Corbusier, [2012]
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The architecture of India reflects both the cultural diversity of the subcontinent and its rich political and historical inheritance. In this guide, the various strands of this rich architectural history, from the dawn of civilization to modern times, are presented in word and picture. Readers are taken on a tour of Indus Valley civilization, early Vedic traditions,(...)
Introduction to Indian architecture
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The architecture of India reflects both the cultural diversity of the subcontinent and its rich political and historical inheritance. In this guide, the various strands of this rich architectural history, from the dawn of civilization to modern times, are presented in word and picture. Readers are taken on a tour of Indus Valley civilization, early Vedic traditions, Hindu, Jain, Mughal, regional, colonial and post-independencearchitectural styles, and thematic architecture, as well as specific monuments and buildings.
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Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing to the 1980s, the independence period in Africa was a time of prolific—and thrilling—architectural production, during which leaders of newly independent nations sought to redefine themselves and their countries in contrast to colonial rule. "Architects of liberation: Modernism in Western Africa" focuses on seven western African(...)
Architects of liberation: Modernism in Western Africa
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Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing to the 1980s, the independence period in Africa was a time of prolific—and thrilling—architectural production, during which leaders of newly independent nations sought to redefine themselves and their countries in contrast to colonial rule. "Architects of liberation: Modernism in Western Africa" focuses on seven western African nations—Benin (Dahomey), Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo—and illuminates the ways in which architects sought to adapt, adopt or reinvent the idiom of modernism for their specific cultural, political and economic purposes. This landmark publication features more than 200 illustrations, including architectural drawings and archival photographs, as well as a newly commissioned photographic portfolio by François-Xavier Gbré highlighting these stunning works of architecture.
Architecture since 1900, Africa
David Adjaye: Output
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A graduate of London's Royal College of Art, David Adjaye formed Adjaye Associates in 2000, with a multicultural design team dedicated to an international perspective. Adjaye's early residential designs critiqued the Victorian streets around them, and also focused on the society-building aspects of city life – public buildings, commemorative spaces and urban gathering(...)
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August 2010
David Adjaye: Output
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A graduate of London's Royal College of Art, David Adjaye formed Adjaye Associates in 2000, with a multicultural design team dedicated to an international perspective. Adjaye's early residential designs critiqued the Victorian streets around them, and also focused on the society-building aspects of city life – public buildings, commemorative spaces and urban gathering places for children. More recently Adjaye has conducted important research into African architecture, and collaborated with Chris Ofili on installations that unite Ofili's paintings with Adjaye's explorations of light and space. Ouput showcases some 25 designs and includes revealing interviews with Adjaye and Aureliusz Kowalczyk.
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Pluralism, fusion and hybridity are the dominant traits of cultural change in twenty-first-century India. The resultant architecture reflects this fabric of one of the world's largest and most populous nation states. Architect, educator and author Rahul Mehrotra has been at the forefront of the Indian contemporary architecture scene for more than two decades, and(...)
Architecture in India since 1990
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Pluralism, fusion and hybridity are the dominant traits of cultural change in twenty-first-century India. The resultant architecture reflects this fabric of one of the world's largest and most populous nation states. Architect, educator and author Rahul Mehrotra has been at the forefront of the Indian contemporary architecture scene for more than two decades, and Architecture in India since 1900 is his take on the topic across four themed chapters: "Global Practice: Expression of (Impatient) Capital"; "Regional Modernism"; "Alternative Practice: Towards Sustainability"; and "Counter Modernism: Resurfacing of the Ancient." Each chapter introduces exponents of these distinct genres of architectural expression, examining the work of more than 60 contemporary architects in more than 500 photographs. Architects, students, academics, architecture buffs and admirers of India's famed heritage of architectural pioneering will find this volume a rich trove of design ideas.
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The aftermath of the Covid restrictions, mental problems, being confronted with the influx of people with a different background and culture, the alienation of ourselves and of others, not being able to relate to other people; these can all cause deep feelings of loneliness. What is loneliness, as different from solitude? Whereas solitude is a chosen condition that(...)
The architecture of loneliness: reflections on displacement and welcoming
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The aftermath of the Covid restrictions, mental problems, being confronted with the influx of people with a different background and culture, the alienation of ourselves and of others, not being able to relate to other people; these can all cause deep feelings of loneliness. What is loneliness, as different from solitude? Whereas solitude is a chosen condition that refrains from social relations, loneliness suffers from the lack of these. The three essays in this book each explore a side of loneliness, strongly connected to the encounter with the other. South-African psychologist Wahbie Long lays out what kind of relationships to the outside world emerge from childhood experiences of playing and relating to others. French philosopher Marie-José Mondzain uses the metaphor of architecture with its terms as threshold, doors, walls, windows, a bench in front of the frontal wall; elements that construct '‘home'', the architectural and emotional place where encounters can happen, where ‘'strangers'’ should be welcomed and trusted. French psychoanalyst Lysiane Lamantowicz discusses a form of loneliness that we see all around us: the consequences of social networks on the internet.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020], ©2020
Foundations : how the built environment made twentieth-century Britain / Sam Wetherell.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020], ©2020
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This book traces the changes in architectural forms over the centuries, and concludes with an attempt to identify those enduring characteristics which run through Hispano-Islamic architecture.
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January 1993, New York
Moorish Architecture in Andalusia
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This book traces the changes in architectural forms over the centuries, and concludes with an attempt to identify those enduring characteristics which run through Hispano-Islamic architecture.
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January 1993, New York
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After decades on the periphery of Western architectural consciousness, Chile has recently come to be recognized as an important hub for innovation in architecture. Its construction boom can be partly credited to its stable economy and thriving academic culture. Assembled over a three-year period of intensive research, "White Mountain: Recent Architecture in Chile" looks(...)
White mountain : architecture in Chile
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After decades on the periphery of Western architectural consciousness, Chile has recently come to be recognized as an important hub for innovation in architecture. Its construction boom can be partly credited to its stable economy and thriving academic culture. Assembled over a three-year period of intensive research, "White Mountain: Recent Architecture in Chile" looks at more than 120 works by 60 architects and architectural firms spanning several generations, selected by the celebrated Catalan architect and director of the Arquine Group, Miquel Adria.
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