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xviii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
Behind the postmodern facade : architectural change in late twentieth-century America / Magali Sarfatti Larson.
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xviii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
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1 online resource (1 video file (31 minutes)) : sound, color
London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1982.
The sense of boundary in architecture / [presented by] Michael Graves (Michael Graves Architecture & Design).
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London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1982.
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Curated by noted architect and theorist Greg Lynn, 'Intricacy' gathers work by artists, designers, and architects that reflects an emerging sensibility characterized by "highly complex compositions of an almost organic intricacy with macroscopic holism, coherence, and synthesis, and microscopic variation and diversity." Participants include: Peter Eisenman and Preston(...)
Intricacy : a project by Greg Lynn FORM
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Curated by noted architect and theorist Greg Lynn, 'Intricacy' gathers work by artists, designers, and architects that reflects an emerging sensibility characterized by "highly complex compositions of an almost organic intricacy with macroscopic holism, coherence, and synthesis, and microscopic variation and diversity." Participants include: Peter Eisenman and Preston Scott Cohen, David Reed, Hussein Chalayan, Jesse Reiser, Nanako Umemoto, Karl Chu, Preston Scott Cohen, Farshid Moussavi, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Chris Cunningham, Tom Friedman, Nader Tehrani, Greg Lynn, Peter Eisenman and Fabian Marcaccio amongst others.
Architecture Monographs
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A newly revised and enlarged edition of Jencks' bestseller brings the reader up to date with new projects by some of today's most prominent architects including Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Daniel Libesking and Greg Lynn.
The architecture of the jumping universe, a polemic : how complexity science is changing architecture and culture
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A newly revised and enlarged edition of Jencks' bestseller brings the reader up to date with new projects by some of today's most prominent architects including Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Daniel Libesking and Greg Lynn.
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January 1900, London
Architectural Theory
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'Lessons' begins with Risselada's and Tupker's own student years, in which the famous Forum-group dominated the architectural debate with the illustrous Dick Apon, Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, Joop Hardy and Herman Hertzberger. International influences discussed in 'Lessons' come from designers like Charles and Ray Eames, Alison and Peter Smithson, John Hejduk, Peter(...)
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April 2005, amsterdam
Lessons : Tupker\Risselada : a double portrait of dutch architectural education, 1953\2003
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'Lessons' begins with Risselada's and Tupker's own student years, in which the famous Forum-group dominated the architectural debate with the illustrous Dick Apon, Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, Joop Hardy and Herman Hertzberger. International influences discussed in 'Lessons' come from designers like Charles and Ray Eames, Alison and Peter Smithson, John Hejduk, Peter Eisenman and Tadao Ando, and from the historians Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Charles Jencks and Beatriz Colomina. 'Lessons' also gives an account of the work by students of Risselada and Tupker.
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Wunderkammer
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Inspired by the idea of the wunderkammer—“wonder-room” or “cabinet of curiosities”—that originated during the Renaissance, world-renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien invited 42 celebrated architects and designers from around the world to create their own wunderkammers, filling boxes with objects that inspire them. This book gathers together the varied,(...)
Wunderkammer
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Inspired by the idea of the wunderkammer—“wonder-room” or “cabinet of curiosities”—that originated during the Renaissance, world-renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien invited 42 celebrated architects and designers from around the world to create their own wunderkammers, filling boxes with objects that inspire them. This book gathers together the varied, evocative wunderkammers along with accompanying statements by their architect-creators, including such luminaries as Shigeru Ban, Toyo Ito, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, Richard Meier, Murray Moss, Diébédo Francis Keré, Juhani Pallasmaa, Elias Torres, and Peter Zumthor.
Architectural Theory
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This publication results from a conference intended to reopen the debate on the development of architectural discourse in America from 1923 to 1949. Contributors include: Bernard Tschumi, Terence Riley, Robert E. Somol, Phyllis Lambert, Philip Johnson and Jeffrey Kipnis, Colin Rowe, Peter Eisenman, Joan Ockman, Paulette Singley, Sylvia Lavin, Francesco(...)
Autonomy and ideology: positioning an avant-garde in America
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This publication results from a conference intended to reopen the debate on the development of architectural discourse in America from 1923 to 1949. Contributors include: Bernard Tschumi, Terence Riley, Robert E. Somol, Phyllis Lambert, Philip Johnson and Jeffrey Kipnis, Colin Rowe, Peter Eisenman, Joan Ockman, Paulette Singley, Sylvia Lavin, Francesco Dal Co, Detlef Mertins, Mitchell Schwarzer, Sanford Kwinter, Rem Koolhaas, and Beatriz Colomina.
CCA Publications
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Eminent Architects collects Ingrid von Kruse’s intimate portraits of practicing architects--among them Tadao Ando, David Chipperfield, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Phyllis Lambert, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, I.M. Pei, Dominique Perrault, Richard Rogers, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott(...)
Eminent architects seen by Ingrid Von Kruse
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Eminent Architects collects Ingrid von Kruse’s intimate portraits of practicing architects--among them Tadao Ando, David Chipperfield, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Phyllis Lambert, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, I.M. Pei, Dominique Perrault, Richard Rogers, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. A selection of sketches and models completes this ambitious undertaking.
Architecture Monographs
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In this reassessment of postmodern architecture at the end of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Petit addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical critiques. A look at five individual architects - Peter Eisenman, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas, Stanley Tigerman, and Robert Venturi - reveals the beginning of a(...)
Irony : or, the self-critical opacity of postmodern architecture
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In this reassessment of postmodern architecture at the end of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Petit addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical critiques. A look at five individual architects - Peter Eisenman, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas, Stanley Tigerman, and Robert Venturi - reveals the beginning of a phenomenology of irony in architecture.
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Après Penser à ne pas voir qui réunissait les principaux textes de Jacques Derrida sur le dessin, la peinture et la photographie, voici l'ensemble de s'es réflexions sur l'architecture. Ginette Michaud et Joana Maso ont regroupé chronologiquement entretiens, lettres, communications, interventions dans les forums et les tables rondes qui concernent l'architecture, les(...)
Les arts de l'espace: écrits et interventions sur l'architecture
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Après Penser à ne pas voir qui réunissait les principaux textes de Jacques Derrida sur le dessin, la peinture et la photographie, voici l'ensemble de s'es réflexions sur l'architecture. Ginette Michaud et Joana Maso ont regroupé chronologiquement entretiens, lettres, communications, interventions dans les forums et les tables rondes qui concernent l'architecture, les rapports du texte à l'architecture et les débats nombreux avec les architectes - essentiellement Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman et Daniel Libeskind.
Architectural Theory