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The Finnish architect Pekka Helin created his first firm in 1979. In his design approach, he draws in a specifically Scandinavian manner both on functionalism as well as on the organic architecture of Aalvar Alto, Viljo Revell, and Heikki Sirèn, but also Arne Erve. The building material wood plays a prominent role in this extremely clear architecture. The firm creates(...)
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The Finnish architect Pekka Helin created his first firm in 1979. In his design approach, he draws in a specifically Scandinavian manner both on functionalism as well as on the organic architecture of Aalvar Alto, Viljo Revell, and Heikki Sirèn, but also Arne Erve. The building material wood plays a prominent role in this extremely clear architecture. The firm creates(...)
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Architecture in context: Helin workshop
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The Finnish architect Pekka Helin created his first firm in 1979. In his design approach, he draws in a specifically Scandinavian manner both on functionalism as well as on the organic architecture of Aalvar Alto, Viljo Revell, and Heikki Sirèn, but also Arne Erve. The building material wood plays a prominent role in this extremely clear architecture. The firm creates residential buildings -- often right next to water, where the structure's embeddedness in nature plays an important role in its sight lines -- but also office buildings, for example Nokia's corporate headquarters and the Finnish Modular Office, the tallest wooden office building in Europe. The firm's work also encompasses public buildings such as the Finnish embassy in Moscow and the concert hall and library in Espoo, and even town-planning projects, such as the master plan for the redesigning of the grounds of the former Oslo airport. This book presents twenty-four of the firm's projects organized by typological task, with the focus on life in nature, urban public buildings, residential structures, and various types of workspace.
Architecture in context: Helin workshop
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The Finnish architect Pekka Helin created his first firm in 1979. In his design approach, he draws in a specifically Scandinavian manner both on functionalism as well as on the organic architecture of Aalvar Alto, Viljo Revell, and Heikki Sirèn, but also Arne Erve. The building material wood plays a prominent role in this extremely clear architecture. The firm creates residential buildings -- often right next to water, where the structure's embeddedness in nature plays an important role in its sight lines -- but also office buildings, for example Nokia's corporate headquarters and the Finnish Modular Office, the tallest wooden office building in Europe. The firm's work also encompasses public buildings such as the Finnish embassy in Moscow and the concert hall and library in Espoo, and even town-planning projects, such as the master plan for the redesigning of the grounds of the former Oslo airport. This book presents twenty-four of the firm's projects organized by typological task, with the focus on life in nature, urban public buildings, residential structures, and various types of workspace.
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December 2010
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Starting with the refurbishment of his own apartment in 1903, twenty of Loos’s most significant buildings are displayed : Villa Karma, the Kärntner Bar, the Goldman & Salatsch Michaelerplatz Building, the Zentralsparkasse Bank, and the Steiner, Scheu, Moller, and Müller houses. Schezen’s vivid color and luminous black-and-white photographs display each building in detail,(...)
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Starting with the refurbishment of his own apartment in 1903, twenty of Loos’s most significant buildings are displayed : Villa Karma, the Kärntner Bar, the Goldman & Salatsch Michaelerplatz Building, the Zentralsparkasse Bank, and the Steiner, Scheu, Moller, and Müller houses. Schezen’s vivid color and luminous black-and-white photographs display each building in detail,(...)
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Adolf Loos : architecture 1903-1932
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Starting with the refurbishment of his own apartment in 1903, twenty of Loos’s most significant buildings are displayed : Villa Karma, the Kärntner Bar, the Goldman & Salatsch Michaelerplatz Building, the Zentralsparkasse Bank, and the Steiner, Scheu, Moller, and Müller houses. Schezen’s vivid color and luminous black-and-white photographs display each building in detail, showing both the formal characteristics and the rich textures and materials Loos most frequently used. Complementing this visual material is Kenneth Frampton’s perceptive essay, which places Loos within the context of Viennese intellectuals of the time. His circle, which included Arnold Schönberg, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and at the center, Karl Kraus, explored the essential nature of architecture, and the other arts and sciences, through linguistic structures. Frampton identifies the hallmarks that Loos derived from these structures and with which he created his work : the blank, "degree-zero" exterior with its luxurious interior; his commentary on architecture’s position between art and function, plus subtle recollections of both the classic and the vernacular. All these ploys were to subvert typical architectural expectations. Joseph Rosa’s accompanying descriptions comprehensively discuss each building, from the circumstances surrounding the realization of the projects to the use of Loos’s architectural conventions.
Adolf Loos : architecture 1903-1932
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Starting with the refurbishment of his own apartment in 1903, twenty of Loos’s most significant buildings are displayed : Villa Karma, the Kärntner Bar, the Goldman & Salatsch Michaelerplatz Building, the Zentralsparkasse Bank, and the Steiner, Scheu, Moller, and Müller houses. Schezen’s vivid color and luminous black-and-white photographs display each building in detail, showing both the formal characteristics and the rich textures and materials Loos most frequently used. Complementing this visual material is Kenneth Frampton’s perceptive essay, which places Loos within the context of Viennese intellectuals of the time. His circle, which included Arnold Schönberg, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and at the center, Karl Kraus, explored the essential nature of architecture, and the other arts and sciences, through linguistic structures. Frampton identifies the hallmarks that Loos derived from these structures and with which he created his work : the blank, "degree-zero" exterior with its luxurious interior; his commentary on architecture’s position between art and function, plus subtle recollections of both the classic and the vernacular. All these ploys were to subvert typical architectural expectations. Joseph Rosa’s accompanying descriptions comprehensively discuss each building, from the circumstances surrounding the realization of the projects to the use of Loos’s architectural conventions.
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August 2009
August 2009
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The harnessing of solar energy via photovoltaic (i.e. solar electrical) technology has become one of the world's highest priorities, as dwindling oil resources compel nations all over the world to reconsider their energy policies. Soon, many countries will be able to produce as much as 25 percent of their electricity through photovoltaics--that is, if architecture can(...)
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The harnessing of solar energy via photovoltaic (i.e. solar electrical) technology has become one of the world's highest priorities, as dwindling oil resources compel nations all over the world to reconsider their energy policies. Soon, many countries will be able to produce as much as 25 percent of their electricity through photovoltaics--that is, if architecture can(...)
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Energizing architecture: design and photovoltaics
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The harnessing of solar energy via photovoltaic (i.e. solar electrical) technology has become one of the world's highest priorities, as dwindling oil resources compel nations all over the world to reconsider their energy policies. Soon, many countries will be able to produce as much as 25 percent of their electricity through photovoltaics--that is, if architecture can rise to the challenge and integrate its visual and design language with that of photovoltaic systems. This challenge has already been tackled in a huge variety of projects, and Energizing Architecture presents the full range of possible photovoltaic modules, using realized buildings as examples. Intended for planners, architects and anybody concerned with the field of environmental design, it provides an index of all relevant materials, and demonstrates that the integration of photovoltaics into architectural practice can be achieved with aesthetically pleasing results.
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The harnessing of solar energy via photovoltaic (i.e. solar electrical) technology has become one of the world's highest priorities, as dwindling oil resources compel nations all over the world to reconsider their energy policies. Soon, many countries will be able to produce as much as 25 percent of their electricity through photovoltaics--that is, if architecture can rise to the challenge and integrate its visual and design language with that of photovoltaic systems. This challenge has already been tackled in a huge variety of projects, and Energizing Architecture presents the full range of possible photovoltaic modules, using realized buildings as examples. Intended for planners, architects and anybody concerned with the field of environmental design, it provides an index of all relevant materials, and demonstrates that the integration of photovoltaics into architectural practice can be achieved with aesthetically pleasing results.
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November 2009
November 2009
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Green Architecture
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This book documents architectural installations developed by Philip Beesley and collaborators from 1995 through 2007. The collection includes architectural sculptures located in natural sites and works integrating kinetic components and interactive systems. Projects in the past several years have focused on immersive digitally fabricated lightweight ‘textile’ structures,(...)
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This book documents architectural installations developed by Philip Beesley and collaborators from 1995 through 2007. The collection includes architectural sculptures located in natural sites and works integrating kinetic components and interactive systems. Projects in the past several years have focused on immersive digitally fabricated lightweight ‘textile’ structures,(...)
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Kinetic architectures and geotextile installations
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This book documents architectural installations developed by Philip Beesley and collaborators from 1995 through 2007. The collection includes architectural sculptures located in natural sites and works integrating kinetic components and interactive systems. Projects in the past several years have focused on immersive digitally fabricated lightweight ‘textile’ structures, and the most recent generations of his work feature responsive systems that use dense arrays of microprocessor, sensors and actuator systems. Includes essays by Jean Gagnon, Eric Haldenby, Christine Macy, Andrew Payne, Robert Pepperell, Michael Stacey and Charles Stankievech.
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This book documents architectural installations developed by Philip Beesley and collaborators from 1995 through 2007. The collection includes architectural sculptures located in natural sites and works integrating kinetic components and interactive systems. Projects in the past several years have focused on immersive digitally fabricated lightweight ‘textile’ structures, and the most recent generations of his work feature responsive systems that use dense arrays of microprocessor, sensors and actuator systems. Includes essays by Jean Gagnon, Eric Haldenby, Christine Macy, Andrew Payne, Robert Pepperell, Michael Stacey and Charles Stankievech.
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December 2009
December 2009
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Contemporary Architecture
Contemporary Architecture
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The Hylozoic Ground experimental architecture series developed by architect Philip Beesley has been expanded and refined by researchers, engineers and designers from around the world. It is an immersive, interactive environment that moves and breathes around its viewers, creating an environment can feel and care. Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology,(...)
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The Hylozoic Ground experimental architecture series developed by architect Philip Beesley has been expanded and refined by researchers, engineers and designers from around the world. It is an immersive, interactive environment that moves and breathes around its viewers, creating an environment can feel and care. Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology,(...)
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Hylozoic ground: liminal responsive architecture
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The Hylozoic Ground experimental architecture series developed by architect Philip Beesley has been expanded and refined by researchers, engineers and designers from around the world. It is an immersive, interactive environment that moves and breathes around its viewers, creating an environment can feel and care. Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interactive technology create an environment that is nearly alive. The book contains essays by theorists and designers, extended photography, and detailed design documents of the evolving project. Hylozoic ground was featured in Canadian pavillion at the 2010 Venice Biennale.
Hylozoic ground: liminal responsive architecture
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The Hylozoic Ground experimental architecture series developed by architect Philip Beesley has been expanded and refined by researchers, engineers and designers from around the world. It is an immersive, interactive environment that moves and breathes around its viewers, creating an environment can feel and care. Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interactive technology create an environment that is nearly alive. The book contains essays by theorists and designers, extended photography, and detailed design documents of the evolving project. Hylozoic ground was featured in Canadian pavillion at the 2010 Venice Biennale.
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January 2010
January 2010
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Contemporary Architecture
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Sauerbruch and Hutton are among contemporary architects in their redefinition of colour as an essential material of architecture. The polychromatic treatment of their buildings created over the past twenty years reflect and concentrate the colours, forms and energies of the contemporary city. Simultaneously image and sculpture, ornament and text, they allow the complex(...)
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Sauerbruch and Hutton are among contemporary architects in their redefinition of colour as an essential material of architecture. The polychromatic treatment of their buildings created over the past twenty years reflect and concentrate the colours, forms and energies of the contemporary city. Simultaneously image and sculpture, ornament and text, they allow the complex(...)
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Sauerbruch Hutton: colour in architecture
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Sauerbruch and Hutton are among contemporary architects in their redefinition of colour as an essential material of architecture. The polychromatic treatment of their buildings created over the past twenty years reflect and concentrate the colours, forms and energies of the contemporary city. Simultaneously image and sculpture, ornament and text, they allow the complex technical reality of a building to disappear behind a powerful aesthetic experience. Beside Sauerbruch Hutton's renowned buildings such as the GSW Headquarters in Berlin, the Federal Environmental Agency Dessau or Munich's Brandhorst Museum, this book also shows their more recent work.
Sauerbruch Hutton: colour in architecture
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Sauerbruch and Hutton are among contemporary architects in their redefinition of colour as an essential material of architecture. The polychromatic treatment of their buildings created over the past twenty years reflect and concentrate the colours, forms and energies of the contemporary city. Simultaneously image and sculpture, ornament and text, they allow the complex technical reality of a building to disappear behind a powerful aesthetic experience. Beside Sauerbruch Hutton's renowned buildings such as the GSW Headquarters in Berlin, the Federal Environmental Agency Dessau or Munich's Brandhorst Museum, this book also shows their more recent work.
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July 2014
July 2014
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Architecture Monographs
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Downfall: The Architecture of Excess is a novel set between Montreal, Venice, London and Mexico in a flux of political and economic intrigue, where architecture becomes one of the primary characters of the unfolding plot. It weaves together the sublime and comical lives of the three protagonists as they collide in one ominous building. In this tale about human ambition,(...)
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Downfall: The Architecture of Excess is a novel set between Montreal, Venice, London and Mexico in a flux of political and economic intrigue, where architecture becomes one of the primary characters of the unfolding plot. It weaves together the sublime and comical lives of the three protagonists as they collide in one ominous building. In this tale about human ambition,(...)
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Downfall: the architecture of excess
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Downfall: The Architecture of Excess is a novel set between Montreal, Venice, London and Mexico in a flux of political and economic intrigue, where architecture becomes one of the primary characters of the unfolding plot. It weaves together the sublime and comical lives of the three protagonists as they collide in one ominous building. In this tale about human ambition, Louise Pelletier, who practiced as an architect for over a decade before devoting herself to teaching, here takes a caustic look at the building industry and the primeval human quest to leave our mark on the world.
Downfall: the architecture of excess
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Downfall: The Architecture of Excess is a novel set between Montreal, Venice, London and Mexico in a flux of political and economic intrigue, where architecture becomes one of the primary characters of the unfolding plot. It weaves together the sublime and comical lives of the three protagonists as they collide in one ominous building. In this tale about human ambition, Louise Pelletier, who practiced as an architect for over a decade before devoting herself to teaching, here takes a caustic look at the building industry and the primeval human quest to leave our mark on the world.
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September 2014
September 2014
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Architectural Theory
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Deux ans après la mise en orbite du Spoutnik (1957), Nixon et Khrouchtchev inaugurent l'Exposition nationale américaine à Moscou. Auprès de la maison « Splitnik » exposant les articles et les valeurs de la société de consommation « à l'américaine », les designers Charles et Ray Eames sont chargés d'offrir un aperçu flatteur des USA. En un blitz de 12 minutes projeté sur 7(...)
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Deux ans après la mise en orbite du Spoutnik (1957), Nixon et Khrouchtchev inaugurent l'Exposition nationale américaine à Moscou. Auprès de la maison « Splitnik » exposant les articles et les valeurs de la société de consommation « à l'américaine », les designers Charles et Ray Eames sont chargés d'offrir un aperçu flatteur des USA. En un blitz de 12 minutes projeté sur 7(...)
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Cernés par les images: l'architecture de l'après-spoutnik
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Deux ans après la mise en orbite du Spoutnik (1957), Nixon et Khrouchtchev inaugurent l'Exposition nationale américaine à Moscou. Auprès de la maison « Splitnik » exposant les articles et les valeurs de la société de consommation « à l'américaine », les designers Charles et Ray Eames sont chargés d'offrir un aperçu flatteur des USA. En un blitz de 12 minutes projeté sur 7 rétroviseurs géants abrités sous un dôme géodésique doré de Buckminster Fuller, cette pacifique guerre-éclair consiste à « cerner par les images » des Soviétiques ébahis. Prologue au pop art américain, le succès est total et immédiat. Les USA lancent le premier satellite de télécommunications Telstar et la mondovision en 1962. L'architecture de l'après-Spoutnik vient de naître...
Cernés par les images: l'architecture de l'après-spoutnik
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Deux ans après la mise en orbite du Spoutnik (1957), Nixon et Khrouchtchev inaugurent l'Exposition nationale américaine à Moscou. Auprès de la maison « Splitnik » exposant les articles et les valeurs de la société de consommation « à l'américaine », les designers Charles et Ray Eames sont chargés d'offrir un aperçu flatteur des USA. En un blitz de 12 minutes projeté sur 7 rétroviseurs géants abrités sous un dôme géodésique doré de Buckminster Fuller, cette pacifique guerre-éclair consiste à « cerner par les images » des Soviétiques ébahis. Prologue au pop art américain, le succès est total et immédiat. Les USA lancent le premier satellite de télécommunications Telstar et la mondovision en 1962. L'architecture de l'après-Spoutnik vient de naître...
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November 2013
November 2013
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Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. He calls for an(...)
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Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. He calls for an(...)
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Toward an architecture of enjoyment
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Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. He calls for an architecture of jouissance—of pleasure or enjoyment—centered on the body and its rhythms and based on the possibilities of the senses.
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Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. He calls for an architecture of jouissance—of pleasure or enjoyment—centered on the body and its rhythms and based on the possibilities of the senses.
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May 2014
May 2014
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De quoi dépend l'architecture ? Des gens, de l'époque, de la politique, de l'économie, de l'éthique, du désordre... Bref, du réel dans son imprévisible complexité et son irréductible incertitude. Jeremy Till invite les architectes à prendre davantage en considération ces contingences, qui excèdent leur sphère de contrôle mais finissent toujours par s'imposer à leurs(...)
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De quoi dépend l'architecture ? Des gens, de l'époque, de la politique, de l'économie, de l'éthique, du désordre... Bref, du réel dans son imprévisible complexité et son irréductible incertitude. Jeremy Till invite les architectes à prendre davantage en considération ces contingences, qui excèdent leur sphère de contrôle mais finissent toujours par s'imposer à leurs(...)
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Ça dépend : essai sur les contigences de l'architecture
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De quoi dépend l'architecture ? Des gens, de l'époque, de la politique, de l'économie, de l'éthique, du désordre... Bref, du réel dans son imprévisible complexité et son irréductible incertitude. Jeremy Till invite les architectes à prendre davantage en considération ces contingences, qui excèdent leur sphère de contrôle mais finissent toujours par s'imposer à leurs oeuvres. Avec rigueur et ironie, l'auteur déconstruit pas à pas l'autonomie que les architectes confèrent à leur discipline et qui les maintient dans une vision pure et idéale des objets qu'ils conçoivent. Les circonstances contrarient pourtant les plans les mieux tracés, à tout moment du processus, de la conception jusqu'à la construction et à l'utilisation d'un bâtiment. Le « Less is more » de Mies fait invariablement place au « Mess is the law » de Till.
Ça dépend : essai sur les contigences de l'architecture
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De quoi dépend l'architecture ? Des gens, de l'époque, de la politique, de l'économie, de l'éthique, du désordre... Bref, du réel dans son imprévisible complexité et son irréductible incertitude. Jeremy Till invite les architectes à prendre davantage en considération ces contingences, qui excèdent leur sphère de contrôle mais finissent toujours par s'imposer à leurs oeuvres. Avec rigueur et ironie, l'auteur déconstruit pas à pas l'autonomie que les architectes confèrent à leur discipline et qui les maintient dans une vision pure et idéale des objets qu'ils conçoivent. Les circonstances contrarient pourtant les plans les mieux tracés, à tout moment du processus, de la conception jusqu'à la construction et à l'utilisation d'un bâtiment. Le « Less is more » de Mies fait invariablement place au « Mess is the law » de Till.
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September 2025
September 2025
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Architectural Theory
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