Tokujin Yoshioka
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Based in Tokyo, Tokujin Yoshioka has built a career using unconventional materials to create objects and spaces. Often employing paper and glass, as well as unusual elements, such as plastic drinking straws, his studio’s work has achieved a cult following among design enthusiasts. His most recent experiments transcend industrial design, occupying a space between science(...)
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Based in Tokyo, Tokujin Yoshioka has built a career using unconventional materials to create objects and spaces. Often employing paper and glass, as well as unusual elements, such as plastic drinking straws, his studio’s work has achieved a cult following among design enthusiasts. His most recent experiments transcend industrial design, occupying a space between science and art, typified by the Venus chair, where crystals were naturally grown over a fiber form immersed in a glass tank filled with a solution. Designed by Groovisions, the book includes more than three hundred sketches, concept renderings, and photographs. The projects are organized thematically, with an emphasis on materials and process, and show how Yoshioka transforms commonplace items to create objects of tensile strength and sublime beauty.
Interior Design
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Un panorama visuel des meilleurs exemples d'architecture en béton à travers le monde : 175 édifices, de la Rome antique à nos jours. Des réalisations célèbres signées Le Corbusier et Frank Lloyd Wright côtoient les créations des grands noms de l'architecture contemporaine, tels que Zaha Hadid et l'agence Herzog & de Meuron. Des projets novateurs et emblématiques :(...)
Béton
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Un panorama visuel des meilleurs exemples d'architecture en béton à travers le monde : 175 édifices, de la Rome antique à nos jours. Des réalisations célèbres signées Le Corbusier et Frank Lloyd Wright côtoient les créations des grands noms de l'architecture contemporaine, tels que Zaha Hadid et l'agence Herzog & de Meuron. Des projets novateurs et emblématiques : monuments, églises, gares, espaces culturels.... Pour chaque projet, une sélection précise de photographies accompagnées de légendes détaillées. Inclut un essai pénétrant et passionnant signé Leonard Koren, fondé sur sa double expérience d'étudiant en architecture en Californie et d'habitant de Tokyo Un livre qui apporte un nouvel éclairage sur ce matériau multiforme, et présente la beauté et la variété de l'architecture en béton à un large public.
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Fumihiko Maki
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Fumihiko Maki (b.1928) is one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century, recognized internationally for his thoughtful, subtle and technologically innovative buildings Includes Maki’s own selection of over 40 of his most significant projects, including the National Museum of Art in Kyoto and the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, as well as a description of(...)
Fumihiko Maki
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Fumihiko Maki (b.1928) is one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century, recognized internationally for his thoughtful, subtle and technologically innovative buildings Includes Maki’s own selection of over 40 of his most significant projects, including the National Museum of Art in Kyoto and the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, as well as a description of each project and discussion of the role it played in his architectural development Features a variety of global projects such as Tower 4 at the World Trade Center, New York (scheduled to open 2011); the Media Arts and Sciences building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Novartis Campus Building WSJ-174 in Basel; the Republic Polytechnic campus in Singapore and the Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco.
Architecture Monographs
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En nous entraînant dans les coulisses des musées, ce volume fait partager la passion de l'auteure pour ces lieux fascinants et indispensables qui ont su se moderniser, se réinventer pour toucher toujours plus de publics. A travers mille anecdotes, on y flâne d'un continent à l'autre, du Louvre au musée Edo-Tokyo, du Louvre Abu Dhabi au British Museum, de l'Ermitage à la(...)
Dictionnaire amoureux des musées
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En nous entraînant dans les coulisses des musées, ce volume fait partager la passion de l'auteure pour ces lieux fascinants et indispensables qui ont su se moderniser, se réinventer pour toucher toujours plus de publics. A travers mille anecdotes, on y flâne d'un continent à l'autre, du Louvre au musée Edo-Tokyo, du Louvre Abu Dhabi au British Museum, de l'Ermitage à la glyptothèque de Copenhague. Confrontés aujourd'hui à de nouveaux défis, comme les enjeux de marque, de diversité, de développement durable, de post-colonialisme, ou de numérique, les musées nous interrogent sur notre rapport aux objets, mais aussi au passé, à la mémoire, et à la transmission. Promenade sensible à travers le monde, ce livre ouvre la réflexion sur ce que notre monde veut transmettre aux générations futures.
Museology
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Written by the well-known architectural critic Kenneth Powell, this new monograph provides an illustrated overview and an ideal introduction to the works of Richard Roger’s internationally renowned office. Founded in 1977, with offices in London, Barcelona and Tokyo, RRP has a long-established reputation for high-tech and energy-efficient designs. Famous as the(...)
Architecture Monographs
July 2004, Basel, Boston, Berlin
Richard Rogers : architecture of the future
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Written by the well-known architectural critic Kenneth Powell, this new monograph provides an illustrated overview and an ideal introduction to the works of Richard Roger’s internationally renowned office. Founded in 1977, with offices in London, Barcelona and Tokyo, RRP has a long-established reputation for high-tech and energy-efficient designs. Famous as the architects of the Centre Pompidou in Paris (together with Renzo Piano), and for the iconic Lloyd’s of London, the practice’s recent projects include the transformation of the Las Arenas bullring in Barcelona, the new Library of Birmingham, Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 and Madrid’s Barajas Airport expansion. This comprehensive survey also covers RRP’s substantial masterplanning projects, such as the Lu Jia Zui district in Shanghai and the masterplan for the Greenwich Peninsula in London.
Architecture Monographs
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City planning is a concept which usually covers the wide range of events, processes and developments taking place in our cities, but individual plans and designs cannot do justice to the complex realities of the city. In "Induction Cities" the author aims to take the reader beyond our traditional understanding of city design to redefine our perception of design in this(...)
Induction design : a method for evolutionary design
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City planning is a concept which usually covers the wide range of events, processes and developments taking place in our cities, but individual plans and designs cannot do justice to the complex realities of the city. In "Induction Cities" the author aims to take the reader beyond our traditional understanding of city design to redefine our perception of design in this context. With the assistance of computers, a dynamic mechanism will be created which generates a result corresponding to the specific conditions and requirements stipulated. By this form of "meta-design" a greater degree of freedom is obtained than the conventional design methods provide. In this publication, this new theory and process is analysed, looking at the first computer-generated architecture in the world, the underground station "lidabashi" in Tokyo.
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Breaking with the idea that gardens are places of indulgence and escapism, these studies of ritualized practices reveal that gardens in Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean have in fact made significant contributions to cultural change. This book demonstrates methods and the striking results of garden reception studies. The first section explores how(...)
Performance and appropriation : profane rituals in gardens and landscapes
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Breaking with the idea that gardens are places of indulgence and escapism, these studies of ritualized practices reveal that gardens in Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean have in fact made significant contributions to cultural change. This book demonstrates methods and the striking results of garden reception studies. The first section explores how cultural changes occur, and devotes chapters to public landscapes in the Netherlands, seventeenth-century Parisian gardens, Freemason gardens in Tuscany, nineteenth-century Scottish kitchen gardens, and the public parks of Edo and modern Tokyo. The second part provides striking examples of construction of self in vernacular gardens in Guadeloupe and American Japanese-style gardens in California. Finally, the third section analyzes struggles for political change in gardens of Yuan China and modern Britain.
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March 2007, Washington, D.C., Cambridge
Landscape Theory
L'architecture naturelle
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Architecte du stade olympique ou du musée Hiroshige de Tokyo et en France, de la cité des arts de Besançon, du FRAC de Marseille ou de l’étonnant conservatoire d’Aix-en-Provence, mais aussi de nombreuses maisons audacieuses en bambous ou en bois, Kengo Kuma décline le principe fondamental de l’architecture japonaise, qui unit l’homme et la nature. Il n’y a pas(...)
L'architecture naturelle
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Architecte du stade olympique ou du musée Hiroshige de Tokyo et en France, de la cité des arts de Besançon, du FRAC de Marseille ou de l’étonnant conservatoire d’Aix-en-Provence, mais aussi de nombreuses maisons audacieuses en bambous ou en bois, Kengo Kuma décline le principe fondamental de l’architecture japonaise, qui unit l’homme et la nature. Il n’y a pas d’opposition entre le dedans et le dehors. Tout est affaire de gradation, de superpositions, de syntonie. À l’opposé de l’architecture occidentale pour qui la monumentalité est l’aboutissement. En huit chapitres, huit matériaux, huit réalisations emblématiques, cet architecte radical nous entraîne dans de nouvelles voies de respect de la nature. Ce livre est à la fois, un livre d’histoire subjective de l’architecture, un manuel d’application pratique et le portrait d’un architecte épris de nature.
Architectural Theory
Jacqueline Hassink: unwired
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"Unwired" combines two concurrent projects by Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink (born 1966), both of which address our increasingly digitally connected world. In "Unwired Landscapes", she seeks out those few remaining places where it is still impossible to broadcast a network: remote areas like the Japanese island of Yakushima, the Norwegian group of islands Svalbard(...)
Jacqueline Hassink: unwired
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"Unwired" combines two concurrent projects by Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink (born 1966), both of which address our increasingly digitally connected world. In "Unwired Landscapes", she seeks out those few remaining places where it is still impossible to broadcast a network: remote areas like the Japanese island of Yakushima, the Norwegian group of islands Svalbard known as Spitsbergen or the uninhabitable volcanic desert of Iceland, or artificially created dead zones in urban spaces, such as a Digital Detox Hotel in Baden Baden. Her second project, "iPortrait", seems to be the exact opposite of her first: it portrays people immersed in their smartphones in the subways of big cities such as New York, Paris, London, Moscow, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo. Here, she reveals the other side of digital networking, showing how it intensifies alienation between people.
Photography monographs
Thomas Flechtner : Bloom
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With "Bloom", Thomas Flechtner continues to go his own way as an artist. In his internationally acclaimed debut publication "Snow", he took viewers by surprise with a compelling visual metaphysics of snow as the exploration of a psychological state. After exhibitions in London, New York, Bilbao, and Tokyo, Flechtner is now free to pursue a new passion, the unbridled color(...)
Photography monographs
May 2007, Baden
Thomas Flechtner : Bloom
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With "Bloom", Thomas Flechtner continues to go his own way as an artist. In his internationally acclaimed debut publication "Snow", he took viewers by surprise with a compelling visual metaphysics of snow as the exploration of a psychological state. After exhibitions in London, New York, Bilbao, and Tokyo, Flechtner is now free to pursue a new passion, the unbridled color and movement of organic nature, which he examines with lyrical lightness and tremendous precision in these densely atmospheric studies of plants. As a photographer, Flechtner goes in search of the essence of nature, abandoning the ostensible safety of distance and allowing proximity and for the first time also movement. In "Bloom", the viewer is invited to take in a feast of light and color and to enter a space beyond nature’s supposed laws.
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