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The office of Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga is the focus of this issue. Based in Barcelona, the architects have been active together since 2004, and received the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2015. Public buildings predominate their work, often buildings of international character and distinct materialities that are seen as enhancing the experience of a place with(...)
A.MAG 12 : Barozzi Veiga architects
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The office of Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga is the focus of this issue. Based in Barcelona, the architects have been active together since 2004, and received the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2015. Public buildings predominate their work, often buildings of international character and distinct materialities that are seen as enhancing the experience of a place with sensitivity and rigour. Featured are several built projects, such as the Graubünden Museum of Fine Arts and the Szczecin Philharmonic Hall, others that are ongoing or under construction, like the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts and the Guerrieri Rizzardi Guest House, and also recent competitions and installations.
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This publication concentrates on the Functionalist stylistic register and ideology. Espen Gleditsch takes his point of departure in the architecture exhibition Weissenhofziedlung in Stuttgart, which opened in 1927 with the Functionalist icon Mies van der Rohe as artistic director. The criteria for the apartment blocks in the competition required all facades to be white(...)
Angle 13° : Espen Gleditsch, neues bauen
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This publication concentrates on the Functionalist stylistic register and ideology. Espen Gleditsch takes his point of departure in the architecture exhibition Weissenhofziedlung in Stuttgart, which opened in 1927 with the Functionalist icon Mies van der Rohe as artistic director. The criteria for the apartment blocks in the competition required all facades to be white and all roofs to be flat. But most of these houses were in fact painted in bright colours, although the black-and-white photographs in the catalogue maintained the impression of whiteness. The whiteness of the modern architecture was disseminated through the press, an impression that is still being reproduced.
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Building Seagram
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The Seagram building rises over New York’s Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Canadian distillery dynasty Seagram. Bronfman’s daughter Phyllis Lambert was twenty-seven years old when(...)
Building Seagram
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The Seagram building rises over New York’s Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Canadian distillery dynasty Seagram. Bronfman’s daughter Phyllis Lambert was twenty-seven years old when she took over the search for an architect and chose Mies van der Rohe, a pioneering modern master of what he termed “skin and bones” architecture. Mies, who designed the elegant, deceptively simple thirty-eight-story tower along with Philip Johnson, emphasized the beauty of structure and fine materials, and set the building back from the avenue, creating an urban oasis with the building’s plaza. Through her choice, Lambert established her role as a leading architectural patron and singlehandedly changed the face of American urban architecture.
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The Stedelijk Museum opened its doors in 1895, the same year as the first Venice Biennale. It was a "quiet, civilized museum for the Amsterdam bourgeoisie in a time when there was nothing as troublesome as modern art." Initially, the museum exhibited the legacy of the eccentric Sophia Augusta de Bruyn, Douairière Lopez Suasso: a heterogeneous collection of antiques,(...)
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August 2004, Amsterdam
The furniture collection, Stedelijk Mueum, Amsterdam : 1850-2000 from Michael Thonet to Marcel Wanders
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The Stedelijk Museum opened its doors in 1895, the same year as the first Venice Biennale. It was a "quiet, civilized museum for the Amsterdam bourgeoisie in a time when there was nothing as troublesome as modern art." Initially, the museum exhibited the legacy of the eccentric Sophia Augusta de Bruyn, Douairière Lopez Suasso: a heterogeneous collection of antiques, coins, jewels, timepieces, silver knickknacks, and other curiosa. Period rooms, from canal houses that had been demolished when Raadhuisstraat was driven through, helped create a presentable whole. The museum's renowned furniture collection was not begun until 1934, but since then it has grown to include more than 1000 objects from circa 1850 to the present, with an accent on the twentieth century. Chairs, settees, tables, folding screens, cabinets, and even complete interiors are included.~This publication provides a comprehensive overview of the Stedelijk Museum’s furniture collecting activities from 1934 to 2000. It charts the museum's rich collection, which includes work by H.P. Berlage, K.P.C de Bazel, Piet Kramer, Gerrit T. Rietveld, Martin Visser, Piet Hein Eek, and Marcel Wanders, as well as international furniture classics designed by Michael Thonet, Charlotte Perriand, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Joe Colombo, Arne Jacobsen, Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck, and Ron Arad. Besides a complete overview of the furniture collection, this annotated catalogue includes an introduction to the history of the collection and its exhibition activities. In addition, the volume explores various themes, such as international and Dutch icons, and contrasts and evolutions, in greater depth in a number of short essays.
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August 2004, Amsterdam
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Tomorrow’s Houses is a photographed presentation of the modernist houses in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, built during the early twentieth century through the 1960s. From the suburbs of Connecticut to the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont, modernism in America found some of its earliest, most idealistic, and, later, most refined(...)
Tomorrow's Houses: New England Modernism
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Tomorrow’s Houses is a photographed presentation of the modernist houses in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, built during the early twentieth century through the 1960s. From the suburbs of Connecticut to the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont, modernism in America found some of its earliest, most idealistic, and, later, most refined realizations in houses designed by such masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, Richard Meier, Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, and Walter Gropius, all of whose work is featured in these pages. Photographer Geoffrey Gross has captured in full-color images these composed structures and their appointed interiors, all against the variety of the landscapes of New England.
Modernism
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This volume opens a door into the fascinating world of architecture. Buildings of every shape and size, and from all corners of the world populate this book that introduces children to history’s most iconic architectural feats and the people behind them. Young readers will learn how Christopher Wren reconstructed an 11th-century cathedral after London’s great fire of(...)
13 architects children should know
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This volume opens a door into the fascinating world of architecture. Buildings of every shape and size, and from all corners of the world populate this book that introduces children to history’s most iconic architectural feats and the people behind them. Young readers will learn how Christopher Wren reconstructed an 11th-century cathedral after London’s great fire of 1666 to become the St Paul’s Cathedral that we know today, and how its dome survived the Blitz. They will find out how Thomas Jefferson, in building his plantation, Monticello, created a new architecture for a new nation. They will be introduced to the genius of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Zaha Hadid.
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À partir de 1933, de nombreux intellectuels allemands débarquent aux États-Unis. Créateur du Bauhaus (qu'il dirige jusqu'en 1928), Walter Gropius émigre en 1937, rejoint l'année suivante par Mies van der Rohe, lui aussi directeur de l'école jusqu'à sa dissolution (1930-1933). Le premier arrive à la Graduate School of Design à Harvard, le second à l'Armour Institute of(...)
Un camouflage New Bauhaus: György Kepes et la militarisation de l'image
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À partir de 1933, de nombreux intellectuels allemands débarquent aux États-Unis. Créateur du Bauhaus (qu'il dirige jusqu'en 1928), Walter Gropius émigre en 1937, rejoint l'année suivante par Mies van der Rohe, lui aussi directeur de l'école jusqu'à sa dissolution (1930-1933). Le premier arrive à la Graduate School of Design à Harvard, le second à l'Armour Institute of Technology de Chicago. Débarqué dans cette ville en 1937, leur ancien professeur László Moholy Nagy y prend, sur proposition de Gropius, la direction du New Bauhaus... qui ferme brièvement l'année suivante ! Face à d'importantes difficultés, l'établissement n'aura alors de cesse, aux lendemains de Pearl Harbor, d'offrir à György Kepes l'opportunité de former des « camoufleurs industriels »...
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The best architects are often defined by a singular residential commission-for example, Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright or the Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe. In Richard Meier's case, the Grotta House is the culmination of the styles and techniques that can be found in the best of his work. Designed and constructed in the second half of the 1980s, the house also(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2007, New York
The Grotta House by Richard Meier
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The best architects are often defined by a singular residential commission-for example, Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright or the Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe. In Richard Meier's case, the Grotta House is the culmination of the styles and techniques that can be found in the best of his work. Designed and constructed in the second half of the 1980s, the house also exhibits the Grottas' exceptional collection of crafts and furniture. This book, which includes an extensive interview with the Grottas as well as detailed photography and text commenting on every facet of the residence, is essential reading for the modern architect or anyone who aspires to commission a house.
Architecture Monographs
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De la Renaissance à la dernière actualité, ce recueil est une contribution à l'histoire des relations entre architectes et commanditaires. Figures déterminantes de la commande architecturale, elles sont ici évoquées par neuf historiens, tant américain, français, italien, russe que suisse, abordant une vingtaine d'exemples issue d'horizons variés. De grands commanditaires(...)
Architectes et commanditaires : cas particuliers du XVIe au XXe siècle
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De la Renaissance à la dernière actualité, ce recueil est une contribution à l'histoire des relations entre architectes et commanditaires. Figures déterminantes de la commande architecturale, elles sont ici évoquées par neuf historiens, tant américain, français, italien, russe que suisse, abordant une vingtaine d'exemples issue d'horizons variés. De grands commanditaires réapparaissent, tels l'impératrice Catherine la Grande, le philanthrope Andrew Carnegie ou la famille Rothschild. D'autres, moins connus, sont à découvrir : le cardinal d'Amboise, l'ordre ecclésiastique de la Visitation, le cas singulier de puissants genevois, le Prince Napoléon, ou les usines Renault... Les architectes trouvent également la place qui leur est due avec des artistes aussi importants que François Mansart, Charles Cameron, Emile Trélat ou Mies van der Rohe.
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April 2009, Paris
History until 1900, Renaissance
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This issue of Architectural Design takes a unique look at the relationship between architects and furniture design and furniture and architecture. There are features on some of the most important exponents of 'total design' of the 20th century - Max Bill, Ernv Goldfinger, Arne Jacobsen, Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen - as well as those of the 21st: Alvaro Siza, John(...)
Furniture + architecture : architectural design vol. 72 no. 4 July 2002
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This issue of Architectural Design takes a unique look at the relationship between architects and furniture design and furniture and architecture. There are features on some of the most important exponents of 'total design' of the 20th century - Max Bill, Ernv Goldfinger, Arne Jacobsen, Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen - as well as those of the 21st: Alvaro Siza, John Pawson and David Adjaye. Other emerging designers featured include Alison Brooks, Tom Emerson of 6A, Jam and Gans & Jelacic while there is also an exploration of an aesthetic of 'found' design and an artistic and architectural exploration of the ordinary. Also included in the publication is an invaluable listing of specialist retailers selling architect-designed furniture.
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