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Yoko Ando envisions textiles that are one with architecture. For buildings and the spaces they create, textiles are a medium as any other. Translucent sheets change how things look, something which varies with the nature of their transparency and relationship with light. Textiles are, in this sense, similar to light, as both exist between people and architecture, acting(...)
The textiles of Yoko Ando : weaving spaces and structures
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Yoko Ando envisions textiles that are one with architecture. For buildings and the spaces they create, textiles are a medium as any other. Translucent sheets change how things look, something which varies with the nature of their transparency and relationship with light. Textiles are, in this sense, similar to light, as both exist between people and architecture, acting as mediators – whether of the space, the materials, or the encompassing order. Ando’s textile designs thus create experiences within architecture, as part of the architecture itself. The book also includes a conversation between the designer and architect Toyo Ito.
Materials and Lighting
Verb - matters
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The second issue of Verb asks: What can we really build? Verb Matters explores the formal and material possibilities for construction in our present information era, with its extensive data processing, global networking, and increasingly blurred distinctions between natural matter and artificial technology. This critical itinerary begins with reflections on the results of(...)
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May 2002, Barcelona
Verb - matters
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The second issue of Verb asks: What can we really build? Verb Matters explores the formal and material possibilities for construction in our present information era, with its extensive data processing, global networking, and increasingly blurred distinctions between natural matter and artificial technology. This critical itinerary begins with reflections on the results of sophisticated ideas applied to the shaping of buildings including Toyo Ito's ephemeral work, recent attention to inflatable architecture and building with air, and the low tech approach of practitioners like LOT/EK. Consideration of the growing potential of current technology is also examined in a piece equating recent sneaker design technology to that of car manufacturing, as well as the use of artificial intelligence in home control networks at MIT's "Media House" project. Colorful, tactile, dense, and packaged in its own very contemporary design, Verb Matters remains devoted to cutting-edge issues in architecture and design. includes contributions from Toyo Ito, Greg Lynn, LOT/EK, Klein & Dytham, and Sherry Turkle
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Now as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This publication provides an overview of its many design concepts and cross-references. Using design examples and interviews, the book presents thirteen current positions.The publication focuses on young architects who take up extremely independent positions within Japanese architecture,(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
March 2017
Encounters and positions: architecture in Japan
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Now as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This publication provides an overview of its many design concepts and cross-references. Using design examples and interviews, the book presents thirteen current positions.The publication focuses on young architects who take up extremely independent positions within Japanese architecture, as well as on Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and Fumihiko Maki. Six essays by European specialists on Japan provide supplementary insights into the aesthetics and space concepts of Japanese architecture, making cross-references to Japan’s architectural history, and explaining current lines of development. The book thus combines a self-reflective approach with an outsider’s analytical view.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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This book is a collection of works by onishimaki+hyakudayuki / o+h, an architectural design firm led by the acclaimed young architects Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda. It introduces 15 works, including their debut work, "Double Helix House," the Prize of the Architectural Institute of Japan for Design 2023-winning "Shelter Inclusive Place Copal," and their latest work,(...)
onishimaki+hyakudayuki / o+h – Architecture, a place to be loved
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This book is a collection of works by onishimaki+hyakudayuki / o+h, an architectural design firm led by the acclaimed young architects Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda. It introduces 15 works, including their debut work, "Double Helix House," the Prize of the Architectural Institute of Japan for Design 2023-winning "Shelter Inclusive Place Copal," and their latest work, "Office in a Cherry Field," through photographs, drawings, and explanatory texts. It also includes forewords by Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda, as well as contributions from Toyo Ito and Ryue Nishizawa. This book compiles the philosophy and works of o+h, continually questioning what makes architecture a place to be loved.
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This issue looks at the following recent buildings: Frank O. Gehry Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; OMA / Rem Koolhaas Educatorium in Utrecht, Holland; Jean Nouvel Euralille Centre, (...)
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January 1900, Madrid
El croquis 88/89 : worlds one ...towards the end of the 20th century
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This issue looks at the following recent buildings: Frank O. Gehry Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; OMA / Rem Koolhaas Educatorium in Utrecht, Holland; Jean Nouvel Euralille Centre, Lille, France, Lucerne Cultural and Congress Centre, Switzerland, Andel Project, Prague, Czech Republic; Architekturbüro Bolles-Wilson WLV Office Building, Munster, Germany, New Luxor Theater, Rotterdam, Holland; Toyo Ito Nagaoka Lyric Hall, Nigata, Japan, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan; Steven Holl Chapel of St. Ignatius Seattle University, Washington, U.S.A., Knut Hamsun Museum , Hamarøy, Norway; Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa Multi-Media Studio in Oogaki, Gifu, Japan, S-House, Okayama, Japan; and Peter Zumthor Thermal Bath at Vals, Vals, Switzerland, Art Museum in Bregenz, Austria.
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January 1900, Madrid
El Croquis
Peter Cook : Speculations
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Peter Cook's distinctive drawings have captivated and inspired generations of designers. Freed from stylistic or functional conventions, his graphic speculations have redefined the language of architectural communication. Speculations spans Cook's entire career, presenting some 160 drawings that range from student projects in the 1950s, through Archigram, to new work(...)
Peter Cook : Speculations
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Peter Cook's distinctive drawings have captivated and inspired generations of designers. Freed from stylistic or functional conventions, his graphic speculations have redefined the language of architectural communication. Speculations spans Cook's entire career, presenting some 160 drawings that range from student projects in the 1950s, through Archigram, to new work completed shortly before going to press. Arranged chronologically, these drawings chart the course of what can now be seen as an enthralling architectural adventure. Cook's own observations about the nature of architecture and urbanism, and the concept of the buildable, are complemented by pieces from architects Frank Gehry, Toyo Ito, Thom Mayne and Peter Wilson.
Architecture Monographs
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Since the famous competition for the Park La Villette in Paris where the participants included Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman and Gilles Deleuze, the relationship between building and landscape has been dramatically transformed. Concepts such as metamorphosis and interaction, layers and fields are becoming as much a part of architectonic discourse as the practical(...)
Newscapes : territories of complexity
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Since the famous competition for the Park La Villette in Paris where the participants included Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman and Gilles Deleuze, the relationship between building and landscape has been dramatically transformed. Concepts such as metamorphosis and interaction, layers and fields are becoming as much a part of architectonic discourse as the practical designs and the realization. Author Paola Gregory examines this interplay between buildings and landscapes present in today´s architecture scene, illustrating her analysis with exciting examples including the ecological landscapes of James Wines and Greg Lynn, the virtual environments of Marcos Novak and Nox, buildings by Jean Nouvel and Toyo Ito which actively incorporate passers-by and surroundings by means of new media.
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Architect Hideyuki Nakayama started out working for Toyo Ito & Associates before establishing his own firm in 2007. This collection of Nakayama’s work is presented in the form of brochures for five films, each featuring one of his architectural works. With its novel design by Idea Oshima and in as much detail as possible, the volume records the production processes for(...)
Hideyuki Nakayama: And then, 5 films of 5 architectures
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Architect Hideyuki Nakayama started out working for Toyo Ito & Associates before establishing his own firm in 2007. This collection of Nakayama’s work is presented in the form of brochures for five films, each featuring one of his architectural works. With its novel design by Idea Oshima and in as much detail as possible, the volume records the production processes for the films, which focused on the status of the five works after Nakayama had completed them and moved on. Additionally, it offers a closer look at his design concepts for architecture, and in particular the elements he tries to incorporate in them. Both recent and as yet unreleased projects are among the featured works.
Architecture Monographs
Archi brut
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Un large aperçu du Brutalisme, fascinant style architectural, avec des exemples prestigieux de constructions brutalistes réalisées entre les années 1950 et aujourd’hui. L’ouvrage met en lumière de nombreux trésors méconnus de l’architecture brutaliste, construits dans l’ancien bloc de l’Est et dans les quatre coins du monde. Présente les oeuvres des plus grands(...)
Archi brut
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Un large aperçu du Brutalisme, fascinant style architectural, avec des exemples prestigieux de constructions brutalistes réalisées entre les années 1950 et aujourd’hui. L’ouvrage met en lumière de nombreux trésors méconnus de l’architecture brutaliste, construits dans l’ancien bloc de l’Est et dans les quatre coins du monde. Présente les oeuvres des plus grands architectes contemporains, dont : Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, David Chipperfield, Daniel Libeskind, Herzog & de Meuron, Thomas Heatherwick, John Pawson, Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Jean Nouvel, Peter Eisenman, Toyo Ito Tadao Ando. Et des figures de l'architecture du XXe siècle, comme : Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, Oscar Niemeyer, Eero Saarinen, Lina Bo Bardi, Carlo Scarpa.
Contemporary Architecture
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British architects Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein arrived in Japan in 1988. After working for Toyo Ito for two years, they established their own business in Tokyo, where they remain one of only a handful of young "gaijin" practices based in Japan. Their work combines East and West, incorporating both traditional and contemporary components. This volume includes:(...)
Klein Dytham architecture : Tokyo calling
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British architects Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein arrived in Japan in 1988. After working for Toyo Ito for two years, they established their own business in Tokyo, where they remain one of only a handful of young "gaijin" practices based in Japan. Their work combines East and West, incorporating both traditional and contemporary components. This volume includes: Vrooom!, garage for 6 super-cars in Tokyo; Pika Pika Pretzel, construction hoarding made of inflatable, silvered fabric in Tokyo; Fashion Commander, fashion hq building, boutiques, design studio, offices in Tokyo; British Council Information Centre in Tokyo; Kanban Shelter, baseball and tennis ground shelter in Nagano; Festival UK98 Pavilion in Tokyo; Idee Workstation, furniture showroom and design office in Tokyo; Sanae Ozeki, hair salon in Tokyo.
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October 2001, Basel
Design Monographs