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Les architectures molles, sculptées, transparentes, immatérielles prétendent se libérer des contraintes géométriques, comme si la géométrie ne revendiquait que la droite et la forme orthogonale ou le cercle ! Certains architectes s’abandonnent aux « hasards » informatiques et construisent des édifices à la géométrie chahutée par un logiciel. Des urbanistes opposent encore(...)
Géométrie mesure du monde : philosophie, architecture, urbain
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Les architectures molles, sculptées, transparentes, immatérielles prétendent se libérer des contraintes géométriques, comme si la géométrie ne revendiquait que la droite et la forme orthogonale ou le cercle ! Certains architectes s’abandonnent aux « hasards » informatiques et construisent des édifices à la géométrie chahutée par un logiciel. Des urbanistes opposent encore le plan radioconcentrique au plan en damier en ce qui concerne l’expansion des villes et, refusant d’imaginer d’autres morphologies, laissent faire la promotion immobilière, les opportunités foncières et le chacun pour soi. La géométrie, dans notre culture marquée par la philosophie grecque, est constitutive de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme. Elle est mise en débat par le jeu extraordinairement varié des formes et de leurs agencements, aussi bien que par des régulations qui donnent une mesure au monde et suscitent des questionnements quant à ce qui est à la mesure de l’existence. Depuis le simple pas jusqu’aux théories les plus sophistiquées, la géométrie – qui n’a jamais cessé de se complexifier depuis Pythagore ou Euclide – se rappelle à nous. C’est ce rappel qu’il nous faut entendre, comme une invitation à penser aussi bien notre corps que le paysage, aussi bien la maison que la ville et la cité. Cet ouvrage collectif veut questionner géométriquement et philosophiquement l’urbain contemporain et les architectures qu’il provoque. En d’autres termes, il espère saisir à partir de la confrontation entre mathématiciens, géomètres, historiens, architectes, urbanistes, paysagistes, philosophes, l’expérience existentielle de l’espace-temps des lieux.
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December 2004, Paris
Architectural Theory
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"Wang Shu Amateur Architecture Studio" is the first major book on the recent work of architect Wang Shu, Pritzker Price winner in 2012, and his wife Lu Wenyu. Together they have run Amateur Architecture Studio, based in Hangzhou, China, for nearly 20 years. At a time when China’s explosive urbanization is making inroads into rural areas and leaving the marks of cheap(...)
Wang Shu and Amateur Architecture Studio
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"Wang Shu Amateur Architecture Studio" is the first major book on the recent work of architect Wang Shu, Pritzker Price winner in 2012, and his wife Lu Wenyu. Together they have run Amateur Architecture Studio, based in Hangzhou, China, for nearly 20 years. At a time when China’s explosive urbanization is making inroads into rural areas and leaving the marks of cheap concrete construction everywhere, Amateur Architecture Studio is keen to work against this tendency by reusing materials from the buildings that Chinese authorities are systematically tearing down. Amateur Architecture Studio’s working ways successfully represent socially conscious and sustainable new architecture. Wang Shu’s architecture reveals a thoughtful attitude toward both design and implementation, as well as the ability to react flexibly to the surroundings and history of a particular site. At heart, it comes down to preserving Chinese building customs and local awareness of material in a nation that is fast losing its building culture. The studio’s projects inhabit a fascinating field between allusions to traditional Chinese culture and large-scale modern architecture. This book is published on the occasion of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art exhibition in 2017 of Wang Shu and Amateur Architecture Studio’s work. Featuring a wealth of images by architecture photographer Iwan Baan this is a detailed and reflective guide to Amateur Architecture Studio’s projects, philosophy and methodology
Architecture Monographs
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Each year the Wouter Mikmak Foundation invites a designer to lecture for the series ‘Designers of the Future’. This publication presents that of the Tokyo-based office Atelier Bow-Wow, founded in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima. Their vision calls for a shift in architectural design from individuality based to commonality based, through the notion of(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2016
Atelier Bow-Wow: commonalities of architecture
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Each year the Wouter Mikmak Foundation invites a designer to lecture for the series ‘Designers of the Future’. This publication presents that of the Tokyo-based office Atelier Bow-Wow, founded in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima. Their vision calls for a shift in architectural design from individuality based to commonality based, through the notion of architectural ‘behaviorology’. Behaviour in this sense is an inclusive term that not only denotes human practice, but also a building’s behaviour as material typology, as well as phenomena produced by natural elements like light, air, heat, and water. An architecture based on commonalities is key to their discussion.
Architecture Monographs
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Ce guide offre un regard neuf sur l'architecture contemporaine de Montréal : soixante-quinze projets novateurs, bien conçus, qui ont transformé le paysage urbain. La résurgence architecturale qu'a connue Montréal au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années a engendré un patrimoine bâti qui comprend aussi bien des établissements culturels d'envergure que des maisons inscrites(...)
Guide de l'architecture contemporaine de Montréal, deuxième edition
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Ce guide offre un regard neuf sur l'architecture contemporaine de Montréal : soixante-quinze projets novateurs, bien conçus, qui ont transformé le paysage urbain. La résurgence architecturale qu'a connue Montréal au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années a engendré un patrimoine bâti qui comprend aussi bien des établissements culturels d'envergure que des maisons inscrites dans la trame urbaine. Ce guide décrit une sélection de ces bâtiments et espaces publics au moyen de courts textes, de photos et de dessins.
Architecture de Montréal
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The laws of thermodynamics—and their implications for architecture—have not been fully integrated into architectural design. Architecture and building science too often remain constrained by linear concepts and methodologies regarding energy that occlude significant quantities and qualities of energy. This publication addresses this situation by providing a clear overview(...)
The hierarchy of energy in architecture
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The laws of thermodynamics—and their implications for architecture—have not been fully integrated into architectural design. Architecture and building science too often remain constrained by linear concepts and methodologies regarding energy that occlude significant quantities and qualities of energy. This publication addresses this situation by providing a clear overview of what energy is and what architects can do with it. Building on the emergy method pioneered by systems ecologist Howard T. Odum, the authors situate the energy practices of architecture within the hierarchies of energy and the thermodynamics of the large, non-equilibrium, non-linear energy systems that drive buildings, cities, the planet and universe.
Green Architecture
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L'architecture est à la mode, et pourtant elle n'a jamais autant manqué à notre culture commune. A l'heure où des objets architecturaux spectaculaires mais coupés de la vie sociale semblent l'emporter sur le rêve collectif, La pensée de midi a convié architectes, urbanistes, paysagistes, designers, historiens et écrivains à faire le point sur notre manière d'habiter le(...)
La pensée de midi no. 18 : vivre l'architecture
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L'architecture est à la mode, et pourtant elle n'a jamais autant manqué à notre culture commune. A l'heure où des objets architecturaux spectaculaires mais coupés de la vie sociale semblent l'emporter sur le rêve collectif, La pensée de midi a convié architectes, urbanistes, paysagistes, designers, historiens et écrivains à faire le point sur notre manière d'habiter le monde, singulièrement en Méditerranée. Un dossier pour réinventer d'autres façons de vivre ensemble dans l'espace urbain.
Architectural Theory
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers. These show that the modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological post-modernism; a high-tech and sculptural late modernism, and deconstructive, subversive new modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James(...)
Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers. These show that the modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological post-modernism; a high-tech and sculptural late modernism, and deconstructive, subversive new modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Colin Rowe, Christopher Alexander, Frank Gehry, Reyner Banham, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas and many others who have changed the discourse of architecture. Here also are the anti-modern texts of the traditionalists - Leon Krier, Demetri Porphyrios, Quinlan Terry, Prince Charles and others. Many of these texts are concise, edited versions of influential books. Reprinted in 2003.
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September 1997, London
Architectural Theory
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The second in a series, Portraits of the New Architecture 2 introduces thirty-two contemporary architects and architectural firms, including David Adjaye, Asymptote, Tatiana Bilbao, Annabelle Selldorf, and Dominique Perrault. This volume features Richard Schulman’s architect portraits and photographs of the architects’ projects, as well as sketches and designs, and an(...)
Contemporary Architecture
November 2015
Portraits of the new architecture 2
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The second in a series, Portraits of the New Architecture 2 introduces thirty-two contemporary architects and architectural firms, including David Adjaye, Asymptote, Tatiana Bilbao, Annabelle Selldorf, and Dominique Perrault. This volume features Richard Schulman’s architect portraits and photographs of the architects’ projects, as well as sketches and designs, and an introduction by critic Paul Goldberger.
Contemporary Architecture
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Gio Ponti - architect, designer, art director, writer, poet, professor, and critic - was one of the most renowned protagonists of Italian architecture and design in the 20th century. Forty years after his death, the Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI) in Rome is dedicating a major retrospective to this exceptional figure. Beginning with his architecture,(...)
Architecture Monographs
February 2020
Gio Ponti: Loving architecture / Amare l'architettura
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Gio Ponti - architect, designer, art director, writer, poet, professor, and critic - was one of the most renowned protagonists of Italian architecture and design in the 20th century. Forty years after his death, the Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI) in Rome is dedicating a major retrospective to this exceptional figure. Beginning with his architecture, which can be charaterised as a unique and original synthesis of tradition and modernity, history and design, elite culture and everyday life, the show explores his many-faceted talent, selecting projects that concretely illustrate the key concepts found throughout his architecture and design work. Included here are archival materials, models, photographs, books, magazines and objects which illustrate the many achievements of his six decade career.
Architecture Monographs
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Ce livre revient sur les formes que prennent les pédagogies en architecture en France, mais aussi en Amérique du Nord, Amérique du Sud, Moyen-Orient, et au Japon, dans les années 1960-1970, au moment où différents facteurs contribuent à légitimer des changements de paradigmes de l’architecture. Il permet d’envisager ce moment historique de bascule, d’élan et de très(...)
Architecture 68 : panorama international des renouveaux pédagogiques
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Ce livre revient sur les formes que prennent les pédagogies en architecture en France, mais aussi en Amérique du Nord, Amérique du Sud, Moyen-Orient, et au Japon, dans les années 1960-1970, au moment où différents facteurs contribuent à légitimer des changements de paradigmes de l’architecture. Il permet d’envisager ce moment historique de bascule, d’élan et de très grande créativité dans toute sa contemporanéité.
Architectural Theory