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In an ever-changing world with its hybrid forms of living and working, this book presents a collection of remarkable and carefully selected container buildings. Invented in the 1950s by Malcom McLean, these plain steel boxes with corrugated profiles revolutionized the worldwide trade sector. Furthermore, these huge receptacles for storing and transporting cargo have found(...)
Container architecture: modular constructrion marvels
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In an ever-changing world with its hybrid forms of living and working, this book presents a collection of remarkable and carefully selected container buildings. Invented in the 1950s by Malcom McLean, these plain steel boxes with corrugated profiles revolutionized the worldwide trade sector. Furthermore, these huge receptacles for storing and transporting cargo have found their way into architecture to become an essential part of global building culture. Ever more astonishing architectural applications and design experiments are based on these standardized, strictly geometrically conceived units. Their imaginatively designed shells are just as versatile as their use: sometimes with original, rough surfaces with traces of use that tell a story, sometimes with a curtain facade made of wood and large-scale glazing, or even as a purist composition with a sophisticated light installation.
Experimentale architecture
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« Agence-époque », Architecture Studio a grandi avec son temps, depuis sa fondation en 1973, en exprimant toujours les grands moments des périodes qu’elle a traversées, qu’ils soient empreints d’espoir ou signes de préoccupation. Les années soixante-dix, l’effervescence du militantisme, le mouvement Mars 76 et la création du syndicat de l’architecture, le(...)
Architecture Studio en liberté : L'agence époque
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« Agence-époque », Architecture Studio a grandi avec son temps, depuis sa fondation en 1973, en exprimant toujours les grands moments des périodes qu’elle a traversées, qu’ils soient empreints d’espoir ou signes de préoccupation. Les années soixante-dix, l’effervescence du militantisme, le mouvement Mars 76 et la création du syndicat de l’architecture, le contre-concours des Halles, l’élaboration de logements sociaux avec la participation des habitants… Viennent ensuite les années Mitterrand, l’Institut du monde arabe et les grands projets issus de la décentralisation. Dix ans plus tard, le Parlement européen de Strasbourg annonce une mondialisation qui passera d’abord par la Chine et l’Asie avant d’atteindre le continent africain. L’ouverture d’une maison commune à Venise en 2010 ainsi que le scénario et le plan d’une ville verte pour le nouveau centre de Kaboul en Afghanistan marquent le point culminant de cette époque.
Architecture Monographs
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An important critic of modern culture, American economist Thorstein Veblen is best known for the concept of "conspicuous consumption," the ostentatious and wasteful display of goods in the service of social status—a term he coined in his 1899 classic "The Theory of the Leisure Class". In the field of architectural history, scholars have employed Veblen in support of a(...)
Barbarian architecture: Thorstein Veblen's Chicago
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An important critic of modern culture, American economist Thorstein Veblen is best known for the concept of "conspicuous consumption," the ostentatious and wasteful display of goods in the service of social status—a term he coined in his 1899 classic "The Theory of the Leisure Class". In the field of architectural history, scholars have employed Veblen in support of a wide range of arguments about modern architecture, but never has he attracted a comprehensive and critical treatment from the viewpoint of architectural history. In "Barbarian architecture", Joanna Merwood-Salisbury corrects this omission by reexamining Veblen's famous book as an original theory of modernity and situating it in a particular place and time—Chicago in the 1890s.
Architectural Theory
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A group of single-family houses created by famous architects such as Eric Owen Moss and Hiroshi Naito are studied in this book. The constructive details, choice of materials and technical solutions are described, as well as the site distribution or facade composition. A short text by the architects themselves prefaces each article. The plans are drawn to(...)
Residential Architecture
October 1998, New York
Plans of architecture : house details
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A group of single-family houses created by famous architects such as Eric Owen Moss and Hiroshi Naito are studied in this book. The constructive details, choice of materials and technical solutions are described, as well as the site distribution or facade composition. A short text by the architects themselves prefaces each article. The plans are drawn to scale for easy measurement comparisons.
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Residential Architecture
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Snoehetta, one of Scandinavia’s leading architecture practices, seeks to develop its architectures within a continuous state of reinvention. Every project differs – only elementary aspects related to a broad sense of context generate core discussions when developing early concepts. Projects like the library of Alexandria, the new opera house in Oslo or the Ras al Khaima(...)
Snohetta conditions: architecture, interior, landscape.
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Snoehetta, one of Scandinavia’s leading architecture practices, seeks to develop its architectures within a continuous state of reinvention. Every project differs – only elementary aspects related to a broad sense of context generate core discussions when developing early concepts. Projects like the library of Alexandria, the new opera house in Oslo or the Ras al Khaima gateway exemplify the intentions of the architects and give a hint of how they comment on given preconditions.
Architecture Monographs
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Since its inception in 1977, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture has recognised almost 100 projects that have set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning, conservation and landscape design. Cutting a swathe across the globe from west Africa to southeast Asia, each project selected for the 2007 Award is illustrated with detailed drawings, specially(...)
Intervention architecture: building for change
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Since its inception in 1977, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture has recognised almost 100 projects that have set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning, conservation and landscape design. Cutting a swathe across the globe from west Africa to southeast Asia, each project selected for the 2007 Award is illustrated with detailed drawings, specially commissioned photographs and concise descriptions.
Architecture Monographs
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Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan. Masterfully framed by the author's photographs of Sullivanesque buildings in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, Ronald E. Schmitt's in-depth exploration of the Sullivanesque tells the story of its evolution from Sullivan's intellectual and(...)
Architecture Monographs
August 2002, Champaign, Illinois
Sullivanesque : urban architecture and ornamentation
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Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan. Masterfully framed by the author's photographs of Sullivanesque buildings in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, Ronald E. Schmitt's in-depth exploration of the Sullivanesque tells the story of its evolution from Sullivan's intellectual and aesthetic foundations to its place as a form of commercial vernacular. The book also includes an inventory of Sullivanesque buildings.
Architecture Monographs
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This publication traces the interaction between culture and politics as reflected in Canadian architecture and the infrastructure of ordinary life, from the first contacts between indigenous peoples and European missionaries to the construction of big-box shopping centres in postmodern cities. Whether focusing on Jesuit perceptions of New France, the construction of(...)
Architecture and the Canadian fabric
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This publication traces the interaction between culture and politics as reflected in Canadian architecture and the infrastructure of ordinary life, from the first contacts between indigenous peoples and European missionaries to the construction of big-box shopping centres in postmodern cities. Whether focusing on Jesuit perceptions of New France, the construction of Toronto’s St. James Cathedral or Canada’s first Parliament, Brutalism in Canadian architecture, or the ideas of Marshall McLuhan and Arthur Erickson, these essays showcase ways of thinking about the built environment that extend beyond considerations of authorship and style to address the influence of cultural politics and insights from race and gender studies and from postcolonial and spatial theory.
Architecture in Canada
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Architecture has a powerful role in nation building and identity formation. Buildings and monuments not only constitute the built fabric of society, they reflect the intersection of culture, politics, economics, and aesthetics as these forces are played out in distinct social settings and distinct times. This extraordinary anthology traces the interaction between(...)
Architecture and the Canadian fabric
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Architecture has a powerful role in nation building and identity formation. Buildings and monuments not only constitute the built fabric of society, they reflect the intersection of culture, politics, economics, and aesthetics as these forces are played out in distinct social settings and distinct times. This extraordinary anthology traces the interaction between culture and politics as reflected in Canadian architecture and the infrastructure of ordinary life, from the first contacts between indigenous peoples and European missionaries to the construction of big-box shopping centres in postmodern cities. Whether focusing on Jesuit perceptions of New France, the construction of Toronto’s St. James Cathedral or Canada’s first Parliament, Brutalism in Canadian architecture, or the ideas of Marshall McLuhan and Arthur Erickson, these essays showcase ways of thinking about the built environment that extend beyond considerations of authorship and style to address the influence of cultural politics and insights from race and gender studies and from postcolonial and spatial theory. By coupling a national focus with a wide historical scope, Architecture and the Canadian Fabric transforms how we see the role of architecture and in doing so radically questions how we continue to live in, interact with, and interpret the fabricated world.
Architecture in Canada
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Oneplanetarchitecture is the design philosophy Thomas Rau, the founder and director of RAU, developed over the recent years. It implies a broad approach towards the building task taking into account the material and immaterial needs of users, the place, the society, and the planet earth. Therefore the process as such is a central part in the work of RAU which always(...)
Oneplanetarchitecture: The architecture of RAU
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Oneplanetarchitecture is the design philosophy Thomas Rau, the founder and director of RAU, developed over the recent years. It implies a broad approach towards the building task taking into account the material and immaterial needs of users, the place, the society, and the planet earth. Therefore the process as such is a central part in the work of RAU which always results in a unique concept which is imbedded into the building's social and urban context.
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Architecture Monographs