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''Architecture Is Just a Pretext'' is a publication that resumes a large research about the state of the art of young Architecture practices in Europe. The work, dealing with architectural practices through a biographic approach, addresses the new directions the profession is taking in Europe among young architects. Carnets is a research project started two years ago(...)
Architecture is just a pretext
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''Architecture Is Just a Pretext'' is a publication that resumes a large research about the state of the art of young Architecture practices in Europe. The work, dealing with architectural practices through a biographic approach, addresses the new directions the profession is taking in Europe among young architects. Carnets is a research project started two years ago by eight architecture students from IUAV University of Venice. The aim is to investigate the current landscape of Architecture in Europe, after the 2008 economical crisis, through interviews, talks, round tables and workshops. The protagonists of this research are 30 young architecture offices from around Europe.
Architectural Theory
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Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats founded their architecture firm in Barcelona in 1998. Their studio, which occupies a former residence, is a workshop where the practical work of design merges with academics, friends, and colleagues; a place that itself is an accumulation of projects and of the realities that have passed through it over the years. This book revisits nine key(...)
Archives 1: Flores & Prats (3rd Updated Edition)
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Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats founded their architecture firm in Barcelona in 1998. Their studio, which occupies a former residence, is a workshop where the practical work of design merges with academics, friends, and colleagues; a place that itself is an accumulation of projects and of the realities that have passed through it over the years. This book revisits nine key projects in the duo’s internationally acclaimed oeuvre, including Liquid Light (Venice, 2018), Mills Museum (Palma de Mallorca, 2016), Building 111 (Barcelona, 2011), and Yutes Warehouse (Barcelona, 2005), plus collected images, models, and a conversation with Antoni Miralda.
Architecture Monographs
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A wooden Japanese house slated for demolition will instead be moved to Venice for exhibition. Yet the house put on display will not appear in its original form. Dismantled for shipping, it will be reassembled on-site in new configurations created by architects and artisans from Japan, who will add new or local materials and other elements in the process. In other words,(...)
Co-Ownership of action : trajectories of elements
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A wooden Japanese house slated for demolition will instead be moved to Venice for exhibition. Yet the house put on display will not appear in its original form. Dismantled for shipping, it will be reassembled on-site in new configurations created by architects and artisans from Japan, who will add new or local materials and other elements in the process. In other words, the exhibition of the house will be a fantastical installation that combines old and new in a composite of creative efforts by multiple designers and craftsmen. This book, edited by architect Kozo Kadowaki, explores the project in detail.
Biennial
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In 1955, Swiss architect Dolf Schnebli and his wife, Clarissa, climbed into a VW Beetle and spent a year on an overland trek from Venice to India and back. The world was a lot bigger place when Schnebli took off on this ''slow journey'' to study architectural history, especially the urban development of old cities, ruins and excavations. Now, more than fifty years after(...)
Dolf Schnebli 1956: photo sketches of a slow journey
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In 1955, Swiss architect Dolf Schnebli and his wife, Clarissa, climbed into a VW Beetle and spent a year on an overland trek from Venice to India and back. The world was a lot bigger place when Schnebli took off on this ''slow journey'' to study architectural history, especially the urban development of old cities, ruins and excavations. Now, more than fifty years after his trip, Schnebli's black and white photos are being published for the first time after gathering dust for decades as contact prints in his sketchbooks. Combined with text excerpts from his journal.
Photography monographs
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Based on archival, artistic, and architectural evidence, Stephen Bowd presents an innovative microhistory of a fascinating, yet historically neglected city. He shows how Brescian loyalty to Venice was repeatedly tested by a succession of disasters: assault by Milanese forces, economic downturn, demographic collapse, and occupation by French and Spanish armies intent on(...)
Venice's most loyal city: Civic identity in Renaissance Brescia
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Based on archival, artistic, and architectural evidence, Stephen Bowd presents an innovative microhistory of a fascinating, yet historically neglected city. He shows how Brescian loyalty to Venice was repeatedly tested by a succession of disasters: assault by Milanese forces, economic downturn, demographic collapse, and occupation by French and Spanish armies intent on dismembering the Venetian empire. In spite of all these troubles the city experienced a cultural revival and a dramatic political transformation under Venetian rule, which Bowd describes and uses to illuminate the process of state formation in one of the most powerful regions of Renaissance Italy.
History until 1900, Renaissance
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This publication contains 14 projects and recent works by Salvador Pérez Arroyo, an experimental and heterodox architect whose designs alternate between light, heavy and utopian. His unstoppable creativity never ceases to amaze. His interest lies far beyond putting forward a clearly identifiable set of mannerisms; each project and building represents for him a new(...)
Salvador Pérez Arroyo : works
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This publication contains 14 projects and recent works by Salvador Pérez Arroyo, an experimental and heterodox architect whose designs alternate between light, heavy and utopian. His unstoppable creativity never ceases to amaze. His interest lies far beyond putting forward a clearly identifiable set of mannerisms; each project and building represents for him a new opportunity to engage with something unexplored, ultimately opening it up for new conversations in architecture. Among his most relevant works and projects are the Moncloa lighthouse, the Madrid Planetarium, the restoration of the Palladium Basilica in Venice and the Convention Center of Liepage.
Architecture Monographs
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Recently, the so-called “green question” has influenced many aspects of architecture and design, likewise bringing with it implications about the reconsideration of nature and our relationship to it. This instalment of C3 focuses on green concepts and their varied interpretations in design today. Twelve projects are highlighted, including Singapore’s School of the Arts by(...)
C3 339
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Recently, the so-called “green question” has influenced many aspects of architecture and design, likewise bringing with it implications about the reconsideration of nature and our relationship to it. This instalment of C3 focuses on green concepts and their varied interpretations in design today. Twelve projects are highlighted, including Singapore’s School of the Arts by WOHA, Surazo Hotel by WMR Arquitectos, S.A. Residence in Dhaka by Shatotto Architecture, and Fasano las Piedras Hotel by Isay Weinfeld. Also in this issue, a feature on Belgian practice architecten de vylder vinck taillieu and ‘On Showing Architecture’, by Diego Terna, on the 13th Venice Biennale.
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Authored by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, Naoya Hatakeyama, and others, this book gives a comprehensive look at the process of catastrophe and response which followed the Great East Japan Earthquake, as presented in the Japan Pavilion Exhibition at the 13th Biennale of Architecture in Venice. By posing this question, an assertion that architecture(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
February 2013
Architecture. Possible here? home-for-all
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Authored by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, Naoya Hatakeyama, and others, this book gives a comprehensive look at the process of catastrophe and response which followed the Great East Japan Earthquake, as presented in the Japan Pavilion Exhibition at the 13th Biennale of Architecture in Venice. By posing this question, an assertion that architecture can only recover its essential character under such conditions is made, enabling a re-examination of its essential meaning. Through texts, photographs, sketches and models, the book is a both a timeline of events and a reaffirmation of the energy, creativity and dedication of its participants.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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MAP 006: Greenland
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In September 2011, selected teams won a conpetition hosted by the Danish Architecture Center, to exhibit at the Danish Pavilion for the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture. The theme and aim for the exhibit was to formalize months of research into the many challenges Greenland faces today and in the immediate future. This special issue of MAP is a selection of the work(...)
MAP 006: Greenland
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In September 2011, selected teams won a conpetition hosted by the Danish Architecture Center, to exhibit at the Danish Pavilion for the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture. The theme and aim for the exhibit was to formalize months of research into the many challenges Greenland faces today and in the immediate future. This special issue of MAP is a selection of the work exhibited at the Biennale in the fall of 2012, a full year of visits, expeditions, collaborations and speculation into the uncertain future of the worlds largest island at the edge of the North Pole.
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February 2014
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This instalment of the Recent Project series returns to the work of renowned architect Tadao Ando, presenting both realised and unbuilt projects in splendid detail. In his opening essay, Ando discusses the changes that recent developments in computer technology have brought to his practice, yet also how architecture’s manifestation belongs to human power. Two interviews(...)
Tadao ando: GA recent project 2
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This instalment of the Recent Project series returns to the work of renowned architect Tadao Ando, presenting both realised and unbuilt projects in splendid detail. In his opening essay, Ando discusses the changes that recent developments in computer technology have brought to his practice, yet also how architecture’s manifestation belongs to human power. Two interviews with Ando elaborate on his recent outlook, while more than 20 projects illustrate his mastery. Among them, the RGS Center in Monterrey, the Yuan Museum in Beijing, the Hansol Museum in Wonju, houses in Mangalore and Venice, proposals for urban space in San Marino and Osaka, and more.
Architecture Monographs