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Qui furent les centaines de milliers de zeks qui construisirent Norilsk, ville la plus froide et septentrionale du monde, mais aussi site minier le plus pollué de Russie – dont la compagnie Norilsk Nickel créée en 1935 raffine ici 20% de la production mondiale de ce métal stratégique. Le présent livre propose d’éclairer le parcours étonnant et méconnu de Kévork Kotchar et(...)
Norilsk : l'architecture au Goulag, histoire caucasienne de la ville polaire soviétique
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Qui furent les centaines de milliers de zeks qui construisirent Norilsk, ville la plus froide et septentrionale du monde, mais aussi site minier le plus pollué de Russie – dont la compagnie Norilsk Nickel créée en 1935 raffine ici 20% de la production mondiale de ce métal stratégique. Le présent livre propose d’éclairer le parcours étonnant et méconnu de Kévork Kotchar et Mikael Mazmanian, deux de ses architectes, issus du courant constructiviste soviétique, et victimes de la répression stalinienne. Leur mission ? Urbaniser le permafrost du camp Noril’lag où ils furent déportés à la fin des années 1930, afin de répondre aux défis posés par la construction d’une ville coupée du monde – à laquelle aucune route ne conduit encore aujourd'hui.
Architectural Theory
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This volume investigates the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment, and analyzes the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation. Wallenstein draws especially on the late work of Michel Foucault for his argument and distinguishes Foucault’s theory(...)
Bio-politics and the emergence of modern architecture
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This volume investigates the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment, and analyzes the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation. Wallenstein draws especially on the late work of Michel Foucault for his argument and distinguishes Foucault’s theory of biopolitics from that of Giorgio Agamben. Published shortly after the release of the first English translation of Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics, this is the first volume that specifically relates the biopolitical concept to architecture. The book concludes with a pictorial essay on the development over the last two centuries of the modern hospital, a building type that epitomizes the unfolding of this new architectural logic.
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Montréal en évolution : historique du développement de l'architecture et de l'environnement urbain montréalais
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Architecture de Montréal
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The essays are based on papers given at a symposium in Copenhagen in June 2008 and refer to the following considerations: When spectators confront and designers invent works of art and architecture, vital questions regarding their appearance arise. These are not simply questions about what appears, also what does not, i.e. what withdraws when works are experienced and(...)
Paradoxes of appearing: essays on art, architecture and philosophy
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The essays are based on papers given at a symposium in Copenhagen in June 2008 and refer to the following considerations: When spectators confront and designers invent works of art and architecture, vital questions regarding their appearance arise. These are not simply questions about what appears, also what does not, i.e. what withdraws when works are experienced and created. How do we cope with this withdrawal, with latencies that escape concretization? What are the productive paradoxes associated hereto and how do they influence the processes of making? Based on multiple discourses on these subjects, contemporary positions in art, architecture and philosophy draw up new challenges, especially with regard to the creative practices. Within and between these positions emerge potentials for modes of thinking and doing with a new sensitivity. With contributions by Michael Asgaard Andersen and Henrik Oxvig, Renaud Barbaras, Andrew Benjamin, Olafur Eliasson, Sanford Kwinter, David Leatherbarrow, Martin Seel, David Summers, and Sven-Olov Wallenstein.
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This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia: Plato, Aristotle, Vitruvius, Alberti, Kant, Burke, Fiedler, Nietzsche, Wilde, Bergson, Bell, Scott, Benjamin, Bataille, Sontag, Jameson, Scarry, Nehamas, Zangwill, Freedberg, and Gallese. With an introduction and critical headnotes explaining(...)
Aesthetic theory : essential texts, for architecture and design
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This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia: Plato, Aristotle, Vitruvius, Alberti, Kant, Burke, Fiedler, Nietzsche, Wilde, Bergson, Bell, Scott, Benjamin, Bataille, Sontag, Jameson, Scarry, Nehamas, Zangwill, Freedberg, and Gallese. With an introduction and critical headnotes explaining the importance of each text, Mark Foster Gage offers a framework for a provocative history of ideas about beauty as they relate to contemporary thinking on architecture and design. In a world increasingly defined by sumptuous visuality, the concepts of beauty and visual sensation are not mere intellectual exercises but standards that define the very nature of design practice across disciplines and that are essential to the emerging worlds of design and architecture in the twenty-first century.
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More than sixty buildings in cities including Berlin, Cologne, Hanoi, and Shanghai are featured in this book on the world renowned firm gmp. Detailed descriptions of each of the structures include photographs, plans, drawings, and illuminating commentary by one of the firm's founders, Meinhard von Gerkan. Particular attention is given to gmp's most celebrated projects,(...)
Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner: architecture 2003-2007
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More than sixty buildings in cities including Berlin, Cologne, Hanoi, and Shanghai are featured in this book on the world renowned firm gmp. Detailed descriptions of each of the structures include photographs, plans, drawings, and illuminating commentary by one of the firm's founders, Meinhard von Gerkan. Particular attention is given to gmp's most celebrated projects, such as the Berlin Central Station, an awe-inspiring cathedral of glass and steel; Shenzhen's Convention Center, considered the city's crystal palace; the Berlin Olympic Stadium; and the Christian Church in Beijing.
Architecture Monographs
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The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright is a compendium of Wright's most critically important writings on every conceivable aspect of his craft. Beginning early in Wright's career with The Art and Craft of the Machine in 1901, the book follows major themes through The Disappearing City , The Natural House , and many other writings, and ends with A Testament in 1957 , published(...)
The essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical writings on architecture
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The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright is a compendium of Wright's most critically important writings on every conceivable aspect of his craft. Beginning early in Wright's career with The Art and Craft of the Machine in 1901, the book follows major themes through The Disappearing City , The Natural House , and many other writings, and ends with A Testament in 1957 , published two years before his death. This volume is illustrated with original drawings and photographs.
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Pour les 12 architectes contributeurs de cet ouvrage prix lauréats des Global Awards, être architecte consiste à produire des objets en étant concerné par l'état réel du monde habité : sur-consommation des ressources, misère de l'habitat populaire, violence d'une urbanisation mondiale livrée aux seules forces du marché. Parce qu'ils sont architectes, eux veulent au(...)
Ré-enchanter le monde: l'architecture et la ville face aux grandes transitions
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Pour les 12 architectes contributeurs de cet ouvrage prix lauréats des Global Awards, être architecte consiste à produire des objets en étant concerné par l'état réel du monde habité : sur-consommation des ressources, misère de l'habitat populaire, violence d'une urbanisation mondiale livrée aux seules forces du marché. Parce qu'ils sont architectes, eux veulent au contraire reconstruire un projet de civilisation urbaine, à partir du monde tel qu'il est, pour ré-enchanter la condition humaine.
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Expression is an investigation into the influence of media such as film, literature, and the visual arts on architectural thought and design. Three specific case studies are included, which look at the Giacometti museum in Stampa, a Cinémathèque in Locarno, and the Elias Canetti library in Zürich. Expression includes essays and interviews by the German architect and(...)
Expression: architecture and the arts, a pedagogical interaction
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Expression is an investigation into the influence of media such as film, literature, and the visual arts on architectural thought and design. Three specific case studies are included, which look at the Giacometti museum in Stampa, a Cinémathèque in Locarno, and the Elias Canetti library in Zürich. Expression includes essays and interviews by the German architect and sculptor Gottfried Böhm, the Spanish film director Josep Luis Guerin, and the Italian architect and theoretician Pier Vittorio Aureli.
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This publication illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. This contradiction is seen as a device for poetic expression, for the expression of ideas, in architecture. The contradiction between form and function in architecture contributes to the project of re-establishing architecture(...)
The contradiction between form and function in architecture
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This publication illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. This contradiction is seen as a device for poetic expression, for the expression of ideas, in architecture. The contradiction between form and function in architecture contributes to the project of re-establishing architecture as a humanistic discipline, to re-establish an emphasis on the expression of ideas, and on the ethical role of architecture to engage the intellect of the observer and to represent human identity.
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