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The city of Barcelona has been known since the early twentieth century as the home of Art Nouveau. Now it has also become a centre for contemporary international architecture. This follow-up to "In Detail: Barcelona Art Nouveau" looks at the most notable buildings of the last 10 years, with detailed photographic reports on Josep Lluís Mateo’s Barcelona Convention Center,(...)
In detail : Barcelona contemporary architecture
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The city of Barcelona has been known since the early twentieth century as the home of Art Nouveau. Now it has also become a centre for contemporary international architecture. This follow-up to "In Detail: Barcelona Art Nouveau" looks at the most notable buildings of the last 10 years, with detailed photographic reports on Josep Lluís Mateo’s Barcelona Convention Center, Richard Meier’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Carles Ferrater’s Botanical Gardens and Institute, Rafael Moneo’s Barcelona Auditorium concert hall, Herzog & de Meuron’s Forum Building, Josep Llinàs’s block of buildings in the Fort Pienc neighborhood, EMBT’s Santa Caterina Market, Clotet & Paricio’s Forum-area retirement home and Jean Nouvel’s Agbar Tower.
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How can the different strands of modern architecture in Britain be understood? For many British people, it remains an alien cultural import and minority taste, yet British architecture has never stood higher in world esteem than at the close of the twentieth century. In this book Alan Powers shows how beneath today’s achievements in architecture, past conflicts have not(...)
Britain : modern architecture in history
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How can the different strands of modern architecture in Britain be understood? For many British people, it remains an alien cultural import and minority taste, yet British architecture has never stood higher in world esteem than at the close of the twentieth century. In this book Alan Powers shows how beneath today’s achievements in architecture, past conflicts have not been resolved, as the country that invented industrial civilization has struggled to control its effect on cities and countryside. He examines developments and changes from 1900 to the present day in a series of thematic chapters, giving equal weight to technical, economic and moral aspects and demonstrating how architecture has responded to specific social needs and political pressures. Rather than giving a conventional account of stylistic tendencies, Powers listens to the arguments and conversations of the time in order to recapture the dominating issues of each decade, and locate the moments of transition in architecture and in the wider culture. Featuring more than 220 images, including both recent and historical photographs, "Britain" is an authoritative yet highly accessible account of twentieth-century British architecture. Giving due regard to the separate identities of England, Scotland and Wales, the book also adds a new and original dimension to the perennial problem of defining ‘Britain’ in the modern world.
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July 2006, London
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TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in(...)
Architecture in the united states
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TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects' or firms' most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series celebrates the richly hued architectural personality of each nation featured.
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"Beyond architainment" presents buildings and projects by Holz Box Tirol architecturs, riccione architects, one room, Franz Sam, Wolfgang Feyferlik, Weichlbauer/Ortis, awg, AllesWirdGut, Popelka & Poduschka, RATAPLAN, and pool. This third volume in the series complements the first two in forming an "Austrian trilogy" that succinctly delineates the varied and profound(...)
Emerging architecture 3 : beyond architainment
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"Beyond architainment" presents buildings and projects by Holz Box Tirol architecturs, riccione architects, one room, Franz Sam, Wolfgang Feyferlik, Weichlbauer/Ortis, awg, AllesWirdGut, Popelka & Poduschka, RATAPLAN, and pool. This third volume in the series complements the first two in forming an "Austrian trilogy" that succinctly delineates the varied and profound production of a younger generation of architects working between Vienna and Vorarlberg, the Tyrol and Styria.
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The use of natural stone in international architecture has gained momentum in recent years owing to countless new buildings in Germany. These have not only been influential because they reveal the technical and constructive uses of the material, but also because they show stone as an element of architectural language. Examining current building projects of notable(...)
New stone architecture in Germany
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The use of natural stone in international architecture has gained momentum in recent years owing to countless new buildings in Germany. These have not only been influential because they reveal the technical and constructive uses of the material, but also because they show stone as an element of architectural language. Examining current building projects of notable architects including gmp, Hans Kollhoff, Ortner – Ortner, I. M. Pei, O. M. Ungers and Gesine Weinmiller, this book presents new opportunities for using natural stone in architectural and also structural contexts. The subject is documented impressively and extensively with a large number of technical drawings, detail photographs and comprehensive project data.
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What is known as the architecture of the sun has been widely and mistakenly dismissed from the point of view of architectural quality. For that reason, this publication, which gathers together a small sample of this type of architecture, is a notable contribution that offers evidence of the contrary.
La arquitectura del sol / Sunland architecture
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What is known as the architecture of the sun has been widely and mistakenly dismissed from the point of view of architectural quality. For that reason, this publication, which gathers together a small sample of this type of architecture, is a notable contribution that offers evidence of the contrary.
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October 2003, Barcelona
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Universally recognized as an architectural center, Chicago contains some of the world’s finest buildings by the most renowned architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe, and many more left their stamp on the city’s skyline and, as a result, influenced the practice of architecture across the globe. This book,(...)
Chicago architecture : 1885 to today
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Universally recognized as an architectural center, Chicago contains some of the world’s finest buildings by the most renowned architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe, and many more left their stamp on the city’s skyline and, as a result, influenced the practice of architecture across the globe. This book, published in association with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, features an in-depth analysis of forty-two seminal works of Chicago architecture. Both a guide for those visiting the city and a valuable reference for architecture enthusiasts, the publication includes residential icons such as Mies van der Rohe’s 860–880 Lake Shore Drive, skyscraper prototypes such as Sullivan’s Schlesinger and Mayer Store (Carson Pirie Scott & Co.), and engineering masterpieces such as Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Sears Tower.
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April 2008
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Cet ouvrage présente 25 bâtiments conçus et construits en Suisse par 15 architectes suisses importants : de la construction en milieu urbain à haute densité au site rural en contexte alpin. Quatre auteurs, avec un regard intérieur ou extérieur selon le cas, analysent la culture suisse de la construction. De plus, une interview détaillée de Peter Zumthor, qui présente son(...)
Sensibilité suisse : la culture de l'architecture en suisse
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Cet ouvrage présente 25 bâtiments conçus et construits en Suisse par 15 architectes suisses importants : de la construction en milieu urbain à haute densité au site rural en contexte alpin. Quatre auteurs, avec un regard intérieur ou extérieur selon le cas, analysent la culture suisse de la construction. De plus, une interview détaillée de Peter Zumthor, qui présente son approche de la conception architecturale.
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This book explores contemporary apartments not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through its most innovative 20th-century exemplars, from the urbane blocks of Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage in Paris, to the landscaped housing estates of Weimar Germany(...)
Building community: new apartment architecture
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This book explores contemporary apartments not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through its most innovative 20th-century exemplars, from the urbane blocks of Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage in Paris, to the landscaped housing estates of Weimar Germany and the visionary schemes of Le Corbusier. The heart of the book features 38 recent and ongoing projects, designed by leading international studios and rising talents. Buildings range from social housing and micro apartments to ‘vertical villages’, megastructures and luxury high-rises. Each project is considered for the way in which it enriches the lives of residents and the city, and is shown through drawings and photographs, taken from the street and within. The book also includes interviews with such contemporary masters of apartment design as Michael Maltzan, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Édouard François and Bjarke Ingels. As our cities grow more crowded, it is critical that we produce large-scale buildings that enhance the lives of their inhabitants, their surroundings and the urban environment as a whole. Building Community offers dozens of proven successes to designers and apartment-dwellers.
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Spanning from 1945 through today, the book examines Brazilian architecture beyond the works of renowned architects such as Oscar Niemeyer and the “Carioca” architects of Rio de Janeiro. Williams investigates issues such as the use of historic architecture, the importance of leisure and luxury, the role of the favela as a backdrop and inspiration for development, and the(...)
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Brazil: modern architecture in history
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Spanning from 1945 through today, the book examines Brazilian architecture beyond the works of renowned architects such as Oscar Niemeyer and the “Carioca” architects of Rio de Janeiro. Williams investigates issues such as the use of historic architecture, the importance of leisure and luxury, the role of the favela as a backdrop and inspiration for development, and the rapid growth of cities. From the designated world heritage site of Brasilia—a capital city that was planned from the ground up—to the installation work of artists such as Hélio Oiticica, Brazil delves into the origins and far-reaching influence of Brazil’s architectural modernism. Richard J. Williams teaches in the School of Arts, Culture and Environment at the University of Edinburgh.
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