New Urban Housing
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Author Hilary French provides a comprehensive introduction to this building type, from its industrial beginnings in London and Paris to New York City’s Lower East Side and the 20th-century designs of Le Corbusier, Antonio Sant’Elia, and Mies van der Rohe. Lavishly illustrated, the book examines different formal typologies of urban housing: terrace and row houses,(...)
New Urban Housing
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Author Hilary French provides a comprehensive introduction to this building type, from its industrial beginnings in London and Paris to New York City’s Lower East Side and the 20th-century designs of Le Corbusier, Antonio Sant’Elia, and Mies van der Rohe. Lavishly illustrated, the book examines different formal typologies of urban housing: terrace and row houses, quadrangles and courtyards, city blocks and infill (or renovated and reused sites), and towers and slab blocks. Thirty-six case studies from fourteen countries are presented by architects including Steven Holl, Richard Meier, KoningEizenbergArchitecture, Eduardo Souto de Moura, and Renzo Piano. Each is illustrated in full color and is accompanied by detailed plans and sections that discuss the needs of the site and place the project in its surrounding context.
Collective Housing
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The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect’s angry ex-lover. Nora Wendl’s audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth surrounding the Edith(...)
Almost nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth
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The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect’s angry ex-lover. Nora Wendl’s audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth surrounding the Edith Farnsworth House and its two central figures. An eminent physician and woman of letters, Farnsworth left a rich trove of correspondence, memoirs, and photographs that Wendl uses to reconstruct her voice. Farnsworth’s memories and experiences alternate with Wendl’s thoughts on topics like misogyny and professional ambition to fashion a lyrical examination of love, loneliness, beauty, and the search for the divine.
Architecture Monographs
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"L'Ornement est un crime" rend hommage de manière originale au mouvement moderne, l'une des périodes les plus inventives et radicales de l'histoire de l'architecture. Des chefs-d'oeuvre des premiers architectes du mouvement moderne tels Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius ou Mies van der Rohe et de nombreux trésors méconnus côtoient ainsi les créations de grands(...)
L'ornement est un crime : architecture du mouvement moderne
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"L'Ornement est un crime" rend hommage de manière originale au mouvement moderne, l'une des périodes les plus inventives et radicales de l'histoire de l'architecture. Des chefs-d'oeuvre des premiers architectes du mouvement moderne tels Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius ou Mies van der Rohe et de nombreux trésors méconnus côtoient ainsi les créations de grands architectes contemporains dont l'oeuvre s'inscrit dans la même lignée, tels David Adjaye, Tadao Ando ou Steven Holl. "L'Ornement est un crime" offre un tour du monde de ce style d'architecture, réunissant des maisons conçues aussi bien aux Etats-Unis et en Europe (notamment en République tchèque, en Irlande, en Pologne, au Portugal, en Slovaquie, en Grèce) qu'en Argentine, au Chili, au Pérou, en Australie, au Canada, au Ghana ou en Israël.
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The Avery Review: Chicago
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The Avery Review, a digital journal about books, buildings, and other architectural media, makes its print debut with a thematic broadsheet edition about the city of Chicago. Coinciding with the inaugural Chicago Architectural Biennial, this issue addresses the historic imagination of the city (including figures of myth like Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and even(...)
The Avery Review: Chicago
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The Avery Review, a digital journal about books, buildings, and other architectural media, makes its print debut with a thematic broadsheet edition about the city of Chicago. Coinciding with the inaugural Chicago Architectural Biennial, this issue addresses the historic imagination of the city (including figures of myth like Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and even John Dillinger) and possibilities for the contemporary urban landscape (including discussions of placemaking, contemporary cultural monuments, and infrastructural parks). Selected pieces from the Avery Review's first year are republished alongside these commissioned essays on Chicago. Together these texts claim the critical essay as a space in which to test one's own intellectual commitments, to enter into and advance a conversation about the pasts and futures of urban architectural thought.
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Avec Christopher Alexander, Brian Hanson, Michael Mehaffy, Terry M. Mikiten. "Le roi est nu": ce vieil adage est définitivement approprié au triste cas du déconstructivisme, car ce dernier n’est rien d’autre qu’un modernisme déguisé sous une autre forme. Les modernistes, notamment ceux du Bauhaus, voulaient la table rase ; se débarrasser de tout l’existant, tout en(...)
Anti-architecture et déconstruction
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Avec Christopher Alexander, Brian Hanson, Michael Mehaffy, Terry M. Mikiten. "Le roi est nu": ce vieil adage est définitivement approprié au triste cas du déconstructivisme, car ce dernier n’est rien d’autre qu’un modernisme déguisé sous une autre forme. Les modernistes, notamment ceux du Bauhaus, voulaient la table rase ; se débarrasser de tout l’existant, tout en revendiquant cependant certains liens avec le passé : le Parthénon (Jeanneret-Gris, alias Le Corbusier, etc.), le mouvement anglais Arts and Crafts (Pevsner, etc.) et le néoclassicisme prussien (Mies Van der Rohe), afin de donner une fausse parenté historique à leurs fins et à leurs créations. Aujourd’hui, ce sont les architectes déconstructivistes et leurs supporters qui se réclament de toutes sortes de liens et de précédents fumeux pour soutenir leurs travaux.
Architectural Theory
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Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-four years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he was a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life at the Bauhaus with their fellow artists(...)
The Bauhaus group : six masters of modernism
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Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-four years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he was a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life at the Bauhaus with their fellow artists and teachers, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well as with these figures' lesser-known wives and girlfriends. In thisgroup biography, Weber brings to life the pioneering art school in Germany's Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s, and captures the spirit and flair with which these Bauhaus geniuses lived, as well as their consuming goal of making art and architecture.
Modernism
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Furniture by Architects surveys the twentieth-century tradition of innovative furniture design by architects, which stems into the present as architects continue to design movable furnishings for their buildings, creating aesthetically unified environments. The book poses such questions as: Do architects design differently to product designers? Do they exhibit any(...)
From Aalto to Zumthor: Furniture by architects
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Furniture by Architects surveys the twentieth-century tradition of innovative furniture design by architects, which stems into the present as architects continue to design movable furnishings for their buildings, creating aesthetically unified environments. The book poses such questions as: Do architects design differently to product designers? Do they exhibit any consistent aesthetic preferences? Is there something typically architectural in their designs? Furniture by Architects features works by Alvar Aalto, Ron Arad, Gae Aulenti, Karl Bertsch, Emil Beutinger, Marcel Breuer, Pierre Chareau, Egon Eiermann, El Lissitsky, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Walter Gropius, Zaha Hadid, Marc Held, Josef Hoffmann, Arne Jacobsen, Le Corbusier, Daniel Libeskind, Gio Ponti, Richard Riemerschmid, Gerrit Rietveld, Eero Saarinen, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, O.M. Ungers, Mies van der Rohe, Otto Wagner, Frank Lloyd Wright and Peter Zumthor, among others.
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Bauhaus conflicts 1919-2009
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From its founding in 1919, the function and identity of the Bauhaus was mobilized by warring factions, as it passed through the guiding hands of its three directors (the apolitical Walter Gropius, the Communist Hannes Meyer and the progressive Mies van der Rohe). Even beyond the well-known controversies that arose between colleagues during the heroic Bauhaus years, the(...)
Bauhaus conflicts 1919-2009
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From its founding in 1919, the function and identity of the Bauhaus was mobilized by warring factions, as it passed through the guiding hands of its three directors (the apolitical Walter Gropius, the Communist Hannes Meyer and the progressive Mies van der Rohe). Even beyond the well-known controversies that arose between colleagues during the heroic Bauhaus years, the reception and legacy of the various Modernist icons associated with the Bauhaus led to dispute: Socialists, Communists, Nazis, Stalinists, Capitalists, Cold Warriors, student revolutionaries in the 1960s and later dissidents, all have created their own image of the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus Debate 1919-2009 examines the critical reception of the legendary school, its teachers, students and pedagogical philosophy and the battles over its legacy that continue to this day.
Modernism
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"J'ai trouvé ce que vous disiez si extraordinaire que j'ai estimé que certaines choses devaient être consignées pour l'histoire de l'architecture." Ainsi débute la conversation entre Ieoh Ming Pei et Fumihiko Maki. Ieoh Ming Pei, né en 1917, a réalisé après la rénovation du Louvre d'autres bâtiments, dont le musée scientifique de Macao. Fumihiko Maki, né en 1928, a achevé(...)
Quelques mots pour le futur : un siècle d’architecture
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"J'ai trouvé ce que vous disiez si extraordinaire que j'ai estimé que certaines choses devaient être consignées pour l'histoire de l'architecture." Ainsi débute la conversation entre Ieoh Ming Pei et Fumihiko Maki. Ieoh Ming Pei, né en 1917, a réalisé après la rénovation du Louvre d'autres bâtiments, dont le musée scientifique de Macao. Fumihiko Maki, né en 1928, a achevé en 2015 WTC 4, une des tours de Ground Zero à New York. Tous deux sont lauréats du prix Pritzker : c'est dire si leur histoire personnelle et professionnelle se confond avec l'Histoire de l'architecture. En évoquant leur vie, leur carrière et leurs rencontres, ils font revivre celles de Gropius, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Mies van der Rohe, et de tant d'autres personnalités du monde de l'architecture ou de l'art.
Architectural Theory
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Le semestriel 2018-2 consacre un grand dossier aux années 1930, période charnière d'intense activité architecturale, en France comme à l'étranger, qui voit se développer de nouveaux courants, en réaction à l'académisme ambiant. De nombreux architectes européens ont contribué à la portée historique du Mouvement moderne dont ce numéro se fera l'écho, notamment à travers(...)
Monumental 2018, semestriel 2
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Le semestriel 2018-2 consacre un grand dossier aux années 1930, période charnière d'intense activité architecturale, en France comme à l'étranger, qui voit se développer de nouveaux courants, en réaction à l'académisme ambiant. De nombreux architectes européens ont contribué à la portée historique du Mouvement moderne dont ce numéro se fera l'écho, notamment à travers l'achèvement récent d'opérations significatives de restauration comme la villa E-1027 d'Eileen Gray à Roquebrune-Cap-Martin ; la villa Tugendhat de Mies van der Rohe à Brno (République tchèque) ; la piscine des Amiraux d'Henri Sauvage, l'appartement-atelier de Le Corbusier, le palais d'Iéna d'Auguste Perret, la halle Freyssinet/station F, le cinéma mythique du Louxor, à Paris... Il évoquera les constructions d'Ali Tur en Guadeloupe ainsi que les expériences urbaines et architecturales menées au Maroc dans les années 1925/30.
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