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This book presents projects that have been developed since the last comprehensive catalog Valerio Olgiati (first edition published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2008). They are planned, built or projects under construction from the period between 2009 and 2017. The order in which the projects apprear in the book corresponds to the chronology of the degign(...)
Valerio Olgiati, Projects 2009-2017
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This book presents projects that have been developed since the last comprehensive catalog Valerio Olgiati (first edition published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2008). They are planned, built or projects under construction from the period between 2009 and 2017. The order in which the projects apprear in the book corresponds to the chronology of the degign date. All of the plans in the book are full-scale and are shown with dimensional lines. They are based on precise technical plans and backed with textures. They are detailed and contain all the information necessary to understand a building spatially and functionally.
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Lothar Gotz: Line Drawings
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Best known for his large-scale wall paintings and installations, London-based contemporary German painter Lothar Götz's drawings now lie at the center of his practice and are an important resource for his wall paintings and installations. Built up of layers of juxtaposing colors, the drawings engage ideas of space and abstraction. This monograph assembles a selection(...)
Lothar Gotz: Line Drawings
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Best known for his large-scale wall paintings and installations, London-based contemporary German painter Lothar Götz's drawings now lie at the center of his practice and are an important resource for his wall paintings and installations. Built up of layers of juxtaposing colors, the drawings engage ideas of space and abstraction. This monograph assembles a selection of dense compositions on painted card and board made between 2009 and 2014 in which Götz explores the impact of thin pencil lines or varying colors and intensity on surfaces.
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A.MAG 16 : elemental
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In its architectural practice, Elemental responds to an awareness of the intervention context, the socio-cultural and economic dimension, and the recognition of the necessities and eventual deficiencies present. Examining the elementary way this Chilean collective approaches subjects is the focus of this issue. Developing works of very different scales, from individual(...)
A.MAG 16 : elemental
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In its architectural practice, Elemental responds to an awareness of the intervention context, the socio-cultural and economic dimension, and the recognition of the necessities and eventual deficiencies present. Examining the elementary way this Chilean collective approaches subjects is the focus of this issue. Developing works of very different scales, from individual dwellings to intervention studies at the urban scale, or even provincial planning, founder and Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Aravena and his team clearly have their origins in South American architecture, yet also show an increasingly socially-engaged and global dimension: simplicity, perpetuality, efficiency, and utility.
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New challenges on a global scale have forced a rethinking about the way homes and communities are designed. This book provides an engaging and in-depth analysis of possible solutions, providing hope for the future. Broadly speaking these challenges came in three ways: environmental, social, and economic. The challenges posed by climate change demand urgent consideration(...)
Future homes: Sustainable innovative designs
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New challenges on a global scale have forced a rethinking about the way homes and communities are designed. This book provides an engaging and in-depth analysis of possible solutions, providing hope for the future. Broadly speaking these challenges came in three ways: environmental, social, and economic. The challenges posed by climate change demand urgent consideration and response. But a change in methodology and the ingenious employment of technological advances offers solutions to these challenges. It provides important examples of ways to meet the global challenges by using innovative concepts and practices, leading to a transformation of how residences will appear in the years to come.
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Alexander Calder: trees
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Alexander Calder (1898–1976) famously transposed modernist visual abstraction into three-dimensional space, initially doing so in the context of European abstract artists such as Mondrian. In 1933, leaving Paris for his native United States, he settled in an old farmhouse in Roxbury, Connecticut, where the forms of nature became a new source of inspiration for his(...)
Alexander Calder: trees
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Alexander Calder (1898–1976) famously transposed modernist visual abstraction into three-dimensional space, initially doing so in the context of European abstract artists such as Mondrian. In 1933, leaving Paris for his native United States, he settled in an old farmhouse in Roxbury, Connecticut, where the forms of nature became a new source of inspiration for his creativity. By the summer of 1934, Calder was producing his first outdoor sculptures. His monumental standing mobile "The Tree" (1966) exemplifies this new tension between abstraction and figuration. This volume, published for an exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, tracks Calder’s evolution away from geometric abstraction and toward large-scale biomorphism via the tree motif.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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An illustrated chronicle of projects organized by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in collaboration with Elastic City, this volume contains interviews with Todd Shalom and Hayal Pozanti, who assemble new shapes from Manhattan's West Village streetscape; Greta Hansen, Kyung Jae Kim, and Adam Koogler, who host spontaneous(...)
Group efforts: changing public space
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An illustrated chronicle of projects organized by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in collaboration with Elastic City, this volume contains interviews with Todd Shalom and Hayal Pozanti, who assemble new shapes from Manhattan's West Village streetscape; Greta Hansen, Kyung Jae Kim, and Adam Koogler, who host spontaneous political forums in a pavilion built with plastic and blown air; and Karen Finley, who détourns Columbus Circle into an urban-scale mandala of resistance, reparation, and discovery.
Public Space
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Presented by ETH Studio Jan De Vylder, Carrousel Confessions Confusion is a series revealing both the authors’ personal interests and the studio’s own pursuits in the form of confessions. This instalment invites Adam Caruso, who established Caruso St John Architects with Peter St John in 1990. Since then, the practice has built throughout Europe, with projects ranging in(...)
Architecture de Montréal
June 2023
Adam Caruso: Mount Royal. Carousel confessions.
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Presented by ETH Studio Jan De Vylder, Carrousel Confessions Confusion is a series revealing both the authors’ personal interests and the studio’s own pursuits in the form of confessions. This instalment invites Adam Caruso, who established Caruso St John Architects with Peter St John in 1990. Since then, the practice has built throughout Europe, with projects ranging in scale from major urban developments and cultural venues to interventions in complex historic settings. Caruso reflects on his experiences growing up in Montreal and visiting Mount Royal every week with his family, the mountain located directly west of downtown and one of the city’s largest greenspaces.
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An ecotopian lexicon
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As the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable, a cultural revolution must ultimately match progress in the realms of policy, infrastructure, and technology. Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts to describe or respond to our environmental crisis, ''An ecotopian lexicon'' is a collaborative volume of short,(...)
Environment and environmental theory
October 2019
An ecotopian lexicon
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As the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable, a cultural revolution must ultimately match progress in the realms of policy, infrastructure, and technology. Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts to describe or respond to our environmental crisis, ''An ecotopian lexicon'' is a collaborative volume of short, engaging essays that offer ecologically productive terms—drawn from other languages, science fiction, and subcultures of resistance—to envision and inspire responses and alternatives to fossil-fueled neoliberal capitalism.
Environment and environmental theory
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The book discusses and analyzes this concept in detail, presenting trueto- scale floor plans, cross-sections, architectural views, and other information. The Monospace concept which is based on a process of creative reduction down to essentials, i.e. simplexity is adaptive rather than normative or prescriptive, and based on probabilities rather than determinism. It(...)
Brunet Saunier Architecture: monospace and simplexity
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The book discusses and analyzes this concept in detail, presenting trueto- scale floor plans, cross-sections, architectural views, and other information. The Monospace concept which is based on a process of creative reduction down to essentials, i.e. simplexity is adaptive rather than normative or prescriptive, and based on probabilities rather than determinism. It respects energy, even when it sometimes uses it. It takes the individual s experience into account, and starts from the position of the subject. It also permits changing perspectives.
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Thomas Schütte : houses
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Düsseldorf-based artist Thomas Schütte first came to prominence in the 1980s with his drawings, watercolors, stage sets and architectural models. Schütte’s first forays into imaginary or utopian architecture were scale models of rooms in which one might live and work. After a gap of 20 years, Schütte returned to the architectural model, producing light pavilions out of(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
February 2013
Thomas Schütte : houses
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Düsseldorf-based artist Thomas Schütte first came to prominence in the 1980s with his drawings, watercolors, stage sets and architectural models. Schütte’s first forays into imaginary or utopian architecture were scale models of rooms in which one might live and work. After a gap of 20 years, Schütte returned to the architectural model, producing light pavilions out of wood and studio leftovers, as well as commercial and public buildings. Houses provides a comprehensive survey of Schütte’s architectural models, from his early experiments through to his current design projects.
Contemporary Art Monographs