Quartier Ecoparc Bauart #2
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Expérience en tous points comparable aux meilleurs exemples internationaux actuels de quartiers durables, comme BedZED à Londres ou Vauban à Fribourgen-Brisgau, le quartier Ecoparc développé à Neuchâtel par le bureau Bauart se profile comme un modèle de régénération d’une friche ferroviaire. Lors de la mise en service de la Tour de l’Office fédéral de la statistique en(...)
Quartier Ecoparc Bauart #2
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Expérience en tous points comparable aux meilleurs exemples internationaux actuels de quartiers durables, comme BedZED à Londres ou Vauban à Fribourgen-Brisgau, le quartier Ecoparc développé à Neuchâtel par le bureau Bauart se profile comme un modèle de régénération d’une friche ferroviaire. Lors de la mise en service de la Tour de l’Office fédéral de la statistique en 2004, un premier livre por tant sur le quartier Ecoparc a été publié. La réalisation des logements et des écoles cantonales (Conservatoire de Musique et Haute école de gestion) dans la partie est du site a généré le projet de publier un nouvel ouvrage.
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Book of cities
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This facsimile edition of Ventura’s original book, first published in 1975, provides a colorful, educational, and unique tour of major world cities. Delight in each city as you look for the London policeman holding up traffic, children shoveling the heavy snow of the side streets in Moscow, clerks waiting on customers in a huge Parisian department store, or the steam(...)
Book of cities
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This facsimile edition of Ventura’s original book, first published in 1975, provides a colorful, educational, and unique tour of major world cities. Delight in each city as you look for the London policeman holding up traffic, children shoveling the heavy snow of the side streets in Moscow, clerks waiting on customers in a huge Parisian department store, or the steam rising from the Chinese food cooking on a tiny houseboat in Hong Kong. The finely drawn illustrations and humorous details are a celebration of the many ways people live, work, travel, and have fun in the major cities of the world.
Children's Books
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This exceedingly seductive volume documents "Katharina prospekt : the Russians", a tour de force exhibition put together by the innovative Belgian fashion house, A.F. Vandevorst, of Russian cultural artifacts borrowed from the State Historical Museum in Moscow, coupled with contemporary fashion designs by A.F. Vandevorst and others - including Yves Saint Laurent, Bless,(...)
Fashion Design
July 2007, Brussels, Moscow
Katharina prospekt : the Russians by A.F. Vandevorst
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This exceedingly seductive volume documents "Katharina prospekt : the Russians", a tour de force exhibition put together by the innovative Belgian fashion house, A.F. Vandevorst, of Russian cultural artifacts borrowed from the State Historical Museum in Moscow, coupled with contemporary fashion designs by A.F. Vandevorst and others - including Yves Saint Laurent, Bless, Martin Margiela and Jean-Paul Gaultier. There are sections on Propaganda, Military Design, Fur, Chess and even the iconic Russian dolls that fit one inside another. The bold typography riffs on Constructivist design, and we see antique objects, artifacts, textiles and costumes alongside vintage photographs and contemporary fashion design.
Fashion Design
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Jean-Marc Lamunière est un architecte suisse de renommée internationale. Dès 1967, il enseigne périodiquement à l’université de Pennsylvanie à Philadelphie. Il est ensuite professeur à l’École polytechnique de Zurich et à celle de Lausanne où il fonde et dirige l’Institut de Théorie et d’Histoire de l’Architecture. Cet essai propose un tour d’horizon de ce qui s’est fait(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
December 2006, Paris
L'architecture à Genève 1976-2000
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Jean-Marc Lamunière est un architecte suisse de renommée internationale. Dès 1967, il enseigne périodiquement à l’université de Pennsylvanie à Philadelphie. Il est ensuite professeur à l’École polytechnique de Zurich et à celle de Lausanne où il fonde et dirige l’Institut de Théorie et d’Histoire de l’Architecture. Cet essai propose un tour d’horizon de ce qui s’est fait de significatif en matière d’architecture, à Genève, du milieu des années 1970 au début du 21e siècle. L’auteur montre comment, malgré la prolifération de la production, certains bâtisseurs ont répondu aux grands défis économiques et sociaux, culturels et techniques de leur temps.
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December 2006, Paris
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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This volume takes the reader on a tour of modern architecture through its most iconic and significant buildings, showing how to read the hallmarks of each architectural style and how to recognize them in the buildings. From Art Deco and Arts and Crafts through Bauhaus, the International Style, and Modernism to today’s environmental architecture and the rise and fall of(...)
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How to read modern buildings: a crash course in architecture of the modern era
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This volume takes the reader on a tour of modern architecture through its most iconic and significant buildings, showing how to read the hallmarks of each architectural style and how to recognize them in the buildings. From Art Deco and Arts and Crafts through Bauhaus, the International Style, and Modernism to today’s environmental architecture and the rise and fall of the “starchitect”, all the major architectural movements from the 1900s to the present day are traced through their classic buildings. Examining the key architectural elements and hidden details of each style, we learn what to look for and where to look for it.
Collecting colour
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In this book Narayan Khandekar, director of the Straus Center, takes us on a tour of the amazing universe of the Forbes Pigment Collection, which at present is kept in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at Harvard University. This collection contains over three thousand natural and synthetic colouring agents. Khandekar shows the origins of the(...)
Collecting colour
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In this book Narayan Khandekar, director of the Straus Center, takes us on a tour of the amazing universe of the Forbes Pigment Collection, which at present is kept in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at Harvard University. This collection contains over three thousand natural and synthetic colouring agents. Khandekar shows the origins of the pigments and their cultural uses. At the same time, he demonstrates that pigments are essential building blocks of the unique nature of a work of art. Explore the unique collection through the essay and the many images in this book. Printed with high pigment ink.
Colour Theory and Design
The constructivist
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''The Constructivist'' by Zupagrafika allows you to playfully shape your own avant-garde community with geometrical forms inspired by seminal examples of Russian constructivist architecture, erected between the early 1920s and mid -1930s, such as: Melnikov House, Kirov Town Hall or Nikolaev's House. The kit is designed especially for children and their parents to engage(...)
The constructivist
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''The Constructivist'' by Zupagrafika allows you to playfully shape your own avant-garde community with geometrical forms inspired by seminal examples of Russian constructivist architecture, erected between the early 1920s and mid -1930s, such as: Melnikov House, Kirov Town Hall or Nikolaev's House. The kit is designed especially for children and their parents to engage in a playful, interactive tour around the constructivist world of forms and colours, allowing them to practice their spatial imagination. Contains 4 press-out comrades to assemble without glue or scissors. Includes an educative note on Russian avant-garde architecture and easy to follow instructions.
Children's Books
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Authored by Robin Kinross, this volume offers a tour through the history of Western typography, from the time when it can be said to have become “modern” to the present moment. It highlights different cultures in different times, tracing the developments and shifts in modern typography while giving attention to ideas, social contexts, and techniques, thereby also(...)
Modern typography: an essay in critical history
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Authored by Robin Kinross, this volume offers a tour through the history of Western typography, from the time when it can be said to have become “modern” to the present moment. It highlights different cultures in different times, tracing the developments and shifts in modern typography while giving attention to ideas, social contexts, and techniques, thereby also bypassing the tired tropes of stylistic analysis. Included are concise accounts of modernist typography in Central Europe between the wars, and in Switzerland in the 1950s and ’60s. Traditional typography in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Low Countries is also discussed sympathetically.
Graphic Design and Typography
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Through a lively exploration of material culture, literature, and architecture, 'American Arcadia' offers a tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from the late nineteenth century to the present. Art historian Peter J. Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories and(...)
American Arcadia: California and the classical tradition
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Through a lively exploration of material culture, literature, and architecture, 'American Arcadia' offers a tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from the late nineteenth century to the present. Art historian Peter J. Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories and people, famous and forgotten, behind the works, such as Florence Yoch, the renowned landscape designer and set designer for Gone with the Wind, and "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson, the most publicized Christian evangelist of her day, whose sermons filled the Pantheon-like Angelus Temple.
History until 1900, North America
Bien sûr, Chicago
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Le projet d’Adolf Loos pour le Chicago Tribune fait toujours énigme. L’architecte se place à contre-courant du formalisme moderne, « qui demain déjà sera obsolète ». Il prend l’arrogance du commanditaire au pied de la lettre pour mieux la révéler. Il raille les désirs de l’époque en proposant d’installer, si les limites de hauteur pouvaient être abolies un jour, une(...)
Bien sûr, Chicago
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Le projet d’Adolf Loos pour le Chicago Tribune fait toujours énigme. L’architecte se place à contre-courant du formalisme moderne, « qui demain déjà sera obsolète ». Il prend l’arrogance du commanditaire au pied de la lettre pour mieux la révéler. Il raille les désirs de l’époque en proposant d’installer, si les limites de hauteur pouvaient être abolies un jour, une statue de tribun romain assis au sommet de la colonne dorique. Il avertit pourtant?: ce projet ne contredit en rien ses positions théoriques antérieures à propos de l’ornement. Loos nous avait alertés. La tour n’est pas un archétype, elle est un artefact.
Architecture since 1900, Americas