Ten Houses by Richard Murphy
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Richard Murphy is a multi award-winning architect.The materials he employs vary from stone (rubble, smooth ashlar or rusticated), with carefully assembled steel sections that form the structure, stairs and handrails, corrugated iron or planted roofing, dressed lead flashing, etched glass blocks, mirrors, with timber and coloured and polished plaster as warm interior(...)
Ten Houses by Richard Murphy
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Richard Murphy is a multi award-winning architect.The materials he employs vary from stone (rubble, smooth ashlar or rusticated), with carefully assembled steel sections that form the structure, stairs and handrails, corrugated iron or planted roofing, dressed lead flashing, etched glass blocks, mirrors, with timber and coloured and polished plaster as warm interior finishes. All the materials are used with great precision, clarity as well as ambiguity. He is well known as an architect who has been influenced by the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa (about whom he has written the definitive analysis of his most important work, the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona), but Murphy’s architecture is never a pastiche of Scarpa, and frequently echoes and develops other influences such as Glenn Murcutt, Frank Lloyd Wright or Richard MacCormac, for whom he worked.
Architecture Monographs
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The Opera House in Oslo by Snøhetta, built to house the Norwegian National and Ballet, is the winner of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - 2009 Mies van der Rohe Award. The Emerging Architect Special mention was awarded to STUDIO UP/ Lea Pelivan and Toma Plejic, for Gymnasium 46° 09' N / 16° 50' E in Koprivnica, Croatia. This publication illustrates(...)
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture : Mies van der Rohe award 2009
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The Opera House in Oslo by Snøhetta, built to house the Norwegian National and Ballet, is the winner of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - 2009 Mies van der Rohe Award. The Emerging Architect Special mention was awarded to STUDIO UP/ Lea Pelivan and Toma Plejic, for Gymnasium 46° 09' N / 16° 50' E in Koprivnica, Croatia. This publication illustrates both projects, together with the other four finalists and the 44 projects chosen by the jury, by means of plans, photographs and explanatory texts.
History since 1900, Reference Books
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Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References opens up a unique and richly layered view of the architectural work and thinking of this internationally renowned Dutch architect. Underlying Arets’ practice, research and teaching is his concept of “a wonderful world”, an optimistic outlook on how the world will evolve in the next 75 years. In an innovative layout by designer Irma(...)
Wiel Arets: autobiographical references
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Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References opens up a unique and richly layered view of the architectural work and thinking of this internationally renowned Dutch architect. Underlying Arets’ practice, research and teaching is his concept of “a wonderful world”, an optimistic outlook on how the world will evolve in the next 75 years. In an innovative layout by designer Irma Boom, portfolios of 60 exemplary projects and designs by his studio are presented alongside lectures and debates between Arets and other thinkers and practitioners.
Architecture Monographs
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Alexandre Chemetoff, architect, urban planner and landscaper, is committed to practising his trade freely. He develops his projects by visiting the sites, walking them and connecting them with other experiences. Between September 2007 and December 2008, several personalities were invited to accompany him, on one visit each. Their spontaneous conversations form the core of(...)
Visits, town and territory-architecture in dialogue
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Alexandre Chemetoff, architect, urban planner and landscaper, is committed to practising his trade freely. He develops his projects by visiting the sites, walking them and connecting them with other experiences. Between September 2007 and December 2008, several personalities were invited to accompany him, on one visit each. Their spontaneous conversations form the core of this book, which covers a selection of his projects, singular and yet representative of his approach. Each discussion is linked to a location and particular date.
Architecture Monographs
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The winners of the two categories of the 2005 Mies van der Rohe architecture prize 2005 are both Dutch, and in these two projects from the same culture we can appreciate the fruits of the Netherlands' policy in support of young architects. The projects in question are the Netherlands embassy in Berlin by OMA, and the Basket Bar by NL Architects in the category of(...)
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European Union prize for contemporary architecture ; Mies van der Rohe award 2005
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The winners of the two categories of the 2005 Mies van der Rohe architecture prize 2005 are both Dutch, and in these two projects from the same culture we can appreciate the fruits of the Netherlands' policy in support of young architects. The projects in question are the Netherlands embassy in Berlin by OMA, and the Basket Bar by NL Architects in the category of Emerging architect special mention. This publication illustrates these two winning projects, together with the other 32 shortlisted schemes, with plans, photos and explanatory texts by the architects.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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Over the past 20 years, Philippe Barthélémy (France) and Sylvia Griño (born in Uruguay) have developed projects that span France, Great Britain, South America and Asia. These encompass many public and private programmes and commercial buildings for the luxury accessories giant Louis Vuitton, incuding a store in Kobe, Japan. In addition to other awards, Barthélémy-Griño(...)
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January 1900, Basel
Barthélémy-Grino architectes : Frameworks / trait pour trait
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Over the past 20 years, Philippe Barthélémy (France) and Sylvia Griño (born in Uruguay) have developed projects that span France, Great Britain, South America and Asia. These encompass many public and private programmes and commercial buildings for the luxury accessories giant Louis Vuitton, incuding a store in Kobe, Japan. In addition to other awards, Barthélémy-Griño architectes won in 2003 second place for Le Moniteur's renowned Equerre d'Argent prize for their sports center in Nanterre, a building distinguished by its innovative wood construction. This book documents in detail the most significant projects from Barthélémy-Griño architectes, organised into four chapters: frames, components, insides and skins.
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The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think through the use of drawings to approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This(...)
Architects' drawings: a selection of sketches by world famous archittects through history
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The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think through the use of drawings to approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide this insight. Here for the first time, a wide range of world famous architects' sketches from the Renaissance to the present day can be seen in a single volume. The sketches have been selected to represent the concepts or philosophies of the key movements in architecture in order to develop an overall picture of the role of the sketch in the development of architecture. The book illustrates the work of designers as diverse as Andrea Palladio, Erich Mendelsohn, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Le Corbusier, Michelangelo, Alvar Aalto, Sir John Soane, Francesco Borromini, Walter Gropius, and contemporary architects Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry to name but a few. Each chronologically placed sketch is accompanied by text providing details about the architect’s life, a look at the sketch in context, and the connection to specific buildings where appropriate. Style, media and meaning are also discussed, developing an explanation of the architect’s thinking and intentions.
Architectural Drawing
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Under the title ‘Community Care’, AV Proyectos 128 features six works that cater to specific needs through an attentive and sensitive architecture that prioritizes a collective approach, as show the centers designed by Mae Architects, Vivas Arquitectos, or Dorte Mandrup. Paz Martín, architect and expert in the field, introduces the dossier with an essay that analyzes how(...)
AV Proyectos 128: Community care
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Under the title ‘Community Care’, AV Proyectos 128 features six works that cater to specific needs through an attentive and sensitive architecture that prioritizes a collective approach, as show the centers designed by Mae Architects, Vivas Arquitectos, or Dorte Mandrup. Paz Martín, architect and expert in the field, introduces the dossier with an essay that analyzes how assistance can shape the project strategy. Along the same lines, in an interview with the magazine the architect and professor Izaskun Chinchilla talks about the city of care and how the buildings that compose it are not just hospitals and clinics. In the process section, the complex by Herzog & de Meuron in North Zealand is an example of how to depart from traditional hospital building typologies. The issue also analyzes the high-rise construction boom in Albania, with proposals by MVRDV, Valerio Olgiati, and Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, among other firms.
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Although an architect by profession, H.Th. Wijdeveld (1885-1987) is best known for Wendingen, the 'magazine for the decorative arts and architecture' founded by him in 1918. One of the peaks of Wendingen was the series devoted to the work of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, for which Wijdeveld designed everything himself. Its graphic design caused a sensation(...)
H. Th. Wijdeveld : Art Deco design on paper
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Although an architect by profession, H.Th. Wijdeveld (1885-1987) is best known for Wendingen, the 'magazine for the decorative arts and architecture' founded by him in 1918. One of the peaks of Wendingen was the series devoted to the work of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, for which Wijdeveld designed everything himself. Its graphic design caused a sensation and soon spawned a school of 'Wijdeveld typography'. Typical features of his designs are the game played with brass rules taken from the type case and stacked together to form letters, and the page layout in lines and blocks, what his contemporaries called 'typographical brickwork'. This publication, which accompanied an exhibition in Museum Meermanno (The Hague) devoted to his typography, features all the exhibits - posters, books and other graphic work by Wijdeveld himself and that of several of his successors, notably Anton Kurvers. Design by Piet Gerards.
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Alvaro Siza: Unbuilt works
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This is a very special compilation of almost all unbuilt works by Portuguese architect and architectural educator Álvaro Siza. It includes sketches, drawings, and plans, as well as in-depth analysis by José Manuel Pedreirinho, along two foreword essays, one of which likening his work to "a bird. Astonishing, inexplicable and yet incredibly familiar." The book reflects on(...)
Alvaro Siza: Unbuilt works
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This is a very special compilation of almost all unbuilt works by Portuguese architect and architectural educator Álvaro Siza. It includes sketches, drawings, and plans, as well as in-depth analysis by José Manuel Pedreirinho, along two foreword essays, one of which likening his work to "a bird. Astonishing, inexplicable and yet incredibly familiar." The book reflects on projects whose ideas sometimes went into other projects, were reformulated in some way, or simply forgotten. Nevertheless, the scribbles and blueprints are essential to understanding how one of the most prolific contemporary architects thinks and works.