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Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground", David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in (...)
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Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground", David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in (...)
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October 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
October 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
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Uncommon ground : architecture, technology, and topography
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Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground", David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of three architects, Richard Neutra, Antonin Raymond, and Aris Konstantinidis, who practiced in the United States, Japan, and Greece respectively. Leatherbarrow rejects the assumption that buildings of the modern period, particularly those that used the latest technology, were designed without regard to their surroundings. Although the prefabricated elements used in the buildings were designed independent of siting considerations, architects used these elements to modulate the environment. Leatherbarrow shows how the role of walls, the traditional element of architectural definition and platform partition, became less significant than that of the platforms themselves, the floors, ceilings, and intermediate levels. He shows how frontality was replaced by the building's four-sided extension into its surroundings, resulting in frontal configurations previously characteristic of the back. Arguing that the boundary between inside and outside was radically redefined, Leatherbarrow challenges cherished notions about the autonomy of the architectural object and about regional coherence. Modern architectural topography, he suggests, is an interplay of buildings, landscapes, and cities, as well as the humans who use them. The conflict between technological progress and cultural continuity, Leatherbarrow claims, exists only in theory, not in the real world of architecture. He argues that the act of building is not a matter of restoring regional identity by re-creating familiar signs, but of incorporating construction into the process of topography's perpetual becoming.
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Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground", David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of three architects, Richard Neutra, Antonin Raymond, and Aris Konstantinidis, who practiced in the United States, Japan, and Greece respectively. Leatherbarrow rejects the assumption that buildings of the modern period, particularly those that used the latest technology, were designed without regard to their surroundings. Although the prefabricated elements used in the buildings were designed independent of siting considerations, architects used these elements to modulate the environment. Leatherbarrow shows how the role of walls, the traditional element of architectural definition and platform partition, became less significant than that of the platforms themselves, the floors, ceilings, and intermediate levels. He shows how frontality was replaced by the building's four-sided extension into its surroundings, resulting in frontal configurations previously characteristic of the back. Arguing that the boundary between inside and outside was radically redefined, Leatherbarrow challenges cherished notions about the autonomy of the architectural object and about regional coherence. Modern architectural topography, he suggests, is an interplay of buildings, landscapes, and cities, as well as the humans who use them. The conflict between technological progress and cultural continuity, Leatherbarrow claims, exists only in theory, not in the real world of architecture. He argues that the act of building is not a matter of restoring regional identity by re-creating familiar signs, but of incorporating construction into the process of topography's perpetual becoming.
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October 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
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Mass culture is a fact. Its irresistible vitality and force are enthusiastically exploited by all manner of enterprises, whether network providers for mobile phones, hip lifestyle magazines or trendy fashion labels. Oddly enough, architecture and urban planning have so far failed to exploit the potential offered by mass culture. This book presents the findings of a(...)
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Mass culture is a fact. Its irresistible vitality and force are enthusiastically exploited by all manner of enterprises, whether network providers for mobile phones, hip lifestyle magazines or trendy fashion labels. Oddly enough, architecture and urban planning have so far failed to exploit the potential offered by mass culture. This book presents the findings of a(...)
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Snooze : immersing architecture in mass culture
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Mass culture is a fact. Its irresistible vitality and force are enthusiastically exploited by all manner of enterprises, whether network providers for mobile phones, hip lifestyle magazines or trendy fashion labels. Oddly enough, architecture and urban planning have so far failed to exploit the potential offered by mass culture. This book presents the findings of a study by studio Sputnik, a Rotterdam-based architecture practice, of the opportunities that mass culture presents for architecture. "Snooze" analyses products successful in consumer society and relates the patterns behind their success to the city. The nature and importance of communication proves to be pivotal to architecture's role. What does a building signify, what does it communicate? "Snooze" is not about style or form, nor is it about commercial motives or technical ingenuity. It adds a new voice to architectural discourse at the intersection of theory and design. The surprising insights that this book offers are presented in a highly visual essay.
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Mass culture is a fact. Its irresistible vitality and force are enthusiastically exploited by all manner of enterprises, whether network providers for mobile phones, hip lifestyle magazines or trendy fashion labels. Oddly enough, architecture and urban planning have so far failed to exploit the potential offered by mass culture. This book presents the findings of a study by studio Sputnik, a Rotterdam-based architecture practice, of the opportunities that mass culture presents for architecture. "Snooze" analyses products successful in consumer society and relates the patterns behind their success to the city. The nature and importance of communication proves to be pivotal to architecture's role. What does a building signify, what does it communicate? "Snooze" is not about style or form, nor is it about commercial motives or technical ingenuity. It adds a new voice to architectural discourse at the intersection of theory and design. The surprising insights that this book offers are presented in a highly visual essay.
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September 2003, Rotterdam
September 2003, Rotterdam
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Le livre part de l'idée que l'architecture est un art manqué à cause de sa nature complexe et de ses réalisations embarrassantes, qui ne connaîtra jamais la "facilité" directe avec laquelle agissent peintres et sculpteurs. Il affronte la question du dessin en l'assumant comme un élément constitutif de l'ailleurs idéal, de nature aussi bien littéraire, dans lequel la(...)
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Le livre part de l'idée que l'architecture est un art manqué à cause de sa nature complexe et de ses réalisations embarrassantes, qui ne connaîtra jamais la "facilité" directe avec laquelle agissent peintres et sculpteurs. Il affronte la question du dessin en l'assumant comme un élément constitutif de l'ailleurs idéal, de nature aussi bien littéraire, dans lequel la(...)
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Écritures dessinées : art et architecture de Piranèse à Ruskin
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Le livre part de l'idée que l'architecture est un art manqué à cause de sa nature complexe et de ses réalisations embarrassantes, qui ne connaîtra jamais la "facilité" directe avec laquelle agissent peintres et sculpteurs. Il affronte la question du dessin en l'assumant comme un élément constitutif de l'ailleurs idéal, de nature aussi bien littéraire, dans lequel la substance humaniste de l'architecture se traduit par la libre définition de programmes, utopies, fantaisies, narrations qui font de la feuille de papier l'image d'un livre. Au-delà des exercices d'écriture dessinées, auxquels ont eu recours Piranesi, Quarenghi, Clérisseau, Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu, Gilly, Schinkel dans un esprit pictural et littéraire à cheval entre XVIIIe et XIXe siècle, d'autres auteurs (John Ruskin, critique d'art et dessinateur hors pair, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc et Camillo Boito, architectes, théoriciens et écrivains) rédigent des manuels de dessin importants. Un appendice datant du XXe siècle termine l'ouvrage en enjoignant à la récupération du manuel dans un âge de technique.
Écritures dessinées : art et architecture de Piranèse à Ruskin
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Le livre part de l'idée que l'architecture est un art manqué à cause de sa nature complexe et de ses réalisations embarrassantes, qui ne connaîtra jamais la "facilité" directe avec laquelle agissent peintres et sculpteurs. Il affronte la question du dessin en l'assumant comme un élément constitutif de l'ailleurs idéal, de nature aussi bien littéraire, dans lequel la substance humaniste de l'architecture se traduit par la libre définition de programmes, utopies, fantaisies, narrations qui font de la feuille de papier l'image d'un livre. Au-delà des exercices d'écriture dessinées, auxquels ont eu recours Piranesi, Quarenghi, Clérisseau, Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu, Gilly, Schinkel dans un esprit pictural et littéraire à cheval entre XVIIIe et XIXe siècle, d'autres auteurs (John Ruskin, critique d'art et dessinateur hors pair, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc et Camillo Boito, architectes, théoriciens et écrivains) rédigent des manuels de dessin importants. Un appendice datant du XXe siècle termine l'ouvrage en enjoignant à la récupération du manuel dans un âge de technique.
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January 2003, Gollion
January 2003, Gollion
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The chapter titles indicate Harbison's themes, all of which bear parallel, implied, or tangential relations to architecture: Sculpture, Machines, the Body, Landscape, Models, Ideas, Politics, the Sacred, Subjectivity, and Memory. The journey through the chapters is roughly a (...)
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The chapter titles indicate Harbison's themes, all of which bear parallel, implied, or tangential relations to architecture: Sculpture, Machines, the Body, Landscape, Models, Ideas, Politics, the Sacred, Subjectivity, and Memory. The journey through the chapters is roughly a (...)
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Thirteen ways : theoretical investigations in architecture
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The chapter titles indicate Harbison's themes, all of which bear parallel, implied, or tangential relations to architecture: Sculpture, Machines, the Body, Landscape, Models, Ideas, Politics, the Sacred, Subjectivity, and Memory. The journey through the chapters is roughly a journey from the physical to the metaphysical, a journey that is at once poetic, technical, and philosophical.
Thirteen ways : theoretical investigations in architecture
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The chapter titles indicate Harbison's themes, all of which bear parallel, implied, or tangential relations to architecture: Sculpture, Machines, the Body, Landscape, Models, Ideas, Politics, the Sacred, Subjectivity, and Memory. The journey through the chapters is roughly a journey from the physical to the metaphysical, a journey that is at once poetic, technical, and philosophical.
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May 1997, Cambridge, Mass.
May 1997, Cambridge, Mass.
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Takasaki's designs combine the organic and the mythological. He describes his architecture as an "environmental being" that connects humanity with the cosmos. These philosophies manifest themselves in his(...)
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Takasaki's designs combine the organic and the mythological. He describes his architecture as an "environmental being" that connects humanity with the cosmos. These philosophies manifest themselves in his(...)
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Takasaki Masaharu : an architecture of cosmology
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Takasaki's designs combine the organic and the mythological. He describes his architecture as an "environmental being" that connects humanity with the cosmos. These philosophies manifest themselves in his use of egg-shaped forms, diffused light to create mystical interiors, and skewed columns and planes. The eight projects explored in this monograph include Crystal Light in Tokyo, Tamana City Observatory Museum in Kumamoto, Earth Architecture in Tokyo, and Kihoku-cho Astronomical Museum in Kagoshima. Each building is thoroughly described through text, photographs, and drawings.
Takasaki Masaharu : an architecture of cosmology
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Takasaki's designs combine the organic and the mythological. He describes his architecture as an "environmental being" that connects humanity with the cosmos. These philosophies manifest themselves in his use of egg-shaped forms, diffused light to create mystical interiors, and skewed columns and planes. The eight projects explored in this monograph include Crystal Light in Tokyo, Tamana City Observatory Museum in Kumamoto, Earth Architecture in Tokyo, and Kihoku-cho Astronomical Museum in Kagoshima. Each building is thoroughly described through text, photographs, and drawings.
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February 1998, New York
February 1998, New York
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Examines various architectural and urban issues raised by time increasingly spent in cyberspace. Includes CD-ROM.
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Examines various architectural and urban issues raised by time increasingly spent in cyberspace. Includes CD-ROM.
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Realspace in quicktimes: architecture and digitalization
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Examines various architectural and urban issues raised by time increasingly spent in cyberspace. Includes CD-ROM.
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Examines various architectural and urban issues raised by time increasingly spent in cyberspace. Includes CD-ROM.
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July 1996, Rotterdam
July 1996, Rotterdam
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Nowhere, Mark Wigley asserts, are the stakes higher for deconstruction than in architecture - architecture is the Achilles' heel of deconstructive discourse, the point of vulnerability upon which all of its arguments depend. By locating the architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architecture and(...)
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Nowhere, Mark Wigley asserts, are the stakes higher for deconstruction than in architecture - architecture is the Achilles' heel of deconstructive discourse, the point of vulnerability upon which all of its arguments depend. By locating the architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architecture and(...)
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The architecture of deconstruction : Derrida's haunt
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Nowhere, Mark Wigley asserts, are the stakes higher for deconstruction than in architecture - architecture is the Achilles' heel of deconstructive discourse, the point of vulnerability upon which all of its arguments depend. By locating the architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architecture and deconstruction. He tracks the tacit argument about architecture embedded within Jacques Derrida's discourse, a curious line of argument that passes through each of the philosopher's texts, provocatively turning Derrida's reading strategy back on his texts to expose the architectural dimension of their central notions like law, economy, writing, place, domestication, translation, spacing, laughter, and dance.
The architecture of deconstruction : Derrida's haunt
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Nowhere, Mark Wigley asserts, are the stakes higher for deconstruction than in architecture - architecture is the Achilles' heel of deconstructive discourse, the point of vulnerability upon which all of its arguments depend. By locating the architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architecture and deconstruction. He tracks the tacit argument about architecture embedded within Jacques Derrida's discourse, a curious line of argument that passes through each of the philosopher's texts, provocatively turning Derrida's reading strategy back on his texts to expose the architectural dimension of their central notions like law, economy, writing, place, domestication, translation, spacing, laughter, and dance.
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September 1995, Cambridge (MA)
September 1995, Cambridge (MA)
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L'ouvrage retrace l'intégralité de la carrière de Wright. Réalisé avec la Fondation Frank Lloyd Wright, l'ouvrage s'achève par un aperçu de la précieuse collection d'art asiatique de l'architecte.
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L'ouvrage retrace l'intégralité de la carrière de Wright. Réalisé avec la Fondation Frank Lloyd Wright, l'ouvrage s'achève par un aperçu de la précieuse collection d'art asiatique de l'architecte.
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Frank Lloyd Wright : maître de l'architecture américaine
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L'ouvrage retrace l'intégralité de la carrière de Wright. Réalisé avec la Fondation Frank Lloyd Wright, l'ouvrage s'achève par un aperçu de la précieuse collection d'art asiatique de l'architecte.
Frank Lloyd Wright : maître de l'architecture américaine
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L'ouvrage retrace l'intégralité de la carrière de Wright. Réalisé avec la Fondation Frank Lloyd Wright, l'ouvrage s'achève par un aperçu de la précieuse collection d'art asiatique de l'architecte.
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April 1997, Paris
April 1997, Paris
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First published over sixty years ago, Hugh Morrison's book was the definitive biography of the now-famous architect and is still the best introduction to his work. This edition includes an authoritative revision of the chronological list of buildings by Timothy J. Samuelson, with corrections of the data in light of six decades of research, by Timothy J. Samuelson.
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First published over sixty years ago, Hugh Morrison's book was the definitive biography of the now-famous architect and is still the best introduction to his work. This edition includes an authoritative revision of the chronological list of buildings by Timothy J. Samuelson, with corrections of the data in light of six decades of research, by Timothy J. Samuelson.
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Louis Sullivan : prophet of modern architecture
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First published over sixty years ago, Hugh Morrison's book was the definitive biography of the now-famous architect and is still the best introduction to his work. This edition includes an authoritative revision of the chronological list of buildings by Timothy J. Samuelson, with corrections of the data in light of six decades of research, by Timothy J. Samuelson.
Louis Sullivan : prophet of modern architecture
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First published over sixty years ago, Hugh Morrison's book was the definitive biography of the now-famous architect and is still the best introduction to his work. This edition includes an authoritative revision of the chronological list of buildings by Timothy J. Samuelson, with corrections of the data in light of six decades of research, by Timothy J. Samuelson.
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February 1998, New York
February 1998, New York
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In addition to an introductory essay by Jos Bosman, this publication contains excerpts from two theoretical projects and details of five projects currently under construction.
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In addition to an introductory essay by Jos Bosman, this publication contains excerpts from two theoretical projects and details of five projects currently under construction.
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Bernard Tschumi : architecture in/of motion
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In addition to an introductory essay by Jos Bosman, this publication contains excerpts from two theoretical projects and details of five projects currently under construction.
Bernard Tschumi : architecture in/of motion
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In addition to an introductory essay by Jos Bosman, this publication contains excerpts from two theoretical projects and details of five projects currently under construction.
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September 1997, Rotterdam
September 1997, Rotterdam
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Architecture Monographs
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