Paysage, lieu et temps
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«Lorsque nous détruisons un paysage nous sommes un peu plus perdus, car notre rapport au temps, et donc avec nous-mêmes, s’en trouve appauvri et comme effiloché» affirme le poète-écrivain Giorgio Todde. Face à une société effrénée où tout le monde veut gagner du temps, alors que le réel défi consisterait à gagner un autre rapport au temps, cet ouvrage tente de calmer le(...)
Paysage, lieu et temps
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«Lorsque nous détruisons un paysage nous sommes un peu plus perdus, car notre rapport au temps, et donc avec nous-mêmes, s’en trouve appauvri et comme effiloché» affirme le poète-écrivain Giorgio Todde. Face à une société effrénée où tout le monde veut gagner du temps, alors que le réel défi consisterait à gagner un autre rapport au temps, cet ouvrage tente de calmer le jeu en repositionnant les fondements d’une pensée de l’espace développée à partir du paysage et de son architecture. Dans ce contexte, l’auteur tisse des échanges privilégiés avec les travaux de l’Agence Latz+Partner. Temps et histoire, corps et tactilité, lieu et parcours, matériaux et restes, sol et profondeur, accueil et ouverture, seuils et limites ainsi qu’avenir du paysage postindustriel sont autant de thématiques alimentant une réflexion autour de cette pensée de l’espace et du projet. Cette approche spécifique prend ses distances du chant des sirènes et des éblouissements passagers qui nous guettent à tout moment. S’opposant à l’effilochement regretté par Todde, les points d’ancrage proposés dans cet ouvrage permettent d’appréhender les forces qui agissent sur l’espace des hommes et concourent à sa transformation. L’auteur montre par cet essai qu’il appartient au groupe restreint de ceux qui écrivent à la fois sur le paysage et sur l’architecture, et dont les réflexions contribuent au nécessaire rapprochement des deux versants d’une même pensée.
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The care manifesto
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''The care manifesto'' puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care--childcare, healthcare, elder care--to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way. ''The care manifesto'' puts forth a vision for a truly caring world. The authors want to reimagine the role of care(...)
The care manifesto
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''The care manifesto'' puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care--childcare, healthcare, elder care--to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way. ''The care manifesto'' puts forth a vision for a truly caring world. The authors want to reimagine the role of care in our everyday lives, making it the organising principle in every dimension and at every scale of life. We are all dependent on each other, and only by nurturing these interdependencies can we cultivate a world in which each and every one of us can not only live but thrive. ''The care manifesto'' demands that we must put care at the heart of the state and the economy. A caring government must promote collective joy, not the satisfaction of individual desire. This means the transformation of how we organise work through co-operatives, localism and nationalisation. It proposes the expansion of our understanding of kinship for a more 'promiscuous care'. It calls for caring places through the reclamation of public space, to make a more convivial city. It sets out an agenda for the environment, most urgent of all, putting care at the centre of our relationship to the natural world.
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Throughout the twentieth century, architects in Italy have attempted to define the role of architecture under diverse political systems, from the monarchy of the first seventy years since Italian unification, to the 21 years of Fascist control, to the post-Second World War parliamentary republic. At the same time, Italy holds some of the most prized architecture and art(...)
Italy
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Throughout the twentieth century, architects in Italy have attempted to define the role of architecture under diverse political systems, from the monarchy of the first seventy years since Italian unification, to the 21 years of Fascist control, to the post-Second World War parliamentary republic. At the same time, Italy holds some of the most prized architecture and art in the world, from antiquity to the baroque, packed into its dense historic city centres, which planners and politicians have negotiated as they struggled to cope with massive migration from the countryside to the city. Diane Ghirardo addresses these and other issues by considering modern architectural production in Italy from the late nineteenth century to the present day within a clear presentation of the larger historical, social and political contexts. From the post-unification efforts to identify a distinctly Italian architectural language to the transformation of the urban environment in Italian cities undergoing industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Diane Ghirardo challenges received interpretations of modern architecture, as well as focusing on the subject of illegal building and responses to current ecological challenges. With up-to-date examples, both from the work of widely published architects in the largest cities and from throughout the peninsula, including small towns and rural areas, Italy provides a comprehensive view of the country’s modern built environment.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Après l'Art Nouveau et l'Art Déco, est fondée en 1929 l'U.A.M. (Union des Artistes modernes) qui réunit tous les grands créateurs de l'époque. L' « équipement » moderne se substitue à l'ornementation des salons décorés de « bibelots ». Il s'agit à présent de « désencombrer » l'espace intérieur.. A travers une quinzaine d'essais d'historiens de l'art, ce catalogue explore(...)
Intérieurs modernes 1920-1930
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Après l'Art Nouveau et l'Art Déco, est fondée en 1929 l'U.A.M. (Union des Artistes modernes) qui réunit tous les grands créateurs de l'époque. L' « équipement » moderne se substitue à l'ornementation des salons décorés de « bibelots ». Il s'agit à présent de « désencombrer » l'espace intérieur.. A travers une quinzaine d'essais d'historiens de l'art, ce catalogue explore toutes les facettes de l'intérieur moderne en France dans les années 1920-1930 : son héritage des arts décoratifs, son articulation avec les avant-gardes internationales, tel que le Bauhaus ; sa dimension syncrétique impliquant toutes les dimensions de la création ; l'esthétique de la machine et les métaphores de la modernité tel que le paquebot ; la nature comme artifice décoratif. Trois créations architecturales majeures sont également analysées : la villa Noailles de Robert Mallet-Stevens, la Maison de Verre de Pierre Chareau et la villa E-1027 d'Eileen Gray. Enfin, entre design et mode, la mise en mouvement des corps redessine également une nouvelle figure de la femme moderne, aux avant-postes de la création. La transformation de l'espace intérieur trouvera également dans le cinéma un dispositif d'exposition et un outil de communication privilégié de ces changements de paradigme dans la perception de l'intérieur. Le catalogue qui explore une décennie de design met en avant la richesse de la collection du Musée national d'art moderne qui prête l'essentiel des œuvres et des objets de l'exposition.
Design, Periods and Styles
La Fábrica, Ricardo Bofill
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La Fábrica is one of Ricardo Bofill’s most iconoclastic creations. A former cement factory on the outskirts of Barcelona, serendipitously discovered while driving, the building became the centre of the late Catalan architect’s life, serving both as his home and as the headquarters of his practice since 1973. Here, Ricardo created a world of his own, exposing the concrete(...)
La Fábrica, Ricardo Bofill
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La Fábrica is one of Ricardo Bofill’s most iconoclastic creations. A former cement factory on the outskirts of Barcelona, serendipitously discovered while driving, the building became the centre of the late Catalan architect’s life, serving both as his home and as the headquarters of his practice since 1973. Here, Ricardo created a world of his own, exposing the concrete forms from beneath years of dust and smoke, encouraging nature back onto the structure, and fine-tuning the balance between its monumental scale and a delicate, human sensibility, in one of the earliest examples of the reuse of an industrial building—and it’s still changing. This new edition expands on the book originally published in 2018, featuring exclusive archival imagery courtesy of RBTA and an expansive selection of photographs taken by Nacho Alegre on his visits to La Fábrica over the last decade. He returned in November 2022 to document the building in its current state, closing the book with 32 pages of otherwise unseen images—a portrait of Ricardo’s most cherished work at a moment of profound transformation. With an introduction by Pablo Bofill, the book also features an interview with Ricardo himself by Barcelona-based architects Arquitectura-G and Guillermo López, an extended version of the conversation originally published in issue #11 of Apartamento magazine.
Architecture Monographs
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This publication illuminates the dynamic relationship between the visual media, particularly film and theater, and the planning and development of cities in China and Taiwan, from the emergence of the People’s Republic in 1949 to the staging of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Yomi Braester argues that the transformation of Chinese cities in recent decades is a result not(...)
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Painting the city red : Chinese cinema and the urban contract
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This publication illuminates the dynamic relationship between the visual media, particularly film and theater, and the planning and development of cities in China and Taiwan, from the emergence of the People’s Republic in 1949 to the staging of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Yomi Braester argues that the transformation of Chinese cities in recent decades is a result not only of China’s abandonment of Maoist economic planning in favor of capitalist globalization but also of a shift in visual practices. Rather than simply reflect urban culture, movies and stage dramas have facilitated the development of new perceptions of space and time, representing the future city variously as an ideal socialist city, a metropolis integrated into the global economy, and a site for preserving cultural heritage. Drawing on extensive archival research, interviews with leading filmmakers and urban planners, and close readings of scripts and images, Braester describes how films and stage plays have promoted and opposed official urban plans and policies as they have addressed issues such as demolition-and-relocation plans, the preservation of vernacular architecture, and the global real estate market. He shows how the cinematic rewriting of historical narratives has accompanied the spatial reorganization of specific urban sites, including Nanjing Road in Shanghai; veterans’ villages in Taipei; and Tiananmen Square, centuries-old courtyards, and postmodern architectural landmarks in Beijing.
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87 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm
Los Angeles, CA : Inventory Press ; Waltham, MA : Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, [2018], New York, NY : Artbook D.A.P, ©2018
I must recompose the environment / Louise Nevelson.
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87 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm
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Los Angeles, CA : Inventory Press ; Waltham, MA : Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, [2018], New York, NY : Artbook D.A.P, ©2018
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160 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm
New York : Rizzoli : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Michele Saee : buildings + projects / introduction by Thom Mayne ; essays by Aris Janigian, Frédéric Migayrou, and Michele Saee.
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160 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm
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New York : Rizzoli : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1997.
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x, 261 pages ; 22 cm
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
Dreams of peace and freedom : utopian moments in the twentieth century / Jay Winter.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
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181 pages : principalement des illustrations en couleur ; 28 cm
[Alma, Québec] : SAGAMIE ; [Gatineau, Québec] : Axenéo7, [2024]
Yann Pocreau : les épreuves élémentaires = elementary proofs / Gaëlle Morel, Olivier Hernandez, Jean-Michel Quirion.
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[Alma, Québec] : SAGAMIE ; [Gatineau, Québec] : Axenéo7, [2024]