Architecture of shame
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In 'Architecture of Shame' the author 'reveals' little-known details about famous buildings around the world, such as how India's Taj Mahal was intended to have two domes and that the Eiffel Tower, in France, once wore fig leaves. Some of the information is startling and unheard of, not least because they were drawn from the author's vivid imagination. Each of the(...)
May 2020
Architecture of shame
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In 'Architecture of Shame' the author 'reveals' little-known details about famous buildings around the world, such as how India's Taj Mahal was intended to have two domes and that the Eiffel Tower, in France, once wore fig leaves. Some of the information is startling and unheard of, not least because they were drawn from the author's vivid imagination. Each of the 28 chapters features a building of significant historical interest and tells an alternative background story behind its development and construction in a mischevious blend of leg-pull and tall tales. Also included are the author's original illustrations of what might have been.
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For the first time, the speculative in architecture becomes a topic of critical research. It is investigated not as idealistic but as strategic acting within endless modernity. This modernity implies that speculation, as strategic acting, is not only applied to economic but also to political and aesthetic values. Values become mobile, valuations become a play with highs(...)
How architecture learned to speculate
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For the first time, the speculative in architecture becomes a topic of critical research. It is investigated not as idealistic but as strategic acting within endless modernity. This modernity implies that speculation, as strategic acting, is not only applied to economic but also to political and aesthetic values. Values become mobile, valuations become a play with highs and lows, authors (architects) become winners or losers, and culture becomes fashion. Includes projects by NL Architects, MVRDV, Aristide Antonas, FAT, Ralf Schreiber, Pascual Sisto, Ant Farm, Caspar Stracke, OMA, JODI, Kevin Bauman and others.
Contemporary Architecture
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The Architizer A+Awards represent a celebration of the year's best architecture and products from a group of influencers bigger than just the architectural community. Entries are judged by more than 400 luminaries from ?elds as diverse as fashion, publishing, product design, real-estate development, and technology, and voted on by the public, culminating in a collection(...)
Architizer: the world's best architecture
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The Architizer A+Awards represent a celebration of the year's best architecture and products from a group of influencers bigger than just the architectural community. Entries are judged by more than 400 luminaries from ?elds as diverse as fashion, publishing, product design, real-estate development, and technology, and voted on by the public, culminating in a collection of the world's finest buildings. This year, the celebration is going global. In lieu of an awards gala, the architects' work is honored via this fully illustrated book, a podcast, and the largest online architecture community on the planet. Featuring select A+Award winners and other works, this is the definitive guide to the year's best buildings and spaces.
Contemporary Architecture
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This large-format monograph is the first to chronicle exclusively Shigeru Ban’s explorations in "paper architecture." Informed by a thorough and early interest in sustainable forms, his innovative practice pioneered the use of paper as a structural element in buildings. This book features permanent and temporary structures, ranging from one-off museums and exhibition(...)
Shigeru Ban: paper in architecture
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This large-format monograph is the first to chronicle exclusively Shigeru Ban’s explorations in "paper architecture." Informed by a thorough and early interest in sustainable forms, his innovative practice pioneered the use of paper as a structural element in buildings. This book features permanent and temporary structures, ranging from one-off museums and exhibition spaces to emergency structures for communities displaced by natural and man-made catastrophes. The forty projects featured in the book showcase the variety of possible applications for paper and its derivative forms (cardboard, fiber-based composites). As flexible as it is adaptable, when used in tandem with other locally sourced building materials or post-industrial surplus (maritime shipping containers), Ban’s singular use of paper knowingly references paper’s traditional uses in vernacular Japanese buildings, and advances modern construction technology, reducing its environmental impact. A number of prominent works from the last decade are featured, including the Nomadic Museums built in New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, his work for the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Metz, the Papertainer Museum in Seoul, his pavilions for design and luxury brands like Louis Vuitton and Artek, as well as a number of landmark residences in Japan, Europe, and North America. Of particular focus will be Ban’s humanitarian work. Documented in a book for the first time are all the relief projects his studio has undertaken in the last two decades for the U.N. High Commission on Refugees. These include housing for tsunami victims in Sri Lanka and earthquake victims in Turkey and Japan, and emergency shelter for war-ravaged communities in Rwanda and the Congo.
Architecture Monographs
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''Architecture Is Just a Pretext'' is a publication that resumes a large research about the state of the art of young Architecture practices in Europe. The work, dealing with architectural practices through a biographic approach, addresses the new directions the profession is taking in Europe among young architects. Carnets is a research project started two years ago(...)
Architecture is just a pretext
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''Architecture Is Just a Pretext'' is a publication that resumes a large research about the state of the art of young Architecture practices in Europe. The work, dealing with architectural practices through a biographic approach, addresses the new directions the profession is taking in Europe among young architects. Carnets is a research project started two years ago by eight architecture students from IUAV University of Venice. The aim is to investigate the current landscape of Architecture in Europe, after the 2008 economical crisis, through interviews, talks, round tables and workshops. The protagonists of this research are 30 young architecture offices from around Europe.
Architectural Theory
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The Architizer A+Awards represent 2021’s best architecture and products, celebrated by a diverse group of influencers within and outside the architectural community. Entries are judged by more than 400 luminaries from ?elds as diverse as fashion, publishing, product design, real-estate development, and technology, and voted on by the public, culminating in a collection of(...)
Architizer: The world's best architecture
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The Architizer A+Awards represent 2021’s best architecture and products, celebrated by a diverse group of influencers within and outside the architectural community. Entries are judged by more than 400 luminaries from ?elds as diverse as fashion, publishing, product design, real-estate development, and technology, and voted on by the public, culminating in a collection of the world’s finest buildings. Each year, winners are honored in this fully illustrated compendium.
Contemporary Architecture
Animal architecture
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A longed-for reprint now available. Animals made constructions tens of millions of years before the emergence of the human species, not to speak about our conception of architecture. They have also made what can be called architectural inventions, such as doors equipped with hinges and handles, fake doors meant to bluff the enemy, or transparent windows. Many animals also(...)
Natural Forms in Architecture
January 1900, Helsinki
Animal architecture
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A longed-for reprint now available. Animals made constructions tens of millions of years before the emergence of the human species, not to speak about our conception of architecture. They have also made what can be called architectural inventions, such as doors equipped with hinges and handles, fake doors meant to bluff the enemy, or transparent windows. Many animals also utilize "tools".
Natural Forms in Architecture
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Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural process. Essays and lectures from the last fifteen years discuss these changes in relation to dECOi Architects, created in 1991 as a forward-looking(...)
September 2008
The possibility of (an) architecture
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Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural process. Essays and lectures from the last fifteen years discuss these changes in relation to dECOi Architects, created in 1991 as a forward-looking architectural practice.
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September 2008
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Des bureaux de poste de campagne aux hôtels des postes monumentaux, des centres de tri urbains aux gigantesques plateformes industrielles contemporaines, La Poste possède un patrimoine architectural remarquable tant par sa variété que pas sa qualité, mis en lumière dans cet ouvrage de référence. L'architecture postale s'inscrit ainsi dans l'histoire durable(...)
History since 1900, Reference Books
September 2010
Architecture postale: Une histoire en mouvement
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Des bureaux de poste de campagne aux hôtels des postes monumentaux, des centres de tri urbains aux gigantesques plateformes industrielles contemporaines, La Poste possède un patrimoine architectural remarquable tant par sa variété que pas sa qualité, mis en lumière dans cet ouvrage de référence. L'architecture postale s'inscrit ainsi dans l'histoire durable qu'entretiennent les Français avec La Poste. Depuis les années 1880, adoptant les styles architecturaux qui se sont succédés tout au long du XXe siècle., La Poste a construit un parc immobilier dont la richesse est avant tout celle d'une exceptionnelle diversité au service des métiers qui la constituent. Une histoire qui reflète les mutations techniques, esthétiques, économiques et sociales de la France du XIXe au XXIe siècle. Une histoire émaillée de figures renommées de l'architecture de François-Charles le Cœur à Claude Prouvé, en passant par Léon Azéma, Joseph Bukiet ou encore Louis Arretche. D'autres grands noms s'invitent également ici, Jean-Christophe Ballot, Yann Charbonnier et Stéphane Couturier, trois grands photographes d'art contemporain, nous offrent leur regard sur des bâtiments emblématiques de l'architecture postale.
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Industries of architecture
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At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture's relationship to industry. Contributors turn to historical and theoretical questions, as well as to key contemporary developments, taking a humanities approach to the Industries of Architecture that will be of interest(...)
Architectural Theory
December 2015
Industries of architecture
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At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture's relationship to industry. Contributors turn to historical and theoretical questions, as well as to key contemporary developments, taking a humanities approach to the Industries of Architecture that will be of interest to practitioners and industry professionals, as much as to academic researchers, teachers and students
Architectural Theory