Architectures : art brut
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Plus de 250 œuvres issues exclusivement du fonds exceptionnel de la collection de l’Art Brut a Lausanne. Des peintures, dessins, sculptures, collages et assemblages réalisés par de cinquante-deux créateurs réunis à travers une thématique commune. De la réalité à l’utopie, les auteurs d’Art Brut conçoivent des architectures en résonnance avec leur quotidien ou leurs(...)
Architectures : art brut
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Plus de 250 œuvres issues exclusivement du fonds exceptionnel de la collection de l’Art Brut a Lausanne. Des peintures, dessins, sculptures, collages et assemblages réalisés par de cinquante-deux créateurs réunis à travers une thématique commune. De la réalité à l’utopie, les auteurs d’Art Brut conçoivent des architectures en résonnance avec leur quotidien ou leurs souvenirs, réorganisant l’espace qui les entoure selon leurs propres règles et besoins. Leur imagination et leur inventivité les emportent vers des contrées lointaines et inexplorées. Cependant, la vision de l’architecture qui est proposée ici par les créateurs d’Art Brut prend une nouvelle dimension échappant totalement aux considérations liées à sa pratique. Architectures est le deuxième volume de la séries publiée par 5 Continents après Véhicules sortie en 2014.
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Siegfried Kracauer’s texts are a widely investigated field of sociology and media studies. It is less well known that Kracauer was a graduate architect, practised during World War I and was awarded his PhD after writing a thesis in 1915 in the field of architectural history. After the war, Kracauer published numerous critiques with a special focus on the architectural(...)
Architectural Theory
December 2022
Kracauer's Architecture : The ornamental nature of the new capitalist order
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Siegfried Kracauer’s texts are a widely investigated field of sociology and media studies. It is less well known that Kracauer was a graduate architect, practised during World War I and was awarded his PhD after writing a thesis in 1915 in the field of architectural history. After the war, Kracauer published numerous critiques with a special focus on the architectural developments of the time. They document an interest in architectural phenomena ranging from a reflection on his own experiences to a general perspective on the subjectivity of the modern architect, as well as more universal social phenomena. In essence, this essay claims that the lack of ornamentation in modern architecture can be grasped as an ornamental concept of the new social order of capitalism.
Architectural Theory
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As part of the 2019 Biennale d’architecture et de paysage in Versailles, France, MOS constructed Petite École, a small, open-air pavilion to house educational workshops for children. It is a place for looking and making, and for making and looking, constructed with 688 aluminum pieces modeled, flattened, cut, folded, prefabricated, shipped, and then assembled onsite. It(...)
March 2023
MOS: A book on making a Petite École
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As part of the 2019 Biennale d’architecture et de paysage in Versailles, France, MOS constructed Petite École, a small, open-air pavilion to house educational workshops for children. It is a place for looking and making, and for making and looking, constructed with 688 aluminum pieces modeled, flattened, cut, folded, prefabricated, shipped, and then assembled onsite. It is made to be taken down and reassembled elsewhere. It is designed to be easily understood, made of simple building elements: a long, low roof with columns and stacked beams holding it up. Undertaken during various design workshops, single page design exercises written by architects were assembled into a large book and given to children. "A Book on Making a Petite École" features an expanded collection of these exercises. Each exercise includes playful illustrations of its steps, starting a conversation about how designers look at, think about, teach, and imagine the foundations of design.
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This book contains over 5,000 entries from Aalto to ziggurat. Illustrated and written in a clear and concise style, it covers all periods of Western architectural history, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of leading architects, from Brunelleschi and Imhotep to Le Corbusier and Richard Rogers. The text is complimented by over 250(...)
Dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture, second edition
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This book contains over 5,000 entries from Aalto to ziggurat. Illustrated and written in a clear and concise style, it covers all periods of Western architectural history, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of leading architects, from Brunelleschi and Imhotep to Le Corbusier and Richard Rogers. The text is complimented by over 250 line drawings, labelled cross-sections and diagrams. New entries include definitions of landscape terms, and biographies of modern architects. Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading. It also contains over 50 new illustrations.
Dictionaries
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Directed by Paolo Portoghesi, the Second Venice Architecture Biennale raised questions about a postmodernity through realms extending south and east from the Mediterranean, where modernity and decolonisation were converging. Translated here for the first time for an English-speaking audience are selected texts by Mehdi Kowsar, Udo Kultermann, and Portoghesi from the(...)
Architecture in Islamic Countries: Selections from the catalogue for the second International Exhibition of Architecture Venice 1982/83
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Directed by Paolo Portoghesi, the Second Venice Architecture Biennale raised questions about a postmodernity through realms extending south and east from the Mediterranean, where modernity and decolonisation were converging. Translated here for the first time for an English-speaking audience are selected texts by Mehdi Kowsar, Udo Kultermann, and Portoghesi from the original exhibition catalogue, accompanied by additional commentary. Furthermore, Esra Akcan reflects on the historical and socio-political contexts of the exhibition, while Asli Çiçek and Véronique Patteeuw consider the catalogue itself from the perspective of architectural history.
Contemporary Architecture
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Hollywood is not only the secret world capital of dreams and the fictions of the subconscious, but also the capital of architecture. Hollywood is the Rome and the Versailles of the 20th and 21st centuries. A new awareness of space spanning the entire world was created here. These backgrounds, stage sets and filmic spaces are indelibly fixed in every spectator's mind.
Learning from Hollywood: Architecture and film
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Hollywood is not only the secret world capital of dreams and the fictions of the subconscious, but also the capital of architecture. Hollywood is the Rome and the Versailles of the 20th and 21st centuries. A new awareness of space spanning the entire world was created here. These backgrounds, stage sets and filmic spaces are indelibly fixed in every spectator's mind.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Vivere l'Architettura, is a photographic journey across contemporary architecture and unusual Roman town-planning sets, written and filmed between 2007 and 2010, and broadcasted by the TV station "Roma Uno": The modern and contemporary city with its new middle and working-class suburbs, the schools and the universities, the work, trade and leisure places have their(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
February 2012
Roma : living in contemporary architecture
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Vivere l'Architettura, is a photographic journey across contemporary architecture and unusual Roman town-planning sets, written and filmed between 2007 and 2010, and broadcasted by the TV station "Roma Uno": The modern and contemporary city with its new middle and working-class suburbs, the schools and the universities, the work, trade and leisure places have their presence in this richly illustrated book. Historical sites are not featured in here but the most recent architecture from the last 50 years, including the recent art museum by Zaha Hadid, MAXXI.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Architecture built for the purpose of living out a fantasy or for pure pleasure is multiplying at a breathtaking pace. The Mall of America, Dubai's The Palm, and Brandenburg's Tropical Island are all examples of architecture that do not fit into the traditional realm of buildings and function. Dream Worlds traces the idea of architecture and entertainment from its(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 1900, Munich / London
Dream worlds : architecture and entertainment
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Architecture built for the purpose of living out a fantasy or for pure pleasure is multiplying at a breathtaking pace. The Mall of America, Dubai's The Palm, and Brandenburg's Tropical Island are all examples of architecture that do not fit into the traditional realm of buildings and function. Dream Worlds traces the idea of architecture and entertainment from its earliest incarnations, such as the Colosseum, to the late twentieth century, when examples of "architainment" have proliferated. It examines the post-modern desire for escapism and considers the future of this trend. Florian Holzherr's photographs capture each site as architectural structure, while complementary photographs by the author illustrate the sites in daily use.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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I. M. Pei (1917–2019) was one of the world's most influential architects. Born and raised in China, Pei trained and worked in the United States, establishing a practice that spanned seven decades and multiple continents. His legacy includes the realization of some of the most high-profile projects of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from the(...)
October 2024
I. M. Pei: Life is architecture
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I. M. Pei (1917–2019) was one of the world's most influential architects. Born and raised in China, Pei trained and worked in the United States, establishing a practice that spanned seven decades and multiple continents. His legacy includes the realization of some of the most high-profile projects of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from the modernization of the Louvre in Paris to the design of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. Going beyond the usual building-by-building format of most architectural monographs, "I. M. Pei: Life is architecture" is organized thematically, exploring Pei's life and work through six topics that were central to his unique approach to architecture: transcultural identity, urban redevelopment, art and civic form, material and structural innovation, politics and patronage, and regenerating cultural and historical archetypes. Bringing together previously unpublished archival materials, specially commissioned essays, new photography, and personal contributions from those who knew and worked with Pei, this book presents both celebrated and lesser-known aspects of the architect's life and career while solidifying his position in architectural history and popular culture.
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Works by : Actar Arquitectura, njiric + njiric, Neutelings Riedjik Architekten bv, NL Architects, Périfériques, IaN+, WMA Willy Muller Arquitectos, and many others.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
January 1900, Barcelone
Opop! : operative optimism in architecture
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Works by : Actar Arquitectura, njiric + njiric, Neutelings Riedjik Architekten bv, NL Architects, Périfériques, IaN+, WMA Willy Muller Arquitectos, and many others.
Architecture since 1900, Europe