51n4e: How things meet
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Brussels-based 51N4E deals with matters of architectural design, concept development, and strategic spatial transformations. Headed by Johan Anrys and Freek Persyn, the office was founded in 1998 and aspires to contribute to social and urban transformation. This photo-novel tells the story of 51N4E in multiple ways. Combining short stories by Falma Fshazi with photographs(...)
51n4e: How things meet
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Brussels-based 51N4E deals with matters of architectural design, concept development, and strategic spatial transformations. Headed by Johan Anrys and Freek Persyn, the office was founded in 1998 and aspires to contribute to social and urban transformation. This photo-novel tells the story of 51N4E in multiple ways. Combining short stories by Falma Fshazi with photographs by Stefano Graziani, it is a narrative of discovery and embracing otherness, as well as a retrospective look at projects since 2004.
Architecture Monographs
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Brussels-based 51N4E deals with matters of architectural design, concept development, and strategic spatial transformations. Headed by Johan Anrys and Freek Persyn, the office was founded in 1998 and aspires to contribute to social and urban transformation. This photo-novel tells the story of 51N4E in multiple ways. Combining short stories by Falma Fshazi with photographs(...)
51n4e, Falma Fshazi, Stefano Graziani: How Things Meet
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Brussels-based 51N4E deals with matters of architectural design, concept development, and strategic spatial transformations. Headed by Johan Anrys and Freek Persyn, the office was founded in 1998 and aspires to contribute to social and urban transformation. This photo-novel tells the story of 51N4E in multiple ways. Combining short stories by Falma Fshazi with photographs by Stefano Graziani, it is a narrative of discovery and embracing otherness, as well as a retrospective look at projects since 2004.
Architecture Monographs
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Over the course of two years Van Severen travelled to Haute-Ariege several times during spring and summer and expanded her territory to the Spanish part of the Pyrenees, to Germany and more. "LAND : on the brink of some formidably complex matter" focuses on the transformation and fragmentation of the landscape. A human intervention, either subtle or defining,(...)
Laura Van Severen: LAND, on the brink of some formidably complex matter
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Over the course of two years Van Severen travelled to Haute-Ariege several times during spring and summer and expanded her territory to the Spanish part of the Pyrenees, to Germany and more. "LAND : on the brink of some formidably complex matter" focuses on the transformation and fragmentation of the landscape. A human intervention, either subtle or defining, characterizes the images. We as humans destroy and construct, we shape the world irreversibly. LAND is a brief reminder of this.
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Dernier volet d'un long parcours scientifique, cet ouvrage poursuit l'interrogation menée par le laboratoire Gerphau sur la conception et la réalisation d'artefacts humains dans une perspective écologique. En convoquant le concept de synergie, qu'il applique aux domaines de l'architecture de la ville, du paysage et du projet, ce volume introduit à de nouvelles(...)
Synergies urbaines : pour un métabolisme collectif des villes
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Dernier volet d'un long parcours scientifique, cet ouvrage poursuit l'interrogation menée par le laboratoire Gerphau sur la conception et la réalisation d'artefacts humains dans une perspective écologique. En convoquant le concept de synergie, qu'il applique aux domaines de l'architecture de la ville, du paysage et du projet, ce volume introduit à de nouvelles méthodologies, plus ouvertes, en mesure de prendre en compte les phénomènes de transformation, coévolution et adaptation continue qui parcourent le monde urbain contemporain.
Urban Theory
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The novel explores themes such as the transformation of human psychology by modern technology, and consumer culture's fascination with celebrities and technological commodities. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the(...)
Crash
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The novel explores themes such as the transformation of human psychology by modern technology, and consumer culture's fascination with celebrities and technological commodities. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead mans wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes.
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November 2009
Architecture and the imaginary
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An original and absorbing cross-disciplinary look at the many-layered connections between architecture and engineering in the 19th century, this book will captivate anyone interested in how the style of the modern city evolved when iron became the primary building material used. Extensively illustrated with photos and schematics, this book takes the reader into the(...)
Materials and Lighting
May 2011
Before steel : the introduction of structural iron and its consequences
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An original and absorbing cross-disciplinary look at the many-layered connections between architecture and engineering in the 19th century, this book will captivate anyone interested in how the style of the modern city evolved when iron became the primary building material used. Extensively illustrated with photos and schematics, this book takes the reader into the massive social transformation and increased industrialization of Europe through the 1800s, showing how the new, formable building materials re-defined architecture.
Materials and Lighting
Le tigre blanc
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Un petit garçon se dispute avec ses parents et se change en tigre pour les dévorer. Il fuit sa maison et se retrouve à errer de plus en plus loin de chez lui. Il va se retrouver confronter à toutes sortes d’obstacles et de dangers qu’il tentera chaque fois de surmonter en ayant recours à ses métamorphoses : se changeant tour à tour en oiseau, chien et souris !(...)
Le tigre blanc
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Un petit garçon se dispute avec ses parents et se change en tigre pour les dévorer. Il fuit sa maison et se retrouve à errer de plus en plus loin de chez lui. Il va se retrouver confronter à toutes sortes d’obstacles et de dangers qu’il tentera chaque fois de surmonter en ayant recours à ses métamorphoses : se changeant tour à tour en oiseau, chien et souris ! Hélas pour lui, chaque transformation l’amène toujours vers de nouveaux ennuis...
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The recycling of post-industrial landscapes has been a topic of great interest both in landscape and urban design in the past 20 years. This book is a history, a design theory and a survey of seminal schemes all in one. It analyzes all ground-breaking European projects such as Peter Latz' Duisburg Nord, Parque del Clot in Barcelona or Parc aux Angeliques in Bordeaux and(...)
Beauty redeemed: recycling post-industrial landscapes
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The recycling of post-industrial landscapes has been a topic of great interest both in landscape and urban design in the past 20 years. This book is a history, a design theory and a survey of seminal schemes all in one. It analyzes all ground-breaking European projects such as Peter Latz' Duisburg Nord, Parque del Clot in Barcelona or Parc aux Angeliques in Bordeaux and looks at the transformation of the urban landscape in the long run.
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Montreal : the history of a North American city / edited by Dany Fougères and Roderick MacLeod.
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2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]-[2018], ©2018
Montreal : the history of a North American city / edited by Dany Fougères and Roderick MacLeod.
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Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]-[2018], ©2018
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120 pages
Lambersart : Du Quesne Editions, 2011.
Maisons de mineurs = Miner's houses. Patrimoine majeur du Nord-Pas-de-Calais = Important heritage of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. / Yves Le Maner.
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Lambersart : Du Quesne Editions, 2011.